Posted on 11/07/2021 5:44:23 AM PST by marktwain
“This “unarmed teenager” was trying to kill Zimmerman by bashing his head in”
It was actually worse than just that:
“George Zimmerman told police that Trayvon Martin had been brutally beating him and reached for his gun...”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/george-zimmerman-trayvon-martin-was-reaching-for-my-gun.html
The unarmed teenager was trying to arm himself with Zimmerman’s gun.
Of course I know nothing about the contract, but I’m sure the hotel wasn’t bargaining for a circus...
Zimmerman could have been any one of us.
Notice the bias in the story in just this excerpt.
The word "black" is capitalized. I know it's common now, but it's still bias.
Martin was an unarmed black teenager who tried to arm himself with George Zimmerman's gun and kill him with it
"after claiming self-defense" is added bias.
In the end Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown, the guy killed by Rittenhouse, and the guy killed by shotgun in Georgia all needlessly died for the same reason: they attacked men who had guns.
Boise has always been the liberal “woke” town of Idaho.
‘Twas so even when I was in Idaho in the late ‘70s. Something about capitol cities always being liberal bastions.
> That means that one person complained and called them racist <
You have hit upon something important here. We live in a society where a small “woke” percentage of the population can control darn near everything. They complain, and everyone folds.
Some woke guy is offended by a statue. Down the statue goes.
Some woke guy is offended by a professor’s lecture. The professor is fired.
Etc.
This needs to change. But of course it won’t.
Hopefully The Riverside Hotel in Boise, Idaho will enjoy having zero business from American patriots and anyone who backs free speech. Boycott until new ownership re-opens.
Obama’s son got what he deserved.
Travelers should know the hotel doesn’t care if some punk is bashing their heads on the front curb.
Technically, this hotel is in Garden City, not Boise. Garden City is a distinct municipality nearly surrounded by Boise, and has its own government. It has been the boil on the Treasure Valley’s ass since the 60s. That being said, yeah, I’d sue for breach of contract.
George Zimmerman could be a multi-millionaire right now by doing what Hunter Biden is doing: selling pictures.
There is a famous (or infamous) NY artist who has a staff of art school graduates. They crank out oil paintings for minimum wage, he makes a small change or two, signs them and sells them for $100,000+.
This is what Zimmerman should do. There are easily thousands of oil painting artists who would be thrilled to do “patriotic themed” paintings, that Zimmerman would slightly modify and sign. Being a good guy, he might even give them a byline for their name underneath his. And he might even pay them a percentage from the sale.
An “original Zimmerman” should sell for over $100k, and his market could handle hundreds of them before it got saturated. And some grandmother in the Midwest who did a painting of Donald Trump as a gun slinging Old West sheriff, gets a thousand dollars or two and bragging rights about the retail value of “her” painting.
What’s not to like?
Interestingly, I consider myself to be a staunch conservative, but after reading your first 3 reasons, I couldn't be of a more opposite opinion. But then you would be allowed to speak and I'd be shut out.
Trayvon Martin DID go back to his house; he then returned to confront Zimmerman. Attorney Mara proved this with the "4-Minute silence" portion of his ultimately successful closing statement.
Zimmerman’s case actually sits at a nexus of issues this conference would seem to be all about: achieving legal reform to protect self-defenders from, among other things, wrongful prosecution by politically motivated jurisdictions and mob rule. The right of self-defense should be enshrined in law, and there should be draconian punishments for prosecutors who knowingly present fake witnesses (such as Rachel Jeantel, who pinch hit on the witness stand for the real “ear witness”, Diamond Eugene). The proper conduct and use of police interrogations, turning over evidence to the defense, etc. are all proper legal topics. Whether Zimmerman’s physical presence adds anything to the discussion is hard to say. He is a victim of legal abuse, not an attorney or expert on legislation.
The evidence presented at trial, and subsequent proof of mega-misconduct by Bernie de la Ronda et al, indeed establish that Zimmerman is legally “innocent”. But his innocence or guilt is irrelevant to whether leftist rioters would make the hotel into a battleground; I imagine that was the management’s main consideration.
This needs to change. But of course it won’t.
This needs to change. But of course it won’t.
I bitched about this every damn time and it went away. Either the programmer took it out of the database or the clerks stopped asking. or they just stopped asking me.
Stand up to the little things. Nobody likes confrontation but you have to do it.
http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Gleaves/Dinner_at_the_White_House_-_a_parable.shtml
Saying “Zimmerman had nothing to add” is your version of prior restraint of free speech. You have pre-judged the potential public remarks of a man you do not know.
How do you know what he may or may not have useful to add to the conversation?
Canceling public speakers for the hurt they MIGHT cause is completely un-American.
Free speech is about letting all subjects be openly debated.
Others can easily pre-judge YOU for any opinions you might have about the Second Amendment and keep YOU from speaking.
You say a finding of “not guilty” of George Zimmerman is not a reflection of his innocence. What other legal standard is there? Would you stop public speech of someone with a “bad attitude?”
Capital cities tempt politically-oriented folk (duh), P-O folk are either intrinsically stupid (i.e., “Duhh, why not go into politics, more honest than selling used cars or aluminum siding!”) or would-be tyrants.
“You say a finding of “not guilty” of George Zimmerman is not a reflection of his innocence. What other legal standard is there?”
There is no other legal standard except in civil court, and that’s not absolute either. Only Zimmerman and God will ever really know what was in his mind and heart.
So,little Trayvon had both of his arms amputated.🙄
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