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The Death of Trayvon Martin: Is There Nothing Progressives
Won’t Exploit?
By Derek Hunter (originally posted at Townhall.com on
3/25/2012)
A 17-year-old kid is shot dead. Police are investigating…and
progressives see an opportunity. The Trayvon Martin case, in addition to being
a tragedy, is a case study in political exploitation and progressive tactics.
The shooting death of a 17-year-old is horrible, whatever
the circumstances and no matter their race. But progressives seem to care about
this case only because of the race of the victim. There are thousands of
murders that don’t “fit the bill” for exploitation and thus are ignored by
these self-appointed “justice seekers.”
What happened that night? I don’t know. But neither do any
of the race hustlers, such as Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton, who speak of it as
if they are clairvoyant. They care deeply about Trayvon’s family… as long as
there are cameras around.
This lack of actual knowledge doesn’t stop progressives –
many of whom call for due process rights and the presumption of innocence for
terror suspects in Guantanamo Bay – from demanding the head of George
Zimmerman, the shooter in this case.
The hypocrisy runs deep.
I understand the tragedy here but not the selective outrage.
There are thousands of murders in this country each year. How many have you
heard of? A large percentage of those murder victims are younger than 30. How
many have you heard of? Only a few.
How many cause people to take to the streets in protest? How
many occupy a large portion of cable news? How many do these progressives
screaming for the head of George Zimmerman ever mention on their TV or radio
shows?
You know the answer.
For progressives to care about someone who has been killed
there must be an ulterior motive. In the case of Trayvon Martin, there are
many.
First, race. That news outlets can’t talk about this case
without mentioning Trayvon’s race is a testament to how successful progressives
have been in instilling a segregationist mindset in the media. That they rarely
mention the shooter’s race is a testament to just how far progressives will go
to exploit tragedy to advance their divide and conquer agenda. Zimmerman is
Hispanic, not white, as originally thought. Since the race-hustling machine was
already in motion and impossible to stop, they and their fellow travellers in
the media simply ignore it.
Bill Maher, HBO’s resident crap-flinging monkey, tweeted,
“No probable cause in #TrayvonMartin murder? If a dead unarmed teen and an
angry racist with a smoking gun is too subtle a clue, what isn't?”
Is Zimmerman a racist? I have no idea (his father and
neighbor say no), but I do know Bill Maher has no idea either. But that doesn’t
stop progressive Maher from making a definitive statement on the issue. Facts
don’t matter in pursuit of the agenda.
Second, policy. Progressives always have hated Florida’s
“Stand Your Ground” self-defense law. This case offered an opportunity to
demonize it, and they took it – even though it does not apply to this case.
Zimmerman wasn’t “standing his ground;” he was following Martin. Whatever happened
when they engaged in their confrontation is a separate matter.
But again, facts don’t matter. The fascist progressives
blame the law, almost as much as the shooter, for Martin’s death. Before any
investigation is complete, calls for repeal (which were there before the
shooting) are getting louder and louder. Mindless media drones and the
professionally outraged progressive mob are calling for repeal. Screw facts;
they demand action.
Third, politics. The one thing progressives value above all
else is political power. They will dance on Trayvon Martin’s grave to keep
people divided into the groups and sub-groups they’ve worked so hard to create
and manipulate.
Media Matters, a fascistic group of anti-First Amendment
progressives whose mission is allegedly to correct conservative bias in the
media, has been promoting the Trayvon Martin story. What bias is there in this
case? No one, right or left, doesn’t consider this a tragedy. It’s just that
some don’t want to call for more blood without an investigation. But when Media
Matters is involved, you can bet the Democrat Party is pulling the strings.
Enter MSNBC.
MSNBC’s lineup is a who’s who of detestable bigots and
professional hatemongers whose only goal in life is to advance the progressive
agenda at all costs. Rather than focus on the life of Trayvon or the tragedy of
his death, MSNBC had a segment entitled “The GOP agenda that produced ‘Stand
Your Ground’ laws.” The dots were laid out so plainly even most of their
intelligence-challenged audience could connect them – GOP pushed Stand Your
Ground, Stand Your Ground is responsible for Trayvon’s death, therefore the GOP
is responsible for Trayvon’s death.
Since many of the uninformed who watch MSNBC need things
spelled out for them because they’re too busy trying to figure out why they
can’t eat tomato soup with a fork, fill-in host and noted idiot racist Karen
Finney went all-in. Mimicking the time progressives blamed Sarah Palin for the
tragic Tucson shooting, only to have the insane man behind it be exposed as an
anti-war, anti-Bush leftist, Finney blamed Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Rick
Santorum and Mitt Romney for the death of Trayvon.
The only thing more disgusting than Finney knowingly (and
believe me, she knows) exploiting the death of a 17-year-old for political
purposes, or a “news” organization broadcasting that on their network is
knowing of the other deaths and murders they willingly ignore because the
victims, the perpetrators or both have the incorrect skin pigment to advance
their agenda.
A human life is a human life to everyone – well, to everyone
but progressives. To them, a human life is a tool, a toy, a means by which
their anti-liberty, anti-American agenda can be advanced, provided those
involved in taking it have the correct type and order of melanin, genitals or
any other subdividing characteristics they deem worthy of outrage. The rest?
The thousands who don’t fit their mold? They can rot. They can rot just like
those who fit the mold in the past, served their purpose and are now forgotten
for new pawns.
The death of Trayvon Martin is a tragedy, just as the death
of every person who passes in such a matter is a tragedy. How it came to be
will be determined in the due course of an honest investigation, not by
exploiting a family’s tragedy for votes and ratings.
The only way to give Trayvon justice, for non-progressives
still interested in such things, is to let the investigation lead where it
goes, not pass the same prejudgment on George Zimmerman progressives accuse him
of passing on Trayvon. It’s time for progressives to stop dancing on Trayvon
Martin’s grave, to stop dancing on the graves of all the victims they exploit,
take off their bigoted blinders and join the rest of society.
They won’t. They can’t. It’s who they are. So it’s up to the
rest of us to help them at the ballot box by continually rejecting any and
everyone who would seek to abuse victims for political gain. Especially when
that trail leads to the White House.
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