The conservative blogosphere is brewing with ominous warnings about the inevitable riots they think will come if George Zimmerman is acquitted of charges related to his killing of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. (My colleague Lauren Williams has rightly questioned this mania here.) An email this week from Everett Wilkinson, a former tea party leader in Florida who now runs something called the Nation Liberty Federation, outlines many of the leading (and recurring) conspiracy theories about the verdict's aftermath, which he naturally thinks will include riots: martial law. FEMA camps. But he offers up some of the new ones, too.
Among those is the suggestion that the New Black Panther Party is busing people to Florida for the specific purpose of inciting riots after Zimmerman presumably walks out of court a free man.
Wilkinson writes:
More @ Mother Jones
Mother Jones. Huge leftist outfit.
ReplyDeleteWhen someone from the other side tells you that you have nothing to worry about, you have something to worry about. The uniformed thugs are not digging in for nothing.
Russian troops, possibly, possibly not (no independent verification on that one yet). FEMA camps, the government has no need with plenty of decommissioned military bases around, and Sand Point Naval Station was used to detain rioters during the 1999 WTO riots. Threats to riot and kill have exploded over the social networks and while many of them are keyboard commandos, not all of them will be. Lose Angeles in 1991 shows that it can happen.
Maybe there won't be riots and the III can continue preparing. Maybe they will be localized as they were in Los Angeles. Maybe the worst case scenario will happen and the government will have its Night of Broken Glass (itself a government incited riot). The only thing that can be certain is that you are ready for it.
Night of the Long Knives.
DeleteIf he is acquitted there will be riots.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is he won't be acquitted. This is a show trial and show trials must
have a scapegoat. He will probably be convicted of manslaughter
and that will appease the black racist and leftist enough that they won't riot.
There will be a general increase of black on white hate crimes and violence nationwide, as there already has been but it will be downplayed by the media and judicial system.
Somewhere during his incarceration a gang will knife him in prison but with all the surveillance
and supervision nobody will see nothing so no one will be charged and that will be the end of
the story. Pretty dismal and cynical predictions huh ?
Talking about a travesty of justice.
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