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Special Report
The Politics of Tragedy
For Obama and the liberal media, Trayvon Martin is a character in an election-year narrative.
President Obama declared in a press conference Friday that Trayvon Martin, the 17-year old African-American student fatally shot by Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman in February, looks like his own hypothetical son. “If I had a son,” Obama declared, “he would look like Trayvon.” The racial implication of the president’s statement was clear. The man who gained national prominence with a 2004 Democratic Convention speech calling for cultural unity stood in the Rose Garden of the White House and furthered the racial tension surrounding Martin’s shooting. In a politicized national debate in which the Washington Post accused Zimmerman of “murder” and mainstream media writers call for the man’s arrest, President Obama opined on an issue on which he — like everyone else — is not fully informed.
“Every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative that we investigate every aspect of this and everybody pulls together, federal state and local, to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened” Obama said. According to the Los Angeles Times, Obama spoke to the Rev. Al Sharpton on the phone Thursday, and aides believed that they discussed the shooting.
Not to be outdone, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney went a step further. “What happened to Trayvon Martin is a tragedy,” Romney said. “There needs to be a thorough investigation that reassures the public that justice is carried out with impartiality and integrity.” According to our potential future president, “reassuring the public” must factor into a criminal investigation.
Unfortunately for all parties involved, the public has heard nothing but the media’s politicized commentary, wrapped into a narrative written before the facts of the case were fully disclosed. It’s a narrative that exploits Martin’s death from all angles. Some media commentators want to use the shooting to help repeal the “Stand Your Ground” self-defense laws enacted in states across the country primarily by Republican lawmakers. Others, like well-funded professional activists Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, stand to gain from pushing the idea that police officers are uniformly racist and that shootings of African-American men are implicitly condoned.
Sanford, Florida police chief Bill Lee announced his temporary resignation Thursday amid calls from activists like Sharpton, who declared, “We did not come here for a temporary leave of absence. We came here for an arrest.” Lee said he feared that his participation in the investigation would be a “distraction” from the case, given the public criticism directed at him. Lee’s job, of course, was not to analyze the merits of Florida’s stand your ground law but rather to investigate suspects based on the laws on record. He said that his investigation was “color blind.” According to Lee, no evidence exists to dispute Zimmerman’s claim that he shot Martin in self-defense. “Until we can establish probable cause to dispute that, we don’t have the grounds to arrest him,” Lee said. He also said, “There is evidence that George Zimmerman acted in self-defense.” Lee’s statements, based on still-undisclosed details from his firsthand police investigation, was widely condemned by media commentators who have not seen the evidence Lee was referring to.
THE MEDIA OUTLINED its narrative early. Initial reports claimed that a “white man” had chased down and murdered an African-American teenager. These reports echoed similar articles, in liberal publications like Salon, that a suspected right-wing fundamentalist was responsible for last week’s murder of Jewish children in France. Of course, within hours it was revealed that the French shooter was an al Qaeda sympathizer who had escaped from an Afghan prison. So the liberal narrative on the French shooting was stifled and the story faded from top-headline billing.
Factual developments also threatened the media’s Trayvon Martin narrative. It was revealed that Martin’s shooter was not fully “white,” but in fact had a Peruvian mother. Yet still the narrative went forward, with liberal journalists suddenly writing that “Regardless of whether Zimmerman is white, Latino, or black, this case shows that our society continues to hold stereotypes against young black males.” In light of facts, the media simply shifted ideas around to achieve their same intended effect.
With the narrative established, the press piled on sensory details.
America heard reports that Zimmerman uttered a racial epithet, “f—-ing coons,” in his 911 call prior to the shooting. This detail has not been confirmed. In fact, it is nearly impossible, in listening to audio of the call, to identify what Zimmerman said at that moment. But that didn’t stop liberal commentator Ta-Nehisi Coates from offering his personal opinion at the Atlantic: “The question at hand is whether Zimmerman muttered ‘f—-ing coons” during the 911 call minutes before he killed Trayvon Martin. Several people whom I respect — all of them black actually — don’t hear it. When I listened, I heard it immediately and in this CNN account, I hear it clear as day.” Coates then explained that his perception of the call provides “the makings of a federal case” against Zimmerman.
Here Coates expressed moral outrage and voiced a call for action on an issue with which he is not personally acquainted as a witness or as a firsthand reporter. In the Trayvon Martin case, his activist commentary is not merely directed at Zimmerman. It’s also directed at Lee, who, according to Coates, must lose his livelihood for not arresting Zimmerman. “This investigation wasn’t one,” Coates wrote. “It was a sham, an homage to the bad old days of Southern justice. Lee should resign.” Coates presumably wrote these words from New York, where he lives and works many miles from the investigation taking place in Florida. He did not interview anyone involved in the investigation or conduct any original reporting for his opinion piece.
In typical fashion, any reported facts that seemed to complicate the mainstream media’s narrative were immediately distorted, and any journalists reporting them were viciously attacked.
The Blaze reported, via the International Business Times, that Martin was on suspension for 10 days from his high school at the time of the shooting. This report seemed to contradict a statement by Martin’s English teacher to the Orlando Sentinel claiming that Martin was on suspension for five days for “tardiness.” The Blaze article cited Martin’s school’s disciplinary policy, pointing out that “tardiness” is not one of the serious — and in many cases violent — offenses warranting a ten-day suspension. Rather than investigating the reported discrepancy in the length and nature of Martin’s suspension, the Huffington Post smeared the Blaze and condemned any reportage on Martin as it relates to the incident.
“The Blaze, Site Founded By Glenn Beck, Insinuates That Slain Teen Trayvon Martin Was Troublemaker” blared the headline from Huffington reporter Gene Demby. “The sentiment that Martin was up to no good was echoed in the comments of the post, but they were less extreme than those found on the website of Fox News,” Demby wrote. Here Demby employed the common liberal tactic of quoting a website’s anonymous commenters in order to criticize the website itself. Demby also condemned Fox News for running fewer segments on the Martin tragedy than either CNN or MSNBC.
Nevertheless, the Blaze continued printing uncomfortable facts that have been ignored by the mainstream media, reporting that a witness says he saw Martin attack Zimmerman — testimony that lends credence to the police’s claim that screams for help heard on a 911 call were those of Zimmerman.
MEANWHILE, LIBERAL Washington Post opinion columnist Alexandra Petri attempted to make the shooting emotional, rather than factual. She wrote, “Fortunately for the fearful, Florida’s ‘Stand Your Ground’ law has their interests at heart. To get away with murder, you need not prove that anyone intended you harm before you shot him. All you need to prove is that you were very, very afraid.” In actuality, according to the New York Times, the Florida stand your ground law requires that “he or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another.” The term “harm” is in the very wording of the law itself. Petri’s willful distortion comes in the same month that she admitted to using falsehoods about Rush Limbaugh’s advertisers in a column smearing the conservative talk radio host. Limbaugh called her March 8 distortion an “out-and-out lie.” Petri was not fired from the Post for either fabrication.
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Mike Walsh| 3.26.12 @ 7:17AM
The incident happened 3 weeks ago. Why all the hoopla on Friday? Didn't have anything to do with the demos against HHS all over the country, did it?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:32AM
Oh, only 3 weeks ago- my, it is ancient history. Someone kills YOUR kid and you would shrug it off three long weeks later- figuring maybe the murder is covered under the statute of limitations.
Shadow| 3.26.12 @ 10:15AM
Was Trayvon YOUR KID Alan? Was he Obama's kid?
Obama didn't allow the proper authorities to do their jobs and investigate the situation without politicizing it and inflaming racial tensions. The reason is clear you just want to join the lynch mob.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:27AM
Martin was unarmed, and it has been established that the asshole
(who is in hiding because he doesn't want to face justice)
who shot Martin was following him. Zimmerman provoked the entire "incident".
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 10:28AM
Nothing's been "established," you dumbshit. It hasn't even gone before the grand jury yet. You don't know shit, Brooks. Go pitch your white guilt crap somewhere else.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 2:58PM
You brought it up - your white guilt slip is showing... I'm just saying.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:11PM
Sure, Junior. Whatever you say.
Scott| 3.26.12 @ 8:35PM
IDK, sounds like Purp has you pegged, ConChef. ;)
gearjammer| 3.26.12 @ 10:51AM
You mean he is hiding from black panther "justice" old boy ? He should just serve himself up on a plate to a savage mob ?
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 10:59AM
Yup! That' what the slobbering white guilt crowd want! Lynch him up on the nearest tree!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 2:59PM
Who said anything about lynching? Why is that on your mind?
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 5:32PM
Purp,
The Black Panthers put a $10,000 bounty on his head. That isn't exactly an invitation to tea.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:11PM
What is your experience?
Lynching, murder, rape and lynching.
You said lynching twice.
I like lynching.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:08AM
Obviously by "face justice", you mean subject himself to the lynching mobs sent by the New Black Panthers to collect their bounty, right?
Buck Bradley| 3.27.12 @ 10:36AM
Was Trayvon your kid Mr. Brooks? More to the point, was he Obama's kid? Why doesn't Obama make similar comments regarding black on black murders which are, shall we say, ever so slightly more common that "white hispanic" on black violence? Why doesn't Obama call the parents of the 13 year old white kid who was set on fire a couple of weeks ago by two black men stating "you've got it coming, white boy?" Obama has shown his blatant anti-white racism over and over and over. Now it looks like he is trying to start a race war. Anything to facilitate his re-election. Have we ever seen such a president?
Flit Andersen| 3.28.12 @ 7:04AM
If Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakan & the President of the United States were rounding up a lynch mob to come after me I guess I'd be in hiding too.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:11PM
If Martin did "go for the gun", then it was the sort of justifiable self defense you grant to Zimmerman (how could Trayvon know the burly guy with the gun wasn't an enemy?). So the real issue is-- if this turns out to be mutual self-defense panic--aren't Neighborhood Watch guys too under-cover for safety's sake? Their own 'n' others.
Scott| 3.26.12 @ 8:38PM
That's the fatal flaw of the Stand Your Ground laws: What if BOTH people are in fear for their life from the other? In this case, it then comes down to who is more "threatening," an adult with a gun or a kid with candy?
Nick| 3.27.12 @ 12:41AM
Or, more accurately, a kid who drops his candy and repeatedly slams the adult's head into the cement?
Scott| 3.26.12 @ 8:33PM
President Obama stayed away from the subject until he was cornered by a reporter. This was his response: “I’ve got to be careful about my statements to make sure that we’re not impairing any investigation that’s taking place right now. But, obviously, this is a tragedy...we all have to do some soul searching to find out why something like this happened.”
“I think every parent in America should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative to investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together — federal, state, and local — to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.”
How is that "politicizing it and inflaming racial tension?" Is the president of the U.S. NOT allowed to comment on a case that has captured the anger of most Americans? Is he only allowed to comment on cases that don't involve people of color? Not sure where you're coming from, Shadow.
Flit Andersen| 3.28.12 @ 7:09AM
You say "cornered". I say the guy was a plant who was SUPPOSED to ask the question to give Obama a chance to chime in on the subject without it looking like he was anxious to. Which he most assuredly was. The CORRECT answer to the "reporters" question should have been, "That is currently under investigation by departments that report directly to my office so I cannot comment on that right now". Okay?
Harry Nhadzack| 3.28.12 @ 6:22PM
I really like how you left out the most important part of his statement... the "If I had a son..." part
pretty convenient, eh
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:26PM
To sum it up:
the police are in fact trying somewhat to demonize Trayvon Martin,because they bungled the investigation.
Whether Trayvon was a victim of manslaughter or murder,
to his parents it was murder: Trayvon was followed by a man possessing a gun, who though a Neighborhood Watch deputy, was not wearing a uniform.
Thus Trayvon could have had no way of knowing what Zimmerman was up to.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:35PM
"though a Neighborhood Watch deputy, was not wearing a uniform."
..in fact, even someone wearing a uniform cannot always be trusted: once in awhile you hear about a criminal impersonating a policeman.
No one is saying Zimmerman deliberately killed Trayvon; however to the Martins it was and is a murder- as it would be to Tyrrell or Regnery if one of their children were killed under such circumstances.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 10:27AM
Oh, so the guy whom the media told us was white, but isn't, who shot the 6 foot something football player, that an eyewitness said was BEATING the non-white guy, has been tried & found guilty?
When was THIS, Alan? I'm gonna love it when, like the Duke case, this whole thing explodes in the faces of white guilt ridden schmucks like you & race-baiting poverty pimps like Sharpton (Tawana Brawley), Jessie "Hymietown" Jackson, Louis "Jews & White Devils" Farrakahn & those douchebags in the Black Klan who've put up "WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE" posters up for that white guy, who isn't white, who shot "innocent little Travon."
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:25AM
"who shot the 6 foot something football player,"
So now the 17 yr. old is OJ/ Hulk? a giant of a man, who followed Zimmerman and shot Zimmie right between the eyes?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:39AM
Too bad you can't read what I wrote, instead of looking like an even bigger idiot by trying to put words in my mouth or thoughts in my head. He's not the "innocent little kid" that you & your white guilt ridden ilk would have us believe.
Please, DO continue with the high school level hyperbole though. It sure as hell is entertaining.
Buck Bradley| 3.27.12 @ 10:37AM
We're so glad you were there for the whole incident with your videocamera Alan. Why don't you just release your tape already?
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 3:01PM
Those aren't facts - where did you hear that crap? So why didn't the police arrest Zimmerman? Any clue? That IS a fact. The police told him to stand down and stop following the kid. Why didn't he? That IS a fact.
Deal in facts, please.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:46PM
I heard "that crap" from the Tampa Fox station, you idiot.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 5:37PM
How do you know he didn't stop following the kid? From what I've read down in Tampa, Zimmerman was on his way back to his car when he was jumped.
The point I'm trying to make is to put your so-called "facts" aside, because there are so many contradictory "facts" buzzing around all of the different news sites out there that it's nearly impossible to tell fact from fiction.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 6:06PM
Listen to the 911 call. There were no commands to stop following him.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:24PM
The white devils edited it out.
Those danged white people; they're everywhere!
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 10:41PM
Yes indeed. Maybe it was Bush... Or the Jews.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:48AM
I did hear it ... and he was asked " are you following him?", Zimmerman says "yes" and the 911 police dispatcher says "we don't need you to do that". Now, interpret how you want, but that says, uh, stop doing that, we don't think that's a great idea. If you have to be commanded to be smart, well, then go to prison fool.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 1:23PM
I pray you never get called up to serve on jury duty. You are ready to convict and execute someone based on flawed news reporting and the hollering of race pimps.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 3:02PM
Very good point. They don't care about the facts.
Colin | 3.26.12 @ 2:58PM
This tragedy reminds me of the line Rahm Emanuel once said. It was something like - "Never let a crisis go to waste." Or words to that affect. However, race pimps like the Sharpton's, Jackson's, and Holder's eagerly support any and ALL opportunities to keep whitey down, muffled and ... quite. And we all know it to be true, that they'll NEVER raise their voices when the colors of violence are ... reversed. Black on white crimes and murders happen all over this country. But the pimp backers at the MSNBC's et al remain in critical cricket mode when it DOES go down. So spare me the righteous indignation. What goes around often comes around. You'll just never hear the race promoters shouting about it. Ain't gonna happen.
A few days ago, Obama was quoted as saying: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." Well, that, indeed may be true. I also suspect that if he had a monkey, they'd look like Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid. Maybe both of 'em.
End the end, this youngster's death was a tragedy. But the fact is, not ALL the facts have been brought forward. And even "if and when" they are, the mainstream media will sit on 'em like a bar stool at Club Chaz Bono. And all the hoody protest won't bring that kid back. Again, it ain't gonna happen.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:24PM
'Kills' ? Implying MURDERED? Do you have information to back that up? Are you simply a typical worthless liberal wordism excrement slinger perhaps? Racism, disenfranchisement, gentrification, discrimination, and now'kills'? Can you or any of your fellow ilk PROVE HE WAS MURDERED IN COURT????????? Then do so here/now!!!!!!
gazinya| 3.26.12 @ 9:58PM
I guess by your standards, The Obama couldn't find any of the 49 black children shot last week in The Obamas' own stomping ground of South Chicago? Or he saw no likeness of himself to the 11 black children that died last week his own town?
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.26.12 @ 9:45AM
Was that the NAACP Leader in that picture? Maybe he can get the U.N. Human Rights Council to look in to this? Or, the African National Congress? Or the whatever Organization the South American Banana Republics band together under. Obviously, JEW KILLER AL doesn't wanna wait for the United States Legal System to do its Job. Perhaps the Black Muslim Congressman, from Michigan, can get a SHARIA COURT up and running?
I remember when the POS "Reverend" Al, used the Accidental Death of a young Black Boy, to launch a 3 Day POGROM against the Jews in Crown Heights. A White Australian Jew was MURDERED in Cold Blood, because of this MFer. The City's Black Mayor let Sharptons Black SAVAGES, run through the streets of Crown Heights for 3 Days and Nights, "Looking for Jews". The Black Mayor ordered his Police to STAND DOWN, and let them "Get it out of their system", and to Hell with the Innocent Jewish Families.
Standing in the Funeral Parlour, with the "Reverend" Jackson (He of the Bastard Child and Budweiser Distributorship obtained in a Shakedown) he said that they would "Ride this dead kid to a 2nd term for Dinkins".
Al Sharpton who led another Black Mob, in to a Frenzy, until one of them went inside and MURDERED everyone who wasn't Black, before Torching the Establishment (Freddy's Clothing Emporium) to the Ground, is gonna lecture the rest of us on Race, and Murder, and Justice?
The Muslim's old buddies - The Black Panthers - (There's nothing "new" about them) are making the scene. They've put a Bounty on Mr. Zimmerman's head. And why not? Obviously, THE LAW doesn't apply to them. A CONVICTION in Court, doesn't mean anything when we're talking about them. We've got a Black President, who's got a Black Attorney General who, when he's not Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, in the hope that a nice big BODY COUNT of Dead Mexican Men, Women, for his Black Boss' Gun Confiscation Crusade? He' handing out "Get Outta Jail Free Cards" to all of The Muslim's BFFs, from his seat in Hussein's Blacks Only! Justice Department. They will do whatever they want to, as do all of the African Strong Men's Street Gangs do. I'm predicting MACHETES will soon be made available.
And, of course, we have the Piasse de Resistance: The good Grand Mufti of the Nation of Islam, and personal friend of President Abu Hussain: Louis Farrakhan. He of: The Mother Wheel, that is orbiting the Earth invisible, as we speak.
There hasn't been such an assemblage of HATE, since Hitler spoke at Nuremberg.
"They're Killing Us", said the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson. He, of the $3,000 Suit, No Church, No Income, No Taxes, and a Child out of Wedlock. The Black Panthers want a LYNCH MOB for this guy. And Farrakhan wants, whatever it is that Crazy People who think they've been on an Invisible Space Ship, want these days.
All these White hating/Jew Haters, in one place, at one time, because ONE GUY with a Jewish name had a run in with a Black guy, and the Black guy got shot. Now, it's GO TIME for the Protectors of Black Americans everywhere, because of one isolated incident of a White, shooting a Black. Can anyone name the last time we had anything like this happen?
Blacks are killed by other Blacks, every day of the week, and twice on Saturday Night. Blacks killing Blacks, is like the Sun coming up in the Morning. Blacks kill Whites, all the time. They kill Hispanics, all the time. 94% of the Homicides in NYC occur to Minority Blacks and Browns. 96% of the GUNMEN in those Homicides, are Black or Brown. Although Blacks make up just 15% of the Population, they commit 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES in this Country, with the Lion's Share of their Victims, being Fellow Blacks.
The frequency of something like what happened in Florida 3 Weeks ago - (Hello?) - is like the frequency of having a Meteor land in your Shirt Pocket, compared to a Black Perpetrator killing a fellow Black or a Non Black Victim. So, please, let's stop treating this like a PANDEMIC, shall we?
The idea that this happened 3 Weeks Ago, brings me back to where I started. To a little Funeral Parlour in Crown Heights, where a Black Child lay in a Coffin, and 3 Black Political Opportunists plotted a 2nd Term for a Black Politician who was falling behind in the Polls.
I'm just saying.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:24AM
It's not just "I'm just saying". Let's all call it for what it is. This is the latest strategy in Obama's re-election campaign. It started with a failed attempt to turn the election into a referendum on contraception, and painting the Republicans as evil opponents of women's rights who would ban all contraception if they could. When they saw that this strategy failed miserably, they started looking for something else. As Rahm Emanuel said, never let a good crisis go to waste. Crazy Al seized upon this isolated incident to inflate it into a national crisis that puts all blacks in danger. And then to cement their re-election strategy, they put Obama's face on the fabricated crisis to remind blacks that they need Obama and if they don't vote for him they can expect more black people to die.
You could see this slowly unfolding into the media circus it is today if you live in Florida. What started off as "just another shooting" quickly turned into parents crying for justice saying their "child" was murdered for being black and the Florida media enabling them. Then Al Sharpton appeared out of nowhere calling for "justice". Soon after that, the "distraught" father declared that he would call Eric Holder in the DoJ. A few nationwide marches later and the media circus culminated with Obama stumbling on his words portraying himself as savior.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 3:05PM
A little paranoid, aren't you Bob? Why isn't it amazing Obama got Zimmerman to gin this all up and Martin to go along and lose his life just to re-elect Obama.
Are you ignorant, stupid or just evil? You can take your pointy aluminum hat off now, they've found you.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:32PM
No DUMBARS, instead it Emmanuel's etc NEVER LET A TRADEGY/CRISIS GO TO POLITICAL WASTE! The only GINNING UP is with these worthless extrotionist false-preachers using this incident for their own and this POTUS's political purposes. If the dead kid was lilly-white, would there be anything mentioned, would there be any street demonstrations, would there be any comments from the POTUS that the victim LOOKS JUST LIKE ME????? Of course not, and that's why these sleazy buttholes are worse than worthless in use of the office of the presidency to be demeaned and humiliated from and by these outlandish actions!!!!!!
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:49AM
Guess you didn't take off your point hat, didya? the Gummint is gonna get you.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 12:49PM
If BOTH Martin and Trayson were packing heat, and Martin was following Zimmerman-- not the other way around-- then I would agree, with all of you.
Martin's parents are suspicious too; they claim investigators aren't doing enough. So if Zimmerman is lawyered up, then what is the harm in the police and detectives being more transparent about what happened? If there's nothing to hide, they could open up the files to show they have no dirt on Zimmerman.
It is the parents' prerogative to know everything that is in the investigator's files.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 12:52PM
"If BOTH Martin and Trayson"
I meant Zimmerman! a latin guy by the name of Zimmerman is hard to adjust to. Can you imagine if Bob Dylan were hispanic?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:36PM
You obviously know absolutely nothing about police investigations, since they are never forthcoming about details of any investigation due to the future useage of same inside a courtroom. ITS THE PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY , dumbars! Oh, and besides that never should allow for so called human beings to take to the political streets like animals demanding THE FACTS. you're stupid and their even more so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
tsd| 3.26.12 @ 3:08PM
Hundreds of Whites, Hispanics, Asians and Blacks are shot everyday in this country by black thugs and no outcry... please tell me why? If your kid is shot and killed how important is it what color your kid or the shooter is??? The point is to find the truth and see where justice is....nothing will bring your loved one back. The Black Panthers want revenge, they are no better that the KKK, same group of racist BS, just flip the color chart.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:51AM
you tell me - what's the difference - can you even figure it out?
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 4:00PM
Packing heat? What a buffoon you are!
Flit Andersen| 3.28.12 @ 7:13AM
"Totin' their roscoes"?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:19PM
...the clincher for me is Zimmerman was not wearing a uniform-- so how could a black teen (black teens get treated as badly as anyone) know what was up?.. he was only 17. Trayvon's parents are upset for a reason, they are not lynchers!
What concerns me most is you are technically following the letter of the law, but not the spirit;
so forget about what a black lynch mob wants and think about what the parents want.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:22AM
I think blacks are right- you consider them expendable.
Mike Walsh| 3.26.12 @ 7:41AM
No, dimbulb, the point is: Why did the walkouts and the media frenzy take off on this past Friday? If they were so concerned, why didn't all the race-hustlers jump on this immediately? And --while we're at it-- where was their outrage 2 weeks ago when black teenagers burned a white kid in KC?
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:30AM
If you live in Florida, you would've seen this unfolding slowly over the past few weeks. Sharpton got in on it early on. Demonstrators hit the street within the first week. Trayvon's father demanded that the DoJ investigate the incident within the first week. Within the second week marches were organized across the country, ostensibly to protest against "racial injust" but they actually were political rallies against "racist Republicans".
The media frenzy only really took off over the past few days because Obama himself finally put his face on it.
And there's no outrage when a white kid is murdered because it gives no political advantage to the Democrats and Obama.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 3:08PM
If you believe that, you never heard of Elizabeth Smart.
Of course the media sees ratings and attention when a tragedy is taken up by the President.
Fixed News is in on the frenzy, just from the other point of view, of course. So what?
Brian Mc| 3.26.12 @ 7:46AM
And you are a racist.
Lawrence Boccardi| 3.26.12 @ 8:07AM
Can I assume that you are referring to Mr. Walsh as a racist? And what is your evidence for that charge. We do know, however, that President Obama and his Attorney General are racists, as witnessed by their actions and statements. Oh, and Alan Brooks, how about heading back to Huffo?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 8:16AM
They waited because they didn't realise it was a murder until the three weeks had gone by.
A. Fox| 3.26.12 @ 8:38AM
How can YOU call it murder without all the facts?
Except what you have read in the news and they don't have ANY facts except the facts they have made up. Also, Zimmerman has not been arrested as of yet. You libs always jump to conclusions first before all the (true) facts are known.
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 8:41AM
Mr Brooks, why aren't you up in arms about the 13 yr old white boy who was doused with gasoline March 4th by two black teenagers and screamed at him that because he is white he deserved to die?
WHERE IS THE FUCKING OUTAGE OVER THIS? You slobbering guilt ridden white fools who are being used by the left. And the president had NO business insterting his nose into this.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:53AM
As tragic as that is, you said it yourself - do you think it's because it's kids on kid? do you think that makes it different? Could it possibly be?
You know what statutory rape is, don't you? Go look it up and maybe then you will be enlightened.
Elaine Pendergrast| 3.26.12 @ 10:23AM
As a long-time resident of a historic district that borders a black neighborhood, I can say with certainty that residents are more on-guard when they see a young, black male , wearing a hoodie, prowling down our tree-shaded streets.
Because of numerous breakins and muggings committed by young black males, who are usually wearing hoodies, we tend to fear them. This is an undeniable fact.
I have looked at the photo of Travain Martin, and he looks like a really nice kid. He does not look like the black males that I sometimes see and think are up to no good.
Did the hoodie make him suspicious in the eyes of Zimmerman? Had he not been wearing that hoodie, would Zimmerman left him alone.
This happened in a Gated Community. Were there no security cameras? Did no one actually see the confrontation? Or, if they did, are they afraid to tell what they saw?
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:32AM
Of course they're afraid to tell what they saw. We have a New Black Panthers Party publicly offering a bounty for Zimmerman "dead or alive". In the face of that, your fear for your life would prevent you from saying anything that might anger Sharpton and make him sic his thugs on you.
Moe Blotz| 3.26.12 @ 1:57PM
The hooded sweatshirt was the preferred outer garment of Ted Kaczynski and has been adopted by thugs as a great cover to hide their ugly mugs from security cameras. Unibomber Chic then caught on with youts and rappers so that the hoodie is now ubiquitous when young 'uns gather to occupy streets or lots. A witness who saw the dust-up between the Martin lad and his antagonist is being shielded from the media. Zimmerman supposedly got a broken nose and a bruised noggin from the poor defenseless Trayvon Martin.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:55AM
Yes, and if you took all that some on here say, you'd have to lock them up. Ignore the Black Panthers - they are on the fringe just like some of the righties here.
Brian Mc| 3.26.12 @ 8:37AM
No, you cannot assume that I was referring to Mr. Walsh since, if I were, my remark would have been inverted as a reply to him as opposed to the one the observation was intended.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 9:36AM
"How can YOU call it murder without all the facts?"
Okay, so if Martin wasn't cremated, we can dig up his corpse to charge Trayvon with assaulting the bullet with his torso?
Von Mises Jr.| 3.26.12 @ 8:40AM
Methinks you identify with victimhood since you probably got your ass kicked almost every day after school by the cool kids and the jocks.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 1:25PM
What the hell are you talking about?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:37PM
What a croc-of-excrement.....you're STUPID!!!!!
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:38PM
You're stupid!!!!!!!
Flit Andersen| 3.28.12 @ 7:19AM
Alan, you would THINK that all this start-power gathered together to bemoan the death of ONE teenager would take the opportunity to start an intra-racial discussion on the out-of-control crime-wave that is going on in the black communi-TAY. Black's represent 12% of the population but commit 115% of the murders. Mostly against other blacks. Where're all the race hustlers on THIS problem?
Well, as soon as they figure out a way to blame "whitey" I guess, huh?
W| 3.26.12 @ 8:15AM
Sharpton has inherited the Jesse Jackson franchise for racial exploitation/shakedown. He needs events like this to stay in the news.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 8:18AM
We are talking murder, not shakedowns or Affirmative Action.
W| 3.26.12 @ 9:31AM
We are talking about a killing. It could be justified because of self defense or it could not be, depending on the facts. It is not murder unless a court determines it was murder.
It is a shakedown/exploitation by Sharpton and his ilk who have made a lucrative career taking advantage of the suffering of others.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 3:12PM
Now tell me that that right-wing didn't do the same or worse over the Terry Schiavo case? The entire Republican Elected Political Class was involved to the point that Congress and the President had to pass a law ... and you blame Sharpton and others for wanting to highlight this kid's death and push for justice?
Cure your own house first, before you throw stones.
albert constantine jr.| 3.26.12 @ 3:37PM
Purp;
I must have missed the bounty paid when Mr. Schiavo was murdered by the Pro-Life movement.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:57AM
Let's see - the entire Government meddling in a private matter, tragic as it was, vs. the Black Panthers spouting off ... hmmmm. oh, I get it, you say they're equal. Seriously? Are you ill?
W| 3.26.12 @ 4:15PM
Purp
Reasoning by analogies is not your strong point.
You are getting more silly with each post. Come on, sharpen up.
We are going to need another lefty to replace you if you don't improve.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 12:59AM
And, yet, you don't dismantle the argument, because you know you can't. Ridicule is a tired, lame old tactic when you can't truly debate a point. Surely, you can do better in your own house.
W| 3.27.12 @ 8:53AM
There is no argument to dismantle, Purp
Claypoole| 3.26.12 @ 9:38AM
Sharpton should have been tried for murder for his role in incitement to riot and arson in the deaths at Freddy's Fashion Mart.
Shadow| 3.26.12 @ 10:19AM
No we are talking opportunists who are making something out of a situation that should be handled by proper authorities in the district it occurred. Greedy racists and politicians are using black insecurity and revenge to their own advantage and you are allowing them to use you. Are you really that gullible?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:30AM
If Zimmerman had shot a white girl, you'd be focusing your anger on him-- not Sharpton!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:34AM
That's obvious, because Sharpton would not get involved in the murder of a white girl. But this is the shooting death of a black teen by a hispanic male in self-defense, and Sharpton is organizing his mob around the country to demand "social justice" and "racial justice", which to them means the DEATH of Zimmerman. The fact that they are turning it into a political rally painting white males and Republicans as evil is just a bonus to them.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 12:33PM
"But this is the shooting death of a black teen by a hispanic male in self-defense"
The jury IS in after all?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:40PM
So thousands of murders occur daily.....does that mean that morons have to parade into the streets of protestation every time same happens, Da??????
Louis A. Jenkins| 3.26.12 @ 9:35AM
And Shaprton delayed going to Miss. to tend to his deceased mother too! All for the opportunity to have some face time on the news media.
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 8:17AM
This has the makings of the Duke la crosse scandal written all over it.
If the facts of the case exonerate Zimmerman, it won't really matter. By that time, all the race hustlers will have had their time in the limelight, which is the whole point anyway.
The so-callled black leadership in this country hang upside down in their caves waiting for golden opportunities like this. It's why they get paid.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 8:22AM
Zimmerman stalked unarmed Martin; how could Zimmerman be innocent? perhaps Martin's body attacked poor Zimmerman's bullet as it innocently whizzed through the air?
Melvin| 3.26.12 @ 8:36AM
The how to you explain the evidence on Zimmerman? Wounds to the back of the head, grass stains that are consistent from an attack?
What this is panning out to be is a public lynching, without letter the authorities do their investigating.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:35AM
"What this is panning out to be is a public lynching, without letter the authorities do their investigating."
How could Zimmerman be innocent if:
a) he had a gun
b) he was following Martin
c) he is hiding from the law
And Martin was 17! following a 17 yr. old; menacing Martin with a gun as if Martin was Clyde Barrow holding a shotgun?
gearjammer| 3.26.12 @ 10:55AM
Why don't you share a jail cell with some of these 17 year olds ?
2323| 3.26.12 @ 11:12AM
Why was Trayvon Martin expelled from school?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:42AM
Wooops! 2323, you're not permitted to ask such questions. Undoubtedly, he was expelled by an evil white principal for being black!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:39AM
Typical liberal logic. How can anyone be innocent if they had a gun? We all know they are never used in self-defense, and always used in cold-blooded murder.
He was following Martin because he was the neighborhood watch chief, and SURPRISE, they follow suspicious people to make sure they don't do anything wrong. Evidently Martin was up to no good since he proceeded to promptly attack Zimmerman, wrestling him to the ground before meeting his maker.
And obviously, by "hiding from the law" you mean hiding from the lynching mobs looking to carry out social justice. Zimmerman is not hiding from law enforcement. They could find him and arrest him any time, but they don't because HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING that would merit arrest.
Martin was 17, and weighed 200 pounds, and was a football player, and was recently suspended from school. This is no innocent child like the media is making him out to be.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:30PM
"they follow suspicious people to make sure they don't do anything wrong."
Well it sure backfired in this case! and is it really necessary to have a gun on Neighborhood Watch? What, that area of Florida is Ft. Apache the Bronx?
There's so many loose ends, the very 'best' it could be is mutual self-defense (gone wrong of course):
and that alone is very bad.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:42PM
Race is no longer a social problem in America.
It is a lucrative industry.
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 9:26AM
Apparently, you witnessed this tragedy. Has the police department interviewed you yet?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:36AM
They can't reinterview Zimmerman because he is hiding.
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 11:01AM
Are you stupid or are you just pretending.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:20AM
No, I really am stupid!
Dave Williams| 3.26.12 @ 1:32PM
Ah, the truth FINALLY comes out....now go away, Brooksie, PLEASE!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:40AM
No idiot, the police can interview him whenever they want because he is not hiding from them, he is hiding from the lynch mobs calling for his head.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:42PM
You're a dumbars! Do you know the facts or are you repeating what the MSM has told you? Were you at the scene of this incident and did you personally witness the events of same? No, you're just a stupid DA!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:37PM
"No idiot, the police can interview him whenever they want because he is not hiding from them"
He is lawyered up, just as those you castigate here many times for hiding behind their attorneys. The reason I go on about this is, I do know if Zimmerman was packing heat and following Martin, then Zimmerman can be charged with first degree Manslaughter, and that is quite bad enough; no wonder Zimmerman is lawyered up-- Manslaughter is negligibly killing someone.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:44PM
Unless it was self-defense.
Like when a cop with a gun is assaulted and wrestled to the ground.
Shooting his attacker is no problem.
Except for the attacker.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:45PM
Zimmerman was not a policeman, only an unofficial deputy. I don't think he will be convicted, but he has to be arraigned otherwise Manslaughter laws are too slippery.
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 9:28AM
You are spot on Gary. The Martin case wreaks of the Duke Lacrosse fiasco. As the author points out, the narrative was immediately set by the leftist media, facts be damned.
Zimmerman is not white, he is Hispanic. Although some in the media conceded the point by calling him a "White Hispanic". I've never seen this racial classification prior to this case.
But back to your point, as in the Duke case, even when the facts do come out, and not to the left's satisfaction, they will pull the "Duke Defense".
The "Duke Defense", as I call it, was revealed by lefty bottom feeder media whore Joe Klein.
Klein famously intoned about the Duke case, "the facts were wrong, but the narrative was correct". In other words, we don't need facts to create a media political event. It's not the facts that count, it's our warped leftist narrative that we're shoving down the throats of America.
Indy| 3.26.12 @ 11:12AM
Zimmerman is white, Hispanic is not a race, it's an ethnic group
I agree with your comment, this case has been tried in the media just like the Duke Lacrosse case, let the judicial process play out.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:41AM
It doesn't stop radical prosecutors demanding hate crime charges whenever a Hispanic is attacked by a caucasian.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 9:38AM
Then why doesn't Zimmerman turn himself in?
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 9:58AM
Alan, are you really that stupid, or do you just work damn hard at it?
The New Black Panthers have a $10,000 contract out on Zimmerman, or are you clueless to this as well? So much for justice.
Zimmerman is already toast, because the criminal justice system will do the bidding of the mob, facts be damned, just to prove America is not racist.
Unfortunately for Mr. Zimmerman, even if the facts support his story, he will pay the price to keep powder keg from going off.
Welcome to your America, Brooksie.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:40AM
And don't mention lynching, not after the hundreds who were lynched before the '60s- probably at least a thousand blacks were lynched.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:43AM
Is this still the 60's? Yeah, Brooks, there are SO MANY lynchings going on these days. Moron.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 6:08PM
So, by your logic, lynching whites is perfectly acceptable up to the point where the numbers eventually balance out?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:39PM
QUOTE, "lynched before the '60s", UNQUOTE.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:46PM
So you're saying a thousand white guys must be lynched to reach racial equity?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:51PM
"So you're saying a thousand white guys must be lynched to reach racial equity?"
No, I'm saying Zimmerman ought to be arraigned. He wont be convicted- but you can't merely shoot someone without any consequences.
"Gee, I'm sorry, I shoulda karatied him or used mace. I pwomise I wont do it again, Pwease."
Von Mises Jr.| 3.26.12 @ 10:42AM
Anthony, Brooksie really is that stupid. Did you ever actually try to understand his posts. It is mandarin of the era of Mao lost in translation.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:51AM
You Germans must be the most evil people ever.
A 17 yr. old kid? you make it sound as if Martin was bin Laden!
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 11:02AM
And if he was beating the tar out of you or raping your wife, he may as well be. God, you are unbelievable!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:30AM
Zimmerman FOLLOWED Martin; he deliberately provoked whatever occurred.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:44AM
Your doublespeak, deception, and misdirection will not work here.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:42PM
"The initial officer on site was ready to charge him with manslaughter "
If you follow a 17 yr. old with a gun, and end up killing him; no matter what, you are guilty of Manslaughter.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:47PM
"If you follow a 17 yr. old with a gun, and end up killing him; no matter what, you are guilty of Manslaughter."
So says Justice Elena Brooks.
Warrior | 3.26.12 @ 1:40PM
Wrong on every post your moronic fingers have typed on this subject. The evidence will show that Zimmerman was breaking off his surveillance as instructed and was walking back towards his SUV when Martin viciously attacks him. Zimmerman took a beating to include a broken nose and in self defense shot Martin. The pictures the media is using of Martin are several years old, he is a lot bigger than what they are portraing. On several occasions he has been photographed using gang signs and was in fact serving school suspension on the fatal day. Zimmerman is not hiding from the police, they know exactly where he is and he is following any and all instructions given to him by law enforcement. The initial officer on site was ready to charge him with manslaughter until an eye witness stepped forward to detail the events.
I can keep going, but why? The facts are not something you seem interested in. It's assholes like you that will enable a riot to occur where dozens of people are going to be hurt and/or killed. If that happens because of the liberal biased on making a narrative stick, I can only hope someone close to you suffers. Maybe it will make you think twice about your ideological preferences to making the facts fit your narrative.
SUBVET| 3.26.12 @ 1:01PM
Those of you that respond to ALAN are just as bad as he is. I was always taught if you ignore him he will go away.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.26.12 @ 2:32PM
I'd prefer to insult his ignorance. That usually drives away the trolls for me.
But you are correct Subvet that you should not take their bait. It is boob bait. And it is the only boobs these miserable trolls have seen that isn't glossy print.
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 10:53AM
Nicely phrased Von, very well put!!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:43AM
He doesn't need to turn himself in, the police are not looking for him. Or do you mean turn himself in to the lynching mobs sent by Sharpton and the New Black Panthers so they can serve social justice?
If anything, he'll turn himself in for POLICE PROTECTION after all the calls for violence against him.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 12:41PM
You know very well Zimmerman is lawyered up.
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.26.12 @ 4:24PM
He got a lawyer??!?? What a scumbag! The nerve of some people.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:48PM
Only guilty people hire lawyers.
Like Bill Clinton did!
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:44PM
A. Because he hasn't been charged with a crime yet, dumbars! Why would you turn yourself in if you didn't commit any crime and weren't accused of any [other than by the Rev Al and Jesse and Barry that is]??????
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:48PM
Again, if you follow a 17 yr. old with a gun, and end up killing him; no matter what, you are guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter is a crime, it is not jaywalking or littering. Zimmerman does deserve to be in hiding, but only after being processed by police and making bail.... and if needs police protection, then he gets police protection.
Appleby| 3.26.12 @ 8:24AM
After so many misfires among the Liberal Press and their chanting followers -- think not only the recent Al-Qaida killing at the Jewish school in France, but the massacre at the Gaby Gifford gathering -- you'd think they might wait before they jumped the shark and began their lynch mob march to the 24 Hour News Cycle's attention, and gather at least some facts. Heck, we don't even believe the "Storm Watch" people who jump forward and start screaming about an imminent catastrophic weather system heading our way; we know that 90% of these things quietly dissolve into nothing, leaving Anderson Cooper standing there in his yellow slicker trying to make catastrophe out of a thunderstorm.
Personally, I have a can't fail test for "Is it Racist?" You are free to apply it yourself. Can you imagine President Bush standing in the Rose Garden and saying of the murder of a White teenager, "If I had a son, he'd look like that boy?" and yourself nodding agreement and heading out to March and Chant? If you can't -- it's racist. And it doesn't matter if it's some Harvard student or the President of the United States: if it's racist, then it's racist.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 8:34AM
Zimmerman stalked an unarmed teenage kid, you bimbo!
A. Fox| 3.26.12 @ 8:46AM
How do you know he stalked except what was published in the news and they don't know either.
Except what they think happened! Have any of you on this form done any police investgations?
I have, don't jump to conclusions until the all the facts are in. That includes you Brooks!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:43AM
Okay, it wasn't stalking, right? Zimmerman, packing heat, just happened to be following Martin and decided to come up behind him to plant a kiss on Martin's cheek?
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 11:25AM
Keep going, Alan. As our token liberal, you're funnier than hell.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:57AM
Guess you've never heard of a neighborhood watch program. Is that because you live in white people land, where you don't need to worry about such things? Maybe you should look up the crime stats for that neighborhood in the past year. It might also help for you to know that the neighborhood is also 49% white.
Yeah, Brooks. Jim Crow is just alive, well & still kicking, you idiot.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:45PM
How do you know that fool? Were you there?????
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:50PM
For the 3rd time, if you follow a 17 yr. old with a gun, and end up killing him [or her]; no matter what, you are guilty of manslaughter.
Manslaughter is a crime, it is not jaywalking or littering. Zimmerman does deserve to be in hiding, but only after being processed by police and making bail.... and if needs police protection, then he gets police protection.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 6:50PM
"Zimmerman stalked an unarmed teenage kid, you bimbo!"
I do that all the time.
Who doesn't?!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:46AM
The facts don't matter to them. They just want to turn this into a crisis of racial injustice, making the black community feel threatened and putting Obama as their savior and only hope, so that they come out in force for him in November.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:51PM
Better Obama than your next McCain!
Derek Leaberry| 3.26.12 @ 8:41AM
For President Obama, the Martin case is a cheap way to placate his base without rousing his political opposition. As for the black anger at the case, it is curious that the black ballyhoo gang hasn't gotten its dander up for any of the other thousands of black murder victims over the past few years. Could it be that the Martin case is one of those rarities where a non-black has killed a black?
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 6:54PM
Trayvon's parents are right to be upset, it is up to them if there should be an outcry- manslaughter is a crime and Zimmerman has to be booked.
Clint| 3.26.12 @ 8:47AM
This Is One More Cheap Orchestrated Mainstream Media Race Hustle.
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 9:29AM
Yes, it is.
Dave Williams| 3.26.12 @ 1:34PM
Good lord, both Brooksie AND Clint right ON THE SAME DAY????? I'm going to look outside my window to check out the pigs flying by....
Shivering Demons | 3.26.12 @ 3:04PM
If the amoral prof admits the existence of the Good Lord today would be the three for three day that froze hell itself.
Clint| 3.26.12 @ 4:32PM
Hey Look !
There's Dave's Old Lady Flyin' By, In An Ultralight.
Sweltering Demons| 3.28.12 @ 2:42AM
Good burn.
Von Mises Jr.| 3.26.12 @ 8:53AM
While unfortunate, this is another diversion from our failed elite's leadership. The country is broke, our "Dear Leader" is disarming us in the face of terrorist and dictators, there is a private sector revolt against ObamaCare, companies are messing themselves with fear of this regime and comatose, unemployment is near depression levels at 15%+ (U6), inflation is probably closer to 10% than 2% compared to the past ("Core" inflation is a hoax), and the President is a joke who is about to get shellacked worse than his socialist compatriots in the mid-terms.
So they need a "Bokonon." Hide in the mountains, Mr. Zimmerman. Like Col. McCabe and "Papa" Monzano before them, our dictators in DC need a foil. And you shall play "Bokonon."
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:50AM
They tried using the contraception non-issue into a distraction and failed. Now, they are taking advantage of Trayvon's death to produce another distraction. What's next?
Von Mises Jr.| 3.26.12 @ 1:00PM
Obama don't look like me! Oh, they used that already.
Harry Nhadzack| 3.28.12 @ 6:36PM
all this talk, and NO information has been released.
I sure hope that if found wrong, those on here putting everyone down that doesn't agree with you are also the first ones here to apologize....
doubt it, as youll be over on HO PUFF bragging about how you gave a good keyboarding to conservatives
SUBVET| 3.26.12 @ 1:04PM
This is part of the mulatto's plan of DECEPTION divide and concur.
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 8:57AM
Yeah, nary a word from the race hustlers or obama about all the black on black killings in Chicago on St Patricks day either. Why isn't it talked about when black kill blacks? It's okay for them to kill each other and call one another ni##er but when a Hispanic defends himself from being beaten by a punk who happens to be black, all hell breaks loose. And the photos they release on this young man are of him when he was 13, all young and innocent looking just to garner more sympathy. I saw one last night from his Facebook page where he wasn't looking so sweet and innocent. Wonder why that one wasn't use......
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 6:08PM
Liberals are liberals first. Black on black murders don't further their agenda. Sadly with the liberal divisions of people blacks are only chess pieces to be played for democrat liberal policy goals.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 6:58PM
That's the most accurate thing I've read in this thread.
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 9:00AM
This may backfire on Obama and his lap-dogs in the media as well as his delusional, chin-drooling supporters. Too many people in this country have been been victims of crimes committed by too many black thugs for this case to generate much sympathy for very long. Especially after the hysterics are over and the truth about it emerges.
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 11:28AM
Convincing liberals to deal in facts is like trying to talk a dog off a meat wagon. Luckily, they in the minority in what's left of our country.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 1:32PM
My dog applies more logic than liberals.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:52AM
The goal wasn't to target those people though, it's to target the black community who in Obama's Presidency have suffered even great economic burdens, being put in food stamp and unemployment rolls instead of in jobs. The black community was not going to come out in the numbers they did in 2008 when they gave Obama the election, but with a fabricated race crisis they might now go to the polls to keep their Defender-in-Chief in office.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 7:02PM
"...but with a fabricated race crisis they might now go to the polls to keep their Defender-in-Chief in office."
I doubt anyone will be talking about this a month from now, let alone November (or remember, for that matter).
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 9:05AM
While the White House spins this one isolated incident and Obama is off safely bird-watching in Korea gasoline is $4.00 a gallon and rising and the economy continues to decline. What was that about fooling some of the people all of the time?
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 9:08AM
From Obozo to Sharpton to the entire leftist media, and finally to the threats of the New Black Panthers, the Martin situation stinks of the left's desperate desire for confrontation because their politics are being soundly rejected.
Our post racial president had to immediately jump into the frey, like he did when Giffords was shot. This smarmy, self agrandized punk tells all of America to do some "soul searching" before the facts are established. And of course, his son would have looked like Martin, oh really? And who the hell cares!!!
MSLSD tells us the Sharpton they hired is not the Sharpton of 10-15 years ago. Oh really, he looks and sounds the same as he was in the race-baiting Brawley disaster he starred in.
And MSLSD is happy to ride Sharpton's stinking coat tails in hopes of getting somebody to watch their pathetic station.
When the media did attempt some perspective, Zimmerman was portrayed as a "White Hispanic", yet the media were desperate to maintain the left's theme of white on black crime. The fact that Zimmerman speaks Spanish and has numerous Black family members is of little concern. Never let the facts get in the way of a good story, especially when there is a political agenda to push.
Bottom line, this is just the left's extension of OWS. They are desperate, they are looking for, no, they WANT a "hot summer" to scare the hell out of the Republicans and the American people. The left will intimidate America into voting for Obozo...... or else.
We are in deep, deep, trouble.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 9:14AM
I wish to apologize for my limited perspicacity and unlimited stupidity. After all, I am a liberal!
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 9:31AM
So, if you were in charge of everything, where would you take this country?
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 9:35AM
You're forgiven Alan. Now come on over from the dark side. NOT!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:45AM
"I wish to apologize for my limited perspicacity and unlimited stupidity. After all, I am a liberal!"
I want to apologize for the ID thief who wrote the above, and whose IPO can be looked up by AS.
Fred C. Dobbs| 3.26.12 @ 11:16AM
The ID borrower spoke more truth in one post than you have in any of yours you mouth-breathing moron!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:32AM
ID theft is a crime. The asshole's IPO can be looked up.
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 11:34AM
Oh dear! A crime! Oh heaven forfend! Maybe is name is Alan Brooks as well?
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:02AM
Stealing a handle is a cheap trick that the immature, unintelligent use because they have no balls to stand up, make an argument and use their own handles. their hiding in the closet, because we might find out they're GAY. OMG.
Roy| 3.28.12 @ 8:07PM
Dude, that made...NO..sense whatsoever. I mean..wow. You are one gay-fixated dude.
But I guess we both agree that ID theft is bad.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:44AM
Oooh! You're so scary Brooks. Yeah, prosecute someone for jacking your handle on a website that you don't even have to register with to post comments.
What an f-ing moron you are.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:54AM
Wow, you do always exaggerate and demand criminal convictions for everything.
HINT: This isn't ID theft moron.
albert constantine jr.| 3.26.12 @ 2:02PM
Mr. Brooks;
Generally speaking, a criminal impersonation statute contains an element where the one who appropriates the identity of another obtains some form of benefit.
I cannot imagine that any reasonable jury or jurist could ever find that posting under your name could be construed as a benefit.
Calvin| 3.26.12 @ 12:51PM
Don't worry AB. We knew it wasn't you. He seemed much more intelligent.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 7:32PM
No need to apologize for the ID "thief." What he/she posted was more entertaining and true than anything I've ever seen you post.
SUBVET| 3.26.12 @ 1:06PM
LIBERAL.......is a communist with a college education thinking negro thoughts.
Rum Diary
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:46PM
That's the first truthful thing you've ever said here!!!!!!!!!
Louis A. Jenkins| 3.26.12 @ 9:32AM
Go to "Free North Carolina" for some of the counter-information on Travon. There are other websites too that present Travon not as a slim 130 lb. lad, but rather a 180 lb. football player who had "joined a gang." Yes, joined a gang. His facebook page has had the hardcore pictures erased, and only the love-filled pictures remain. But Free North Carolina has some of the really good photos, including a hip riding as- showing middle finger sticking upright photo. All is not as innocent as the "black" media wants you to believe. But, it doesn't matter, we will see America in flames this year if the "racist baiting" rable have their way. Got the munitions to defend yourself?
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 9:36AM
Absolutely on the ammo. I did see the finger photo of the sweet boy with his boxers showing proudly. The media is dispicible.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:54AM
You are portraying Martin as Dillinger or something? he was a 17 year old ferchrissakes.
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 11:30AM
Whats your middle name, DUH?
How old were those kids at Columbine?
And if Zimmerman-ez was really such a bad guy, he wouldn't have called 9-11, and would have had an untraceable gun to plant on the late Mr. Martin.
Frank
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:35AM
"How old were those kids at Columbine?"
That was two guys, armed with assault rifles.
Why do you dislike black teenagers so much? what did they do to you?
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 11:49AM
To me? Nothing, but maybe thats cause I'm armed, live in a 99% Korean neighborhood, and my Personality makes Dirty Hairy Callahana look like Mr. Rodgers...
Frank "Make My Day" Drackman
Moe Blotz| 3.26.12 @ 2:07PM
Frank, I would not mess with you because you were a 5'6" 130 lb. defensive back. I knew blokes like you in college who made 200 lb. running backs and receivers shiver when they got hit. The iron in your diet probably came from chewing on nails for breakfast.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:13PM
"What happened? He only came up to your chin?"
Yes, but he came up way too often.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:00PM
"[snip] maybe thats cause I'm armed, live in a 99% Korean neighborhood"
If it is such a good neighborhood, why is being armed so important to you there?
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 1:16PM
Remember, black people are incapable of committing violent crimes. Only crazy whiteys do that.
Louis Jenkins| 3.26.12 @ 2:43PM
Yes he was 17 years old. But a 17 year old or an 80 year old can hurt an individual, regardless of age. The media has gotten into this, and so have the racial-baiters. They have developed their story and not allowed the judical system to go to work. What do we have? A bunch of people, including you Mr. Alan Brooks, running around screaming, preaching, all about the more admirable characteristics of Trayvon. Nothing is ever as it seems. Nor was Trayvon nor Zimmerman. Allow the justice system to work, not place a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman's head. Black on black, black on white crimes now far outnumber the white on black crimes. Who cries for the whites? NO ONE!! We don't have time to take bus rides to Florida to demonstate. We stay at home and work to support the 49% of America that doesn't pay taxes and take bus rides. Get real, at least Dillinger was an honest crook in that he only held up banks. The New Black Panther Party and its cronies (Sharpton, Jackson, etc.) are much different. They freeload off of the communities of which they supposedily serve, all at our expense.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:03PM
"Get real, at least Dillinger was an honest crook in that he only held up banks."
Dillinger did more than "only" rob banks. (btw, Oldfart, Dillinger never showed his boxer trunks? because there was no Internet then).
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:48PM
Did Dillinger show his boxers too....shazam?????
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:05PM
Dillinger only robbed and killed people, the sweetie-pie.
Louis Jenkins| 3.27.12 @ 9:21AM
That's correct Alan, baby. He killed FBI, bank execs (which would be popular these days) he killed deputies, highway patrol officers, all with a sawed off Browning Auto Rifle. Are you scared yet?
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 9:57AM
George Zimmerman suffered a broken nose, and had an injury to the back of his head, he was attacked by Trayvon Martin on that evening. And another subhuman thug with an absurd name lies rotting in the ground. So what's the problem again?
rjh| 3.26.12 @ 9:58AM
Why does anyone here respond to Alan Brooks?
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 10:01AM
Well, Alan Brooks did confess to his rampant stupidity.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 10:56AM
No it was an ID thief (ID theft being a crime, btw) who "confessed".
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:03AM
Why don't you prosecute the perp, Brooks? I'm sure you feel so "wronged."
You're hilarious. No one needs to jack your handle when you say such idiotic things all by yourself.
Sneed Hearn| 3.26.12 @ 11:09AM
ID theft! Oh dear! Call Sharpton and Jackson!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:56AM
Typical liberal looking to criminalize everything.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 7:08PM
It's rather sad to equate what happened to ACTUAL identity theft.
I recommend you lawyer up and try to prosecute/sue. Just be sure to send us a recording of the lawyers histerical laughter.
Gary B| 3.26.12 @ 11:32AM
'cause it's fun. Ridicule is an excellent weapon to use against insecure liberals. They change the subject and talk in circles when actual facts are on the table. It's like watching a little dog chase its tail.
SUBVET| 3.26.12 @ 1:09PM
ditto x 2
jaytrrain| 3.26.12 @ 10:05AM
Bloody well right , the details don't matter . Just as soon as they open up , I will be down to my gun store , Hoover Tactical Firearms , and double up on my ammo supply . And next time I'm out to the deer camp , I'm gonna make sure my long gun is still sighted in right . One look at the smilin' faces in the the lede here tells you all you need to know . Si vis pacem , para bellum
Nick Hardy| 3.26.12 @ 10:05AM
How much longer are we going to tolerate the persistent and vicious assaults by blacks on whites? How much longer are we going to tolerate the cowardly media's refusal to report the problem? The "blacks as perpetual victims" routine is getting old. Really old. The staged "I'm outraged" events are getting old. Really old.
Watching whole cities and communities that were once gems of Western progress and ingenuity (Detroit, etc) become crime-ridden, third-world cesspits is getting old. Really. Bloody. Old.
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 10:30AM
Honey, it's been old. For a very long time.
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 10:11AM
Take home message,
If your gonna shoot some suspicious dude in your neighborhood, DON'T call 9-11
Frank
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 11:02AM
Great point Frank. If Zimmerman was/is the cold blooded racist stalker killer the left and Obozo are making him out to be, why indeed did he call 911?
He could have just shot Martin, if that was his intention and slinked away.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 11:37AM
Zimmerman wanted to make his murder of Martin legit by calling 911.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:52AM
Has this man been found guilty yet? I must've missed the trial.
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:58AM
No, because apparently there's this law on the books that forgives you from any wrongdoing if you commit a crime while on the phone with the police, even if you didn't really commit a crime and all you did was defend yourself from a thug.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:50PM
Excrement, another grand right wing conspiracy no doubt [according to you and Ms. Hillybilly]!!!!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 7:09PM
You make it sound as if Zimmerman is Saint Francis, when Zimmerman killed a guy after provoking him.
Was Zimmerman injured so badly he is in the hospital today?
tacomatuttle| 3.26.12 @ 10:19AM
thousands of blacks are brutalized and killed by other blacks everty year yet there is no outcry over this
while the Florida death is a tragedy, it has mor[phed into selective outrage especially by the oval office occupier, who almost never answers any questions at his press statements, decided to drag race into this issue
His idea that he is now martin's baby daddy and how America must do some soul searching is not only pathetic but aimed primarily at getting the blacks to firm up their support for their "daddy" and to get the bleeding hearts on his side for the coming election
Exactly why the nation is somehow guilty fopr things they take no part in or have no control of course evades the occupier's thinking
Yet by assigning collective guilt, the occupier can climb on the victim cross by asserting that by extension, the death of Martin was in reality an attack on the oval office occupier and his racism
Teaghan| 3.26.12 @ 10:32AM
EXCELLENT post Taco. Excellent.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:53AM
Well stated, Tuttle! And welcome to the fray from the zoo that is TH!
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:59AM
There is outcry, but only in isolated pockets. The good men and women concerned enough about the black community to do something about it are quickly silenced by the mob organized by Sharpton and the New Black Panthers whenever racial justice needs to be served.
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 10:35AM
Who shot Tupak? Malcolm the Xth? Martin Lucifer King?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:51AM
George Bush, of course!!!
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 5:51PM
No it wasn't Bush.... it was Zimmerman who shot him also!!!!!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 10:37AM
Gee, where was all the national media attention in Knoxville a few years ago when a white couple was kidnapped, tortured, raped & mutilated by a group of black kids?
Read on, if you haven't heard of this. It'll make your hair stand on end:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/n.....m-murders/
"On Saturday January 6, 2007 Hugh Christopher Newsom, age 23 and Channon Gail Christian, age 21, both students at the University of Tennessee went out on a date. They were driving in Channon's Toyota 4-Runner when they were carjacked at gunpoint. Suddenly the crime turned far more savage than an armed car theft. Chris and Channon were kidnapped and driven to 2316 Chipman Street where they were forced into the home at gunpoint. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off. He was later driven to nearby railroad tracks where he was shot and set afire. But Channon's hell was just beginning. She was beaten; gang raped repeatedly in many ways, had one of her breasts cut off and bleach poured down her throat to destroy DNA evidence-all while she was still alive. To add to Channon's degradation the suspects took turns urinating on her. They too set her body afire, apparently inside the residence, but for some reason left her body there-in five separate trash bags..."
http://www.sullivan-county.com.....racism.htm
The silence over THIS was DEAFENING. I'm sick to DEATH of these f**king liberal hypocrites who focus their selective outrage only on the cases that advance their bullshit agenda, that being white=America bad/blacks=perpetual victims.
What a load of manufactured horsecrap this whole thing is.
W| 3.26.12 @ 11:34AM
ConChef
Last week in Pgh a white college student was attacked by nine blacks, and it was reported as a "student attacked by nine youths." If it was one black student attacked by nine whites, how would that be reported?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:46AM
Al, Louie & Jessie would've fired up their Gulfstreams & left Florida tootsweet to bring their agitating asses up HERE.
(shaking head in dismay)
W| 3.26.12 @ 12:02PM
ALJ? Is that a new rap group?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 12:27PM
Yep! Be sure to pick up their debut album, "Kill Whitey!"
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:23PM
"Youths" in America means black men.
"Youths" in France means Muslim men.
Moe Blotz| 3.26.12 @ 2:14PM
On American Thinker from 24 March Michael Filozof told a story of a similar killing in Greece, NY circa 2009. Roderick Scott, a black man, shot Christopher Cervini, a white lad, with a legal .40 caliber hand gun. The circumstances were similar to the Trayvon Martin killing in that Mr.Scott confronted the young Cervini as the latter was walking in the former's neighborhood. Where is the outrage over that one?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 2:31PM
Aw, come on, Moe! You know libs/regressives. They are pre-disposed to have selective memory and outrage disorders!
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.26.12 @ 10:37AM
Was that the NAACP Leader in that picture? Maybe he can get the U.N. Human Rights Council to look in to this? Or, the African National Congress? Or the whatever Organization the South American Banana Republics band together under. Obviously, JEW KILLER AL doesn't wanna wait for the United States Legal System to do its Job. Perhaps the Black Muslim Congressman, from Michigan, can get a SHARIA COURT up and running?
I remember when the POS "Reverend" Al, used the Accidental Death of a young Black Boy, to launch a 3 Day POGROM against the Jews in Crown Heights. A White Australian Jew was MURDERED in Cold Blood, because of this MFer. The City's Black Mayor let Sharptons Black SAVAGES, run through the streets of Crown Heights for 3 Days and Nights, "Looking for Jews". The Black Mayor ordered his Police to STAND DOWN, and let them "Get it out of their system", and to Hell with the Innocent Jewish Families.
Standing in the Funeral Parlour, with the "Reverend" Jackson (He of the Bastard Child and Budweiser Distributorship obtained in a Shakedown) he said that they would "Ride this dead kid to a 2nd term for Dinkins".
Al Sharpton who led another Black Mob, in to a Frenzy, until one of them went inside and MURDERED everyone who wasn't Black, before Torching the Establishment (Freddy's Clothing Emporium) to the Ground, is gonna lecture the rest of us on Race, and Murder, and Justice?
The Muslim's old buddies - The Black Panthers - (There's nothing "new" about them) are making the scene. They've put a Bounty on Mr. Zimmerman's head. And why not? Obviously, THE LAW doesn't apply to them. A CONVICTION in Court, doesn't mean anything when we're talking about them. We've got a Black President, who's got a Black Attorney General who, when he's not Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, in the hope that a nice big BODY COUNT of Dead Mexican Men, Women, for his Black Boss' Gun Confiscation Crusade? He' handing out "Get Outta Jail Free Cards" to all of The Muslim's BFFs, from his seat in Hussein's Blacks Only! Justice Department. They will do whatever they want to, as do all of the African Strong Men's Street Gangs do. I'm predicting MACHETES will soon be made available.
And, of course, we have the Piasse de Resistance: The good Grand Mufti of the Nation of Islam, and personal friend of President Abu Hussain: Louis Farrakhan. He of: The Mother Wheel, that is orbiting the Earth invisible, as we speak.
There hasn't been such an assemblage of HATE, since Hitler spoke at Nuremberg.
"They're Killing Us", said the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson. He, of the $3,000 Suit, No Church, No Income, No Taxes, and a Child out of Wedlock. The Black Panthers want a LYNCH MOB for this guy. And Farrakhan wants, whatever it is that Crazy People who think they've been on an Invisible Space Ship, want these days.
All these White hating/Jew Haters, in one place, at one time, because ONE GUY with a Jewish name had a run in with a Black guy, and the Black guy got shot. Now, it's GO TIME for the Protectors of Black Americans everywhere, because of one isolated incident of a White, shooting a Black. Can anyone name the last time we had anything like this happen?
Blacks are killed by other Blacks, every day of the week, and twice on Saturday Night. Blacks killing Blacks, is like the Sun coming up in the Morning. Blacks kill Whites, all the time. They kill Hispanics, all the time. 94% of the Homicides in NYC occur to Minority Blacks and Browns. 96% of the GUNMEN in those Homicides, are Black or Brown. Although Blacks make up just 15% of the Population, they commit 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES in this Country, with the Lion's Share of their Victims, being Fellow Blacks.
The frequency of something like what happened in Florida 3 Weeks ago - (Hello?) - is like the frequency of having a Meteor land in your Shirt Pocket, compared to a Black Perpetrator killing a fellow Black or a Non Black Victim. So, please, let's stop treating this like a PANDEMIC, shall we?
The idea that this happened 3 Weeks Ago, brings me back to where I started. To a little Funeral Parlour in Crown Heights, where a Black Child lay in a Coffin, and 3 Black Political Opportunists plotted a 2nd Term for a Black Politician who was falling behind in the Polls.
I'm just saying.
Sneed Hearn| 3.26.12 @ 10:38AM
If Obama had a son it would look like the dog turd I almost stepped in this morning.
gearjammer| 3.26.12 @ 11:06AM
Gee whiz Rush save that line for the show and start another needless uproar.
Russel| 3.26.12 @ 10:59AM
Agree with Appleby , you'd think the socialist press would learn . ( the race baiters are a forgone conclusion ) . How many instances where a tragedy is the fault of the Tea Party or a white person , one in the same according to them . They get crap all over their shoes and turn around and step in again . The Duke Lacross should have been a wake up call , but NOOOOO . " Sooner or later , we'll hit pay dirt ".
gearjammer| 3.26.12 @ 11:04AM
RASSMUSSEN POLL JUST IN-DEMOCRATS ONLY. SHOULD ZIMMERMAN GET SAME DUE PROCESS RIGHTS AS 911 ATTACKERS. 98 PERCENT SAY NO ! SHOULD HE GET FEWER SUCH RIGHT ? 99 PER CENT SAY YES !
Indy| 3.26.12 @ 11:06AM
On Friday, there was a story that briefly hit the national news, a shooting in Durham, NC 2 killed and 2 wounded, it was too predictable on how this story was reported and dropped, nothing about race in the national media,
from local media - "Authorities described the man they were looking for as black, about 6 feet tall, with a tattoo on the left side of his face" nothing about the race of the victims is mentioned and the story has been dropped by the national media, no follow up http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10897562/
search the interntet and what do you find, one killed was white and one was black, the local papers are not giving much coverage either, why?
http://newsblaze.com/story/201.....story.html
Black Panthers, Jesse Jackson, President Obama, Eric Holder, Rev. Al, Louis Farrakhan, Spike Lee, OWS, where are you on this shooting?
Bob| 3.26.12 @ 11:07AM
If you heard Obama making that statement, you heard him clearly struggling to put it into words. He didn't care. If he doesn't care and it's not put into a teleprompter, he is as articulate as a five year old making his first class speech. To Obama, it makes no difference who got shot, who shot him, what the circumstances were and what the facts are. He just wants to put a face to the tragedy and remind the black community that he is their Dear Leader, and he will protect them from the "Evil Whites" so they must vote for him. Beyond that, Obama just doesn't care.
I was pretty angry with how the media handled Sandra Fluke. I didn't think they could make me so angry again, but they exceeded expectations in no time.
Indy| 3.26.12 @ 11:15AM
I want to thank the writer for crediting The Blaze, they do cover stories others won't there are few sources of good journalism
squalis| 3.26.12 @ 11:20AM
Can anyone say Tawany Brawley, A.I.G., Duke Lacross, Freddy's Fashion Mart, or mob justice?
Maybe our President will fix everything, be the great race uniter, with a beer summit.
Russel| 3.26.12 @ 11:37AM
DC sniper was supposed to be a white male , a loner .
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 11:28AM
The saving grace of this farce is that it may finally cause white America, with the exception of phony guilt-ridden idiots like Alan Brooks of course, to wake up and fight back. Enough is enough!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 11:48AM
Just remember what that one putz said after the Duke kids were found innocent:
"Well, the narrative was right, the facts just didn't fit in THIS case..."
There is NO SHAME with these people. None whatsoever.
Anthony| 3.26.12 @ 3:15PM
Yes, that was Joe Klein of Time Magazine speaking on behalf of the leftist media. It's a version of Dan Rather's fake but true new media paradigm.
The left have corrupted all of America's institutions!!!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:51PM
Thanks, Anthony. I'd forgotten which particular white-guilt ridden putz said that. And again, history will repeat itself.
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 11:53AM
Jeez, I LIVE in Atlanta, "The City too Busy to Hate*" and I'd forgotten about this one.
February 2009, Eugenia Calle, PhD, epidemiologist at the American Cancer Society and Emory University, found murdered(blunt trauma to the head)in her tony Midtown Condo.
Police arrested the Murderer, JAMAL(AKA "SHAMAL") Thompson, when he attempted to buy Basketball Sneakers and Malt Liquor with Ms. Calle's credit cards.
Jamal had recently been released from the Dekalb County Jail after serving 2 months of a 6 month sentence for Burglary.
Not on Parole, as if that would have mattered, just released for "Time Served".
Any(Black)guesses(Black)on(Black)Mr.(Black)Thompson's(Black) ethnicity...
* We Would Hate You, if We Weren't so Damn Busy.
Frank
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 12:24PM
That Trayvon Martin was a tresspasser and got what he deserved. A " Shamless Death." DNC is trying to bank on this issue, playing the race-card to unify their liberal base.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 12:25PM
I was born and raised in FLORIDA. All those blacks, GET OUT OF FLORIDA!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 2:00PM
Wow. This from the same putz who posted:
"That ni**er lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
Take your false flag conservatism & piss off, bigot. Who're you supposed to be? Florida's Helen Thomas? You're JUST LIKE the liberal idiots. Who the hell CARES about what the race of the victim or the suspect is? PROSECUTE THE CRIME.
You're a joke, Bill. You're a false flagger, posing as a conservative, who's been posting his tripe on this site for some time now. All in an effort to try to discredit the readers & posters of this site. More than a few of us are hip to your crap, Billy Boy. Time to pack it in & change up tactics. You've been busted.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 3:12PM
Con Chef is a CHILD MOLESTER and CONVICTED FELON. Please contact FBI if you see him. He's on welfare, so he might be luring in some local 7-11 or WalMart. He wears a Baseball cap, saying "Obama2012" and "Yes, We screwed!."
With regards to my previous post, NO APOLOGY!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:56PM
See, I have documented proof of your idiocy. You have no such reason or proof to post what you post, other than the fact that you're a false flag troll. Go suck on a shotgun, loser.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 4:25PM
Con Chef is on the run, "you can run but you cannot hide from COPS."
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 4:42PM
Again, post whatever "proof" you have of your assertion, as I have mine. Oops, you can't, can you?
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 5:55PM
Aren't you capable of telling the truth, Bill the Bigot?
What a sad, little man you truly are.
Now, GO AWAY!
Paul Kotik| 3.26.12 @ 12:40PM
We've learned that Barack Obama thinks all black people look alike. His hypothetical son, Treyvon Martin... can't tell 'em apart, they all look alike.
Which is what Barack Obama would think, being a half-Kenyan who grew up comfortably inside the white Bubble.
Tsk, tsk, Mr. President. They all look alike? Really? Where's your aloha, bra?
cowgirl| 3.26.12 @ 12:44PM
Oh goody. Race mongers like Reverend (what a joke) Al Sharpton and Reverend (joke #2) Jackson along with the former Occupy members are running all over the country protesting white people because a "white hispanic" man shot and killed a black kid.
Liberalism is a mental illness.
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 12:46PM
Someone please help me! My virulent white guilt is devouring my few remaining brain cells!
cowgirl| 3.26.12 @ 3:15PM
I await you to enthrall us on this board with your acumen about the Mississippi white male student who was shot and killed by three black males a couple of days ago.
Like any comments from Obama about it, I am sure you have none.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:25PM
Maybe you can vote for a community organizing street hustler with a Harvard law degree and an African-American to boot for POTUS to massage your wite guilt perhaps, huh [oh wait you did so in 2008]?????
Jack London| 3.26.12 @ 12:51PM
Anyone who thought the average AmSpec poster is racist has it confirmed in perpetuity in this thread.
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 12:55PM
Anyone who thought Jack London was just Alan Brooks in drag as it confirmed in perpetuity here.
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:27PM
Anyone who thought they were/are both STUPID would be accurate!!!!!!!!
Slacker| 3.26.12 @ 1:07PM
I’m somewhat ashamed to say it but, I tuck a gun in my waistband when I think I may encounter people with names like “Trayvon” who wear gold grills and hoodies. Am I racist?
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:33PM
Possibly.
But you are definitely wise and likely to survive until next week.
Frank Drackman| 3.26.12 @ 1:07PM
Oh yeah, well "White Fang" sucked Barney Frank balls!
Frank
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 1:13PM
Anyone who thought that the average white guilt ridden Marxist like Jack London would give a rat's ass about "innocent until proven guilty" has been proven wrong in spades. Yep. We're all "racists" because we don't buy into the bullshit narrative that you perpetual victim enablers have foisted upon us.
Get over yourself, Jack.
Jack London| 3.26.12 @ 1:49PM
"innocent until proven guilty"? Con? Zimmerman wasn't even arrested and wouldn't have been without the outcry. Do you think there should be an investigation?
I'm still waiting to hear why your whore wife should have her ass serviced at the expense of others.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 2:09PM
Its going before the grand jury, dumbshit.
And if you really want to know that much about my wife, feel free to step out from behind the keyboard & make your way to Pittsburgh. I'll show you personally. My wife isn't some 30 something single law student complaining that someone should provide her birth control for free while working or attending a Catholic institution. What you & your facist ilk don't seem to get (or don't seem to care about) is that people don't have to buy health plans that cover abortion or birth control. If it bothers them THAT badly, they can find another insurere alltogether. What you & Ms. Fluck want is for the gov't. to MANDATE, BY FORCE OF LAW, that ALL insureres provide such things, under ALL of their plans, FOR FREE. And yes, even self-insured groups too.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your insipid diatribes, though. Oh, & again, if you feel like you'd like to talk some more about my wife, be a man & come for a visit. I'll post my address for you, if you'd like. If you have the balls. I doubt it, though. Like most regressive men, you're nothing more than a gelded excuse for what used to be a man.
Jack London| 3.26.12 @ 3:06PM
I asked you a simple question - after the police decided to do nothing do you think that's where it should have rested?
As for the insurance thing, you've been busy trying to change the subject, which is whether a private health plan should cover contraception. When a student wants it on her private plan, she's a whore, when your wife has it she's... er, a whore too by your twisted logic. I think neither of them are.
As for going to Pittsburg, I really wouldn't want to meet someone who exhibits such grossly unpleasant character, although I suspect you'd been more reasonable in person.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:14PM
No, I won't be that pleasant in person, given your characterization of my wife. Take that to the bank.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:15PM
People can choose what health plan they want based on their beliefs. What Ms. Fluck is flacking for is to rob people of that choice.
Jack London| 3.26.12 @ 3:52PM
No, you were attacking her for the principle of wanting contraception as part of a health plan, by joining in the 'slut' chorus and all that 'others paying for her sexlife'.
Now you say it's about religious issues. That's a change of subject. I don't think your wife is a slut, and neither is Ms Fluke. But if you backtrack to what you said before the only logical position is that you think they both are. If you're man enough I'll accept your apology on this.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 4:45PM
Apologize for what? Again, my wife's not a 30 year old single law student, demanding that insurance plans cover birth control for free. "Married" being the operative term here.
Take "apology" & stick it up your tuchus, schmuck.
Jack London| 3.26.12 @ 4:51PM
Hmm - so you're now saying that contraception should only be available in health plans for married people?
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:36PM
Sure.
What are unmarried kids doing having sex anyway?
Besides being stupid with the most personal and consequential activity in which a person can engage?
2323| 3.26.12 @ 6:44PM
AmSpec racist?
To the Nth degree and beyond!
Lots of redneck rightwingers on this rabid hog blog.
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:36PM
Vilkommen!
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 12:53PM
Mr. Zimmerman is to be applauded. He stood up to a black thug. With the rise in gun sales more and more people are going to stand up to them. People have had enough of these cretinous blacks criminals.
Slacker| 3.26.12 @ 1:54PM
Asians and Hispanics may have had enough. Whites prefer avoidance –the safest way to cope with blacks.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 1:04PM
Mr. Zimmerman:
Florida's very own Joe Horn! Lest we forget that, despite the best efforts of the race baiting poverty pimps in the grievance industry, Mr. Horn was found not guilty by a grand jury in Texas, where his particular incident took place. Somehow, I get the feeling that the same will happen in this case.
Dmac | 3.26.12 @ 1:26PM
This thing has gotten so out of hand it's only a matter of time before they start burning down their own businesses and homes.
Moe Blotz| 3.26.12 @ 2:19PM
I thought the Muslims were the ones who did that.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 2:33PM
Well, Louie "I Hate Jews & White Folks" Farraconvict is down there, stirring the pot. Give 'em time.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 7:54PM
Like the '92 LA Riot, right?
To this day I have absolutely no explaination of this -- how the black community in LA was going to "stick it to the white man" by burning down their own (black) neighborhoods.
Mark Shepler| 3.26.12 @ 2:45PM
I am a native of S. Florida, an NRA Life member since '93, a soon-to-be certified NRA Instructor and have commented on and been a staunch defender of FL's self-defense laws for over 25 years. I am also an Atila the Hun conservative that has commented here on everything under the sun for about 10 years and on other boards since before there was the "web", as well. At the time of and since passage of our Stand Your Ground law I have expressed reservations about it, contending it was going to lead to some bad outcomes resulting from the mentality it could foster. I have followed this story for a couple of weeks and expressed such reservations very strongly and that this was probably going to prove to the worst so far. And, alas, it seems after all my years I too was taken in by...The Narrative.
The "rest of the story" is emerging little by slowly and it seems there are multiple eyewitnesses who corroborate Zimmerman's account- that he began returning to his truck when told to stand down, was attacked from behind by Martin who got the better of him and only after he felt he was in mortal danger did he fire, and kill, Martin. Now, the question of whether it was prudent or proper for him to follow Martin, thus possibly precipitating the confrontation in the first place, can be debated. But what is becoming very clear is that Zimmerman's motives do not include an animus against blacks per se so egregious he stalked Martin with murder in his heart despite being warned off by the authorities he himself called to notify and of who asked for guidance. Hopefully, the investigation will be allowed to run its course in pursuit of the truth.
As to why one would be susupicious of a young black man in a hoodie wandering through a neighborhood in which he does not live there are very simple reasons why this is normal and to be expected. It's because anyone paying attention for the last, ohhhh 30 years or so, knows or intuits, that not keeping an eye on them can be dangerous. Don't agree Mr. Brooks? I'd bet from your at-the-ready umbrage you are white and if you contend my statement then I challenge you to stroll down any MLK Blvd in any town, alone, on any evening fair and see how you do. I'd bet most black men know better than to do that. Please do let us know how it goes, won't you?
Because what we DO know, as sure as night follows day, is that there are going to be approximately 17,000 murders in the US this year. About 49%, or 8300, will be committed by young black men who are only 6% of the total population and that roughly 90%, or 7470, of their victims will be other blacks. How's THAT for "disproportionate representation"? They also commit a highly disproportionate amount of rapes, robberies, assaults and other violent crimes. Taken all together it is fact that something like 22% of all black men will be incarcerated at some point in their lives but, again, any thinking adult knows that is just for the ONE crime they finally are held to account for, not the criminal way of daily life they lead along the way and their various predations for which they were given chance after chance.
Also too, they are suspect for no other reason than that the world takes them at their word as it tends to for all us. For several decades now white liberals have assiduouosly lectured us, beginning right here in Miami in the 2 Live Crew trial, that the rap-ghetto-thug scene is an "authentic" "expression" of their "culture" and not to be dismissed. Indeed, it's quite "racist" to imply it's a perversion and insult to normal and decent black people. So, there are legions of young blacks, and many whites, who swagger around in oversized thug wear from the Spanky & Our Gang Collection with their tats, grills, dreads and all the other accoutrements of glamourized thug life trying to act as menacing as possible. Some are deadly serious about it and keep it truly real. And so we, not knowing who's who, feel menaced when we see someone wearing the thug uniform of the day. They feel aggreived that we don't understand it's all just a game of pretend. I call this the "no fault" revolutionary style made prevalent since the '60s. Like the hippies and other children, they protest the unfairness of taking their oppositional stance sincerely and demand we be the adults to their childishness and know they don't really mean it. You know the drill, a kid tattoos his face and then whines all that people notice is the tattoo and not the "real" him underneath. What they expect and demand is a greater understanding of themselves and wisdom from strangers than they are willing to strive to acquire for themselves of the world and life.
But the world does take a man at his word in how he presents himself. Always has and always will and no amount of community organizing, meaningless symbolism and empty words from yet another politicized pulpit is going to change that. Jesse Jackson probably said it best, "There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating." -Chicago Sun-Times 11/29/93.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 2:56PM
The President says something to comfort the parents, and because it can't be used for political hay, the right-wing has to nuts and gin up all this racial bs.
The kid was black, the vigilante said he was "black", noting his color, making a racial tone to this - and the vigilante was white. The police told the vigilante to stand down, stop following the kid, and he didn't - what else is there to know? The conclusion should be clear. This was a hunt and the hunter needs to be prosecuted, period. You don't invoke the "Stand your ground" law, when you are chasing someone. Hardly a defensive move, now is it?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 3:17PM
"The kid was black, the vigilante said he was "black", noting his color, making a racial tone to this - and the vigilante was white."
What an utterly moronic statement. He was describing the person to the cops. How is doing that "racist?" Because he told the cops the guy was black? Gimme a freaking break.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 3:21PM
Hey, Con Chef, he better run or may be hide, cause COP are looking for you for an alleged child molestation case.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 4:46PM
Post proof, or post your full name so I can sue your ass for slander. Otherwise, go post your false flag bullshit elsewhere, bigot.
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 5:53PM
Aren't you capable of telling the truth, Bill the Bigot?
What a sad, little man you truly are.
Now, GO AWAY!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 4:17PM
It apparently was important to the vigilante - he didn't give his height, weight and other descriptive values. But, "black" was important to him I guess. Why would the color matter, especially when told to stop pursuing the kid? Can you answer that?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 4:47PM
Maybe so the cops know who to look for? Are you really this stupid, or did you go to an Ivy League school?
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:12PM
So "black" is all they need to know? Are you really that bigoted? Why would the cops need to look for anyone, if Zimmerman had done what the cops told him to do and stand down? Are YOU really that stupid, and do YOU watch Fixed News?
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 5:18PM
Purp, you cretin, go do penance for you pathetic white guilt somewhere where it's wanted. Don't forget to wear your p*ssy-a*s cracker t-shirt while you do. God but you are a loathsome specimen!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 6:53PM
"White Guilt" is just the bigot's way of a cop-out. You don't really care, so you yell "White guilt, white guilt" ... Slavery you don't need to feel guilt for - your racist attitude should make you ashamed enough for a boat load of guilt. Love the name-calling - it's so intelligent and mature of you!
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 7:57PM
Actually you are right.
I don't care.
Until a jury convicts George of something, I really don't care.
Why do you?
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:04AM
I live to explode your head.
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 8:03PM
I feel guilt for neither slavery or the bigotry of others. And I don't think race had anything at all to do with this case except when the perpetual victimhood-mongers started doing so.
Oh, & you can bet your ass that now we'll be hearing the caterwauling about the need to "repeal the castle doctrine & stand your ground laws." THAT'LL happen by the end of the week, if it hasn't already!
JOE HORN FOR PRESIDENT!
W| 3.26.12 @ 4:22PM
Purp
Does Obama say something to the families of white victims attacked by blacks? I am not saying he should. Why does he comment only when there are black victims, such as when his friend Gates was arrested and Obama called the police stupid?
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 6:56PM
He doesn't - Or, did you forget about Gaby Giffords, the Congresswoman from Arizona that was shot and almost killed? And the victims around here that were actually killed? Including a poor little girl? All white I might add. You're so blinded by hate, you don't even know what your talking about. You need to check your racism slip - it's showing, Chuckles.
W| 3.26.12 @ 7:24PM
Hey dimwit, the question was does Obama call whites victims of black attacks? Giffords is white, and her attacker was a white lefty loon, like you.
You are blinded by stupidity and cannot reason so you revert to the lefty default position of calling everyone a racist. You are proecting your racism and stupidity.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:06AM
You tell me why it's a big deal - you seem to have all the answers. Come on W, enlighten us with your unbiased wisdom ...
W| 3.27.12 @ 8:52AM
It is a big deal because lefties like you make it a big deal. Why do you do it?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:30PM
Now he's a vigilante? Shazam! What a piece of crap you are. Oh and the shooter was/is Hispanic dumbars!!!!!!!!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 6:57PM
You should know - it takes one to know one. Hispanic yes, white appearing also yes. So what?
Jim| 3.26.12 @ 3:13PM
and let's not forget the, where was it, NJ incident of the black man breaking into a house that turned out to be his, all the crap we heard from Obama then? he was wrong then too. In fact, when exactly has he, or any of these black racists, been right?
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 4:18PM
the fact you don't understand it, says volumes about why racism is alive and well in this country. I suppose you don't understand why women take offense at being whistled at either?
Dmac | 3.26.12 @ 6:03PM
Most of them know its a compliment. What they dislike Perp, is when you lear at them with drewl running out the side of your mouth, well, thats what you mother told me anyway.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 6:59PM
Again, you aren't asking a woman are you? Now,you know what a woman thinks, really?
How would you feel if a gang of gay men whistled at you, called you cutie? (As if). Or a gay man made a pass at you? (Really, AS IF). Troglodyte.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 3:19PM
In PA, a Black teenage criminal slaughtered a decorated White COP, and the DOJ is seeking "full pardon" for his murderer. where is the outrage when a White COP is murdered by a Black criminal? Obama won't say nothing, cause it's election year.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 4:19PM
And you say what? about racism being dead in America?
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 4:21PM
Racism you say Purp? Tell that to Farrakhan and the black panthers.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:22PM
Good argument - they do it, so there ... it is not comparable - or have you ever been a slave?
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 8:07PM
None of them have ever been a slave either, and neither have you. What's your point?
Or are we talking about the "preverbrial" slaves currently toiling away on the liberal plantation?
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 4:28PM
That Trayvon Martin was a tresspasser and got what "he wanted." It's a big deal cause he was a "black brother."
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:23PM
So you would chase after your trespasser, really? Are you that dumb?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 9:45PM
Trespassers get shot. Robbers get shot. All by citizens who don't want to see crime right in front of their faces. See Joe Horn incident in Texas for reference. Oh, & Mr. Horn walked.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:09AM
Yeah, assuming Trayvon was a trespasser, but you don't chase after them when they are leaving, do you? Not very bright idea, is it? 29 yr old vs 17 yr old. Hmmm, wonder who is most responsible under the law? Ever hear of statutory rape?
Con Chef (NB) | 3.27.12 @ 9:55AM
Oh, so you're supposed to ask the suspicious guy in your neighborhood his age before you do anything?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:32PM
Racism? Is that why 90% of the incarcerated prison inmates are African American? They just are all victims of racial injustice and didn't commit all those crimes, right?????
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 7:06PM
First, you don't know the facts. here they are, as if you can read or care to: http://ronmull.tripod.com/racism.html
So, you don't see a thing strange about 13% of the population being almost 50% of the prison population?
You believe that 87% of the population is so much less crime ridden?
And, before you go all gooey on me about me loving me some African Americans - they are also 20% of the Military, also higher than their share of the population. See that here: http://www.citizenjoe.org/node/126
So they are out their protecting your a** - so watch how you talk about our Army brethren, you un-American bigoted dope.
W| 3.26.12 @ 7:26PM
Hey dimwit Purp,
What is your point, that the 50% in jail are all innocent? Or that we should affirmative action quotas for the jail population?
Skippy| 3.26.12 @ 9:30PM
"You believe that 87% of the population is so much less crime ridden?"
Believe what you will.
Those are facts.
Well-meaning white fools have excused American blacks from civilization.
All to their detriment.
steve100| 3.26.12 @ 3:37PM
Most of these commenters recognize the great danger and impending violent eruptions that have developed over the ethnic African takeover of our culture. With the exception of the Brooks posts, representing the white electorate that continues to worship Obama and being totally brainwashed to the prevailing American cultural bias that having black skin is a pinnacle of virtue and hence makes you incapable of ever committing any crime. Moreover, if you ever watch TV crime dramas, you are exposed to the mythologies of brilliant black brain surgeons and heroic black crime fighters demonstrating the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes and the humanity of Ghandi. Some of these commenters have noted the ongoing outbreak of heinous black on white crime from the torture killing of the young white couple to the ritual burning of another non black victim. They did not mention the hordes of rampaging black youth searching for a potential white or Asian victim that they try to murder with a single blow. Of course we do not hear the Sharptons or Jacksonsresponding to such occasions, but more important, you will never hear any mention of this on the dominant media. It is a losing cause. Just as the Duke Lacrosse affair, even when the truth emerges, the brainwashed useful idiots will continue to proclaim the continuing victmhood of the black clientele of the Obama administration.
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 4:22PM
Touche Steve100! Touche!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:32PM
Well, didn't you just prove that racism is alive and well in America. Great job, Sunshine.
The prisons are full of African Americans disproportionately, almost 1/2, while blacks are only 13% of the population, or have YOU not noticed - completely destroying your entire argument. Of course, it won't change your mind, but if you want the story, here it is :
http://ronmull.tripod.com/racism.html
Amazing how approximately 1 in 10 American can have such a huge effect on you. Amazing. Just who do you think should be worried about whom? How much of a majority do you need to feel safe, generous and with American values. Hatred is most definitely un-American.
Buck Turgidson| 3.26.12 @ 6:26PM
The simple fact is that blacks overwhelmingly commit the most crime. You can twist yourself into knots with all sorts of nonsense such as the ronmull codswallop but you can't escape the truth. Facts are stubborn things.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 7:08PM
They also make up a good portion of the military to protect you, so watch what you say, Chuckles.
See that here: http://www.citizenjoe.org/node/126
Try toughing it out with GI Joe, Wimpo. At least be respectful of our troops, or are you another Un-American dope?
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:35PM
No DA, the prisons are full of them BECAUSE THEY COMMITTED THE CRIMES.....ITS AS SIMPLE AS THAT. Since they did the crimes they have to do the time DA!!!!!!!!!
Alan Brooks| 3.26.12 @ 4:04PM
I wish I was black, I wish I wasn't so dumb, but I'm so happy that I'm gay! So is my boyfriend!
Oldefarte| 3.26.12 @ 6:37PM
Well if you're gay, that means that both you and he are DUMB obviously.....HAPPY AIDS DAY!!!!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 7:09PM
Nice Christian comment - Jesus will have you explain that one - that is if you have the chance to ascend instead of descend, OLD FART!
2323| 3.26.12 @ 9:38PM
Oldefarte's words are too odiferous for my nostrils.
Whenever I see his repugnant moniker, I skip over it.
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 4:10PM
A heinous interracial crime that you've never heard about. I wonder why.
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/n.....m-murders/
cicero| 3.26.12 @ 4:30PM
Where are Al, Jesse, and Louis when you need them? Here in Detroit, we have young, old, and toddling blacks shot on a daily basis. As a matter of fact, if this were an Army base, we would be sending the soldiers to Afghanistan for R&R. Of course, virtually all of the cirme and shootings are black on black, black on white, black on oriental . . . but you get the picture. But I guess that Al and the boys would be in danger of really helping, or prompting change for the better, and that would hardly be economiccaly politic.
Bill| 3.26.12 @ 4:32PM
The Trayvon Martin case was an example of vigilante justice. We cannot have those Black criminals running around in the streets and raping our young girls and committing murders. we acted.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:33PM
YOU sat on your fat a** and did nothing but cheer on a bigoted, racist pig who was told to stop pursuing the kid. And, at 17, he was a kid, not an adult. You sir, are sick.
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 5:49PM
Can't you get any facts straight, Purp? Your liberal bias is blinding to what is actually known about this case.
It was the 9-1-1 operator who told Mr. Zimmerman that he didn't need to follow Trayvon Martin, not the police. It was not an order. Which Mr. Zimmerman wouldn't have had to follow, anyway. Mr. Zimmerman can follow anyone he chooses.
Mr. Zimmerman is Hispanic. How can a Hispanic be racist? This is impossible in liberal-land, isn't it?
Trayvon Martin was 6' 3" and 140 lbs. It doesn't matter how old he was. He would be considered a threat to most of the population, no matter what race he happened to be, if he was beating on them.
Why can't you wait for the investigation to be completed before you convict this Hispanic man?
This makes you a racist, Purp.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 7:15PM
So, let me get this straight. I'm in fear for my life, so I run after the guy I'm afraid of? Are you seriously that dumb?
What kind of twisted pretzel logic got you there to blame the kid? The vigilante's race doesn't matter one bit.
Oh, and if 911 tells you to stop chasing someone - you would ignore them? Are you that oblivious? I suppose if you have a gun, you would feel empowered and you'll show this guy who's boss - and that, idiot, is an offensive act, not a defensive act in self-defense.
Yes, we can wait for the trial, but it's much more fun to see all the racist pigs out here trying to hide behind lame excuses while their racism is beaming bright to the world.
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 7:48PM
I have blamed no one, you liberal dope.
I merely laid out the facts, as we know them, today.
Did you need a lobotomy to become a liberal, or did you already have the requisite low I.Q.?
I will now destroy your feeble attempts at a rebuttal, one by one:
> "I'm in fear for my life [...]."
Who has claimed that Mr. Zimmerman was in fear of his life when he was following Mr. Martin? Straw man. (I'm sure you have no idea what that means.)
It would be logical to conclude, if Mr. Zimmerman is telling the truth, that he began to fear for his life when Mr. Martin allegedly jumped him and started beating him.
> "What kind of twisted pretzel logic got you there to blame the kid?"
Another straw man. I never blamed Mr. Martin for anything. I, unlike you, have an open mind, and will wait for the investigation to be concluded.
> "The vigilante's race doesn't matter one bit."
SINCE WHEN!?!? This is all you bleeding heart liberals care about. And why don't you care about Hispanic males possibly being falsely accused of a crime? You must be a racist, eh Purp?
> "Oh, and if 911 tells you to stop chasing someone - you would ignore them?"
Since when do 9-1-1 operators have any authority over us? Mr. Zimmerman had no obligation to obey the operator. How smart that was is a completely different matter.
> "I suppose if you have a gun [blah,blah,blah]."
Mr. Zimmerman was lawfully carrying his weapon. He broke no laws walking his neighborhood while armed.
> "Yes, we can wait for the trial [blah, blah, blah]."
Don't you mean if there is a trial?
Mr. Zimmerman does not have a warrant for his arrest. He is not "hiding" as you keep falsely asserting. Or, are you just plain lying about it?
Again, it is you stinking liberals who are the racists. The first thing that you notice about someone is the color of their skin. You then pre-judge them, and put them into the box you have concocted for their particular race.
Racist.
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:12AM
Wrong on all accounts, but I'm sure you enjoyed yourself - did you get off?
Nick| 3.27.12 @ 1:38AM
Stunning refutation of my complete decimation of your pathetic diatribe, Purp.
You must be so proud!
Stop persecuting Hispanic males, okay?
Oh, by the way, you're a raaaaaacist!!!!
Con Chef (NB) | 3.26.12 @ 10:10PM
Perp Burps:
"Oh, and if 911 tells you to stop chasing someone - you would ignore them?"
See Joe Horn 911 call. Mr. Horn was cleared by a grand jury, despite the best efforts of the usual supects in the racial grievence industry trying to make a circus of the case. The Joe Horn 911 call:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtRr4vwo6Q
And the case of Marcus Luttrell, who chased down the assholes who shot his service dog:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3UFIkqx3Jg
Nope, no charges filed against this Navy Cross recipient, Afghan war vet, hero & author of the book, "Lone Survivor."
Were THESE 2 men "racist" too? Shut up with all your race baiting crap. The supposed "assailant" (who's not even an "assailant" to begin with) isn't even a white man. Spare us your self righteous diatribe about race.
Gee, I wonder if race had anything to do with that couple in Knoxville I posted about above. Or is that "different." They were white, so they had it coming, maybe? Nah, no outrage in that case. Except on the part of those "racist" rednecks who actually DARED to say that if it'd had been a BLACK couple that horriffic crime would've been perpetrated on, we'd still be talking about it to this very day.
Here, let me post the news account again for you. Maybe this will help clear up the Selective Outrage Disorder you seem to suffer from. I won't hold my breath, though:
""On Saturday January 6, 2007 Hugh Christopher Newsom, age 23 and Channon Gail Christian, age 21, both students at the University of Tennessee went out on a date. They were driving in Channon's Toyota 4-Runner when they were carjacked at gunpoint. Suddenly the crime turned far more savage than an armed car theft. Chris and Channon were kidnapped and driven to 2316 Chipman Street where they were forced into the home at gunpoint. While Channon was forced to watch, her boyfriend was raped prison style and then his penis was cut off. He was later driven to nearby railroad tracks where he was shot and set afire. But Channon's hell was just beginning. She was beaten; gang raped repeatedly in many ways, had one of her breasts cut off and bleach poured down her throat to destroy DNA evidence-all while she was still alive. To add to Channon's degradation the suspects took turns urinating on her. They too set her body afire, apparently inside the residence, but for some reason left her body there-in five separate trash bags..."
Nope. Not a LICK of outrage. No statements from Jessie "Hymietown" Jackson, Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton or Louie "White Devils & Jews" Farrahkonvict. No rallies for THESE 2 kids. But we gotta stop & genuflect over some little douchebag who was expelled from school for 5 days for selling ganja. Some little schmuck who followed Zimmerman back to his car after he (Zimmerman) was told to back off & then commenced to beat the crap out of him. Yeah, my heart breaks.
You know who MY heart breaks for? The mother of the kid who buys it from a stray, popped off by gangbanging animals who'd rather shoot up a neighborhood to settle their drug debts. That mother, who's kid was a 3.8 student, an athlete, who stayed away from the gangbangers & drug slingers, yet bought it from a stray just walking across the street. THOSE are the people I feel sorry for.
Nick| 3.27.12 @ 12:33AM
ConChef (NB),
We all know that the only reason Al Sharpy-Sharp jumped on this story was because he heard that the shooter's name was Zimmerman, don't we?
We all know that stinking little bigot's history with those of the Jewish persuasion. Al couldn't get on a plane fast enough!
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:14AM
Methinks you protest too much. And, why is that? If I know I'm not racist, I don't get mad, I don't respond, I just move along. You did not. In your heart you know that you are racist and if all minorities disappeared tomorrow, you'd be only too happy - admit it, you would, wouldn't you? And, that, little timmy, is racism.
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 5:36PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 7:16PM
Luckily, he's not smart enough to even spell it correctly... the imbecile.
Norman Conquest| 3.26.12 @ 4:40PM
My my, the case seems to be falling apart for the libs, the media and race hustlers. The media will soon drop this as fast as they did the Toulouse murders once it the murderer was identified as a mohammadan rather than a skinhead:
But one man's testimony could be key for the police.
"The guy on the bottom who had a red sweater on was yelling to me: 'help, help…and I told him to stop and I was calling 911," he said.
Trayvon Martin was in a hoodie; Zimmerman was in red.
The witness only wanted to be identified as "John," and didn't not want to be shown on camera.
His statements to police were instrumental, because police backed up Zimmerman's claims, saying those screams on the 911 call are those of Zimmerman.
"When I got upstairs and looked down, the guy who was on top beating up the other guy, was the one laying in the grass, and I believe he was dead at that point," John said.
Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.
Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.
Purp| 3.26.12 @ 5:37PM
The witness saw the end, not the beginning - Ask yourself this - So why did the police tell Zimmerman to stop pursuing the kid? Was he pursuing him on his back? I don't think so... if this witness testimony is true, it's his own fault for pursuing anyone and the kid was protecting HIMSELF. What would you do if someone stalked you? Kept after you? Even after the police said to stop pursuing the kid on the 911 call. Stop blaming the victim, just 'cause you don't like his supporters.
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 5:51PM
You really are one pathetic, self-hating POS aren't you Purp? You know that Zimmerman will be not be charged because he did nothing wrong and you know that this Martin wasn't the cherubic little choir boy that the media is presenting him as but a violently aggressive thug who got what he asked for. Yet, you are so consumed with some sort of sick white guilt that you want what you know to be true to not be. How pathetic.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 6:45PM
AGAIN!!! THE POLICE DID NOT ORDER ZIMMERAMAN TO STOP FOLLOWING TRAYVON!!!
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 9:15PM
The prosecutor announced today that he'll not be pressing charges, because based on the evidence and eyewitness testimony, he stated he "doesn't have a case."
And, Purp, the police didn't tell Zimmerman to stop following Trayvon, the 911 operator did.
Your "facts" on this incident are questionable, if that.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 10:40PM
Listen to the tape. The operator said "We don't need you to do that." Not to stop.
Pete | 3.26.12 @ 4:57PM
Judging from his remarks, Alan Brooks is a potential witness to the entire incident and was physically at the scene as an impartial observer. I assume he has contacted the authorities and informed them of his status as an on-scene witness.
Stan REdmond| 3.26.12 @ 6:51PM
Not only that he is a full blown mind reader. He knows exactly what was going through Zimmerman's mind as well as all our minds too.
BackToBasics| 3.26.12 @ 5:05PM
In every other case I have ever seen, a Hsipanic, like Zimmerman, is called a minority or in other words a Hispanic. Now when a Hispanic shoots a black in self defense he is called a white, repeatedly. The media is purposefully trying to fan the flames of racial discord.
Yet, I think it is already subsiding a little because now everyone knows Zimmerman is Hispanic. I think the media ploy is backfiring. Hispanics will not take this lying down the way whites do. Democrats do not want to risk losing their votes.
BackToBasics| 3.26.12 @ 8:34PM
Also, if Zimmerman's last name had been a Hispanic surname like Hernandez, this would not even be a story outside of Orlando.
Chris| 3.26.12 @ 5:22PM
Women's right to birth control last month; African American injustice this month. I bet we have some gay violence next month; and another oil spill in the gulf this summer. Throw in a meltdown on Wall Street.
One agitation after another. If Obama is so cool and assured of his reelection ;(his conversation with Medvedev over the weekend); why the desperation?
All of this is out of desperation; because everyone; including these identity groups; can see with their own eyes the hopelessness of this presidency and their own position. The left is scared; and it is really starting to show.
Purple-Lipped Mongrel| 3.26.12 @ 5:54PM
Wanna see REAL racism? Take a look here:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/b.....irt-759832
Buck Turgidson| 3.26.12 @ 5:57PM
Do you wonder why the MSM is using a seven year old photo of this thug?
http://members.beforeitsnews.c.....ealer.html
Maybe because his current pictures from his Myspace and Facebook pages show him as he really was the day he was shot, a 200lb+, 6'1" gangsta. His family and lawyer tried to scrub the true information but it didn't work, the real story is out now.
He was on a ten day suspension from school, of course they sealed the records so the public don't know why. Look at the messages from his twitter account. This guy was a thug and nothing less, had the media shown his current pictures like the one of him flipping off the world or doing his gang signs, it would not fit into their innocent little boy just going for skittles story.
The reason Zimmerman was not charged is because their was an eyewitness to the entire event, you have to look real hard to find that story too. He attacked Zimmerman, broke his nose and then went back to beat him some more when Zimmerman finally used deadly force to protect himself.
This is nothing but the story of a gangsta attacking the wrong person in a concealed carry state and getting snuffed as he should have. Welcome to the real world kiddo and if you want to attack people without the risk of getting shot, better go to Chicago where the average law abiding citizen in not allowed to protect themselves!
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.26.12 @ 6:36PM
Was that the NAACP Leader in that picture? Maybe he can get the U.N. Human Rights Council to look in to this? Or, the African National Congress? Or the whatever Organization the South American Banana Republics band together under. Obviously, JEW KILLER AL doesn't wanna wait for the United States Legal System to do its Job. Perhaps the Black Muslim Congressman, from Michigan, can get a SHARIA COURT up and running?
I remember when the POS "Reverend" Al, used the Accidental Death of a young Black Boy, to launch a 3 Day POGROM against the Jews in Crown Heights. A White Australian Jew was MURDERED in Cold Blood, because of this MFer. The City's Black Mayor let Sharptons Black SAVAGES, run through the streets of Crown Heights for 3 Days and Nights, "Looking for Jews". The Black Mayor ordered his Police to STAND DOWN, and let them "Get it out of their system", and to Hell with the Innocent Jewish Families.
Standing in the Funeral Parlour, with the "Reverend" Jackson (He of the Bastard Child and Budweiser Distributorship obtained in a Shakedown) he said that they would "Ride this dead kid to a 2nd term for Dinkins".
Al Sharpton who led another Black Mob, in to a Frenzy, until one of them went inside and MURDERED everyone who wasn't Black, before Torching the Establishment (Freddy's Clothing Emporium) to the Ground, is gonna lecture the rest of us on Race, and Murder, and Justice?
The Muslim's old buddies - The Black Panthers - (There's nothing "new" about them) are making the scene. They've put a Bounty on Mr. Zimmerman's head. And why not? Obviously, THE LAW doesn't apply to them. A CONVICTION in Court, doesn't mean anything when we're talking about them. We've got a Black President, who's got a Black Attorney General who, when he's not Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, in the hope that a nice big BODY COUNT of Dead Mexican Men, Women, for his Black Boss' Gun Confiscation Crusade? He' handing out "Get Outta Jail Free Cards" to all of The Muslim's BFFs, from his seat in Hussein's Blacks Only! Justice Department. They will do whatever they want to, as do all of the African Strong Men's Street Gangs do. I'm predicting MACHETES will soon be made available.
And, of course, we have the Piasse de Resistance: The good Grand Mufti of the Nation of Islam, and personal friend of President Abu Hussain: Louis Farrakhan. He of: The Mother Wheel, that is orbiting the Earth invisible, as we speak.
There hasn't been such an assemblage of HATE, since Hitler spoke at Nuremberg.
"They're Killing Us", said the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson. He, of the $3,000 Suit, No Church, No Income, No Taxes, and a Child out of Wedlock. The Black Panthers want a LYNCH MOB for this guy. And Farrakhan wants, whatever it is that Crazy People who think they've been on an Invisible Space Ship, want these days.
All these White hating/Jew Haters, in one place, at one time, because ONE GUY with a Jewish name had a run in with a Black guy, and the Black guy got shot. Now, it's GO TIME for the Protectors of Black Americans everywhere, because of one isolated incident of a White, shooting a Black. Can anyone name the last time we had anything like this happen?
Blacks are killed by other Blacks, every day of the week, and twice on Saturday Night. Blacks killing Blacks, is like the Sun coming up in the Morning. Blacks kill Whites, all the time. They kill Hispanics, all the time. 94% of the Homicides in NYC occur to Minority Blacks and Browns. 96% of the GUNMEN in those Homicides, are Black or Brown. Although Blacks make up just 15% of the Population, they commit 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES in this Country, with the Lion's Share of their Victims, being Fellow Blacks.
The frequency of something like what happened in Florida 3 Weeks ago - (Hello?) - is like the frequency of having a Meteor land in your Shirt Pocket, compared to a Black Perpetrator killing a fellow Black or a Non Black Victim. So, please, let's stop treating this like a PANDEMIC, shall we?
The idea that this happened 3 Weeks Ago, brings me back to where I started. To a little Funeral Parlour in Crown Heights, where a Black Child lay in a Coffin, and 3 Black Political Opportunists plotted a 2nd Term for a Black Politician who was falling behind in the Polls.
I'm just saying
LiveFreeOrDie| 3.26.12 @ 6:37PM
What the ? From Reuters:
"Zimmerman, a 28-year-old white Hispanic, has been widely criticized for following Martin, who was African American, and..."
Even the latinos are white in liberal land.
Nick| 3.26.12 @ 6:42PM
LiveFreeOrDie,
Wouldn't this make President Downgrade a white African-American, according to Reuters?
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 9:32PM
Possibly Al Sharpton, as well, who debated on whether or not Obama was "authentically black."
Scott| 3.26.12 @ 8:25PM
President Obama did not offer his opinion on this case, until he was asked. This was his response:
“I’ve got to be careful about my statements to make sure that we’re not impairing any investigation that’s taking place right now. But, obviously, this is a tragedy...we all have to do some soul searching to find out why something like this happened.”
“I think every parent in America,” he said, “should be able to understand why it is absolutely imperative to investigate every aspect of this and that everybody pulls together — federal, state, and local — to figure out exactly how this tragedy happened.”
Most of us believe his comment about Trayvon's appearances were to comfort the parents, not to make this more of a racially charged issue. Gingrich's take on the president's comments were particularly race baiting, imo.
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 10:30PM
http://vernacularofthelayman.f.....rtin21.jpg
The Bruce| 3.26.12 @ 10:51PM
Here's a twist. It looks like mom is cashing in.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/d.....rks-769123
The Bruce| 3.27.12 @ 1:06AM
http://articles.orlandosentine.....k-teenager
The Bruce| 3.27.12 @ 1:07AM
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03.....on-martin/
Purp| 3.27.12 @ 1:15AM
nobody is going to your links if you don't tell them why - couldn't you figure that out?
POST American| 3.27.12 @ 1:22AM
-------------------BOTTOM LINE-----------------------
---ROUTINE chain-pulling with Tavistock
trimmings.
NO MORE ---NO LESS.
Far more significant is the POST NDAA 1021
memory holed 'disappearance' of Andrew Breitbart.
Whenever you're ready to MOVE kiddies!
threeleafclover| 3.27.12 @ 1:57AM
I long for the days of the "reporter" instead of all the journalists we have today. Reporters confined themselves to reporting facts. No emotionalism. No personal opinion, no embroidering the truth.
Today's journalists are like abused women as far as Obama is concerned. They keep going back for more (abuse). And would never testify in a court of law about what he really is.
Acres and acres of pansies.
threeleafclover| 3.27.12 @ 2:17AM
For Alan Brooks - "Can you imagine if Bob Dylan were hispanic?"
Can you imagine he is actually not "Bob Dylan" and he is Jewish? Well, he is.
threeleafclover| 3.27.12 @ 2:22AM
Oh, the irony!
Bob Dylan's real name is Robert Zimmerman.
Jewish Zimmerman ! Is Dylan an Irish name?
Saints preserve us.
beebop2| 3.27.12 @ 6:37AM
Interesting how the murder of three Jewish kids ON THEIR WAY TO SCHOOL dropped from the headlines in two days .... nothing to see here, just one more unprovoked death of a Jewish child. Thanks for the eye opening realization that your "standards" -- such as they are -- are doubled.
Buck Turgidson| 3.27.12 @ 11:20AM
Of course it did! Once the murderer was identified as a moslem rather than a right-winger what did you expect the leftist media to do?
Buck Turgidson| 3.27.12 @ 11:20AM
Jorge Zimmerman is an American hero!
threeleafclover| 3.27.12 @ 9:26PM
Not saying a 17 year old black child cannot be affluent other than by selling drugs, but did his mama give him the money to have half his front teeth gold-plated?
One day in discussion, my son said he would not hire anyone with visible tattoos. I asked if he knew what tattooing cost. He said $100 an hour. I don't know how he knew or professed to know. He is not tattooed or in the business.
Does a 17 year old unemployed black child buy some fairly professional looking tattoos with his allowance?
Certainly not saying a 17 year old black child wearing a hoodie and sporting a buncha gold teeth and armful of tattoos and messages on his cell phone about hitting a bus driver - are grounds for killing him.
Just remember what Jesse Jackson said. Sounds like the same kind of kid Jackson would have been uncomfortable being in the same block with, way back when he was on some other rant.
POST American| 3.28.12 @ 12:22AM
-----------------------FINAL WORD-------------------------
BREITBART is DEAD.
The substance of the Obama video(s)
----------------------------------'disappeared'
ALLLLLLLL on the ides of March.
ALL of it 'memory-holed'.
--------------------THINK NDAA 1021-------------------
--------------THINK HUAC/ Nuremberg---------------
"Let's ALL DIE --or LET'S DO IT."
-Thomas Carlysle
LET'S THINK ---and MOVE ---------FAST!
Flit Andersen| 3.28.12 @ 6:47AM
Two words, Partick: BING - GO
or, great column. Take your pick.
Buck Turgidson| 3.28.12 @ 12:29PM
The Trayvon Martin tragedy keeps becoming more Orwellian and the facts of what actually happened that sad evening even more remote.
In this unhinged culture of instantaneous imagery and obsessions with race, we can distort reality quite easily: In one scenario, a young, almost baby-faced Trayvon Martin’s photo (that so struck President Obama) is juxtaposed with George Zimmerman’s mug shot, where he looks sinister, sullen, and quite white, and in jail orange. Supporters of the idea that Martin was murdered prefer this imagery of Martin as pre-teen and Zimmerman as a jailbird.
Or, alternatively, one can choose to print a different pair of photos: a more recent picture of a mature Trayvon Martin in hoodie paralleled with George Zimmerman, with neatly trimmed beard and mustache, smiling in suit and tie, and appearing in some sense more identifiably Latino. Supporters of the idea that Zimmerman acted in self-defense prefer photos of either a Martin hooded or with gold-plated teeth and tattoos, with Zimmerman appearing as an upbeat businessman of some sort.
After demonizing Zimmerman for a week as an unhinged white racist wannabe vigilante, Sharpton, Jackson, et al. are upset that the tables are turning and Martin is emerging not quite as a model pre-teen, Skittle-eating student with a slight truancy problem, but as a 6 foot 2 inch teen with troubled Twitter allusions to criminal activity, an obscene n-word Twitter ID, and suspensions entailing possible drug use and theft. Either such past information is irrelevant for both parties or it is useful in trying to reconstruct their behaviors on the night of the shooting — but either way it should be equitably applied to both.
Finally how absolute insane American has become: The mainstream media both wishes to portray Martin as the innocent-looking pre-teen of his old photo even as the rarer appearing, politically-incorrect hoodie picture resonates far more with Martin’s supporters; had Zimmerman just used his mother’s maiden name, much of the current outrage would have dissipated; the country beats itself up over whether Zimmerman may have used a racial epithet — even as Twitter messages are released of Martin self-identifying himself with the n-word; Martin’s mother is worried about publicity warping the name of her deceased son even as she seeks propriety merchandising rights to it; Al Sharpton by day agitates and demagogues and, by evening, reports on Al Sharpton agitating and demagoguing for MSNBC — and on and on and on.