Memo to Eric Holder, if one Rachel Jeantel is to be believed, there was a hate crime in Sanford, Florida, from Drudge Report:
JEANTEL WARNED ZIMMERMAN COULD BE GAY RAPIST
TRAYVON: NOT THAT KIND OF WAY
Tue Jul 16 2013 11:55:00 ETLast night Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel gave CNN her first interview since testifying in the George Zimmerman murder trial.
Jeantel opened up and let loose on the murder case that gripped that nation.
She explained to CNN’s Piers Morgan how she warned her childhood friend that Zimmerman — could be a gay rapist!
MORGAN: You felt that there was no doubt in your mind from what Trayvon was telling you on the phone about the creepy ass cracka and so on, that he absolutely believed that George Zimmerman, this man, you didn’t know who he was at the time, but this man, was pursuing him?
JEANTEL: Yes.
MORGAN: And he was freaked out by it?
Evidently the late Trayvon Martin profiled George Zimmerman as a homosexual predator before Martin attacked him. Waiting for the New York Times over the top editorial on hompphobia, in four, three,two …
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Dim Won, a/k/a Barack Obama would rather have seen George Zimmerman beaten to a bloody pulp than to have free citizens freely carrying aarms, Hasani Gittens and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News
President Obama called on the nation to honor Trayvon Martin a day after George Zimmerman was acquitted of his murder by asking “ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence.” […] “We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis. We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this. As citizens, that’s a job for all of us. That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.”
The late Mr. Martin was too young to do, then is George Zimmerman. Neither should have to die, but it one of them had to die, it was better that the punk died, and the late Mr. Martin was a punk. His death should be noted but not mourned
From R.S. McCain:
Anyway, I hadn’t followed every detail of the Trayvon Martin story, which meant I missed one of the biggest untold aspects of the story: How a see-no-evil policy by Miami-Dade Schools resulted in Trayvon getting off lightly — suspended from school for criminal acts that should have gotten him arrested.
The Last Refuge has been trying to call attention to this story for months, but of course, the mainstream media wouldn’t touch it because it looked like a story about demonizing the dead kid.
Zimmerman’s gun probably saved his life. If Florida’s carry laws saved the life of Zimmerman, all the better. That Obama would have preferred to see Zimmerman beaten to a bloody pulp by a punk speaks ill of Obama and of his concept to victim disbarment via gun control. George Zimmerman’s gun as not the problem. Martin’s fists were.
One small step for justice in Florida. George Zimmerman has been found not guilty, as indeed he is, from Andrew Branca, Legal Insurrection:
A verdict has been returned in Florida v. Zimmerman:
NOT GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS
The State prosecutors, including the until recently rarely-seen Angela Corey, are currently providing interviews to the press, essentially re-arguing their catastrophically failed courtroom arguments. From this commentator’s perspective, they are simply in complete denial and/or in full-blown CYA mode, no matter how often they say they respect the decision of the jury.
Reax, Tom Maquire, Just One Minute:
Common sense prevails in the jury room, but will it prevail on the mean streets of Miami?
Indeed.
The Sanford police initial decision not to charge Zimmerman has been endorsed. This is a case the should have never gone to trial. Will the Department of [In]Justice prosecute the willful violation of George Zimmerman’s civil rights? Not likely.
Addendum: (Eric)
While I tend to agree with David that this is not a civil rights issue, and certainly, they won’t bring charges against the guilty for the violation of Zimmerman’s civil rights, we WILL, I suppose, see some effort to level civil rights charges against Zimmerman. Yes, I know, makes no sense, but since when have facts ever entered into the lexicon of a leftist? The Daily caller has noted the NAACP sprang into action along those lines…
“Attorney General Eric Holder,” the petition reads, “The Department of Justice has closely monitored the State of Florida’s prosecution of the case against George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder since it began. Today, with the acquittal of George Zimmerman, it is time for the Department of Justice to act.”
“The most fundamental of civil rights — the right to life — was violated the night George Zimmerman stalked and then took the life of Trayvon Martin,” the NAACP wrote. “We ask that the Department of Justice file civil rights charges against Mr. Zimmerman for this egregious violation.”
“Please address the travesties of the tragic death of Trayvon Martin by acting today,” the NAACP wrote.
George Zimmerman
Now, there is no secret about the idea that the NAACP and Holder have been in bed together forever. And the NAACP claims credit for the thing getting to trial in the first place. Martin was Obama’s son, after all. That said, though, remember that Civil Rights issues are at the root, CONSTITUTIONAL issues, and the Constitution is a limit on the government, not the people. Granted, this is a point leftists tend to ignore, or at least try to dance around. But bringing such a case against Zimmerman would get laughed out of even a Holder-ordered show trial. That would, if noting else, further damage the credibility of the left, and so if any common sense ruled their actions such a case will never be brought.
Mark Steyn
In real justice systems, the state decides what crime has been committed and charges somebody with it. In the Zimmerman trial, the state’s “theory of the case” is that it has no theory of the case: might be murder, might be manslaughter, might be aggravated assault, might be a zillion other things, but it’s something. If you’re a juror, feel free to convict George Zimmerman of whatever floats your boat.Nailing a guy on something, anything, is a time-honored American tradition: If you can’t get Al Capone on the Valentine’s Day massacre, get him on his taxes. Americans seem to have a sneaky admiration for this sort of thing, notwithstanding that, as we now know, the government is happy to get lots of other people on their taxes, too. Ever since the president of the United States (a man so cautious and deferential to legal niceties that he can’t tell you whether the Egyptian army removing the elected head of state counts as a military coup until his advisers have finished looking into the matter) breezily declared that if he had a son he’d look like Trayvon, ever since the U.S. Department of so-called Justice dispatched something called its “Community Relations Services” to Florida to help organize anti-Zimmerman rallies at taxpayer expense, ever since the politically savvy governor appointed a “special prosecutor” and the deplorably unsavvy Sanford Police Chief was eased out, the full panoply of state power has been deployed to nail Zimmerman on anything.
How difficult can that be in a country in which an Hispanic Obama voter can be instantly transformed into the poster boy for white racism? Who ya gonna believe — Al Sharpton or your lying eyes?
Another confused person who does not know which restroom to use, from WFLA:
Alex Wilson is a certified nursing assistant, hoping to become a licensed practical nurse, by attending classes at Pinellas Technical Education Center in Clearwater. Another transformation is ongoing, from male to female. Four years of hormone therapy means the process is well underway. Up until yesterday Alex was using the women’s restroom on the PTEC campus. But that all came to an end after a fellow student complained, and went to administration. Wilson says she was pulled out of class and told her alternatives. “If I continue to use the female restroom that I would have charges pressed against me. And that because of that I would be removed from the program as a nurse,” said Wilson.
Sex change is impossible. Alex Wilson was born a male, and he die a male. Learn to use the little boys room.
I have to give the Obama administration credit. They never let a crisis interrupt a vacation. John Kerry yachts, State Department lies, and Egypt burns, from Paul Mirengoff, Power Line:
State Department denies that Kerry was on yacht during Morsi’s ouster
Mosheh Oinounou of CBS has tweeted a photo of John Kerry’s yacht, the “Isabel,” and claimed that a CBS producer spotted Kerry on board Wednesday, the day of Mohammed Morsi’s ouster. According to Oinounou, when the producer shouted “Morsi,” she received no response.However, the State Department denies that Kerry was on his yacht during the crisis. And it insists that, although he wasn’t in Washington at the national security team meetings on Egypt, he participated “by secure phone and was and is in non-stop contact with foreign leaders, and his senior team in Washington and Cairo.”.
Reactions: RS McCain:
Was there ever a time that honest people did not despise John Kerry? He first came to public attention more than 40 years ago, lying about his service in Vietnam, and he has been lying about everything — every single thing — ever since.
Thomas Lifson, American Thinker:
The State Department’s new spokeswoman Jen Psaki has sacrificed her own, the State Department, and Secretary of State John Kerry’s credibility with her readily proven lying about his whereabouts as the coup in Egypt unfolded.
and Karen, Lonely Conservative:
It got so bad that US Secretary of State John Kerry had to take time out from yachting and kayaking to make a few phone calls.
Maybe it time for the Obama administration to give Kerry the Hillary Clinton treatment, take away his portfolio.
The first democratically elected president of Egypt has been deposed by the nation’s military:
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s armed forces overthrew Islamist President Mohamed Mursi on Wednesday, sparking wild rejoicing in the streets at the prospect of new elections as a range of political leaders backed a new political transition
Mursi was sequestered in a Republican Guard barracks after denouncing a “military coup” that stripped him of power after just a year. As tanks and troops secured the area, tens of thousands of supporters of his Muslim Brotherhood rallied nearby to protest against his removal.
Mursi’s dramatic removal after a year in office as Egypt’s first freely elected president marked another twist in the turmoil that has gripped the Arab world’s most populous country in the two years since the fall of Hosni Mubarak..
It seems President Leads from the rear, b/k/a Barack Obama is not too happy about the recent turn of events.
Reax from Nice Deb:
Obama Deeply Concerned About Removal of Morsi and Suspension of Hated Islamic Constitution – Warns He’ll Cut Off Aid If Morsi Arrested
Obama released a terse statement today, expressing his displeasure with how things are going in Egypt, reiterating his threat to withhold aid if the military doesn’t meet his demands, which includes not arresting Morsi or any of his supporters. Is his Highness afraid of what Morsi might say about his dealings with the White House if interrogated while under arrest? *cough* Benghazi *cough* (yeah, I said it.)
President Bystander voiced his concern that the military suspended the Islamist constitution Morsi rammed down the country’s throats (sound familiar?) over the objections of its liberal, secular, and Christian members. The constitution Obama’s so “deeply concerned” about has been described as the “worst constitution in the whole history of Egypt and the Middle East.”
Quite frankly, I am sure what to make of the coup in Egypt. Are you?
The Dim Won a/k/a Dumbo b/k/a Barack Obama is in Africa telling other people how they should live their lives, from CNSNews:
“Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over — unless we find new ways of producing energy.”
Dumbo made no mention of any plans he has to lower his personal lifestyle or to reduce his gluttonous use of energy. Sacrifice is for the little people. Africans have got a lot or real problems, like lack of food and clean water. Sadly for them, Dumbo seems to have no interest in helping them solve any of them.
Why is some racism more tolerated, from Washington Times:
The double standard toxin involves Paula Deen and Al Sharpton. Deen is a chef with no political role who made racist comments decades ago. Sharpton made public racist and anti-Semitic comments and started race riots that left people dead. From Tawana Brawley to today, he persists. Deen is a white Southerner being flayed in the town square. Sharpton is a black liberal who was rewarded with an MSNBC contract.
Sharpton has actually stood up and defended Deen. Good for him, but Deen is being held accountable, and Sharpton never was
Deen is just a fat old lady who likes to cook. In contrast, the Reverend Al Sharpt0n pretends to be a moral leader, and a political commentator. So why does MSNBC have lower standards than the Food Network?
It seems that the Jack Boot Thugs of Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control have nothing better to do than to terrorize children*, from Daily Progress:
When a half-dozen men and a woman in street clothes closed in on University of Virginia student Elizabeth Daly, 20, she and two roommates panicked.
That led to Daly spending a night and an afternoon in the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Her initial offense? Walking to her car with bottled water, cookie dough and ice cream just purchased from the Harris Teeter in the Barracks Road Shopping Center for a sorority benefit fundraiser.
AdvertisementA group of state Alcoholic Beverage Control agents clad in plainclothes approached her, suspecting the blue carton of LaCroix sparkling water to be a 12-pack of beer. Police say one of the agents jumped on the hood of her car. She says one drew a gun. Unsure of who they were, Daly tried to flee the darkened parking lot.
Hat tip and reax, Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit:
A reasonable person would have feared for his/her safety — as she did — and would have been within his/her legal rights to shoot them, or run them down. At which point, if experience is any guide, they would have made up some BS cover story. This sort of behavior by law enforcement is a threat to public safety and should not be tolerated. The agents should be fired.
Underage drinking is what a misdemeanor? Rather dramatic use of excessive force. Do we too many law enforcement officers with too many guns? I propose that gun control starts with reducing the number of law enforcement thugs and the number of guns they carry. What say you?
* As defined by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Daly is a mere child.
I’m at the Bronx, as I post this, and it is hot. Radio says 80, my truck’s intakes read 95. Really humid, though. They say the area is supposed to catch heavy rain today tomorrow.
The liberal news media down here is all a flutter about the USSC yesterday. Another basic of society, has been uprooted. Can this be without damage? I ddon’t think so, nor, apparently do most Americans, since every time its come to referendum, its been defeated.
Now, the homosexual left think they have won, buI wonder if they understand that their victory now means they now fall under the higher taxes straight couples have been paying for generations.
Look, gang, what this is, is simple. Obamas presidency has been an outright disaster, even from the point of a lot of Democrats. The ever growing list of crimes attached to this administration has the left squirming in their chairs. So, we see Obama back in Europe, atBrandenburg putting on a show that even the attendees… invitation only, by the way… said was for the benefit of Americans, not the Euros… blabbering about left wing causes such as global warming, etc… he is outright desperate to divert attention from his problems and get his base back behind him.
Personally,I wonder if his base is quite that gullible. No, it wwouldn’t surprise me,but that is now the question.. can he save his image among leftists? Stay tuned, I guess.
Its shameful how I’ve let this thing languish. Thing is, I simply don’t have time to feed this thing the longer form postings I used to. At least, with back links and all that. But, I think I’ve figured out a way to keep things flowing… shorter posts and ccomma ts as they come to me. Oh, ill still be posting long form stiff as i get the time., and bandwidth. But for now watch for me to be putting up maybe a paragraph at a time, on a given subject. We will see how this works. (I guess it works for Glenn, right?)
Me on Facebook, just now…
I heard Obama mutter something about how it was a proud day for Democracy. (Or is that small d? Either way…) WTH has democracy of any stripe to do with it? I mean leaving aside Billy’s longtime arguments against it, (and Franklins, for that matter) the facts play differently. If democracy of any stripe had thing one to do with it, homosexual “marriage” would have been defeated outright, since every time its come to a vote, it was overwhelmingly trounced.
No, this is activist judges, over-ruling the will of the people…. and that’s true regardless where you stand on the issue itself.
I admit my disappointment. I was looking forward to slamming the Reverend Al Sharpton, from Puffington Post:
Reverend Al Sharpton spoke out on the controversy surrounding Paula Deen, saying she should be held accountable for acts committed now and not those committed 20 years ago. The disgraced celebrity chef is in the midst of a media firestorm following the revelation she admitted to using a racial epithet.
reax: Sister Toldjah:
In light of reports Deen admitted using racial slurs in the past, the Food Network announces Ms. Deen’s contract will not be renewed after this month. Yet serial racist Al Sharpton is considered a “respectable” Dem w/ a TV gig and friends in high places. Why?
The liberal media loves to attack those who will not attack back. Thus racists like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama get free passes, while the media savages a fat old lady with gray hair. Didn’t anybody tell the lame streams that Deen is a democrat?
Just how stupid does one have to be to write for the New York Times:
DENVER — A Colorado school district discriminated against a transgender first grader when it refused to let her use the girl’s bathroom, the state’s civil rights division has determined, a decision gay and transgender advocates say will have an indelible impact on how such cases are handled in the future.
[…]
The dispute over whether Coy [Mathis], 6, should be allowed to use the girls’ bathroom was seen by some as a critical test of how state antidiscrimination laws were applied to transgender students.
Born biologically a boy, Coy began identifying as a girl after just a few years, growing her wispy blond hair long, wearing dresses, and telling family and friends they should refer to her as female.
Coy is a boy. In what alternative universe does putting a dress on a boy make him into a girl?
Addendum: Reax, RS McCain:
Real Life Is Not a Reality TV Audition
Maybe you saw the story via Althouse: Colorado officials have ruled that an elementary school was guilty of “discrimination” for not letting Coy Mathis use the girl’s bathroom. Coy is 6 and thinks he’s a girl. The ruling cited “evolving research on transgender development.”
So question if somebody were to hog tie Stacy and make him wear a dress, would it be proper to call her a girl? Is Coy really transgendered, what ever that may mean, or does merely suffer from a mother who does not know how to dress him?
Call this Wagging the Dog. The Obama administration has known for a year that Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons on his own people. Evidence, up until now, the Obama administration has seen fit to ignore. Now. all of a sudden, in the midst of scandals galore, IRS, NSA. the State Department protection of a pedophile and the debacle in Benghazi, the Obama administration now admits what everyone already know, Assad as gassing his own people, from News and Observer:
President Obama should stand in front of the cameras and give us the evidence and explain his “red line” and what he wants to do about it. He should discuss what intervention would look like, and what might happen, and why an odious Assad government that doesn’t seek to kill Americans (so far as we know) is worse than a Syria under part or total control of extremists who might want to kill Americans. And why the third scenario — “the good rebels option” — has a chance of succeeding.
And if he wants to intervene, he should ask for a congressional vote yea or nay, so all those armchair generals in Congress will have to take a recorded stand on the House and Senate floors, as opposed to their saber rattling on Sunday morning talk shows.
No teleprompters, no surrogates, no talking points, no /Susan Rice, President Obama needs to man up and tell his people why he wants to take his country to war.
