George Zimmerman partners with Florida “anti-Muslim zone” gun shop owner to sell customized Confederate battle flag paintings

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

http://www.salon.com/2015/08/18/george_zimmerman_partners_with_florida_anti_muslim_zone_gun_shop_owner_to_sell_customized_confederate_battle_flag_paintings/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

In what can best be described as a match made in clickbait Heaven, the Florida gun store owner who wanted make his establishment a “Muslim-free zone” is teaming up with Trayvon Martin’s killer, George Zimmerman, to sell prints of the Confederate flag with the words “the 2nd protects the first” on it.

According to Zimmerman, that caption is a “double entendre, because the first flag I painted on this canvas was an American flag, but I decided to repaint over it with the Confederate Flag when I heard [Florida Gun Supply owner] Andy Hallinan was getting sued by [the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The second flag I painted was the Battle Flag [of the Confederacy] — which we need in America in order to protect the first.”

He added that it also means that the Second Amendment protects the First Amendment, because that’s the kind of deeply veiled artistic statement the average person wouldn’t be able to suss out on their own.

Zimmerman decided to partner with Hallinan after he read about the backlash to a video the gun shop owner posted in which he claimed, among other things, “that the core tenets [of the Islamic faith] is to establish a one-world order and do so by violent acts” and that political correctness “has become overly extreme here in the United States, and causing loss of life that we could prevent if we looked at Islam for what it is.”

[decocker 7,198]

oops zimmerman is confused. not islam, but bush sr.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

This is what happens when the media elevates an idiot and gives them a public platform for their nonsensical views.

[Operator 1,925]

Zimmerman, guns, racism, islamophobia...we can all go home; Marvin has won.

[lostinblue 1,989]

[decocker 7,198]

um. no..explain it to me slow so i can follow.

[Boiler 43,425]

Allah will prevail.

Death to the infidels.

[decocker 7,198]

Allah will prevail.

Death to the infidels.

infidels or statues?

[Boiler 43,425]

Both

[decocker 7,198]

Both

good call. statues, flags, monuments of any sort = terror waiting to happen.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

good call. statues, flags, monuments of any sort = terror waiting to happen.

A falling statue would be terrifying. Especially onto a marble floor.

[decocker 7,198]

A falling statue would be terrifying. Especially onto a marble floor.

all that heritage, obliterated. be still my heart.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

all that heritage, obliterated. be still my heart.

It happens all the time in Trump Tower in NYC. When visitors come in from outside stray gusts of wind pull over the 12 foot bronze colossus of Trump in the foyer. The wig on that thing is like a sail.

[decocker 7,198]

It happens all the time in Trump Tower in NYC. When visitors come in from outside stray gusts of wind pull over the 12 foot bronze colossus of Trump in the foyer. The wig on that thing is like a sail.

really? i can't imaginne the trump statue wavering, afterall its stands for obscene wealth and ease of bankruptcy filings. is there nothing sacred in america?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

really? i can't imaginne the trump statue wavering, afterall its stands for obscene wealth and ease of bankruptcy filings. is there nothing sacred in america?

If they'd done the hair in bronze it would have been top heavy and still fallen over. Edited August 19, 2015 by Venkman