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News & ArtsSaturday, March 24, 2012
Political Suicide Trayvon Martin Case Now Going to Help the Right
Posted by Chicago Fan on Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:03 PM
The "new Black Panther Party" is offering a $10,000 reward for the "capture" of Martin's killer, Zimmerman. When asked if this was inciting violence, the reply was Biblical: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." This will stir up the rightwingers who fear/hate nothing more than the image of the angry black man. And this will hurt Obama, despite his perfectly executed statements about the case.
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do you really have to think about every single thing that happens in the world in terms of a right/left dichotomy?
boring way to live man.
boring way to live man.
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The "New Black Panther Party" seems like a construct of the right wing to act as a foil and justify it's own outrageous behavior. Outside of this or that thing in 2008 nobody has ever even heard of them.
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@1 Every single thing, no. Things that matter in the world of politics, yes. Boring, perhaps, but accurate.
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Well, to the extent the President's highlighting of the case has made it a political feast you're going to get gadflies like this circling around looking to get a nibble of controversy. "New Black Panthers", the Phelps picketers, Occupy campers...I'm sure they're all looking for a bite here. What a gruesome metaphor, sorry.
It's important not to pay them too much mind. The right will want to say our concern over Treyvon's murder is mere partisanship - let's not give them anything to go on.
It's important not to pay them too much mind. The right will want to say our concern over Treyvon's murder is mere partisanship - let's not give them anything to go on.
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Shame black radicals don't give a shit about the 6000 odd black males who will be killed by other black males this year.
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Agree it's a bad idea, but isn't anyone who'd let the stupid Black Panther pronouncement influence their opinion of Obama already irreparably biased/racist/etc?
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@11, for an "operation" like the NBPP, the money can be pulled out of the black budget if needed.
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I'm not saying there aren't some stupid people out there, but I'll go with the simplest explanation: that group has got to be bankrolled by Bill O or his cohorts.
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I want to hear all the new ways they have for calling Obama names. I'm tired of Oreo and Uncle Tom.
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The New Black Panther Party, aka, two crazy black dudes from Philadelphia. But hey, there goes the case, cause any crazy person can say stupid, outlandish things we can all ignore. But when they are crazy and black? Then it's legit.
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" cause any crazy person can say stupid, outlandish things we can all ignore. But when they are crazy and black? Then it's legit."
I'm sure Latinos feel the same way about Crazy Zimmerman.
I'm sure Latinos feel the same way about Crazy Zimmerman.
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Let's go through the logic of this Florida law.
Now, I'm not encouraging violence, I'm just thinking this through.
So, Zimmerman was able to go a free man, because he felt that Martin was a harm to him and the community...right? And under Florida law he can kill such a person.
Well...how should Martin's father and every other person in that community feel about having a stalking serial killer (dubbed the SS Killer, for Stalk-Shoot).
Under that same law, isn't there also justification?
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I don't understand why this community has no faith in our justice system. It's not like African-Americans have been unfairly targeted by the law or anything. It's not like an innocent African-American was gunned down and the murderer is free and clear... Oh, wait... Oh.
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"This is a really bad idea."
This is a really stoooopid comment, sonny.
First, there is no rule of law in Amerika, and hasn't been for quite some time.
Secondly, this can be called all about race, but it also transcends race.
I agree perfectly with their sentiment, and Zimmerman should have been arrested by the criminally-misbehaving police there (and that moron chief who claimed to be a former homicide investigator, he couldn't even find his very own vagina!!!).
Some months back, when another young Black-American teenager (and straight "A" student) was murdered in Chicago by Black-American thugs, the same thing should have been done.
This is about predators, some White, Black, Hispanic or Other, preying upon the ethically and mentally superiors in society, and with all the lawlessness today, and the elite criminality practised routinely by Wall Streeters, their political lackeys (when Obama stands before the nation, again and again, and dares falsley proclaim that the banksters broke no laws, when any average person realizes by this time they committed millions of felonies, conspired to violate the UCC on a colossal level (moving from the commercial law into criminal violation) and are in violation of the tax laws --- in a major manner --- accordingly), the tone is set for a national of utter and willful lawlessness.
Whether it's Zimmerman murdering an innocent Black youth, or the Obama administration firing so many Blacks, women and Asian-Americans (Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod, etc.), the only justice will come from DIY justice today.
This is a really stoooopid comment, sonny.
First, there is no rule of law in Amerika, and hasn't been for quite some time.
Secondly, this can be called all about race, but it also transcends race.
I agree perfectly with their sentiment, and Zimmerman should have been arrested by the criminally-misbehaving police there (and that moron chief who claimed to be a former homicide investigator, he couldn't even find his very own vagina!!!).
Some months back, when another young Black-American teenager (and straight "A" student) was murdered in Chicago by Black-American thugs, the same thing should have been done.
This is about predators, some White, Black, Hispanic or Other, preying upon the ethically and mentally superiors in society, and with all the lawlessness today, and the elite criminality practised routinely by Wall Streeters, their political lackeys (when Obama stands before the nation, again and again, and dares falsley proclaim that the banksters broke no laws, when any average person realizes by this time they committed millions of felonies, conspired to violate the UCC on a colossal level (moving from the commercial law into criminal violation) and are in violation of the tax laws --- in a major manner --- accordingly), the tone is set for a national of utter and willful lawlessness.
Whether it's Zimmerman murdering an innocent Black youth, or the Obama administration firing so many Blacks, women and Asian-Americans (Van Jones, Shirley Sherrod, etc.), the only justice will come from DIY justice today.
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A group of people few have any control over and none support "helps the right". Similar smaller groups of people that they have fewer control over and even less support and we consider them to "help the left". If everyone is constantly thinking about the extremes we will never live free lives.
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