Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

[Mark Kohut]

I have come to see that the word 'tragedy' has come to mean, basically, 'an early death' due to some kind of
disaster.....earthquake, sunami, murder, etc......

From: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
To: Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> 
Cc: P-list List <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2012 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: Trayvon Williams tragedy(not)

That sums it up nicely, Joseph, thank you very much!

2012/3/22 Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net>:
> This whole thing doesn't sound like a tragedy to me. It looks from every part of the evidence to be an unprovoked racist child murder. This dickhead persuaded himself the Young man was threat to his neighborhood because he was black when in fact the boy was a part of the neighborhood and had gone to the store for some candy. The police had Trayvon's cell but did not notify the parents for over a day. They let the guy go as though shooting unarmed black kids were completely ok . As though self defense were a reasonable claim when they knew this guy was following the unarmed boy with a gun.
> The guy's mindset is not what I call tragedy but misdirected xenophobic paranoid stupidity and violence the like of which is all too common in America and which is why a million Iraqis  and 5000 American soldiers are dead.
> On Mar 22, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/justice-for-trayvon-martin-questions/2011/03/04/gIQAKb8GSS_blog.html
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>> Mayor and City Council have voted "no confidence" in police chief...don't know what that means for justice...
>>
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>> From: Bled Welder <bledWelder at hotmail.com>
>> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>; bandwraith at aol.com
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:37 PM
>> Subject: Re: (np) Trayvon Williams tragedy
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>> From: Mark Kohut
>> Sent: 21 Mar 2012 18:37:58 GMT
>> To: David Morris,bandwraith at aol.com
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Subject: Re: (np) Trayvon Williams tragedy
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>> If I understand it aright, it is the possibility of treating it as a 'hate crime"--with those words-- that allows the Feds
>> now to step in?
>>
>> From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>> To: bandwraith at aol.com
>> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:55 AM
>> Subject: Re: (np) Trayvon Williams tragedy
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>> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/21/1041671/-Police-cover-up-Two-versions-of-the-shooter-s-call-to-the-police-in-the-Trayvon-Martin-killing-
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>> In the latest development, the Sanford police department admits that
>> its "investigators"—yes, I am putting quotation marks around that
>> word—missed a crucial part of the recording of the phone call that
>> George Zimmerman, the shooter, made to the police as he followed
>> Martin around. They say they missed him muttering a racist slur,
>> "fuckin' coons," under his breath to the police operator.
>>
>> Several people, apparently starting with Sirius XM radio talk host Joe
>> Madison Tuesday morning, listened to the recording of Zimmerman's call
>> to the cops, in some cases making technical adjustments to bring more
>> clarity to what's being said. The recording, including the racist
>> slur, was played on Lawrence O'Donnell's "Last Word" Tuesday evening.
>> O'Donnell said his reporting experience with police cover-ups made him
>> believe that there is "evidence of a police coverup." There is, he
>> said, evidence that the police department "never wanted anyone to hear
>> those two words and that's why we haven't heard those two words until
>> today."
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