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The Story Unravels: New Questions about Trayvon Martin's Final Hour
American Thinker ^ | April 9, 2012 | Jeff Lipkes

Posted on 04/09/2012 12:23:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It was a fable for our times:

Once upon a time, a nice young man set off from his dad's fiancée's home before the NBA All-Star game to buy some Skittles and Arizona Tea for his stepbrother. Although the lad was seventeen, he looked like a cute twelve-year-old. Along came a burly ex-con racist vigilante who didn't like the idea of a young African-American male walking around his gated community at night. The cop-wannabe stalked the frightened boy, cornered him, and then shot him. But the racist police didn't arrest the murderer. The conscience of the nation was stirred. Protests erupted from coast to coast. The gunning down of young, unarmed black males by white Rambos -- and the occasional "white Hispanic" -- is an all-too-common occurrence in the US of A.

Now the MSM narrative is unraveling, thanks to Al Gore's nifty invention, the internet. The average MSNBC viewer may not have the smarts and curiosity to do a Google search, but other people do. A lot of the searches wind up at the sites of the Orlando Sentinel and the city's Fox affiliate, Channel 35, both of which have provided good coverage.

Now other local papers are running stories about the "complexity" of the case.

We've learned a little more about Trayvon Martin. Since his record of suspensions and his posts and pictures, with tats and grill, from his Myspace and Twitter accounts surfaced on the web, columnists are less likely to enthuse about him, as a WaPo blogger did on March 18:

By all accounts, Trayvon was a good kid[.] ... He had dreams of becoming a pilot. He was good at math. ... Trayvon's English teacher described him "as an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness."

"So what?" the left responds....

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crime; florida; georgezimmerman; msm; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Fight.


81 posted on 04/09/2012 6:47:38 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: Molon Labbie
Unfortunately some of us have to work in the city (and live 75+ miles away). I ride in a van, but we will take side streets through quiet suburbs until we get far enough away to safely get back on the highway.

A lot of your scenario depends on what happens the next few years. If Obama gets back and fans the flames and cuts off funding for law and order, then things could happen relatively soon. OTOH, if we get milktoast as president, we could have a situation where black frustration builds quickly but is effectively dealt with (I hope).

82 posted on 04/09/2012 6:55:25 AM PDT by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: panaxanax
”Stolen cars, SUVs, busses, their own vehicles, pickups with 15 in the back like Somalia, hijacked semi trucks (fill the trailers with armed vandals) and stolen police vehicles.”

That works to our advantage. They apparently wouldn't understand the combat tactic of maintaining distances and not bunching up. One grenade or concentrated small arms fire would take many out at one time. Fish in a barrel and all that. Target rich environment.
83 posted on 04/09/2012 6:58:09 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot (Obama is no Hitler; Hitler got the Olympics)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Talk about asymmetrical battlefield.... when “they'll head for the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas this time”.

Guess where most of the vigilant civilian patriot arms are. Yep, in the suburbs, exurbs and rural areas.

Nobama, the left nor the blacks may not give a flying f____ about your life, but they damn sure have a strong affinity toward their own. Any riots will be in Da Hood or urban stos wid da big screens and lickur fo free, because that is where they will be mostly “handled” by gubmint forces and will have significantly less opportunity to meet their maker.

84 posted on 04/09/2012 7:01:02 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: MacMattico; hosepipe

Sometimes some things just jump off the page and say “that is exactly what I was thinking”. Honkification was one of them!


85 posted on 04/09/2012 7:06:44 AM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: RightOnline

I think we all have to warn our families though....its not enough for my household to be safe....I want my children who live in the larger cities to be safe....one dtr and her husband live very near downtown Portland and mostly, they are in la la land...I hope they catch a clue pretty soon....


86 posted on 04/09/2012 7:12:44 AM PDT by cherry
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To: PapaBear3625
"The gang bangers have lots of vehicles. That's where a lot of their money goes. Drive through any "inner city" and you will see lots of vehicles, with many of them more expensive than yours."

To your last point, I'd have to say....."probably so". :)

Still, can't pack a crowd into such vehicles. They'll stay close to home.

BTW....I'm quite prepared, just in case. :)

87 posted on 04/09/2012 7:15:08 AM PDT by RightOnline (I am Andrew Breitbart!)
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To: FortWorthPatriot

Like “Babes-in-the-Woods”.

Imagine these guys spending one single night alone in the ‘spooky’ deep woods. They’d be running out of there so fast in the morning they’d run out of their $200 sneakers.

I’m laughing out loud just thinking about how much fun we would have using some predator calls near their camp!


88 posted on 04/09/2012 7:18:59 AM PDT by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I think that photo has any of Michelle beat...except one.


89 posted on 04/09/2012 7:19:25 AM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (Anyone not wanting an ID or purple thumb to vote isn't worthy of voting privilege.)
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To: PapaBear3625
as I asked my husband....its one thing to pick off one or two, if possible, but what if a whole car load or two of animals pulls up to your house and attacks all doors and windows......we can't count on the cops to get there...

scary times...

90 posted on 04/09/2012 7:24:51 AM PDT by cherry
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To: All

Hope Zimmerman sues everybody involved in this case.


91 posted on 04/09/2012 7:28:56 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: DCBryan1

Please stop, any talk about suppressers gives me a woodie, lol.

Give ‘em Hell FRiend!!


92 posted on 04/09/2012 7:29:36 AM PDT by Rearden (Deo Vindice)
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To: RightOnline

My point is that they won’t even leave their own neighborhoods. Historically they haven’t rioted anywhere, but their own communities. There isn’t going to be any race war and talking like there will be only serves Obama who’s desperate to capture the “independent” white women’s vote. That and keeping blacks from staying home are the only reasons we’ve even heard of Trayvon.


93 posted on 04/09/2012 7:30:33 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: A Navy Vet
I know it's not right, but I want to see the no-loads burn their cities down again.

I don't. Lots of innocent people always get hurt in these type of riots, much more so than the perps.

94 posted on 04/09/2012 7:38:03 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: 1010RD
I’ve never personally seen a gang fight in which the attackers didn’t have a less than 7 to 1 advantage. I’ve seen several where the advantage was 20-40 to 1. It was scary.

First of all, it's not a "gang fight," it's a racially motivated attack.

Second, this is nothing new. In the late 40s and early 50s, when I grew up, we had a term for it.

95 posted on 04/09/2012 7:41:05 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: Qwackertoo
Heck, they can’t even leave a city when warned by the President on National TV that a category 5 hurricane is heading right towards them.

I know what you're saying, but a large number of Obama supporters and Holder's people ended up in Houston, San Antonio, and other cities in Texas. What the media doesn't report is that virtually every hotel and apartment the government put them up in was totally trashed.

96 posted on 04/09/2012 7:49:08 AM PDT by jda ("Righteousness exalts a nation . . .")
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To: panaxanax
I’m laughing out loud just thinking about how much fun we would have using some predator calls near their camp!

Home sweet home. LOL.

Nothing like hearing a pack of coyotes yelping at about 12 midnight with no other noises around. It even startles me a bit sometimes, and I'm used to it.

97 posted on 04/09/2012 7:49:34 AM PDT by Darren McCarty (Time for brokered convention)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still wonder about the injury on Zimmermans head. It looks to be right on the top or very close to the top of his head. Zimmerman said he was flat on his back with Martin pounding his head into the pavement, so it seems injury would be further down on his head. Could he have banged the top of his head getting out of his vehicle?


98 posted on 04/09/2012 7:56:15 AM PDT by chessplayer
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

LOL! That is what our p[ant manager from hell said thirty five years ago! He was there to “Discipline the men!”


99 posted on 04/09/2012 7:56:17 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Sea Parrot

***should wear Hoodies, like white ones.***

Like the one in SCARY MOVIE 3? White boy wants to be in “de hood”! Wins a black rap contest and flips up his hoodie which is too pointed, and is thrown out of a window.


100 posted on 04/09/2012 8:08:19 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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