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-Lurid Crime Tales-
DOJ to investigate Zimmerman for Federal Civil Rights charges
h/t Donald Sensing
On Sunday afternoon, the Obama Department of Justice announced that it would pursue investigation into George Zimmerman. That announcement came just hours after Zimmerman was acquitted for second-degree murder and manslaughter in the killing of Trayvon Martin, and within one day of the NAACP calling on the DOJ for an investigation.
RevengeTM
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2013 02:02 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any news on slain Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, or other info on F&F and the clandestine shipment of arms to Mexico Mr. Attorney General ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 3:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Holder and his race baiting pals have been in the middle of this from the very beginning. 12 April 2012 Rooters article.

"We have a very ... high bar that we have to meet in order to bring federal charges in this case so we are continuing in that regard," Holder said at a news conference.

The Justice Department would have to determine a crime was intentional and also motivated by race to bring such charges.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 3:53 Comments || Top||

#3  both the special prosecutor in the Murder case and the FbI are on record as saying that the killing was not done because of race.
Posted by: lord garth || 07/15/2013 6:15 Comments || Top||

#4  It's all about keeping the Blacks on the Dem plantation while Obama enacts policies that make it even harder for black people to find jobs.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/15/2013 9:08 Comments || Top||

#5  And there will be a spate of legislation intended to tighten up on future George Zimmermans that will end up being used to send more young black males to jail.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/15/2013 9:23 Comments || Top||

#6  None of this is happenstance or coincidence. It is systematically fueled and stoked. All in all a very effective public relations and psychological Warfare (PSYWAR) campaign carried off by the regime. Divide and conquer; one of the oldest of political and military strategies.

Whilst the Zimmerman seething and rage continue and enjoys a host of media coverage, issues like Benghazi [you do remember Benghazi?], Fast & Furious, The Affordable Health Care Act, the economy, national debt, Egypt, Syria, Israel and a host of other regime cockups escape scrutiny.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 9:37 Comments || Top||

#7  Indeed. I'm still waiting on my Jovan Belcher toxicology report; I was initially told he had a 0.15% Blood Howdy Doody Level.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2013 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  What could the charge be, when the FBI cleared Mr. Zimmerman of racism? link
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2013 12:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Trailing Wife,
I believe the finding by the FBI does not prevent them from changing their mind (especially if there is "new guidance" from above or new evidence).

Zimmerman already lost his job and will have to wear a bulletproof vest for the rest of his life. I expect that anyone who hires him will be "leaned on" a la Koch Industries or Gibson Guitars.

It's not personal, it's strictly business.
Posted by: Frozen Al || 07/15/2013 13:36 Comments || Top||

#10  I believe the results of the trial are what the Dems hoped for but the timing is off as most people will have moved on by the 2014 election so this extra bit of investigation is designed to adjust that timing for effect.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/15/2013 14:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Let's assume there had been a series of burglaries in the neighborhood all committed by long-legged busty young blonde girls and Neighborhood Watch were on the lookout for long-legged busty young blonde girls (repeated for improved ranking), would that be sexist?
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/15/2013 14:50 Comments || Top||

#12  a series of burglaries in the neighborhood all committed by long-legged busty young blonde girls

You've got the makings for one fine-ass made-for-TV movie there, EC. (yeah, pun intended)
Posted by: SteveS || 07/15/2013 15:02 Comments || Top||

#13  With long-legged busty young blonde girls nothing really can't get wrong
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/15/2013 15:17 Comments || Top||

#14  Do they have shorter, busty redheaded protagonist?
Posted by: Charles || 07/15/2013 15:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Instead of the A-Team we have the LLBYB-Team!

(Long Legged Busty Young Blondes)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2013 16:55 Comments || Top||

#16  If they made a movie about the successful impeachment of Eric "Place" Holder, I'd buy a ticket.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 07/15/2013 17:30 Comments || Top||

#17 
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2013 17:57 Comments || Top||

#18  Actually I changed my mind. the site looked off.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2013 17:59 Comments || Top||

#19  DOJ will either quietly announce that they are declining to press charges when everybody is paying attention to another outrage or loudly announce that they are declining to press charges to distract the country from another outrage.
Posted by: Chantry || 07/15/2013 18:15 Comments || Top||


Obama Says 'Jury Has Spoken' on Killing of Black Teen
[AnNahar] U.S. President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
appealed for calm Sunday after an acquittal in the killing of black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying: "We are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken."

"I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son," he said in a statement the day after a jury found neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman not guilty in a racially-charged trial.

Obama, who had spoken emotively on the case before, noting that if he had a son he would have "looked like Trayvon Martin," reiterated that the impact of the death went much wider than the Florida town of Sanford.

"The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy. Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America. I know this case has elicited strong passions. And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher."
Obama: "This nation is immeasurably poorer for having lost a thug, a burglar, a wannabe gangster and, uh, probably a future murderer. Now is the time for grieving. Let us, uh, mourn together."
He tied the killing of the teenager to the problems surrounding gun use in the United States, an issue on which the president tried but failed to push through new control measures earlier this year.

"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," Obama said.

"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."

Zimmerman, 29, had been accused of pursuing Martin, 17, through a gated community in Sanford, and shooting him during an altercation on the rainy night of February 26, 2012.

A six-woman jury late Saturday acquitted Zimmerman, with spontaneous protests breaking out soon after in U.S. cities including the Socialist paradise of San Francisco
...where God struck dead Anton LaVey, home of the Sydney Ducks, ruled by Vigilance Committee from 1859 through 1867, reliably and volubly Democrat since 1964...
, Philadelphia, reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
, Washington and Atlanta.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/15/2013 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Obama learns slowly.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/15/2013 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  He has never learned.
Posted by: newc || 07/15/2013 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Hey Obumble! The system worked. A citizen was able to defend his own life against a Thug intent on killing a 'crazy ass cracker'!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2013 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  I thought that was quite an easy case. If Trayvon Martin attacked George Zimmerman first, self defense is obvious.

The narrative of events support this version. TM was out of sight, GZ returned to his car when he was attacked. At least nobody could disprove this line of events.

So acquittal was the logical choice, and the only choice.

I don't see how you could prosecute again for violation of civil rights. You don't violate anybody's civil rights when you act in self defense.
Posted by: European Conservative || 07/15/2013 1:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Where there's a will, there's a way, EC.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2013 2:27 Comments || Top||

#6  "We should ask ourselves if we're doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence"

In this case it was 'gun violence' that stopped violent (albeit gun-free) crime. Obama's statement is absurd.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 || 07/15/2013 2:48 Comments || Top||

#7  "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."

"Honoring" a dope smoking, gangster? No thanks POTUS. Take your 'we're all to blame' Groupthink bullshi* elsewhere.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 4:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Prevent future tragedies by improving black culture.

That's where most of the fail is.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2013 6:10 Comments || Top||

#9  BP yes that is a good thought. I don't believe it will happen however. I have lived around this culture all my life. Marion Barry is a good example. He got reelected even when he had a conviction. They don't change. It is a group thought process. The true racists are the black population even against their own. Blacks from outside this country don't think as they do. For example watermelon and chicken are normal words to them but not here. Skin color is not a factor there but here is. I blame our media as seen in the Zimmermann episode. Can you imagine a black coming to this country and attending Howard University. Their place will be learned quickly.
Posted by: Dale || 07/15/2013 6:27 Comments || Top||

#10  The worst thing is that America seems to be exporting the worst excesses of black culture to the world, via the media.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2013 6:48 Comments || Top||

#11  In ref to #9:

What you subsidize [and reinforce in colleges, universities, or through community organizing] you get more of.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 7:17 Comments || Top||

#12  This is not the picture of a small innocent child.

This is a police photograph of Trayvon Martin's body taken the night he was killed and presented to the jury during the George Zimmerman trial. I did not retouch this image.

I think it is important to realize and remember that had he survived there is little doubt that Trayvon Martin would have been charged with at least first degree criminal assault and possibly/probably murder or attempted murder of George Zimmerman.

If President Obama had a son is this really what he would have looked like ?

warning graphic image
Posted by: junkiron || 07/15/2013 8:32 Comments || Top||

#13  Daily Show image of jurors.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 8:45 Comments || Top||

#14  Interesting foto Junkiron. Pushing through hedge, and kneeling in wet grass over a neighborhood watchman might have produced those wet pant legs and sweatshirt. Just say'n.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 8:52 Comments || Top||

#15  This mornings news channel bc line:
subconscience
racisism
in nanoseconds

Of course that is meant to be GZ+jury, not the dandy of enlightenment TM.

As an observation, the silence is deafening. What, some yuppies in Oakland, couple other leftist versions of superbowl sunday. We were promised riots and an end of civilization. Could it be that everyone and their dog knew what happened? Could it be that the black community isn't so interested in taking to the streets for a rich white people problem? Could it be that people are tired of the Boss? Could it be that the only reason this trial was racially charged was the media and prosecution?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 07/15/2013 10:08 Comments || Top||

#16  As more and more of the facts of the George Zimmerman trial came out I noticed that even in the comment section of MSNBC many of the most radical pro Travon Martin voices increasing became silent. Not (in my opinion) because they had changed their minds about anything, but I think because they began to realize just how far overboard people like Rev. Al Sharpton have gone. And in the end it has the potential to loose a lot of white libral votes.

Even though they would never admit it publicly, I think that even the most hardcore NAACP supporters should be able to see that President Obama could hardly care less about Trayvon Martin. What Obama cares about is his own anti-gun agenda and how he can exploit the death of Trayvon Martin to promote it.

I believe the population of the inner cities are sick and tired of the gun violance. But are intellegent, and street wise enough, to know that gun control will not solve the problem for at least the next decade.

Even the most ardent NAACP supporter should be observant enough to see that if Trayvon Martin had had a gun that night he would still be alive. And odds are good that George Zimmerman would be dead.
Posted by: junkiron || 07/15/2013 11:01 Comments || Top||

#17  Trayvon's problems begun long, long, before George Zimmerman came around. Raised by his stepmother (and not his so-loving biological mother since he was three) he's been passed around like a burden most of his life.

That and the 'black culture' being promoted by the media that being Gangsta is 'cool' and beating up 'crazy ass crackers' is acceptable.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/15/2013 11:35 Comments || Top||

#18  The right man died and the right man lived.

If this had been the other way around the MSM would have looked the other way.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/15/2013 12:36 Comments || Top||

#19  The problem is the average person who believes Zimmerman is guilty believes the following untruths:
Zimmerman said racial slurs to the cops.
Zimmerman continued looking for Martin after being ordered to withdraw by police.
The first is clearly untrue by the records and a media manufacture that should cost NBC millions. The second is wrong, but there is room for doubt if one thinks the worst of Zimmerman because of the first issue.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 07/15/2013 14:46 Comments || Top||

#20  Zimmerman’s crimes? Having a “Z” on the wrong end of his last name.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2013 16:17 Comments || Top||

#21  Zimmerman's crime?

Having a "Jewish-sounding" name, which meant to the bigoted race hustlers (and the MSM, but I repeat myself) that he was also white, and thus a two-fer, and they started in before they saw a picture of him and realized he was Hispanic. (Hence the hurried "white Hispanic" bullshit; gotta get the "white" in there somehow.)

The lowest circle of HELL is too nice for these worthless bastards. >:-(
Posted by: Barbara || 07/15/2013 17:18 Comments || Top||

#22  Amen and amen Barb.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 18:30 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Sequester Air Force One ? - A short video
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/15/2013 09:21 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just plain fun!
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/15/2013 13:10 Comments || Top||

#2  YES, we hurt, he hurts, sequester Air Force One.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/15/2013 14:16 Comments || Top||


Fifth Column
U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban, Spreads Government-Made News To Americans
Super....can't wait to see what Obamanoid reportage will look like....
Kind of like the Ministry of Truth.
Oh, hired MS-NBC, did they?
HT: Drudge
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 07/15/2013 12:09 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can't see how it will be any different than the MSM spreading pro-progressive propaganda currently. Seems like they are adding more to an already over saturated market and we all know how well the lefty radio talk shows go.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/15/2013 14:36 Comments || Top||

#2  letter from the NSA IRS: "Your DVR cable box indicates you have not been watching enough Government TV. Your required viewing is 4 hours per calendar day. Further enforcement actions may be necessary if corrective action is not taken, Citizen"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/15/2013 15:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Yet another thing the usual persecutors would be upset about if we had a rethuglican presnident.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 07/15/2013 15:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Watch ABC and you'd think this ban had been lifted a long time ago.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/15/2013 15:52 Comments || Top||

#5  MSM has outlived its usefulness?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 07/15/2013 17:35 Comments || Top||

#6  MSM is already folded into the govt propaganda organ. This just makes it O-fishhal.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/15/2013 21:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Ironically, Pravda is now far more accurate than MSNBC or NBC for that matter.
Posted by: newc || 07/15/2013 22:26 Comments || Top||



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Mon 2013-07-15
  Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief found guilty of war crimes
Sun 2013-07-14
  B/Haram: Shekau denies ceasefire
Sat 2013-07-13
  Security operatives raid Boko Haram's den in Sokoto
Fri 2013-07-12
  Report: Al-Qaeda Killed Free Syrian Army Commander
Thu 2013-07-11
  Boko Haram Confirms Ceasefire Agreement
Wed 2013-07-10
  Boko Haram: Borno ANPP in disarray after JTF arrests chairman
Tue 2013-07-09
  Massive car bomb rocks Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut
Mon 2013-07-08
  51 dead, 435 hurt in clashes near pro-Morsi sit-in
Sun 2013-07-07
  Clashes resume outside Cairo, dozens of pro-Morsi protesters arrested
Sat 2013-07-06
  Thirty killed in alleged Boko Haram attack on Nigeria boarding school
Fri 2013-07-05
  Morsi Loyalists Clash With Soldiers in Cairo Protests
Thu 2013-07-04
  Big party in Tahrir Square!
Wed 2013-07-03
  Egypt army dumps Morsi
Tue 2013-07-02
  Guards of senior Muslim Brotherhood figure arrested in Egypt
Mon 2013-07-01
  Egyptian military gives 48 hour ultimatum to Brotherhood, political forces


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