Don's Tuesday column

         THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson Red Bluff Daily News   7/30/2013

Voting integrity; sorting race/racists out

July’s columns were written in June so as to allow for writing-free travels; I was remiss in not letting readers know about local Tea Party Patriots’ meeting presentations. Limited email access and column length left no room to spare. Tonight’s (6 PM, Westside Grange) agenda involves an update on the Voter Integrity Project (VIP) by Patty and Mike from Corning Patriots; even if you can’t personally participate in the Project, come and listen.

Together with True the Vote efforts across the country, the Tea Party and others are finding that ordinary citizens are empowered by election laws to act as observers. They monitor the application of the legal framework put in place to assure us all that elections are fair and proper with votes cast only by those qualified and still breathing. Such efforts are not willy-nilly or seat-of-the-pants, but specific and detailed in order to present findings to authorities that stand up under scrutiny.

Those findings, I’ve read, were presented to officials in Sacramento, such that hundreds of thousands of nonexistent voters, and many flawed election practices, were identified. There is, understandably, resistance and resentment in some quarters over such findings, obviously from folks benefiting from both the process and inaccurate rolls. Perhaps because it can be, and has been, manipulated to allow the very kinds of shenanigans election laws are supposed to prevent. The August 6 and 13 TPP schedules will be included in those columns.

The verdict handed down in the trial of George Zimmerman—not guilty on all counts due to a legal and legitimate claim of self-defense—has produced a reaction out of all proportion to the established facts and the criminal justice system. Impartial legal experts such as Alan Derschowitz rightfully decried a prosecution that was politicized and manipulated to satisfy the trumped up demands for vengeance by (mostly) African-American mobs goaded by race hustlers such as Al Sharpton. A national news media couldn’t resist jumping onto the latest phony crusade by this charlatan (look up Tawana Brawley). A black, thug, punk kid got justifiably killed by a Hispanic he was mercilessly pounding into unconsciousness; it was little more than a regional story.

Anyone doubting my “thug, punk kid” characterization is welcome to ask for an elaboration; I’ll happily oblige. Trayvon wasn’t born as such, and he might have corrected his wayward, criminal ways and turned into a worthwhile young adult, like the many African-Americans I hired and managed in restaurants, often in their first job and the first to work at my stores. Just be aware that his friend, Rachel Jeantel, in both testimony and a subsequent interview, confirmed that he initiated what she called an “ass whooping,” and a “bashing,” to send a lesson to this “creepy ass cracker,” that they convinced themselves over the phone was a likely sexual predator. You see, this “cracker” couldn’t be allowed to follow him, Trayvon, back to the house where his younger sibling lived.

That, folks, is real profiling that justified, in young Martin’s mind, the beating that he was inflicting on Zimmerman. That’s called “felony assault,” the only actual crime committed that night. This is a truthful re-creation based on actual facts and evidence, not the myths written in another column, myths perpetrated by the prosecution and their MSM tools. Some of those mythical assertions were refuted and deconstructed on this page by Ken Say last Friday (“Trayvon’s innocence”). Young, physically superior Martin started something he would not have considered finished short of Zimmerman’s unconsciousness or death. Given that fact, he got what he deserved, to his tragic misfortune and demise.

A shamelessly biased and inaccurate cartoon appeared on this page—a get-out-of-jail-free card for Zimmerman due to being a neighborhood watch volunteer—and was properly criticized in a letter titled “Cartoon off base.” I’ve reviewed my two columns from April 3 and 17, 2012 and will post them at “Polecat News and Views” (DonPolson.blogspot.com), where you can read for yourself that I got nothing wrong then; I’ve gotten nothing wrong here.

You can easily look up “Fire Created and Stoked by the Left,” by Dennis Prager, and find numerous sources that begin with the sub-title: “The George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin issue has been manufactured by the left—the black left and the white left—and by the left-wing (mainstream) media.” It’s also posted this morning at my blog. Also worthwhile reading is a short post at Powerlineblog.com, “Irrationality Runs Amok in Black Perceptions of the Zimmerman Case,” with links to a Washington Post/ABC News poll that “finds that 86 percent of African-Americans disapprove of the jury verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. By contrast, 51 percent of whites say they approve of the verdict while just 31 percent disapprove. However, only 30 percent of white Democrats approve.”

Also, look up a Rasmussen Reports poll that found “More Americans view Blacks As Racist Than Whites, Hispanics”. Find out that “37% of American Adults think most black Americans are racist …” which breaks down to 49 % of conservatives and Republicans, 38% of whites and, surprisingly, 31% of black Americans that think “most blacks are racist.” I’ve personally interacted with racist and non-racist people of all colors.

By the way, if the white, racist, punk thugs that racially insulted and injured a young, black woman (July 2, Daily News), were tied to a hitching post, I’d gladly horsewhip them myself until they repented of their ways; being cowards, it wouldn’t take long.