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Rumblings of 'lynchings' over Trayvon verdict
WorldNetDaily ^ | July 5, 2013 | Jack Cashill

Posted on 07/05/2013 1:34:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

More than a year ago, noted Republican commentator Pat Buchanan warned that the outcome of the Trayvon Martin case, in which neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman is on trial for murder, could provoke rioting.

“The public mind has been so poisoned that an acquittal of George Zimmerman could ignite a reaction similar to that, 20 years ago, when the Simi Valley jury acquitted the LAPD cops in the Rodney King beating case,” he warned.

It seems he may have been right.

WND reported earlier in the week that police in Sanford, Fla., where the trial is being held, already were going door-to-door, apparently trying to prevent any violent reaction to the jury verdict when it is reached.

But a number of bloggers and watchers say there are not-so-subtle rumblings of violence developing.

On the Mr. Conservative blog, Twitter threats were reproduced in abundance.

“If Zimmerman don’t go to jail ill kill him for $20,” said one.

“Gimme me tha pistol ill kill Zimmerman myself,” said another.

“If George Zimmerman win I’m gonna kill a fat white boy dat look lik George Zimmerman I swear,” said a third.

“This is despicable and seriously frightening,” wrote blogger Kristin Tate. “There is no way this would be tolerated if the threats from whites were against a black man.”

Zimmerman is on trial for the shooting death of Martin, a teen he said attacked him and pinned him to the ground, delivering blows to his head. Zimmerman said he pulled his weapon and fired at Martin, killing him, in self-defense.

The blog reported thousands were threatening to riot should Zimmerman not be determined guilty by a jury....

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; internet; racism; trayvon; trayvonstroops; zimmerman
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To: ransomnote

PS: From the perspective of one who believes alot of the twitter threats are intended to establish psychological dominance - I sometimes think it’s unwise for OPs to react to them with concern - it doesn’t do any good, no one cares (in the gov) what happens to us and it emboldens the couch potatoes to apply more verbal threats. What would happen if their threats got no response? I don’t think it would stroke their ego as much - they may riot anyway but not because people didn’t write articles saying “Oh No! Listen to what they are going to DO to us if we resist!”


61 posted on 07/05/2013 5:33:24 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Got to be alert for the ‘Hispanics’ rioting if Z is convicted.
At least the “White’ Hispanics.

But the riots will have to be spread out as ‘they’ will not miss work just for the chance to riot, which means riots will more than likely be in the evening.

Best time to lay a ‘riot’ on Blacks is before 11AM as you will probably catch the ones that would tend to riot still in bed.

These things take planning, you know.


62 posted on 07/05/2013 5:39:45 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --Inside every 'older' man there is a 'younger' man wondering "WTF happened")
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To: sargon

I can only speak truly for myself here but from the Freepers that I have met and those whose post I have followed most seem to have similar beliefs to mine. Namely a strong aversion to violence but equally strong aversion to pacifism. All those in the black community that you are worried about have nothing to fear from me and those like me, we will walk away if we can. Only if we can’t walk away then and only then we will fight till the threat to us and our loved ones is neutralized.


63 posted on 07/05/2013 5:43:09 PM PDT by Okimi2200 (Semper Fi to the constitution not the white house)
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To: ConservativeInPA

We may be approaching a national “Skidmore moment”.


64 posted on 07/05/2013 5:46:43 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: dsc

The very fact that there IS a trial is proof we don’t have Rule of Law anymore. This is rule of The Mob.

The only problem is that there are no White or Hispanic Sharptons, Jesse jacksons...there is no Hispanic Panthers.

If Zimmerman gets convicted, there will be no Hispanic or white riots. There weren’t even any demonstrations, marches or T-shirts when they arrested him. Whites and Hispanics don’t “mob”...THAT’s what its about!


65 posted on 07/05/2013 6:31:29 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Will Freepr combat)
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To: ransomnote

If Zimmerman’s found guilty - when it’s obvious he’s not - it’s going to change more than neighborhood watch programs. It’ll set race relations back for years.


66 posted on 07/05/2013 7:47:00 PM PDT by GOPJ ((MSNBC?)... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: ransomnote

One approach to evil is to pretend it doesn’t exist. One approach is to pretend if we were just nicer, evil would stop. Might be time to feed the unicorns.


67 posted on 07/05/2013 7:50:04 PM PDT by GOPJ ((MSNBC?)... liberal anger - - the privileged wheeze of entitled brats ... Greenfield)
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To: thorvaldr

Indeed. The Men’s Warehouse in SF found out that signs in the windows aligning themselves with Occupy SF didn’t matter.


68 posted on 07/05/2013 8:13:37 PM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: dsc

The media started all this crap. They’re still pissed off the Duke lacrosse team wasn’t put against a wall and shot. They were seething and waiting for something else to come along. Now they have it, and they aren’t going to be denied. They have been hinting that there should be riots if Zimmerman is found innocent of murder or manslaughter. If he’s found innocent, those hints will turn into open calls for riots. Then there is the crap-for-brains preezy who stuck his nose into it with his “if i had a son, he would look like po lil Trayvon” crap.


69 posted on 07/05/2013 8:49:43 PM PDT by chessplayer
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I had a son, he’d be like George Zimmerman.


70 posted on 07/05/2013 8:53:34 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: ransomnote

I bet they travel in groups of two or three from now on.


71 posted on 07/05/2013 8:58:48 PM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: mrsmel

So keep an eye out for the MSM talking heads & shoot at them to let them know that they can be gotten to as well.


72 posted on 07/05/2013 9:03:11 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: GOPJ

I am not suggesting that we need to be nicer and I am not pretending evil doesn’t exist. Perhaps I am not explaining this well or perhaps we just don’t agree.
I’ve spent some time on another forum wherein sociopathic trolls spend unimaginable amounts of time antagonizing normal people for sport. Talking about the trolls fed their sociopathy and drove them to greater ‘heights’ of antagonism - all without ever getting off the couch. THey were able to disrupt and disturb people verbally. It was a long hard lesson for us because they were tolerated and we felt motivated by decency to confront them - but online confrontation is a different battle field and the venom that we put in our posts ‘fed’ them what they wanted. We are not violent sociopaths so ‘forceful’ posting was fatiguing for us but it was refreshment for them. What I came to recognize is the pleasure that they got thinking of ways to rattle us and then reading all our responses (oh joy). THe online battle requires different strategy.

How do you respond to a bully? SHow fear? That’s what some of these posts do in my opinion. “They are coming to get us!” is DELIGHTFUL for sociopaths and race baiters to read.
I think there is a core of violent types who will indeed take to the streets and they are recruiting all the time and they can point to some threads and posts and say “See how scared they are?” How do you think they respond when they see public “worry” about what they might do next? They love it and they threaten more. And then they show their friends the response their tweeets or online threats receive and their friends then post to out do them.

Some people reading of online worries can’t wait for a piece of that and they join in - even if they don’t plan to get off the couch and riot - it’s too much fun threatening people and seeing their threats and posts retweeted with concern. Don’t you think they read the web to see if their threats are repeated elsewhere? Aren’t they working to craft the threats that get the biggest response? There’s narcissism and sociopathy at play here and I’d rather not feed it. I am not saying “They won’t do it - it’s just a threat.” I am saying there’s a portion of the stuff going around that is a delicious head game for the perps. Riot organizer types are trying to shift the numbers in their favor - they want to motivate those who like head games to actually take a baseball bat to the street - but how to entice the lazy, sociopathic cowards from getting off the couch when bragging of your riot prowess and reading frightened responses is so much fun? Show them frantic posts of concern and claim that it would be easy - the cream puffs are already scared just READING threats etc.

Yes - I believe they have ramped up enough by now, with the help of the media, that they will riot in part because they want to teach us that we’d better think again next time. But why lose the online head game to them?

LEt’s say they say they are going to riot and hurt LOTS of people. Then they eagerly log on to see what kind of response they got. What kind of response to give them? Post to each other that you are organizing to film riot participants surreptitiously (yeah a lame expample but go with it) and organize to pressure congress to strip participants of welfare, organizing a centralized private website harvesting threatening tweets/posts etc. to assist law enforcement or think of some other response THEY DON’T WANT or is it better that posts dwell on how awful it’s going to be - which is what they want?

The posts that calmly say “Yeah well I am tired of it, bring it” are more effective in the head game because it says “yeah blah blah blah blah” and strips the couch rider of the fear response without their being able to imply that they are being provoked - it’s clearly a calm, determined response that doesn’t feed their ego or escalate.
Some angry posts unintentionally escalate feed the other side because threats from our side ‘suddenly’ seem like just words and they shift to “Yeah? Prove it”

Maybe the simplest way I can express this is to say that avoiding fearful contemplation online (in public forums )of what they will do next or using their failed tactics (I GONNA BREAK YOUR HEAD OPEN!) are less effective than the walk softly carry a big stick, uh huh so bring it, or “well if they really want to go to jail let’s help put them there” and pointing, perhaps, to the failure of Obama and noting that any and all race riots could have been avoided by The Won tsk tsk tsk....if he were at all qualified for office. Yes - let’s talk about leadership and what our government is doing to respond to the obvious signs of organizing and threats of riot. What are our congressmen doing, what does Obama have to say about that over due discussion of race. Let’s get Sharpton on recod as saying he approves and condones and is helping to organize riots OR ask him to show the public that he has any standing in the community to bring about a reasoned response - if SHarpton is truly helpless to address the riots in their planning stages then lets organize to exclude him from megaphone opportunities and tacit social acceptance he presently has (e.g., formal one week boycott of channels who film him commenting on how it’s gonna be UGLY if we don’t find Zim guilty) and any others who have too much on the balance sheet (lots of credit toward fanning race riots and professed inability to do anything about it) Yeah you can see I don’t have a solid strategy but I just needed to try to present the idea that the strategy must be different to be effective.


73 posted on 07/05/2013 9:06:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: GOPJ

Why do you think that the FBI didn’t write these threats ? We literally have a federal Dept. of Justice that is a Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization aka RICO for short .


74 posted on 07/05/2013 9:13:54 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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To: ransomnote

I definitely agree with that point-it’s disgusting to see articles where the potential of rioting is given any credence whatsoever as a factor to be considered in the guilt or innocence of a man. I’d hate to be the innocent citizen whose life is sacrificed to the blackmail of potential riots, when if we only had a government with spine and ethics (and a lack of racism towards whites) the rioters would be the ones dealt with, as they are the lawbreakers and the ones bringing harm to the larger community, and trying to hold our judicial system hostage.


75 posted on 07/05/2013 9:15:16 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie
If Zimmerman gets convicted, there will be no Hispanic or white riots. There weren’t even any demonstrations, marches or T-shirts when they arrested him. Whites and Hispanics don’t “mob”...THAT’s what its about!

Excellent point. Neither did we riot when OJ walked.
76 posted on 07/05/2013 9:17:14 PM PDT by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: ransomnote

Remember the Trayvon spectacle is all about building a narrative that can be exploited politically. They could care less about this kid. His life is a means to an end for them.

Couch warriors? Wide battlefield there for sure. Come to think of it, exploiting a politically popular narrative is also how most people end up with kids conceived on the couch.


77 posted on 07/05/2013 9:24:58 PM PDT by SteelTrap
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To: SteelTrap
They could care less about this kid.

How much less?

78 posted on 07/05/2013 9:25:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: SteelTrap

I had a few minutes to think on the drive home and I am wondering, what impact (if any) might it have if Repubs signed the progressive petition to have the Nobel prize recinded or returned by Obama on the basis of presiding over race riots without comment?
I thought I read somewhere that the progs were routing a petition re the Nobel Peace Prize because of Obama’s drone policy and war etc. Would it be ‘worth it’ to rally conservatives to sign that same petition on the basis of Obamas domestic war record? The community organizer has taken steps to polarize the races and is quick to cause problems (”The police acted stupidly”) and quicker still to turn his back (Haven’t heard a peep out of him re riots following trials - no calls for peace at home, brotherhood etc.) Just wonderin’. Lots of officials with lots of egos in play and no leadership - somewhere there is an opportunity to hold ‘leadership’ responsible for failure to lead.


79 posted on 07/05/2013 10:05:36 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: sargon

I am referring to the small contingent of provocateurs.
Not the 95% who aren’t making threats.
On both sides.


80 posted on 07/06/2013 1:17:17 AM PDT by Thumper1960 (A modern so-called "Conservative" is a shadow of a wisp of a vertebrate human being.)
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