George Zimmerman Stirs A New Scandal For Sanford Police!

                     


Wake the world up, George Zimmerman is a buddy to the police!

Sanford, Florida is the city where the young man shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an unarmed teenager who was heading home after leaving the local 7-Eleven store. Zimmerman was arrested and then released. He claimed it was self-defense. The city's police department let him go, and hence the controversy.

More photos are appearing of Zimmerman's injuries and yet the story remains the young man killed the unarmed teenager.

The coroner's office reports that Martin has traces THC, a substance found in marijuana. Yet the story remains that this young man killed the unarmed teenager.

This controversy involving George Zimmerman's "friendly" relationship with the Sanford Police Department was uncovered by ABC News.



According to several resources, the George Zimmerman story tells of Trayvon Martin being the one who attacked Zimmerman.

The safety of Zimmerman came to the conclusion of shooting and killing the young teenager.

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press, there's word that some of the key witnesses to Zimmerman are unsure of who agitated the fight in which it led to the deadly shooting.

They were re-interviewed in mid-March, after Sanford police handed the case off to State Attorney Norm Wolfinger. The case changed hands again when Florida Gov. Rick Scott passed it on to a special prosecutor.

Zimmerman was arrested April 11 on a charge of second-degree murder.

Here are the key ways in which their stories changed.

• Witness 2: A young woman who lives in the Retreat at Twin Lakes community, where Martin was shot, was interviewed twice by Sanford police and once by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

She told authorities that she had taken out her contact lenses just before the incident. In her first recorded interview with Sanford police four days after the shooting, she told lead Investigator Chris Serino, "I saw two guys running. Couldn't tell you who was in front, who was behind."

She stepped away from her window, and when she looked again, she "saw a fistfight. Just fists. I don't know who was hitting who."

A week later, she added a detail when talking again to Serino: During the chase, the two figures had been 10 feet apart.

That all changed when she was re-interviewed March 20 by an FDLE agent. That time, she recalled catching a glimpse of just one running figure, she told Investigator John Batchelor, and she heard the person more than saw him.

"I couldn't tell you if it was a man, a woman, a kid, black or white. I couldn't tell you because it was dark and because I didn't have my contacts on or glasses. ... I just know I saw a person out there."

• Witness 12: A young mother who is also a neighbor in the town-home community never gave a recorded interview to Sanford police, according to prosecution records released last week. She first sat down for an audio-recorded interview with an FDLE agent March 20, more than three weeks after the shooting.

During that session, she said she saw two people on the ground immediately after the shooting and was not sure who was on top, Zimmerman or Martin.

"I don't know which one. ... All I saw when they were on the ground was dark colors," she said.

Six days later, however, she was sure: It was Zimmerman on top, she told trial prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda during a 21/2-minute recorded session.

"I know after seeing the TV of what's happening, comparing their sizes, I think Zimmerman was definitely on top because of his size," she said.

• Witness 6: This witness lived a few feet from where Martin and Zimmerman had their fight. On the night of the shooting, he told Serino he saw a black man on top of a lighter-skinned man "just throwing down blows on the guy, MMA-style," a reference to mixed martial arts.

He also said the one calling for help was "the one being beat up," a reference to Zimmerman.

But three weeks later, when he was interviewed by an FDLE agent, the man said he was no longer sure which one called for help.

"I truly can't tell who, after thinking about it, was yelling for help just because it was so dark out on that sidewalk," he said.

He also said he was no longer sure Martin was throwing punches. The teenager may have simply been keeping Zimmerman pinned to the ground, he said.

He did not equivocate, though, about who was on top.

"The black guy was on top," he said.

• Witness 13: He is important because he talked with Zimmerman and watched the way he behaved immediately after the shooting, before police arrived.

After this neighbor heard gunfire, he went outside and spotted Zimmerman standing there with "blood on the back of his head," he told Sanford police the night of the shooting.

Zimmerman told him that Martin "was beating up on me, so I had to shoot him," the witness told Serino. The Neighborhood Watch captain then asked the witness to call his wife, Shellie Zimmerman, and tell her what happened.

In two subsequent interviews about a month later — one with an FDLE investigator and one with de la Rionda — the witness described Zimmerman's demeanor in greater detail, adding that he spoke as if the shooting were no big deal.
 
Zimmerman's tone, the witness said, was "not like 'I can't believe I just shot someone!' — it was more like, 'Just tell my wife I shot somebody ...,' like it was nothing."

White Supremacist Woes: They're Singing The Blues Aren't They?

Send this idiot to American Idol. 

The user from YouTube is a white supremacist.

This guy is venting frustrations about the Black single mother. He complains about the single woman spending his taxpayer dollars to raise her seven "niglets" and he hope he would kill her so his problems were gone.

Extremists are finding a home online and it's insane. Listen to this moron sing his "Shaniqua Blues" a tribute to the single Black mother raising children on a "hard working" White person's dime.

Warning the contents are explicit:



This video doesn't get much attention online because it's one of millions of others that managed to sneak through YouTube. YouTube prohibits hate speech and yet, it continues online, here through Blogger and the two core social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook.

Dennis Mahon and his twin brother plotted to kill a Civil Rights leader by sending package bombs. He was found guilty of by a federal court and was sentenced for 40 years.

But in this outrage within the White supremacists community, one person is facing federal charges for his hate of the Black community. An Arizona man was sentenced to 40 years in a federal prison for a domestic terrorism case that injured a man. This is one of the many hate crimes that go unnoticed when conservatives are looking to find the next Black on White crime.

A federal court found Dennis Mahon, age 61, was found guilty in sending a package pipe bomb that injured a man in 2010. The incident badly injured a Black person. The victim Don Logan suffered severe burns on his face and hands after opening a package that was directed to him at his Scottsdale, Arizona diversity center.

Dennis was betrayed by his twin brother Daniel, 61 and a woman, Rebecca Williams, 41 who Dennis dated during the time of the incident. They were federal informants. His brother was cleared of the charges.

According to the Associated Press, Prosecutors argued at trial that the Mahon brothers bombed Logan on behalf of a group called the White Aryan Resistance, which they said encourages members to act as "lone wolves" and commit violence against non-whites and the government.

Prosecutors showed surveillance tapes of the brothers referring to Logan in racial slurs. They also played a voicemail that Dennis Mahon left at Scottsdale's diversity office just months before the bombing in which he angrily said: "The white Aryan resistance is growing in Scottsdale. There's a few white people who are standing up."

Defense attorneys said Logan's job made him unpopular and someone working for the city of Scottsdale was likely the perpetrator.

They also heavily criticized the use of 41-year-old Rebecca Williams as an informant, giving her the nickname "trailer park Mata Hari" — a reference to the Dutch exotic dancer who was convicted of working as a spy for Germany during World War I.

Investigators met the former stripper through her brother, an informant himself on the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, and recruited her for the Mahon case, directing her to act like a government separatist and racist. She wore revealing clothes and sent racy photos to the brothers to win their trust.

Williams met the brothers in January 2005 after investigators set her up in a government-provided trailer at a Catoosa, Okla., campground where the brothers were staying at the time. A Confederate flag was placed in her window, and prosecutors say the Mahons introduced themselves within minutes of her arrival.

Dennis Mahon opened up to Williams as their conversations were recorded, telling her how to make bombs after she told him a fictitious story that she wanted to harm a child molester she knew.

In one conversation, she asked Mahon if he ever had a bomb work, to which he replied: "Yeah, diversity officer."

Logan testified at trial about the unbearable pain he felt after he opened the package, describing the lights going out, the room filling with smoke and debris falling from the ceiling.

Logan, who now works as a diversity administrator in the Phoenix suburb of Glendale, was hospitalized for three days. He needed four surgeries to remove shrapnel from his arm and hand, do a skin graft on his severely damaged forearm and restore some use to one of his fingers that nearly had to be amputated.

Even after Dennis Mahon was convicted, his lawyers say he maintains his innocence.

They also say no evidence shows the bombing was done with the intent to seriously injure or kill Logan. They argued the facts fell far short of a 100-year sentence, noting there were no deaths or life-threatening injuries from the bombing.

Prosecutors, who recommended a sentence of more than 60 years, say Dennis Mahon intended to send a political message in trying to kill Logan.

The Mahons were living in the Phoenix area at the time of the bombing but left days afterward and were arrested in 2009 in Illinois.

Dennis Mahon's attorneys argued their client "often makes exaggerated self-aggrandizing claims" that aren't true, that he was an alcoholic who constantly was drinking Everclear, and that his statements to Williams were meant to impress her.

Dennis Mahon was found guilty of conspiracy to damage buildings and property by means of explosives; malicious damage of a building by means of explosives; and distribution of information related to explosives

Daniel Mahon was acquitted of conspiracy to damage buildings and property.

Marcus Faella and his wife Patricia (second row right to left) recruited members including one of his best friends and his wife to plot a domestic attack on Orlando's urban community. Faella is a notorious Neo-Nazi who has ties to the American Front, a white supremacist organization.

Another incident included a Florida couple recruiting eight other members to carry out a domestic terrorist attack on an Orlando Florida government building, in response to the Trayvon Martin controversy.

The Miami New Times describes, the FBI which arrested Faella, his wife, Patricia, and six of his followers in a local branch of the American Front organization yesterday. The group was planning for an all-out race war, the feds say.


Starting in November 2010, Faella began building an "Aryan compound" in Osceola County, the FBI says.

In the two years since, he'd managed to fortify the area with cement pilings, railroad ties and barbed wire while stockpiling a mass of weapons and food.

Faella had a long history of violent racial plots in the Sunshine State.

"We've been aware of Marcus Faella since 1993 when he was a member of the Confederate Hammerskins, a violent skinhead group, and head of the Melbourne chapter," Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman Mark Potok tells the Orlando Sentinel.

Faella seemed closer than ever to action this time. In addition to the weapons cache, his group had an active member of the Missouri National Guard who also belonged to American Front travel to Osceola County to train them in military maneuvers.

White supremacists are online through these website forums such as Stormfront, Niggermania, Chimpout, Irateirishman, National Vanguard, Detroit Is Crap, Mr. Shaved Long Cock, Stuff Black People Don't Like, The Color Of Crime, New Sexon, and Podblanc.

They serve as a voice to the angry white man who is capable of plotting and enabling domestic terrorism.

Federal informants working for the FBI go online to search out extremism through Islamic forums and white supremacist forums.

They look for words, comments or reactionary phrases that are key to outing a potential threat to the United States.

Don't think these websites go unfiltered without an informant watching and waiting to find the one who plans on carrying out the threats.

Will Smith Smacks Prankster!

Will Smith Is Not Comfortable. (Courtesy of ABC News/Getty Images)

The release of Men In Black III will be a test of Will Smith, the 43 year old actor and former rapper.

The sequel will include Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin who will aid Smith in the movie.

The movie follows Agent J (Smith) into the past to prevent Agent K (Jones/Brolin) from being killed by a time traveling alien assassin.

The superhero action movie is a work that was ten years in the making.

The movie release is going to be big.

It's going to compete against Marvel Comics/Disney's blockbuster The Avengers. The Avengers surpassed the $1 billion mark in movie sales. The Avengers has featured actors Robert Downey, Jr., Samuel L. Jackson and actress Scarlett Johansson.

The other superhero action movie Battleship was considered a major flop. It included Liam Neeson and pop singer Rihanna.

Will Smith gets an unwelcomed advance from a Ukrainian comedian who made it his goal to agitate movie stars on the red carpet.

In Moscow, with wife Jada Pickett-Smith, the actor was visibly upset with the comedian after he tried to lip-lock him. The actor back hand slapped the comedian and tried to ease the crowd by saying that it was a move that could have had the guy decked.

Will Smith is a supporter of President Barack Obama and doesn't mind having his taxes raised. This comment made the conservative agitators go crazy.

Conservatives Cheer On A Disruptive Student After He Made An Anti-Obama Rant!

Hunter Rogers, a student at a North Carolina school defending an outburst in the classroom that landed his teacher in hot water.

          

Ah, yes, the public schools.

The scorn of the conservative movement. The indoctrination of little urban minds. Where a student's learning could make them proud activists in the progressive movement. Well that's why I've read from some of the most extreme comments from conservatives online.

In Spencer, North Carolina, there's a YouTube video going viral and its gotten another gem for the right wing agitators to seize upon. A student who was disruptive in a teacher's classroom filmed his encounter and posted it for people to see. Soon the video made its reach to Breitbart News and The Drudge Report. By that time, I am guessing a whole lot of internet bigots come out in favor of the student for being a "patriot" for disrupting a classroom.

The student Hunter Rogers, is expected to get praise and scrutiny. It's expected that the young student will be subjected to death threats from some unbalanced liberal agitator. Conservatives will give this young student airtime. Serial conservative agitator Sean Hannity is already highlighting his interview with the student and his parents.

The teacher is Tanya Dixon-Neely. Like Hunter, she is expected to get praise and scrutiny. It's expect that this woman will be subjected to death threats from some unbalanced conservative agitator as well. Liberals will praise this woman and demand for her to get her job back and have student suspended for causing a ruckus in the classroom.

According to the Huffington Post, Tanya Dixon-Neely, a social studies teacher at North Rowan High School in Spencer, N.C., telling a student he could be arrested for saying negative things about President Barack Obama has gone viral on the Internet, prompting school officials to launch an investigation, WBTV reports.

According to the station, Dixon-Neely has been placed on paid suspension pending the investigation's results.

The Salisbury Post reports that, in the nearly 10-minute video, the student can be heard saying Obama and GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney are both "just men" -- a statement the teacher refutes harshly.

“Listen, let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom,” Dixon-Neely says in the video.

Later in the video, the student maintains that freedom of speech allows people to say what they want without fear of punishment. But according to the footage, Dixon-Neely didn't let the discussion end there.

“Do you realize that people were arrested for saying things bad about Bush?” she's heard saying in the video. “Do you realize you are not supposed to slander the president?”

While school officials would not comment on the incident in detail due to the open investigation, they told WBTV that it should serve as a lesson to teachers about their "interaction with students."

Courtesy of Fox News.



This incident follows another controversy out of Ohio. A gay teenager was awarded a lump sum of compensation after he was forced out of school over a provocative t-shirt in which grabbed the attention of school officials.

Maverick Couch was a disruptive student who successful sued his school district over a controversial t-shirt making light to anti-gay activism from radical Christian fundamentalist.

This incident goes into the debate of freedom of speech in the classroom. A Ohio student was recently awarded $20,000 dollars after a U.S. Court judge found that his "Jesus Is Not A Homophobe" t-shirt wasn't a merit for the student's dismissal from school.

I am all for freedom of speech here in the classroom. But disruptive students such as these two are the reasons for a failed education system.

Teachers love to interact with their students. It's a part of mentoring students for the future. But this future could be a rough ride for some who recently graduated from high school or college.

Many young people are struggling to find jobs. More than half of students graduating from college accumulate a ton of debt from student loans. High school drop outs is a growing problem. More students find it harder to make it through a full year of school, so they drop out!

Single parenting, lack of interest, unstable families, and budget cuts lead to student drop outs.

What this lesson means to me and thousands of others in the social networking field?

Nothing. Because there's hundred of others who advanced in studies and there's some who still fall back.

Matt Drudge Is A God Damn Race Baiting Conservative Agitator!

Scaring Up Votes, The Drudge Manifesto! Race-baiting conservative agitator puts the fear of Black thugs in the minds of extremists. Matt Drudge roots for The Great American Race War.

Update: This election will bring out the worst from the Republican Party. Their allies include The Drudge Report, Fox News, Karl Rove, Frank Luntz and the Koch Brothers. They're heavily invested in the divide and conquer strategy. Watching how these stories are mentioned in the mainstream media proves there is a subliminal tactic by the right. Those evil Black thugs attacking on the patriotic White person is certainly going to be the theme of the conservative media. This is dog whistle politics. Republicans have been in the game for the last 40+ years doing this stuff. Isolating those they deem ineffective to their radical conservative causes. The world is changing and conservatism is slow to catching up. With the announcement of demographics shifting in favor of minority birth rates, White conservatives are really riled up about the growing minority. They need to scare up votes from bigots who are determined to destory the progress of Civil Rights. Barack Obama is the first Black president. Conservatives will rile up White people with these stories. 


It's no surprise of the alliance between the Breitbart News Service and The Drudge Report. They work hand in hand trying to point out the issue of Black on White violence. A theme that's run popular in the conservative blogosphere and the white supremacist circles.

But I want to make it clear, U.S. crime rates are down.

Racial based incidents aren't on the rise. It's actually on the decrease. There's far more incidents that involve white males committing hate crimes. It's mostly a product of the extremism within the conservative movement. Hate crimes are usually committed by white males who hold conservative views towards race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, language, disability, political and economic standings. They would perform domestic terrorism in the name of group that harbors extremism towards a changing society.

They're trying to justify incidents within the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting. In the mind of a conservative, Black on White violence is rampant and the media isn't reporting it!

Once again, if you harbor bigoted views towards someone's race, gender, sexuality, nationality, religion, political and economic standings, you're deemed an extremist in my eye.

I don't care what political affiliation you represent, if you're a conservative on an issue, you're likely to hold a bigoted view on an issue.

The Drudge Report caters to extremism. In order to stay relevant, the conservative agitator looks for stories that offer red meat controversies. Conservatives harbor bigoted views toward race, gender, sexuality, religion, language, nationality, political and economic standings.

Who the heck goes around sending racist emails with depictions of President Obama and his family?

Who the heck goes around saying the Blacks are lazy, immoral, welfare loving, "gubmint" supporting parasites? Note the spelling of the word gubmint, a popular white supremacist colical term to describe the government.

Who the heck complains about the likelihood of a society getting browner?

I come to the conclusion that white conservative men provoke the Black and Hispanic/Latino community.

Conservative agitators are the reasons for uneasy among the races.

According to McKay Coppins, of Buzzfeed a liberal agitating website that channels viral events, he wrote that: [If] you've spent much time consuming conservative media lately, you've probably learned about a slow-burning "race war" going on in America today. Sewing together disparate data points and compelling anecdotes like the attack in Norfolk, conservative bloggers and opinion-makers are driving the narrative with increasing frequency.

Their message: Black-on-white violence is spiking — and the mainstream media is trying to cover it up. This notion isn't necessarily new to the right, which has long complained about stifling political correctness in the media and the rising tide of "reverse racism." But the race war narrative has gained renewed traction during the Obama years, as various factors — from liberals' efforts to paint the Tea Party as racist, to the widely-covered Trayvon Martin shooting — have left conservatives feeling unfairly maligned, and combative.


Here what you do if you're one these conservative agitators who respond to my post!

Take your Tea Party signs, your phony patriotism rants, Obama bashing, minority complaining nonsense to these so called crime ridden Democratic strongholds you're complaining about. Let's see if you can take your online rhetoric to the streets you claim are crime infested Democrat areas! Let your guns, Bibles and "think you're better than others" crap to those you feel stifle the majority.

Courtesy of Young Turks Media/Current TV.

Conservatives: We Need A Guy Like This Artur Davis Fella!

Former Alabama congressman Artur Davis is becoming the new Black conservative agitator for the 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections. He endorses controversial voter identity laws that discriminate against minorities, the young and the poor. Artur Davis officially left the Democratic Party to become a Republican. He wants to return back to Congress.

Conservative Democrats are no different then those Republicans. They're the so-called middle ground. The remnants of the South and Midwest, conservative Democrats are the Reagan/Hillary members who are strongly against President Barack Obama. They're the ones who've married Republicans and either inherited or followed their spouses extremists stances on issues that revolve around firearms, religion, institutionalism (race and gender), or hardline stances against abortion or gay rights.

President Barack Obama has trouble winning Arkansas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. These states are trending even more redder.

States that have conservative Democrats vote with their party in local elections but trend strongly Republican in the national elections.

Alabama former Democratic Congressman Artur Davis is making the rounds through the conservative movement as the one Black member who doesn't plow the fields of the Democrat Plantation. Conservative activists are working double time to break into the strengths of Barack Obama. They will recruit some of the most extreme members of Black community to denounce the Democratic Party and the president.

In the wake of the controversy surrounding Newark mayor Cory Booker, I have to address this.

Davis was one of the earliest supporters of then Illinois Senator Barack Obama when announced he would run for the President of the United States. Some claimed that he would be the right hand to Barack Obama's left hand. That didn't happen. Since the 2010 U.S. Midterm Elections, Davis has shared some feelings of his party and the president. Quite frankly, he's not happy with the direction of the party and threatened to dismantle the Democratic Party's strategy to take down presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

What is becoming more apparent of the rise of Black Republicans is this guy.

Former gubernatorial candidate and four term U.S. congressman Artur Davis.  Davis served Alabama's 7th District for at least four terms before he decided to put his chips on the governorship of a deeply conservative Alabama. The Democratic Party knew this race was going to favor the Republican candidate, so they didn't put a lot of money into this race.

Artur Davis was hoping that he could be the first Black governor post Reconstruction to be elected. It didn't turn out that way. The Democrats threw their support towards Davis' challenger. I am guessing that angered Davis, who managed to capture less than 40% of the state's primary vote. The Democratic challenger went on to lose against Robert Bentley, a state representative from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Since leaving public office, Davis became a voice to many disgruntled Democrats who felt abandoned by the party and now he's seeking retribution and recognition in the Republican Party.

This may come as a slap to the eye of President Barack Obama.

Davis is stirring the pot for Republicans on the controversial voter identity laws that may discriminate young, Black, Hispanic/Latino and poor voters.

These groups are a core constituency to the president.

Writing in the conservative publication The National Review, Davis throws his weight into the 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections, and warns Republicans not to fall into the traps of his "former party".

According the Washington Post, Davis was thinking of returning to politics once again, but as a conservative Black Republican. The former congressman has nothing but praise for the two members of the Republican caucus that are Black. Those two congressman are Tim Scott and Allen West. The only two Black members of the House of Representatives who were elected in the 2010 U.S. Midterm elections under the Tea Party.

Congressman Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) and Congressman Allen West (R-Florida) have been vocal opposition to the President Barack Obama and the Black Congressional Caucus.

Davis was a member of the Black Congressional Caucus. West is a member of the caucus. Scott has refused to join the caucus.

Davis is working his chips into the election as a conservative activist and he's sure going to make noise either at Fox News or talk radio fill-ins for conservative agitators such as Sean Hannity or Neal Boortz when they're on vacation.

Bets are likely Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity will have a place for their Democrat buddy. Video courtesy of Fox News Channel.

Super Mayor Krytonites Obama's Argument On Romney's Shoddy Record!

President Barack Obama and Newark mayor Cory Booker. Booker gave the Republicans the new talking point of the week. Booker is a strong ally to the president. His words in favor of Bain Capital has became a new distraction.

Newark, New Jersey mayor Cory Booker is a popular figure among the progressive movement. He is the mayor of the roughest city in the United States. The rising star of the political left is generating buzz for a potential run for higher office.

He was dubbed the "superhero" of New Jersey after he help aid a neighbor out of a burning home and shoveled snow during the winter.

A strong ally of President Barack Obama, one may think Cory Booker's presence is helpful to the reelection campaign.

Alas, its not.

On the Meet The Press, Booker laid out the grenade and it ricochet into the Obama Campaign headquarters.

Booker went onto the program with David Gregory to defend the president's record on the economy but took to the defense of Bain Capital, the business founded by the perennial candidate for president, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.

U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney (center) was one the founders of Bain Capital, an investment firm.

Booker retracted his comments, but it was a little too late. The Republicans seized upon the comments and now this is the talking point of the week.

The conservatives are now seething with Booker's comments. They are now looking to hammer the president's argument of Bain Capital.

Republicans lawmakers were crowing about the Solyndra failures and placing the blame solely on President Barack Obama's doorstep. The Republicans are defending failed companies that Bain Capital invested in. They believe that the president's attacks on Bain Capital are unfair and they want to use Booker's comments as defense of the investment firm.

Looking into Wikipedia, and I seen that Bain Capital has invested in companies that are familiar with the general public.

Companies such as Staples, Burger King, The Weather Channel, Dunkin Donuts and Guitar Center are sponsored by Bain Capital.

Courtesy of NBC News.

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