“Thanks! This was the first Trayvon thread I followed closely, and I was trying to come up to speed. It’s amazing how much misinformation is going around. For instance, just up thread a poster claimed Wagist has retracted the Trayvon-swung-at-a-bus-driver tweet story. No, they haven’t. Wagist has backed off the *tone* of some of their prior stories, but they stand by all their facts. Fwiw.”
Thanks Fantasy, saved me from wasting time dealing with Anglian. BTW, did you see where he changed his NO_LIMIT_NIGGA twitter account in Dec 2011. Details on his new account made the news today and included one tweet that him advising someone to shoot someone else for lying? See http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/29/second-trayvon-martin-twitter-feed-identified/ I still think Martin was a wannabe gangster.
JC
Here's some more from WAGIST you might enjoy.
Wagist Editor-in-Chief Joshua Vogel
Progressives, it’s time to go buy your guns. by Joshua Vogel September 10, 2011
I’m a liberal (or progressive, if you prefer the term). I’ve always had mixed feelings about gun ownership.
So I spent the next few days thinking about the state of nation, and imaging what America is going to look like in a few years. If Obama stays in power without a liberal Congress, things will be much the same for years to come: political gridlock and slowly worsening conditions for the middle class.
If the Republicans take back the executive branch, then political gridlock is the best we can hope for. If they’re able to get traction with their radical fiscal policies, they’ll keep feeding our money to corporations, banks and the ultra-wealthy. The middle class will shrink. More of us will fall into poverty, and with fewer people buying any products, even the large corporations will start to buckle and fail.
To be fair, most folks were just there to talk about guns, and play with guns, and buy new gadgets to affix to their guns. Their comfort and knowledge of firearms made me feel nervous. I was in store full of 50+ people who didn’t feel at all shy about expressing their distain for liberals and “socialists”. All of them, I’m convinced, would have had no trouble gunning me down in an honest firefight.
I went into that store to buy a gun to protect my family in the event of a riot. I walked out feeling very nervous that if their actually was major social upheaval in the United States, a lot of angry conservatives would have no problem forming an organized militia, and they wouldn’t have a whole lot of sympathy for the scores of unarmed “socialist” progressives out there.
http://www.wagist.com/2011/joshua-vogel/progressives-it%E2%80%99s-time-to-go-buy-your-guns
I had not seen that. Thanks for the update.
Sounds to me as if Trayvon was in trouble. Each of his lengthier suspensions was for a more serious offense. The rap lyrics he chose to post gloried raw hate and violence. And what about the backback loaded w jewelry and a ‘flat head’ screwdriver for which he wasn’t even investigated? His parents’ reaction to that news is very disturbing. When your child is drifting into trouble, you can react at least one of two ways. (1) acknowledge the problem and potential risks and do something about it. (2) deny, deny deny.
It appears they chose (2). Very sad.