Posted on 04/24/2012 1:37:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
I don't know why anyone would want to make an issue of this other than to throw out the ridiculous "coons" interpretation but the word that preceded 'effing' sounds like 'these' to me and has been reported as such by almost everyone. "These 'effing' cold" doesn't make much sense. Especially when it was probably over 60 degrees at the time. But I suppose in FL that might be considered cold.
Getting between me and exercising my franchise would be interesting.
The guy is a brilliant attorney to have if you go for an appeal. Totally brilliant. I’m guessing he expects they don’t have the backbone/integrity to find him not guilty and he is positioning himself.
You didn’ listen to the part that preceded the part you quoted she told Zimmerman to keep an eye on Martin not once but twice. If she had just told him twice to keep an eye on Martin, why would she then turn around and say we don’t
need to have you follow him,
It makes as much sense as Zimmerman making a racial comment to a person on the other end of the phone conversation, when he can’t tell the color of their skin. You may make an off color comment to a friend, but not to a stranger over the phone.
I listened to it several times. It does make sense that you would make a comment to yourself in a more hushed voice while on the phone. I do it all the time.
I think he said 'punks.' 'Punks' is not racial.
Punks was said at a completly different time of the tape. There were two comments in question. In the first after he gets out of the truck he said “Fn Cold”/NOT Fn Coons as the media first said.
Later he said “the punks always get away.”
Alan Dershowitz speaking from under the RAT bus.
George Zimmerman 911 call about Trayvon Martin UnRedacted
The first thing along those lines that he says is "These assholes they always get away" and he is speaking directly to the dispatcher at about 1:41 in the recording. George gets out of his truck at about 2:10. The dispatcher asks "which entrance" and George says to himself "these 'effing' punks" at 2:23. It is after that that the dispatcher asks if he is following Trayvon. See for yourself.
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George Zimmerman could end up being the American “Breaker Morant”.
Classically, a liberal was someone who espoused personal liberty, as opposed to state control. The Founders were all liberals in that sense. “The liberal arts” were based on free inquiry and pursuit of knowledge without preconceived strictures. It is only in the past few decades that the term has become perverted into the fascistic PC mold we see today.
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