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By AIZA GARCIA Published SEPTEMBER 29, 2014, 1:51 PM EDT
In the years since he shot and killed unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, former Florida neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman has reportedly lived in fear.
That fear is so strong, his father reportedly told GQ magazine for its upcoming October issue, that he worries it may result in the shooting of some FBI agents.
Robert Zimmerman told GQ that his son is nervous about his safety in general after becoming the focus of national attention following the shooting. He also said his son is concerned about the possibility of being charged with federal civil rights violations, despite being acquitted on state criminal charges last year, according to the magazine.
He's worried "if FBI agents come and kick in his door, he's probably gonna shoot a few of them," Robert Zimmerman said, according to GQ.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/george-zimmerman-fbi-agents-shooting
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You and your brother are evil: GQs insane profile of George Zimmermans family
"They memorized a color-coded threat-ID system... Code brown: Draw your weapons. Code black: Come out guns blazing"
JOANNA ROTHKOPF
Octobers issue of GQ features a profile of the family of George Zimmerman, the man who owes his life to Floridas Stand Your Ground law and extremely understanding jurors, after fatally shooting Trayvon Martin. Writer Amanda Robb paints a picture of a family tormented by paranoia, as the Zimmermans struggle to live in a country where the vast majority of the population despises their brother.
Here are a few of the most fascinating, heart-breaking, complicated moments.
Their paranoid security protocols
They watched the movie Argo to learn how to live like CIA. Code names for everyone. No mail delivered to the house. No visitors. No talking to the few neighbors they had. No long phone conversations keep it short and vague to outwit surveillance. Never discuss your whereabouts via phone or text. Keep a weapon close by at all times. [George's brother] Robert slept with his gun. Still does.
And in case someoneor multiple someonesdecided to mount an attack on the house, the Zimmermans pre-packed their own go-bags filled with everything they would need to flee in a rush, as well as what they called footballs like the one President Obama has with the nuclear codesthat contained laptops, cell phones, and other essential electronics.
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http://www.salon.com/2014/09/29/the_most_bizarre_moments_from_the_zimmerman_family_gq_profile/
trumad
(41,692 posts)His latest was road rage against a dude who did noting wrong.
If I were him...I'd change my name and go into hiding the rest of his life.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)He cannot come here!!! We already have Bristol!!
pintobean
(18,101 posts)shit your pants. What a couple of whack jobs.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)TeamPooka
(24,242 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)And clearly, some here do, given how much we hear about them and their wanderings.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)and STILL never know the fear Trayvon felt while being stalked by that gun humping paranoid piece of SHIT
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)WTF are you talking about? Besides Trayvon, because he was STALKED AND MURDERED before he got there.
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CreekDog
(46,192 posts)Why does someone do that?
What is the overall point of the OP? Why do you feel that something unrelated and negative towards Trayvon Martin needed to be added to the thread?
Why?
Skittles
(153,174 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)why did you once say that,
"But Trayvon was not killed for just wondering around. But if that's what you believe you are ignoring the facts of the case. Because while Zim may be an asshole over zealous wannabe their are facts in the case that create reasonable justification at most and at very least reasonable doubt that he murdered Trayvon."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=3267843
Skittles
(153,174 posts)IF IT IS WORTH IT
So true Skittles!
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)I'm not responding to the OP
NOT casting aspersions.
And for your last point. Ahh who the fuck cares?
CatWoman
(79,302 posts)why else would you post such filth?
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Those pesky facts. Always screwing up a perfectly good narrative, right?
Rex
(65,616 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)the fact are: trayvon martin was unarmed, zimmerpig was armed. the police asked zimmerpig not to pursue, and he did anyway. the facts are: zimmerpig shot an unarmed teenager, and concocted a self-serving tale that he knew would resonate with racists, like him. end of facts.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)I don't subscribe to that
arcane1
(38,613 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)that's the ONLY group that tries to justify the murder of an unarmed teenager, simply because he was black.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)he had a right to do it without being profiled, stalked and murdered a PARANOID GUN HUMPING PIECE OF SHIT
bluesbassman
(19,378 posts)It's not worth your time.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)sometimes even a hide is worth outing these f - rs
bluesbassman
(19,378 posts)I know you ain't afraid of getting your hands dirty.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Natural instinct is to fight back...but you are right so not worth it in the long run.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)You wrote as fact to what Trayvon was thinking and his emotional state.
It's you supposition.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)unless you believe an unarmed teenager could not possibly be afraid of an armed man.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)What is your point? Supposedly, though it appears not to be true for everyone, Americans are free to walk wherever they want to walk without being shot to death.
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CreekDog
(46,192 posts)noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)the poster took issue with the suggestion that Trayvon Martin was afraid of the asshole with the gun. apparently, black male teenagers cannot be afraid, and black female teenagers cannot be witnesses.
Skittles
(153,174 posts)that's how gun humpers think
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)Skittles
(153,174 posts)THAT is the bottom line
Rex
(65,616 posts)Poor, poor Boom...all he wanted to do was remind us of the speculation by people like Foxnews and Zimmerman.
No doubt that was his intentions. Yup.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)by the police? I would ask him personally, but he's no longer able to respond in this thread.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)you might have to write yourself a note to remember!
He didn't go straight home when running away from a creepy and threatening guy with a gun? That must prove he had some nefarious plans for his iced tea and skittles, and therefore deserved execution without trial or jury. /sarcasm
csziggy
(34,136 posts)If he had done that as he claimed he planned, instead of following a young man that he did NOT see doing anything illegal, Trayvon Martin would still be alive, the Zimmerman family would still be living a normal life and we would not have to hear about George's problems.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Agenda's of the sub-literate half-wit are easily recognized as the obvious bumper-sticker wit it is...
Not that you have an agenda, mind you.
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LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Potsy is beginning to get the point! Now if he would begin applying it to himself. Bless his little self-importance.
(insert additional irrelevancy to maintain pretense you are contributing anything substantive to OP)
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)And don't forget to click your heels
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And there it is!
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)LOL.
am I wrong to laugh at a misspelled accusation? is it wrong to laugh at something unintended?
Skittles
(153,174 posts)yes indeed
pintobean
(18,101 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)Oh well
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)getting shot and killed may have had a little something to do with that.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)aquamarina
(1,865 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,335 posts)Once or twice is a typo.
And he's accusing someone of typing "world (sic) salad"
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)don't happen unless a subthread denigrating Trayvon Martin is included.
all it did was cause arguments that consumed about half the thread, this on purpose.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)Just make sure you keep saying that. You might actually believe it yourself someday.
The kid was on his way home from the store, when he was murdered. The murder prevented him from actually going home. Dead men tell no tales, they also don't walk.
Poor baby zimmy. he couldn't go home and mind his own business. He had to be the "hero". The problem with that for him is the press has run dry and moved on to another story. He is trying to get that high back. Only next time, SYG might not work out in his favor.
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)for his death. OK.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)I don't know why I am telling you this. I guess because you're post is at the bottom of it.
The subthread seems to be more about us than Martin and Zimmerman, but the emotions come from the killing.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but I addressed to the poster who started the nonsense trying to get to the bottom of it. I see they're nowhere to be found here.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)OR crap his pants.
Flip a coin.
ecstatic
(32,726 posts)the local DA will should also be charged and held responsible. GZ has now offered himself up on a silver platter to the local DAs at least 4 times: The domestic incident with his wife, domestic incident with his mistress, making himself the armed security guard of a gun store, and the stalking/road rage incident.
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)from a Summer Blockbuster"!
Clowns.
+, the "FBI" knows he's a trigger-happy Onanist and will be quite prepared for his fantasy-gunfight.
'"...he's probably gonna shoot a few of them,"' Fat chance, Killer.
FBI Academy training versus watching "Argo". Yeah, that's going to turn out well for George Gun-In-His-Pants.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)here we are, obsessing over the infamous, to much the same effect, at the same cost as it would be if we focused, instead, on stuff that actually MATTERS, like - just as an example - how many people were killed in car accidents on our highways yesterday? How much gun violence claims innocent lives yesterday?
But no, let's focus on these d-bags because, hey, .... what? It's fun to have a verbal punching bag?
TBF
(32,084 posts)Unfortunately I think his attention- seeking gene will overrule the death wish gene.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)the Zimmerman family sees themselves as the victims. They have no empathy for the Martin family-even exhibiting jealousy of them. Grifters who ran up a $3,600 dollar bill on CNN's tab that included wallets and cologne from the hotel gift shop. They're all packing weapons everywhere they go. (their "babies" They're all paranoid. They wanted the reporter from GQ to wear a hood over his head and leave his cell phone home before they would agree to meet with him. What a sorry bunch of human beings. My nature tells me to have some sympathy for the family since they weren't the ones who shot Treyvon Martin and didn't ask for the circumstances they find themselves in, but they all seem to be just as disgusting as George.
Maybe George's relatives are right about the risk to their livesmaybe it still exists as much as it ever did. Or maybe it's just a way for the Zimmermans to feel as if they still matter. Maybe their paranoia, and all the rules and routines that it requires, just gives them something to do.
This family would make a perfect match for the Palins-or maybe it would be extraordinarily dangerous for them to get together-like the Gate Keeper and the Key Master from Ghostbusters.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)A part of me thinks that some small cable-television producer is salivating at the thought of the Zimmerman Show-- he travels with guns and his star-spangled awesome love of everything not black in this country talking to "just plain folk", while the PR department at the station is weeping in a three-part chorus.
Boom Sound 416
(4,185 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)For the purpose of casting aspersions on Trayvon Martin? It doesn't even make sense.
CreekDog
(46,192 posts)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_HK416#HK416_based_derivates
is that it?
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Skip Intro
(19,768 posts)Like anyone needs to explain themselves to you.
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LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I'm sure more than one producer has already salivated; unless of course you simply misread again, and inferred my guess was that a show would in fact, be made rather than a producer salivating at the thought...
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I know if the FBI were to come to my door, I wouldn't even think of shooting them. I don't even own a "precious" gun.
libodem
(19,288 posts)For some reason these gun nuts get a free pass by LE and the alphabet agencies.
Zimmermans don't fit the current version of how a homegrown, survivalist, white supremacy, neonazi, terrorist looks.
The media makes up terms like Islamofascist to really scare the shit out of a code brown forecaster.
Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)It is a terrible thing when the person has the power to infect others with his or her concerns.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,753 posts)I see it operating at all levels in society.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Humans are pretty damned easy
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Zimmerman's irrational paranoia was brought on by nothing else other than his own actions.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)Argo fuck yourself...
That movie is full of bull. I worked on that project. Tony Mendez is a real Hero, but what they portrayed in the movie was mostly fictional. Good entertainment, but that's about it.
FSogol
(45,514 posts)Knowing a procedure from 1981 does not equal knowing what Feds would do in 2014.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)Tony Mendez is a good guy, but he's also a loyal Company guy. He would never talk out of school.
JI7
(89,260 posts)Initech
(100,097 posts)We need a SCOTUS decision over turning this law ASAP. Or expect more wannabe revolutionaries like the Cliven Bundys, Alex Jones, and George Zimmermans of the world to think that they can engage in sn all out war against us.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Because if the feds should decide to raid his house, all he'll be able to manage is shitting his drawers.
Also, why is he expecting the feds to raid his house? feeling guilty bout something? Nope, probably just delusions of persecution and grandeur that accompany nutters like him.
3catwoman3
(24,026 posts)...like the Zimmerman's the magazine title Gentleman's Quarterly might need to be changed. Maybe, Thug's Quarterly?
gordianot
(15,242 posts)This guy has an ego that knows no bounds and he wants to hurt someone or just about anyone including himself. What drives him to think his miserable life is of more value than anyone else. That family created this monster now it looks like they will either live or die with it when it turns on them. George needs to go to prison to protect the public any prison even a protected setting will be difficult for him. Unfortunately George continually gets passes, no one wants him. This almost sounds like a death wish by cop. Unemployable, incapable of establishing a relationship, delusional, and isolated what a horror story.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Trayvon was murdered. I guess the father can speculate like this to the press and the idiot son George
can keep his weapons regardless. Wonderful to know how stable they all are.
"if FBI agents come and kick in his door, he's probably gonna shoot a few of them," Robert Zimmerman said, according to GQ.
noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)i don't know why they keep repeating that lie.
csziggy
(34,136 posts)But I bet the spell checkers can't handle it.
For the first few months the news groups usually threw in "self appointed" in front of neighborhood watchman, but I think they got bored with it. Plus the phrase to too long for the short pieces that Zimmerman usually rates.
tanyev
(42,594 posts)Put the guns down, George. You're living in a fantasy world of your own paranoid creation.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)one of these days because of his guilty conscience. Well the FBI has been forewarned.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)The whole family's psycho.
mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)sense of humor. I think it would be funny if a few dark SUV's with people in suits would park near there house at random times. Then just drive off.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)then it would be hilarious.
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Lil Missy
(17,865 posts)ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)Hopefully, this story ends with only 1 more body.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)even before the murder. What family would approve of their son playing neighborhood watch armed with a gun? Anyone that would waste their time and energy doing so is obviously in need of help. And those that surround the individual and don't see anything wrong probably need it too.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)of nutbaggery.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)No one gives a shit about you, George.
Rex
(65,616 posts)That guy?
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)I hope he has a long and fucked up life. I hope not a day or night goes by, that he don't see Trayvon Martin's ghost stalking him everywhere he turns.
Barack_America
(28,876 posts)The fact they were willing to divulge their "survival tactics" to a reporter, for national publication, tells everything here. They don't really think they are in danger, they just wish anyone still cared about them enough for them to be.
"Don't divulge your location by text or cell phone". Haha, hey ass-hats, do you know how well cell towers are able to triangulate your position without you saying a damned thing? But then, again, considering Argo took place in 1980, I guess it couldn't warn you of that.