TCTI: Too Crazy Too Ignore
 Dave Ross

There is danger everywhere

April 2, 2012 @ 8:13 am (Updated: 8:20 am - 4/2/12 )

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Our obsession with danger has skewed our reality.

Geraldo has now apologized for making this remark about Trayvon Martin's decision to wear a hoody the night he was shot:

"He wore an outfit that allowed someone to respond in this irrational, overzealous way," said Geraldo.

I think we all know what he meant -- the hoody sends a signal.

But there are so many signals these days, you can't NOT send a signal anymore.

I pulled my wallet out of my back pocket, didn't realize it had left my pocket hanging inside out -- turns it out means you want a certain type of intimate encounter. Who knew?

I get to work before sunrise and sometimes it's cold, so I wear a puffy winter jacket. So in the afternoon, I'm walking back to my car in a puffy coat on a warm day. Now I'm a suicide bomber.

It's not just the hoody anymore, it's EVERYTHING.

Which brings me to the other thing Geraldo said:

"Every time you see someone sticking up the 7-11, the kid's wearing a hoodie."

We'll I've never personally seen someone stick up a 7-11, and most of you haven't either. What you've seen is a PICTURE of someone sticking up a 7-11. And you've seen it again and again.

It's our obsession with danger that's skewed our reality. We think we're surrounded by thugs when in fact most black kids in hoodies are just kids in hoodies, like most white kids with green hair and tattoos are just kids with green hair and tattoos.

The problem is not that a kid chose to wear a hoody but that a neighbor chose to wear a gun and play cop.

A little like -- having a neighbor do your heart bypass, based on watching all eight seasons of Grey's Anatomy.

Which, from what I hear, WILL end up being the Supreme Court's preferred health care system.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Geraldo
    April 2, 2012 7:31 am
    Dave, likely you don't listen to FOX unless someone makes a mistake, but Geraldo has become a strong advocate FOR Trayvon Martin. Had his mom and dad and their lawyer on for a long time, etc., etc. And you should know that THEY are no more happy about these 'new' panthers than anyone on 'the right'. .......... LOTS of new data came out the weekend. I just wish it wasn't dribbled out as if to inflame each side. .. And too bad we have to take sides. .. I doubt either that Trayvon wanted to look like a hood, or that Zimmerman was 'hunting'. Maybe both made mistakes. Zimmerman's was worse as he killed, but.........
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  • Ron_Spins wrote...
    The problem is...................your head has been in the sand.
    April 2, 2012 7:40 am
    http://nwgangs.com/king-county-gangs.html
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    The Equation:
    April 2, 2012 7:44 am
    Black guy + Hoodie = "Guy looks like he's up to no good, he's just walking around"

    "Guy up to no good" + Wannabe cop = Explosive situation.

    Wannabe cop + remark about "F*****g (next word rhymes with spoons)" overheard on 911 tape = racial hostility.

    Explosive situation + racial hostility + deliberate provocation = violent encounter.

    Violent encounter + nervous fear = first shot misses, and neighbors react to shot by dialing 911.

    Missed first shot + fear for life = Martin hollering for help (voice on 911 tape now confirmed by computer analysis to be Treyvon Martin, with "95% certainty")

    Nervous fear + racial hostility + deliberately provoked violent encounter = second shot, point blank to chest.

    Second shot = dead kid.

    Nope, Dave. It wasn't the hoodie. It was a racist reaction to the sight of a hoodie. If some black people wearing hoodies have committed crimes, somewhere, some time, some how, then any black person wearing a hoodie must be committing a crime, planning to commit a crime, or at least knows somebody else who has committed a crime wearing a hoodie. In any case, in Zimmerman's world, a black person wearing a hoodie in a mostly white gated community needs to be killed by the "neighborhood watch".

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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    so now a picture of an angelic 8 year old in a hoodie?....
    April 2, 2012 7:56 am
    12 year old Trayvon wasn't good enough?

    You clowns will never pass up a chance to attack the 2nd amendment, no matter how you have to distort the truth or inflame racial tensions. In fact, a good race riot would be helpful in your quest to disarm law abiding Americans.

    There is plenty of "gun control" in Chicago, but that didn't stop hoodie wearing thugs from shooting 15 people last Thursday (in Bobby Rush's district). Two dead in that one, but it won't be mentioned that the victims could have looked like Obama's son, and you won't see angelic pictures of them at 8 years old on Dave's blog.

    There are no limits to the crimes liberals will commit in order to restrict freedom....they will even provide guns to Mexican drug cartels. Brian Terry looked like what my son would look like. His murderers have never been punished.

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  • messiah101 wrote...
    I'll tell you why people perceive hoodies with suspicion
    April 2, 2012 8:07 am
    We want to see a persons head when we look at them,we also want to see someones hands.If someone is walking towards you with a hoodie (looking down at the sidewalk) with there hands in their pockets you bet my safety antennae goes up. Why shouldn't it?
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  • maplefish wrote...
    messiah!
    April 2, 2012 12:15 pm
    I am very proud of you!You actually used some logic on your post! Pretty soon you'll realize just how bad Obama is dividing this country with race and class warfare!
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    maplefish
    April 2, 2012 1:59 pm
    No the class warfare and the so called division with race caused by Obama are figments of the minds of the extreme Right Wing in this country.My logic is usually solid in every post because it would shame me to use deceit in attempting to make a point unfortunately those of YOU on the left have no shame
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  • maplefish wrote...
    Really?
    April 2, 2012 5:05 pm
    Who is doing ALL the RACE Baiting? Obama, Sharpton, Jackso Congrees Women convicting a "White Mexican" on National TELEVISION! It's all the Democrats and Liberal Media that has convicted this man when nobody truly knows what happend. Lets take a good hard look at who the RACISTS Really are here. Anything to distract the public from the S H I T T Y job Obama has done.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    maplefish
    April 2, 2012 7:09 pm
    Your confused. Insuring that an adequate police investigation be done and race baiting are 2 different things.Or do you feel that the Florida investigators have actually done a fine job?Remember a sloppy job in the handling of a crime (on purpose or accidently) can ensure a free pass for a guilty criminal.I mean even Oreilly is scratching his head in wonder
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  • West Seattle Geek wrote...
    2nd Amendment
    April 2, 2012 8:09 am
    First so that we know what we are talking about.

    A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

    So, the neighborhood watch was helping to secure the state by stalking and ultimately killing a person for walking through the neighborhood. I did not see Dave say anything about Zimmerman should not have been allowed to carry a gun. I also don't see anything in the 2nd amendment that says you can kill a teenager for the crime of walking through your gated community eating candy. I believe the purpose of the 2nd amendment is to be able to defend the country against enemies, as a militia. The people did not want a standing army, when the constitution was ratified. Defense of the Country lay with the people being ready to pick up their weapons and report for duty. Not shoot unarmed single strangers wandering through your neighborhood. If that is what the 2nd amendment is in your neighborhood, please let me know so that I can avoid it.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Uh, Paul
    April 2, 2012 8:19 am
    Not to defend Dave, but I think that reference to 'wear a gun' was just in passing - not an attack on the 2nd Amendment. .. Surprisingly very few libs during the past 3 weeks or so HAVE attacked guns. Let's keep it that way. .. Oh, and I don't think that is an 8 year old Trayvon in the post picture - just a young kid some time within the past few days mourning.
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  • messiah101 wrote...
    Paul K
    April 2, 2012 8:58 am
    What do you believe the outcome would have been if Zimmerman was NOT packing a gun?My opinion is someone may have taken a butt kicking however both would be breathing today.Oh and those Mexican criminals would have gotten weapons one way or the other.Texans are buying them at local gun shops and driving accross the border and selling them with no problem what so ever
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    Paul, How does the Treyvon Martin murder "attack the 2nd Amendment"?
    April 2, 2012 9:01 am
    The 2nd amendment makes it lawful for citizens to keep and bear arms. While the founders likely considered that phrase to mean keeping arms in a common storehouse and organizing militias for defense, Supreme Court decisions have decreed that the 2nd now gives (almost) everybody the right to run around with weapons primarily designed for shooting human beings at close range. That's the law of the land. Done deal.

    So, where in the 2nd Amendment does it say that a self-appointed neighborhood vigilante can provoke a confrontation with a guy, with no evidence of any kind that the guy is committing or has committed a crime, and resolve the confrontation with murder? Point that out, and I will concede your argument.

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  • gsosbee wrote...
    'EVERYWHERE' INDEED; PLS READ THIS:
    April 2, 2012 8:27 am
    Police/fbi/vigilante to Target: WE INTEND TO: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2OUrkgFp3d8/T2yJZ4tN4tI/AAAAAAAAAes/MJ5g_fgVY0U/s1600/kill.jpg http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-fbicia-turn-civil-society http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/usa-is-the-assassination http://www.barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/03/must-prosecute-fbicia-assassins-for.html http://www.barbarahartwellvscia.blogspot.com/2012/03/cyber-stalker-goon-criminal-harassment.html http://sosbeevfbi.ning.com/forum/topics/americans-embrace-their Police have legal right to kill fleeing (innocent) suspect in car: http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/06/09/us.scotus.car.chases/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
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  • TheSymbolForBoron wrote...
    Anyone who thinks this kid got himself shot as some sort of attack on the 2nd amendment
    April 2, 2012 8:41 am
    Needs to have their heads examined. While they're at it, 'Paul' (post your name and address you coward), you might want to have them take a look at those flea bites. A couple of them look like they're getting infected. The sepsis appears to be affecting your ability to reason.
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  • Paul Kersey wrote...
    listen up Five Fingers...
    April 2, 2012 3:00 pm
    I ain't gonna provide my address to you...freak. I've had my prostate exam for the year. Dave knows the signal, go bother him. You two would make a cute couple.
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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    Picture this:
    April 2, 2012 8:56 am
    Dave, no one from Mercer Island walks around wearing a hoody.
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  • Chuck Gould wrote...
    "no one from Mercer Island walks around wearing a hoodie" ?
    April 2, 2012 9:31 am
    Maybe not. They're actually *jogging*, on cold mornings.
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  • SeattleNative wrote...
    According to the police incident report...
    April 2, 2012 10:41 am
    ...they list six witnesses to the shooting.

    Instead of just jumping to conclusions, maybe there's a reason Zimmerman hasn't been arrested. Such as maybe he was getting his head pounded into the pavement by Martin.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    This didn't happen in ether space.
    April 2, 2012 11:20 am
    There IS evidence that should exist and SHOULD answer a lot of questions. Voice (scream) analysis and partial witnesses aside, there should be forensics as to how close the kid was shot, and other signs indicative of a fight. .. And, remember, a fight is not usually short - may have taken a minute or two with each on top from time to time. ... And an actual medical report on Zimmerman. If he had a bad gash and a broken nose, the cops should not have just 'cleaned him up' and sent him home. ... I would think a lot of questions could be answered if all the details are presented.
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  • roomtemp wrote...
    Do they shoot crackers in hoodies too?
    April 2, 2012 11:48 am
    If so, I guess I'll just have to die in a blood soaked lump of polar fleece.

    "I pulled my wallet out of my back pocket, didn't realize it had left my pocket hanging inside out_"

    I'm not sure of the 'encounter' you're referring to, but suddenly I'm glad that you can't turn the back pockets inside out on a pair of Carhartts or Levi's...

    Watch yer signals there sissypants...

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