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Why public's opinions on Zimmerman is shifting
Jewish World Review ^ | June 18, 2012 | Rene Stutzman

Posted on 06/18/2012 11:07:52 AM PDT by imardmd1

SANFORD, Fla. — (MCT) For weeks, the death of Trayvon Martin, the investigations it launched and the civil rights rallies it spurred were the most important news stories in the country, according to pollsters. At least six news organizations or polling companies did surveys. What they documented, in general, was that people were fascinated and outraged by the Feb. 26 death of the unarmed 17-year-old and angry at the shooter, Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Two sets of findings, though, stand out: Although it was the No. 1 story in the country overall, twice as many blacks as whites singled it out as the country's most important story, according to the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. And as time has passed and more evidence has been released, people's feelings about Zimmerman have eased. In late March, while people were still marching in the streets demanding his arrest, 33 percent of the country believed Zimmerman was guilty of murder, according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports. ... (see the rest at the source)

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: georgezimmerman; martin; opinion; profiling; saintskittles; trayvon; trayvonmartin; zimmerman
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To: carriage_hill; treetopsandroofs; Hugin

Post #48: I forget my </sarcasm> tag...


101 posted on 06/18/2012 12:50:32 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (All libs & most dems think that life is just a sponge bath, with a happy ending.)
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To: Uncle Chip
Do you broadcast your financial transactions???

If it was money donated to me under those circumstances, your damned right I would.

102 posted on 06/18/2012 12:53:44 PM PDT by Hugin ("Most times a man'll tell you his bad intentions, if you listen and let yourself hear."---Open Range)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

“Surely a liberal must have penned in the Star Spangled Banner the words “and conquer we must, when our cause it is just” — how horribly stilted! That can never be the product of a sane mind! (HEAVY HEAVY SARCASM)”

LOL, big deal.

You’re another leftist, pretending to post as a right winger.


103 posted on 06/18/2012 12:57:39 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m not sure how much funds were in the donor account.

I will say that if we hold to the tenet of condemning him because he used those funds to save his solvency under this onslaught, we have guaranteed that the Left can always destroy us.

Very few people could stand up to this onslaught.

Think of the next people who are tasked with keeping a neighborhood safe. Hell, I’d let people pick the place clean before I’d submit myself to this.


104 posted on 06/18/2012 12:57:48 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Republicanism: Y1 Rant Y2 Rant Y3 Rant Y4, Oh nevermind, vote for him anyway. Rinse & Repeat!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Could it have something to do with preparing to go into hiding and wanting to make sure that outstanding bills that had to be paid routinely were taken care of rather than being forwarded and giving away the couple’s location?


105 posted on 06/18/2012 12:57:58 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

“Could it have something to do with preparing to go into hiding and wanting to make sure that outstanding bills that had to be paid routinely were taken care of rather than being forwarded and giving away the couple’s location?”

Of course, but that doesn’t support the “skimming” they were told about in the last Trayvon focus group meeting.


106 posted on 06/18/2012 1:00:03 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Shellie Zimmerman offered to call the person who could tell the judge exactly how much was in the account. Angela Corey “conveniently” edited that part of the transcript out when she filed the complaint asking bail to be revoked.

It is Angela Corey, not Shellie Zimmerman, who should have been arrested for deceiving the court.

But hey, what’s the use of having a position of power if you don’t use it to commit crimes for political purposes? /s


107 posted on 06/18/2012 1:01:37 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: treetopsandroofs

I refuse to be a sheeple in this Ewe Essay. Even for you self caricatured “rightists.”


108 posted on 06/18/2012 1:05:19 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Nail. Head.

Very good summation of situation. Thanks for saying it better than I could.

109 posted on 06/18/2012 1:05:50 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: DoughtyOne

For what it’s worth, Mr. Z wasn’t on a neighborhood watch patrol when he saw Tray.


110 posted on 06/18/2012 1:08:22 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

LFMAO @ at the leftists today!!!!!


111 posted on 06/18/2012 1:08:36 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: onemiddleamerican; DoughtyOne

We should think for ourselves and stand for truth wherever it is found, and do it no matter even if an enemy believes that same truth and uses it for some untoward purpose.


112 posted on 06/18/2012 1:10:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: treetopsandroofs

A leftist is anyone who does not join the self proclaimed rightists’ herd of non-thinking-for-themselves sheeple?


113 posted on 06/18/2012 1:12:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: butterdezillion

Oh, I hope Corey is impeached, sued, screwed, blued, and tattooed for what she’s done. All totally legally of course, upheld by the highest courts. It will only be a matter of time until the worm turns, on her and maybe also on this judge.


114 posted on 06/18/2012 1:16:11 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: Uncle Chip

And especially do you broadcast your financial transactions to somebody in a position of power (who is recording you and you know it) who has exhibited a desire and willingness to butcher both the truth and the law for political goals?

If the Zimmermans were cops this would have been a perfect sting operation to catch Angela Corey in both entrapment and perjury.

Well, at least now the Zimmermans know what they’re dealing with.

When will Angela Corey get the Nifong consequences - before, or after, she destroys more people’s lives?


115 posted on 06/18/2012 1:16:31 PM PDT by butterdezillion
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To: HiTech RedNeck
For what it’s worth, Mr. Z wasn’t on a neighborhood watch patrol when he saw Tray.

Holy crap! You just won't stop, will you?

Argue, argue, argue one point 'til you're hoarse and other people have proven your argument fatally flawed. So now you pull another one out of your craw, and will argue, argue, argue it, until it's disproven as well. Don't you have a halo that needs polishing or something?

I'm disgusted reading this thread and the comments from "righteous" people who act like everything they say is Gospel Truth because they heard half a story or read half a sentence of a story two months ago.

116 posted on 06/18/2012 1:17:54 PM PDT by onemiddleamerican (FUBO and all your terrorist buddies)
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To: butterdezillion

Sometime into a Mitt Romney administration, I’d think. Not that Mitt would lift a finger to help, but at least he wouldn’t be trying hard to hinder.


117 posted on 06/18/2012 1:18:46 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: Edward Teach
And what pray tell is Zimmerman supposed to do after losing his job and being unable to work? Lose everything he has and go bankrupt? That money was raised to help him out; nothing wrong with him using it to pay bills. If he comes out of this acquitted, but ruined financially, then the bastards will have still won. I suspect that’s what the judge and dingbat prosecutor had in mind when they made this as issue.

Not only lost his job but his college asked him to not return.
118 posted on 06/18/2012 1:19:30 PM PDT by snarkytart (http://www.freerepubli224%2C1)
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To: onemiddleamerican
Oh go right ahead and present your proof that Mr. Z. was on a Neighborhood Watch patrol. All I've seen is waffle, waffle, waffle. I said it looks like truth is not determinable here from the level and quality of information available. But truth counts whether or not you care.
119 posted on 06/18/2012 1:20:49 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: snarkytart

He’s become radioactive with angry black racists wanting to mow him down. A no-weapons school (if typical of the chicken institutions in this Ewe Essay) would certainly consider him sitting duck bait.

Ultimately it is racial grievance mongers which have pushed Mr. Z. into the pickle. Nonetheless, God (here I go again talking about such highfalutin stuff /sarc) wants even martyrs to conduct themselves honorably.


120 posted on 06/18/2012 1:24:33 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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