Posted on 03/25/2012 7:17:09 PM PDT by Nachum
Above is the iconic picture we’ve been become accustomed to seeing everywhere in the media, used to represent the recent Trayvon Martin shooting in Sanford, Florida. From everything the public has been told, Trayvon Martin was a fresh-faced, innocent looking teenager and the visage of the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, is right out of a booking photo.
The media narrative being sold is quite clear, Trayvon Martin is the innocent victim here and George Zimmerman is a horrible bigot who attacked the young man for doing nothing more than buying skittles while being black. Even Barack Obama seems to accept the fresh-faced innocence of Trayvon, stating, “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” More on that later.
It’s becoming more and more clear however that the innocent appearance the mainstream media is so desperate to apply to Trayvon isn’t at all accurate. The picture we’re used to seeing to represent Trayvon Martin appears to be a far cry from how he actually looked once he was a few years older.
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I was an atheist when I was young.
We’re in the realm where those rebellious against God go to learn. Naturally there are many poor students here.
Things go in cycles.
Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
I know.
Remember the attack on Rush Limbaugh a couple of weeks ago after he inferred that the 30-year-old Democrat activist student from Georgetown was a "slut" because she wanted other people to pay for her contraception? That attack plan had reportedly been sitting in a drawer at Media Matters since 2009, just waiting for a Rush gaffe so that the plan could be set into motion.
Similarly, somebody had a plan for a juicy "race" blowup sitting in a drawer just waiting for the right story to come along. Well, a promising story came along and after making sure they had a sympathetic black and an unsympathetic non-black with a good white-sounding name, a few journolisters got their ears whispered into and voila!, the Democrat "mainstream" newsrooms had their wish fulfilled, the agitprop commenced, and a "race" blowup is now in full swing.
What gas prices? What unemployment? What economy?
Look at what that "white" gun-nut redneck did to an innocent young teen who was "walking while black" on his way home with a bag of Skittles!
Meanwhile, 10 more bodies piled up in Chicago last weekend alone.
I don’t know if you’re being serious or sarcastic, please forgive me.
Please know that I don’t really want that particular pic to be him at all, because if it is him it means the world I live in is garbage and nothing means anything.
But I don’t know what else to say other than I am looking at it right just as I have done about 50 other times this evening, and the mark is there. It’s there.
Not certain, all I know is that there was a laceration at that location on his body.
Meanwhile, on this week’s The Good Wife, the storyline coincidentally revolved around a black guy who was shot by a white police officer in Chicago. The white cop planted a drop gun on the black guy in order to justify him shooting the guy. The drop gun had been used in a robbery two years before, and the dead guy was not likely to have had the gun. But authorities ignored the possibility that the cop planted the gun because there was not enough evidence. The show was an illustration of political corruption of the entire justice system. In Chicago. And fear of race riots if the story got out.
God Bless you, little jeremiah.
I’m ground down tonight man. I went looking for answers, I found them, and I’m crushed by them. I wasn’t expecting this result.
Nothing has any meaning, I don’t know what to do, I don’t know who to fight or how to fight them. God in Heaven, I feel lost.
Well, some things still have meaning, such as love. And music. When I get this down I listen to music that takes me back to when things were better. For me it was the 80’s when I grew up.
Gonna listen to some damn obnoxious hippies that made one of the best songs I’ve ever heard in all my years. It really picks me up.
Anyone wants to join me here’s where I’ll be for a fashion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LaCsoaV_go
I’ll repeat what I just posted on another thread.
Pray for George Zimmerman. Because while I started out thinking he was an evil doer, I now think that he, like Trayvon Martin, was a foolish doer.
Perhaps he can move now to his mother’s homeland Peru, and start a new life there.
Makes Perfect sense to me. Sad that we now think in these types of scenarios.
Something else, this ‘Stand Your Ground’ law is being attacked by all the usual suspects. There’s even a story in the UK Daily Mail about someone who ‘in FL, survived the horror of the Stand Your Ground law’.
More hotbutton issues are right here in this one story; race, guns,. Chucky Schmucky Schumer was on one of the shows today whining in that serious tone of his about taking another look at that law.
Lord, please Bless and stand guard over George Zimmerman and his family. They are in danger from people who know not what they do nor why they do it. Please do not let us fall so low that we as humans murder an innocent man simply because he had no choice but to defend himself from his attacker.
Lord, Give us your guidance and wisdom so that we may see truth and not lies.
Amen.
Doesn’t matter what the court says, doesn’t matter whether Zimmerman is innocent, if he is not found guilty and given the death penalty the towns will be burned down. Part of the plan.
I could come up with a GREAT conspiracy theory on this one. The timing for this is just too suspect.
I found a beautiful and uplifting song the other day and I’ve been listening to it almost constantly esp. when on FR.
God is the Perfect Judge, Perfect Bestower of Mercy, Perfect Friend, perfect everything.
Everything works out ultimately according to His will. Our business is to find His will and mold ourselves to it. Many do not and never will in this lifetime. So be it. Each of us has our own destiny to work on.
I’ve been betrayed by my children, parents, old friends, etc. That’s the way the world works. Sometimes you can forgive and still have a working relationship or better, sometimes you can forgive and go a separate path.
Trouble ahead for the world, I am sure. But each soul - each of us - can find that secret place deep in our hearts where it’s just me and God - and find His love and embrace inside, where no one else can see. That is the purpose of life. To find that love of God, even in the midst of the storm. My deepest wish is that everyone seek that love.
“Trouble ahead for the world, I am sure. But each soul - each of us - can find that secret place deep in our hearts where it’s just me and God - and find His love and embrace inside, where no one else can see. That is the purpose of life. To find that love of God, even in the midst of the storm. My deepest wish is that everyone seek that love.”
Quoted because the depth of this truth brought tears to my eyes.
Good night, little jeremiah, thank you.
“... 6:30PM, big difference.
...
Again, the encounter lasted about 7 minutes, and ended when sun was still up.”
Actually sunset in Sanford on the 26th was 6:22 pm:
http://www.sunrisesunset.com/calendar.asp
Yes, I realized my mistake after I posted. But wouldn’t it still be daylight?
Thank you for the opportunity to help me remember the truth; all this changing stuff is lessons - chances to learn how to take the real shelter God offers every one of us.
In the midst of the storm.
May God bless us all.
Also police responding were using flashlights as evidenced in at least one 911 call.
And i can’t vouch for this, but its been said here on fr, that it was at least somewhat rainy, so possibly some cloud cover making it darker.
This is so frustrating. When making a statement of “supposed facts” the first thing you need to do is read the official police report.
Per the released police report;
The first officer arrived at the scene at 1917 hrs, (7:17 PM), 26 Feb, 2012. Zimmerman was approached by the officer, relayed to the officer that he was the person that called 911, had shot Martin and was still armed. He was disarmed by the officer, cuffed and placed in the back of the patrol vehicle. The officer noted that Zimmerman had injuries to his nose, (bleeding), and the back of his head and that his back was wet and had grass on it.
When paramedics arrived they relieved the two other responding officers of the CPR duties and eventually pronounced Martin deceased, (1930 hrs).
Zimmerman was treated for his wounds in the back of the patrol vehicle and during that period of time he made a voluntary, unsolicited statement that “I was yelling for someone to help me, but no one would help me”.
The officer stated that he later transported Zimmerman to the police station and he was interviewed in the interrogation room by a member of Investigations, (the name of the investigator is stated in the report, but not the division/section he is from).
All the misinformation out there, including this article are pure speculation or purposely made up/slanted.
Until the full investigation is complete, no one knows the truth, but the police report is, at this time, the best unbiased recitation of the facts in the public domain.
I implore everyone to stick to known facts and don’t speculate. There is enough B.S. out there on this case already.
“I mean this happened Feb 26 right? What caused this to erupt? (do you know?)”
Well, we watched the McLaughlin Group this morning and one of the guests said that this case had been discussed in the black media, on radio shows, etc. That this was what had finally brought attention to it.
I’m sorry that I don’t remember her name. She’s been on McLaughlin before and she’s usually pretty good, but she was rather exercised about this subject. She said that black Americans are starting to think of Travon Martin as this generation’s Emmit Till.
Rich Lowry of National Review was on the show too and he told her he thought that was a bit of a stretch.
So this story has been percolating in sections of our new niche-media.
I guess the sticking point is that Zimmerman was not arrested or charged at all. That enables the narrative to be: guy shot an unarmed kid and got away with it.
Peaceful music... :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QL8lQU_1a-w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Et6BSDMNLY&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlCnVdTdygs&feature=fvst
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