Zimmerman Self-Defense Trial off to Acceptable Start :)

[gunsmith]

Let's hope Reverend AL's 100 city protest fizzles tomorrow...who would know though....In Hannity's words 'We have a corrupt media' He's Angry and I'm amazed that he doesn't blow his top ....as in 'Getting Fired' blow his top. Rush Limbaugh took a hit when he dumped on some abortion chick.

I've never followed a story this closely in the last 10 years (followed Regan's elections but that was written on dead trees)

In switching back and forth between all the talking head channels....you must conclude that Fox appeals to the Intelligence far more than any of the others, with HLN (Hysterical Ladies Network) bringing up the rear with actual game show type antics.

But I do see 'Summer of 2013" as the end of the 'Civil Rights Movement" (let's say it started 60 years ago w/ Supreme Court Decision: Brown vs Board of Education) or in 1948 when Truman "integrated" the Army.

We're witnessing history.

July 2013

The pendulum of 'racial harmony' has begun to swing 'the other way'

"Racial integration" the goal of the 50's Civil Rights Movement is now part of our past.

Obama / Holder / Sharpton / Trayvon

We had the Romantic notion that somehow through spending Billions of dollars on Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society"

we could somehow 'Undo' Slavery and we've been proven wrong.

We need to admit defeat and build more jails.

If you were a politically oriented comedian you could do a 'parody' of Martin Luther King's 1963 speech

and call it "I had a dream"

America has Fallen.

This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper.

T. S. Elliot 1925

[gunsmith]

This is the AP blurb on the 100 Rallies proposed by Rev Al.

What sucks here is that they're still using Travyons 12 YEAR OLD BOY PICTURE.

Some protesters have mistakenly assembled in front of Walmarts and are chanting..

"NO BIG SCREENS, NO PEACE"

I think Rev. Al's rabble rousing has no where to go but to fizzle unless there is some significant violence and let's hope that is avoided.

ATLANTA (AP) -- One week after a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin, rallies are scheduled in 100 cities to press for civil rights charges against the former neighborhood watch leader.

Zimmerman claimed self-defense after shooting Martin during an altercation. The case has become a flashpoint in national debates over guns, race relations and self-defense laws. Zimmerman identifies as Hispanic. Martin was black.

The Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network has organized the "Justice for Trayvon" rallies and vigils outside federal buildings from New York and Los Angeles to Des Moines, Iowa, and Little Rock, Ark. He wants the Justice Department to pursue a case.

The group says Martin's mother and brother will attend the New York event. His father will appear in Miami

[grousemaster]

2) GZ did the World a favor by taking out a gold-teeth-wearing, pot-smoking, illegal-possession-of-a-firearm, thug. Good for him!! Maybe if that happened more often, people wouldn't be so quick to do crime because they'd be dead versus cycling in and out of the system as they commit crimes.

Your words pal. No grave dancing there huh?

Yup.

My words.

Yup.

Grave dancing.

I'm ok with both and can sleep well at night.

He posed with a gun (that we don't know who's it is, and if it's legal or not) and posted a picture of a pot plant. Also showed smoke coming out of his mouth. So you're fine with wishing him dead and think GZ did the world a favor? I can't even decide on the appropriate personal attack you right now....so I'll have to pass. All I can say, hope you never have a kid/relative that screws up, smokes weed (which has been decriminalized in much of the U.S., including MN), etc. Only a nasty, nasty human being would wish death upon someone for posing with a handgun, or smoking a little marijuana. God help you if you ever have to use you're firearm (you know, the one that is merely a "tool") in self defense, you've provided enough evidence on this forum to assassinate your character if ever brought up in court. Maybe you shot the kid cause you thought you were doing the world a favor?

Don't forget the gold teeth! That there is the sign of someone who needs to be shot!!!

[Dante]

^ this.

[xd ED]

Some of you are acting no better than the misinformed TM group.

Yah, but they got an excuse: they're maroons.

[Dante]

Some of you are acting no better than the misinformed TM group.

Yah, but they got an excuse: they're maroons.

Really? Do you even know what that means??

1. Maroon

a. A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
b. A descendant of such a slave.

Yes, Bugs Bunny was a racist.

[xd ED]

Some of you are acting no better than the misinformed TM group.

Yah, but they got an excuse: they're maroons.

Really? Do you even know what that means??

1. Maroon

a. A fugitive Black slave in the West Indies in the 17th and 18th centuries.
b. A descendant of such a slave.

Yes, Bugs Bunny was a racist.

As others have, and will do, I intentionally used the word 'maroon' as opposed to the word 'moron'.

The only dictionary I currently have access to defines maroon as:
"
a person who is stranded (as on an island) • when the tide came in I was a maroon out there
a dark purplish-red to dark brownish-red color
an exploding firework used as a warning signal
"

Have a nice day.

[Dante]

Moron would be a better choice of words. I suspect others *do* not what it means.

And there were plenty of white folk out there protesting as well.

[xd ED]

Moron would be a better choice of words. I suspect others *do* not what it means.

And there were plenty of white folk out there protesting as well.

If some wish to redefine common words, it might well be at their own peril.
And further:
You presume to understand( incorrectly I suspect) to whom I refer to as 'they'/ the maroons.
Here's a bit of a hint: it wasn't the protesters.

[Dante]

Moron would be a better choice of words. I suspect others *do* not what it means.

And there were plenty of white folk out there protesting as well.

If some wish to redefine common words, it might well be at their own peril.
And further:
You presume to understand( incorrectly I suspect) to whom I refer to as 'they'/ the maroons.
Here's a bit of a hint: it wasn't the protesters.

That definition pre-dates all of us and you are right - I read the original post incorrectly. My bad.

[Mabel8]

Did he have a paper route? We have little info about why he was suspended from school.
We heard a little bit about possession of 'Burglary Tools' and possession of 'Women's Jewelry'

Was the 17 year old child a petty burglar? That's my guess. And he was scoping out apartments for easy scores through sliding glass doors.

Have little info about why he was suspended from school.

[XDM45]

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[MasonK]

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[gunsmith]

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Very worth the time to read. Thanks!

Small Quote

Didn't hear that Trayvon had 'Serious Liver Damage' indicating heavy useage of 'ghetto drink' called lean. This from the autosopy....more sad news...but this is something that no-one has mentioned....

I am so pissed off about this Trayvon Martin ********… Nevermind that an innocent man has been hounded, threatened, and vilified by the media and the low-information idiots that believe this deceitful nonsense they spew, our government personnel and our tax dollars were were used in collusion with the biggest racists in the country like Al Sharpton and the Black Panthers, to whip up outrage in the black community, and it is all based on a lie… the lie that somehow, even though the local police and the FBI found zero evidence of racial bias, that George Zimmerman is a rabid racist that executed an angelic and innocent child.

Anyone with an internet connection and the reading skills we used to insist upon from the average eighth grader can learn in a matter of minutes a number of facts that show that Trayvon Martin was a troubled teenager that was already on his way to gladiator academy, he just had not taken an adult charge yet. The reason he was in Sanford that night is because his mother sent him away for getting in trouble at school, where he was caught with drug residue, burglary tools, and stolen women’s jewelry. The school resource officer listed the jewelry as “found” property rather than “stolen” property in an effort to keep his crime stats low. Trayvon assaulted a bus driver, and his cell phone was full of photos of drugs, guns, and fighting videos. The now famous Skittles and juice are mixed with a bottle of cough syrup to make a ghetto drink called “lean”, a cheap high that produces psychosis, aggression, and paranoia, and in his autopsy, it was revealed that this fit, athletic, and muscular teenager had serious liver damage, an indicator of heavy “lean” usage. His social media reinforces this picture of a violent, drug-using gangsta wannabe, and he apparently had nude photos of minor girls on his phone as well.

Someone with a Twitter handle of NO_LIMIT_NIGGA probably isn’t on the way to a medical degree at FSU or nights and weekends management at Best Buy.

Yet a huge percentage of black people seem to be able to overlook all these facts and make the gigantic leap that this violent, drug using, tattooed, and criminally inclined minor child was innocently walking to Dad’s place with candy and a large juice when a crazed racist gunned him down for no reason whatsoever. Rachel Jeantel has said that Trayvon was almost home, but for some reason doubled back to confront a man he was supposedly afraid of, and she says that Trayvon threw the first punch.

[Heffay]

Yet a huge percentage of black people seem to be able to overlook all these facts

Everything you listed about Martin is a "fact", eh?