Obama is stoking racial tensions to get reelected - Page 3

It seems to me that Zimmerman triggered a series of events that resulted in a shooting. If they can find evidence that he planned on "getting someone" before that night they could charge him with something. If he doesn't have enough evidence that he was attacked then he could have a hard time arguing self defense.

Forgetting the legality of it for a moment it's just incredibly stupid. To me it would seem that if you are conceal carrying it would be in your best interest to avoid confrontation even more than if you were not carrying. The consequences of shooting someone are enormous. Most likely you'll lose your job, how do you go back to school, how do you sleep at night, how does it change your relationship with family, friends, neighbors? You'll get sued in civil court. That will cost you tens of thousands even if you win.


All Zimmerman had to do was stick to his own house and worry about his own family. If others on the street are in danger ... they can get their own guns. It's their problem. All he had to do was pack some pepper spray or maybe just leave it alone.

All this support for Zimmerman, the alleged killer, is unreal.

Now imagine if it had been a security guard named Zaheer, Zubaida, or Zulfiqar? The media and certain folks in here would be screeching that TERRORISM had reached our homes and gated communities. Patriot Act III would be on Obama's desk already.

It must be nice to just make up nonsense. I'll tell you what, why don't you go find all the posts about Fort Hood on here where anyone demanded anything like what you allege would happen for a much lesser offense.

Exploiting someone's death is a no-no in itself, but in a pure capitalist society, where profit trumps principle every time, literally anything is liable to be the target of opportunists and parasites. The corporate media has exploited this incident heavily - advertisers are undoubtedly loving the ratings boom - and nobody;'s complianing about that!

And the circus continues.

Elderly couple abandons their home after address is posted on Twitter as that of George Zimmerman

Your point is moot as no thread was initiated on the subject; it wasn't discussed.

However, the Fort Hood event generated a huge amount of hysteria nationwide; in a nation of regular serial killings with guns, this one happened to be committed someone with an Arabic name... so it was automatically classified, on a knee-jerk, as a terrorist incident, whereas all the others are merely "crimes". And as usual, Lieberman and Fox News were the first to spew...

The whole premise that Obama was stoking racial tensions because he said his kid might look like Trayvon is completely and utterly absurd, and only a racist can link race to such a statement.

The fact is, Obama was stoking familial tension. If you want to criticize that, fine.

If a white dude were killed when Bill Clinton was president and he said, "If I had a son, he might look like (John)," it would never have been questioned as being a race-related thing to say.

You think it's racist for Obama to say that because either:

1) Youre racist; or
2) You ejaculate at any chance you get to try to criticize Obama on any subject.

And it's funny how in half this thread one particular right wing poster (who shall remain unnamed) says that Zimmerman can't be racist because he's half Mexican, and then in the other half he says my friends aren't really minorities because they're only half Mexican, and Mexican is half white anyway....

Fucking retard.

To a racist, everything is racist.

Did a single person posting here support him? If so what specifically were the words of support?

By demonizing the deceased - before all the facts come out - one is effectively supporting the shooter. The rightwing media is already on this, by publishing faked pictures such as this, featuring a suited, smiling "respectable looking" Zimmerman, next to a kid with 'attitude' in prison-shade orange pants, stripped to the waist, underwear showing, with a 4 finger gesture. The problem here is that the kid in the picture is NOT Trayvon Martin.



The shooting happened over a month ago, and probably much information has been buried by now. The black media were on this case right away but for the corporate media, it wasn't a story.... until recently. Parts of the story we don't hear about are the most harrowing... the kid's mom, worried sick about her missing son repeatedly called the police every few hours, only to be told "don't know, maam". This went on for three days until she found out... and all the while, the kid's body was in the morgue... and the the cops claimed they didn't know?

Yeah. Right.

It isn't moot. The point is that you made a declaration that certain parties on the forums and certain news organizations would take certain actions.

ow imagine if it had been a security guard named Zaheer, Zubaida, or Zulfiqar? The media and certain folks in here would be screeching that TERRORISM had reached our homes and gated communities. Patriot Act III would be on Obama's desk already.

Yes so basically a mass shooting on a military base didn't even raise much of an eyebrow thereby showing your claims of paranoia and hysteria are nonsense.

What actions have taken place from Fort Hood? You declared that legislation would be passed. You make it sound like someone killing 13 and wounding 29 people, a total of 42 people, at a very large military base shouldn't even make someone blink or cause any concern. That's just nonsense. There was no hysteria, backlash or any other nonsense you've claimed. One link to a Huffington Post piece warning about the possibility of such actions is in no form the same as people taking those actions.

You're in a very sad place right now.



Nonsense, first of all Bill Clinton nor any of his surrogates could never say "Here's a white dude who was killed and it is proof of white male victim status, proof of white males being systematically being hunted and also proof of a white males being hunted" because none of them would ever seek victim status for white males. Obama has done this for every wedge group he wants to mobilize by claiming they've been victimized. If Clinton did say that about white male and specifically said that other racial groups were victimizing them, then it would indeed be use of race. The reality is race was injected into this by Obama and Democratic surrogates and it has no place in what happened. People saying rule of law, presumption of innocence, don't tell mobs you want someone dead or live, etc are not the racists here. Anyone who would say that is ignorant or worse just maliciously trying to exploit emotions.


The reality is that race is used different ways by different people. I was noting your friends are Caucasian. That is true. However in the United States we do not merely consider race to be a matter of skin but of ethnicity. In some parts of the world race is sometimes ONLY ethnicity. Japanese and Chinese do not consider themselves to be of the same race but they are indeed of the same race but are obviously different ethnicities. You know better than this and are just bitter that you were slapped down so badly for your bad logic.


Do you read your own links? Media Matters was having to apologize to Drudge because they claimed he ran a fake photo and he did no such thing. The photo you are linked to shows the absurdity of how the picture the media was running of Zimmerman was a mugshot from an arrest (or something similar) and the only photos they would run of Martin all were of him at age 11-12 as can clearly be seen by his lack of development in them. The reality is no one in the media were running recent photos of either party. So the photo is ironically noting how the media was spinning the story. You don't appear to catch the irony there.

Fox is really in a frenzy about Obama's comments. Now they have their "doctor" (I know many good doctors who would never say the crap this guy says) say that Martin would not have looked like Obama... just to delete any meaning from Obama's message.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1386547.html

Now they are trying to distort how we speak. Amazing.

New video is out.

Zimmerman at the police station soon after the incident.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1386764.html

The video presumably doesn't lie. There's no blood or bruises, as claimed, on Zimmerman. it looks like the guy was either outright lying, or he embellished his account regarding "being assaulted" by Martin. I guess he was scared witless, having just killed someone, and probably thought he was going to get charged with 2nd degree murder... and said all kinds of stuff to try to make out that it wasn't his fault.

Will the Fox etc. crew to claim that the video has been doctored?

The video is interesting for several reasons.

1) The officers are treating him fairly calmly and are not being especially careful around him. He is acting fairly calmly.

2) If Martin was above him when he fired, where is the blood?

3) Where is the blood from his nose which was supposedly hit?

4) Where are the signs of a scuffle?

5) If he had blood on him, why are the officers not wearing gloves?

Others, of course, but that's a start.

Good one!

So no one posting here huh?

An old saying in life is Mind Your Own Business.I would not want to be in Zimmerman's shoes at all .His life is tarnished now.

‘@KillZimmerman’ Twitter advocates violence against Martin’s killer



Somehow I think this is a little more incendiary than, oh, say...crosshair symbols on a map.

Hey don't worry everyone. Obama is going to go on TV and call out these bad actions and defuse the situation.

Oh c'mon. He's the President of the fucking United States. The leader of the entire free world. He has better things to do than to chime in on a single, local event like this.

Oh...wait...


Let's face it Obama is too stupid (or arrogant) to keep his mouth shut.

He did the same thing with that Georgetown professor a couple years which ended with the "Beer Summit." Granted, back then, his rhetoric hadn't evolved enough that he was making familial references ("Hey, that guy looks like he could have been my uncle.") in order to try and create some connective tissue between him and something bad that happened to another black person. I'm sure it's just that his narcissism is now in full bloom.

He's done it a few times. He either doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut or he truly thinks it is necessary for him to chime in on everything.

Well, we should any oil industry specific subsidies. But the timing of his remarks do appear to be dumb from a political strategy perspective.

Hilarious. The president should "keep his mouth shut". A phrase from the old south, I'm sure.

I guess the president shouldn't answer questions then. Because he didn't opt to comment on it on his own. Or maybe the press shouldn't bother the POTUS silly things like what's going on in his own country. How lame, right?

Yeah, actually. When what he says only detracts from the case or adds fuel to the fire. Fact is, he doesn't actually need to comment on everything, even when asked and sometimes it would be better if he didn't.

"Heartless out of touch ivory tower president rudely fails to comment on tragic shooting." -Parallel Universe MJ/SDW/Trumpet/Fox Echo Chamber

Stop projecting your own hypocrisy onto others putting imaginary words in their mouths.

Don't worry, if somebody were to charge them or file a complaint, the Justice Department led by the incompetent Eric Holder will simply dismiss it, just like they did with the voter intimidation case a while back.

Parents of murdered British students criticise Barack Obama

What's up Obama? You can't even bother to take 5 minutes out of your extremely busy schedule and you instead completely ignore three separate letters concerning two murdered British students in Florida?

I suppose that the British students were not wearing hoodies and the murderer was the wrong color and the British students didn't look like they could be Obama's sons.

Obama is an absolute disgrace. I also believe that he is a racist. Because a racist is somebody who treats different situations differently, solely based on the race of those involved.

"Mr Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.
"It would perhaps appear that Mr Obama sees no political value in facilitating such a request or that the lives of two British tourists are not worthy of ten minutes of his time."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ack-Obama.html

And so this gets to my point about his stupidity in knowing when to keep his mouth shut.

He comments on one case...where the victim is black...and now he's expected to comment on every other case or he looks like a calculating racist (which he may well be).

Personally rather than a racist, I think he's just a narcissist (plenty of other indications of this anyway)...and his comment on the Zimmerman/Martin case were born out of his narcissism.