I am sad to report Ryan is clearly about to show his "true colors" if you know what I mean. I really liked the guy until I heard him teasing for his upcoming show on Zimmerman. And then that mess today with him and Crump, then him and O'Mara, sealed the deal.

I didn't get to see any of it... Does anyone have a link to it? Sorry, I don't have cable.

Deb.....

a YT vid is posted just a few posts back up this page

Unicron says:
May 23, 2013 at 11:04 pm

Here’s the worst part about all of this recent stuff…

For a long time I really tried to give the parents and family in general the benefit of the doubt, and a lot of slack. I reserved most of my ire for Crump, Julison, and the media.

I told myself well, yes they are going along with the deception but I bet Crump framed it as justice for their son and “just seeking answers” and he smooth talked them into being okay with it, because early things they said here and there showed glimmers of not being bad people. Things like “I see humanity in [Zimmerman]” and “I do believe it was an accident” etc.

But what is finally clicking into place in my mind is that I have been far too generous with these parents. They’ve had over a year to have their “Come to Jesus” moment and call off the dogs. They weren’t just unwitting participants, either… they knew what kind of kid Trayvon had become. They knew enough to kick him out of their houses, to send him places with the expressed goal of “straightening him out” – the long and short of it is, they knew that what GZ described him doing was ENTIRELY in keeping with recent behavior on their son’s part.

And yet they still pursued a path that not only, if successful, would put an innocent man, already victimized by their out of control son, into prison for years…. but even if unsuccessful would ruin him and his family’s lives in the meantime. A path that, whether successful or not… was increasingly obviously going to generate riots. Remember the guy barely clinging to life who was beaten into a coma by Trayvonites? Remember the hammer attack in Sanford? The police car shot up? The Virginian Pilot reporters mobbed in their car and beaten? The flash robs triggered by this case? And I predict the worst is yet to come, by far.

Yet, they still have not used their ready-made public platform to come out and just admit what Trayvon was like… what he had been doing. They’ve actively hidden it. They could’ve done so much more good by speaking directly to other parents, particularly black parents, about how quickly this thug culture can turn a good kid into a thug. They could’ve made all this public spotlight a referendum on parenting and a discussion about telling kids in that community to keep their hands to themselves, etc.

Opportunity missed. And as I look again at the pictures of his parents… with the rose tattoo or getting drunk at middle age out clubbing and pursuing strippers… I realize these are perpetual adolescents, in a society that has encouraged adulthood to be delayed or foregone entirely. They’re a particularly bad example, because they’re just clever enough to convincingly lie about it to a casual observer.

No decision from 5DCA today.

Trayvon was looking to buy his own gun. That's all the world needed a young Martian with a handgun

I still wonder if the DCA is going above and beyond the depo ruling. One can hope right?

I still wonder if the DCA is going above and beyond the depo ruling. One can hope right?

That is such a sweet thought. I wish it could but I seriously doubt it.