The Truth Has No Agenda

(CNN) — George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer accused of wrongly killing Trayvon Martin, will not immediately have to turn over donations made to his website, a Florida judge said Friday.

Zimmerman collected about $204,000 in donations through the website, but did not disclose the contributions during his bond hearing last week, according to his attorney, Mark O’Mara. Prosecutors had asked for a bond of $1 million, but Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. made it $150,000 after Zimmerman’s family testified they did not have the resources necessary to meet the higher level.
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda on Friday asked Lester to increase the bond in light of the donations. But the judge said he would delay ruling on the request, in part because he does not know if he has authority to say how the money can be used. (more…)

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Take a good look at this collection of pictures.   Don’t Rush.   Study it.   It is actually a screen grab from a media imagery organization you are recently familiar with.  But note two cognitive ethnicities/races present; three black ethnic pictures, and four white.

Do you notice something about them? (more…)

Benjamin Crump did not assemble a legal strategy, he assembled a media strategy..

“Politics lay downstream from popular culture” !! Damnit Sundance, why do you keep talking in friggin’ riddles?   What the heck does popular culture and politics have to do with Trayvon Martin?   It’s a flippin legal issue plain and simple.

Cognitive Codependency:  When a seemingly rational person, dismisses available facts, internalize irrational illogical presentations from the media,  and reconciles the absurd to fit their informational understanding.   Caused by a historical script of general acceptance of media narratives,  reinforced through narrow-minded social lifestyle -social platforms- and isolation resembling echo-chambering; then enhanced by media created indoctrination of analysis.    The result is a willful and willing acceptance of irrational normalcy.

You can apply legal logic all you want while appealing to the mind, but when the emotionally dependent sense of self is reliant upon a closed circle perspective, social conformity, and internally consistent characteristics, your attempts are futile.
Allow me to present Exhibit “A” from Los Angeles Trayvon Rally just last night.: (more…)

CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviewed Zimmerman Attorney Mark O’Mara who just revealed his discovery that the George Zimmerman website (therealgeorgezimmerman.com) raised in excess of $204,000 while Zimmerman was incarcerated.
Now the anti-Zimmerman people, including the institutional legacy media, immediately jumped the shark filled bandwagon with shock and anticipated gall to state given this new discovery it was a lie for George Zimmerman to thereby claim he was indigent.
WRONG.
Look at the dates.   The website was created on Sunday April 8th, and the first announcement of the website was Monday April 9th.   George was incarcerated Wednesday April 11th.   There is no reasonable way to accuse Zimmerman of knowing what was in the account.  Indeed he could only speak to the facts as he knew them prior to his arrest.   Period.   Anything else would have been speculation. (more…)

E.X.P.L.O.I.T.A.T.I.O.N

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — A rally expected to draw prominent civil rights leaders is scheduled to take place at a Los Angeles church Thursday to mark the two-month anniversary of Trayvon Martin’s death.

The rally starting at 5:30 p.m. at the West Los Angeles Church in Christ at 3045 Crenshaw Boulevard will be attended by the Martin family, NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous, the Rev. Al Sharpton, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Bishop Charles Blake, who preaches at the church.
Several celebrities are expected, including Stevie Wonder, Chaka Kahn, David Banner, Paul Rodriguez, radio host Big Boy and Magic Johnson (more…)

Unfortunately, regarding the Zimmerman case, many people, and many people on this site, are continually focused on logic and the application of law.  PLEASE STOP.  This is about neither.  This is about politics and public opinion.

If you don’t watch the entire video, which I humbly request you do, then just fast forward to the 3:50 mark.
Yes, I agree with everyone that Law and Logic should apply.   However frustrating it might be to hear this, it does not, and will not, influence the actions of Benjamin Crump and Team Skittles.
It does no good for you to describe the rules of the game, when one team has visibly, openly, and publicly stated they will NOT adhere to those rules.
So you can stand there mid-field, filled with open jawed indignant disgust, while the other team kicks your a$$ up and down the field, and the referees are casually looking the other way, playing cards, and having a grand old-time.   Or you can understand what you face before you even leave the locker room and formulate a strategy that actually gives you a chance to win.   CHANGE YOUR PARADIGM QUICKLY….. (more…)

<— Continued from Update #11
 

Matt Lauer (left) Ryan Julison (right)

On Monday March 5th a specific and intentional strategy to manufacture “media evidence” was created by Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson and Publicist Ryan Julison.   They began a systematic campaign of optical control.

First, by seeding a narrative to outline their victim “Trayvon Martin”.  The goal in this phase was to portray a personality, to construct a public image of Trayvon Martin.  The construct need not be real, indeed the outcome was far from the truth, it just needed to be the most marketable for the purpose of “brand imagery”.
They even went so far as to Trademark the Brand they were creating.  Control was the key element, as they set about their sales pitches and storyline.   Everything after that March 5th date was an outcome of their original construct.   Natalie Jackson and Benjamin Crump picked Ryan Julison , from Julison Communications, to create the Trayvon “brand” and the Trayvon media “image“.
According to Julison’s Website:

Who They Are ….we have developed communications strategies for a wide-range of crisis situations and worked closely with scores of attorneys to navigate the communication process with media.
[…]  We know how to get your story in the hands of top-tier media, immediately.
What They Do ….And we will work closely with your clients to provide them with both an understanding of the process and thorough media training, so they’ll be prepared to effectively tell their story.    In short, there is no learning curve at Julison Communications.  We’ve directed communications for attorneys and their clients in all manner of legal proceedings.    In short, if it’s a story worth telling, we can help develop a communications strategy and get it in the hands of appropriate local and national media, immediately.
… At Julison Communications, we make it our business to help you navigate the complexity of a crisis and manage your communications efforts.  We are experienced and have handled a wide-range of high-profile crises on the national stage, including those involving complicated legal and financial issues.   Communication in crisis requires a strategic partnership between public relations professional, management and legal counsel.  Often, PR pros and attorneys are at odds over what and how much to say, if anything.   But experience has proven that disseminating information strategically and carefully to the media and your key audiences during a crisis or legal proceeding can be essential…
[…] If practice makes perfect, then we should be pretty darn close…

By March 18th the “brand image” was seared into the people’s psyche with the exceptional selling by the media to a public consumer who still cling to the Fourth Estate as having some semblance of honesty.   They were counting on the average person who still think the halls of legacy penthouse media suites contain revered busts of Roger Mudd, Edward R Murrow, or even Walter Cronkite.  In short, the unawakened majority.
Everything, and I do mean everything, that stemmed from after March 5th was, and is, a completely manufactured series of Media Evidence. (more…)

I cannot bring myself to post the whole thing.  You are going to have to go to the Huffington Post to *cough* read it.    However, these two paragraphs caught my attention.

HuffPo  […]  For years, I have been discussing the issue of racial profiling, and police brutality/misconduct.  Fighting for reforms of the NJ State Police, and championing for fairness in cases like those involving the tragic deaths of Amadou Diallo, Sean Bell and more, I’m not naïve to the realities of society and race. But I also understand that the diligent work of activists even before my time paved the way for change to occur and for us as a nation to progress forward. And that is the key. 

As we watch the case develop against George Zimmerman, the confessed killer of Trayvon Martin, we cannot get caught in the trap of racial division. Although race may have very well led to young Trayvon being profiled by Zimmerman in the first place, we cannot allow our reaction to be based on race. (more…)