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FBI Thinking Hate Crime For George Zimmerman, Whose Grandmother Was Black?

It was a day of puzzling contrasts in the case of George Zimmerman, whose attorney is just beginning to receive the evidence prosecutors intend to use against his client for shooting and killing Trayvon Martin. It's said the FBI may be looking at charging Zimmerman with a hate crime. Additionally, Zimmerman appears to have mentored a black child, at some point in his life.

SANFORD, Fla. — WFTV has learned charges against George Zimmerman could be getting more serious. State prosecutors said Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, profiled and stalked 17-year-old Trayvon Martin before killing him, so the FBI is now looking into charging him with a hate crime.

As of late Monday, Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, told WFTV that he's gotten the first prosecution documents containing the evidence against his client. O’Mara said he's gotten a redacted witness list with 22 witnesses listed only as numbers.

Zimmerman's mother testified at his bond hearing that she has met the black child whom he mentored and even risked his safety in a dangerous neighborhood to do it, because he didn't want to abandon the child.

Meanwhile, Orlando attorney and CNN analyst Mark NeJame has unearthed a photo of what is claimed to be Zimmerman's family. It would appear that in order for the slaying of Trayvon Martin to have been a hate crime, George Zimmerman may have to have possessed a bit of self-loathing - or hated his family to some extent.

CNN analyst Mark NeJame pointed to a black-and-white picture of a family of three, including a dark-skinned man he claims was Zimmerman's great-grandfather.

He also identified a woman pictured standing above the man as Zimmerman's grandmother, and a small child in the man's arms as Zimmerman's mother.

Finally, ABC now claims there is evidence depicting a host of injuries sustained by George Zimmerman on the night he encountered Trayvon Martin.

ABC looks to have been stirred by it's eventually laughed at previous big scoop hyping a grainy police video that supposedly showed George Zimmerman wasn't injured in a physical confrontation of some kind before shooting and killing Trayvon Martin in a Florida confrontation that became national news That firestorm was driven by other mainstream media coverage just like ABC's that day.

What a difference new media makes. Breitbart.com fired back in March: ABC'S RECKLESS ZIMMERMAN VIDEO 'EXCLUSIVE' REVEALS NOTHING - as did many conservative blogs and other new media outlets when it was determined their big scoop was more poop on their shoe, than genuine news.

Congratulations to ABC for now appearing to have gotten into line behind the right's fair and accurate coverage at the time, which debunked their own big exclusive. One story down and too many to count, in terms of keeping an eye on the media. As regards the Zimmerman/Martin story back then, not to be outdone by ABC, MSNBC used a convenient ellipses to join the media lynch mob after Zimmerman at the time.

MSNBC'S CONVENIENT ELLIPSES MAKE ZIMMERMAN LOOK RACIST

Breitbart.com took MSNBC on and exposed their malicious reporting at link above. Increasingly every day, new media is demonstrating it's positive significant impact on mainstream media malpractice. This latest exclusive via ABC is just one more instance that serves as proof.

Obama Loving, New Orleans College Student: Off Palin, Bristol Has Downs, Too

Do they hate because they're liberal, or are they liberal because they hate? Ugly stuff.

This Tweet, reproduced from the major website "Addictomatic" quotes a person apparently calling for the murder of Sarah Palin.

Some of her additional Tweets via Favstar.

New Orleanian. College Student. Twenty. Professional lurker.

i fucking agree, Obama. college shouldn't be a luxury.

Because someone else should pay for it, I suppose. A real smart, class act, mariah_reloaded, if still there.

Obama Tried To Bribe Rev. Wright And A School Lenin Would Have Loved

Some interesting dots to connect in a breaking story suggesting a close friend of Obama attempted to bribe Jeremiah Wright to keep quiet. Just off the top, what's notable is that the Post didn't put a timeline to the alleged bribe offer to Wright and a meeting Wright had with Obama, in which Barry asked Wright to stand down. Hmm.

Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s team tried to buy his silence.

‘Man, the media ate me alive,” Wright told me when we met in his office at Chicago’s Kwame Nkrumah Academy. “After the media went ballistic on me, I received an e-mail offering me money not to preach at all until the November presidential election.” 

“And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election.’ He knew I had some speaking engagements lined up, and he said, ‘I wish you wouldn’t speak. It’s gonna hurt the campaign if you do that.’ 

What is this Kwame Nkrumah Academy, anyway? Oh, just his school Trinity managed to give 8 million bucks to - seemingly named after a guy the CIA overthrew! LOL Somehow, I doubt they envisioned a U.S.-based school being named in his honor back in the day - sponsored by the former church of a POTUS.

Africa has produced many crazy dictators but none of them ever dreamt of turning into a one-man electoral commission like Nkrumah. In a yet to be broken record in the continent, the late Ghanaian leader ‘elected’ an entire parliament of 198 MPs single-handedly within minutes. In February 1966, while Nkrumah on a state visit to Vietnam, his government was overthrown in a military coup — backed by the CIA.

Below more tidbits that might be of interest.

The Rt. Hon. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972), P.C.,[1] was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966. Overseeing the nation's independence from British colonial rule in 1957, Nkrumah was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th-century advocate of Pan-Africanism, he was a founding member of the Organization of African Unity and was the winner of the Lenin Peace Prize in 1963.

On that last trip, Hilliard accepted an appointment to the board of Wright’s new elementary school, Kwame Nkrumah Academy

The corporation has already bought the first 27 acres for $8million, provided by Trinity, Eggleston said. The nonprofit would not disclose how much additional money has been raised for the project so far.

Bennett said he hopes Imani Village becomes an anchor to stimulate the economy in the deindustrialized area, which offers limited access to healthy foods, jobs and education. Emphasis will be placed on living off the land and "ownership."

Children will be able to walk to school at Kwame Nkrumah Academy and play sports in a professionally certified arena. Residents will grow their own food. Mom-and-pop retailers on site will buy it.

Chicago Annenberg Challenge records also indicate that SSAVC educators invited Asa Hilliard, a pioneer of African-centered curricula and a close colleague of Carruthers, to offer a keynote address at yet another Annenberg-funded teacher training session. Hilliard’s ties to Wright run still deeper than Carruthers’s.

A close Wright mentor and friend, Hilliard died in 2007 while on a trip to Kemet (Egypt) with Wright and members of Wright’s congregation. Hillard was scheduled to deliver several lectures to the congregants, and to speak at a meeting of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilization, which he co-founded with Carruthers and other “African-centered” scholars. On that last trip, Hilliard accepted an appointment to the board of Wright’s new elementary school, Kwame Nkrumah Academy.

 

Poor Mitt, Or My Tragic Tale Of High School Slavery

Forget that it looks like a trumped up political hit piece by the Post. I've pushed back on this ridiculous story so hard, even some friends have privately suggested I may have been a bully at some point. Not if you aren't on the left, today, frankly. heh! Actually, I tend to instinctively side with the genuinely weak, not the strong, if it's not through someone's own doing, or desire. Still, based upon his age, Romney would have gone to high school over a decade before me. 

Sister of Alleged Romney Target Has ‘No Knowledge’ of Any Bullying Incident

So, Romney went to Prep school in the Sixties. I wonder if he took grief as the only Mormon there? I'd bet you he did, though I've never heard him say as much. He also wasn't a jock, or early academic stand out. His family also didn't stand out as far as money was concerned. Now, were, and are, imo, a lot of kids in prep schools assholes? I'd probably check yes. Was Mitt one of them, from that perspective? Maybe, who knows.

But I don't think Mittens exactly got a pass on everything, by any measure. He wasn't a cut above in some way and people like that sometimes got stepped on in high school - as sad as that may seem for some to admit. You think adults are bad? Kids are freaking mean!

 ... he was the lone Mormon and where many students came from even more privileged backgrounds ... He was not particularly athletic and at first did not excel academically.

As an aside, when I went to high school - I played ball - football, to be precise. Actually, I was pretty good. (Note - although a compression fracture of three cervical vertebrea ended that real quick before camp let out). By the way, I took crap from friends for never playing, again after that, because I wanted to walk after high school, as much as I wanted to play ball while there. Like I said, kids are mean. Whatever, any crap I got, I gave back, as is my way. lol

The second night at camp was a slave auction. First year kids, one after another, were stood up on a bunk surrounded by juniors and seniors, and auctioned off for snacks from the canteen. Before that, they might shave your eyebrows, or your legs, or whatever else they wanted, while using toilet brushes to sling food, peanut butter, jelly, eggs, whatever they stole from the cafeteria, or came up with anywhere else at you. And that was only the opening act. Then they really started to abuse you, if someone didn't like you for any reason.

There were no media reports of "hazing" incidents any year in which the kids got back from camp. Only a punk would have complained about it, after all. That was the 70's. I doubt the 60's were all that different. I can think of any numbers of kids who seemed out of the "norm," when I went through. Maybe their parents didn't, or couldn't buy them the "right" clothes. Or their Dad regularly took him to "his" barber for a truly dumb looking haircut - or a crew cut, in the 70's. That may have changed in a decade, now that I think about it.

If you wore one in the 70's, at some point, you took grief over it. It was, sooo high school. To the extent of a very sloppy WaPo hit piece is to be believed, this kid went with long hair in the 60's. Oh, really.

Ultimately, none of this PC crap the Post would attempt to judge Romney by today existed back in the day. Chit happened - and you rolled with it. And for the most part, it was a hell of a lot more fun to live in this country, frankly. This is so a none story trumped up, I don't know, by someone who routinely had his ass kicked in high school for being a dipshit? I bet there's a lot of them at the Post. lol

I'm not buying into it for a minute, and if you are, you're either a punk, or you're getting punked by the Post and you need to get over it. Amercan exceptionalism didn't happen because everyone and everything was always equal, folks. There were bad actions and actors in our past- from the genuine Slave era, up to and including certain other intolerances and mistreatments. I notice the Trail of Tears didn't stop anyone from tearing into Elizabeth Warren recently, now did it? No, it's still going on, as a matter of fact. 

In 2012, we're running against a guy whose motto is - punch back twice as hard. If you're going down over a sucker punch in the first round - you ain't up for the challenge of 2012. Take a seat in the back and let someone else fight it, because the consequences of losing will look worse in the pages of the Washington Post for the next 4+ years, than any piece of shoddy journalism they publish between now and November to try and keep Obama in the White House. So, get over it, already. Make up your mind if you're here to watch, or fight, in 2012. There are no other options and there ain't a whole lot of time.

Yes, Virginia, There Can Be A Santa Claus - Will Va. Vote Romney?

The conventional wisdom is, a small handful of states will decide the presidency come November and Virginia is one of them. Is it "the" one? We'll see. Here's some good analysis in that regard. 

When Mitt Romney stopped in Virginia last week he said, “This may well be the state [that] decides who the next president is.”

At least he understands the stakes.

Barring a collapse by either Romney or President Obama, the popular vote will be close. Major polls are all within the margin of error and likely to stay that way. Romney supporters know they face an uphill battle to unseat an incumbent president. And, now that the primary season is over and Romney has emerged as the nominee, Democrats have begun to heed the call of former Clinton campaign aide James Carville to “wake the you-know-what up.”

Dear ABC: Turn Romney and Classmates Loose On Putin - F.U.

What a blathering wash of detritus from ABC and the mainstream media, in general. I'm wondering if Team Romney is pushing it, just to get us behind Mitt. And as for the worthless clown who allegedly held the kids arms and legs down, but has been "haunted" by it ever since - kee-rist, you weepy wimp, you probably still cry when you think about losing your cherry - AFTER you graduated from college. He's either got a deal with Obama, or still working out his troubling gender issues, himself. Get a life, loser.

A high school classmate of presidential candidate Mitt Romney told ABC News today that he considers a particular prank the two pulled at Michigan’s Cranbrook School to be “assault and battery” and that he witnessed Romney hold the scissors to cut the hair of a student who was being physically pinned to the ground by several others.

“It’s a haunting memory. I think it was for everybody that spoke up about it … because when you see somebody who is simply different taken down that way and is terrified and you see that look in their eye you never forget it. And that was what we all walked away with,” said Phillip Maxwell, who is now an attorney and still considers Romney an old friend.

Obama's Kiss And Make Up Strategy On Terrorist

Well, they do have something in common, neither much likes traditional America.

Obama Administration officials are secretly releasing high-level detainees at Parwan Detention Center in Afghanistan in exchange for peace.

Advice For John McCain: Don't Run For POTUS If The Base Doesn't Trust You

Some days I wish these craggy old, worthless bastards who live to hear themselves talk would just dry up and blow away.

Sen. John McCain’s Advice to Mitt Romney: Pick a Running Mate You Trust

Lugar Flailing: Insults Republicans, Cites Labor Support In Latest Plea To Stay In DC

Based upon the Twitter timeline of Indiana reporter, Eric Bradner, Senator Richard Lugar appears to be casting aspersions at GOP voters and citing Labor support and earmarks, in effect, groveling to Democrats for last minute votes in a desperate plea to keep his hotel room in Washington and not, perhaps, be forced to move back to Indiana. Lugar trails Mourdock by 10 points in a recent poll.

While never a big fan of Lugar, this is still sad to see, as the 36 year incumbent and octogenarian attempts to cling to power. The conventional wisdom is, Lugar needs Democrats to turn out in the GOP primary to have a chance to win.

Lugar: Question is, how to get the primary electorate to look more like the general electorate.

Lugar: "I appeal to working men and women." Mentions meeting Lunch Pail Republicans. "They're labor people. They have endorsed me."

Lugar: "I want everybody in the state to vote for me. ... At this point, help. It's very, very important..."

Exclusive: Obama-Linked VA Pilot Spikes Mob Violence Story At Height Of Trayvon Martin Mania

Read my report at Breitbart, with email exchange with the Virginia Pilot's Managing Editor. Plus, the now former publisher of of the Virginia Pilot, Maurice Jones joined the Obama administration at HUD in March. Gee, why would they not publish that story two days after George Zimmerman was indicted? And their rationale is utterly ridiculous.

When two reporters for the Obama administration-linked Virginia Pilot were injured and unable to work after an attack by a violent street corner mob, apparently on Saturday, April 14, the Pilot failed to report the news story.