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Regarding the George Zimmerman case, Obama wants us to believe the same misinformation that most of the media have been spreading for the past year and a half: That Trayvon Martin had just been innocently traipsing along on his way back from the 7-11 on the fateful night in question, and that the whole thing would have been avoided if not for the tendency by people like George Zimmerman to “profile” young black males such as Martin.
It has not seemed to penetrate the minds of Obama, Eric Holder, or any of the media talking heads just exactly why Zimmerman found Martin suspicious, despite the existence of ample recorded statements and police interviews in which Zimmerman explains it thoroughly.
Even Bill O’Reilly, in his recent heated tirade directed at Obama’s disgusting and divisive speech from last week, made the egregious error of saying the following: ”Trayvon Martin was killed because circumstances got out of control. He was scrutinized by a neighborhood watchman, George Zimmerman, because of the way he looked. Not necessarily his skin color, there is no evidence of that but because he was a stranger to Zimmerman and was dressed in clothing sometimes used by street criminals. It was wrong for Zimmerman to confront Martin based on his appearance.”
Why the heck do Obama, Sharpton, O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, and the rest of them get away with spreading this nonsense?
First off, the evidence in the trial all supported Zimmerman’s insistence that he did not confront Martin–in fact, everything points to it being the other way around, that Martin stalked and accosted/attacked Zimmerman.
Second, Zimmerman made it perfectly clear that his reasons for calling the police about Martin had at least as much to do with what Martin was actually doing as with Martin matching the profile of those committing previous break-ins in the neighborhood.
Besides noting that Martin appeared to be “up to no good” and “on drugs or something,” and giving the police dispatcher basic information about Martin’s sketchy behavior, Zimmerman later described repeatedly and in detail how Martin was loitering around the area and looking intently at the houses, especially at one house which had already been the site of a prior attempted break-in.
When Zimmerman first observed Martin, the teenager was actually in the grassy yard in front of that house, instead of on the nearby sidewalk–it was raining, and it seemed especially suspicious to Zimmerman that instead of making his way along the sidewalk as if he had a destination to get to, and to get out of the rain, Martin was standing close to the house entrance and peering around furtively. Zimmerman made all of this clear when he went back to the scene the day after the shooting with detectives, and described it all in minute detail, re-enacting the entire incident.
Furthermore, Martin had a record of being involved in burglary. This was at first officially covered-up by Miami-Dade school police, yet later unearthed through FOIA requests by dogged bloggers at The Conservative Treehouse website. Notice how Obama never mentions that, nor of course do any of the other perpetrators of the Saint Skittles fraud mention it.
They also mostly never discuss Martin’s penchant for the sadistic bashing of others, as evidenced by his social media accounts in which he relishes a rematch with one opponent who “didn’t bleed enough for me, only his nose” the first time.
So Obama whined on and on and on for 17 minutes last Thursday about how people tend to think and act differently around black men. Somewhere in there, for only a tiny moment, he begrudgingly acknowledged that the reason for this is that black men in general, especially younger ones, tend to act differently around people–that is, they are extremely more likely to engage in crime, and for that matter violent crime, than members of other sub-demographic groups. That actual level of disproportionate criminality and violence is astonishing, when you look at the statistics. But of course, our country’s past history regarding race relations is the only thing Obama saw fit to mention as having any responsibility whatsoever for the pathological depravity and violence of the black criminal underclass.
What was especially sickening about Obama’s dishonest screed last week was how he, like so many others who are supposed to be informing and leading the public to better put events into realistic context, completely mis-characterized why Zimmerman saw fit to alert police to Martin.
As to the rest of what he said, including throwing out the “stand-your-ground” red herring again (and completely getting wrong the most basic principles of self-defense)–as someone who is supposed to know and understand the law, Obama should just shut up. He never should have opened his dishonest mouth in the first place.
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