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I just heard this on the local news tonight.
1 posted on 05/14/2012 2:30:41 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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Zimmerman defended himself against someone who was trying to kill him. If Martin had been white, he wouldn't be facing any charges at all. Because Martin was black, and because Zimmerman was falsely reported to be white, he's facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison.

Anyway, only whites can be guilty of hate crimes. Zimmerman is part black. How can he be guilty of a hate crime against another black person?

The only profiling Zimmerman did was to notice that this person, whose race he wasn't aware of at the time, was acting like someone casing an empty residence to burglarize it. The idea that racial profiling was involved was created by ABC's mendacious editing of the dispatcher tape, and by Martin's girlfriend's reconstruction of their conversation days after the event.

Having the FBI involved increases Obama's ability to exploit this politically, it seems to me. It's now a federal case.

28 posted on 05/14/2012 2:44:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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Here we go again....The media exaggerating something. The FBI might be investigating, but, at this point, it is not "seeking to charge" Zimmerman. There is nothing in this story that verifies anything other than they are trying to get at the truth of what really took place that night. The media always jumps to conclusions that favor the Liberal, hate filled, brain dead.

How could a man, who has stood up for and defended Blacks in the past, has a partially black racial background, and who has appeared genuinely sorry that Trayvon is dead, be considered guilty of a hate crime? I am so tired of the truths of this case being swept under the rug while the lies, hatred and animosity are being encouraged by the Liberal media, Democrat politicians, and anti-White prejudiced groups.

30 posted on 05/14/2012 2:45:32 PM PDT by CitizenM (Obama - The architect of the decline of the U.S.)
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“profiled and stalked 17-year-old Trayvon Martin before killing him”

I realize stalking actually is a crime, though he’s not charged with it. They have a rather loose definition of stalking in this case, as it apparently is no different than following. But do you notice how they slipped “profiled” in there, as if profiling is in itself bad? Since when can’t private citizens profile eachother?

I realize it’s supposed to be bad for cops to profile. But first of all it’s not, and they very well couldn’t do their jobs without it. What’s bad is when they violate rights by stopping, searching, arresting, etc. without probable cause on the basis of profiling alone. But then, as you’ll notice, the bad thing is not profiling, but warrantless search seizure, arrest, etc.

Now, police forces may make rules against profiling in the interest of curtailing warrantless whatevers, but that’s a bureaucratic thing. And anyway, it has nothing to do with the professionalism of your average Nightwatch Joe, mostly because he’s not a professional. It also has nothing to do with the law, which is what we’re supposed to be concerned about here.


33 posted on 05/14/2012 2:45:41 PM PDT by Tublecane
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If this isn’t”Bovine Scatology”,I don’t know what is!How do you establish whether a “crime”is a Hate Crime”?????????????


37 posted on 05/14/2012 2:49:06 PM PDT by bandleader
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Congratulations, Zer0, you just bought Romney my vote. I’m now convinced that there is a difference, however slight, between two left-wing pandering scumbags.


40 posted on 05/14/2012 2:50:55 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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And just whne you think the press can not be any stupider. Zimmerman is charged with 2nd degree murder. Being charged with a hate crime no matter how offensive that is to lefties IN THE THE CHARGES ABOUT TO BECOME MORE SERIOUS.


41 posted on 05/14/2012 2:51:16 PM PDT by JLS (How to turn a recession into a depression: elect a Dem president with a big majorities in Congress))
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One of the cool things about America used to be that we had neither political criminals nor thought crimes. Looks like O and Eric are fixin’ to change that. Lacking any evidence, they’re working frantically to invent a motive. We’ve fallen far.


43 posted on 05/14/2012 2:51:28 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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Now that blacks are annoyed with the gay thing, they need to fire them up
up again


46 posted on 05/14/2012 2:52:24 PM PDT by MNDude
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They can prosecute all they want, we’re going to defend ourselves, anyway. I mean, if you’re attacked and you have no choice, what are you supposed to do?


47 posted on 05/14/2012 2:52:29 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Socialism isn't going to work this time, either.)
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Keep it up ERIC! How about those 2 souls in Knoxville 3 years ago. Let’s see that information hit the MSM. I am sick and tired of this BS Administration.


48 posted on 05/14/2012 2:52:39 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/?)
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The Justice Department under Holder would have to prosecute the alleged hate crime and I would think Holder would have to sign off on the charge when the FBI concludes its investigation. The investigation is for politically correct reasons to placate a certain constituency. However, any prosecution pressed by Holder for a hate crime is going to wreak havoc with white independents and bluedog Dems and white working class Dems not to mention hispanics. I do not think Obama is stupid enough to unleash the junkyard dog he has running Justice on this one. But then again he is the same guy who was going to try Khalid Mohammed in NY...


50 posted on 05/14/2012 2:53:22 PM PDT by chuckee
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Obama is directly behind this one.


52 posted on 05/14/2012 2:54:02 PM PDT by Revel
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WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said federal prosecutors would have to prove the hate crime to charge Zimmerman, though.

Sheaffer's wrong. All they have to do is file the charge based on their own belief. To CONVICT him, they have to prove it.

57 posted on 05/14/2012 2:58:12 PM PDT by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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Can the FBI actually charge somone with a crime? Don’t they have to investigate and turn the affair over to the DOJ? Perhaps this is just a technicality, but technicalities are big in cases like these.


59 posted on 05/14/2012 3:00:17 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (A conservative, a liberal and a moderate walk into a bar. Bartender says "what'll it be, Mitt?")
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Could someone please tell me the name of ANY Black person that has been prosecuted by the FBI for a "Hate Crime", against a white victim, anywhere?
60 posted on 05/14/2012 3:03:21 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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Anything to avoid talking about the economy.

War on Women.

War on minorities.

War on gays.

Racist hate crime.

-PJ

64 posted on 05/14/2012 3:07:22 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you can vote for President, then your children can run for President.)
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But isn't George Zimmerman Black himself?

Or Black Peruvian?

Or Black-White-Hispanic?

BTW: Why "White-Hispanic" anyway? Wouldn't "White-Latino" be the more correct term? Or does he not deserve that?

71 posted on 05/14/2012 3:12:49 PM PDT by x
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If it was an elderly black man, or a black woman of any age, walking through the Zimmerman’s community there most likely would not have been any confrontation at all.


72 posted on 05/14/2012 3:13:00 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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If the FBI charges Zimmerman, Obama will get less than 40% of the vote. This was only self-defense. If the FBI gets involved in this, people will see clearly whatn is going on and Obama is done.


74 posted on 05/14/2012 3:14:08 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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Interesting. I’ve read that there were more than a few burglaries, etc in the neighborhood prior to this event with black males found to be the perps. So, he’s on patrol and a black male is hanging around, etc. How can that possibly be a hate crime, given the criminal history in the neighborhood?


75 posted on 05/14/2012 3:14:08 PM PDT by unique1
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