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Alveda King: Sharpton, Jackson should stop ‘playing race card’ over Trayvon Martin
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/28/alveda-king-sharpton-jackson-should-stop-playing-race-card-over-trayvon-martin/

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece is criticizing the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for politicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting and leveraging racial tensions to rile up Americans.

Conservative activist Dr. Alveda King, now the director of African-American outreach at Priests for Life and the founder of King For America, said she hopes Sharpton and Jackson stop “stirring up the people without positive solutions” in Sanford, Fla., and elsewhere in the U.S.
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Anther one got off the Dem Plantation.  I like seeing her on Fox News, but unfortunately they seem to be the only ones will to give her a voice.

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Who dies next because of Al Sharpton? [Reader Post]
By: DrJohn

Al Sharpton once said of Rush Limbaugh:

“He doesn’t have the right to lie and accuse people of crimes”

But apparently Sharpton does have that right.

The professional race baiting hate monger Sharpton is once again running his mouth at full throttle. He has promised civil disobedience if he doesn’t get what he wants and what he really wants is to lynch George Zimmerman.

If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, theRev. Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions.

Sharpton would not say the efforts would be taken against the city of Sanford specifically, but he has been critical of the police department’s handling of the case.

Saturday’s scheduled 11 a.m. march from Crooms Academy of Information Technology to the Sanford Police Department headquarters was organized by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Coordinators said people will be bused in from other states to participate.

The civil rights activist and syndicated television show host said he will elaborate on this plan Saturday.

“I will speak about how the National Action Network will move to the next level if Zimmerman isn’t arrested,” Sharpton said, who founded the organization. He added that it was the Martin family and lawyers who first asked him to get involved and nationalize this story.

And he won’t be alone

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is also expected to participate in the event.

Sharpton doesn’t believe certain people have the right to self-defense:

“Whether he [Zimmerman] had a swollen or broken nose, neither one means he had to take a 9mm and kill someone,” he said. “It’s not about saying Zimmerman is innocent or guilty, this is about whether there was probable cause to arrest him.”

Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee did explain why Zimmerman wasn’t held:

Q. Why was George Zimmerman was not arrested the night of the shooting?

A. When the Sanford Police Department arrived at the scene of the incident, Mr. Zimmerman provided a statement claiming he acted in self-defense, which at the time was supported by physical evidence and testimony. By Florida Statute, law enforcement was prohibited from making an arrest based on the facts and circumstances they had at the time.

Additionally, when any police officer makes an arrest for any reason, the officer must swear and affirm that he/she is making the arrest in good faith and with probable cause. If the arrest is done maliciously and in bad faith, the officer and the city may be held liable.

According to Florida Statute 776.032 :

Immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for justifiable use of force.— 776.032

A person who uses force as permitted in s. (1) 776.012, s. 776.013, or s. 776.031 is justified in using such force and is immune from criminal prosecution and civil action for the use of such force, unless the person against whom force was used is a law enforcement officer, as defined in s. 943.10(14), who was acting in the performance of his or her official duties and the officer identified himself or herself in accordance with any applicable law or the person using force knew or reasonably should have known that the person was a law enforcement officer. As used in this subsection, the term “criminal prosecution” includes arresting, detaining in custody, and charging or prosecuting the defendant.

A law enforcement agency may use standard procedures for investigating the use of force as described in subsection (1), but the agency may not arrest the person for using force unless it determines that there is probable cause that the force that was used was unlawful. (2)

Further, Zimmerman was within his rights to follow Martin

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This vile man is continually rewarded for his malevolent behavior. Here Barack Obama embraces Sharpton

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If it wasn’t for hate, there would be no Al Sharpton and it’s unfortunate that so many continue to follow him. Despite all the deaths that he has caused, he has never been held accountable for any of them. If anyone demands arrest, it’s Sharpton.

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O'Reilly: NBC, Media Inciting Racial Violence
Friday, 30 Mar 2012 09:40 PM
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Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly lambasted the media Friday night, singling out MSNBC and CNN, saying the media "is exploiting the terrible death of 17-year-old Trayvon by convicting the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, of wrongdoing on television."

O'Reilly said that in his more than 30 years in journalism he had not seen such reprehensible press coverage, and singled out MSNBC and parent network NBC for drumming up racial tensions for ratings. O'Reilly such media malfeasance could lead to serious violence.

"It was pathetic watching the prime-time cable programs whip up the Trayvon Martin case to dangerous levels," O'Reilly said in his Talking Points Memo. "The media exploiting the terrible death of 17-year-old Trayvon by convicting the man who shot him, George Zimmerman, of wrongdoing on television."

O'Reilly speculated on what would happen if the Florida special prosecutor decided there is not enough evidence to prosecute Zimmerman.

"What if that happens? It could, because Florida's complicated stand your ground law has muddled the case. MSNBC, and CNN to some extent, have a vested interest in seeing Zimmerman punished because they have already found him guilty on the air. So they are not going to respect any verdict but guilty.

"Therefore, those entities tell the American public that racial injustice has been done if there is not a conviction, and that could very well lead to violence as we saw in the Rodney King case."

O'Reilly, who said he covered the 1992 riots in Los Angeles, reported that 58 people were killed and $1 billion worth of damage was done. "That absolutely could happen in the Trayvon Martin case.

"Leading the charge to convict Zimmerman is Al Sharpton."

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The recent tragic shooting of Trayvon Martin understandably stirred up great debate over self-defense laws, citizen patrols, gun rights, and racial profiling. But despite the fact that the actual details of the case are still in dispute, several celebrities have called for a vigilante response. The question here is whether the right of Free Speech would protect these actions. The answer is, according to the US Supreme Court in the seminal case Brandenburg v. Ohio, Free Speech rights do not protect persons from words bringing harm to others. This is the topic of this essay, which suggests the USDOJ consider prosecuting these persons before the innocent are hunted down and murdered in the name of celebrity justice.

I. Trayvon Martin Case

The Trayvon Martin case involved a juvenile Florida Black teen shot and killed under disputed circumstances by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman on 2/26/2012. What exactly occurred that night in Zimmerman’s Sanford, FL housing tract is still not clear. Some believe Zimmerman a racist murderer, while others believe Martin caused him to defend himself with deadly force. The tragedy sparked a firestorm regarding the issues of race, crime, and self-protection in America.
 
II. Acts of Inciting Violence: Lee, Barr & Sharpton

Various persons have demanded justice in the Martin case, including the New Black Panthers, and various blithering celebrities, all demanding a vigilantism. Consider the following.

A. Spike Lee

Director Spike Lee sent out a tweet to his quarter-million followers purporting to contain the address of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman, along with the message, “Reach out and touch him.” It was the wrong address, and the terrified elderly owners at the wrong address fled for their lives. Lee apologized for his mistake, offering cash to make up for the error. But what was he trying to achieve? What did he believe the likely outcome of his tweet would be had it contained the correct address? Was this not an attempt to enable vigilantism? Shouldn’t Lee be punished for such an evil deed? Reports Smoking Gun:

With the Internet exploding with posts purporting to contain George Zimmerman’s address, the home address is actually the longtime residence of a married Florida couple, both in their 70s, with no connection to the man who killed Trayvon Martin and are now living in fear due to erroneous reports about their connection to the shooter. The mass dissemination of the address on Edgewater Circle in Sanford—the Florida city where Martin was shot to death last month—took flight last Friday when director Spike Lee retweeted a tweet containing Zimmerman’s purported address to his 240,000 followers.

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Conclusion The greatness of America came from developing new standards for the rules and rectitude of elected officials. Chief was the creation of the first modern Constitution and our separation of powers. These ideas undergird the fundamental foundation of America’s theory of government—the Rule of Law. America’s beauty rests on the notion that no man shall be above the law, but the law shall be above all men. Unfortunately, Obama’s great failure was to forget this most fundamental American conviction.

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C. Al Sharpton
MSNBC host and racial relations commentator “Rev” Al Sharpton, who first became prominent during the Tawana Brawley case, recently demanded vigilantism in the Trayvon Martin tragedy. The Orlando Sentinel stated,

If George Zimmerman is not arrested in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin soon, the Rev. Al Sharpton will call for an escalation in peaceful civil disobedience and economic sanctions. “I will speak about how the National Action Network will move to the next level if Zimmerman isn’t arrested,” said Sharpton, who founded the Network.

Did it ever occur to Sharpton that his followers might take the law into their own hands to deliver “justice” to Zimmerman, his friends or family? Of course, Sharpton is not one to amend his actions, right or wrong. Because, despite the fact the Brawley case was proved an utter hoax, destroying many innocent lives, Sharpton has never apologized, despite losing a defamation trial. In fact, without the Brawley hoax, no one would have ever heard of Sharpton. Recalls the Economist about the defamation trial,

“We stated openly Steven Pagones did it. If we’re lying, sue us, so we can go into court and prove it.” (Al Sharpton) It was inevitable Al Sharpton’s mouth would eventually get him into trouble; inevitable too the Tawana Brawley affair, where a young black girl claimed she was raped by a gang of white men and left in a rubbish bag, would come back to haunt both Sharpton & New York. On July 13th an upstate New York jury found seven statements by Sharpton defamatory.

D. Black Panther $10,000 Reward
Ratcheting up the drama, one group has offered a significant reward for George Zimmerman, according to the Global Post:

The New Black Panther Party today offered a $10,000 reward for the capture of Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman. The group also called for 5,000 black men to mobilize and search for Zimmerman, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. ... If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” NBPP leader Mikhail Muhammad said.

Where's blammo and his snide comments, since he inserted himself into this mess?

Those Inciting Violence over Martin Must Be Prosecuted
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Sharpton's call for violence

CG, I've heard that the special prosecutor is inclined to do exactly that--not prosecute.
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