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I just read that Zimmerman's dad is a retire Virginia Supreme Court Judge. If this is true it explains everything!!! Word is he had two domestic assault charges that were also cleared off of his record along with the assault on the officer!!
“The portrayal of George Zimmerman in the media, as well as the series of events that led to the tragic shooting, are false and extremely misleading,” wrote his father, Robert, a retired magistrate judge, in a letter published in the Orlando Sentinel.
There's this black dude going around defending Zimmerman , he was just in hardball![]()
There's this black dude going around defending Zimmerman , he was just in hardball![]()
Them trying to demonize Trayvon is such a crock of shit....
cotdamn this story makes me more pissed off by the fucking minute.
i just read that zimmerman's dad is a retire virginia supreme court judge. If this is true it explains everything!!! Word is he had two domestic assault charges that were also cleared off of his record along with the assault on the officer!!
fuck Joe Oliver
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Understanding The Western Media 101
5. Demonisation and Use of Language
Dissident views are undermined by demonising the people or organisations that have these views.
Certain phrases are used to hide or distort dissident views. Disident views are described as extreme (or ideological) and those who hold these views as extremists. Others are labelled as marxists, communists, liberals (in the USA), conspiracy theorists, lefties, new agers, militants, the usual suspects or other dispariging names. Their views are meant to be ignored and are rarely argued against coherently.
In the 1980s, anti-Nicaraguan militants (financed by the USA) were referred to as freedom fighters.
So were the Western backed Afgans fighting the Russians. Palestinians fighting against the occupation of their land by (USA backed) Israel are called terrorists.
Attempts by the African National Congress to force South Africa to give democracy to all its citizens were described as terrorism;
attempts by the USA to get a good deal for the handover of the Panama Canal to Panama were described as coercive diplomacy.
More subtly the clever use of verb voice is also used to mold opinion.
The Active Voice is used for Israeli victims: "Palestinian militants killed three Israeli settlers" while the Passive Voice is used for Palestinian victims: "Three Palestinians died when their village was hit by Israeli shells". In the above example emotive words are also used. The word settler is prefered to colonist and militant is prefered to resister.
Stories can be slanted or distorted by the emphasis given.
Strikes are often described from the point of view of the inconvenience caused rather than the underlying causes.
In the UK, a majority of union members must vote for a strike to be legal, yet the media will often demonise the union leader with headlines like "Blame **** for this chaos".
When military action is taken by The West or countries backed by the West, the opponents are demonised and the action justified by using various phrases:
War on Communism
USA against Vietnam
USA against Cambodia
USA against Cuba
UK against Malaysia
France against Algeria
South Africa against Mozambique
South Africa against Angola
Chile against its own people
El Salvador against its own people
Guatemala against its own people
War on Drugs
USA against Colombia
USA against Panama
War on Terrorism
USA against Afganistan
USA against Iraq
USA against Libya
Turkey against the Kurds
Israel against the Palestinians
War on Fundamentalism
USA against Iran
Self Defence
Israel against Lebanon
Indonesia against East Timor
For Democracy and Freedom
USA against Nicaragua
USA against Iraq
Weapons of Mass Destruction
USA against Iraq
War is subject to distortion by language with the use of euphamisms.
The West uses smart bombs (of which only 7% hit their intended targets) or surgical strikes.
Civilian casualties (if they are discussed at all) are covered by phrases like collateral damage. Killing is described as taking out, lighting up, mopping up or neutralising.
A bomb is often called a device. Words like outrage and carnage are rarely used in these reports unless the victims are Westerners.
Attacks on civilians by USA or UK forces will often have words allegedly or claim put in front of the story.
Another method of obscuring what is happening is to represent a country by its leader.
Euphamisms are also used to obscure what is actually happening in the world of economics:
- Open up the economy to competition: allow Western companies access to a country's resources.
- Competitiveness: low labour costs and taxes; lax safety laws.
- State subsidy for business: giving tax payers' money to corporations.
- Export Credits: the tax payer underwriting a company's activities in other countries so that the public takes the risks and the company takes the profits.
- Free Trade: trade that is favourable to the richer countries.
- Stability: conditions favourable to trade for the benefit of the West.
- Developing Nations: the poorer countries.
- Structural Adjustment Programs: World Bank and International Monetary Fund conditions imposed on countries seeking loans. These normally require the economy to be opened up to competition and public services to be reduced.
- Free Market Reforms: economic system that has pushed 60 million Russians below the poverty line by devaluing their pensions and forces children in Mongolia to live in the sewers.
- Capital Market Liberalisation: allows the free flow of money - usually from poorer countries to rich countries.
Where is Kefta?
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These white folks lack commonsense,just don't give a fuck, or both.
Zimmerman follows this kid, but because Trayvon defended himself. Well, then Zimmerman was right to kill the kid.
Yet when the black dude from Long Island was confronted by an angry group of white kids at his home. Who were screaming racial slurs and moving towards the home with weapons. He was wrong to shot and kill that kid.
These white folks long for the 1950's.
What happened to him? Last time I heard they were trying to charge him for protecting his own family from racists.
Hey! I need a link or the name of the book this came from cause I need to own this!
Suspended THREE times for drugs, truancy and graffiti and 'caught carrying a burglary tool': New picture emerges of Trayvon Martin (and did he attack a bus driver too?)
The teen was suspended from school three times
He was on suspension when he was shot in February, after officials caught him with a 'marijuana pipe' and a baggie with drug residue
Trayvon was kicked out of school in October for graffiti after he was allegedly caught with a 'burglary tool' and a bag full of women's jewelry
Officials also suspended him once for skipping school and tardiness
Tearful parents say their son is now the victim of a smear campaign
New poll shows 73 percent of Americans think Zimmerman should be arrested
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...times-caught-burglary-tool.html#ixzz1qLOAqSSQ
Is this crakkker serious??Puss ass cracker.![]()
Y can black ppl call white ppl names?? I'm sick of it
Understanding The Western Media 101
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Where is Kefta?
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speaking of zimmerman's lawyer
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Lawrence O'Donell is getting at Zimmerman's friend. Dude is looking like an idiot on tv. Can't believe Zimmerman's attorney would allow a "friend" to make the rounds on tv for days promoting how great Zimmerman is. Dude needs to turn himself and get it over with.
speaking of zimmerman's lawyer
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To be honest I dont wanna hear any opinions from many cracker on this matter. Pass...This fucking looney cac deleted the comment I posted. All I stated was the weight difference between Zimmerman and Trayvon.![]()
speaking of zimmerman's lawyer
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