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Zimmerman blames Obama for racial tensions...
Yahoo news ^ | 3/24/15 | By Letitia Stein

Posted on 03/24/2015 5:16:02 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda

Zimmerman blames Obama for racial tensions after Trayvon Martin shooting

By Letitia Stein

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - George Zimmerman, acquitted of murder charges in the shooting death of an unarmed black teen in Florida, said in a videotaped interview that President Barack Obama stoked racial tensions in the case.

The former Florida neighborhood watch volunteer said he felt liberated after federal prosecutors last month decided not to press civil rights charges in the 2012 death of Trayvon Martin.

"Now is the perfect time to speak my mind without fear of retaliation," Zimmerman told one of his attorneys, Howard Iken, in a March 8 interview, released to the media on Monday.

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I wonder if he can sue the Kenyan. Can you imagine how that would feel? It's bad enough to be facing murder charges after you shoot someone in self defense, but to incredibly have the President of the United States publicly announce he is taking sides against you which pretty much declared open season on Zimmermans life. 4000 death threats I heard he got. 4 THOUSAND. It just blows my mind the utter hubris of this pig in office.
1 posted on 03/24/2015 5:16:03 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We all need to remember the sequence of events.

The shooting happened and it made local news.

Activists within the DOJ picked up on it and started getting the local activists to raise hell over the shooting. This went out to sympathizers in the media who turned it into a national news story.

As the story grew, the DOJ kept feeding the flames locally and sent organizers to help on the ground.

All this took place before anyone knew Zimmerman was Hispanic and before the story reached crazy proportions.

It was contrived, just like Ferguson, by the DOJ.


2 posted on 03/24/2015 5:23:47 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Walker/Cruz 2016)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

He’s a White hispanic, therefore he has no standing in post-Constitution America.


3 posted on 03/24/2015 5:24:58 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
The late, great Polish Pianist, Arthur Rubenstein, said morally and culturally that the world was at the lowest point he had seen it in his long life. Arthur Rubenstein said that back in 1979, but it is worse today. One particularly horrific aspect of the degradation of our society is the near deification of violent bums such as the deceased Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown. The violent thug, Trayvon Martin, has songs done after him; skittle mosaics done in his likeness, and is spoken of reverentially at televised hollywood functions. The deification of Trayvon Martin in song and painting is reminiscent of the Nazis deifying their violent albeit murdered thug, Horst Wessel. Ernst Haffenstangle wrote a catchy song about Horst Wessel it was used to great effect by Ernst Rhoem's Nazi SA.

Since thugs are the big deities in America today just as the Nazi thug Horst Wessel was back in the Nazi days, I am following this trend by creating my own song about the thug, Trayvon Martin. Instead of calling it the Horst Wessel Lied, I am calling it the Trayvon Martin Lied and I recorded it to the tune of Horst Wessel Lied. So, without further ado, I present to our sick culture the Trayvon Martin Lied (if you have problem with the lyrics, I wrote them out below the youtube):

The Trayvon Martin Lied

4 posted on 03/24/2015 5:26:49 AM PDT by Stepan12 (Our present appeasementof Islam is the Stockholm Syndrome on steroids.)
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Zimmerman has issues. He’s no ideal citizen. I’m not 100% convinced he was innocent in all this, but I am 100% convinced he was not proven guilty and is therefore innocent in the eyes of the law.

But from a legal standpoint, Zimmerman’s criticism of Obama is spot-on correct. Obama should have never commented on the case. Obama should have never evoked racism where there was none making a fair trial difficult at best. Legally speaking, there was never a case against Zimmerman. If they (Sharpton, Obama, and the other Race-baiters) knew Zimmerman was Hispanic (and not really white) before they revved up the race machine, they probably wouldn’t have ever done it. Who knew a man named Zimmerman could be Hispanic? Obama is a terrible terrible leader.


5 posted on 03/24/2015 5:27:52 AM PDT by Mustangman (The GOP)
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“The deification of Trayvon Martin in song and painting is reminiscent of the Nazis deifying their violent albeit murdered thug, Horst Wessel.”

The Muzzies do the same thing.


6 posted on 03/24/2015 5:33:20 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: Stepan12

PING for later....


7 posted on 03/24/2015 5:36:20 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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LOL! Oh man that was awesome! Beautiful, it brought a tear to my eye! LOL! It sounds just like a German anthem. How can you only have 48 views on that? You should have 48,000 that is epic that song.


8 posted on 03/24/2015 5:51:14 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 14 acts of Treason and counting.)
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I’m not 100% convinced he was innocent in all this

I cannot imagine what it would take to convince you because you already have 100% absence of any evidence of guilt.


9 posted on 03/24/2015 5:57:05 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Activists within the DOJ picked up on it and started getting the local activists to raise hell over the shooting....Which I believe was 3 to 4 months AFTER it happened. Part of the DOJ trying to Nationalize police country-wide.


10 posted on 03/24/2015 6:06:05 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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I cannot imagine what it would take to convince you because you already have 100% absence of any evidence of guilt.

Following suspicious-acting black people around is now apparently a chargeable offense, if they try to kill you and you injure or kill them in self-defense. Obama's legacy is that he managed make this the default response of the judicial system without incurring much of a political cost.

11 posted on 03/24/2015 6:07:51 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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Funny how that law got repealed and rewritten.


12 posted on 03/24/2015 6:12:06 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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I’m not 100% convinced he was innocent in all this,

The guy definitely has issues, I wonder how much of them caused by this whole thing, a form of ptsd perhaps.

That said, I was one of the ones on here, who, having heard the "media" version of this story, jumped onto FR and blasted Zimmerman, and was sure he was guilty. I said I would eat my words, but was confident I wouldn't have to in this case.

Well, I must say, those words have never tasted so good. After all had settled, it became fairly clear, thanks to the analysis on various conservative websites, and because of what his "girlfriend" said publicly.... Trayvon had "gotten away" from Zimmerman, had gotten back to his fathers house, then turned around, went back, and decided to engage Zimmerman. He instigated the final encounter, which he lost. Simple as that.

13 posted on 03/24/2015 6:12:52 AM PDT by Paradox (and now here we are....)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Sadly, Rick Santorum also fell into the pro-Trayvon rhetoric without knowing the facts.


14 posted on 03/24/2015 6:26:14 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Bingo!


15 posted on 03/24/2015 6:29:13 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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“I’m not 100% convinced he was innocent in all this...”

Not the sharpest knife in the block with liberal goggles as well.


16 posted on 03/24/2015 6:43:44 AM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Zimmerman could make a huge amount of money, and fast, by just painting pictures. It could resolve a lot of his debt, and even make him enough to live on for decades.

And truthfully, it should be outlandish, because it would bring in higher bids. For example, paint a picture of himself as a saint with a halo, on Earth, while below in Hell, Obama, Holder, and Trayvon Martin burn as devils.

Just the motif of Obama as Satan would likely be worth over a hundred grand. Used on a dozen different “original Zimmermans”, it would become Obama’s legacy.

However this is a limited time offer. Zimmerman’s 15 minutes of fame will not last forever.


17 posted on 03/24/2015 7:13:53 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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He tried to sue NBC big time over the edited 911 tape and that got thrown out. I’ve read that the judge who did that was a big time liberal. Would have loved to have seen NBC get cleaned out big time over that though.


18 posted on 03/24/2015 7:16:38 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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oH wow yeah I flipped out when I heard about that, that was just incredible to me. That bitch judge said “Zimmerman failed to show NBC acted with malice” Is she KIDDING ME? Of COURSE they acted with malice, does she think he tape edited itself? Clear cut case of defamation, I mean come on it’s right there on tape, before and after, and it was broadcast nationwide and the Judge throws it out? Unreal. Just goes to show how incredibly corrupt our justice system is which figures considering who runs the Justice dept. Maybe someone should edit a tape of Eric Holder saying “I like it up the ass” and broadcast it nationwide and say “This is Eric Holder saying this” see how he likes it, make it the headlines news


19 posted on 03/24/2015 8:04:00 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 14 acts of Treason and counting.)
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Zimmerman has good reason to be angry. Obama, Holder, and their pals in the media did what they could to worsen the situation. But GZ needs to shut up and move on. The guy’s got issues, and he might’ve had them before all this happened, who knows. Change your name, change your look, move, stay out of the news and get on with life.


20 posted on 03/24/2015 8:05:04 AM PDT by opus86
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