ABC Not Sure Whether Death Threats In Trayvon Martin Aftermath 'Going Too Far'
Is it right to make death threats against George Zimmerman and his family? ABC News isn't sure. In a Good Morning America segment today on the Trayvon Martin case, as an ABC reporter spoke from Sanford, Florida, this graphic was displayed across the bottom of the screen:
"ARE DEATH THREATS GOING TOO FAR?" Video and screencap after the jump.
Oddly, neither Alex Perez, the new ABC correspondent on the scene in Sanford, nor news anchor Ron Clairborne back in the studio who introduced the segment, made any mention of death threats. Presumably, they were referring to reports such as this one, in which a Zimmerman family member says that Zimmerman's parents have received such threats. The New Black Panther Party has also offered a $10,000 bounty on Zimmerman, saying "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". What can you say about ABC, a network with an open mind about the propriety of making death threats against Zimmerman and his family?
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We are watching a lynching in 2012, America!
Submitted by acaiguana on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:18am.
A media driven lynching.
ACA
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Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
Left will be calling for deaths soon
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:27am.
The liberal media will be CALLING for deaths before much longer. They've become too drunk with their ability to shape public opinion, and think they're a power unto themselves. It will most likely start with people like Mahar and Schultz, but soon it will bleed over to Matthews, Maddow, and finally to David Gregory and the whole liberal gang.
They'll start by saying, 'I'm not saying that Republican X SHOULD be killed - but would it really be so bad if someone DID kill him...?' Then they'll start elaborating on all the positive things that would result if Republican X were to be gunned down by a protestor or a hoodie wearing thug.
Mark my words - they're heading that way. Some of them are already there. They're just trying to justify it by hiding behind the mask of 'entertainers'. The first couple of times they may say, 'I was only joking'.
But soon they won't be joking. And rest assured - right thinking people never thought they were funny to start with.
You're correct
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:15pm.
I think a lot of these protests are just a means to put hooded thugs into the streets to create chaos. Look for more mobs as we get closer to the election.
And why would ABC think that the death threats were wrong? They spent 8 years either not covering, or justifying the same behavior towards President Bush.
It takes a sick sick mind
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:40am.
It takes a real sick mind for someone to ask a really dumb question like that, it's so patently absurd. You can't really stop people from making death threats, only stop them (hopefully) from acting on them.
The real question is "do they want to stop them from acting on death threats?" In the case of the lib media, the answer of course is no because there would be no sensational ratings otherwise. I cite the Giffords Tuscon shooting as an example, both before and after the incident. The threat was there, it was known, and it wasn't stopped. Then after the incident, the "aftermath" threats were there, and some attempts might have been made (I have no idea, I wasn't following those closely at all if any), and no attempts made to quell the brouhaha of "civilitiy" that followed.
-Jon
Left-Wing Racism
Submitted by Guapo Diablo on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 10:48am.
Zimmerman will be chased forever, simply because he's not black. Sharpton, Spike Lee, the New Black Panther Party and the MSM have made sure that he will be found, beaten and possibly murdered ONLY because of the color of his skin. It's a tragedy that Martin is dead. However if the shooter and victim were the same race, those two guys names' would be in a local story for a couple days, then it would no longer be news.
The MSM really needs to look in the mirror and ask themselves if putting a bounty on someone's head is worth their coveted ratings. One of OUR family members could be next.
Death Threats Going Too Far?
Submitted by Netstatter on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:21am.
Any death threat against anyone is going too far. That's a given; even to ask if they go too far is absurd. To me, that graphic line across the bottom of the screen could only be for the morally-challenged among us. I wonder what the poll results of such a question wold be? I can assume that such poll results actually exist!
Let's imagine just for argument what death threats can cause:
- fear
- response-in-kind
- actual deaths, both of the people being threatened and those making the threats
Also think of the after-effects of such actions.
Let's do something common-sense about such threats. Make arrests of the ones doing the threatening.
The left has provided him a
Submitted by LAM SON 719 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:22am.
The left has provided him a valid reason for owning a gun.
Let's be fair ABC*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:33am.
Let's put out bounties on the drug dealers that recruit and arm teenagers to do their killings for them. Where is the outrage?
http://theadvocate.com/news/1446948-123/high-homicide-rate-plagues-baton...
They certainly provided me with one, LS.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:44pm.
I'm almost glad that they react the way they do. Every time they start getting in people's faces, more citizens seem to see the need to purchase a firearm.
It's going to boil over one of these days, and I want my side better armed and trained than their side.
The day of reckoning is coming soon
Submitted by Buckeye27 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:50pm.
I predict that day will be immediately after the Supreme Court ruling, regardless of which way it goes, or November 7. Either way someone's going to be very unhappy and no real way to vent. Either way the Administration gets to call the shots and institute martial law, which they are actively seeking (they already have authorization in WH despite its unconstitutionality).
Yes they do, Buckeye.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:26pm.
Yes they do.
I hope I live long enough to see how it all comes out!
Too far?
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:39am.
For those who value truth and justice, yes, way too far. For Democrats facing an electoral rebuke of historic proportions, but still in posession of their media weapon?... well, we probably haven't yet seen how far they are willing to go.
Death sentence for Zimmerman*
Submitted by cajun2 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:52am.
The media sees no problem with death threats. The race baiters have put out a bounty on this man. Liberals everywhere want this man in prison for "justice"... Here is my question.
If Zimmerman goes to prison on any charge, how long do you think he will live?
it similar to the rush to judgement on the gabby giffords case..
Submitted by merly1 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 11:53am.
the MS media will select certian cases to attack its political enemies--and do it against all obvious evidence.
With giffords, it was the tea party or conservatives. here, they recycle the rarest of abels "white hispanic" to make this a national campaign. As other posters have correctly pointed out, the black male on black male violence is at
stunning levels for two decades, but nobody really seems to care. I dont get it......................
Why are liberals engaging in
Submitted by CM on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 11:49am.
Why are liberals engaging in a war on hispanics?
"Huge Rallies Today."
Submitted by CobraMan on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:16pm.
Hay, ABC, love the "Huge Rallies Today" banner. Thanks for the Flash Mob update!
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Tinder Box
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:28pm.
I think this countries' cities are sitting on a tinderbox waiting to explode this summer. OWS is calling for a general strike and the implication of violence on May the 1st. The Supreme Court will release their ruling sometime in June. There's a good chance that hype being built up around the Martin/Zimmerman case will blow up when the left doesn't get the results they want.
Top it all with super high gas prices, and it's not unrealistic to think that riots and looting could break out. If the Rodney King incident was the tipping point for what happened back in 1992, the combining of the three events above, and the political conventions, could result in something similar.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Hey...
Submitted by retrocon on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 2:45pm.
Maybe just enough chaos to "postpone" an election?
You know, fear that people won't be able to get to the polling places, gas too expensive to waste just to go vote, racial tensions giving way to a "Constitutional Crisis," and then? Then... "temporarily" postpone the election?
Normally, i would laugh at myself for such an impossible thought.
But activity of late, obviously exacerbated by the current administration and it's cronies, places me in a mindset without such a sense of humor.
Ironically, with the willing support of a compliant media, 70 percent of the population could probably be convinced of the value of doing such a thing.
LET them strike...
Submitted by Slyrr on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:39pm.
I'm looking for work, because Obama's phony-baloney 'recovery' was a lie and my company (among many others) got downsized.
Once all the OWS sheep flee into the streets to live in tents, smear their feces on cop cars, do drugs and rape women, I'll swoop in and snatch one of their jobs away from them.
Hopefully ALL the people that Obama has put out of work will be able to get jobs once the posers who believe the OWS lies quit their jobs, leaving them open for the people who really make this country work.
Strike?
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:48pm.
I'm not worried about a general strike. That's a canard. The picture of the woman with the match ready to burn down everything is what we should be concerned about.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
I need a ruling from our Attorney General.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 12:49pm.
Is putting a bounty on someone's head, "Dead or Alive," legal or not?
If it is legal, I have my own list.
Do we still have an Attorney General? He seems to be taking a pass on the Black Panthers again.
Attorney General on down
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:00pm.
All sorts of Florida law enforcement could go after the people talking about a bounty. Have they also been cowed by the New Black Panthers and their supporters in the state run media?
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
They are so afraid
Submitted by jon_torlin on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:08pm.
They are so afraid of being called racist if they take any sort of action, they'll suffer loss of face with the public if they do anything. That's their thinking. The other problem is AG Holder, he's given them a pass before, he'll give them one again so the authorities probably and despondently think "what's the use?" I would also add mistakenly think that way too.
This country is ripe for a civil war with all the stuff that's going on, and this nonsense about Trayvon and Zimmerman is the powderkeg that's going to set it off. Sharpton, Jackson, even Obeyme, will see to that, they are already taking the steps to make it happen.
I fear this will make the Rodney King Riots look like a TEA party event.
-Jon
I'm with Jon on this, Fish.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:46pm.
This is all part of a grand scheme that the RBFSOB has cooked up for the election year "national emergency."
I have to admit that I was, and still am, upset with the state of FL for not going after the Black Panthers, but I do have a little sympathy for their position. The feds have already injected themselves into this local matter and elevated it to the presidential level!!!!
I dare say that if Scott made a move against the Justice Brothers or the Black Panthers, that the feds would override him in a heartbeat, blame the whole mess on HIS racism, and federalize the whole Fluking state of FL in the interest of "preserving the peace," or some other stupid excuse.
This is a No Win for local and state government. Obama made sure of that early with his "if I had a son" statement. Now it's all about White vs Black.
That's what he wanted all along.
Good news
Submitted by CM on Sun, 04/01/2012 - 7:37pm.
Roger Goodell has heard about this bounty and he's going to take swift action against the new black panthers. Likely a long suspension and loss of draft picks.
It's not that these race hustlers love blacks so much...
Submitted by krendler on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:04pm.
It's not that these race hustlers (the media included) love blacks so much, it has a lot more to do with their all-consuming hatred of whites. Thus, you don't see any outrage at all unless it's a white who's criticizing a black ("how dare you criticize Obama, you racist"), or a white commenting on racial issues (only blacks are allowed to do this), or white-on-black crime.
Society and the media allow blacks to spew as much hatred towards other ethnic groups as they want. Zero repercussions. It's as if blacks have earned the right to openly express their hatred of whites and America. Blacks are constantly gabbing about race this and race that, and the second a white offers a contrary opinion they freak out.
No other race or ethnic group in the country is permitted to do this.
Race hustlers despise blacks!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:54pm.
They just use them to make themselves rich and powerful. To assume that da Rev Al and da Rev Jesse give half a Shiite about someone of their own race is a joke. They just use them.
If this were 300 years ago, Al and Jesse would be in Africa rounding up other blacks to sell their asses to slavers. They have no more love for their fellow man, black or white, than those slave traders did.
Why do you think that they work soooooo hard to keep them poor, stupid, and ignorant? The same reason plantation owners did it. They are much easier to control and manipulate that way. They depend on you to give them what the need to live, and tell them what to do.
The libs are pulling the same thing in our public schools right now. Keep'em ignorant, and teach them that the State is their only hope for survival.
We're running out of time to turn this around.
In the twisted liberal mind
Submitted by mattm on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:06pm.
In the twisted liberal mind if the end result is four more years for The Usurper, then it won't be "going too far" - If O'Kenyan loses, then it won't have gone far enough.
So if someone issues a death
Submitted by rbosque on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 1:31pm.
So if someone issues a death threat to an ABC correspondant, they won't think nothing of it?
Absolutely absurd
Submitted by dave_worrell on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:05pm.
One of the dumbest graphics I can remember.
And an economic boycott is foolish. Even assuming the racial profiling were true, and it's not, how do you help a community by attacking it's economy?
How many seventeen year old black kids or parents of seventeen year old black kids are going to lose their jobs if the local economy gets hit? And that helps who? It's stupidity.
Luckily those silly economic boycotts from outsiders never work.
I do hope that none of these angry protestors getting bused in takes a swing at someone, especially a police officer. Al and the media are probably salivating over the prospects of the tragedy of that happening.
death threats...
Submitted by truckinmann on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:38pm.
Are death threats going to far? Yes! Are calls for riots going to far? Yes! I truly believe these people are brain dead as far as reasoning goes. Al Sharpton is also a big part of this and needs to go down as far as his job is concerned.
What the liberal media doesn't understand is the conservatives are much better prepared for war than they are. I guess they do understand this as they are all about taking guns out of the peoples hands so they can't protect themselves. We're already armed and have guns by our 2nd amendment rights and are being backed up by the courts in case after case, which really drives them nuts.
These libs have tried and convicted this man without a trial, and he's not even been charged with a crime! The police investigated this shooting and found it to be justified. This is racially motivated hatred of a man because of his skin color, and I'm talking about the hatred of Zimmerman because he's not a black that killed another black. They want to blow it into something big just because Zimmerman isn't black, and for no other reason. Blacks want to start a race war over this. They make up about 12% of the population, who do you think would win? I'm sick and tired of hearing racism screamed every time someone white farts in the general vicinity of a black. Get a life!
Sharpton is trying to incite a riot, and I hope he succeeds, and is then arrested and locked up for a good, long time. NBC is doing nothing about a host for one of their shows attempting to cause physical violence on innocent people. This innocent person is ready if a riot comes to my neighborhood. I know the police can't be everywhere at once, and are generally only there after the crime has been committed, rather than stopping the crime as it's committed. This is why we have the second amendment, so you can protect yourself and your family, and if need be your country. When someone is trying to incite anarchy over the rule of law in our country, as Al Sharpton is doing, then the general population better be prepared to fend for themselves, as we don't know where the violence may erupt at.
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Submitted by truckinmann on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:40pm.
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No
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 3:46pm.
No, the death threats didn't go to far. They went just far enough.
And they clearly aren't as bad as the crosshairs on Congressional districts. They are examples of temperate and cautious language being used in these troubled days to give expression to people who don't have a way to be heard.
No, this is just good, robust, political discourse. Ask Nancy Pirogi.
Haven't Seen Anywhere
Submitted by bmac32 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:30pm.
but is Zimmerman a Democrat or Republican?
Registered Democrat
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:37pm.
.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
You must have overlooked those four million
Submitted by Jer on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:58pm.
google results.
Jer
Civil Suit vs Sharpton
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Sat, 03/31/2012 - 5:32pm.
"Seven black teens have been arrested on suspicion that they committed a hate crime when they attacked a 15-year-old Hispanic boy while he was walking home from school in Southern California, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office."
If I was the parent of that child that got beat up, I would hire an attorney to investigate the possibility of suing Sharpton.
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
To all liberals
Submitted by chiefpayne on Mon, 04/02/2012 - 2:46pm.
who are uncertain if Death Threats are going too far.
Imagine someone threatens Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid. Would THAT be going too far?
Ok...so equate Zimmerman to them.
So the answer to any SANE mind would be...YES.