{"id":3362,"date":"2015-11-14T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3362"},"modified":"2015-11-14T00:22:20","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T04:22:20","slug":"zimmerman-speaks-at-legal-eagles-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/zimmerman-speaks-at-legal-eagles-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"ZIMMERMAN SPEAKS AT LEGAL EAGLES CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While terrorists slaughtered helpless unarmed citizens unable to fight back in Paris, armed Americans on the West Coast listened to trainer of instructors Marty Hayes, completing his lecture program begun the day before.\u00a0 Then, they heard from a series of survivors.<\/p>\n<p>There was Bob, the jeweler who when a masked thug from Compton burst into his store screaming profane commands and waving a Glock .40 responded by drawing his own Kimber .45 and putting a 230 grain jacketed hollow point into the thug\u2019s chest, fatally ending the encounter. Bob\u2019s description of this incident, along with links to the security camera recording of the shootout, can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/proarmspodcast.com\/084-the-bonaci-jewelry-store-attempted-robbery\/\" target=\"_blank\">proarmspodcast.com<\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0There was John, who used his skills in combatives to keep a fellow vet with PTSD from snatching John\u2019s gun to commit suicide and end his despair.\u00a0 There was Sherry, who when she was 18 and unarmed endured along with a friend a nightmare ordeal at the hands of an armed rapist.\u00a0 Miraculously and courageously surviving that, she now walks the path of the armed citizen.<\/p>\n<p>And, capping the day, there was George Zimmerman.<a href=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/9A7A4715.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3365 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/9A7A4715-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"9A7A4715\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/9A7A4715-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/9A7A4715-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/9A7A4715-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He went through his notorious incident in detail, clarifying many of the points that became confused in the media propaganda blitz that followed. I learned something I hadn\u2019t been aware of until now.<\/p>\n<p>If you read my take on Zimmerman\u2019s trial (here in the blog archives beginning on the day of his acquittal, July 13, 2013 and running for a total of twenty segments), you saw how Benjamin Crump \u2013 the attorney for the family of the deceased Trayvon Martin \u2013 manipulated the media. I did not know at that time that when Crump won an earlier multi-million dollar lawsuit in the state of Florida, he had received assistance from then-Illinois Senator Barack Obama.\u00a0 In return, Zimmerman said, Crump had sent a very substantial donation to Obama\u2019s campaign for President.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.\u00a0 And then came from President Obama: \u201cIf I had a son, he would have looked like Trayvon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, Mr. President\u2026if Trayvon had wanted to date one of your daughters, and you had Secret Service check him out first, would you have allowed that date to take place?<\/p>\n<p>The Legal Eagles conference on firearms law, hosted by JB and Glenda Herren, continues for four more days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While terrorists slaughtered helpless unarmed citizens unable to fight back in Paris, armed Americans on the West Coast listened to trainer of instructors Marty Hayes, completing his lecture program begun the day before.\u00a0 Then, they heard from a series of survivors. 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