White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account, Leaks Messages Online

[RandySF]

The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to death last month in Florida, has reached a new level of ghoulishness. A white supremacist hacker says he's broken into Martin's email and social networking accounts, and leaked his private Facebook messages. We've been able to confirm that at least one email account that belonged to Martin was cracked.

The hacker, who goes by the name Klanklannon, posted what he said were Martin's private Facebook messages to the politics section (NSFW) of the anarchic message board 4chan—called "/pol/"—Tuesday afternoon at around noon. The messages were posted on four slides, strategically arranged to back up the insane racist argument that Trayvon was a Scary Black Teenager and so somehow deserved to be killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman that night.

http://gawker.com/5897485/white-supremacist-hacks-trayvon-martins-email-account-leaks-messages-online

[Ecumenist]

1. Isn't this a federal offense? Is there any way they can get this creep?

[dballance]

2. Thanks. Exactly the first thought that came to my mind

but you beat me to posting it

[SteveABG]

3. IIRC

4chan were the same ones who hacked Palin's email account.

4chan is mostly teens, and that kid was the son of some state senator somewhere, and he got into some trouble, but nothing real serious, IIRC...

[SteveABG]

4. here we go:

He got 1 year, 1 day in a halfway house:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/12/palin-email-hacker-1-year-1-day-custody/

[ellisonz]

5. Fuck 4chan.

[JDPriestly]

6. The e-mails are not relevant since there is no accusation

that Trayvon was involved in any criminal activity when he was shot. So far all the evidence suggests Trayvon was walking to his father's girlfriend's house where he apparently lived or was staying.

The victim's Facebook page or e-mails are not at issue.

Zimmerman had no previous knowledge about Trayvon as far as we can tell, so what would Trayvon's information have to do with anything?

[unionworks]

7. Zimmerman was NOT

A "neighborhood watch captain". He belonged to no neighborhood watch group, received none of the training police give to real neighborhood watch groups, and the only thing he was "captain" of was his 9mm handgun.

[Lilyeye]

8. I remember reading a woman a week ago on FB who wrote

that she hoped the left and right would unite for once on an issue and she hoped this would be it. I wonder what she thinks after this week.

I would like to think that most people would be disgusted by this crap, but it seems to be giving people a reason to justify the killing. Esp the right wing. I was reading the comments posted on my local news' FB page and I saw people (with their name and faces shown) writing things like

"justice for Zimmerman"

"I am tired of blacks whining about racism"

"Zimmerman had every right to be scared of a black kid being in his neighborhood."

"the little thug beat that poor man up"

It just goes to show that there is NOTHING beneath the right wing and they have destroyed the minds and souls of so many people in this country with their brainwashing. It makes me sick.

[MrScorpio]

9. The magic about this is that it says more about Z's supporters than it does about Trayvon

Yep, the Zimmerman family has the Klan rooting for them OVER the grave of an innocent black victim.

Plus, no one at all can even argue that Zimmerman knew who Trayvon was the moment he chased him down and shot him dead.

These hacked emails and social networking sites should be a lot more problematic for the illegal hackers than it would for a slain victim and his family that's searching for justice.