**Official** Trayvon Martin thread

[azxd]

Oh look, the coincidence theorist are at it again.

The place is full of them ... Always looking for an excuse.

 

[MelissaWV]

The place is full of them ... Always looking for an excuse.

As others have pointed out, this story does strike a chord with a lot of people.

It's not a conspiracy or coincidence. It's how the news gets reported. At any given moment, there are "big stories" available that fill just about any category. People are talking about how big stars must have been part of the conspiracy. Nope. They were part of the reaction. The reaction is coming now, and not when this actually happened, just like the Kony video didn't pop up when the child armies were even en vogue.

So why did the media decide to play this particular story to death right now?

That's not begging for a conspiracy. That's just critical thinking.

Look up the term "brutal slaying" sometime. There are seriously lots and lots of local stories that could be blown up to a national level. Why the media picks one, and not another, is actually a "science" of sorts.

 

[MelissaWV]

A Baltimore prosecutor offered jurors in a murder trial a painful and troubling portrait Wednesday of the victim's final moments, describing how a killer "suffocated and butchered" the boy, whose screams for help she said went unheard by a relative who had passed out from heroin.

Assistant State's Attorney Jennifer Hastings held up two oversized pictures of 15-year-old Jason Mattison Jr., pointed to the suspect sitting just feet from the Circuit Court jury and said the victim "met with a nightmare, and that nightmare is Dante Parrish."

Parrish is a convicted murderer whose sentenced was reduced with the help of the Innocence Project.

...

Jason had been a standout at West Baltimore's Vivian T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy, a school oriented toward students wanting to become doctors, nurses and paramedics. Lauded as talkative, bright and friendly, the lanky teen made no secret that he was gay, displaying a witty attitude and quirky dress.

He felt at home at school, where 80 percent of the 425 students were female, often arriving before the first bell and staying long after the day had ended to do homework. People, including his family, were less accepting of his sexual identity, and the prosecutor said he was not welcome in his grandmother's or mother's homes.

"He went from place to place to keep a roof over his head," Hastings said in court. He felt welcome at the house owned by his great-aunt on Llewellyn Avenue, but the prosecutor said there was little adult supervision, many occupants spent the days shooting heroin, drinking and playing cards, and keeping the front door open to random visitors.

Now THAT is a terrible story.

 

[azxd]

As others have pointed out, this story does strike a chord with a lot of people.

It's not a conspiracy or coincidence. It's how the news gets reported. At any given moment, there are "big stories" available that fill just about any category. People are talking about how big stars must have been part of the conspiracy. Nope. They were part of the reaction. The reaction is coming now, and not when this actually happened, just like the Kony video didn't pop up when the child armies were even en vogue.

So why did the media decide to play this particular story to death right now?

That's not begging for a conspiracy. That's just critical thinking.

Look up the term "brutal slaying" sometime. There are seriously lots and lots of local stories that could be blown up to a national level. Why the media picks one, and not another, is actually a "science" of sorts.

Yea, it's called bullshit stories, and this thread along with the other threads about this story prove that the MSM is doing a great job at distracting the public from the things that matter.

I have little hope for this nation, and only hope I am not seriously F'd with before I depart this place.

 

[AuH20]

Will Smith and all other sanctimonious black celebrities need to wake up from their ethnic induced slumber. Jon Corzine essentially steals 1.5 billion dollars and then proceeds to commit perjury during a congressional inquiry, and he's walking around free. That act of heinous theft and manipulation upon thousands of investors far exceeds anything Zimmerman did, but I don't hear any cries for justice. I can't understand how the sheep in this country are so low brow, myopic and ignorant.

 

[MelissaWV]

Of course. If you think the death of one person is important, then you must automatically not give a shit about the trouble the nation is in.

What sound logic.

 

[AuH20]

Of course. If you think the death of one person is important, then you must automatically not give a shit about the trouble the nation is in.

What sound logic.

Look at the intensity of the media coverage. The marches. I'm pretty sure there is an agenda being pushed. And it's disgusting. No peep about Corzine or Fast and furious? Meanwhile, a black kid gets shot and it's as big as the OJ trial.

 

[kylejack]

Look at the intensity of the media coverage. The marches. I'm pretty sure there is an agenda being pushed. And it's disgusting. No peep about Corzine or Fast and furious? Meanwhile, black kid gets shot and it's as big as the OJ trial.

Yeah, the agenda is that racism is a vile, disgusting thing, especially so when institutionalized. It's an agenda I support 100%.

If you want marches about economic injustice and banksters stealing all our money, there's a really big one I can refer you to called Occupy.

 

[azxd]

Of course. If you think the death of one person is important, then you must automatically not give a shit about the trouble the nation is in.

What sound logic.

BINGO and + REP to you !!!

 

[AuH20]

Yeah, the agenda is that racism is a vile, disgusting thing, especially so when institutionalized. It's an agenda I support 100%.

How do you know racism precipitated the incident?

 

[kylejack]

How do you know racism precipitated the incident?

Because Zimmerman said "fucking coons" on the 911 call just a few minutes before gunning down a kid with Skittles and iced tea.

 

[azxd]

Yeah, the agenda is that racism is a vile, disgusting thing, especially so when institutionalized. It's an agenda I support 100%.

If you want marches about economic injustice and banksters stealing all our money, there's a really big one I can refer you to called Occupy.

Occupy is for assholes who just want to gripe about their personal problems, and lay blame upon others for their misfortunes.

 

[AuH20]

Because Zimmerman said "fucking coons" on the 911 call just a few minutes before gunning down a kid with Skittles and iced tea.

That's still up for interpretation. Fucking punks or fucking coons has not been confirmed.

 

[MelissaWV]

Because Zimmerman said "fucking coons" on the 911 call just a few minutes before gunning down a kid with Skittles and iced tea.

Actually it's also been alleged, after some analysis, that he said "fucking punk(s)."

 

[kylejack]

Sounds like coons to me, but regardless, Zimmerman made 46 calls to police since January 2011, often reporting "suspicious black males", once a kid who was "7 to 9 years old." I've called the police like twice in my entire life.

 

[azxd]

Actually it's also been alleged, after some analysis, that he said "fucking punk(s)."

YES, kill white kids on dope ... Or we could blame the band that made the prhase popular.

Allegations are like............................................ Sorry the forum says I can't give you any more REP right now.

 

[Zatch]

Trayvon suspended from school for 10 days just before killed & may have been gang member

http://www.wagist.com/2012/dan-linehan/was-trayvon-martin-a-drug-dealer

 

[kylejack]

Occupy is for assholes who just want to gripe about their personal problems, and lay blame upon others for their misfortunes.

Their most common chant is "banks got bailed out, we got sold out." Who disagrees with that? Occupy is many things, but the poster seemed to be complaining that there wasn't media coverage or marches about the fleecing banksters have done...there have been plenty of both, including extensive media coverage of Corzine.

 

[azxd]

Sounds like coons to me, but regardless, Zimmerman made 46 calls to police since January 2011, often reporting "suspicious black males", once a kid who was "7 to 9 years old."

Source doesn't matter, but ... It does add to the drama of an intentionally misguided nation.

 

[azxd]

Their most common chant is "banks got bailed out, we got sold out." Who disagrees with that? Occupy is many things, but the poster seemed to be complaining that there wasn't media coverage or marches about the fleecing banksters have done...there have been plenty of both, including extensive media coverage of Corzine.

We can focus on trivial BS, or stuff that matters ... Time to make some decisions

P.S. I like these threads ... They remove the mind from what ails the nation.