Scott Stapp, the singer for the band Creed, said on Twitter he believes President Obama is trying to distract the masses with the Trayvon Martin case.
Stapp agreed that the shooting death of Martin was “tragic,” but he added, “what has spawned after the verdict is very telling about our great nation.”
“It seems very convenient for President Obama to help perpetuate this ‘National distraction.’ Yes, the civil rights of ALL Americans is vital to our democracy, but not even an issue in the Trayvon Martin case. I don’t feel it’s a stretch to say that President Obama and others in the White House are perpetuating this story to distract Americans from what is really going on in Washington DC,” Stapp wrote on Twitlonger following a message on his Twitter account on Saturday.
Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman, was acquitted of second degree murder and manslaughter earlier this month, triggering protests and a public backlash against the U.S. legal system. Some protesters even called for a boycott of Florida over the state’s controversial “Stand Your Ground” law, which Zimmerman invoked.
“I pray the American people don’t get so distracted that they forget what is going on with the IRS scandal, Obama Care, and the violation of all American’s rights by the NSA and other intelligence services as initially revealed by Edward Snowden. It’s time we wake up and hold our leaders accountable and not get distracted by the ‘Smoke Screens,’” Stapp wrote.
The former Creed frontman then blasted mainstream media for jumping on the Zimmerman-Martin bandwagon, and for continuing “to be a propaganda arm for the Obama administration.”
“Yes, civil rights for all is in the top 10, don’t get me wrong, but it should not distract us from socialism and governmental abuse of power which is the reality of the Obama administration and DC today. We have to WAKE UP~ Love you all,” Stapp wrote in the lengthy post.
Stapp, who is from Orlando, Fla.--near where Martin was shot and killed--shot to stardom in 1997 after Creed released its smash hit “My Own Prison.” Stapp has been working on a solo album and in the post, he wrote he is “in the studio wrapping up my new album.”
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