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"Sympathetic victim"? A trouble-making gangbanger suspended for marijuana possession and possibly assault on a bus driver who had burglar's tools and women's jewelry on his person? A young man who had just bought the ingredients for "Purple Drank/Purple Lean" when shot and had THC in his blood system? Back in my day that would've described a serious juvenile delinquent, at best. Has everything changed that much?
1 posted on 06/29/2013 4:06:08 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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yeah I would say that witness was a miscarriage.


2 posted on 06/29/2013 4:08:05 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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That’s the Truth. The “ Pravda” is he was a young innocent kid just going for some Skittles when he was stalked and murdered by a Racist Gun Nut Vigilante.....


3 posted on 06/29/2013 4:09:20 PM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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Yeah, but ever notice that the media always show pictures of him as an angelic child? Never the thug-wannabe pictures, though the exist, are rarely seen on Prime time.


4 posted on 06/29/2013 4:12:19 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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The fact is that bringing this case to trial and taking two years out of Mr. Z’s life for it is already a gross miscarriage of justice.


5 posted on 06/29/2013 4:12:21 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economiws In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
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What a trayvesty of justice.


6 posted on 06/29/2013 4:12:36 PM 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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Can the media be any more evil?


7 posted on 06/29/2013 4:13:06 PM PDT by Vision (Political Correctness is unAmerican)
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The original gloss on the story that galvanized protests nationwide was that a white, armed vigilante had pursued and murdered a black child just for sport, and authorities were shrugging it off.

This summary had great appeal to many of my fellow liberals for whom it confirmed their worst fears about firearms, the malignant endurance of racism and the cheapness with which law enforcement regards African-American lives.

I felt it too. But they've clung to this narrative long after the emerging facts have shown that the actual story is, at best, far more complex and murky than the first news stories and protest chants had suggested.

Martin wasn't the slight middle-school student seen in first photos of him made public, but a tall, athletic 17-year-old who'd had plenty of time to walk safely home once he knew he was being followed.

8 posted on 06/29/2013 4:13:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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Sympathetic victim? I thought he meant Zimmerman. Oh well.


9 posted on 06/29/2013 4:14:29 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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Zimmerman will be acquitted or there will be a very strong case for appeal.

The question is "what does Obama have planned in response to acquittal?"

The professional agitators are using this event for a purpose...probably because the case against Zimmerman was weak and likely to lose. This is a trigger.

10 posted on 06/29/2013 4:15:03 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (You can't eat Sharia)
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Writing for a Chicago paper put real restraints on this writer. You knew he wanted to just say, “the evidence is pointing strongly toward Zimmerman’s version of the story”, but he didn’t have the courage to say it.

So, he hid it between the lines.


11 posted on 06/29/2013 4:16:16 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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"Has everything changed that much?"

Yes.
16 posted on 06/29/2013 4:23:03 PM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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As if fearful of his job, the writer engages in liberal handwringing, avoiding what he clearly sees as the unequivocal reality: Zimmerman should be acquitted.


17 posted on 06/29/2013 4:23:25 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
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Why did CNN scroll "facts" opposite what happened?

Answer: Obama and the MSM (in bed together, see below)
are saliently lying (see above) to START a race war.


19 posted on 06/29/2013 4:26:06 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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Just the spin comin’ out to make sure the riots and burning will make it a hot time summer in the city when Zimmerman is acquitted. And since most low information types don’t realize the Trayvon image they’ve been told about is a total fabrication, it’ll work.


21 posted on 06/29/2013 4:28:25 PM PDT by bigbob
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"Sympathetic victim"?

One of the posts on Conservative Treehouse suggests that Trayvon's parents divorced when he was young, but until fairly recently he'd been raised by his father and stepmother, whom the post suggests were decent people. When the father and stepmother divorced, Trayvon went back to live with his mother. I don't know what the cause and effect relationship exists between Trayvon's return to his mother and his getting into trouble, but does seem that Trayvon may have been a decent kid at one point. It would be ironic, but not necessarily surprising, if one of the person clamoring most louding for "justice" (and money) was, of all persons still living, the one most responsible for his demise.

22 posted on 06/29/2013 4:28:27 PM PDT by supercat (Renounce Covetousness.)
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Miscarriage? More like a Gosnell back room abortion.


25 posted on 06/29/2013 4:29:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (The monsters are due on Maple Street)
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Sympathetic as viewed from afar via the mass media’s projections, I believe is what is meant here.

If even the Chicago Tribune sees a potential problem here, it has to be bad.

Fortunately, the fellow who testified of Zimmerman being on the bottom will likely, at least, hang the jury if not be the factor to clear Zimmerman.


26 posted on 06/29/2013 4:30:47 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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“A trouble-making gangbanger suspended for marijuana possession and possibly assault on a bus driver who had burglar’s tools and women’s jewelry on his person? A young man who had just bought the ingredients for “Purple Drank/Purple Lean” when shot and had THC in his blood system? “

WE know all that, but the average yahoos who get their information only from the MSM and daytime talk shows, do NOT!;)


37 posted on 06/29/2013 4:36:44 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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I’ve encountered enough Trayvons in my life to use up any sympathy I might have for him. I look at his death as a type of suicide, in as much as he set out on that path long before Zimmerman had to shoot him.


40 posted on 06/29/2013 4:41:10 PM PDT by pallis
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"Sympathetic victim"?

I think that is a fair description if one goes by the Media creation 'Traydmark Martin - the 12 year old kid (or was it 8 year old?) who was attacked and murdered by the KKK Grand Wizard, White Hispanic, George Zimmerman.

Of course if you go with the 18 year old high school truant, knockout king, gangster wannabe Trayvon ... then maybe not so sympathetic.

41 posted on 06/29/2013 4:41:34 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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