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CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
Fri Jul 27, 2012, 03:44 PM Jul 2012

Ma and Pa Zimmerman launch their own website

Zimmerman Parents' New Website Decries Threats, Says Son Is No Racist

A week after George Zimmerman rolled out a revamped website, his parents have unveiled their own website, detailing in voluminous detail the upheaval and death threats suffered by three generations of the family after their son, 28, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, 17, on Feb. 26.

The younger Zimmerman's website, therealgeorgezimmerman.com, is an open appeal for donations to help pay for his legal fees, security and living expenses, and a forum to try to offer an unfiltered account of who George Zimmerman is.

The parents' site, called robertandgladys.com aims to counter the way their son has been "savagely portrayed in the media," and has a tab asking for contributions to their "greatly increased living expenses."

What follows is a painstaking detailed history of the family -- from Robert and Gladys Zimmerman's courtship in the late 1970s to the frenzied days after the shooting.

In his missive, Robert Zimmerman describes a barrage of threatening calls, the media "beating down our door" and death threats.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-parents-website-decries-threats-son-racist/story?id=16866964#.UBLvH6MU-p0

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Ma and Pa Zimmerman launch their own website (Original Post) CatWoman Jul 2012 OP
this family makes me sick to my stomach. barbtries Jul 2012 #1
The zimmerman sounds to me to be grifters. asjr Jul 2012 #2
my exact feelings CatWoman Jul 2012 #3
The entire family is cashing in on malaise Jul 2012 #4
I am truly beginning to hate those people JitterbugPerfume Jul 2012 #5
I'm already there, my friend CatWoman Jul 2012 #6
Grifters gotta grift. FSogol Jul 2012 #7
Beat me to it. nt nc4bo Jul 2012 #9
At first they were just asking for prayers. russspeakeasy Jul 2012 #8
*barf* Starry Messenger Jul 2012 #10
Are they really being threatened? fried eggs Jul 2012 #11
This is like living in BizarroWorld (the place where technology meets bad taste) Tom Ripley Jul 2012 #12
They've become grifters of the Sarah Palin variety - only more evil. Initech Jul 2012 #13
Maybe they should get w/ the Paternos & form a support group dballance Jul 2012 #14

barbtries

(28,811 posts)
1. this family makes me sick to my stomach.
Fri Jul 27, 2012, 03:47 PM
Jul 2012

murdering and not just expecting to get away with it, but to get rich off of it! SCUM.

CatWoman

(79,302 posts)
3. my exact feelings
Fri Jul 27, 2012, 03:52 PM
Jul 2012

they saw the money Georgie Boy was raking in and just had to get in on the act.

fuckers.

russspeakeasy

(6,539 posts)
8. At first they were just asking for prayers.
Fri Jul 27, 2012, 03:57 PM
Jul 2012

Guess that didn't work as expected..Now, they'll take the money !

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