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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…)

What Can We Find Out?  ASAP

ACTION ALERT – Just received a tip from a Treeper as follows: Regarding GZ’s donation website.

I decided to make a donation this afternoon, only to find that his website was down. Figured maybe he was updating it, so I gave it an hour and checked back. Still down. My other option was www.legalboom.org who last week accepted donations on George’s behalf, while keeping donors anonymous. http://twitter.com/#!/legalboom
Anyway, since the donation site was down….on a whim, I decided to search for Mr. O’Mara’s twitter feed to see if he posted anything. Well, apparently he tweeted that GZ “does not and will not have an internet presence” and “all r fake”. He was having the sites reported and shut down!! It appears that he had the legit site with the flag background shut down too or was that also a fake site all along?
Since I don’t subscribe to twitter I couldn’t ask him what the heck was going on. I can surely understand him not wanting George to blog about his experience, but after reading O’Mara’s tweets, I assume GZ won’t be able to get any more donations, right? http://twitter.com/#!/Markomaralaw

Update Puddy Paws (Ad rem)  to the rescue (as usual)  FOX NEWS – A website set up for George Zimmerman to raise funds for his legal defense  after he was accused of killing unarmed Florida teen Trayvon Martin has been  shut down while his attorney tries to restructure the fund, FoxNews.com has  learned. (more…)

To answer some questions people are carrying about the anticipated “next steps” one must understand the “immunity defense” as it pertains to the scheduled “arraignment hearing”.

In Florida a person claiming “self-defense” is provided an immunity hearing.  Generally the immunity hearing is just prior to the arraignment hearing, usually on the same date, just a little earlier in the day.  In essence it is connected to the arraignment and presented as a defense motion to the judge just prior to the prosecution arraignment.   Not generally a different day or separate hearing as some are led to believe; Although it could be in this case, but highly doubtful. (more…)

MOBILE, Alabama (WKRG) — Mobile police need your help to catch a mob that beat Matthew Owens so badly that he’s in critical condition.

According to police, Owens fussed at some kids playing basketball in the middle of Delmar Drive about 8:30 Saturday night. They say the kids left and a group of adults returned, armed with everything but the kitchen sink. (more…)

“When you look at those pictures and you see those two little cuts on his head, that is not consistent with your head being pounded into the pavement”…   – Benjamin Crump 4/23

Say what, huh?…  Now THAT right there is some BRILLIANT Sharpton/Jackson logic.   Resist We Much, and about common sense we must rally in opposition.

Remember it was Jesse Jackson that said:

“Disciplinary school suspensions are profiling because black boys cannot be expected to behave”.

And  Al Sharpton who said:

“Bail Bonds are racist because they do not accept EBT cards or food stamps for payment”. (more…)

Mark O’Mara just finished speaking with Anderson Cooper and disclosed that George Zimmerman, although out on bail, will not receive police protection.

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