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Alice, it's a real shame. I agree with the long time member. I am one as well, changed my name once after the 2000 election to make fun of the voters in S. Fla who couldn't understand the Butterfly Ballot. The bizarre part to me that I am being called a troll because I think a young man was shot down and his whole life is over. FR is pro-life. I would have presumed that alleged MURDER VICTIMS would be covered as well?

That long time freepers are being personally attacked for their opinion and if it isn't hoodies, it's tattoos or baggy pants mean something bad and definitely black, and I MUST HATE ZIMMERMAN, it's obvious.

What a bunch of horse puckey. Where are my freepers and who are these replacements who live in a stereotypical world and refuse to do their own research???? They REFUSE to sign up at Facebook and expect ME to go there and trot things back here for them.

Let's just call these bigots "the replacements" and I'm sure they know who they are by what they have already posted. I wore a hoodie today and in my own neighborhood. The hood was not even up.

Thanks to extremists, they have the entire country afraid of clothing. It's not the black community who is ginning up that CLOTHING IS SCARY.

I've worn hoodies since around 1971. But why do you call Trayvon Marin a "MURDER VICTIM"? You know 'murder' is a legal term, don't you? If you're saying murder, do you mean first- or second-degree murder? Why not manslaughter? And, as tragic as the shooting was, what facts are you certain of that renders Florida Statutes Chapter 776 irrelevant as a complete defense to a charge of murder or manslaughter as a matter of law?

By the way, I think the hoodie and tattoos (or tattoo, because I've seen nothing to indicate that the upper arm tattoo was his) are 99.8% irrelevant. I put my hood up when it's raining.

Yeah, I've picked up on that. I've read posts that came close to saying "he wore a hoodie; he needed shooting." Or "he had on a hoodie, that's proof to me that he attacked Zimmerman, and the underlying, unspoken part seems to be 'he had on a hoodie [and he was black], that's proof to me that he attacked Zimmerman'." I think of the outsiders reading FR and I simply cringe.

This is my second FReeper name too. After lurking for a while, I signed up on 11/12/01, the day AA Flight 587 slammed into Rockaway Beach. I was able to provide information to those who had questions about the area. Freeper BCM was my neighbor.

Last weekend, after my grandson read some of the comments posted here, he wrote a message and asked me to post it, which I did. He’s a Florida high school student and wanted to share some thoughts from a teenager’s point of view. First and foremost, he asked people to be respectful to the deceased boy, instead of slamming him. Then he went on to explain that a 10-day suspension was very easy to get: sass a teacher, smoke on school grounds, be late too many times, etc. The few took the time to respond to him mocked and insulted him, just as they’ve been mocking and insulting us. It’s too bad, I’ve talked to him often with pride about FR and he would have been a great FReeper … but he wouldn’t touch this site with a 10-foot pole now. He’s thinks it’s full of hateful bigots.

I’ve been called a troll, a consistent dissimulator and a MSM lie-supporter. There’s one, who happens to be on this thread, who has referred to me as an “it” … he’s posted to others about me, without pinging me. I’ve been told to leave this site, to join DU and to rally with Al Sharpton. The wittier ones taunt me because of my freeper name. Pathetically, that’s happened to you too. Then these posters high-5 each other and brag about how cool they are.

Don’t they realize that they look like bullying middle-schoolers to any visitor to this site? They pick fights over stupid things. Where has any semblance of civility gone? The ‘old time freeper’ who sent me the message won’t be posting on these threads anymore. He and others are tired of the treatment they’ve received. But I think that’s exactly what the bullys want … no discussions. no questions, no opposing views are allowed.