No but they talked about how it can make you aggressive and paranoid. If that's true, did TM have a propensity to be the antagonizer here?
The Trayvon Martin The Media Didnt Want You To Know! By BILL WHITTLE Pt 1
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He was charged with assaulting a police officer but got the charges withdrawn by agreeing to enter an alcohol abuse program.
I think that stands up pretty well against ramblings on social media.
It is a double standard to cite this stuff about Martin while objecting to it for Zimmerman. They are both equally (ir)relevant.
This statement here proves who you have issued the blame for the assault to. The flip side to this is that TM attacked GZ. Didn't you just write that it's not known who started the fight?
That is the dumbest thing I have heard in this whole case I think. Zimmerman is as white as Obama is in that case.
Look boys. It is a no no win.
TM supporters can call the shots.
Can call Zimmerman a wannabe cop based on his past but can't call Martin a wannabe thug based on his past.
Can say Zimmerman should not have gotten out of his car but can't say that Martin should have went home.
Can say that Zimmerman is a racist because he called Martin a punk and asshole but can't call Martin a racist for calling Zimmerman a cracker.
The list goes on an on.
Yes Fuji BUT the report above criticizes how the narrative printed a picture of a racist Zimmerman vs. a happy and good boy, when that good boy also had character flaws if not issues.
(P.S. I tend to think that TM was more a good person than bad though - the environment around black youths may be responsible for any bad behaviour but not having a dad around isn't good either. Sad.).
Thank you for posting this, Mr. Canada-man. Not surprizingly, the 'usual suspects' that have posted before me will continue to insist on their own narative, but the Truth will prevail, as it always does, sooner or later. Sincerely, Jon .
He did seem to have issues but pretty normal ones. Minor drug involvement, not a great attendance record at school, but not bad either. Sprayed some minor graffiti. All around a pretty ordinary kid (the real ordinary, that is, not from the Cleaver family).
No evidence of any gang involvement.
By the way, MMA is a very popular sport that lots of people get involved in.
So what? Did you or anyone ever watch him take lean? Maybe he was just boasting on an online forum (like I'm sure many people do)?
These attempts to demonize Martin are equally as stupid as the attempts to deify him
Bottom line, nothing in that video, or in his Twitter feed had anything to do with why Zimmerman followed him. I agree with the innocent verdict but any attempts showing these images or assuming that he was on his way to make 'lean' (which while illegal, isn't exactly cooking crystal meth) as justification for why Zimmerman began to follow a kid who at that point in time was simply walking home is asinine.
Just like the accusations of Zimmerman being a racist are
He followed Martin for a reason, while might have been well-intentioned, was flat wrong, and then Martin attacked him for a reason that was flat wrong
Bottom line, nothing in that video, or in his Twitter feed had anything to do with why Zimmerman followed him. I agree with the innocent verdict but any attempts showing these images or assuming that he was on his way to make 'lean' (which while illegal, isn't exactly cooking crystal meth) as justification for why Zimmerman began to follow a kid who at that point in time was simply walking home is asinine.
Just like the accusations of Zimmerman being a racist are
He followed Martin for a reason, while might have been well-intentioned, was flat wrong, and then Martin attacked him for a reason that was flat wrong
PS. I've also said that the media coverage of the this trial has absolutely unconsciable, on both sides
90% of the reporters covering this trial, whether on the web, in print, or on television, should never be allowed to report on anything ever again and do not deserve the public's trust.
90% of the reporters covering this trial, whether on the web, in print, or on television, should never be allowed to report on anything ever again and do not deserve the public's trust.
Verstatile, I doubt he would be boasting online about it, but frankly, I don't care about the lean part. They said the autopsy report found liver damage which could be associated with ingestion of lean.
In any event, a sad thing.
Why is it that people arguing about this case insist on leaving their own common sense out of it... eh Fuji?
The evidence at a trial is always like a bunch of dots in a puzzle... the dots are usually clear enough to see and understand, but "the trick" is to link them together to see the picture that they reveal... and you have to link all the dots, not just the ones that you like or prefer while leaving the others out.
In the linking of those dots a person is supposed to use reason, common sense, reasonable possibilities and probabilities, life experience as to how things happen, logic, etc.... unless, of course, s/he was present and actually witnessed the events.
What do you think is the most probable and/or most likely explanation, for example, of the dots "Arizona Watermelon drink," "Skittles," and his Internet posts about lean?
I am not saying that this is conclusive of what we can infer about this case, but if your common sense, experience and knowledge leads you to the conclusion (that is, linking the dots) that all that is mere coincidence, then I want to offer to sell you the George Washington Bridge: how much are you willing to pay?
Does any one think that TM's character is irrelevant to what may have been going on in his mind at the time? If he were a brilliant Harvard prodigy with an unblemished record and a history as a pacifist, would that mean anything to you in trying to figure out (link the dots) what may or most likely have happened?
Perry
The evidence at a trial is always like a bunch of dots in a puzzle... the dots are usually clear enough to see and understand, but "the trick" is to link them together to see the picture that they reveal... and you have to link all the dots, not just the ones that you like or prefer while leaving the others out.
In the linking of those dots a person is supposed to use reason, common sense, reasonable possibilities and probabilities, life experience as to how things happen, logic, etc.... unless, of course, s/he was present and actually witnessed the events.
What do you think is the most probable and/or most likely explanation, for example, of the dots "Arizona Watermelon drink," "Skittles," and his Internet posts about lean?
I am not saying that this is conclusive of what we can infer about this case, but if your common sense, experience and knowledge leads you to the conclusion (that is, linking the dots) that all that is mere coincidence, then I want to offer to sell you the George Washington Bridge: how much are you willing to pay?
Does any one think that TM's character is irrelevant to what may have been going on in his mind at the time? If he were a brilliant Harvard prodigy with an unblemished record and a history as a pacifist, would that mean anything to you in trying to figure out (link the dots) what may or most likely have happened?
Perry
Perhaps. TM could have been as 'bad' as any normal, black adolescent kid in the social setting he was in.
The liver damage could have been associated with, well, liver disease. What's sad is people feel the need to shit all over this kid while trying to make GZ look like he's a saint.
Exactly, however, their not-so-perfect past probably was ignored by both sides so as to not incriminate them.
If there was a pre-existing disease, I think they would know as opposed to an external cause.
