One Is A "Child", The Other An "Adult"

[Robbie]

17 year old black male is shot to death beating up an Hispanic guy.
Just watching CNN and seeing him called a "CHILD" for the millionth time as they showed old pics of him when he was 12 years old.

5 minutes later on CNN they do a story about a 17 year old white male who police just arrested for raping and killing a little girl. While they are telling the story they are showing the latest pics of him from Facebook looking like what he is: a full grown man.

He is being tried as an ADULT.

This was all on Erin Burnett "Out Front" on CNN today. She "reported" (read her teleprompter) these stories literally within 5 minutes of each other.

Just amazing that one 17 year old is a "child" and only pics of him when he was 12 are shown on the news.
The other is an "adult" and only pics of him with beard stubble, looking "hard", and smoking were shown.

Hypocrisy?

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by Robbie

17 year old black male is shot to death beating up an Hispanic guy.
Just watching CNN and seeing him called a "CHILD" for the millionth time as they showed old pics of him when he was 12 years old.

5 minutes later on CNN they do a story about a 17 year old white male who police just arrested for raping and killing a little girl. While they are telling the story they are showing the latest pics of him from Facebook looking like what he is: a full grown man.

He is being tried as an ADULT.

This was all on Erin Burnett "Out Front" on CNN today. She "reported" (read her teleprompter) these stories literally within 5 minutes of each other.

Just amazing that one 17 year old is a "child" and only pics of him when he was 12 are shown on the news.
The other is an "adult" and only pics of him with beard stubble, looking "hard", and smoking were shown.

Hypocrisy?

Robbie you have some really bad info about the case... here's a pic right before the shooting of both parties... this will clear it all up for you

[Rochard]

I know I am guilty of calling Martin a teen, but at 17 I was in the military.

[tony286]

Originally Posted by Robbie

17 year old black male is shot to death beating up an Hispanic guy.
Just watching CNN and seeing him called a "CHILD" for the millionth time as they showed old pics of him when he was 12 years old.

5 minutes later on CNN they do a story about a 17 year old white male who police just arrested for raping and killing a little girl. While they are telling the story they are showing the latest pics of him from Facebook looking like what he is: a full grown man.

He is being tried as an ADULT.

This was all on Erin Burnett "Out Front" on CNN today. She "reported" (read her teleprompter) these stories literally within 5 minutes of each other.

Just amazing that one 17 year old is a "child" and only pics of him when he was 12 are shown on the news.
The other is an "adult" and only pics of him with beard stubble, looking "hard", and smoking were shown.

Hypocrisy?

Here you go

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp
the red Hollister shirt was only taken 7 months before he died.

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Rochard

I know I am guilty of calling Martin a teen, but at 17 I was in the military.

Wait!

Really?

You were in the military?

Why haven't you mention this in all these years???

[Tom_PM]

He was what, 2 weeks past his 17th birthday? I dunno man, that's not very old. How about unarmed black male? Nah, that's just stirring the pot too. There is no right answer.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by tony286

Here you go

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp
the red Hollister shirt was only taken 7 months before he died.

Tony you are bending over backwards, jumping though mental hoops and doing hardcore mental gymnastics to blame everything on Zimmerman and whitey... why are you so unwilling to give Zimmerman the benefit of a doubt or even same courtesy?

[Juicy D. Links]

I was such a stud when i was 17

[Juicy D. Links]

[Robbie]

Originally Posted by tony286

Here you go

http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/martin.asp
the red Hollister shirt was only taken 7 months before he died.

I'm telling you what I am seeing on the news:
One young man is constantly...every time...referred to as a "CHILD".

The other young man is being called an "adult".

They are the same ages.

Also Tony...when you are a teenage growing up 7 months is a LONG time. Plenty of time for his balls to drop, facial hair to start growing, etc.
Just because he looked like that at 16 doesn't mean that's who he was 7 months later.

A 16 year old GIRL for instance...might look like a child. 7 months later, after she's turned 17, she could have big tits and a booty.
You know what I mean.

But what I'm really pointing out is the hypocrisy.
If TM was just a "child". Then this other 17 year old guy is too.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

Wait!

Really?

You were in the military?

Why haven't you mention this in all these years???

So I can't mention Marines, military, trucks, or mustangs.

I guess that leaves me with Jeeps.

[amacontent]

Hey Robbie shoot me a text when u can

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Rochard

So I can't mention Marines, military, trucks, or mustangs.

I guess that leaves me with Jeeps.

Well... lets be honest, I don't think anyone can stop you from talking about the marines if their life depended on it.

My grandfather ran away at 16, lied about his age and joined the marines. He fought in Korea. I don't know what all he did. I know from reading his diaries that he carried a B.A.R. He eventually went to sniper school and became a sniper. He was court marshaled 3 times for going AWOL. The last time it happened, it was because his uncle was dying. This time, they were going to lock him up for good. In an event that I found very hard to believe until i saw the paperwork, General Puller himself, personally requested he be released and he sent him to korea. He has shit ton of medals. He took 3 hits and lived most of his life with one lung. He also boxed in the marines and was a golden gloves champion on the west coast - a fact i wasn't aware of until my grandmother died and he began drinking and fighting and knocking people out left and right in bars - much to the confusion and dismay of everyone around him. He was in the movie Sands of Iwo Jima (one of the many storming up and down the beach and mt and got to hang with John Wayne quite a bit). He appears in a Time Life video about the Korean War shooting a N Korean off a bridge with his M1. I've read his diaries about all the Chinese that they slaughtered as they tried to cross some river into Korea when they got involved... (too lazy to look it up) and then had to spend a couple weeks dug in surrounded by 1000s and 1000s of rotting corpses.. all through that, he wrote a lot of very funny jokes in his diary, about what was going on in spite of being surrounded by so much horror, which was kind of interesting and macabre to read as people tried to stay sane in the middle of nothing but insanity. He also wrote a lot about the winter in Korea and surviving that and how it killed more of his friends than N Koreans or Chinese.

He never really talked about any of it. He didn't run around reminding people every chance he got. He never ran around yelling "Semper Fi!" He didn't have retarded stickers all over his vehicles... or a retarded veterans license plate to remind everyone by the 1000s every time he went to the store.

Making the choice as a "child" as you keep putting it and joining the marines at age 17, doesn't make a person heroic. Running away from home isn't an act that should command respect, no matter where that naive child ran to. It's nothing more than a dipshit kid making decisions for which he has zero understanding of the consequences of. It's not an act to be proud of anymore than any other decision that a 17 year old makes.

A true hero is most often, the person who denies he's a hero. The one who never talks about his deeds. The one who is too humble to remind others.

I truly never game much thought to how exceptional he was until I started seeing others blather on and on, non-stop reminding others at every possibility, of their non achievements, continually demanding others acknowledgement.

Had I ever told my grandfather that he was a hero, he most likely would have just smiled and sheepishly made some self deprecating joke,.. probably that he was nothing more an runaway asshole kid with a gun, that got lucky.

He never once showed me all his medals while he was alive.

[onwebcam]

If it was this guy I don't think they will be trying him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-warrant.html

[Ringo]

cliffs notes?

[Robbie]

Originally Posted by onwebcam

If it was this guy I don't think they will be trying him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...t-warrant.html

Yep that's the piece of garbage....Oops, he's 17, I meant CHILD that killed that 6 year old little girl.

[Captain Kawaii]

Originally Posted by Robbie

Yep that's the piece of garbage....Oops, he's 17, I meant CHILD that killed that 6 year old little girl.

Thats, "Child Garbage"

[nico-t]

Originally Posted by Rochard

I know I am guilty of calling Martin a teen, but at 17 I was in the military.

You were in the military? Please tell more about it.

[Tjeezers]

walking in green was a great time....
what was this thread about ?

[John-ACWM]

Plus bullshit journalism.

[DamianJ]

Originally Posted by Rochard

So I can't mention Marines, military, trucks, or mustangs.

I guess that leaves me with Jeeps.

And gay music.

[Grapesoda]

Originally Posted by DamianJ

And gay music.

not true... you can go on and on and on about gay stuff and fabulous it is, here at GFY. in fact the more the better

[wehateporn]