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THE SOUTH JUST KEEPS RISING… AGAIN AND AGAIN!
George Zimmerman Launches Defense Website
George Zimmerman, the alleged killer of Trayvon Martin, has launched his own website in an attempt to raise money for what he described as his “living expenses and legal defense.” The website contains photos of pro-Zimmerman slogans, including a sign at a rally by Koran-burning pastor Terry Jones and a photo of a vandalized black cultural center at Ohio State University where someone spray-painted the words “Long Live Zimmerman.” Every page on Zimmerman’s website includes this quote from Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
In media news, a Fox affiliate in Florida is facing criticism after it referred to a neo-Nazi group as a “civil rights group” in a report about Trayvon Martin’s killing. Here is part of the Fox report that includes an interview with Jeff Schoep of the National Socialist Movement.
Anchor Jennifer Bisram: “There’s another civil rights group in town: the National Socialist Movement.”
Jeff Schoep: “A lot of people in the community, in the white community down there, had been contacting us out of concern for their safety just because of racial tensions.”
Anchor Jennifer Bisram: “Racial tensions after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. Zimmerman is claiming self-defense and has been in hiding now for weeks.”
Jeff Schoep: “We’re a white civil rights organization, and we go into areas where we’re needed and where white citizens need our help.”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the National Socialist Movement has its roots in the original American Nazi Party. It is now one of the largest neo-Nazi organizations in the country. The group openly idolizes Adolf Hitler and calls for the deportation of every non-white person in the country.
The National Socialist Movement (also called NSM or NSM88) is a neo-Nazi party operating in the United States. The group was founded in 1974 by Robert Brannen, former member of the American Nazi Party before its decline. The group claims to be the largest and most active neo-Nazi organization in the United States. Its leader is Jeff Schoep. The party also sponsors a youth activism wing called the Viking Youth Corps.
The National Socialist Movement was responsible for leading the demonstration that sparked the 2005 Toledo Riots. In 2007 many members left to join the National Socialist Order of America, which was led by 2008 presidential candidate John Taylor Bowles.
In January 2009, the group sponsored a half-mile section of U.S. Highway 160 outside of Springfield, Missouri, as part of the Adopt-A-Highway Trash Cleanup program
The highway was later renamed the “Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway” by the state legislature.
On April 17, 2010, 70 members of the National Socialist Movement demonstrated against illegal immigration in front of the Los Angeles City Hall, drawing a counter protest of hundreds of anti-Nazi demonstrators.
In May 2011, the NSM was described by The New York Times as being “the largest supremacist group, with about 400 members in 32 states”. On May 1, 2011, Jeff Hall, a leader of the California branch of the NSM, was killed by his ten-year-old son.
The NSM held a rally on September 3, 2011 in West Allis, Wisconsin. The rally was to protest the attacks at the Wisconsin State Fair on August 5, 2011 when a flash mob of young African-Americans targeted and beat Caucasians. Dan Devine, the mayor of West Allis, stated on September 2, 2011, “I believe I speak for the citizens when I say they are not welcome here.”
Each state has members in smaller groups within areas known as “regions”. As a whole, the NSM has National meetings as well as smaller Regional meetings.

George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager in Florida, has created a website to communicate to his supporters and solicit funds for his legal defense and living expenses, now that he has been forced into hiding and thus unable to work.
The homepage of the website, TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com, features an American flag background, and an introductory essay that begins:
“On Sunday February 26th, I was involved in a life altering event which led me to become the subject of intense media coverage. As a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life. This website’s sole purpose is to ensure my supporters they are receiving my full attention without any intermediaries.”
Zimmerman writes that other defense and legal funds created in his name have not benefited him. He promises that donations to a PayPal account linked to the new site will be used “only for living expenses and legal defense.”
The site is peppered with quotations attributed to American statesman Thomas Paine, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and James Loewen, a historian who has argued, among other things, that racism was incorrectly downplayed as a root cause of the Civil War.
In a section of the site called “The Facts,” Zimmerman says that he “cannot discuss the details of the event on February 26th” because he must allow law enforcement “to proceed with their investigation unhindered.”
A separate section titled “My Race,” contains no discussion of the way he identifies himself. Family and friends have noted that Zimmerman’s mother is Latina, and thus, a minority like his victim, Trayvon Martin.
Instead, Zimmerman’s “Race” page contains two quotations. The first, attributed to Paine, states:
“The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.”
The second is from philosopher Edmund Burke:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing.”
Zimmerman admits that he shot Martin, whom he had identified to police as a suspicious person in his neighborhood, but says he did so in self-defense. Zimmerman has not been charged with a crime, triggering outrage and protests nationwide. Fearing for his safety, Zimmerman has disappeared from the public eye.
A special prosecutor is investigating the shooting, but has decided not to impanel a grand jury.

Police: White Shooters Confessed to Killing Black People in Tulsa
Two white men accused of shooting five black people in Tulsa, Oklahoma, killing three of them, have reportedly confessed to authorities. Tulsa police say 19-year-old Jake England has admitted to police that he shot three of the victims, and 33-year-old Alvin Watts has said that he shot two others. Police said the suspects drove through the streets of north Tulsa, a predominantly black neighborhood, and randomly shot pedestrians. Both men were ordered held on bail of more than $9 million during their first court appearance on Monday
Police in Tulsa announced that the two white men accused of shooting five black people last Friday confessed to the shootings almost immediately after they were arrested. A police department spokesperson says that Jake England admitted to shooting three people (one of whom died) and Alvin Watts shot and killed two other victims. The victims were chosen randomly and shot by the two men as they drove around Tulsa in a pickup truck.
Police refused to discuss a possible motive or whether the prosecutors plan to file hate crime charges. England’s father was murdered almost two years ago to the day of Friday’s shootings and the main suspect was black man. After posting on Facebook about the anniversary of his father’s death and saying “it’s not hard to go off” it has been naturally assumed that the last weekend’s shootings were an act of revenge. Both men have already been charged on first-degree murder charges and are being held on $9 million bail. If both men confessed, it’s possible that they will be allowed to simply plead guilty to avoid a trial and a possible death penalty.

Lawyer: Autopsy Shows Kenneth Chamberlain Did Not Have Weapon
There is a new development in the case of the police killing of 68-year-old Kenneth Chamberlain, the former Marine who was killed in his own home in White Plains, New York, after a medical alert. According to an autopsy report obtained by Juan Gonzalez of the New York Daily News, Chamberlain died from a single bullet that entered his right arm and ripped through both lungs. A lawyer for Chamberlain’s family said the autopsy contradicts the police account of his death. Police say Chamberlain was holding a butcher knife when police officer fired two shots to stop him. But an attorney for Chamberlain’s family said the trajectory of the fatal bullet suggests Chamberlain was neither facing the police nor holding up a weapon.
WHITE PLAINS — An autopsy report from the Westchester Medical Examiner’s Office shows that Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. was drunk when he was shot and killed by a city police officer, but it also shows that he could not have been trying to attack officers who went to his apartment on a medical assistance call, a lawyer for his family said Tuesday.
The report “contradicts the police version altogether,” attorney Randolph McLaughlin told The Journal News after sending the newspaper a copy of the autopsy. “It shows that he was a threat to no one. There’s no excuse for what happened.”
The autopsy also showed that Chamberlain had a blood-alcohol level of 0.11 percent, which would have made him too drunk to legally drive.
“That’s not much,” McLaughlin said.
Mayo Bartlett, another Chamberlain family lawyer, said the level “is barely over the legal limit to drive. It means that if he would have been out, he would have given someone else his keys, but that he was OK. It’s not much at all.”
The toxicology exam said that “no drugs of abuse were detected.” Cyclobenzaprine, a muscle relaxant, was found in Chamberlain’s blood.
Dr. Millard Hyland, Westchester’s former chief medical examiner, said cyclobenzaprine would generally compound the effects of alcohol. He was not familiar with details of the Chamberlain autopsy, but when told that the stomach contained about seven times the amount of cyclobenzaprine than was present in the blood he said that indicated Chamberlain would have taken the medication relatively recently.
Bartlett and McLaughlin did not appear Tuesday at a National Hoodie Day rally in front of the Westchester County Courthouse, where they were expected to have been featured speakers. The rally, held by the White Plains-Greenburgh chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was part of a nationwide NAACP action to demand justice in the Trayvon Martin case in Florida. Martin, 17, was wearing a hoodie Feb. 26 when he was shot to death by a neighborhood watch volunteer. Speakers also called for justice and transparency in the Chamberlain shooting investigation.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Privately Signs Anti-Abortion, Sex Ed Laws
A COWARD
Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker has privately signed a series of controversial bills aimed at curbing access to abortion and sex education. The first bill bans most abortion coverage under policies obtained through a health insurance exchange set to be created under the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, allowing coverage only for rape, incest or medical necessity. A second bill requires every woman seeking an abortion to meet privately with a doctor and undergo an exam before the procedure so the doctor can ensure she is not being pressured. Doctors who violate the law could be charged with a felony. A third bill requires teachers in schools that offer sex education to stress abstinence and says they no longer need to address contraception. Wisconsin’s current law requires some instruction on birth control options. Walker signed the bills Thursday, but did not announce the move until the next day on Good Friday, when his office released a list of about 50 bills he had recently signed. Democrats slammed Walker for signing the laws in private and for attacking the rights of women. Among the other bills Walker signed was a repeal of the state’s Equal Pay Enforcement Act, which gave women and other marginalized groups more power to fight wage discrimination. According to the Wisconsin Alliance for Women’s Health, women in Wisconsin make 75 cents for every dollar men earn.
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker quietly signed a set of contentious GOP bills barring abortion coverage through health insurance exchanges, requiring doctors to consult privately with women seeking abortions and mandating sex education teachers stress abstinence.
Walker, a Republican, signed the bills Thursday but didn’t announce the move until midday Friday, when his office released a list of more than 50 bills he signed Thursday and Friday. Walker’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, said it was simpler to lump all the bills signed over the two days into one announcement.
Democrats have ripped the measures as an all-out attack on women. They heaped criticism on the governor Friday, calling the delay in announcing the signings cowardly and the bills bizarre social policy.
“Perhaps he thought that in doing this behind closed doors, with no public notice, before a holiday weekend for many families, his actions would go unnoticed. He was wrong. We will not be silent — these issues are too important to ignore,” Rep. Kelda Helen Roys, D-Madison, said in a statement.
Werwie declined to comment.
Pro-Life Wisconsin issued a statement praising the governor for signing “common sense bills that protect children, women and taxpayers.”
The first bill bans abortion coverage through policies obtained through a health insurance exchange, set to be created under the federal health care reform law starting in 2014. The only exceptions would be in cases of rape, incest or medical necessity.
The exchanges are meant to be a marketplace for small businesses and individuals to shop for health insurance coverage.
States are required to either set up an exchange or face having one established for them by the federal government. Federal law allows states to prohibit abortions coverage through the exchange.
Democrats contend banning abortion coverage infringes on the free market. Republicans said they’re advantage of the federal abortion exemptions.
n The second bill requires a woman seeking an abortion to undergo an exam and consult with a doctor alone, away from her friends and family. The doctor must determine whether someone is pressuring the woman into the procedure. Doctors who break the law could be charged with a felony.
Republicans contend the bill will ensure women aren’t coerced into abortions and prevent doctor-patient consultations via webcam.
But opponents argue webcam consultations aren’t currently done in Wisconsin and Republicans simply want to make it more difficult to get an abortion. The Wisconsin Medical Society, meanwhile, contends the bill interferes with the doctor-patient relationship. The association, as well as several Democrats, asked Walker to veto the measure.
n The sex education bill requires teachers in schools that offer sex education to stress abstinence as the only sure way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
The bill also declares that sex education teachers do not have to address contraception. That’s a dramatic shift from current state law, which requires teachers to instruct students on birth control options.
Democrats have argued that the bill is unrealistic and will lead to more teen pregnancies.

Thank the gods that we are done with that colossal idiot Santorum