Eruptions At The Foot Of The Volcano: Crimes of Hate

Oct 14, 2009

PERMISSIBLE PREJUDICE: Republican Congressman John Boehner, have you met Daniel Rodriguez?

House Republican Leader John Boehner

¨Republican Congressman Boehner objected to House passage of a bill LAST WEEK that would "expand hate crime laws and make it a federal crime to assault people on the basis of their sexual orientation. Why GOP Leader John Boehner Opposes Hate Crime Protections for Gays,¨ read his whole absolutely dangerous, ignorant and pathetic excuse/disgrace, click HERE

Meanwhile, in the REAL WORLD inhabited by REAL and notable everyday citizens--over the weekend, the beating/hating and lack of FEDERAL PROTECTION continues for LGBT citizens. Representative Boehner are you a feckless/sleezey coward, a ignorant bigot and/or a happy accomplice to crimes of Gay hate? Have you sold out your integrity to the religious extremism on the ¨political right¨ or have you simply never had much interest in the basic welfare and common good of ALL AMERICAN citizens? Are you a highly paid politician occupying dead space? You DO nothing to prevent brutal crimes of hate targeted against LGBT U.S. citizens...in fact, you obstruct justice.

¨U.S. Citizen, Mr. Jack Price, 49, beaten by thugs...a shocking video shows the gay man trying in vain to fend off two attackers who repeatedly punch and stomp him on a deserted Queens street.

Watch the video that captures the brutal HATE CRIME taking place, Representative Boehner of Ohio, just click HERE, if you´ve got the balls.

BOEHNER and his FAUX RELIGIOUS ACCOMPLICES ARE THE PROBLEM as he and his Congressional buddies pander to fear/hate-mongering bigoted citizens who indulge in the spiritualike, often terminal, sickness of playing pretend using permissible prejudices for their holy faking.

"It's a despicable crime," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said of the assault in College Point, where the victim and his alleged attackers all live.

"The individual was attacked simply for his orientation, and we're just not going to tolerate it in this city."

UPDATE: Late Tuesday, however, Mr. Jack Price remained in critical condition at New York Hospital Queens, hooked up to a respirator. His lungs are collapsed and his jaw and ribs are broken.

Surveillance video captures brutal beating of gay man, Jack Price, in Queens; Both suspects arrested

Republican John Boehner, may I introduce YOU, yes YOU, to Daniel Rodriguez?

According to police, Daniel Aleman, 26, who was nabbed Sunday night, and Daniel Rodriguez, 21, was captured Tuesday night in Norfolk, Virginia.

ATTN CONGRESSMAN BOEHNER: REALITY JUST TAKES SOME GETTING USED TO (but you can do it if you start being personally responsible for your very OWN dangerous political absurdities)!

United States Justice Department SEEKS ACTION VS. GAY DISCRIMINATION

UPDATE: “We must fight for fairness and basic equality for our LGBT brothers and sisters who so frequently are being left in the shadows,” and to “ensure that there’s a level playing field in which our LGBT brothers and sisters are judged by the content of their character.” Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights.

ATTN: Republican Congressman Boehner, please read it all, click HERE

A friend of suspected gay basher Daniel Rodriguez who proudly displays his Leviticus tattoo says the attack on Jack Price wasn't an anti-gay hate crime and was justified because, he claims, Price hit on his attackers before the "beatdown" that sent Price to the hospital with a fractured jaw, rib fractures and a lacerated spleen.¨ ATTN: Republican Congressman Boehner, you may want to have this ¨Leviticus¨ ¨blame/shame¨ handy/dandy tatoo reproduced on your worthless butt as you continue to make a ass of yourself in Ohio, at The U.S. Congress and beyond, read it all, click HERE

UPDATE Saturday, October 19, 2009: 49-year-old NYC hate crime victim Jack Price talked about the attack with the New York Daily News from his hospital bed:

Republican Cogressman Boehner/Ohio, are you INTERESTED IN KNOWING THE TRUTH REGARDING THE VICIOUS CRIME OF HATE done to Mr. Jack Price? If so, click HERE.

Congressman Boehner/Ohio, are you capable of being honest with yourself and the rest of us?

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·Thanks to The New York Times
·Thanks to Anahad O´Connor
·Thanks to Ruby-Sachs
·Thanks to The United States Department of Justice
·Thanks to Devlin Barrett
·Thanks to Tom Perez, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division
·Thanks to The Associated Press
·Thanks to Towleroad, at the right sidebar
·Thanks to ABC News

Jun 15, 2009

LEONARD PITTS: There's no expiration date on hate

¨It is jolting to recall that I once thought we were living in the last days of creatures such as this.¨

·"Them Jews ain't going to let him talk to me." -- the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, about President Obama

·"I hate gay people." -- Tim Hardaway, former NBA star

·¨A Third World country." -- Tom Tancredo, former Colorado representative, speaking of Miami

·"She's frightening. And she's racist¨ -- Dennis Baxley, former executive director of the Christian Coalition of Florida, speaking of Judge Sonia Sotomayor

·¨Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." -- Glenn Beck, talk show host, to Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., a Muslim.

·"Fifty years ago they'd have you hanging upside down with a (expletive) fork up your (expletive)." -- Michael Richards, comedian, to an African-American in his audience.

¨Last week, a man with a rifle walked in and opened fire, fatally wounding security guard Stephen Johns. Other guards shot the intruder.¨

¨Authorities say the shooter, James von Brunn, was an avowed racist and anti-Semite well-known to the pustular netherworld of white supremacy and to those who monitor it. He believed the Holocaust a hoax and America a "Third World racial garbage dump." He believed this, even at 88 years of age. "It's time to kill all the Jews," he wrote in one e-mail. And can you imagine what might have happened had he managed to shoot his way past the guards?¨

¨It is jolting to recall that I once thought we were living in the last days of creatures such as this. My only excuse: It was the 1970s and I was young, raised on civil rights marches and Norman Lear comedies.¨

·Anglican Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria and CANA American branch, State of Virginia, outside Washington D.C., pontificates in public that the ¨children of LGBT people are Hooligans¨ and the CANA NIGERIAN House of Bishops endorses anti-human rights legislation to jail, up to five years, LGBT citizens, and their families and friends for gathering in public places·

¨Kids like me felt, with the offhand smugness of youth, that we were harbingers of a new world too enlightened to ever again hate people because they were. We were past all that.¨

¨Or so we thought. Because what a shock it is to wake up 40 years later in a world where the intercultural dialogue we thought we'd mastered has become a shrill circus overrun by haters and opportunists, a world where on any given day one might be assaulted by the casual anti-Semitism and homophobia that afflict so much of the African-American community, or the racist patter of a washed-up TV star who has mistaken freedom of speech for freedom from thought, or the gassy posturing of political and media figures who happily, disingenuously trivialize the rawest wounds of the American experience for ratings and political position.¨

¨We act as if it were all a game, as if it means nothing when people of position and visibility spew garbage, validating and galvanizing the unhinged and the disaffected who need little encouragement to believe all their problems are caused by Them. We act as if we do not toy with fire when people of authority claim white Christians are a victimized minority or Hispanics a threatening and faceless Other.¨

·Maggie Gallagher ¨Defends Marriage¨ from LGBT Citizens·

¨We act as if we were not heirs and witnesses to a blood-soaked history that tells us exactly where this hate some of us so fecklessly stoke will logically, inevitably lead.¨

·¨Focus on Families¨ doesn´t think LGBT ought have families. One wonders where Pastor James Dobson thought beloved LGBT children/adults came from in the first place?·

¨Hate groups standing now at record numbers. One dead. Ten dead. Six million dead.¨

¨I've always liked the Holocaust Museum because it is a stark reminder in an era where too many are in a hurry to forget. And so it was even quiet and locked up tight. Behind yellow tape it sat, scene of a hate crime authored by an old man who thought he was great because his skin was pale. An American flag drooped limply at half-staff -- as if tired of waiting, waiting for the last days of creatures such as this.¨

read it all, click HERE