Is This The Possible Trigger They'll Use To Incite Civil Unrest?

[libertygrl]

I'm talking about the Zimmerman trial and the ridiculous amount of coverage being dedicated to it - especially by CNN. Then I found the following article:

Is the Obama administration at least partially responsible for turning the George Zimmerman trial into such a huge national spectacle? Judicial Watch has obtained documents which prove that the Community Relations Service, a division of the Department of Justice, was sent to Sanford, Florida in late March 2012 “to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman“.

This included spending quite a bit of money, arranging meetings between the NAACP and local leaders, and providing police escorts for protesters. Someone needs to ask Obama why the federal government was doing this. A story that should have never made national headlines now threatens to unleash a firestorm of racial fury unlike anything we have seen since the Rodney King verdict. One young man, a neighborhood watch captain, shot and killed another young man. This kind of thing happens in American cities every single night. George Zimmerman says that he did it in self-defense. He should be allowed to have his day in court and that should be the end of the matter. But instead, this thing has been hyped into a massive national spectacle and it is being used to divide us along racial lines. And it appears that we have clear evidence that the Obama administration was involved in doing the hyping.

The documents that Judicial Watch was able to obtain contain some absolutely startling information. Apparently the role of the Obama administration in these protests was quite substantial…

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JW filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the DOJ on April 24, 2012; 125 pages were received on May 30, 2012. JW administratively appealed the request on June 5, 2012, and received 222 pages more on March 6, 2013. According to the documents:

March 25 – 27, 2012, CRS spent $674.14 upon being “deployed to Sanford, FL, to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.”

March 25 – 28, 2012, CRS spent $1,142.84 “in Sanford, FL to work marches, demonstrations, and rallies related to the shooting and death of an African-American teen by a neighborhood watch captain.

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent $892.55 in Sanford, FL “to provide support for protest deployment in Florida.”

March 30 – April 1, 2012, CRS spent an additional $751.60 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance to the City of Sanford, event organizers, and law enforcement agencies for the march and rally on March 31.”

April 3 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $1,307.40 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance, conciliation, and onsite mediation during demonstrations planned in Sanford.”

April 11 – 12, 2012, CRS spent $552.35 in Sanford, FL “to provide technical assistance for the preparation of possible marches and rallies related to the fatal shooting of a 17 year old African American male.”

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But the involvement of the Department of Justice went far beyond just spending money and helping to organize and manage the protests.

Apparently, the Department of Justice was involved in setting up meetings between the NAACP and local officials, and the Department of Justice even arranged police escorts for protesters…

On April 15, 2012, during the height of the protests, the Orlando Sentinel reported, “They [the CRS] helped set up a meeting between the local NAACP and elected officials that led to the temporary resignation of police Chief Bill Lee according to Turner Clayton, Seminole County chapter president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.” The paper quoted the Rev. Valarie Houston, pastor of Allen Chapel AME Church, a focal point for protestors, as saying “They were there for us,” after a March 20 meeting with CRS agents.

Separately, in response to a Florida Sunshine Law request to the City of Sanford, Judicial Watch also obtained an audio recording of a “community meeting” held at Second Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church in Sanford on April 19, 2012. The meeting, which led to the ouster of Sanford’s Police Chief Bill Lee, was scheduled after a group of college students calling themselves the “Dream Defenders” barricaded the entrance to the police department demanding Lee be fired. According to the Orlando Sentinel, DOJ employees with the CRS had arranged a 40-mile police escort for the students from Daytona Beach to Sanford.

Under what conditions is it ever acceptable for the federal government to arrange police escorts for protesters?

And why did the Obama administration want to help them?

What was the goal?

As a result of all of the hype that this case has been given, we now have more racial tension in the United States than we have had in a very, very long time.

And it is becoming apparent to everyone what could potentially happen if George Zimmerman is acquitted. In fact, law enforcement officials are so concerned about violence in the aftermath of the verdict that they have released a video encouraging young people not to commit violent acts…

On Monday, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office released a video calling on the public not to riot in the wake of the George Zimmerman verdict, expected this week or next in Florida. The Sheriff’s Office released a statement explaining that it was “working closely with the Sanford Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies” to coordinate “a response plan in anticipation of the verdict.”

The video, titled “Raise Your Voice, Not Your Hands,” focuses on attempting to channel reaction into non-violent response. It depicts two youngsters, one black teenage boy, one Hispanic teenage girl. “Raise your voice!” says the girl. “And not your hands!” says the boy. “We need to stand together as one, no cuffs, no guns,” says the girl. “Let’s give violence a rest, because we can easily end up arrested,” says the boy. “I know your patience will be tested,” says the girl, and then both conclude, “but law enforcement has your back!”

This never should have happened.

This case should never have been hyped like this.

Instead of being encouraged to look at each other as individuals and fellow American citizens, our politicians and the media continue to hype racial division and strife.

Are we ever going to learn how to love one another?

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-did-the-obama-administration-organize-and-manage-protests-against-george-zimmerman

[Cap]

It is something that bears watching. False flags "R" U.S. would like nothing better I'm sure. The more this is discussed, the less likely it will occur. Thanks for posting.

[thoughtomator]

I've had a difficult time avoiding the "Zimmerman trial is being flogged for the specific purpose of inciting widespread riots" conclusion myself.

[tod evans]

I'd like to see "civil unrest" directed at prosecuting attorneys, judges, congressmen and senators.

You know the people who are paid to represent the will of the people..

[CaptUSA]

Yeah, I don't think they really want to incite civil unrest. Especially from the demographic that supports them. It's political unrest they're after with this.

If they really wanted to incite civil unrest, they'd be pushing some sort of national health care or something. ;) Something they could get a majority to support while making the protestors out to be terrorists.

[jllundqu]

No

[libertygrl]

No

I hope you're right.

[LibertyEagle]

What the hell is the Dept. of Justice doing spending our money supporting protests, or frankly has anything to do with this matter?

[ClydeCoulter]

What the hell is the Dept. of Justice doing spending our money supporting protests, or frankly has anything to do with this matter?

The same thing they are doing in every other place in the world, "NOT minding their own business"!

[Carlybee]

Everytime they waste our tax dollars in this manner we need to be pushing our reps into inquiries.

[KEEF]

I'm talking about the Zimmerman trial and the ridiculous amount of coverage being dedicated to it - especially by CNN. Then I found the following article:



Yeah I found that yesterday. They need any excuse for Marshal Law.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/bulletins/doj-sends-secret-peacekeepers-where-trayvon-martin-was-killed/

[69360]

So what if they do? I have no sympathy for people who burn and loot their own neighborhoods because they are mad at the government. For whatever reason, blacks do that, see LA riots, Watts riots etc.

[KEEF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi8KJ0boov8

[JK/SEA]

racial tension is good for TV ratings = money = jobs. Good for the economy, taxes etc.

yawn.

[dinosaur]

Doubt it, just the tabloid media industrial complex sensationalizing something to keep us distracted and divided. The riots are just part of the sensationalism.

[pacelli]

Strange, I posted this story yesterday...

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?420875-Justice-Dept-Organizing-Trayvon-Martin-Protests!

[Athan]

They tried. I like how they were busted for this. Now we can say that Justice was not blind, it had an agenda, and it was biased.

[enhanced_deficit]

Media masters are aggressively pushing race-bait Zimmerman "news coverage". Do neocons in media think a manufactured race scandal can be used to distract public from real news or boost their badly bruised puppett Obama by projecting him as "race relations messiah" to save the nation?

I opened google news this morning, top headline is "Zimmerman is worried". Of all that is taking place, WTF

[HOLLYWOOD]

I truly believe ANYONE working for the federal government in Washington DC must pass a civics and minimum IQ tests.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxs5Woss__k

[enhanced_deficit]

Yeah, I don't think they really want to incite civil unrest. Especially from the demographic that supports them. It's political unrest they're after with this.



Distraction from real news plus creation of suffcient racial tensions into which their plant Obama cn be inserted as a savior seems a likely goal.
Selling two dark skin guys trial as a race-riot is an uphill battle even for crafty media pushers.

[SeanTX]

Hopefully nothing will happen, because if it does I'm sure they will go out of their way to brutally put down any rioting, and that will advance the cause of the police state (they'll be like "see, this is why we need more law enforcement, further militarization of the police, etc" ). And the stupid conservatives will go along with it.

Though it's also possible they would just do what LAPD did during the 1992 riots -- hop in their patrol cars and say "see ya!" and haul ass outta the danger zone.

[libertygrl]

This is really weird. I'm not an attorney but I've never seen a judge ask this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgDuu6i8MtE&feature=player_embedded#at=71

Here's the latest article:

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
July 11, 2013

Speculation is raging that the judge in the George Zimmerman case could have been put under pressure by the Obama administration after she staged a bizarre outburst during which she interrogated Zimmerman while repeatedly silencing his lawyers.

The hostile exchange began when Judge Debra Nelson asked Zimmerman if he planned to testify.

Essentially, Judge Nelson told Zimmerman he had the “absolute right to remain silent” but then proceeded to demand he answer her questions interrogation-style while silencing his lawyers.

Defense attorney Don West twice objected to Nelson’s interrogation, prompting the judge to raised her voice and exclaim, “Your objection is overruled!” in a manner more befitting of an angry parent lecturing a child than a legal professional.

Both of Zimmerman’s lawyers appeared shocked as attorney Mark O’Mara asked under his breath, “what is going on?”
Several legal experts and observers said the outburst was unprecedented.

“I have never seen that in more than 30 years of court reporting,” tweeted journalist Kathi Belich.
Former Senatorial candidate Richard Rivette also expressed his shock at the judge’s behavior.

“This judge is an idiot. I spent five years investigating high profile capital cases defending people from the death penalty, and worked for the Federal judiciary as an independent investigator on other cases. No judge ever inquires as to whether a defendant will testify until the entire defense case is presented. If the defense rests and does not call the defendant then the judge knows there will be no testimony. If the defense calls the defendant then that’s when the judge finds out. They have to get through the entire case first. To see if it is valid after prosecution cross-examines their witnesses and experts as to whether a defendant SHOULD testify, which is decided in private not in public, and NOT on the record. By doing this, the judge has undermined a portion of Zimmerman’s credibility. He looks like he is waffling and this is normal judge/defendant questioning, which it is NOT,” said Rivette.

Respondents to the story at the National Review Online also expressed their view that Zimmerman was being railroaded.

“A fix is in from the administration to find Zimmerman guilty regardless of what it takes,” commented one.

“By demanding that Zimmerman respond to a question, after she has assured him that he has the right to remain silent, she is undermining his right to remain silent and making it appear as though he and his attorneys are not firm in their convictions. This judge is shameless,” added another.

Judge Nelson also ruled this week that Trayvon Martin’s text messages, which showed that Martin had been involved in fights before and was trying to buy or sell a gun, cannot be shown to the jury, which some suggested was another indication of an anti-Zimmerman bias.

Nelson also granted a request by prosecutors to block the defense’s attempt to show the jury a computer-animated depiction of the fight between Martin and Zimmerman.
She is also likely to allow the jury to consider lesser charges against Zimmerman in light of the prosecution’s probable failure to prove its case for second-degree murder, another indication that the state is desperate to avoid him walking free.

Judge Nelson has been very careful at every stage of the trial to dismiss evidence or testimony that could convince the jury in favor of acquitting Zimmerman.
Now some are asking the question – did Nelson’s aggressive outburst represent an attempt to prejudice the jury against Zimmerman?
Given the likelihood that Zimmerman will be acquitted, has Judge Nelson been put under pressure by the federal government to aggressively advocate for the prosecution, just as Supreme Court Justice John Roberts was apparently pressured to vote to uphold Obamacare?

Ever since President Barack Obama personally inserted himself into the controversy by declaring Trayvon Martin to be akin to the son he never had, higher-ups have constantly meddled in the case in an effort to secure a murder charge for a scenario that Zimmerman would not normally have even been arrested for under Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.

Indeed, ex-Sanford police chief Bill Lee told CNN yesterday that “he felt pressure from city officials to arrest Zimmerman to placate the public rather than as a matter of justice,” and that his investigation “provided no probable cause to arrest Zimmerman at the scene.”
It also emerged this week that the federal government encouraged and funded last year’s protests demanding the arrest of Zimmerman via the Community Relations Service, a division of the Department of Justice. Documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that the CRS was “deployed to Sanford, FL, following the Trayvon Martin shooting to help organize and manage rallies and protests against George Zimmerman,” spending millions of dollars in the process.

Given the plethora of threats by Trayvon supporters to stage violent riots if Zimmerman is acquitted, could Nelson be under pressure to secure a charge of at least manslaughter in order to avoid nationwide civil disorder?

If that’s the case, her apparent effort to prejudice the jury clearly suggests that a mistrial has taken place.
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http://www.infowars.com/judge-in-zimmerman-case-pressured-by-obama-administration/

[VoluntaryAmerican]

To answer the OP's question:

No.

[Anti Federalist]

Got that awful Ed Snowden out of the news, didn't it?

Government media organs are organing.

[Antischism]

Nah. Just more sensationalism.

[Deborah K]

What the hell is the Dept. of Justice doing spending our money supporting protests, or frankly has anything to do with this matter?


And I'd like to know why Obama felt the need to publicly comment on this case in particular when these kinds of crimes happen frequently.

[Deborah K]

Remember the "If I had a son, he'd look like Treyvon" ???? come on....really? Did he REALLY have to say that???


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efZNgSEpB1k

[KEEF]

I truly believe ANYONE working for the federal government in Washington DC must pass a civics and minimum IQ tests.



THIS IS WHY your tax dollars are wasted

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxs5Woss__k

I love her line and pronunciation at the end... "When America have a cold, African-America have pe-new-monia."

[anaconda]

What the hell is the Dept. of Justice doing spending our money supporting protests, or frankly has anything to do with this matter?

This seems huge to me. The DOJ spending money on protests? This seems every bit as scandalous as the IRS story. Some politician should jump on this.

[BlackTerrel]

I thought Alex Jones said the race war was going to happen because of that movie Machete that was released a couple years ago?

Can we please bump all these "race war is coming" threads when nothing happens and we get on with our lives?

[Pericles]

When liberals are successful in getting their political opponents to pay for programs the liberals want to implement, it is called government. When conservatives do that, it is called the Iran - Contra scandal.

[Zippyjuan]

More info: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/11/2287041/no-the-department-of-justice-did-not-organize-trayvon-martin-rallies/


No, The Department Of Justice Did Not Organize Trayvon Martin Rallies

The conservative group Judicial Watch published records that show the Community Relations Service, a civil rights unit of the DOJ, helped with security for the rallies. Conservative groups have interpreted those records to mean there was wrongdoing; the Heritage Foundation has gone so far as to demand an oversight hearing for the Community Relations Service’s “potentially unethical involvement.” Fox News, Daily Caller, and other conservative media have taken up the same spin. CNN picked up the report, as well.

But the same documents show nothing inflammatory about the DOJ involvement, which was limited to ensuring security for the protests.

Judicial Watch lists documents showing standard travel expenses for Community Relations Service staff deployed to Sanford, Florida to prevent racial tensions from escalating into violence. Though a 2012 Orlando Sentinel article described the role Community Relations Service played as “secretive,” their work in Sanford, Florida was innocuous. DOJ sent staff at the height of community tensions over police mishandling of the case, when large-scale protests demanded justice for Martin. The same article described how DOJ staff simply taught civil rights organizers how to peacefully manage large crowds and ensured the safety for people expressing their First Amendment rights. Because of the DOJ, a Church pastor said “we felt protected.”

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 established the Community Relations Service as the only federal agency charged with “preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.” And as CNN reports, DOJ conciliators are frequently involved in a range of protests, “including those that occur every four years at the Democratic and Republican political conventions.”

More on the Community Relations Service:
http://www.justice.gov/crs/



The Community Relations Service is the Department's "peacemaker" for community conflicts and tensions arising from differences of race, color, and national origin. Created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, CRS is the only Federal agency dedicated to assist State and local units of government, private and public organizations, and community groups with preventing and resolving racial and ethnic tensions, incidents, and civil disorders, and in restoring racial stability and harmony.

[kcchiefs6465]

I love her line and pronunciation at the end... "When America have a cold, African-America have pe-new-monia."
This country has AIDS. I'm speaking figuratively but we are indeed as sick as a nation.

Who it infects or affects first is of little concern to me.

As a starting point I'd like people to realize these policies aren't just affecting those on one aisle who can diagnose a problem. They affect those on the other aisle who cannot begin to comprehend a solution. We have people on both sides who cannot begin to fathom self-ownership, less regulation, an ending of the Fed, returning to a gold standard, (or measurable different) civil liberties, or the growing police state. They see a problem. Not a solution.

My meaningfully offensive comparison between the rate at which this country is dying with AIDS is to awaken some.

One, two more NDAAs and what is it? Rendition for "sedition"? Targeted plots of assassination? ("imminent" or "immediate" threats)

Where do you stand.

[CaptUSA]

You know, I'm kinda surprised that the GOP hasn't figured out a way to make this about Black vs. Hispanic. It seems like that'd be right up their alley. Especially with the whole immigration debate going on, this would be like the GOP siding with the Hispanic in this case and the Dems siding against him because he killed one of their "more-favored" races. The Democratic party would have no qualms about exploiting this kind of race division if it worked in their favor. I'm not saying they should do this, but maybe if the establishment GOP found a different way to appeal to "the Hispanic demo" then they wouldn't feel so much pressure to pass this stupid immigration fiasco.

[ghengis86]

No. There will be no civil unrest until the SNAP cards stop working, the 43 million Americans on food stamps can't eat and all the TV's break simultaneously. Not a moment before.

[BlackTerrel]

I thought Alex Jones said the race war was going to happen because of that movie Machete that was released a couple years ago?

Can we please bump all these "race war is coming" threads when nothing happens and we get on with our lives?

I was back in Georgia for a few days. Did I miss it?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37HT4-EtzE

[BlackTerrel]

I was back in Georgia for a few days. Did I miss it?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g37HT4-EtzE

Another missed one. I am sure in a few months another movie will come out or another story and the same people will tell me race war is coming any day now.

Just so we can all live in fear.

[Working Poor]

I work with people of all races from all over the world we often discuss the news.
There is a lot more talk about our foreign policy bs than Trayvon. I asked a black lady what she thought about it and she just rolled her eyes and said: "next"...

I think most blacks are not even close to wanting a race riot. They are much more concerned about the police than they are some white guy.

[Tor_Hershman]

The News Media does have an agenda they always follow.