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To What Lengths Did Someone Go
to Scapegoat George Zimmerman?

PJ Tatler, by Bryan Preston

Original Article

Posted By:StormCnter, 12/5/2012 4:46:35 AM

The “new” photo of George Zimmerman raises some very disturbing issues. Take a look at the black and white version of the photo, which the Florida prosecutor gave to the defense as part of the discovery process shortly after his altercation with Trayvon Martin. (Snip for photo)Other than color, what else is missing from this photo? Can you tell how old George Zimmerman is? To me, he looks like he could be any age from 20 to more than 50. But the graininess and lack of visible hair on the top of his head suggest that he is an older man.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Sfacheem, 12/5/2012 6:35:27 AM     (No. 9049313)

What "lengths"??

All you have to do is:
1. Be black.
2. Yell "racism".
3. Sit back and watch the MSM feeding frenzy.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Mai Bad, 12/5/2012 6:54:41 AM     (No. 9049331)

Yo...yo...IT WAS BUSH!!! Er..Ah...Yeah..That´s the ticket!!


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Kitty Myers, 12/5/2012 6:56:37 AM     (No. 9049333)

Hit those FACEBOOK and TWITTER buttons Lucianne has provided us and share this with everyone. And keep George Zimmerman and his family in your prayers.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Keekng, 12/5/2012 6:59:07 AM     (No. 9049336)

Much like the Duke Lacrosse fiasco.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Patchy Groundfog, 12/5/2012 7:04:06 AM     (No. 9049339)

It´s a farce to be sure but let us not forget that the current president was among the first to stick his oar in when he lacked any facts such as these.

Makes you wonder what other decisions he´s made in a vacuum. My guess: all of them.


Reply 6 - Posted by: right-turn, 12/5/2012 7:06:46 AM     (No. 9049342)

Don´t forget that the FBI went around trying to find someone to say that Zimmerman was a racist. Why was the FBI even involved??? Who ordered it?

How many hundreds and hundreds of shootings take place in Chicago without the FBI being involved? Does anyone investigate?


Reply 7 - Posted by: ynaught, 12/5/2012 7:13:36 AM     (No. 9049351)

It was the same person who only released the years old photos of the sweet, smiling Trayvon instead of the recent, tattooed and threatening Trayvon.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: tocsin, 12/5/2012 7:19:43 AM     (No. 9049358)

#6-´´How many hundreds and hundreds of shootings take place in Chicago without the FBI being involved?´´

Because the FBI is not a racist organization?
s/


Reply 9 - Posted by: rabbit, 12/5/2012 7:32:06 AM     (No. 9049374)

I agree there is a big difference in the photos, but I sincerely doubt such sinister reasoning. If you have ever scanned a photo into a computer, you know there are multiple settings and the size of the stored file depends on which settings you use. Take a color photo, scan in black and white...and you get this result. It likely was because the person needed a black and white version of the photo or needed a much smaller file than the original.


Reply 10 - Posted by: JAN, 12/5/2012 7:34:08 AM     (No. 9049382)

#9 needs to troll elsewhere.


Reply 11 - Posted by: Really?, 12/5/2012 7:47:00 AM     (No. 9049402)

The difference in the two photographs is startling, but not nearly as different as the photos we were shown of Trayvon. It was weeks before I realized that Trayvon was more than 10 years old. The press KEPT showing pictures of a MUCH younger Trayvon. Kind of reminds you of the Benghazi reports doesn´t it.

We have a corrupt media and we need to start punishing that by NOT subscribing or watching. The advertisers will notice the lack of audience.


Reply 12 - Posted by: LouD, 12/5/2012 7:56:36 AM     (No. 9049418)

Advertisers won´t notice, #11, until people stop buying their products. Fewer $$$ really makes them sit up and take notice.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: Libertygal, 12/5/2012 8:17:20 AM     (No. 9049450)

Many of Trayvon´s photos were photoshopped as well, particularly the one of him in the white hoodie. His skin tone was lightened and the complexion smoothed to give a more youthful innocence to it. His eyes wete changed, and the area around the face blackened, the white hoodie brightened immensely. The resulting image displayed to the public was of an angelic, almost haloed appearing innocent child, pure as the new snow.

You can google photoshopped Trayvon images for the comparisons.

Lest you forget the much touted MSNBC police Department intake video showing him going into the holding area intentionally blurred and altered then shown on air to declarations that there were no injuries afterall, and he was walking just fine.

Would this be the same media channel that just met at the WH with Obama last night for Tax Cliff talks?

Staterun media does what Obama says. Afterall, if he had a son....


Reply 14 - Posted by: Gretchen, 12/5/2012 8:19:14 AM     (No. 9049454)

And isn´t it interesting that Angela Corey and Pam Bondi, two of the people responsible for this false prosecution, this malicious prosecution, are...Republicans.

Wake up.


Reply 15 - Posted by: connor, 12/5/2012 8:23:55 AM     (No. 9049469)

I don´t know when it began, but the media has become sickening. I suspect it was at a slow brew during the Nixon administration. I remember being a young woman and back then had no interest in politics, but I wondered about the media frenzy. In the back of my mind I couldn´t see what was so earth shattering about what happened. What was I missing? I saw the media gloating over Nixon´s humiliation and resignation.

Today it is over. We as a unified country are over. We have reached the tipping point. I cannot express how sad and defeated I feel. Until an entire generation lives through liberalism and sees the utter destruction it wreaks, nothing will happen. The media is on their side and is working daily and diligently to affect change.


Reply 16 - Posted by: Calvinesq, 12/5/2012 8:41:13 AM     (No. 9049490)

Now that the election is over. The charges will be quietly dropped.

MSM has no shame. Just an agenda.


Reply 17 - Posted by: earlybird, 12/5/2012 8:41:49 AM     (No. 9049491)

Those of us who have followed this sorry case from Day One, especially the incredible investigative work done by theconservativetreehouse.com, know that great lengths were gone to to scapegoat this young man.

The guilty parties include, but are not limited to, racist ambulance-chasing lawyer Benjamin Crump and his associates, Angela Corey, Jeff Weiner at the Orlando Sentinel, Matt Gutman of ABC News (and his brainless mouthpiece Diane Sawyer), PR type Ryan Julison, who worked diligently with attorney Crump, the Martin family, Matt Gutman, to project the negative image of George Zimmerman and create a public perception that he was some sort of white profiling vigilante who just had to be guilty of shooting this innocent young boy. Throw in the Sanford Police Department, who may still have been angry that Zimmerman went after them about their whitewashing the beating of a black homeless man by the white son of a senior member of the Sanford Police Department.


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: earlybird, 12/5/2012 8:42:24 AM     (No. 9049494)

#17 cont´d:

The manipulation of photos has been a big part of the scapegoating campaign. It took weeks (months?) to finally see a relatively current photo of the young man Trayvon Martin, not the smiling little boy. We had to wait for court room to see that George Zimmerman was not a person in an orange jail jumpsuit (from a years earlier arrest for a minor offense that was dismissed), but a diligent young married man who worked for a living and tried to protect his wife and the community in which he lived. The video that came into the Martins´ hands and went straight to Diane Sawyer via Ryan Julison and then Matt Gutman, failed to show the wounds on Zimmerman´s head. And just to make sure, ABC ran its banner material over his head to obliterate any traces.

This has been a shameful episode. Zimmerman may never get his life back. It was stolen by irresponsible persons who didn´t give a rat´s patootie about civil rights, but were trying to make some big wrongful death suit bucks.

Hopefully he will get exoneration and his freedom.


Reply 19 - Posted by: SoCalGal, 12/5/2012 8:47:53 AM     (No. 9049498)

Re #9, give it up.

The color photo was taken at the scene by either the police or the paramedics who treated George Zimmerman.

Those are the photos that are used as evidence and provided to BOTH the prosecution and the defense. Not grainy photos so processed that they tell their own erroneous story.

This is not a case to come tripping into blithely and make judgments based on thin air. There is too much evidence of scapegoating and manipulation for a reasonable person to ignore.


Reply 20 - Posted by: LZK, 12/5/2012 8:57:03 AM     (No. 9049511)

This is the time WE are living in.....

A black president out for revenge has corrupted our justice system and now George Zimmerman will pay for obama´s background of so/called abuse at the hands of society....

Sad.....

LZK


Reply 21 - Posted by: Keekng, 12/5/2012 8:57:29 AM     (No. 9049513)

If #9 is serious, perhaps we can sell him a bridge.


Reply 22 - Posted by: SpeedMaster, 12/5/2012 8:59:04 AM     (No. 9049515)

If the prosecution supplied the defense the BW photo when the original color was available that is gross misconduct and the judge should throw the case out. The citizens of Sanford Fl have more to fear from a DA which hides or manufactures evidence then from a armed neighborhood watch citizen who was attacked.


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: Coy860, 12/5/2012 9:06:07 AM     (No. 9049528)

It dawned on me as I looked at the authentic picture..as this story first broke, the msm was scrounging for anything to help Obama win re-election.
As this came across the wires, press picked it up and I believe they at FIRST thought it was a Jewish man (Zimmerman) and WHITE WHITE WHITE ! They had to backtrack and so invented the "WHITE hispanic" label.
The msm wanted a race issue from the first.
Stupid Angela Corey played right into their hands. That court appearance with the 2 JAX investigators was a mess.


Reply 24 - Posted by: coyote, 12/5/2012 9:16:37 AM     (No. 9049542)

The Photoshopping of this photo together with the release of a photo of a young, innocent-looking Martin clearly demonstrates intent to frame Zimmerman. It´s doubtful that the police did it, and that leaves several other candidates. The parents would not want to blame their son for initiating an assult, and they would probably not have expertise nor the quick reaction to alter the evidense. Sharpton was around, and he or some aides probably alerted a news contact. Such contacts would have the necessary expertise and, being aligned with Sharpton, were probably selected for their motivation. That´s where inquiring minds should look.


Reply 25 - Posted by: TheMotherCO, 12/5/2012 9:21:23 AM     (No. 9049552)

I remember a group of cackeling black women relatives of trayons´ all enthused about money they would get from Zimmerman. One of the most disgusting things I even have seen. Never been prejudiced but bammy and his crew plus this is beginning to get on my main nerve.


Reply 26 - Posted by: janjan, 12/5/2012 9:29:06 AM     (No. 9049565)

Totally agree with #12. Advertisers are very sensitive to public opinion. Those commercials cost a lot of money. The media are manipulating people and we need to make them stop.

And #9 - an idiot can see that this photo was deliberately made to hide Zimmerman´s injuries and race.


Reply 27 - Posted by: sherlock1, 12/5/2012 9:30:14 AM     (No. 9049568)

"Makes you wonder what other decisions he´s made in a vacuum. My guess: all of them."

If he made them using his brain, you´re right.


Reply 28 - Posted by: earlybird, 12/5/2012 10:16:17 AM     (No. 9049696)

For those who have an interest in this case (we all should)...

From an article today:

"Why Did George Zimmerman View Trayvon As ´suspicious´?"

This question has dogged the entire narrative from the very beginning. People threw around the term “profile” in a racial sense. However, as more and more FBI and State investigative witness testimony/statements are reviewed the answer looms obvious.

Trayvon Martin looked suspicious because he fit the same behavioral and descriptive outline of the prior criminals in the Retreat at Twin Lakes sub-division.

It certainly appears George Zimmerman became another well-known victim of Political Correctness and Cultural Marxism run amok, here’s why:

First, let’s look at who George Zimmerman saw on the night in question…."


Read more here:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2012/12/05/why-did-george-zimmerman-view-trayvon-as-suspicious/

This piece includes quoted statements from some of the witnesses who live in the Twin Lakes community - some black, some other minorities - who knew of the incidents involving young black males. It is interesting that the first quotes a black male as saying that Twin Lakes is more upscale economically and that hoodies and jeans are not standard attire there. The others talk about specific incidents.

They also talk about how helpful Zimmerman was.


Reply 29 - Posted by: SoCalGal, 12/5/2012 10:34:02 AM     (No. 9049742)

Reuters did an investigation of Zimmerman last April. I never saw it. Did you?

In addition to giving his life history, it also went into his relationships in the community. He was a virtual hero in a community the increasingly felt it was under siege. By young black criminals.

Though civil rights demonstrators have argued Zimmerman should not have prejudged Martin, one black neighbor of the Zimmermans said recent history should be taken into account.

"Let´s talk about the elephant in the room. I´m black, OK?" the woman said, declining to be identified because she anticipated backlash due to her race. She leaned in to look a reporter directly in the eyes. "There were black boys robbing houses in this neighborhood," she said. "That´s why George was suspicious of Trayvon Martin."


Recommend this for reading by those who know little or nothing about this case. And some, like me, who never saw it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/25/us-usa-florida-shooting-zimmerman-idUSBRE83O18H20120425

So compelling that even the biased Global Grind printed excerpts from it in an article about "a different portrait emerging" about George Zimmerman.


Reply 30 - Posted by: toddh, 12/5/2012 10:36:23 AM     (No. 9049753)

It is my understanding that exculpatory evidence must be made available to the defense. This photo is mighty exculpatory.


Reply 31 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 12/5/2012 10:45:40 AM     (No. 9049781)

"The difference in the two photographs is startling, but not nearly as different as the photos we were shown of Trayvon..."

#9 can probably explain that away as well...


Reply 32 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 12/5/2012 11:09:11 AM     (No. 9049860)

My fear was that this case would be rushed to trial before there was time for all the facts to get out. Why that did not happen, I don´t know. Zimmerman is very lucky he is not serving a 20 year to life sentence right now.


Reply 33 - Posted by: Ida Lou Pino, 12/5/2012 11:09:12 AM     (No. 9049862)

I haven´t been following this too closely - - just skimming the headlines and glancing at the photos.

From what I understand - - a little black choir boy was murdered by a white racist thug who was looking for trouble.

Is that about the size of it?


Reply 34 - Posted by: texas_gop, 12/5/2012 11:28:18 AM     (No. 9049930)

#9, #9, #9 - in this day and age do you really think taht scanning in a photo at low resolution and in B&W was the only option? Get real. It was no doubt already a digital picture. Why would you have to scan it at all?


Reply 35 - Posted by: Aunt Agnes, 12/5/2012 12:15:18 PM     (No. 9050029)

Let´s all stop picking on No. 9! I work with Photoshop a lot & if a person is inexperienced or in a hurry or working with older versions of the software - you could come up with a grainy scan. It is possible to NOT be an expert with editing software & come up with that image! My own two cents - I thought when I first heard Zimmerman´s name that he was Jewish. Years ago, I had a good friend who´s last name was Zimmer & he was Jewish. My second thought on seeing Martin´s very young photo was that our lib media was trying to make the case that a grown Jewish man shot a little black kid - now WHY would our media want to pit two groups against each other?


Reply 36 - Posted by: 4Justice, 12/5/2012 12:22:06 PM     (No. 9050041)

#9 is probably just playing devil´s advocate. But he is still way wrong. Anyway, don´t forget how they all made a BIG deal about Zimmerman´s lower bail and saying he "intentionally lied" about how much money he had available. That was also a set-up. It makes me sick that people are allowed to get away with destroying a person´s life simply for their own personal gain without any consequences. Corey should be disbarred and thrown in jail. She was using this to divert attention away from her incompetence in other cases. What surprised me is that Scott and Bondi BOTH played into this. I thought they would have a little more integrity....guess not.


Reply 37 - Posted by: eorsc, 12/5/2012 3:34:37 PM     (No. 9050345)

Stalking should be illegal and Zimmerman was certainly stalking that boy, yet I´ve never seen that mentioned. He went looking for trouble and that frightened young man fought for his life. Unfortunately the perp and his gun won.


Reply 38 - Posted by: saguni, 12/5/2012 5:04:08 PM     (No. 9050452)

In no way does Zimmerman´s behavior equate to stalking.

Stalking implies a known victim being followed/harassed numerous times at numerous locations, making threatening phone calls, making repeated attempts to be alone with the victim.

A Neighborhood Watch volunteer, in a marked Neighborhood Watch area, noticed an unknown person behaving "suspiciously" and followed that person while he was walking off the sidewalk, near the apartment windows. He very well may have been "casing" apartments in a neighborhood that had experienced several break-ins in recent weeks, by young black males...and he fit that description.

That is not "stalking" that is doing the job of a Neighborhood Watch volunteer.

If you really think George Zimmerman was "stalking" Trayvon Martin, poster #37, I suggest that you never move to a neighborhood with Neighborhood Watch volunteers.


Reply 39 - Posted by: penelopewaits, 12/5/2012 6:15:51 PM     (No. 9050544)

Yes, Zimmerman´s name and his reworked image made him appear to be Jewish and that was the plan. This story broke two months after the actual incident. Big setup. The good news is that it didn´t really work despite the msm´s best efforts.


Reply 40 - Posted by: rexhandsom, 12/5/2012 11:13:45 PM     (No. 9050811)

I HOPE # 9 reply.... will explain the time and skill the MSM used to edit the 911 call by that Jew who was noting but a Racist, The really funny thing had to be when Sharpton & Jackson found out their big White guy was not White but a White Hispanic..lol lol..... just picture their faces and the look that must have been on those Angelic Faces of Color, Darn it, there goes our lynching part of our story........ then slowly fade away, something will come along again Jessie, right you are Al...... Gee Al, if he only was WHITE what a lousy break.... damnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn



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Sen. John McCain says he doesn´t understand the threats from some of his Republican colleagues to filibuster a bill on background checks to buy guns. "I don´t understand it," the Arizona Republican said on Sunday of the threat coming from Sen. Rand Paul,Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Mike Lee and nine other Republicans. "The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.” "What are we afraid of? ... If this issue is as important as we all think it is, why not take ... it up and debate?"

Hillary Clinton Would Not
´Clear the Field´ for 2016

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New Republic, by Tod Lindberg    Original Article
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No one is more preoccupied these days with Hillary Clinton´s 2016 plans than the Beltway political class—not even the former presidential candidate herself. To hear some tell it, her decision will be dispositive for all other Democrats thinking of entering the race. And pundits and reporters aren´t the only ones positing the "The Hillary Factor": No less than the House Democratic whip, Steny Hoyer, told BuzzFeed, “I don´t know that anybody would run against Hillary…. If she runs, she clears the field.” It´s an understandable conclusion, given Clinton´s stature in the Democratic Party and her 70 percent

Obama critic apologizes for
his ´poorly chosen words´
on gay marriage

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The Hill [Washington DC], by Alexandra Jaffe    Original Article
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Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, considered by some to be a potential Republican contender for president, apologized to Johns Hopkins University for the "poorly chosen words" he used in expressing his opposition to gay marriage last month.“I am sorry for any embarrassment this has caused,” Carson said in the letter, reported in New York Magazine.(Snip) "Although I do believe marriage is between a man and a woman, there are much less offensive ways to make that point. I hope all will look at a lifetime of service over some poorly chosen words.” Carson will remain as commencement speaker at Johns Hopkins,

Mother Of Slain Benghazi
Officer To Sean Hannity:
‘They Want Me To Shut Up’

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Mediaite, by A.J. Delgado    Original Article
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On Friday, Sean Hannity brought Pat Smith, mother of the late Sean Smith, on his radio program. The 34-year-old information management officer was one of four Americans murdered in the Benghazi embassy attack on September 11, 2012. In the chilling interview, a distraught Ms. Smith, in tears, pleaded for answers and spoke of the efforts to silence her. Ms. Smith first relayed how her son, prior to the attack, requested additional security in advance and warned the State Department: He did tell them, ahead of time, he typed it into his little typewriter over there,

Vanishing workforce
weighs on growth

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Washington Post, by Jim Tankersley    Original Article
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Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce. Every month that those would-be workers are gone raises the odds that they might never come back, dimming the prospects for future economic growth. The vanishing trend is more than a decade old, but it accelerated during the Great Recession. Throughout 2012, economists held out hope that it had stopped. But then came Friday’s jobs report, and hopes were dashed. The Labor Department reported that the U.S. labor force — everyone who has a job or is looking for one — shrank

The Secrets of Princeton
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New York Times, by Ross Douthat    Original Article
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Susan Patton, the Princeton alumna who became famous for her letter urging Ivy League women to use their college years to find a mate, has been denounced as a traitor to feminism, to coeducation, to the university ideal. But really she’s something much more interesting: a traitor to her class. Her betrayal consists of being gauche enough to acknowledge publicly a truth that everyone who’s come up through Ivy League culture knows intuitively —

Broadcasters worry
about ´Zero TV´ homes

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Associated Press, by Ryan Nakashima    Original Article
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Los Angeles — Some people have had it with TV. They´ve had enough of the 100-plus channel universe. They don´t like timing their lives around network show schedules. They´re tired of $100-plus monthly bills. A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV service, and don´t even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. (Snip) Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labeling people in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these residences in the U.S., up from

Christians, here´s why we´re
losing our religion

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Fox News, by Craig Groeschel    Original Article
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Recent research indicates that the number of people who do not consider themselves a part of an organized religion is steadily on the rise. Interestingly enough, though the number of those religiously unaffiliated is increasing, there is little to no trend in the number of those who express atheist or agnostic beliefs. People aren’t saying they don’t believe in God. They’re saying they don’t believe in religion. They are not rejecting Christ. They are rejecting the church. This begs the question, “Why are we losing our religion?”

Beyonce, Jay-Z celebrate 5th
anniversary in Havana, Cuba

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Los Angeles Times, by Nardine Saad    Original Article
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Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Cuba this week. The couple, who married on April 4, 2008, took in the sights of Old Havana, visited a school, dined on a rooftop terrace and strolled the fan-filled streets in their island best.(snip).The power couple declined to answer journalists´ questions about their visit to the island nation, but some outlets are reporting that the moguls are there as tourists, though that would be illegal because of the half-century embargo the U.S. has on the Communist country. However, the Miami Herald said Washington has issued special licenses for


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