Posted on 03/25/2012 6:23:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
I was in the green room on the 12th floor of Fox News building in New York on Friday when I heard the soundbite the first time, "If I had a son he'd look like Trayvon..."
That simple statement had been preceded by nearly two minutes of stating deep and profound "outrage" and "seriousness" in the need to "insure" that "this matter would be investigated to the fullest."
I asked commentator Cal Thomas who was sitting on one of the sofas in the room, "How many child murders have taken place since he took office?"
Calshrugged his shoulders as if to say, "I have no idea."
"And how many press ops did the president use to comment on a single one of them before now?" I continued.
"Ah yes, but it is an election year," replied Thomas.
Admittedly the Trayvon Martin case had not soaked up a ton of my conscious awareness prior to this week's "1,000,000" er "1,000 hoodie march." But the danger this case poses--I fear--is that it makes a mockery of a good law (Stand Your Ground), serves to foist a false fear on the American people (that suddenly armed citizens will be blowing away innocent teenagers), and is an utterly disgusting display of political hypocrisy. President Obama, Rev. Al Sharpton, and whatever pool of otherwise non-productive citizens can be rallied to chant, scream, and even get a police chief to resign, but none of that makes their cause just, much less necessary.
From the beginning of the Trayvon Martin case it appears as though there is an outrage over the police response to the teen's killing. A police department--it should be pointed out--that employs numbers of African Americans in their ranks.
There is no argument here for police brutality, so Sharpton and the race hustlers must gin up outrage based on timelines, and hearsay based on evidence that may or may not be reflected in the official findings once the full story is known. That's why it's being investigated...
President Obama was right, Trayvon's death is a tragedy. All his bluster Friday in the Rose Garden, ending with the campaign pander of the century--that Trayvon would look just like "my son"--was more or less a side show. All he said, was all the police in Florida, and reasonable pundits in the press have said, "We need to investigate what happened here."
I've lost a child to death, and let me be the first to say that no one can empathize exactly with the family of Trayvon because it's hard to know how to walk a mile in their shoes. We can wish them all the best, but none of it matters when you no longer have your son's smile greeting you as he saunters through the door.
But one thing that is distinctly unhelpful to the Martin family is to claim the investigation, the findings, the evidence, or the process is rigged, prior to the answers being released from the multiple investigations that are still currently in process.
But another thought also strikes me...
Trayvon was shot on February 26. But the son of Melissa Coon was set on fire by two assailants in their late teens on his way home on March 4. The woman's son was only two blocks from his home when two assailants ran him down, doused him in gasoline, and lit him on fire.
The two assailants are thought to be classmates of the boy in the local high school.
The boy's future may hold an outlook that is rather dismal, and filled with pain. It appears he may in fact yet survive and pull through, but to what quality of life?
Everyone is questioning the motive of the shooter in the Trayvon Martin case, he had opportunity, he had access, and he was a lawful owner of a concealed carry weapon.
He also did clearly disobey the police dispatch directly, and probably on that charge alone should be in jail. But if that is the case, the investigation will show that to be the case. The shooter also may have purely shot the boy because he merely hated the color of his skin, and if so--I believe he would be eligible for the death penalty. (A sentence Rev. Al Sharpton regularly campaigns against.)
And though that is a possible theory, there is no evidence of bias or malice towards race uncovered yet.
Eight days later, in the case of the child who was burned, the victim was white, the assailants black, the media silent, and the President indifferent.
But the assailants repeatedly told the victim, "You deserve to die. You get what you deserve white boy."
Even though the victim had made it to the porch of his own home, the black youths rushed him, and burned his face in a huge fireball from the gasoline, fumes, and a pocket lighter. Will the lighter control activist groups take up this hate crime in earnest?
Unlike President Obama I actually am the father of both an African-American and a Caucasian son, if either of these crimes had been perpetrated against either of them, my outrage would've been the same--even equal.
But President Obama's selective outrage seems to follow the television cameras--and in this instance--the trail of rent-a-mobs that accompany Rev. Sharpton.
And as my new friend Cal said, "Ah yes, but it is an election year!"
... in 2005, blacks represented 13% of the U.S. population but accounted for nearly half of its murder victims. Most of the black murder victims — 93% —were killed by other black people.
http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/white_relief
In the audio of the 911 call, the dispatcher asks Zimmerman if he is following Martin. He says yes; and, the dispatcher replies “You don’t hve todo that”. The City Manager has posted a response to questions the city has received. In it, he states that this did not constitute a lawful order. Another question I don’t know the answer to...was this a 911 operator, or police dispatch. It makes a difference, when considering whether or not he violated a police order, since dispatch are usually uniformed and sworn officers...which is not always the case with 911.
Still not enough facts out to convict/absolve the shooter, but that statement is wrong in so many ways - since when can a 911 operator "order" anything with the force of law behind it?
Here’s a link to the pdf from the city manager’s office and the questions they answered:
http://www.sanfordfl.gov/investigation/docs/Zimmerman_Martin_shooting.pdf
Indeed, the above Obama gambit is also the idea and central theme behind Charles Manson's "Helter Skelter" plan.
I wonder just how detailed are the plans of Obama and Holder re: the achievement of this goal.
I second that thought. No need for hyphens. The sooner we treat people as people instead of members of ‘categories’, the sooner we’ll move toward becoming a fair and just society.
Ah, to have access to little barry bastard’s Blackberry! I have zero doubt that the obama-holder axis has plans to foment race riots, and incidents such as this tragedy are used as test cases, enlisting the vermin in media to fmoent as much hate and racial tension as they can, preparing for the ‘October surprise’ which will keep the little foreign bastard int he White Hut for the final solution to Soros’s plans for Amerika.
My comment to him...
If you can’t do a better job than this of getting the facts straight,
it would be best if you didn’t opine on the incident at all.
“If I (were man enough to have) had a son he’d look like Trayvon...” fixed it
If your life is in serious enough jeopardy that you feel a need to shoot someone, you're better off leaving the mess behind and then only calling the police to file criminal charges against the perp who assaulted you.
Earthling? That’s redundant, unless you believe in little green men from outer space.
“Eight days later, in the case of the child who was burned, the victim was white, the assailants black, the media silent, and the President indifferent.”
Why should we expect this president to care about the death of a victim who did not look like he could be his own son? Obama’s statement and the way he framed the issue spoke volumes about his flagrant race-baiting mentality.
We can only imagine the furor that would have been ignited had GWB weighed in on a similar tragic death of a white teen and alluded to his looking like his own son (as if that somehow were at all relevant to the situation and how the public should view it).
“You don’t hve to do that”.
1. It’s not an order, it’s a comment.
2. An order would be: “Sir, stay at you vehicle until the police arrive.”
So my original comment stands, there are so many stories and misconceptions being placed into the whole incident bu the media and others. This has risen to the point of match on fuse and the explosion is going to be unbelievable.
FWIW, 911 dispatchers/operators have no police powers and can not lawfully order anybody to do anything. That’s all a canard and legally has no bearing on the guilt or innocence of Zimmerman.
I'm-afraid-you're-right bump. But actually it's a bit worse, since the _resident has now signaled clearly, with the New Black Panther Party voter-intimidation case and his taking sides in this furore, that there is a new sheriff in town, and white persons who defend themselves against black felons can expect rough treatment at the hands of My People's Race Man in Chief.
He is propagating the message that whites have an affirmative duty to take it in the neck from any black perpetrator. Or, in Zimmermann's case, to take it in the face.
Fixed it.
I accept your fix in the spirit in which it was intended.
Have a good night and a better day tomorrow.
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Stay safe.
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