Posted on 03/26/2012 5:07:25 AM PDT by SJackson
You’re right - it’s going to backfire.
Ninety-three percent (93% ) of the deaths of young black men are at the hands of other black men.
Homicide is the leading cause of death of young black men.
The MSM doesn’t care about the slaughter going on in black communities because it doesn’t excite black voters - doesn’t get ‘em mad and ready to vote for white liberal elites.
The black self-appointed leaders don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men because they don’t get to shake down guilty rich whites for power and cash.
The Black Panthers don’t care about the 93% of black men killed by black men - because they don’t get to strut around acting tough. Nope. They don’t care - not a peep out of them.
No one cares about the 93% of black men killed by other blacks except their mothers... and somehow, that’s sad.
LOL how is the watch supposed to work if one cannot follow someone?
Oh and you can follow, you cannot by law here assault a person for following.
Here in my state of FL Zimmerman was being attacked, he had this young guy on top of him beating him to a pulp, Zimmerman shouted for help as witnesses have stated and the evidence suggests.’
In our laws he had every right to shoot to defend himself, your laws might be different and it sounds your media is very different.
what is the point of neighborhood watch if you cannot watch someone and if that means following so be it , following is not against the law .
LOL
er all neighborhood watches have different rules, here we carry guns in the state of FL and my area.
Zimmerman wasn't on watch when the incident occurred. He was on a personal errand, so even if what you say is true, it is irrelevant.
Even so, he is licensed to carry, and he was well within his rights to do so. Even the Police don't dispute this.
“LOL how is the watch supposed to work if one cannot follow someone?”
I suppose this is where I am disagreeing with many.
I assumed a “watch” is exactly that.
This following business is news to me, especially when someone engages in that behavior simply because someone is walking down the street.
Do NW watch areas really have a bunch of folks following people around? Or is it just a matter of someone being on duty and taking a stroll through the neighborhood?
To the person being followed it doesn’t matter much.
If you are not doing anything wrong, and find yourself being followed, you are going to become afraid.
it gets confusing when his defenders are arguing that since he was NW then he it was ok to follow Martin.
Correct, an aspect totally irrelevant to either the chronology of occurences or Z's 2A rights regardless any standing NW preferences.
So he must have been out, sees the kid, and calls. Then follows.
My understanding differs from the above, to wit:
1) Z was returning home from an errand;
2) Z spots an unfamiliar individual roaming the neighborhood after dark in the rain;
3) Z exits his vehicle, approaches M to inquire re his presence in the neighborhood;
4) Unknown words are exchanged, M continues away from Z on foot;
5) Z briefly follows while phoning the SPD to apprise, losing sight of M in the process;
6) SPD informs Z that a cop is on the way;
7) Z acknowledges and returns to his vehicle to await cop arrival;
8) see my previous above for the rest . . .
The crucial point being - if my understanding is correct, and in stark contrast to the characterizations of the enemedia et al - that Z did in fact cease any trailing of M and returned/was returning to his vehicle as suggested by the SPD dispatcher, whereupon he was attacked by M, and in the process of being viciously beaten by same, fired one fatal shot to the chest of his attacker.
(speaking of errands, I have some to tend to and prolly won't be around to respond for a few hours)
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away"
Coulda/Shoulda/Woulda is heard at waaay too many funerals.
gotta scoot .. later :-)
a watch means you watch and if that means you have to follow then that is what you do.
However it is not against the law to follow and has proven around here to work as it tells the would be robbers to piss off as we’re watching you.
Being followed does not mean you have the right to assault a person and beat them to a pulp.
By law you can carry a gun here and you have a right to shoot if there is no way out when being beaten .
You might probably have different laws and it sounds you do as well as what MSM you are getting..
Look NW means you watch and that is what you do you watch and that means you follow.
As for your last line, you are being followed and you become afraid.
LOL come on , not sure what background you have but I grew up on the street and I’m telling you that you keep waking and get out of the area and it certainly gives you no right to attack someone but the law does give you a right to shoot someone if you are being attacked and that is what happened.
What state are you in, out of curiosity?
Re: God forgive me for how much I loathe this racist scum.
I am so with you on that. OIF vet
I’m in NY - but out in the country.
I’ve never argued Martin had the right to attack.
I do, however, understand that being followed can be very scary.
I suppose my own bias comes from personal experience from a ways back of being followed around by a creep.
So when people argue on here that following someone is harmless...I don’t agree with that.
And no...I don’t agree with attacking Zimmerman either.
Martin had a phone...he could have called the police too.
I’m sorry but this has to be said, either you have been sucked into the the MSM, Ellen shows what ever or you come from an area where nothing happens and you are very naive about certain aspects of the street and crime and life in general because maybe you had a sheltered upbringing.
Again this is not an insult or intended but as the way you come across with your posts regarding this incident.
An elderly white couple was robbed and tortured, and the wife raped and beaten to death by a feral black gang just last week in Oklahoma.
What if they had been black and the perps white?
While the Zimmerman/Martin ‘white’ on black killing is covered 24/7 on the MSM with an outpouring of rage and charges of a racial hate crime, where is the concern- where is the rage about the home invasion, torture, beating, rape and murder of the elderly white couple by a gang of feral blacks in Oklahoma just last week?
The 90 year old war veteran husband was beaten and his jaw broken. He was shot in the face numerous times with a BB gun and sent to the hospital in critical condition.
The 85 year old partially blind wife was RAPED and then BEATEN TO DEATH.
(She was most likely gang raped numerous times...but we will never know for sure)
Both the husband and wife were weak, having just gotten over the flu.
.
There’s a lot more involved here than a home invasion and robbery.
WHERE ARE THE CHARGES OF A RACIAL HATE CRIME??
90 year old husband’s jaw broken and shot in face with a BB gun numerous times?
85 wife year old semi blind wife RAPED and BEATEN to death??
Where is the 24/7 MSM coverage?
Why does it take a foreign press to enlighten America as to this henious crime?
Where is the outrage?
I love when it people say they don’t mean to offend or insult followed by a “but”
LOL
I actually don’t as you seem a nice person but you do come across as someone who is little naive and have grown up in a very safe area.
I only asked where you hail from as I would have guessed it woudl be from where you said you are..
Down here is very different, even our local news now is turning out that the black panthers are causing trouble as is Sharpton etc and that this happened over a month ago nearly.
Facts are he had no right to attack someone because he was being followed and our laws down here in the great state of FL is stand your ground and that is what Zimmerman did and what eye witnesses said .
How many blacks died this weekend by blacks?
How many were hurt?
Where is the outrage by obama, the left , many in the MSM etc?
What about black on white crime and what about a white kid having gas poured on him whilst being called racist names and then set alight?
This is all about politics to stir up the black community for the election and they are laying the ground work for the summer along with the occupy smelly flea infested lot.
Yet again the left uses the black community as political pawns and it would be nice for some black leaders to stand up and call this what it is but sadly most are paid off by certain other race baiters
Just reading these (screen captures):
http://i.imgur.com/iTmrv.jpg?1
... suggests to me that there is a “gap” here — call it cultural, ethnic, racial, call it whatever you wish — that simply is un-bridgeable...
These kids are lost to traditional American culture, without any hope of finding a pathway back in....
Meanwhile, this happened within the past couple of days:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/student-shot-to-death-at-mississippi-state/
How much coverage of this should we expect to see in the national media?
I’ve been following these threads pretty closly for the past several days. Your numbers 3 and 4 are way off base. and your number 7 is pure speculation.
Also, you state as fact Z was attacked by M. Did you see that, were you there? If Z viciously beaten by M, why didn’t he seek medical attention?
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