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  • ARE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES A CULT?

    A few days ago, Jehovah’s Witnesses knocked on our door to invite me to a biblical study.  As I reflected on the visit, it occurred to me that unlike Mormonism that seems to hide much of their doctrines, these folks are usually upfront about their religious beliefs.  I previously published a two-part article on Mormonism entitled, “Is Willard Mitt Romney, A Mormon, Also a Christian?”  Because of their flawed doctrine, that article concluded that Mormons are not Christians even though they use the name “Jesus Christ” in their literature.  Jehovah’s Witnesses also claim to be Christians because they are serving the true and living God and that their religion is the only true church.  However, they deny the Trinity (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), the divinity of Christ, the personhood of the Holy Spirit, Jesus’ physical resurrection, and salvation by grace through faith.  When you examine Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs, their doctrines parallel cults.  Wikipedia defines “cult” as a “new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.”  The purpose of this article is to examine some of Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs for the purposes of determining if they are a cult.

    The core religious beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses are similar to those of Christians.  They rely on the authority of the Bible and worship only one God.  Some of their other beliefs, however, differ significantly from those of mainstream Christians including their rejection of the Trinity and the existence of Hell.  Jehovah’s Witnesses use a special translation of the Bible called the New World Translation.  The New World Translation is similar to most other modern biblical translations but major differences occur in verses that conflict with particular doctrines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses that differ from mainstream Christianity.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. They stress the fact that God has revealed his personal name to humanity which is Jehovah.  Jehovah has a spirit body and lives in heaven, but sees all things.  They do not believe that Jesus was “fully God, fully man.”  They teach that Jesus was not God but rather God’s first creation. Christians believe, however, that Jesus existed in pre-human form as God’s agent of creation and God’s chief spokesman (the Word), and took on human form as the man Jesus by means of a virgin birth.

    In the view of Jehovah’s Witnesses, the purpose of Jesus’ incarnation on earth was: (1) to teach the truth about God; (2) to provide a model of a perfect life for people to follow; and (3) to sacrifice his life to set humans free from sin and death.  Jesus’ crucifixion was not on a cross, but a single upright stake.  After his death, God raised Jesus from the dead “as a spirit creature” and Jesus returned to his home in heaven. Jesus was not made King, however, until 1914. A belief that is unique to Jehovah’s Witnesses is that the eschatological events predicted in the Book of Revelation began in 1914.  This is when God gave Jesus his Kingdom and Jesus has been ruling from heaven ever since.  At this time Jesus threw Satan and his demons out of heaven and down to earth, which is why, according to Jehovah’s Witnesses, the world has been getting progressively worse since 1914.

    Like the majority of Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe humanity’s current situation is due to the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden. The disobedience of the first couple caused death to enter the world, and as a result, all human beings get sick, age, and die. This is against God’s plan which was to make the entire Earth a paradise.  However, Jehovah’s Witnesses do not emphasize the spiritual consequences of Adam’s sin on humanity nor do they teach that human free will has been damaged.  Rather, they expect and encourage their members to strive to do God’s will and remain pure in his eyes.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses deny the existence of hell.  Instead, they hold that the souls of the wicked will be eradicated.  The death that Adam brought into the world is spiritual as well as physical, and only those who gain entrance into the Kingdom of God will exist eternally. However, this division will not occur until Armageddon, when all people will be resurrected and given a chance to gain eternal life. In the meantime, “the dead are conscious of nothing.”  Based on their interpretation of prophetic books like Daniel and Revelation, Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that only 144,000 people will go to heaven to rule with God and Jesus.  The remainder of the righteous will enjoy paradise on earth – a restored Garden of Eden in which there is no sickness, old age, death or unhappiness.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses are known to mainstream Christians and others as people who won’t allow themselves or their children to have blood transfusions.  In fact, they will go so far as to allow a loved one to die rather than accept a transfusion as they believe transfusions are a gross violation of God’s law. They support this notion with these verses: “Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood” (Gen. 9:4). “You shall not eat the blood of any creature, for the life of every creature is its blood” (Lev. 17:14). “For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity” (Acts 15:28, 29).

    To interpret these verses to mean that transfusions are forbidden is inconsistent with the fact that the context is referring to animal blood, not human blood.  Additionally, there is a big difference between eating blood and receiving a life-giving blood transfusion.  Eating blood was wrong because it profaned the life of the animal.  But for a person to willingly share his blood intravenously to share life with someone does not profane anything.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses believe that a “clergy class and special titles are improper.”  To support this position, they use these verses: “I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward any man” (Job 32:21). “But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brethren. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. Neither be called masters, for you have one master, the Christ” (Matt. 23:8–10). “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave” (Matt. 20:25–27).  These verses, however, basically illustrate that we shouldn’t credit men for what comes from God and that his followers should be willing to serve.

    Jehovah’s Witnesses also ignore Biblical teaching concerning the authority of Church leaders and the appropriate honor that’s due them because of their office: “Respect those who labor among you and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, and…esteem them very highly in love because of their work” (1 Thess. 5:12–13), “Let the elders who rule well be considered worthy of double honor . . . ” (1 Tim. 5:17), and “Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as men who will have to give account. Let them do this joyfully, and not sadly, for that would be of no advantage to you” (Heb. 13:17).  Thus, Jehovah’s Witnesses’ use of the Bible typically quotes passages out of context.

    During the late 90s, there were less than 100,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses.  Now there are about seven million around the world.  They do not have churches and meet in “Kingdom Halls.”  This religious sect was started by Charles Taze Russell who was born in 1852.  He was raised a Congregationalist but at the age of seventeen, he tried to convert an atheist to Christianity but ended up being converted to agnosticism.  Some years later he went to an Adventist meeting, was told that Jesus would be back at any time, and became interested in the Bible.

    Russell taught his followers the non-existence of hell and the eradication of unsaved people, the non-existence of the Trinity, the identification of Jesus with Michael the Archangel, the reduction of the Holy Spirit from a person to a force, the mortality of the soul, and the return of Jesus in 1914.  When 1914 had come and gone, Russell modified his teachings and claimed Jesus had, in fact, returned to Earth, but that his return was invisible. His observable return would come later but still very soon.  It would result in the final conflict between God and the Devil—the forces of good and the forces of evil—in which God would be victorious.  This conflict is known to Jehovah’s Witnesses as the battle of Armageddon, and just about everything the Witnesses teach centers around this doctrine.

    Here are a few of Jehovah’s Witnesses beliefs that are completely inconsistent with Christine doctrine:

    1. God is not a Trinity; the doctrine is inspired by the Devil.
    2. Jesus is not to be worshiped or prayed to-he is only an angel (a.k.a. Michael the archangel).
    3. Jesus Christ is a “created being” who at one time did not exist.
    4. The Holy Spirit is not a person but is “God’s active force” (i.e., gravity, electricity, etc.)
    5. Heaven is hope only for select Jehovah’s Witnesses.  The majority of Jehovah’s Witnesses hope to live on “paradise earth.”
    6. Heaven is limited only to 144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
    7. Jehovah’s Witnesses are the only “true Christians.”  All churches and denominations are considered “false religion.”
    8. There is no Hell or eternal judgment (“Hell” is simply the grave.)
    9. There is no life after death except for the 144,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses.
    10. Jesus second coming happened invisibly and secretly in 1914.
    11. The “first resurrection” occurred in 1918.
    12. Jesus did not rise from the dead bodily but as a spirit being.
    13. Jesus was equal to Adam (just a man).
    14. Jesus could have sinned and failed in his mission.
    15. Jesus was not born the savior but became the savior at his baptism.
    16. God is not omnipresent.
    17. God is not omniscient.
    18. Jehovah’s Witnesses are not sure of their salvation.
    19. All earthly governments are controlled by the Devil.
    20. The Holy Spirit is only available to select Jehovah’s Witnesses.

    In my view, Jehovah’s Witnesses meet the criteria and definition of a “cult” because their beliefs are bizarre and do not represent true Christian doctrine, but that’s just my take.

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  • WILLARD “MITT” ROMNEY, THE BIGGEST LIAR

    ROMNEYRecently, Willard Mitt Romney, Republican presidential candidate, gave Republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, some interesting advice when he said that, “misrepresenting the truth is not a good way” to boost one’s campaign, and candidates looking to gain ground should “use truth as one of the pillars of your strategy.”  Considering Romney’s consistent un-truths to boost his campaign, the advice to Santorum is astonishing yet most news pundits do not call Romney out for his myriad of lies.  Romney is known to be a card-carrying “flip flopper” exercising either a “flip” or a “flop” depending on whom he is trying to impress.  In my opinion, he has become the best lying presidential candidate ever and he continues to gain momentum.  Here are just 20 of his many, many whoppers:

    1. Romney said to Mississippi Republicans about President Obama, “He was going to cut the budget deficit in half. He’s doubled it.”  This has been one of Romney’s favorite lies and his Republican base just buys into this absurdity.  When President Obama took office, the deficit was about $1.3 trillion.  Last year, it was $1.29 trillion and will probably be about $1.1 trillion this year.  Doubling the deficit would have been $2.6 trillion.
    2. In a recent press release, Romney said that Obama plans to “end Medicare as we know it.”  Here is another example of Romney’s hypocrisy.  Obama’s health care legislation actually strengthens and protects Medicare, yet Romney endorses the new House Republican budget plan that ends Medicare and replaces it with a voucher system.
    3. In an interview with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, Romney said, “I believe we should get rid of Obamacare.  It’s a disaster.  It’s going to cost a $trillion plus.”  Yet, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) cuts the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars according to the Congressional Budget Office.
    4. During a campaign stop in Iowa, Romney said, “[W]hen the president went around at the beginning of his term and apologized for America, it made us just heartsick.”  Another lie.  The President has never apologized for America and Romney knows it. Here is what the President said:“I’m enormously proud of my country and its role and history in the world,” Obama said right after the statement about Britain and Greece. Obama continued: “If you think of our current situation, the United States remains the largest economy in the world. We have unmatched military capability. And I think that we have a core set of values that are enshrined in our Constitution, in our body of law, in our democratic practices, in our belief in free speech and equality that, though imperfect, are exceptional. ”
    5. While campaigning in New Hampshire, Romney said that President Obama seeks “a European-style welfare state to redistribute wealth and create equal outcomes’ regardless of individual effort and success.”  This is what I would call a “bald face” lie.  Romney wants Americans to believe that the Obama White House wants everyone, regardless of effort or circumstances, to have the same amount of money.  The president has never given anyone reason to make such unfounded claims.
    6. During a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Romney said, “I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re gonna get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.”  We all know this one is a big lie.  Romney has been wealthy all of his life and has never worried about getting a pink slip.
    7. After his New Hampshire primary win, Romney said that President Obama, “lost our AAA credit rating.”  We all know that it was congressional Republicans, especially the Tea Party who were responsible for the lowered credit rating during the Debt Ceiling negotiations.
    8. During one of the Republican debates, Romney told his audience why he didn’t seek re-election as governor: “That would be about me. I was trying’ to help get the state in best shape as I possibly could. Left the world of politics went back into business.”  Another bald-face lie.  Romney didn’t re-enter the private sector after leaving the governor’s office, he launched his presidential campaign.
    9. While campaigning in New Hampshire, Romney stated that, “European-style welfare” countries end up with a system that “creates poverty.”  When asked to support his statement, Romney not only lied but pretended that he never said it.
    10. Romney recently said, “We’ve got a president in office three years, and he does not have a jobs plan yet. I’ve got one out there already and I’m not even president, yet.”  Apparently Romney forgot about the address Obama delivered to a joint session of Congress where he presented a jobs plan.  It’s been scrutinized, analyzed, and subjected to CBO scoring.  Does Romney assume that people are stupid?
    11. Romney has said that he, “stood as a pro-life governor and that’s why the Massachusetts Pro-Life Family Association supported my record as governor, endorsed my record as governor.” Until he flipped, Romney was a pro-choice governor, and when he was endorsed by the Massachusetts Pro-Life Family Association, Romney forcefully rejected their support.
    12. Romney said, “We have $15 trillion of debt. We’re headed to a Greece- type collapse, and he adds another trillion [dollars] on top for Obamacare and for his stimulus plan that didn’t create private-sector jobs.”  People of reasonable intelligence know that our debt problem has absolutely no resemblance to Greece. The Affordable Care Act reduces the debt and the stimulus added millions of private sector jobs to the economy.  Where does Romney get this stuff?
    13. Asked about his investments in Freddie Mac, Romney told Fox News, “My investments, of course, are managed not by me. For the last 10 years they’ve been guided and managed by a trustee, they’re in a blind trust. And the trustee invested in mutual funds and so forth and apparently one of the funds had Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac bonds.”  Another lie.  As the Boston Globe originally reported: “And unlike most of Romney’s financial holdings, which are held in a blind trust that is overseen by a trustee and not known to Romney, this particular investment was among those that would have been known to Romney.” The Romney campaign has not disputed that report because it is public information.
    14. Romney also lied when he said, “I didn’t get involved in politics early in my life,” and didn’t get “politically involved” until after he ran the 2002 Olympics.  Yet, another lie.  Romney ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and spent $7 million of his own money.
    15. After receiving Donald Trump’s endorsement, on President Obama and the economy, Romney said, “He’s frequently telling us that he did not cause the recession, and that’s true. But he made it worse.”  Not only is the economy much stronger than it was, even Romney has said that the economy has improved since Obama took office.
    16. Romney told supporters in Las Vegas that the President told Americans, “to skip coming here for conventions and meetings.”  Not true.  What Obama said in reference to Wall Street recklessness, “You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back.  You can’t get corporate jets.  You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers’ dime.  There’s got to be some accountability and some responsibility.”
    17. Romney claims that, “President Obama is shrinking our military.”  Obama has increased defense spending three times in three years.  The Pentagon budget is poised to shrink, but Republicans have backed the cuts, and the reductions are to be expected after one war has ended and another scales back.
    18. Romney claimed that Syria is Iran’s “route to the sea.”  Actually, Iran has 1,520 miles of its own coastline and does not share a border with Syria as implied by Romney.
    19. On contraception access, Romney said that the Obama administration is “requiring the Catholic Church to provide for its employees and its various enterprises health care insurance that would include birth control, sterilization and the morning after pill.”  Another bald-face lie.  Churches are exempt.
    20. Romney said that President Obama “also promised he’d cut taxes for middle-income Americans.  Hasn’t done that, either.”  Romney must have forgotten that Obama cut taxes for the middle-class several times.  In fact, he recently signed the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012, which extends the payroll tax cut he passed for 2011 through the end of 2012, and lets middle-class families keep more of each paycheck in their pockets.  Overall, the average middle-class family pays lower taxes today than when President Obama took office.

    MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell told his viewers, “[T]he political media have a problem. It’s a problem the press has always had and has never solved. When should they call a lie a lie? When a candidate like Mitt Romney, who lies much more than most candidates, says something that is utterly false, the press will say, it’s ‘not accurate.’ They might even use the word ‘false.’ They might use the word ‘untrue,’ but they will never, ever use the word ‘lie.’ And that is what lying politicians like Mitt Romney count on every time they try to get away with one of their ridiculous lies….In the silly rules of politics and political coverage, the word ‘lie’ just can’t seem to find its place.”

    In his article in late January 2012, Columnist Jon Chait wrote that Romney appears to be “an audacious liar,” adding, “Even by the standards of politicians, Romney seems unusually prone to dishonesty.”  Newt Gingrich said recently that Mitt Romney “has a near pavlovian reflex of lapsing into falsehoods in order to rearrange reality to his liking.” That’s harsh for a fellow Republican, but absolutely true.

    It is apparent that Willard Mitt Romney will say anything to become President and is obviously infected by “foot in mouth disease.”  He seems to distort or misrepresent the facts every time he opens his mouth and while many of us presume politicians will “stretch or embellish” the truth to suit their cause, Romney has made it a profession.  Once a liar, always a liar, and savvy Americans will never elect this liar to the White House, but that’s just my take.

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  • THE MURDER OF 17-YEAR OLD TRAYVON MARTIN

    JUSTICE FOR TRAYVON MARTIN

    Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American high school student from Miami, was visiting his father in a gated Sanford community, a Suburbs of Orlando.  Trayvon, his dad and brother were watching the NBA All-Star game and at halftime, Trayvon walked to the nearby 7-Eleven to get some Skittles and Arizona Iced Tea.  On his return trip, he drew the attention of 28-year old Martin Zimmerman who was armed, patrolling the neighborhood in a sport-utility vehicle and who called 911 to report “a real suspicious guy.”  Zimmerman is white but identifies himself as Hispanic.  “This guy looks like he’s up to no good or he’s on drugs or something,” Zimmerman told the Police Dispatcher. “It’s raining, and he’s just walking around looking about.”  “Now he’s coming towards me. He’s got his hand in his waistband.  And he’s a black male…Something’s wrong with him. Yup, he’s coming to check me out. He’s got something in his hands. I don’t know what his deal is…These assholes, they always get away.  After discussing his location with the dispatcher, Zimmerman said, “Shit he’s running,” and the following sounds suggested that he left his vehicle to run after Trayvon.  “Are you following him?” the dispatcher asked. Zimmerman replied: “Yep.” “Okay, we don’t need you to do that,” the dispatcher warned.  Several minutes later, according to other callers to 911 in the neighborhood, Zimmerman and Trayvon got into an altercation on the ground and Trayvon can be heard screaming for help.  A single shot rang out and Trayvon Martin is dead, his only weapons–a bag of Skittles and a can of tea.

    Zimmerman told police that he acted in self-defense.  He was licensed to carry a concealed weapon, and police initially told Trayvon’s father that they hadn’t charged Zimmerman because he was a criminal justice student with a “squeaky clean” record.  However, in 2005, Zimmerman was arrested for “resisting arrest with violence and battery on a law enforcement officer” but those charges were subsequently dropped.  Police records reveal that Zimmerman had called 911 forty-six times between January 1, 2012, and the day he shot Trayvon.  Florida guidelines for licensed gun owners state, “A license to carry a concealed weapon does not make you a free-lance policeman.”  I don’t believe Zimmerman cared about the guidelines because he was on a mission and believed the law was on his side. Could it be that Zimmerman was a vigilante with “a false sense of authority” in search of young African American men in his neighborhood to execute?

    Zimmerman’s self-defense claim relies on “Stand Your Ground” legislation signed into law in 2005 by former Republican Governor Jeb Bush.  This law allows Florida residents to use deadly force against a threat without attempting to back down from the situation. (More stringent self-defense laws state that gun owners have “a duty to retreat” before resorting to killing.)  Seventeen states have passed “Stand Your Ground” laws which opponents call a “license to kill” or a “shoot first” law.  This law has been unpopular with law enforcement officers in Florida since it makes it much more difficult to charge shooters with a crime.

    In recent years, the Sanford Police Department has engaged in a series of public blunders.  For example, in 2006, two private security guards—the son of a Sanford police officer and a volunteer for the department—killed an African American teen with a single gunshot in the back.  The guards were released without charges. Perhaps the most significant incident occurred in late 2010: Justin Collison, the son of a Sanford Police Lieutenant, sucker-punched a homeless African American male outside a bar and officers on the scene released Collison without charges.  He eventually surrendered after a video of the incident appeared online.  The police chief at the time was ultimately forced to retire.  It should also be noted that Anthony Raimondo, the Sanford patrol Sergeant in charge on the night of Collison’s assault, was also the first supervisor on the scene of Trayvon Martin’s shooting death.

    When Trayvon was executed by Zimmerman, all he had were Skittles, iced tea, and a cell phone, authorities told the L.A. Times.  The phone has been mentioned in multiple reports and people are asking what happened to the cell phone.  Why did the police on the scene not use it to identify Trayvon or contact his next of kin? “Trayvon’s body was bagged and taken to the morgue where he was tagged as a John Doe,” writes African American affairs blogger Sandra Rose.  No one contacted Trayvon’s family even though police had Trayvon’s cell.  Trayvon’s death was not reported to his parents until 3-days later.

    ABC News reported that a 16-year-old girl was on the phone with Trayvon Martin just before he was killed, and she said that Trayvon was evading the pursuer. She told her story to the network:  “He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the man, Trayvon’s friend said. “I asked Trayvon to run, and he said he was going to walk fast. I told him to run but he said he was not going to run.” 

    Eventually he would run, said the girl, thinking that he’d managed to escape. But suddenly the strange man was back, apparently cornering Trayvon.

    “Trayvon said, ‘What, are you following me for,’ and the man said, ‘What are you doing here.’ Next thing I hear is somebody pushing, and somebody pushed Trayvon because the head set just fell. I called him again and he didn’t answer the phone.”  Trayvon’s phone logs show the conversation occurred five minutes before police first arrived on scene.

    The public outrage against the senseless killing of an unarmed African American teen has been intense.  The local state Attorney’s Office, which has the option of pursuing a case against Zimmerman, said that it had received more than 100,000 emails demanding prosecution that the office’s servers shut down.  The Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice has opened an investigation on this case.  In addition, Republican Governor Rick Scott sent a letter to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement requesting the Department to provide any assistance necessary to fully investigate this matter.

    Zimmerman told police that it was him crying for help and that Trayvon started the fight. He claimed self-defense and was not charged.  Witnesses told ABC News a fistfight broke out and, at one point, Zimmerman, who outweighed Trayvon by more than 100 pounds, was on the ground and that Trayvon was on top.  Austin Brown, 13, was walking his dog during the time of the altercation and saw both men on the ground but separated. Brown, along with several other residents, heard someone cry for help just before hearing a gunshot.  Police arrived 60 seconds later and Trayvon was quickly pronounced dead. According to the police, Zimmerman, was found bleeding from the nose and the back of the head, standing over Martin. An officer at the scene overheard Zimmerman saying, “I was yelling for someone to help me but no one would help me.” Witnesses told ABC News they heard Zimmerman say that “It was self-defense,” and place the gun on the ground.  After the 911 tapes were released, Trayvon’s mother recognized the voice yelling as her son, not Zimmerman.

    On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old African American high-school junior, was visiting his father in a gated community in Sanford Florida, making his way home from the 7-11 with a bag of Skittles and a can of iced tea when Zimmerman saw him.  Zimmerman called a non-emergency dispatch number to report that Trayvon looked intoxicated, followed him, and then minutes later after an altercation, shot him.  To me, the facts do not support Zimmerman’s claim of self-defense and investigators should ask Zimmerman the following questions:  Did you observe Mr. Martin committing a crime?  Why did you leave the safety of your SUV and not wait for the police to arrive?  Why did you follow Mr. Martin after the Police Dispatcher told you not to?

    It is difficult to understand how a teen weighing approximately 140 pounds armed only with a bag of Skittles and a can of Arizona Tea become a threat to a 200+ pound man holding a loaded semi-automatic weapon who engaged him without provocation.  Zimmerman’s actions, his lie about yelling for help, and his obsession with wanting to play “police officer,” seem to suggest that he deliberately and with pre-meditation pursued Trayvon Martin with the intent on murdering him, but that’s just my take.

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