Jay Smooth — always insightful and earnest — praises the movement for justice in the Trayvon Martin case, and points us forward to what’s next:
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Cheryl — May 2, 2012
eh, the following site has disclosed more facts and connected more dots than anywhere else I've seen, here's just one article:
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/04/30/update-13-the-trayvon-martin-shooting-the-julison-communications-racist-agenda-and-trail-to-washington-dc/
Within days of the shooting Martin's family hired a PUBLICIST to orchestrate the media firestorm in order to push a very one-sided agenda under the aupices of Al Sharpton. In retrospect, it's now obvious that from day One the entire goal of the Martin family has been to extort a large monetary settlement from the city of Sandford without ever going to trial -- for their version of events which they knew at the time was a lie!
Since the shooting there has been at least 21 separate incidents that I am aware of, in which black mobs have attacked white people merely for breathing while white but these reports never get beyond local news outlets, nor is the underlying racial resentment ever analyzed. Here's a few:
http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/?page_id=122
In my own city of Peoria Ill, about 50 black teenagers walked down the interrstate blocking traffic, pulling white people out of their cars and beating them. No mention of this at all in national news, especially the race of the perps. I realize not all blacks are like this, but too many of them are reminding me of men who beat their wives "because she started it first by nagging him". They can't tell the difference between words and fists. They're angry that racism exists and so they take out their frustration on the first white person they see! Please notice that all of this violence is committed by people who are angry at being profiled as violent. They're not victims, they're bullies who complain when their target refuses to "apologize" for causing them to react violently.
http://peoriachronicle.com/2011/06/25/peorians-living-in-fear/
Gilbert Pinfold — May 3, 2012
Eloquent and persuasive: I'm now convinced a fair trial is impossible. Some guy who admits he knows nothing about the facts thinks this is an important 'movement' to get behind.
WG — May 3, 2012
That was four minutes of emptiness. What does he offer in his analysis that is new?
Village Idiot — May 5, 2012
The trial is just to postpone the riots until the police can better prepare for the backlash for Zimmerman's ultimate acquittal.
Here's your "justice" for Trayvon: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-latest-in-the-mob-attack-on-the-man-in-ala-no-hate-crime-charges-victims-criminal-past/