Imagining If The Races Were Reversed In The Zimmerman Case

I am shocked that the shooting of Chris Cervini by Roderick Scott was overlooked for so long by so many (but not all!) during the Zimmerman hoop-la. Geez, imagine if a black man intent on stopping crime shot a white kid. Or rather than imagine, check this case from upstate New York that unfolded during 2009:

Late Friday evening, a Monroe County jury reached a unanimous verdict in the trial of Roderick Scott: not guilty of manslaughter in the first degree. Scott had gunned down a teenage hoodlum who had been breaking into cars in his neighborhood. The prosecution portrayed it as an act of vigilante behavior run amok; Scott and his defense team presented the incident as the unfortunate result of reasonable behavior by a concerned citizen paired with the foolishness of a teenager under the influence of alcohol, drugs and bad peers.

The kids were caught in the act of breaking into cars and had the drug/alcohol thing, so Scott had that going for him. On the other hand, Scott "had the build of a football player", was never actually struck by any of the teens, and managed to shoot the dead boy twice, once in the back. Ooops.

Unlike Zimmerman, Scott was promptly arrested. Like Zimmerman, he was eventually acquited by a jury that apparently felt his self-defense argument created reasonable doubt.

Here is some eerily prescient speculation from 2009:

Had this same series of events occurred with a different cast of characters, could we expect the public and, more important, the jury, to treat the actors the same way? In this case, Scott was an African American man, his victim a white teenaged male. Had the race of these two been reversed -- a white man shooting an African American youth -- would the trial have received more attention? Would motives have been scrutinized more closely? Would conservative commentators rallied to the shooter's defense (because you know how criminally-inclined those youth are...)? Would activists have championed the cause of the victim as yet another casualty of stereotypes and bigotry? Difficult to say, but all fair questions to ask. Perhaps this community was lucky, in a way, that the characters were cast as they were.

I guess we have some answers there.

Meanwhile, after all their hyperventilating about the hideous Stand Your Ground law in Florida, let's take a nano-second to review the entirety of the NY Times coverage of this upstate New York case:

That was easy. Hello, Charles Blow? Helloooooo?

PILING ON: The DoJ has time on its hands and is trolling for tips on a private citizen without any of those vexing warrants or indictments or the sorts of things that we normally associate with the FBI's Most Wanted list. Well, if they want to investigate acquited citizens, maybe we can tip them off to the Roderick Scott case.

Comments

[jimmyk]

Where are the Hispanic leaders (whoever they may be) in all of this? Why aren't they vigorously protesting this latest Zimmerman persecution?

[Danube on iPad]

The Congressional Black Caucus seems unaware of the Scott case.

Has any president since the civil war done more to worsen race relations than this one?

[Danube on iPad]

It appears to this observer that Al Sharpton has a hydrocephalic head.

[Dave (in MA)]

Imagine.

Where's the outrage?

[Captain Hate]

Imagine if we could stop talking about this unexceptional provincial case which has captured the embarrassingly tabloid mindset of the country and get back to how Gaylord Focker is clearly breaking the law and the gutless Repukes are helping him by not pushing back.

[Captain Hate]

Has any president since the civil war done more to worsen race relations than this one?

No and I think some of us predicted that in 2008.

[MarkO]

I am amused that we here flail about daily, despondently lamenting the fact that the other side lies and acts hypocritically whenever it advantages it.

We are like goats. We wake up in a new world every day.

[Captain Hate]

Speak for yourself, Duke boy.

[NK]

The NY Times search? Genius. Tom Maguire... I love the cut of this man's jib. What a JOM snarkfest today. Slaughter all the Lefties Tom... rhetorically of course... and let Gaia sort them out.

[Extraneus]

ABC News 10 in San Diego has learned that San Diego Mayor Bob "Filthy" Filner will be giving the keynote address at a benefit for sexual assault victims.

Remember him?

The claims against Mayor were detailed and alarming. According to Gonzalez, in the Mayor's office, there was something known as the "Filner headlock." It was described thusly: the Mayor puts his arm around a woman's shoulder, pulls her in tight, gets in close to her face, asks about husband/boyfriend, says things like "you know you love me, lets go up to my office, no one will know."

There was a "move" known as the "Filner dance" where, if the Mayor feels hesitation, he will force a kiss on a woman, the woman will try to evade and he will end up kissing a cheek. Women in his office called him a "dirty old man."

Donna Frye described other specifics about one of the victims: "He grabbed her, kissed her, jamming his tongue down her throat." Frye went on to describe another encounter: "The Mayor quickly had his hand down the inside of her bra."

"I am the Mayor you can't kick me out of any office" one employee of Filner allegedly said after she kicked him out of her office for his unwanted advances.

Marco Gonzalez said his client stated the Mayor "grabbed her A** and touched her breasts." Gonzalez said he had heard from women that Filner would say to them that "they would do a better job if they worked without their panties on." Gonzalez also informed the press "there will be a sexual harassment suit filed against the city." He indicated once again there were numerous women with allegations against the Mayor.

[snip]

The National Military Women Veterans Association of America had decided to honor Filner with a lifetime acheivment award "for his work on behalf of women veterans, including the issue of sexual assault. " But the group released a statement rescinding the award, stating "We do not tolerate sexual discrimination at any level within our society."

[Extraneus]

Filner was a congressman for 20 years before being elected as Mayor of San Diego.

[jwest]

"The NY Times search? Genius."

The MSM would have done that, but they have layers and layers of editors and fact checkers to go through first.

[Extraneus]

Watch mama bear protect her cubs at the bearcam.

http://explore.org/#!/videos/player/mother-protects-her-cubs-at-brooks-falls

[MarkO]

"Speak for yourself, Duke boy."

I speak for all ACC teams.

But, I will relent when TM stops affecting shock that the Times is inconsistent.

[1daddy2]

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[1daddy2]

The DoJ has time on its hands and is trolling for tips on a private citizen

I am pretty certain that George Zimmerman is the guy who yelled out every single one of the racial slurs at Reps. James Clyburn, Emanuel Cleaver, John Lewis and Andre Carson on March 20, 2010 as they walked through the protest to the Capital. That's the incident you'll recall where Breitbart still has up the offer of $100,000 to anyone there who has a recording of anyone in the crowd hurling epithets.

No one has ever come forward yet with any recording.

[DebinNC]

Charles Blow wrote an error-filled piece yesterday - "The Whole System Failed Trayvon Martin." Among the many things he got wrong was his assertion that no one made any effort to help the wounded Trayvon. LUN for the LA Times article noting the arriving officers' immediate efforts to revive TM, including delivering mouth to mouth. Neither officer is black.

[1daddy2]

Just FYI,

Yesterday on ABC top of the hour news on AM Radio, they did a story on San Diego Mayor Filner and Sex harassment, but they failed to mention that he is a Dem or that any of the gals charging him are all on the left. But then, without skipping a beat, the very next news bit out of the reporters mouth started off "Democratic Senator Ron Wyden", and went off painting him as principled because he is angry at gas prices and trying to find out why the recent spike by Big Oil at the pump.

Simply more proof that they delete Party affiliation when its detrimental to the Left and insert Party affiliation when it's beneficial to the Left. No surprise.

[Captain Hate]

Top Men seem to be worried that Liz Cheney might upset all the great COMITY that exists with Mike "sales tax on the internet" Enzi that led to McRINO bending over for the alleged pederast from Nevada.

[Captain Hate]

Even the trained seals have a limit: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/07/17/bill-maher-booed-twice-tasteless-zimmerman-jokes-cbs-late-show

[NK]

GZ trial and literary metaphors: I haven't seen in the media any reference to To Kill a Mockingbird (published 53 years ago last week), I still think that is the best metaphor for the State's conduct, a racialist show trial to satisfy bigot voters. I also thought "Man for All Seasons' is apt to in relation to immoderate demands for 'the right result-- due process be damned' showed the immorality and dangers posed by the Corey jihad against GZ-- this link has the relevant dialogue between St Thomas More and his S-I-L Roper: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/07/16/sir-thomas-more-on-the-trial-of-george-zimmerman/2/

[1daddy2]

Ext,

I am outraged at the behavior of that Momma bear in your video link.

If she had not gotten out of her car up on the ledge causing her children to fall into the river, then that nice 800 pound grizzly boy bear would not have been so disturbed as to attack her children, and she would not have had to Stand Her Ground with those razor sharp teeth and claws and needlessly defend her self from great fear of bodily injury, thus causing such unnecessary hostility to that nice griz simply going about his business.

Obviously we need better social engineering for bears.

[1daddy2]

And this of course proves my point if I had had a point:) Kodiak brown bear with 4 cubs shot dead at village landfill

"There's some (bears) that are so used to being there, (eating garbage) they're basically junkies, and she was very persistent in trying to get in there...(the Bear) also charged U.S. Marines, who are in the village building a runway

[Threadkiller]

The FBI has to farm out some of its investigations now...

Woman Calls FBI Claiming To Be Obama BC Forger: FBI Directs Her To The News Media

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/07/fbi-directs-claimed-obama-forger-to-media.html?m=1

OK, I admit it. She is a loon.

[Marlene]

One of my sisters is in an interracial marriage.She called me about the verdict,because she really couldn't understand the racial animus she was hearing in the media. That is because her family go about their lives without racial angst. I said,just because I'm the older sister doesn't mean I have an answer,ha,ha.
FYI...I'm listening to Howie Carr and he's talking about the Rolling Stone cover.He asks,how do you boycott something you don't read?
CVS pharmacy refuses to sell the issue in their stores. Someone has made an alternate cover picturing the victims.

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

Marlene,

That was about the dumbest move by Rolling Stone humanly possible. I bet they are kicking themselves for not putting Trayvon on the cover instead.

BTW how many babies will be named "Trayvon" this year?

[1daddy2]

As we breathlessly await the birth of Willy and Kate's baby, I wonder if it's tougher on the Royal kid being born a boy or a girl?

My guess is that it's easier if its a boy, since boys are supposed to screw around in general, so when Harry runs off with strippers in Vegas and gets naked, that's somewhat forgivable and lovable cad territory, whereas when Princess Stephanie of Monico (or whichever one it was) that got seduced by the French sleaze, or that married the Circus performer, that does not get as friendly a reception in the papers or 'mongst the hoi polloi.

On the other hand Dot's favorite with the charming buttocks
married her Physical Trainer and that seems to have worked out quite well, (she's preggers---again), but the Monaco Princesses had to go thru a string of boys to find a decent one, and by then they were pretty much all worn out and rode hard and put out to pasture.

If we consider Princess Aiko of Japan, she may have the toughest assignment, since the whole nation demanded a male so fiercely that Princess Aiko's Harvard educated mom had a nervous breakdown and Aiko has apparently now been cut out of the Empress pattern by a younger male cousin, whereas some Prince of Denmark or one of them cold countries was able to get away with marrying his Bar Tender girl friend who already had a little tyke. Princesses would have a tough time pulling that off smoothly.

But then on the other hand there really isn't much for a boy Prince to do (excepting fly helicopters--which proves my point) so they wind up doing all sorts of other stupid [email protected]#$ like Prince Charley, (wishing he was a Camilla tampon---yeeesh!) whereas a Princess at least does have something to do, mainly giving birth to more Royal baby boys and girls.

It's a conundrum I tell ya', a real conundrum.

Oh well, whoever pops out, here's to hoping they got a nice tush---boy or girl. Not that there's anything wrong with that:)

Against all the oddsmaker, I'm betting its a boy.

[Gus]

Bob Filner is part of the LEFT'S WAR ON WOMYN.

FILNER? Hardly even know her.

[Marlene]

daddy,I'm hoping the royal baby is a girl. Queens have been the most popular and successful monarchs.Elizabeth I, Victoria and the current Elizabeth. If Elizabeth,Charles and Will are long lived,the royal baby will be an elderly monarch.

[Marlene]

Jane,Dave...Howie is playing a quote from your Gov. He hasn't seen the Rolling Stone,but he hears the article is good reporting. Huh?

[jimmyk]

Another knockout game victim is dead a year after the attack:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130713/NEWS/307120191/North-College-Hill-bored-beating-victim-dies-cause-unknown

These are the ones we hardly hear about (just local stories), which helps to undermine the self-defense argument. Maybe Rob C. knows more about this case.

[Dave (in MA)]

Anti-Biz Markey was sworn in by Slow Joe yesterday. I guess it's safe to do a little journalism now...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2013/07/17/markey-defends-call-umass-president-lobbyist/mcDa3X6eMPqyDUSKxDnLjN/story.html

[Dave (in MA)]

Jimmyk, I had that @1:58. :-)

[jimmyk]

Sorry, Dave, I picked it up on Twitter. It's one of those days with four new threads, hard to keep up.

[Rob Crawford]

I barely paid any attention to that story, largely because I have no intention of going anywhere near North College Hill.

If his death is a result of the beating, I hope they can charge the little snowflakes. But I also know that anyone who thinks beating a man nearly to death is a way to relieve boredom will likely do themselves in at a young age.

Now, the story about 4 new flavors at Graeter's...

[Marlene]

Stop & Shop,Tedeschi and Cumberland Farms are boycotting Rolling Stone.

[NK]

Boycot RS-- good for them, that cover is monstrous.

[narciso]

They really dug in this time, and properly we slapped down for it;

http://twitchy.com/2013/07/17/go-to-hell-disturbed-vocalist-david-draiman-destroys-ultra-liberal-rolling-stone-in-epic-rant/

[jimmyk]

On a lighter note, via Tim Blair, these two first pitches are much more enjoyable than any you've likely seen (and more accurate than Obama's), particularly for the fibonacci enthusiasts among us. It's worth getting to the 1:00 minute point.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpjPxpGL7Sk

[Threadkiller]

Flexible...

Video: Three Men Told Of Obama's Manchurian Presidency In Advance; Birther Obama

http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2013/07/video-three-men-told-of-obamas.html?m=1

[CR]

At Hot Air:

Reactions to the jury decision in the shooting of Trayvon Martin vary sharply along racial lines.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of American Adults agree with the jury’s verdict that Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman is not guilty of murder in the shooting death of the black teenager. Thirty-four percent (34%) disagree with the Florida jury’s verdict. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/17/rasmussen-near-majority-agrees-with-zimmerman-verdict-4834/

[Rob Crawford]

Anyone see the report that "DeeDee" says she thinks St. Skittles threw the first punch?

Surprised the prosecutors didn't ask about that while they had her on the stand.

I do like Ace's line about her upcoming appearance on Sharpton's televised Klan Rally. "Resist we much!"

[Porchlight]

CR, imagine what those numbers would be if the media had portrayed the case with even a smidgen of honesty.

[jimmyk]

Another Hollywood idiot I've never heard of decides to make a fool of himself:

http://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/-the-wire--creator-david-simon-on-trayvon-martin-case---ashamed--to-be-an-american-011408813.html

The feeling is mutual.

[pagar]

"The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 48% of American Adults agree with the jury’s verdict"

I wonder what the percentage would be if the leftist propaganda spreaders had reported the true story instead of their leftist lies?

[Threadkiller]

I wonder how many of the 48% the GOP will try to woo into their party. My guess is they would prefer to roll in the hay with the 34%.

[CR]

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by that 48% and have to say that I think it will only go up as more facts come out about Trayvon and his gang-banger father and the mother that didn't raise him.

[NK]

The Royal baby-- My daughter is spending the semester at St Andrew's Univ (Scot) starting september. I wonder if the future sovereign (UK) and the Dutchess of Cambridge will bring the future future sovereign to their alma mater while she's there. Either way my little girl will avail herself of the 18yo UK drink laws, in Ireland she proved herself to be a major beer drinker, given her lawn gnome sized stature. Oh frabulous joy, my midget 20yo daughter with a bunch of drunken Brits, well off Indian and Russian oligarch kids -- what could possibly go wrong?

[NK]

Raz-- 18% undecided, give that group a fair summary of the facts and the jury instructions, I bet they break at least 2-1 Not Guilty, meaning 60-40% favor acquittal, despite the media poisoning the public with their racial narrative. I'm pleased.

[Some Guy]

NK,

My daughter goes to uni in the UK, and she's 5 ft nothing and not even 90lbs soaking wet so I know of what you speak! And she started school there at only 18...

...it's not that bad. It's not like there is anything like a dry campus in the US, so she's seen already and like the US there are idiots she'll avoid, and find decent lads that will look for out for her. Don't sweat it.

[NK]

Some Guy-- thanks for the optimistic words. She goes to Fordham in da Bronx, so how bad can Scotland UK (for now) be? Good luck to your daughter in the UK.

[Some Guy]

btw, she absolutely loves it.

[Some Guy]

Oh and St. Andrews is great little town, and very safe.

[Gus]

NK, My Mom is from Scotland. Have you been to St Andrews yet? It is idyllic.

[Extraneus]

TED NUGENT: Zimmerman should sue Trayvon’s parents because Trayvon was a minor and, as such, his parents were responsible for his actions.

Again, following the narrative of the pro-Trayvon media types and other race-baiters, if Trayvon Martin was a minor, then Trayvon Martin’s parents may be held liable for the emotional pain and suffering Mr. Zimmerman has been put through for the past 18 months, and surely for the rest of his life.

[NK]

Yes we have friends (retired Scot banker) who own a home in St Andrews village, just by the fishing pier, so we'll travel to St Andrews in october and visit our daughter and tour Scotland with them. Apparently I have to hit a few thousand golf balls before then, my friend is arranging a round at the Old Course, he's a Village resident, so he has privilge, including a few guests/year -- it is a Village owned course after all. just like Dyker Heights in Bklyn where I and Tiger Woods' dad learned to play. Best--

[Danube on iPad]

Another contemporaneous (2009) article about the Scott case.

[Extraneus]

Boehner endorses push for citizenship for children of illegal immigrants

[Janet --- -... .- -- .- ... ..- -.-. -.- ...]

I am done with the GOP.

[Extraneus]

I can report that I haven't yet received a reply from [email protected] or any apparently associated spam.

[Danube on iPad]

It's the consent decree, Janet.

[Threadkiller]

Danube nails it!

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

DOT I asked this in a prior thread. Would you know someone who graduated from HLS in 1971?

[boris]

His answer was 1976.

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

Is that for me Boris?

[Threadkiller]

His answer is irrelevant to the question then.

(MarkO is bored; I'm doing this for him)

[Janet --- -... .- -- .- ... ..- -.-. -.- ...]

“It’s an issue of decency and compassion,” Cantor said. “Where else would these kids go?”

Back to their home country with their PARENTS. They are not orphans for heaven sake.
What is the use of a federal government if they refuse to protect the sovereignty of our nation?

Just invade us...we are decent & compassionate fools.
Anyway...if the kids become citizens then the parents are fast tracked into citizenship too...the extended family too....& their extended family...and, and, and.

[Frau Edith Steingehirn]

Where are the Hispanic leaders?

From the sage Thomas Sowell:

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having racial or ethnic leaders. While most Americans can easily name a number of black leaders, current or past, how many can name Asian American ethnic leaders or Jewish ethnic leaders?

The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.

[narciso]

Now who's the adolescent here;

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/17/scandal-conservative-site-sends-high-school-student-to-attend-pointless-news-anachronism/

[Rob Crawford]

What is the use of a federal government if they refuse to protect the sovereignty of our nation?

Excellent question. Anyone have an answer?

[centralcal]

I love that a high school intern reporter asked an important question, something the rest of the love-sick, slobbering WH press corps never do.

[narciso]

Well they can't get their 'trapper keepers' open enough, to do that, central.

[pagar]

If real reporters were sent to the WH BS Sessions they would ask real questions.
What you see at these things is leftist propaganda spreaders and that is all they do; spread the leftist propaganda.

[jimmyk]

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having racial or ethnic leaders.

I agree with Sowell, of course. My question was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. But considering how politically powerful the Hispanic community seems to be (if the whole immigration thing is any indication), it's surprising that there aren't some obvious rabble-rousers comparable to, say, the NAACP, defending Zimmerman. Where's La Raza, for example?

[Some Guy]

Carney is such a tool. There is a special circle in hell for guys like that.

[Gus]

NK, I've played the Old Course 3 times, play Carnoustie when you are there, it's a 20 minute drive from St Andrews. You'll love both.

[narciso]

Well they follow in lockstep, jimmy;

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/28/politics/florida-teen-hispanics

[narciso]

That was then, this was just recently;

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3043295/posts

[Gmax]

What is the use of a federal government

Well my usual answer still applies. Provide for the common defense and establish a common currency. You have to admit, they are really really good at printing money...

[jimmyk]

Yes, narc, after posting I saw this:

http://www.laraza.com/lideres-hispanos-piden-cargos-federales-contra-Zimmerman-juicio-Trayvon-Martin

My Spanish is good enough to be able to tell that this isn't good. The Hispanic leaders are not only not advocating for Zimmerman, they seem to be allying themselves with the anti-Zimmerman crowd. I guess Zimmerman has become a non-Hispanic in the same way Clarence Thomas is a non-black.

[Danube on iPad]

The question to which I answered "1976" was Jane's asking me when I graduated from law school. I assumed that, for all but the seriously retarded, that would also suffice to answer the inquiry about whether I would know someone who had graduated in 1971.

[narciso]

Your reading is right, one of those cited Spaillat, of the prominent Dominican family, speaks of 'social change' then you have the usual suspects Velazquez, Puerto Rican, then there is the reference to the killer of Yankel Rosenbaum, Lemrick Nelson, irony has a crunchy taste,

[Account Deleted]

"Where's La Raza, for example?"

Slightly to the left of the Comintern - same place it's been since inception.

It would be doubleplusungood for them to acknowledge Immanuel Zimmerman Goldstein in any way.

[Frau Spanierin]

jimmyk - could it be that Zimmerman and those like him do not consider themselves victims the way the aggrieved children of Atzlan do? The Hispanic "community" is not in lockstep. They often do not like to be lumped together with others even with a similar language. I bow to narciso's appraisal.

[pagar]

"Provide for the common defense"

They can't even figure out where a Marine Col is.

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/article/20130717/NEWS05/307170039?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

" That contradicts statements that Pentagon
officials have issued to both Congress and
the media."

Unbelievable! I can believe that there were days during the Korean War when the US military didn't know exactly where all their Colonels were, but I would suspect that was about the last time. Now they are telling us they are going to investigate how the loss of this Col happened. This is BS.

[rse]

jimmy-I run into La Raza a lot in documents. They know what is in play and that it is a matter of gaining an electoral coalition of "what will you do for us" against the done to minority. Then you simply change all the rules.

They understand the power of ignorant and aggrieved and intend to trade on it until the coalition is secure. Immigration is being used as a wedge in every country with an anglo tradition in terms of the common law so that the group identity soon dominates.

[jimmyk]

In my 8:31 link, some idiot lawyer Leo Glickman cites the Lemrick Nelson case as an example where an acquittal on the murder charge (which was as big a scandal as the OJ acquittal) was followed by a conviction on civil rights violations--as if the two situations are remotely comparable. Among other things, there was no self-defense claim in the murder trial, probably only because the lawyers couldn't say it without bursting out laughing.

[jimmyk]

Oops, should have refreshed, narc already caught the Lemrick Nelson cite.

[Jane -walk like an Egyptian]

Thanks Dot. I guess my opportunity to gossip is lost.

[Captain Hate]

The Hispanic leaders are not only not advocating for Zimmerman, they seem to be allying themselves with the anti-Zimmerman crowd. I guess Zimmerman has become a non-Hispanic in the same way Clarence Thomas is a non-black.

Some fellow morons have set me straight regarding the inability to regard "Hispanic" as a monolithic block. The beandip thugs in La Raza, for example, are strictly pro Mexican; but only *certain* Mexicans.

[Ignatz]

Lemrick Nelson?
Cue TK or daddy.

[Ignatz]

Does Bernanke moonlight at PayPal? PayPal gives man 92 quadrillion dollars.

[Frau Spanierin]

Coulter revisited the case of Edmund Perry.

The case most like George Zimmerman's is the Edmund Perry case. In 1985, Perry, a black teenager from Harlem who had just graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, mugged a guy who turned out to be an undercover cop. He got shot and a few hours later was dead.

Instead of waiting for the facts, the media rushed out with a story about Officer Lee Van Houten being a trigger-happy, racist cop. When that turned out to be false, The New York Times looked at its shoes. It was the kind of story the elites wanted to be true. It should be true. We had such high hopes for that one. Damn!

The initial news accounts stressed not only that Perry was a graduate of Exeter on his way to Stanford, but that he was unarmed. (In all white-on-black shootings, the media expect the white to have RoboCop-like superpowers to detect any weapons on the perp as well as his resume.)

[narciso]

No that is the right name, Ignatz, but it is a sign of category error, in the piece;

http://legalinsurrection.com/2013/07/media-brat-pack-picks-on-high-school-intern-who-dares-ask-real-question-of-jay-carney/#comments

[CR]

Since Sharpton is vowing 100 more demonstrations across the country in the coming weeks, it should be interesting to see the fallout that arises from violence directed towards Hispanic-looking protesters at the rallies (which has already occurred in Los Angeles).

[1daddy2]

I hate Twitters guts. You cannot create and sustain a "Republic" on 140 characters.

Twitter is destructive of logical thinking. The very fact that it is conducive to snide asides, but not to any elaboration of any ideas requiring more than 140 characters on a Twitter network, should tell us in general how destructive Twitter is to the rational thought process necessary to run a Republic.

Not to disparage IowaHawk, but when we expend our efforts fucking around with a communication network that by its very nature will not allow the communication of ideas necessary to create and sustain a Republic, then we are contributing to the demise of the world of ideas we were bequeathed by our Founders.

[narciso]

I remember reading Anson's book on the case, when I was in college, interesting guess who were his family's mouthpieces, Sharpton and Maddox soon to hit the 'big time' with Tawana Brawley.

[narciso]

Well he snarks on this piece, full of pretense, recalling that Orlando Sentinel reporter that set off Derbyshire,

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/07/listening-in-on-the-talk-what-eric-holder-told-his-son-about-trayvon/277861/

[Some Guy]

Excellent point daddy, Twitter is the perfect medium for the left leaning morons who feel a bumpersnicker or twelve plastered over the backside of their Volvos and Priusessss can fully express their “nuanced” views.

Who says irony is dead?

[pagar]

"The beandip thugs in La Raza, for example, are strictly pro Mexican; but only *certain* Mexicans.

The US is funding a group put together to defeat the US,IMO
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/The%20Truth%20About%20La%20Raza.html

"According to a Judicial Watch investigation, federal funding for the National Council of La Raza nearly tripled from $4.1 million to $11 million in FY 2010, the year Muñoz joined the Obama administration."

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/30/HHS-Sued-for-Records-Detailing-Grant-to-the-National-Council-of-La-Raza

That money apparently does not include:
http://rare.us/story/jeffrey-irs-gave-14-billion-in-refundable-tax-credits-to-illegals/
Of which, I would wager a small sum, most of which goes to Mexico.