It's Watch!... Neighborhood Watch. Not shoot.

Understandable.

 

I bet a BLACK PANTHER!!!!111ONE1!!! started that account.

 

Why do you say that? Half the world knows how to set up a sock puppet account. It could have been a white supremacist looking to fan the flames in a perverse way.

 

That was unnecessary. If you don't have a problem with it, don't say anything. That's the smarter approach for those whose concern with what happened is related only to the possibilities for political exploitation.

 

I will stipulate that stuff like the "Kill Zimmerman" account is reprehensible, just like the white supremacist circulating pictures of an entirely different kid to try to justify the shooting. It's asinine online bullshit that is given too much attention and credit all around.

But can we stop with the Black Panther stuff? Jesus, if it weren't for Fox News no one would have heard of the Black Panthers for the past 40 years. It's a non-entity, used by Fox to tell us all that black people are scary. Can we find out what the Weathermen think about the shooting? Has the Whig party released a statement yet?

 

Don't get pithy with me for bringing the Black Panthers into it. You can blame A_QB for that. Several times over, in fact.

 

I would also guess he's afraid being killed by somebody crazy enough to take the Black Panthers up on their bounty offer.

 

So, to be clear, it's my fault the Black Panthers put a bounty on this guy's head?

 

The bounty was for his "capture," was it not? For a "citizen's arrest"?

www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-black-panther-party-20120327,0,7849382.story

articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-24/news/os-trayvon-martin-new-black-panthers-protest-20120324_1_sanford-vigilante-justice-black-men



And it's interesting that almost no one responded to this when I posted it two weeks ago.

www.washingtonpost.com/national/militia-group-says-it-will-make-citizens-arrest-of-fla-community-watch-leader-who-killed-teen/2012/03/15/gIQAwZ2xES_story.html

The "New Black Panthers" seem to exist largely as a convenience for politicians like Rick Perry to redirect the conversation away from the killing of Trayvon Martin.

 

Having lived in Jax (where these black panthers are from [in fact I've met those guys]) I can say that they do a good job injecting themselves in stories without Rupert Murdoch's help. But FOX does need to stop giving them air time. It's a group of about six guys who stage protests on anything vaguely race related and there's no reason their opinion should be out front in this case, especially since Martin's family has said their "help" is not appreciated.

 

Pity the Lowndes County Freedom Party didn't sue for infringement back in the day.

 

Quote from the second story.

Does that read as "citizen's arrest" to you?