Posted on 05/21/2012 9:47:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Three months ago, George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Fla., shot and killed Trayvon Martin.
Handcuffed, taken in and interrogated, Zimmerman told police Trayvon had been acting suspiciously that dark and rainy night, that he had followed Trayvon, been knocked down and battered on the ground, and, fearing for his life, pulled a concealed handgun and shot him.
Sanford police and prosecutors concluded that Zimmerman acted in self-defense and had not committed a provable felony. They let him go.
A racial firestorm followed. "Blacks are under attack," railed Jesse Jackson. "Killing us is big business." Arriving in Sanford, the reverend dialed it up. Trayvon was "shot down in cold blood by a vigilante ... murdered and martyred."
Rep. Maxine Waters' charge of "hate crime" was echoed by radio talker Joe Madison. Rep. Hank Johnson said Trayvon had been "executed." The Grio compared his killing to the lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955.
The New Black Panther Party put Zimmerman's face on a "Wanted Dead or Alive" poster, called for 5,000 black men to run him down and said Trayvon had been "murdered in cold blood."
Spike Lee twittered Zimmerman's home address.
Zimmerman and his family have been in hiding for months in fear for their lives after the death threats.
President Obama expressed his empathy with the parents.
"If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon. And I think (the parents) are right to expect that all of us as Americans are gonna take this with the seriousness it deserves and that we're going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened."
Obama said not a word to cool the lynch-mob atmosphere created by some of his major allies in a nation where he is the chief law enforcement officer. And so the campaign to convict Zimmerman of racist murder in the public mind, before he ever got to trial, proceeded on.
Rep. Jan Schakowsky called Trayvon's killing a "modern-day lynching." CNN claimed to have picked up the phrase "(bleeping) coons" on the tape of Zimmerman's call to police, but had to retract when an enhanced version of the tape revealed no such slur.
Three times NBC used a version of Zimmerman's call to the police edited to make it appear he racially profiled Trayvon.
The actual version:
Zimmerman: "This guy looks like he's up to no good, or he's on drugs or something. It's raining, and he's just walking around, looking about."
Dispatcher: "OK, and this guy, is he white, black or Hispanic?"
Zimmerman: "He looks black."
The transcript was spliced to have Zimmerman say: "This guy looks like he's up to no good. He looks black."
CNN media critic Howard Kurtz called it "blatant distortion."
Caught and called out, three NBC employees were cashiered.
With this wind at her back, Florida State Attorney Angela Corey charged Zimmerman with second-degree murder. Translation: Zimmerman murdered Trayvon in a "depraved" state of mind.
If convicted, he could get life.
Last week came a more ominous report. Federal investigators are looking into hate crime charges that could bring the death penalty. The feds would have to prove Zimmerman stalked and murdered Trayvon because he was black.
Yet, last week also, evidence from the investigation spilled out into the national media and seemed to contradict and swamp the prosecution's case.
A medical report the day after the shooting revealed that Zimmerman had suffered a broken nose, two black eyes and lacerations on the back of his head. Photographs from the night of the shooting confirmed it.
A police report that same night said Zimmerman's sweatshirt had "grass stains and was wet on the back," consistent with his being flat on his back.
The lead investigator on the scene, Officer Christopher Serino, wrote that Zimmerman could be heard "yelling for help as he was being battered by Trayvon Martin." One witness said he heard 14 separate cries for help. Trayvon's father initially told police the cries were not those of his son, then recanted.
One responder at the scene said he saw wounds on the knuckles of one of Trayvon's hands, suggesting he had connected with a punch. The coroner found both the knuckle wounds and traces of the drug found in marijuana in Trayvon's blood and urine.
Trayvon's hoodie had powder stains indicating he was shot in the chest from 1 to 18 inches away, consistent again with what Zimmerman said.
Another eyewitness said the guy in the hoodie was on top beating the guy on the bottom "MMA style" -- mixed martial arts style.
With this evidence, how can a jury convict Zimmerman of murder?
Yet the public mind has been so poisoned that an acquittal of George Zimmerman could ignite a reaction similar to that, 20 years ago, when the Simi Valley jury acquitted the LAPD cops in the Rodney King beating case.
Should that happen, those who fanned the flames, and those who did nothing to douse them, should themselves go on trial in the public arena.
“The Reichstag fire they have been waiting for?”
It would doom Obama’s re-election bid; he is the one (half) black that whites could even the score with anonymously.
Please excuse me, but there was no 911 call.
Zimmerman called the non-emergency number and spoke with a non-emergency dispatcher. The City of Sanford issued a statement to this effect in March. The charging affidavit for Second-Degree Murder makes this clear, differentiating between Zimmerman's call to a dispatcher and the other "911 calls."
Zimmerman was advised by a non-emergency, non-911, police dispatcher.
There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs… There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
-Booker T. Washington
http://www.exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2012/05/quote-of-week.html
If Zimmerman walks, they’ll burn down their own neighborhoods.
CCW accompanies me everywhere.
Nothing will happen.
Pat Buchanan is a nut that doesn’t deserve to have an article posted onm this forum. This article is plagerized from a half dozen other articles. There is nothing new here and his point is in the headline, so its not worth reading imo.
FR should not be associated with Pat the kook.
Free Barabbas!
So true - until we meet their violence with even greater violence, they will continue to become more brazen and more injustice will be done. Far too many, supposedly right-minded people, would sacrifice George for the "greater good". The greater good would be better served by freeing George and quelling any resultant violence with "indiscrimiinate" force. Until we are willing to do so, it will grow until it becomes an actual and defined war.
You make it sound so enticing!
I'm sticking out for a house "not made with hands" — it never needs maintenance, and it will never go "underwater".
But this is the immortal meme, doncha know. Or, maybe, the undead meme, because it eats the brains of the living.
So don't confuse us with facts.
Which is what Obama wants.
Do not be surprised if, on election day, there is a strong effort to intimidate white people into not going to the polls.
Which is a brilliant response.
Look, why are we babysitting a handful of self-entitled emotional 4 year-olds? Folks of ALL ethnic persuasions will steer clear of the thing, and the stupidest of that lot will loot and burn down their neighborhoods.
What do the rest of us have to do with that? Let them, for crying out loud. They'll reap what they sow, and we can hope maybe they'll learn something in the process.
I wouldn’t want to be on the jury that acquits him. If there are any black members on the jury, and there will be, it will be a hung jury at best.
How's that grab ya?
Whether Zimmerman walks free or not will be decided when it is determined why Zimmerman got out of his car.
I voted for Pat in 2000.
I say let ‘em riot, but tell them in advance that monthly entitlement payments will redirected to pay for the cleanup afterwards.””
What monthly entitlement payments?
Let them fend for themselves.
Bury them in pauper graves.
Make all who survive re-apply for all those benefits.
Add mandatory drug testing, at a minimum of 8 week intervals. Don’t show up? Don’t pass the tests? Not one penny more. Don’t even feed them as homeless.
By the time we survive riots, martial law, possible civil war 2 here, we won’t be so anxious to keep appeasing the troublemakers, IMO.
Did you work on the anti semite’s campaign when he did run for president on the kook ticket?
Have sentencing 2 days before welfare payday. Offices being closed on welfare payday stopped the la riots.””””
In those days, welfare was received by checks in the mail, or by picking up the checks at local offices.
Today, welfare recipients have a DEBIT CARD type of money transfer. So do unemployment recipients.
Their payments are transfered electronically into an account and money can be taken out via ATM or by making purchases with the debit card.
They don’t have to actually go outside anymore to get their money. Only to spend it.
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