@Advocate,
Quote:Z had every right to follow M. That is what neighborhood watch people do. Z was guarding his neighbors, which is patriotic.
Unfortunately, once again, you simply don't know what you are talking about.
Neighborhood Watch volunteers are not supposed to follow people they see as "suspicious" or who are doing something amiss--it is against NW rules to do so.
Neighborhood Watch volunteers are not "guards" in any sense. They have no security duties, and they are not supposed to be armed when performing their observations. They have no law enforcement status, and the police specifically do not want them performing law enforcement functions.
The functions of a Neighborhood Watch volunteer are limited to simply calling a non-emergency police number to report anything they observe that seems amiss they feel the police should check out. That's it. They observe and report. Any further investigation and intervention is done by the police.
There's nothing particularly "patriotic" about any of this, it's really no more than any average citizen should do if they see something that doesn't seem right in their neighborhood, it's simply that the NW volunteer has offered to be a little more conscientious about doing it.
George Zimmerman knew all of these things, he was the one who helped set up the Neighborhood Watch in his housing complex. He was also a wannabe cop who had applied to a police force and had been rejected as an unsuitable applicant, so, for him, being able to maintain some contact with police, even by making his rather frequent phone call "reports" of things he observed, may have helped him to feel part of law enforcement, even though he was not.
Zimmerman took that overblown sense of self-importance even one step further--he wanted to be informed of all calls made to the police by his neighbors, and to be informed by them if they noticed anything that seemed amiss--I believe he had cards printed with his phone number which he distributed for that purpose. He clearly was trying to create the impression he was some sort of liaison with the police--which he definitely was not, even if, in his mind, he might have believed he was. He wanted some attention and recognition, but, in reality, he was simply being a nosy and busybody neighbor who wanted to become involved in things that really had nothing to do with him. There was no reason for neighbors to have to include him if they wanted to report things on their own to the police, these were merely attempts on his part to create the illusion he had some sort of "status".
In all of that, we can see the same needs for attention and recognition that Zimmerman is now feeding on with his attempts to remain in the media spotlight--even if his unsavory claim to "fame" is based on the controversy surrounding his killing of an unarmed minor. Even when he was stopped for speeding, he made sure the cop recognized him, he posed for smiling photos at a gun factory, he peddled his primitive artwork on e-bay, along with the added bonus that he would personally deliver it to the seller, and now he's come up with a scheme to take part in a "celebrity boxing match" on pay-per-view. Of course, all of that is in addition to his run-ins with the police over domestic violence incidents and other traffic infractions that also kept him in the news since his acquittal.
Rather than trying to maintain a low profile, given the public controversy and acrimony regarding both the homicide he committed, as well as his acquittal, he's become a full blown media whore who can't stop calling attention to himself. Unfortunately, he also seems unable to stop menacing and threatening others, or to stop violating various kinds of laws, causing even his own attorneys to keep distancing themselves from him. Just this week, Mark O'Mara, who dumped Zimmerman after the September domestic violence incident, removed himself from Zimmerman's defamation suit against NBC, and when the AP recently threatened a copyright infringement action against Zimmerman, for using one of their images to create his latest "original artwork", the attorney who handled his last domestic violence incident in December said she no longer represents him either. She was also the attorney who, during a panel discussion about the murder case, described Zimmerman as a "wannabe cop" who should not have followed Trayvon Martin that night, or been carrying a gun when he did so.
Why people like you keep trying to promote this man as some kind of good citizen or "patriot" is truly baffling because that clearly flies in the face of reality. After Zimmerman devised an elaborate scheme to conceal his assets, as well as a second passport, from the judge presiding over his bail hearing, as well as from his own lawyer, with, according to the judge, the likely intention of fleeing the country to avoid trial, he unequivocally revealed himself to be a deceptive and deceitful liar and manipulator. That's not my idea of a good citizen, that's a sociopath whose word cannot be believed.
Considering that most of your posts in this thread contain untrue or misleading information, like the one I am responding to now, no one in their right mind should believe you either.
