Posted on 03/25/2012 9:24:59 AM PDT by smoothsailing
BTW, for the record, after doing a bit more research, I honestly don’t know if that’s Martin or not. Some say it is, others say it isn’t, and I can’t substantiate it at this point.
Just to keep things above board.
How many Trayvon Martins can there be? It's not exactly a common name. Same approximate age, enough facial resemblance the ruling them out completely is difficult, similar slim build.
Waters St., isn't that in the “tag” style graphic in the photo? Is there one in Miami Dade County?
It doesn't seem like something that would have to remain a mystery for long. Being technically juvenile might complicate matters, but other than that, pretty straightforward. Has anyone come forward from family or friends of this “other” Trayvon, to protest or correct the misidentification?
That would be a perfectly normal response to expect.
Another similar story:
http://www.sdpolicemuseum.com/Thomas-Riggs.html
Language supposedly used was part of the defense.
BUSTED: Caught on an FBI Surveillance Tape Discussing a Cocaine Deal
The television show HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel showed a 1983 FBI videotape in which Al Sharpton is seen talking about laundering drug money with former mobster Michael Franzese, a Mafioso-turned-undercover-FBI informant posing as a cocaine dealer. Now you might think something like this might be bad news for a presidential candidate, but to hear Sharpton talk about it, there’s nothing unseemly about it.
Now, to be fair, no indictments were issued and the sting operation was never completed. But those are pretty thin excuses for a president of the United States. (At least he didn’t blame a DUII on his political enemies.)
Sharpton got into this mess through his friendship with boxing promoter Don King, a longtime friend of his. Franzese, a former Colombo family captain, alleges that a South American drug dealer looking to launder money through boxing promotions approached him. According to Franzese,Sharpton was going to arrange a meeting between the dealer and King.
But the drug dealer was really an undercover FBI agent in a probe of boxing corruption. Sharpton claimed the tape was a “total attempt to set up and criminalize people,” that it was leaked to scuttle his possible presidential bid, and that HBO distorted the evidence by showing only selected portions of the tape. He also clamed that a second tape existed that exonerated him.
Sharpton sued HBO for defamation and asked for $1 billion in damages. (As if he had a billion dollar reputation before the tape aired.) HBO Sports spokesman Ray Stallone described the suit as “so silly that it is unworthy of comment.” Nothing has come of it since it was filed.
I saw a posting that showed three different Trayvon Martin pages on Facebook Search.
Some of the gangster style photos we have been looking at may in fact be a different Trayvon.
Obama's spineless and insensitive acceptance of Reid's apology was tendered without so much as a beer summit of the kind he convened to repair the damage (to himself) caused by his racially tinged remarks ("the police acted stupidly") about Cambridge, MA police sergeant James Crowley in the Henry Louis Gates incident. Obama never did apologize to Crowley, though he invited him to beer.
The president was one of the leaders of the lynch mob that eventually succeeded in getting talk show host Don Imus fired from his post for the sin of calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed ho's." Then-candidate Obama declared that "[Imus] didn't just cross the line, he fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America." Thank God Harry Reid wasn't guilty of that.
By appointing a racist as his Attorney General, Obama effectively cemented history's judgment of his administration's racialist policies. Eric Holder, who called Americans "cowards" because they were unwilling to engage in a public debate about "race," has proven himself to be both a coward and a racist. When it's politically convenient for him to support blacks, he'll subvert the law to do so, as he did in dismissing the prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party for voter intimidation on election day 2008 in Philadelphia. The Justice Department had won the case by default when the defendants failed to respond to the charges, yet Holder dismissed the charges against all but one of the miscreants. The one against whom the charges remained was told not that voter intimidation was illegal, but that he had to wait until after 2012 before brandishing a nightstick at an election site again.
Holder is the Obama administration's "Bull" Connor. Where Connor called out firemen and policemen to prevent blacks from demonstrating in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, Holder tacitly condoned behavior equivalent to that of Connor's brownshirts by dropping prosecution of members of the New Black Panther Party when they brandished weapons and shouted insults at white voters, intimidating them in a way similar to that of Connor's thugs 45 years earlier. The difference is not in the degree of the offenses committed, but in the fact that in this case, when committed against whites, the offense doesn't lead to punishment."......................
Linda Ronstadt was not Mexican.
Her Grandfather, Federico Ronstadt, was born to a German father and Mexican mother, and was a naturalized American. Her mother was American.
well, those were just sickos. Only a sicko would rape an 85 year old lady. The perpetrators have lost their right to be called human, I don’t care what the color of their skin is...
Can you just imagine how that poor old lady must have suffered- and how the husband must have suffered seeing her abused by those vicious animals before his eyes?
I hope they catch the rest of them, they’re imprisoned and are tortured and killed by their fellow inmates.
I don’t want to imagine — it’s too horrible. Only rabid animals would do this.
Make up your mind you stupid, ignorant people. Either you're Americans or you're Africans living in America and led around by the nose by asshats like Jackson and Sharpton. (Al's about as sharp as a rock.)
These professional race-baiters and their accomplices in Washington for generations are the reason many of you have no idea who your father was. They are the reason that there is no father that sits at the head of the dinner table proud that he worked and paid for what was placed on that table. Instead you rely on the central socialist government to pick my pocket and call what is passed on to you for no effort: taxpayer dollars. Bullcrap! Those are not taxpayer dollars as we were mugged! Since we've got an America-hating African in the White Hut I propose we clean house!
Nope. We didn’t get along, and he said it to his black friends before I entered the conversation.
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