Zimmerman/Martin

[Memorex]

Jimmy Carter put it best the other day. "America has no functioning democracy."

[steveo777]

And another black man speaks his mind on this issue......

http://gettinafterleftyblog.wordpress.c ... d-trayvon/

This is the part that most people who are out there rioting and screaming for justice, ie., the mob mentality, just don't get:

If Jackson, Sharpton and the NAACP hadn’t jumped on the Trayvon Martin case and made it into a racial matter, nobody would have heard of it. His death would have gone unnoticed, just like the more than 500 black youths that were murdered in Chicago in black-on-black violence last year.

[slucero]

Jimmy Carter put it best the other day. "America has no functioning democracy."

Jimmy outta know better than to call the country a "democracy" when it has never been one, nor did the Founders and Framers intend it to ever be one... although actually as a democracy (form of government) meaning "mob rule".. it's functioning as it should... the mob has slowly been gaining control.

As a Republic.. which is what this country has always been (not a "democracy")... we're in trouble..


The current version of the Dems and Reps are pretty much statists. They merely differ in their points of control vs freedom.

[Boomchild]

The way I see it, it's not about which party etc. etc.. It's about having people in office that do what is best for our country and it's citizens, while respecting the system our founding fathers put in place and upholding the constitution which is the blueprint for what they fought for.

a very noble concept indeed.. but not gonna happen in this day and age..

..the system has been co-opted and corrupted from within.

True. We could at least put things in place to attempt to minimize issues that we are now dealing with. Such as term limits for Congressmen and Senators. Stronger campaign reforms. Changing what a POTUS can do through executive order.

[slucero]

The way I see it, it's not about which party etc. etc.. It's about having people in office that do what is best for our country and it's citizens, while respecting the system our founding fathers put in place and upholding the constitution which is the blueprint for what they fought for.

a very noble concept indeed.. but not gonna happen in this day and age..

..the system has been co-opted and corrupted from within.

True. We could at least put things in place to attempt to minimize issues that we are now dealing with. Such as term limits for Congressmen and Senators. Stronger campaign reforms. Changing what a POTUS can do through executive order.

great idea.. except Congress (the system that has been co-opted and corrupted from within) wouldn't approve those things..

[hoagiepete]

If you don't want to be profiled, has anyone thought about changing the preferred fashion away from hoodies? Three more robberies in my old hometown this weekend, committed by black males wearing...hoodies!

If I walked into a bank with a bandanna covering my face, do you think I might be suspected of robbing the place? Would it then be wise to wear it when out to the convenience store or to the club?

Where has common sense gone. Stop robbing people...in hoodies or stop wearing the frickin' hoodie as a fashion!

[Rick]

If you don't want to be profiled, has anyone thought about changing the preferred fashion away from hoodies? Three more robberies in my old hometown this weekend, committed by black males wearing...hoodies!

If I walked into a bank with a bandanna covering my face, do you think I might be suspected of robbing the place? Would it then be wise to wear it when out to the convenience store or to the club?

Where has common sense gone. Stop robbing people...in hoodies or stop wearing the frickin' hoodie as a fashion!

It's not a fashion anymore. It's a political statement. It's an anti-establishment statement, and done to actually provoke a negative response, and you'll see way more people wearing hoodies as a result of the Trayvon Martin case. The media is on their side, and that is a huge ally. They're pretty much in a no lose situation. Anyone that even speaks negatively of someone wearing a hoodie will automatically be met with the race card.

[Boomchild]

Anyone that even speaks negatively of someone wearing a hoodie will automatically be met with the race card.

Would that also apply when speaking of a white person wearing one?

[Boomchild]

If you don't want to be profiled, has anyone thought about changing the preferred fashion away from hoodies? Three more robberies in my old hometown this weekend, committed by black males wearing...hoodies!

If I walked into a bank with a bandanna covering my face, do you think I might be suspected of robbing the place? Would it then be wise to wear it when out to the convenience store or to the club?

Where has common sense gone. Stop robbing people...in hoodies or stop wearing the frickin' hoodie as a fashion!

I never thought of someone wearing a hoodie equal to someone wearing a bandanna over their face.

[hoagiepete]

If you don't want to be profiled, has anyone thought about changing the preferred fashion away from hoodies? Three more robberies in my old hometown this weekend, committed by black males wearing...hoodies!

If I walked into a bank with a bandanna covering my face, do you think I might be suspected of robbing the place? Would it then be wise to wear it when out to the convenience store or to the club?

Where has common sense gone. Stop robbing people...in hoodies or stop wearing the frickin' hoodie as a fashion!

I never thought of someone wearing a hoodie equal to someone wearing a bandanna over their face.

Good Lord! Do you read the papers, watch the news, read the internet???? It's the modern day get-up for robbers. Are you serious. I'd love to see the stats of the percent of robberies committed while wearing a hoodie.

[Rick]

Anyone that even speaks negatively of someone wearing a hoodie will automatically be met with the race card.

Would that also apply when speaking of a white person wearing one?

I never mentioned a race. However, I'm sure white people will wear them as well as every other race who think that Martin was the victim in this instance.

[JH'sTXfan]

The Trayvon Martin the media never showed us.

Not Trayvon. That's actually a pic of rapper Jayceon Terrell Taylor. I still say, "Welcome to Texas, George."

http://www.google.com/search?q=trayvon+ ... 1&tbm=isch

[Boomchild]

Good Lord! Do you read the papers, watch the news, read the internet???? It's the modern day get-up for robbers. Are you serious. I'd love to see the stats of the percent of robberies committed while wearing a hoodie.

Someone wearing a hoodie doesn't make me suspect that they are up to no good or are going to try and commit a robbery. I think it's a poor way to profile someone.

[hoagiepete]

Google "hoodies worn during robberies" and see what happens.

[The Sushi Hunter]

Google "hoodies worn during robberies" and see what happens.

I don't profile either but for whatever reason hoodies are the look of today's criminal society and anti-social behavior. Look at the crime trend for this data which can't be disputed. Hoodies = thugs + crime.

The unabomber is the one who invented this look cause he was wearing a hoodie during his crime spree long before any other thugs and criminals were.

[artist4perry]

Anyone that even speaks negatively of someone wearing a hoodie will automatically be met with the race card.

Would that also apply when speaking of a white person wearing one?

I never mentioned a race. However, I'm sure white people will wear them as well as every other race who think that Martin was the victim in this instance.

If someone is wearing a hoodie in the dark how could you tell from behind the race of an individual at all? I do think people who commit crimes like wearing them because they hide their identity when it comes to cameras. Regardless of race it is become the fashion of the young generation. I really don't see an article of clothing making one a criminal. However it does make one appear more menacing after dark due to the larger number of criminals who wear them.

[The Sushi Hunter]

So I'm waiting for BOzo's speech about how 35 years ago he could have been one of these attackers. And where is Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to chime in on this after chiming in on the Zimmerman/Martin issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zie7PkZEB4Y

This type of thing is only getting worse. I could post three videos showing blacks savagely beating a white within the last 6 months. Can you even post a single video of white citizens savagely beating a black citizen within say the last year, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years? If you can, please do, I'd seriously love to see what you come up with.

As for the kid who got beat up on the bus, his friends, and relatvies, if they weren't racist before, they probably will be now. And that's the greatest lesson, not taught to them by fellow whites, but by the blacks themselves.

[Boomchild]

Interesting information with regards to Trayvon Martin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXWlquZ-e_E