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In reply to the discussion: Zimmerman's father was NEVER a judge. [View all]Rex
(65,616 posts)70. See post #68.
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Edit - hey it came right out of Zimmerman's mouth...but you will no doubt say that is a lie too.
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Oh no. None at all. The "I feared for my life" happened AFTER he talked to his father
LaydeeBug
Jul 2013
#47
Not gloating. Fed up with people posting that he was a judge who used influence. N/T
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2013
#61
If he knew people on the police force in Florida, then where he was connected doesn't matter
R B Garr
Jul 2013
#153
I don't think "clout" had anything to do with how the Sanford police handled this case.
onenote
Jul 2013
#158
I'm fed up with a dead kid because of a paranoid racist gun humping piece of SHIT
Skittles
Jul 2013
#109
However, he IS a racist asshole who raised a son who murdered a teen one night.
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#8
That his dad had the duties of a JP, but the title was Magistrate. N/T
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2013
#113
One person posted it, so rather than answering him there, you had to start another thread.
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#16
So he was a 'wanna be' judge in the same manner his kid was a 'wanna be" law enforcement,,,,
benld74
Jul 2013
#36
Do you just post here to taunt people who mourned Trayvon's unjustified killing?
Ken Burch
Jul 2013
#43
Your post would be somewhat more credible if you hadn't referred to black males as "BMs".
Ken Burch
Jul 2013
#121
Why do you believe someone connected with the courts in 1 state would have no string pulling power
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#59
String pulling is based on history also. Not just on being able to give/take equally. It also is
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#98
Have you ever listened to the song, "What Have You Done For Me Lately?"
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2013
#108
Hahahahahahahahaha. Fail. Major fail. Influence is not simply based on what you can do now.
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#110
If you think that you can get major strings pulled "for old times sake", you are naive.
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2013
#115
So I guess papabush, cheney, all of them are now powerless. Skull & Bones types means nothing?
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#116
Oh, I understand well, thank you very much. Refusing to acknowledge that there may be unseen
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#138
He was a judge and did the things judges do, sorry if that bothers you in some way.
Rex
Jul 2013
#73
How could you possibly know if his dad knows other people in the criminal justice system?
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#76
His father had enough influence. Those who disagree with you are simply "wrong"? Huh.
uppityperson
Jul 2013
#120
In the Commonwealth of MA, Magistrates are political appointees--patronage jobs, basically.
MADem
Jul 2013
#126
however, his grandfather *was* in the foreign service... and we're not quite sure what zim's
HiPointDem
Jul 2013
#127
It is progressive to hold a person's relatives guilty of the sins of that one person?
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2013
#143