Misdirection watch - double standard on Facebook and Twitter regarding threats being allowed while political speech ( that goes against apparently the politics of FB ) , blocked ? Following the aftermath from the verdict - a lok at Oakland.... And is the Administration caught between Scylla and Charybdis in the Trayvon Martin / George Zimmerman controversial case ?

http://www.infowars.com/facebook-refuses-to-remove-kill-zimmerman-page/

Facebook Refuses to Remove ‘Kill Zimmerman’ Page

Threats to murder Zimmerman continue to flood Twitter

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
July 15, 2013

Facebook refused to remove a page entitled ‘Kill Zimmerman’ – arguing that it didn’t represent a “credible threat of violence,” as threats to murder George Zimmerman following his acquittal continue to flood Twitter.

According to Facebook, the ‘Kill Zimmerman’ page “doesn’t violate our community standard on credible threat of violence.”

After media attention, Facebook appeared to remove the page but an identical clone popped up soon after and is still online.

Earlier this month, Facebook also refused to remove a Facebook page entitled “Riot For Trayvon” for the same reasons before being forced to do so after the story went viral.

Meanwhile, innumerable tweets from people threatening to kill George Zimmerman as well as others that advocate his murder continue to flood Twitter in unprecedented numbers.

The irony of threatening to carry out murder as a protest against the fact that someone was not convicted of murder was obviously not a factor when these threats were made.

THAT GUY!!! @MichaelMonix

I wish a mf would come to me talking bout paying me to kill Zimmerman im taking that money so quick and be on my way...

12:58 PM - 15 Jul 2013

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But expressing political views can get someone banned ? 

http://www.redstate.com/toddstarnes/2013/07/01/facebook-censors-fox-news-host/

http://www.naturalnews.com/040484_facebook_censorship_children_monsanto_rally.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/post/facebook-admits-error-in-censoring-anti-obama-message/2012/10/31/d6063c22-235e-11e2-ac85-e669876c6a24_blog.html

http://www.infowars.com/oakland-police-stood-down-as-rioters-terrorized-drivers/

Oakland: Police Stood Down As ‘Protesters’ Terrorized Drivers

Cops allowed Trayvon demonstrators to seize control of major street for three hours

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
July 15, 2013

One of the questions to emerge out of last night’s unrest in Oakland, where crowds protesting the George Zimmerman verdict turned violent and seized control of a major street for three hours, is why police withdrew from the area and allowed drivers to be terrorized.

According to a report by ABC 7, protesters had “complete control” of 14th and Broadway near Oakland City Hall and refused to let vehicles pass.

At about 8:30 p.m., police opened the intersection to traffic. But it quickly deteriorated when demonstrators surrounded frightened drivers who found themselves trapped. The crowd forced them to turn around.

Oakland police officers that had been near the corner retreated, leaving the helpless drivers without police protection. It’s unclear who gave that command.

In Los Angeles, demonstrators also blocked major highways and acted provocatively towards drivers.

Occupy Oakland @OccupyOakland

March tomorrow 4pm from 14th and Broadway #Oakland tonight still strong. Courthouse windows smashed. People wear all black for anonymity #oo

3:15 AM - 14 Jul 2013

Occupy Oakland is now calling on demonstrators to repeat the stunt tonight, while subtly encouraging violence by mentioning smashing courthouse windows and telling people to wear all black.

What was described in Oakland last night resembles to a lesser degree the scene below from the 1992 LA riots during which agitators attacked drivers and attempted to pull them out of their vehicles as police stood down.

During the Rodney King riots, police were ordered by their superiors to avoid attempting to quell the disorder so as not to escalate the cycle of violence.

“Critics say the police gave up when the riots erupted, letting big chunks of Los Angeles burn while looters and hoodlums ruled,” reports Blackisonline.

This “stand down” order could hardly have been justified in the context of reducing violence given that 53 people died during the riots and 2,000 were injured.

We hope that scenes such as those witnessed last night in Oakland and Los Angeles remain limited and that police don’t allow them to escalate by standing back and doing nothing, thereby encouraging other criminal elements to hijack the protests as an excuse for disorder and looting.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2013/07/15/david-simon-trayvon-martin-george-zimmerman-verdict/

David Simon — co-creator of The Wire, co-creator of Tremé, card-carrying Person With Thoughts To Share — has some thoughts to share about Trayvon Martin. In a blog post titled simply “Trayvon,” Simon has written his reaction to the George Zimmerman verdict.

“You can stand your ground if you’re white, and you can use a gun to do it. But if you stand your ground with your fists and you’re black, you’re dead,” Simon notes. “In the state of Florida, the season on African-Americans now runs year round. Come one, come all. And bring a handgun.” He continues:

“If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence — these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own … Tonight, anyone who truly understands what justice is and what it requires of a society is ashamed to call himself an American.“

Administration caught between rock and hard place - especially based on Obama and Holder comments in the past regarding the case.....If they pursue a federal civil rights action , they will face criticism and a hard road to make their case. If they do nothing , that might cause riots ! 

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/07/15/holder-to-audience-i-share-your-concern-about-the-zimmerman-case/

Holder to audience: “I share your concern” about the Zimmerman case

POSTED AT 4:41 PM ON JULY 15, 2013 BY ALLAHPUNDIT

  

I still think it’s 90 percent probable that no federal charges will be filed, but I’ll grant you a 10 percent chance that he brings a case in the full expectation that Zimmerman will be acquitted. That was basically what Corey and the Florida prosecutors did. The first duty of the prosecutor is to cover his/her own ass politically. If charges are filed and the jury acquits, hey — at least they gave it the ol’ college try.

Key words here from the Moses of our time: “Unnecessary shooting death.” Is that what the Florida jury found? The confrontation between Martin and Zimmerman was unnecessary, but if you’re letting a guy off on using lethal force in self-defense, by definition you’ve endorsed his view that the shooting was necessary, no?

Of course, as this celebration unfolds, we are also mindful of the pain felt by our nation surrounding the tragic, unnecessary shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida last year – and the state trial that reached its conclusion over the weekend. As parents, as engaged citizens, and as leaders who stand vigilant against violence in communities across the country, the Deltas are deeply, and rightly, concerned about this case. The Justice Department shares your concern – I share your concern – and, as we first acknowledged last spring, we have opened an investigation into the matter.

Independent of the legal determination that will be made, I believe that this tragedy provides yet another opportunity for our nation to speak honestly about the complicated and emotionally-charged issues that this case has raised. We must not – as we have too often in the past – let this opportunity pass. I hope that we will approach this necessarily difficult dialogue with the same dignity that those who have lost the most, Trayvon’s parents, have demonstrated throughout the last year – and especially over the past few days. They suffered a pain that no parent should have to endure – and one that I, as a father, cannot begin to conceive. Even as we embrace their example and hold them in our prayers, we must not forego this opportunity to better understand one another and to make better this nation we cherish.

Moreover, I want to assure you that the Department will continue to act in a manner that is consistent with the facts and the law. We are committed to standing with the people of Sanford, with the individuals and families affected by this incident, and with our state and local partners in order to alleviate tensions, address community concerns, and promote healing. We are determined to meet division and confusion with understanding and compassion – and also with truth. We are resolved, as you are, to combat violence involving or directed at young people, to prevent future tragedies and to deal with the underlying attitudes, mistaken beliefs and stereotypes that serve as the basis for these too common incidents. And we will never stop working to ensure that – in every case, in every circumstance, and in every community – justice must be done.

“Independent of the legal determination that will be made” sounds to me like he’s preparing people for a letdown. With good reason:

[Some] experts said it would be legally inconsistent for the Justice Department to consider filing criminal charges against Zimmerman under the federal Shepard-Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009. Generally, that law prohibits someone from “willfully causing bodily injury” to another person because of his race, color, religion or national origin.

“If the state jury had been persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman caused bodily harm to Trayvon Martin because of Martin’s race, it would have almost certainly convicted Zimmerman of second-degree murder, which requires proof of ‘ill-will’ or ‘malice,’” said Scott Srebnick, a prominent federal criminal defense attorney in Miami. “So, to bring a federal civil-rights prosecution against Zimmerman, the attorney general would essentially be second-guessing the state jury’s verdict as opposed to vindicating a different or broader federal interest.”

It’s not just the jury’s determination that Zimmerman didn’t act with ill will. It’s the FBI’s determination too, as Ed noted this morning. This is why I think Holder will eventually back off, after a few months have passed and this has fallen off the left’s radar: Waiting to prosecute him after the state verdict, with the DOJ’s own police force having found little to support a civil-rights case, would smell too rancidly political even for Obama and Holder. Why chance it? If they want to mobilize lefties with hot-button racial issues, they’ve got the Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Act decision and the amnesty bill to make magic with. We’ll have a better idea of what they’ll do once the first few polls about the verdict come back. If it splits along racial lines, with strong support for Zimmerman among white voters, congressional Democrats in vulnerable jurisdictions will get nervous about a new federal trial and quietly ask O to drop it.

By the way, has any prominent Democrat mentioned the vigilante threats against Zimmerman in passing in their statements about the case? I’m struck by how much of a non-person Zimmerman is in Holder’s statement, even though he’s now been cleared in court, has been smeared relentlessly in the media as a racist contrary to the findings of Holder’s own police force, and both he and his family are living under threat of death. (Obama’s statement yesterday calling for “calm reflection” is as close as we’ve gotten, I think.) I realize he’s the villain in this racial passion play, but he’s a U.S. citizen who committed no crime according to a jury and is being targeted for criminal reprisals daily. Maybe a word or two from “Moses,” however perfunctorily, that Zimmerman’s a human being too and people should respect the process?

and......

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

July 14, 2013

Statement by the President

The death of Trayvon Martin was a tragedy.  Not just for his family, or for any one community, but for America.  I know this case has elicited strong passions.  And in the wake of the verdict, I know those passions may be running even higher.  But we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken.  I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son.  And as we do, we should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to widen the circle of compassion and understanding in our own communities.  We should ask ourselves if we’re doing all we can to stem the tide of gun violence that claims too many lives across this country on a daily basis.  We should ask ourselves, as individuals and as a society, how we can prevent future tragedies like this.  As citizens, that’s a job for all of us.  That’s the way to honor Trayvon Martin.