Trayvon Martin

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New Evidence: No Trace of Trayvon Martin’s DNA on George Zimmerman’s Gun
Evidence released in the Trayvon Martin murder case indicates that the 17-year-old did not handle his killer's gun at all despite Zimmerman's claim that he grabbed for it during their fatal struggle.



of course FAUX News headline reads

Zimmerman's DNA Found on Handgun, Tests Show

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REALLY?

Martin Family / AP Photo.
Cop Uses Trayvon Martin Gun Targets
A Florida police officer was leading a target practice session with two other officer and a civilian last week when he surprised his pupils by pulling out gun-practice targets with Trayvon Martin’s image on it. When asked if they’d like to use the targets resembling the slain teenager, the group offered a resounding “no.” Now, the officer, Sgt. Ron King, has been fired. “It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral Police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice,” said an attorney for Martin’s parents. Port Canaveral, where King worked, is 50 miles from where Martin was slain

[The Consul]

When I hear stuff like above, something shifts. It is a dark shift.
Am I wrong to not fight hard enough against the disappointment that there won't be any riots when Zimmerman's acquitted? I know it's wrong. More people will die ugly, bloody deaths. Most of them black. But I am fighting against it. I don't want it to happen. Then again, Zimmerman might get caged. And he will become an icon, a martyr. The mind reels at past images of burning cities and false reports. The best thing would be for Zimmerman to hang himself in his cell before the trial starts. And those crazy Texas boys with swastikas tatooed to their eyelids can break into the morgue, steal his heart, and make from it a rustic stew. I know I shouldn't think these things. Even Michael Jackson's corpse on the rag at the check out stand didn't distract me. Suprised only that it took so long. Not nearly as startling as a headless child in Ramallah. I think of that guy who named cells cells. The basic unit of life, taking the word from monastic cells where one prays in silence for mercy and observes all the wonder of the miracle of god in both the glorious and sorrowful mysteries. The basic unit of life. A quiet little place full of sludge. On the road to martydom, carring stardust to the end of the exploding universe. How small my mind has become, how shriveled my insight. There must be someway to counteract this poison.

[NeonLX]

^^^^Wow. Spectacular post, Mr. The Consul.

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George Zimmerman’s Father Says The ‘True Racists’ Are African-American
By Judd Legum on Jun 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm

As the murder trial for George Zimmerman begins, his father has released an emotional and highly unusual e-book, publicly opining on all aspects of the case. The book by Robert Zimmerman Sr., called “Florida v. Zimmerman: Uncovering the Malicious Prosecution of my Son, George” was released today on Amazon for $3.99.
The most striking chapter is called “Who Are The True Racists,” an apparent effort to rebut claims that his son’s actions were racially motivated.
Previously, Zimmerman Sr. “believed generally racism was a thing of the past.” He says that, personally, he hadn’t encountered much racism, even though his wife is Hispanic. But after his son shot and killed Trayvon Martin, however, Zimmerman learned that racism is “flourishing at the insistence of some in the African American Community.” He then goes on to list various black leaders and organizations that he believes are racist:
Congressional Black Caucus. “[A] pathetic, self-serving group of racists… advancing their purely racist agenda.” He later adds that “all members of Congress should be ashamed of the Congressional Black Caucus, as should be their constituents.” And finally: “They are truly a disgrace to all Americans.”
The NAACP. “[S]imply promotes racism and hatred for their own, primarily finical, interests” and “without prejudice and racial divide, the NAACP would simply cease to exist.”
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. “[W]hat I would expect of a racist.”
Trayvon Martin’s funeral director. A “racial activist and former head of the local NAACP.”
Benjamin Crump, Natialie Jackson and Darrly Parks, attorneys for Travyon Martin’s family. “The scheme team.”
The National Basketball Players Association.
Black Chamber of Commerce.
National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers.
National Black United Fund.
United Negro College Fund.
While stopping short of explicitly calling President Obama a racist, Zimmerman Sr. does say that Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have “shamelessly” sought to exploit his son’s case “to obtain great advantage in the African-American community.”
Zimmerman Sr. says that because of Holder’s decision to investigate whether Trayvon Martin’s death violated federal civil rights laws, the FBI did not have “adequate resources to investigate clearly identified potential terrorist [sic] in the Boston area.” Now, “tragically, we have suffered the consequences of Mr. Holder’s politically motivated decisions.”

[8bitagent]

From all I gathered...I'm assuming Zimmerman high off his ego thought he was going to create a hero scenario. Starts following a clearly unarmed kid, whom he already painted as "suspect/guiltyish".
The kid, with a mix of fear/flight/pride probably only could take enough of this bizarre inquisition by an unknown man...perhaps words were exchanged, and next thing we know is that neighbors said Trayvon Martin was on top of him. Perhaps he landed a punch or two, perhaps serious life altering injuries would occur, and Zimmerman felt he had to use his gun. To me it's a tragedy that highlights the idea of being suspicious for a certain manner of dress and racial makeup being "unauthorized" in a particular city or neighborhood. The media I don't believe was trying to perform an objective model; instead was using this event as a petri dish experiment to inflame people. Both the Fox and MSNBC type channels. And as I said a year ago, while this event was just one of those random moments...I would not be surprised if a well crafted orchestrated event by the PTB was created to really create racial violence and a very ugly climate.

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George Zimmerman’s Father Says The ‘True Racists’ Are African-American
By Judd Legum on Jun 14, 2013 at 3:50 pm

As the murder trial for George Zimmerman begins, his father has released an emotional and highly unusual e-book, publicly opining on all aspects of the case. The book by Robert Zimmerman Sr., called “Florida v. Zimmerman: Uncovering the Malicious Prosecution of my Son, George” was released today on Amazon for $3.99.
The most striking chapter is called “Who Are The True Racists,” an apparent effort to rebut claims that his son’s actions were racially motivated.
Previously, Zimmerman Sr. “believed generally racism was a thing of the past.” He says that, personally, he hadn’t encountered much racism, even though his wife is Hispanic. But after his son shot and killed Trayvon Martin, however, Zimmerman learned that racism is “flourishing at the insistence of some in the African American Community.” He then goes on to list various black leaders and organizations that he believes are racist:
Congressional Black Caucus. “[A] pathetic, self-serving group of racists… advancing their purely racist agenda.” He later adds that “all members of Congress should be ashamed of the Congressional Black Caucus, as should be their constituents.” And finally: “They are truly a disgrace to all Americans.”
The NAACP. “[S]imply promotes racism and hatred for their own, primarily finical, interests” and “without prejudice and racial divide, the NAACP would simply cease to exist.”
NAACP President Benjamin Jealous. “[W]hat I would expect of a racist.”
Trayvon Martin’s funeral director. A “racial activist and former head of the local NAACP.”
Benjamin Crump, Natialie Jackson and Darrly Parks, attorneys for Travyon Martin’s family. “The scheme team.”
The National Basketball Players Association.
Black Chamber of Commerce.
National Association of Black Law Enforcement Officers.
National Black United Fund.
United Negro College Fund.
While stopping short of explicitly calling President Obama a racist, Zimmerman Sr. does say that Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have “shamelessly” sought to exploit his son’s case “to obtain great advantage in the African-American community.”
Zimmerman Sr. says that because of Holder’s decision to investigate whether Trayvon Martin’s death violated federal civil rights laws, the FBI did not have “adequate resources to investigate clearly identified potential terrorist [sic] in the Boston area.” Now, “tragically, we have suffered the consequences of Mr. Holder’s politically motivated decisions.”

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[Jerky]

So, basically, EVERY BLACK PERSON is racist.

Interesting.

YOPJ

[conniption]

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Saturday, July 6, 2013

BREADCRUMBS AND CIRCUS RERUNS

PHILIP J CUNNINGHAM

When the Roman empire fell into decline, the people were treated to bread and circuses. With America’s might on the wane, it’s more like breadcrumbs and circus reruns.

Just take a look at American news coverage these days; it’s rock around the clock infotainment. The latest mega story is the trial about a shooting that took place in Florida a year and a half ago.

A local scuffle, yet it gets wall-to-wall coverage, day after day. The TV pundits go on and on about what they think the judge is thinking, what they think the jury is thinking and who they think is going to win and who they think is going to lose. They are the chorus to the tragedy, a shooting, converted into mass spectacle and spectator sport.

Every death is a tragedy, but criminal violence sells. It’s a central narrative of a country that puts more guns into more hands and puts more people behind bars than anywhere else on earth.

Given so many lurid cases to choose from, it takes a perfect storm of factors to transform a news bit from last year’s police blotter into the trial of the century. Enter George Zimmerman, who is standing trial for the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Their inter-racial scuffle has been reconstructed and scrutinized over and over, second by bloody second, word by bloody word during prime time news and entertainment slots.

During breaks in the much-trumpeted, heavily advertised, televised trial, wedged in between noisy commercials, there are news updates from around the world. Hey look! There’s some endearing footage of the American president, now touring Africa, dancing upon arrival in Tanzania. Wow, he can really move. Then there’s also some tidbit about some hacker dude named Snowden holed up in Moscow airport and what’s that? NATO air controllers scrambled to force the landing of the Bolivian President’s jet? Sounds a bit like the Zimmerman approach to controlling the space. Oh, and looky here, the hacker dude released some kind of secret documents, but hey, it’s the human angle, blame-the-messenger and the catch-me-if-you-can narrative that really gets the bovine pundits chewing the cud. And in between the cracks and commercials of the full Florida court criminal trial, there’s even a little something about some popular uprising in Egypt, or was it a coup?

Nightly news is top dollar billing time, so the bottom line makes foreign news a hard sell. Every second counts. No time to give it the Zimmerman treatment unless it’s smoking hot, unless it really sings, unless it has that extra special zing.

Burn baby burn.

There’s no denying that trials have a natural narrative appeal and that America is rift with racial tensions, but the media makes too much of such things. Trials such as that of OJ Simpson, and now this one, serve to turn up the heat and stoke civic mistrust, depriving viewers of other news while subtly dividing the public into irreconcilable camps. Who are you for and against? It’s not as much fun as the Coliseum or bread and circuses, but it serves a similar function. Keep the masses distracted and off-balance so as to diminish their attention and weaken their solidarity. If it’s a slow crime day, there’s always terror to stoke fear about.

Burn baby burn.

It’s news, unless it isn’t. The epic upheaval in Egypt was neglected while the TV cameras focused on uneventful non-events in a stage-lit courtroom. Other news had to wait for a break in the trial, the July 4 holiday, which opened up an air-time window for the day-after fireworks in Cairo.

Even essential news about the United States has been getting the short shrift, especially the shocking revelations of NSA abuse. It’s classic misdirection, stealing attention while emptying the treasury to steal secrets.

In both cases Obama and his foreign policy team have been caught flat-footed, and in the wrong, but don’t expect much in the way of explanation or apology. The White House has a non-answer to everything; spin, spin, spin.

But why fret about such things when you have a charming President who’s got game? There’s a little bit of something for everyone, nothing concrete of course, but a little symbolic something.

The media-pleasing president tours Africa, part work, part family vacation that sees him whisked him from one impoverished land to another, all inside the billion-dollar bubble of the Secret Service sterile zone. It’s only right that he should find little ways to pay back the public that supports his caravan with their tax-money. As a show of gratitude, working class American men and women can tune into the news and get some "wish you were here" postcards in the form of carefully crafted photo ops and that delightful video clip of the president dancing. Hey, he's got some good moves. Smooth moves.

Dancing upon arrival in Africa is an odd American tradition, one of those obligatory things that would reek of being outright patronizing were it not so silly. Bill Clinton did it, so did Hillary Clinton, as Secretary of State. Even George W Bush wiggled and wriggled and shook some booty for the cameras in Africa, looking every bit the bad white boy.

Dance baby dance.

Despite the wars they’ve waged as commandants for global domination, when it comes time to boogie, the Clintons, Bushes and Obamas are just ordinary folk, after all. Just like us. Just like strangers on the bus.

Why, with all that presidential rug-cutting going on, did anyone sit still long enough to notice that trade between China and Africa trade has grown tenfold in the last ten years? And the Chinese don’t dance!

Beijing’s no-nonsense leaders come from a generation for whom gyrating in public brings to mind the humiliating “loyalty dance.” Even though times have changed, it's hard to picture the proud, unsmiling Communist Party stalwarts Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping bouncing like bobbleheads on cue, and truth be told, the world is probably a better place if they never have to. But American presidents have to put on a show and dance they will. It’s what they do to be liked and its what their advisers think their followers like to see. And it makes for perfect TV. Brought to you live and in color, spectacles heralding the decline of an empire.

Dance baby dance.

Meanwhile, the world is on fire, rife with war, simmering conflict, open revolt and revolting inequity. Yet America averts its gaze, turning its attention to the reality show inside the Coliseum instead, shocking and scaring, tickling and titillating the viewing public, serving up juicy bite-size bits of infotainment, freedom fries on the side, while the pressing issues of the day are shunted aside and the real news slips by unnoticed.

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NOT GUILTY

You will never walk this earth as a free man Zimmerman...you will always walk this earth guilty of killing a child...now on to the civil suit


BASTARD

[Col Quisp]

And so it begins.

[parel]

[Col Quisp]

It's pretty unusual for a verdict to be announced on a Sat. night, doncha think? It's like the worst time you could announce this verdict. Or maybe they did it now because they thought it would go unnoticed? Everyone is out partying? I can't figure it out.

[parel]

Why the Zimmerman Trial Made Me Ill
By Kevin Alexander Gray, July 13, 2013

A friend asked me if I’d been keeping up with the George Zimmerman trial. My immediate answer was, “Not really. Watching it was really angering me.” But then I admitted I was lying. I had hedged to temper my anger. I also didn’t want to try to explain to the white person on the other end of the phone how it feels being black in the USA these days.

Like many others, I believe that Zimmerman is a liar, racist and a killer.

I believe that Zimmerman profiled Martin.

And I believe that Martin had every right, even a greater right, to fight for his life with all the strength he could muster. He lost the fight for his life because his killer had a gun, and Martin had only a can of Arizona iced tea and a bag of Skittles.

I was a young black boy at one time and I’ve raised black boys. I know what they face. I know that white supremacy does take us out at will.

When I was coming up, I would hear a young white man proclaim that “he’s free, white and 21,” and that meant the world was his. For black males the benchmark age is “35 and still alive.”

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[82_28]

Hahahaha! This is surreal. Unbelievable. All too believable.

Good one.

A crime was committed and a life lost. Good one. I just cannot wait for the stupidity to ensue because of the media.

Man. This is a good one.