Posted on 03/25/2012 12:51:36 AM PDT by Kaslin
A 17-year-old kid is shot dead. Police are investigating…and progressives see an opportunity. The Trayvon Martin case, in addition to being a tragedy, is a case study in political exploitation and progressive tactics.
The shooting death of a 17-year-old is horrible, whatever the circumstances and no matter their race. But progressives seem to care about this case only because of the race of the victim. There are thousands of murders that don’t “fit the bill” for exploitation and thus are ignored by these self-appointed “justice seekers.”
What happened that night? I don’t know. But neither do any of the race hustlers, such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, who speak of it as if they are clairvoyant. They care deeply about Trayvon’s family… as long as there are cameras around.
This lack of actual knowledge doesn’t stop progressives – many of whom call for due process rights and the presumption of innocence for terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay – from demanding the head of George Zimmerman, the shooter in this case.
The hypocrisy runs deep.
I understand the tragedy here but not the selective outrage. There are thousands of murders in this country each year. How many have you heard of? A large percentage of those murder victims are younger than 30. How many have you heard of? Only a few.
How many cause people to take to the streets in protest? How many occupy a large portion of cable news? How many do these progressives screaming for the head of George Zimmerman ever mention on their TV or radio shows?
You know the answer.
For progressives to care about someone who has been killed there must be an ulterior motive. In the case of Trayvon Martin, there are many.
First, race. That news outlets can’t talk about this case without mentioning Trayvon’s race is a testament to how successful progressives have been in instilling a segregationist mindset in the media. That they rarely mention the shooter’s race is a testament to just how far progressives will go to exploit tragedy to advance their divide and conquer agenda. Zimmerman is Hispanic, not white, as originally thought. Since the race-hustling machine was already in motion and impossible to stop, they and their fellow travellers in the media simply ignore it.
Bill Maher, HBO’s resident crap-flinging monkey, tweeted, “No probable cause in #TrayvonMartin murder? If a dead unarmed teen and an angry racist with a smoking gun is too subtle a clue, what isn't?”
Is Zimmerman a racist? I have no idea (his father and neighbor say no), but I do know Bill Maher has no idea either. But that doesn’t stop progressive Maher from making a definitive statement on the issue. Facts don’t matter in pursuit of the agenda.
Second, policy. Progressives always have hated Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” self-defense law. This case offered an opportunity to demonize it, and they took it – even though it does not apply to this case. Zimmerman wasn’t “standing his ground;” he was following Martin. Whatever happened when they engaged in their confrontation is a separate matter.
But again, facts don’t matter. The fascist progressives blame the law, almost as much as the shooter, for Martin’s death. Before any investigation is complete, calls for repeal (which were there before the shooting) are getting louder and louder. Mindless media drones and the professionally outraged progressive mob are calling for repeal. Screw facts; they demand action.
Third, politics. The one thing progressives value above all else is political power. They will dance on Trayvon Martin’s grave to keep people divided into the groups and sub-groups they’ve worked so hard to create and manipulate.
Media Matters, a fascistic group of anti-First Amendment progressives whose mission is allegedly to correct conservative bias in the media, has been promoting the Trayvon Martin story. What bias is there in this case? No one, right or left, doesn’t consider this a tragedy. It’s just that some don’t want to call for more blood without an investigation. But when Media Matters is involved, you can bet the Democrat Party is pulling the strings. Enter MSNBC.
MSNBC’s lineup is a who’s who of detestable bigots and professional hatemongers whose only goal in life is to advance the progressive agenda at all costs. Rather than focus on the life of Trayvon or the tragedy of his death, MSNBC had a segment entitled “The GOP agenda that produced ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws.” The dots were laid out so plainly even most of their intelligence-challenged audience could connect them – GOP pushed Stand Your Ground, Stand Your Ground is responsible for Trayvon’s death, therefore the GOP is responsible for Trayvon’s death.
Since many of the uninformed who watch MSNBC need things spelled out for them because they’re too busy trying to figure out why they can’t eat tomato soup with a fork, fill-in host and noted idiot racist Karen Finney went all-in. Mimicking the time progressives blamed Sarah Palin for the tragic Tucson shooting, only to have the insane man behind it be exposed as an anti-war, anti-Bush leftist, Finney blamed Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney for the death of Trayvon.
The only thing more disgusting than Finney knowingly (and believe me, she knows) exploiting the death of a 17-year-old for political purposes, or a “news” organization broadcasting that on their network is knowing of the other deaths and murders they willingly ignore because the victims, the perpetrators or both have the incorrect skin pigment to advance their agenda.
A human life is a human life to everyone – well,, to everyone but progressives. To them, a human life is a tool, a toy, a means by which their anti-liberty, anti-American agenda can be advanced, provided those involved in taking it have the correct type and order of melanin, genitals or any other subdividing characteristics they deem worthy of outrage. The rest? The thousands who don’t fit their mold? They can rot. They can rot just like those who fit the mold in the past, served their purpose and are now forgotten for new pawns.
The death of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy, just as the death of every person who passes in such a matter is a tragedy. How it came to be will be determined in the due course of an honest investigation, not by exploiting a family’s tragedy for votes and ratings.
The only way to give Trayvon justice, for non-progressives still interested in such things, is to let the investigation lead where it goes, not pass the same prejudgment on George Zimmerman progressives accuse him of passing on Trayvon. It’s time for progressives to stop dancing on Trayvon Martin’s grave, to stop dancing on the graves of all the victims they exploit, take off their bigoted blinders and join the rest of society.
They won’t. They can’t. It’s who they are. So it’s up to the rest of us to help them at the ballot box by continually rejecting any and everyone who would seek to abuse victims for political gain. Especially when that trail leads to the White House.
The audacity of making this an issue with all of the black on black killings and general criminality of blacks shows we aren’t and never have been dealing with people of good faith, i.e. democrats. They have no ethics or morals. They’re pre-muslims.
“The shooting death of a 17-year-old is horrible, whatever the circumstances”
No. Not really.
The race pimps will soon regrett having pushed Whites and Hispanics together.
Well written ope ed.
Thank you!
But because the shooter in this case has a white Jewish name, is a former altar boy, and the deceased is a black punk, Obama is extremely quick to judge the shooter. This country is going to hell with Obama in the White House.
I’d like to know how many 17 year-old black kids have been murdered by other black kids (or adults) in the week or so since George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin.
Where is the outrage, the presidential commentary, the Jackson/Shatpton race pimping, the NBPP reward posters, the media hyping and all the rest of this noise for those dead kids? Whose marching for them?
If a 17 year old thug comes after a man who had his back turned, and the man shoots him out of self defense,then it isnt really horrible.
But the answer to the main question is NO
A young man of 17 isn’t a “Kid” or a “child”. Unless things have changed he’s old enough to join our military with parental permission. On his next birthday he’ll be old enough to vote, sign contracts and be subject to adult law.
It’s almost impossible to avoid the story. Most imply that he was chased down and shot in cold blood. I’ve only heard it mentioned twice in passing (on NBC’s Good Morning America) that Zimmerman had a broken nose and an injury to the back of his head.
Doing the arithmetic with a 1990's Scientific American article on "stranger murders" (about 25% of murders were then being assigned to perps of "unknown ethnicity" -- which was a dodge big-city crime statisticians were using to avoid admitting that the perps were black), and using the then-current annual murder rate, which was about 25,000 murders per year, I got some interesting answers.
One, examining the breakdown of assailants by race in other violent-crime categories (the magazine was using DoJ/FBI stats), it could be observed that the "unknown" murderers were most probably 90% black.
Two, this being so, it meant that a) 90% of black murder victims were killed by young black men, b) 50% of non-black murder victims (mostly white) were being killed by young black men, amounting to (rounded) 6,000 black-on-white murders per year.
The sum total of all black persons lynched between 1866 and the last one in 1962 was a little over 4700.
So who is the aggrieved party, in the matter of race crime?
Three, the stats mean that half of the black population -- black men -- are responsible for about 75% of all murders annually. If you narrow it down some more, the portion of the black male population that is at large and in the age group responsible for the bulk of the criminality in the black community, is about 1/4 (WAG) of the black population, which is about 12% of the whole country.
So 3% of the People are committing 75% of the murders.
And Zimmermann was out of line seeing that teenaged black athlete, out walking the streets in the middle of the night in a black hoodie, as some kind of threat?
It’s surreal. White guilt is a canard. It’s actually liberal white guilt. Unfortunately, they’ve taken over everything while the white conservatives were busy working at real jobs.
Is it just me, or does it look and sound like the progressives / liberals / welfare pimps / New Black Panther Party / etc. are all just hoping there is even a hint of racism here so they can exploit it??? Even if there’s not, they will try to exploit it anyway.
Now, you tell me where the real racism is!!!
They should all go to Chicago where murder is rampant.
Constitution...rule of law...innocent until proven guilty. America.
Constitution...rule of law...innocent until proven guilty. America.
How many blacks will die in Chicago this weekend.
Facts don't matter, truth doesn't matter, lives don't matter ... nothing matters but the pursuit of the goal, which is Communism, make no mistake.
NBC Nightly News did many stories on this; in one, the reporter said that the 17-year-old was “gunned down...” Nice. That surely promotes cool heads and clear thinking. /s
I noticed that a long time ago.
If the “powers what is” really wanted to fight crime they wouldn’t waste their time with guns and gun owners, they’d draft or intern all the young black males, who, statistically, are far more likely to commit violent crimes than lawful gun-owners.
Of course we can’t really do this, freedom and individual rights must remain paramount, but it does show how absurd Gun Control really is.
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