Wgm4u, Whaddya think of this one? http://www.beliefnet.com/News/Politics/2006/08/Church-Militant-Ann-Coulter-On-God-Faith-And-Liberals.aspx?p=1
________________________________ From: wgm4u <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:23 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Ann Coulter on the truth of the Zimmerman case. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@...> wrote: > > Ann nails it! But FFLers can't hang their emPATHETIC war bonnets on a nail > that doesn't exist. Bingo! > > > ________________________________ > From: wgm4u <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 7:03 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Ann Coulter on the truth of the Zimmerman case. > > > > Â > > July 17, 2013 > Black liberals keep bemoaning the danger to their own teenage sons after the > "not guilty" verdict in George Zimmerman's murder trial. To avoid what > happened to Trayvon Martin, their boys need only follow this advice: Don't > walk up to a stranger and punch him, ground-and-pound him, MMA-style, and > repeatedly smash his head against the pavement. The Justice-for-Trayvon crowd > keeps pretending there hasn't been a trial where the evidence overwhelmingly > showed that Trayvon committed the first (and only) crime that night by > assaulting Zimmerman. Instead, the race agitators are sticking with the > original story peddled by the media, back when we had zero facts. To wit, > that Zimmerman had stalked a young black child and shot him dead just for > being black and wearing a hoodie. Dozens of these hair-on-fire racism stories > are retold in my book, Mugged: Racial Demagoguery from the Seventies to > Obama. In the golden age of racial demagoguery, they came at a pace of > about one a year. Al Sharpton was usually involved. A normal person would > hear some of the more outlandish allegations and think, "I can't believe it!" > not meaning, "Wow! What a blockbuster story!" but rather, "I would like to > hear the facts because I literally don't believe it." (That was much of > America's reaction to the media's claim last year that a neighborhood-watch > captain in Florida had hunted down a black teenager and shot him dead just > for wearing a hoodie.) Whenever a much-celebrated claim of racism turned out > to be false -- which was almost always -- you'd just stop hearing about it. > There would never be a clippable story admitting that the media's harrumphing > had been in error: Attention, readers! That story we've been howling about > for several months turned out to be a complete fraud. > A little time would pass, and then we'd get an all-new, excited "America is > still racist" media campaign. Journalists are incapable of learning that they > should get all the facts before launching moral crusades. As a result, the > official record shows: A few hate crimes and some unverified hate crimes with > no clear resolution one way or another. As long as the fraudulent hate crimes > didn't get counted as strikeouts, liberals always looked like Ted Williams. > Since they didn't keep an accurate batting average, I did it for them in > Mugged. The case most like George Zimmerman's is the Edmund Perry case. In > 1985, Perry, a black teenager from Harlem who had just graduated from > Phillips Exeter Academy, mugged a guy who turned out to be an undercover cop. > He got shot and a few hours later was dead. Instead of waiting for the facts, > the media rushed out with a story about Officer Lee Van Houten being a > trigger-happy, racist cop. When that turned out to be false, > The New York Times looked at its shoes. It was the kind of story the elites > wanted to be true. It should be true. We had such high hopes for that one. > Damn! The initial news accounts stressed not only that Perry was a graduate > of Exeter on his way to Stanford, but that he was unarmed. (In all > white-on-black shootings, the media expect the white to have RoboCop-like > superpowers to detect any weapons on the perp as well as his resume.) A few > weeks after the shooting, The New York Times called Perry "a prized symbol of > hope." In a telling bit of obtuseness, The Times said that "all New Yorkers > have extraordinary reasons to wish for the innocence of the young man who was > killed." I doubt very much that the cop being accused of being a murderous > racist hoped for that. An article in The Village Voice explained: "[L]ike so > many other victims in this city," Perry was "just too black for his own > good." Luckily for the policeman, Perry had mugged him in a > well-lit hospital parking lot. Twenty-three witnesses backed the officer's > story in testimony to the grand jury. (Unlike Zimmerman, Van Houten's case > was at least presented to a grand jury.) As I wrote in "Mugged": "God help > Officer Van Houten if he had been mugged someplace other than a hospital > parking lot with plenty of witnesses." Such as, for example, a dark pathway > in The Retreat at Twin Lakes. There weren't 23 witnesses backing Zimmerman's > story, only about a half-dozen. But, as with Van Houten, the evidence > overwhelmingly corroborated Zimmerman's story. In Van Houten's case, even > after it was blindingly clear that Perry had mugged him, the truth was only > revealed amid great sorrow. When the facts were unknown, the cop was a > racist. When it turned out Perry had mugged the cop, it was no one's fault, > but a problem of "violence," "confusion" and "two worlds" colliding. Perhaps, > someday, blacks will win the right to be treated like volitional human > beings. But not yet. As with Zimmerman's case this week, some journalists > pretended to have missed the court proceedings that supported the > self-defense story. Even after the grand jury's refusal to indict Van Houten, > Dorothy J. Gaiter of the Miami Herald wrote about Perry in an article titled > "To Be Black and Male Is Dangerous in U.S." She asked: "How do you teach a > boy to be a man in a society where others may view him as a threat just > because he is black?" Van Houten said he was jumped, knocked to the ground, > punched and kicked by Edmund Perry. Grand jury witnesses backed his story. > Isn't it possible that Van Houten saw Perry as a threat for reasons other > than "just because he is black"? (And please stop talking about Martin's > "hoodie"! Zimmerman wasn't worried about the hoodie; he was worried about > being beaten to death.) Instead of turning every story about a black person > killed by a white person into an occasion to announce, "The simple fact is, > America is a racist society," liberals might, one time, ask the question: > Why do you suppose there would be a generalized fear of young black males? > What might that be based on? Throw us a bone. It's because a disproportionate > number of criminals are young black males. It just happens that when Lee Van > Houten and George Zimmerman were mugged by two of them, they survived the > encounter. COPYRIGHT 2013 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL UCLICK > Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email Share on print More Sharing > Services 1.5K >
