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The Internet Anti-Fascist: Tuesday, 25 January 2000
Vol. 4, Number 7 (#381)
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CONTENTS
Action Alerts
AFAA #92: Yahoo hosts violent neo-Nazi club
Hate In the News
David Southwell ([Northwestern] Suburban), "Blizzard of protest drives
Hale from Northwestern University," 22 Jan 00
American Jewish Congress (press release), "Duke's Definition of 'Civil
Rights' Organization Means Civil Wrongs for All Minorities in
America," 21 Jan 00
AP, "Man Charged With Running Hate Site," 18 Jan 00
Martha Irvine (AP), "White Supremacist Wants Equal Time," 22 Jan 00
Nancy Burton (MSNBC), "Hate literature spreads again," 16 Jan 00
Amnesty International On the Pinochet Case
"Briefing on the issue of the medical tests requested by the UK Home
Secretary," 7 Jan 00
"It remains a matter of fair process: Statement by Pierre Sané Secretary
General of Amnesty International," 18 Jan 00
"Letter asks for disclosure of medical reports, as new development adds
to concerns on conduct of tests," 20 Jan
What's Worth Checking: 10 stories
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ANTI-FASCIST ACTION ALERT #92: Yahoo hosts violent neo-Nazi club
A reader writes that Yahoo is hosting a "club" for the fascist World Church
of the Creator, one of whose members, Benjamin Nathaniel Smith went on a
deadly rampage in Illinois, killing one Black and Korean, and wounding
seven Orthodox Jews.
The URL is <http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/wcotcandwhitepride>
The Yahoo Terms of Service state that "1. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS: Welcome to
Yahoo!. Yahoo provides its service to you, subject to the following Terms
of Service ("TOS").... 6. MEMBER CONDUCT: You agree to not use the Service
to: a. upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any Content that is
unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory,
vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or
racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable; ... k. intentionally or
unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or
international law ...."
Even a brief glance at the club's postings show it attracts violence-
oriented individuals. One member, skinhead_ss_8814, writes "Hobbies:
STOMPIN ON JEW HEADS,HANGING NIGGERS AND BOOT PARTIES !!!" Another,
wp_cool_chick, lists "Hobbies: keeping niggers away! ... Latest News: i
hung a nigger!!!!!!"
If you believe that the WOTC club violates the service contract, you can
complain to Yahoo and ask that they stop providing free services for this
fascist organizing.
"Free speech" involves only governments, not individuals or corporations.
Fascists have no more inherent right to Yahoo's services than they have to
a printer who they do not pay or offices on which they pay no rent.
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HATE IN THE NEWS
Blizzard of protest drives Hale from Northwestern University
David Southwell ([Northwestern] Suburban)
22 Jan 00
White supremacist Matt Hale was greeted with taunts and snowballs during a
recruiting trip to Northwestern University on Friday, forcing Evanston
police to guide the leader of the World Church of the Creator to safety.
Hale claimed to have added five new members to his organization before his
rally on Sheridan Road was cut short by the scuffle with protesters.
As Hale professed his message "of love for white people," he was pelted by
a flurry of snowballs that dislodged his fogged-up glasses.
Demonstrators then closed in around him, shouting profanities and forcing
him across the sidewalk and toward the street before police intervened and
took him into protective custody.
"We will not be rejected just because one person committed a crime," Hale
said, referring to Benjamin Smith, who police say killed two people and
wounded nine others in a racist killing spree last summer. Smith was at one
time a member of the World Church. One of those killed was Ricky Byrdsong,
former basketball coach at the Evanston-based university.
Officers arrested three Chicago men--who were not Northwestern students--
in the crowd of several hundred.
"I'm insulted," said one of the protesters, sophomore Ryan Swift of
Deerfield. "It's disturbing and dangerous. To have a group like this on
campus would be scary."
But Hale claimed he was invited by five Northwestern students who joined
his group, though he refused to divulge names. He called the event a
"success."
"We don't preach white supremacy. We're not interested in oppressing
anyone," Hale said. "We're into separation of races."
A peace gathering was held across campus during Hale's appearance, but many
students gravitated to Hale to send their own message.
Freshman Laura Storz, an Atlanta native, attended both rallies. "The best
way to oppose Matt Hale is to stand up for what we think or he'll keep
coming back," Storz said. "The worst thing to do is be apathetic."
Northwestern spokesman Alan Cubbage said the crowd played into Hale's
hands.
"Everything I predicted came true, to my dismay," Cubbage said. "He got
what he wanted . . . publicity. I question [whether] he recruited anyone.
My children used to have imaginary playmates too."
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Duke's Definition of 'Civil Rights' Organization Means Civil Wrongs for All
Minorities in America
American Jewish Congress (press release)
21 Jan 00
NEW YORK -- Declaring that David Duke's newly formed "civil rights"
organization for "European Americans" is a civil wrongs organization for
everyone else, American Jewish Congress President Jack Rosen said today
that the new organization will join Duke's former affiliation, the Ku Klux
Klan, as a marginal force in society.
The full text of the statement is as follows:
The announcement today that white supremacist David Duke is creating what
he calls a "civil rights" organization for "European Americans" can only
mean that it is a civil wrongs organization for all ethnic, religious and
racial minorities. His brand of civil rights means the spreading of hatred,
the fomenting of intolerance, and the demonizing of all who are not white
Protestants.
We prefer to associate the words "civil rights" with Dr. Martin Luther
King, whose birthday was observed this week and with the other leaders,
white and black, who have worked on behalf of a more tolerant America.
We confidently expect that Duke's new organization will remain on the
margins of society, together with his former organization, the Ku Klux
Klan. His fantasy that he is a civil rights leader cannot obscure the
reality that his specialty is hate, and that hate is a most uncivil way to
demonstrate leadership in society.
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Man Charged With Running Hate Site
AP
18 Jan 00
PHILADELPHIA -- Federal authorities have charged a man with civil rights
violations for running a Web site that threatened a housing activist, a
step experts said may be the first of its kind against online hate speech.
Ryan Wilson and the group he runs - ALPHA HQ - were charged with violating
the Fair Housing Act, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo
said Monday. He said the complaint was filed with a HUD judge in
Philadelphia last week.
"Tragically, this case shows that the racism and the terrible
discrimination that Dr. King fought so hard to abolish remain alive and
well, and have even moved into cyberspace," Cuomo said in his Martin Luther
King Day announcement in Washington, D.C.
The target was Bonnie Jouhari, who worked at the Reading-Berks Human
Relations Council at the time the alleged threats were made in 1998 and
also chaired the Hate Crimes Task Force for Berks County. Part of her job
was to help people file discrimination complaints under the housing act.
Authorities said the site, which is no longer on the Internet, carried a
picture of Jouhari, who is white, and labeled her a "race traitor." It
said: "Traitors like this should beware, for in our day, they will be hung
from the neck from the nearest tree or lamp post."
The site also carried an animated picture of Jouhari's office being blown
up by explosives. Jouhari and her 16-year-old daughter fled the Reading
area following the threats, HUD officials said.
"Our feeling is that these were clear death threats and Jouhari suffered
great damage fearing for her life and her young daughter's life," HUD
spokesman David Egner said.
A man at Wilson's home told The Philadelphia Inquirer that Wilson had moved
last month, leaving no forwarding address.
Although authorities have taken steps against people who send threatening
e-mail or post threatening messages, experts said HUD's action is believed
to be the first by a federal agency against a Web site.
"I cannot remember a case such as this," said David Goldman, executive
director of Boston-based HateWatch.org.
The Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles told
the Inquirer it was the first time he had heard of a federal agency
cracking down on the operator of a known online hate site.
If an administrative law judge rules against Wilson, he faces civil
penalties of at least $22,000, plus monetary compensation to Jouhari, HUD
officials said.
The state filed a civil lawsuit in October 1998 accusing Wilson and ALPHA
HQ of making terroristic threats and ethnic intimidation, which led to a
court order in February barring them from posting any threats against
Jouhari and other human-rights workers in Pennsylvania.
"I hope it serves as a wake-up call for communities who think these things
can't happen to them," Jouhari said.
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White Supremacist Wants Equal Time
Martha Irvine (AP)
22 Jan 00
EVANSTON, Ill. -- He is a one-man media-wooing machine - a would-be lawyer
and self-proclaimed reverend who takes glee in the free air time he's
received to spread his message of hate.
Few outside Illinois knew who white supremacist Matt Hale was until last
July, when alleged follower Benjamin Smith went on a shooting rampage
across Illinois and Indiana that left nine wounded and three dead,
including Smith.
Hale - who claims he does not advocate violence - now sells T-shirts
proclaiming Smith a martyr. He and a few followers continue to paper
neighborhoods with literature from his World Church of the Creator. And now
he wants Northwestern University to officially recognize a student chapter
of his group.
His presence on campus - most recently on Friday - has put a university
long known as a bastion of free speech in a quandary: What lengths can or
should officials there go to keep a self-proclaimed racist and anti-Semite
away from students?
"Because we're a private campus, we have the right to regulate - and we do
every day," says Alan Cubbage, vice president for university relations at
Northwestern, where the death of former basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong -
whom Smith allegedly targeted because he was black - is still fresh in the
minds of faculty members and students.
"It troubles me that Hale is using Northwestern as a launching pad for his
garbage," Cubbage adds.
It also troubled him that he had to cancel a meeting Friday to monitor a
visit Hale made in an attempt to recruit students. The visit turned violent
when Hale and at least two of his supporters scuffled with protesters -
most of whom were not students.
"The true haters are the anti-racists," said a bloody-lipped Hale, who
traveled to the Evanston campus from his home in East Peoria and vowed to
continue his fight to form a campus group.
Three Chicago men, none of them students, were arrested for disorderly
conduct.
Some university officials - and some students - believe the best way to
handle Hale is to ignore him. Cubbage, for example, regularly gives
reporters who call about Hale, including those from the university's
newspaper, a hard time for "giving Hale ink."
Others aren't so sure.
"I don't think Matt Hale should be able to claim our space," says Beki
Park, a Northwestern sophomore who left a student discussion organized as a
boycott of Hale's visit to take part in the direct protests against his
visit. "I don't think just sitting back is doing any good."
Then there's the matter of freedom of expression.
Being a private university does give Northwestern more leeway -
constitutionally - to keep Hale at bay, says Martin Redish, a law professor
at Northwestern University who specializes in the First Amendment. But he
says that doesn't make the question of how to deal with him - or how much
attention to pay to him - much easier.
"One should debate how much you want to start selectively censoring views
in a university setting," Redish says. "But that's a moral debate, not a
constitutional one."
The American Civil Liberties Union - however uncomfortably - sides with
Hale.
"I don't think that our First Amendment rights, which have served our
country and our democracy well for 200 years, should be set on their ear
because of Matt Hale - however repugnant we find what he says," says Ed
Yohnka, a spokesman in the ACLU's Chicago office.
That's fine, say some Hale detractors. But they'll be sure to make their
opinions known, too.
"We have to take a stand. I don't believe that being silent makes this go
away," says Jeffrey Isaac, a political science professor at Indiana
University and a member of Bloomington United, a community group that
formed after Smith killed a Korean student in the Indiana college town.
His group has chosen to take public - though separate - stands against Hale
and his followers, staging public rallies on campus to oppose hate speech
and crimes.
Taking a page from civil rights organizers, the group also supports the use
of civil lawsuits to fight hate crime. Two Chicago families have already
filed such a lawsuit attempting to hold Hale - and even Smith's parents -
accountable for the shootings. Other victims, who are awaiting the results
of an FBI investigation of Hale, say they are considering similar lawsuits.
Some wonder whether such lawsuits could have a chilling effect on free
speech. But others - including lawyers from the Anti-Defamation League -
say it's worth exploring holding people like Hale responsible for the
damage hate speech may do.
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, a Jewish leader on the Northwestern campus, is
another.
"If Matt Hale wants to get up and say he hates Jews and it's true ... and
it's not leading to violence, I may not like it," Klein says. "But it's
very different than creating a discourse that can only lead to one thing -
the killing and maiming of others."
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Hate literature spreads again
Nancy Burton (MSNBC)
16 Jan 00
On the eve of the Martin Luther King Junior holiday, some central Ohio
homeowners find what some call "hate literature" on their front yards.
At least two central Ohio communities discovered the flyers first thing
this morning.
The group responsible says this is the second time in less than week that
they canvassed central Ohio neighborhoods trying to get thier message out.
Like many of his Dublin neighbors, Doug Sobieski got quite a shock this
morning when he went to get his Sunday paper. "I thought someone was
playing a joke. It was so disturbing," he said.
Doug discovered hate literature, papers filled with comments about African
Americans, in his driveway.
Patty Crocker is upset because this literature could have ended up in the
wrong hands, like children.
A group called National Alliance didn’t just distribute this literature in
Dublin. One Grove City resident told us, he too found the stuff in his
driveway.
Yet Erich Gliebe, a National Alliance spokesman thinks differently.
"Alliance members passed out literature to a thousand homes in Dublin and
Grove City last night and this morning because they thought the people
there were more receptive to their message."
Some Central Ohio homeowners think what showed up in their front yards this
Sunday morning is just plain wrong.
A spokesman for Anti-racist Action, a Columbus based group stated. "Most
people are disgusted by this" that’s not to say a small group like this
can’t cause big problems." The spokesman wished to remain unidentified.
What this anti-racist group is referring to is the founder of the National
Alliance. This man wrote a book that was used as a model for the Oaklahoma
City bombing where more than a hundred people were killed.
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ON THE PINOCHET CASE
Briefing on the issue of the medical tests requested by the UK Home
Secretary
7 Jan 00
Amnesty International is concerned at reports that the medical tests of
Augusto Pinochet ordered by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, on 22
December 1999 as a result of the Chilean Government's request for a stay of
the proceedings based on medical grounds and conducted on 5 January 2000,
will be evaluated in secret by the Home Secretary, a political official,
rather than by a court, without any opportunity for the prosecution to
observe the medical examination, challenge it or obtain a second
independent medical opinion.
Although anyone facing extradition should be permitted to request and
obtain an independent medical examination to determine whether he or she is
able to participate in the extradition proceedings, while these proceedings
are before the courts such an examination should be subject to judicial
supervision in a transparent process in which the prosecution should be
permitted to have a medical observer, should be able to examine the medical
reports and the doctors who conducted the medical examination and, if
appropriate, to call its own medical experts to examine the person facing
extradition.
However, according to reports, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which
represents the Kingdom of Spain, which has requested the former President
of Chile's extradition, was not present at the medical examination, will
not be provided with a copy of the medical report and will have no
opportunity to challenge the medical report before the Home Secretary. In
contrast, two medical doctors on Pinochet's side have reportedly been
permitted to participate as medical observers during the medical
examination, and the medical report is to be provided only to the Home
Secretary, government legal advisers and the former President.
As a general rule, medical records are entitled to the protection of
privacy. When a person has put his or her medical condition in issue in a
legal proceeding, he or she waives that right to privacy at least to the
extent of the other parties to the proceeding. In the interests of justice,
the prosecution in this case is entitled to see and challenge the medical
report. Here, although the former President has not himself sought the
medical examination or contended that he was unfit to participate in the
extradition proceedings, either in the High Court --where he is entitled to
raise this issue under Section 11 of theExtradition Act 1989 -- or before
the Home Secretary, he has reportedly agreed to the medical examination
and to the presence of outside medical observers appointed by the Republic
of Chile.
For these reasons, Amnesty International wants to stress the following
points:
Under Article 11 of the UK Extradition Act of 1989, humanitarian concerns
about the state of health of the accused should be raised with the High
Court, but the Extradition Act appears to give the Home Secretary the
statutory power to review medical evidence himself at any stage of the
proceedings and to decide whether to allow the extradition proceedings to
continue. Amnesty International believes that Jack Straw should let the
courts determine whether Pinochet is fit or not before taking a final
decision on extradition.
The judicial process involving Augusto Pinochet's extradition could only be
seen as complete once the last avenue of appeal -- the Judicial
Committee of the UK House of Lords (if given leave to do so) -- has been
exhausted.
Given the above, Amnesty International reiterates that the CPS should be
allowed to participate in and have an opportunity to challenge any
medical examinations to determine whether someone is fit to participate in
extradition proceedings. As a minimum, the CPS should be allowed to obtain
any medical reports and to cross-examine the doctors who conduct such
examinations and to nominate a medical examiner to conduct a medical
examination of the former President. This procedure should, in the first
instance, be conducted under judicial supervision.
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It remains a matter of fair process: Statement by Pierre Sané Secretary
General of Amnesty International
18 Jan 00
The extradition case of Augusto Pinochet has until now been allowed to
proceed through the courts, with key issues being raised by all parties,
being openly debated, and decided upon by judges.
We have welcomed the fact that Jack Straw, the UK Home Secretary, has
exercised his considerable discretion in this area by giving the right
space to the judicial process.
The British courts have reaffirmed that torture and crimes against
humanity are international crimes for which anyone may be held
accountable anywhere in the world. All attempts to question this
fundamental principle of international law have consistently failed.
The courts have also rejected claims that a former head of state could hide
behind national immunity or an amnesty law designed to protect him from
prosecution. It is our view that it is those same courts that
should examine Augusto Pinochet's medical situation in a fair and
transparent process, before the Home Secretary takes his final decision on
extradition.
The process set up by the Home Secretary to determine the medical
condition of Senator Pinochet is unfair.
The secrecy surrounding it makes it impossible for states requesting
extradition -- or for other parties -- to exercise their right to see the
medical report, cross-examine the medical panel and decide whether they
wish to accept the conclusions of the medical panel, or challenge it and
request another medical examination.
In addition, on the basis of what the public has been told about the
medical examination ordered by the Home Secretary, we have concerns about
the way it appears to have been conducted.
Dr Robert Howard, Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist at the Institute of
Psychiatry and Maudsley Hospital, London, has provided us with his expert
medical opinion which is attached to our submission.
Dr Howard has acted as a medical witness in assessment of fitness to stand
trial in a number of criminal cases. In his opinion, the medical experts
that examined Augusto Pinochet "cannot be considered to have established
beyond doubt that he is unfit to stand trial or that his situation is
irreversible".
Our concerns in this area are outlined in our submission and will be
addressed shortly by Geoffrey Bindman.
In summary, throughout this case we have intervened to ensure that
international law was upheld in a fair and transparent process. Augusto
Pinochet is innocent until proven guilty and has the right to raise his
medical condition.
The victims of his administration and those representing them have the
right to see the medical evidence and challenge it if they so wish.
All that we are asking for is that Jack Straw takes his final decision
after a fair process. This should be about law and justice not politics.
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Letter asks for disclosure of medical reports, as new development adds to
concerns on conduct of tests
20 Jan
Amnesty International, the Medical Foundation for the Care of the Victims
of Torture, the Association of the Relatives of the Disappeared in Chile,
and Redress have sent a preliminary letter to UK Home Secretary, Jack
Straw, asking for disclosure of the medical report to the parties. The
letter also asks for the parties to be given the opportunity to request
another medical examination conducted by experts appointed by them.
As previously announced, the four organizations will also be presenting a
full submission to the Home Secretary by the deadline of 5 pm on Tuesday
18th January.
According to the Observer -- a British Sunday newspaper -- one of the four
medical experts who examined Augusto Pinochet has effectively questioned
the accuracy of the statement by the UK Home Secretary last Tuesday, 11
January.
Professor Sir John Grimley Evans is quoted as saying that he and the three
other doctors who examined Pinochet on 5th January listed the medical
facts, but that the determination that Pinochet was unfit for trial was
outside their field of competence and responsibilities. Sir John is also
reported as having said that Pinochet's chances for recovery were slim but
not impossible.
Jack Straw's statement on 11 January said that "the unequivocal and
unanimous conclusion of the four medical experts was the he is at present
unfit to stand trial, and that no change to that position can be expected".
This development adds to concerns already expressed in Spain and elsewhere
about the conduct and conclusions of Pinochet's medical examination.
Amnesty International is following closely the developments as it prepares
its submission to Jack Straw.
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WHAT'S WORTH CHECKING
stories via <ftp://ftp.nyct.net/pub/users/tallpaul/publish/story5/>
Government U.K. -- Home Office, "Pinochet: 'Unfit to stand trial'," 12 Jan
99, "This is the text of the statement on General Augusto Pinochet released
on Tuesday night by the Home Office. The Secretary of State has over past
months received a number of representations concerning Senator Pinochet's
state of health. Until last October, these did not appear to suggest any
material change in the position since the Secretary of State's
consideration of issues relating to Senator Pinochet's health at the time
he gave Authority to Proceed in the case on 14 April 1999. 'The unequivocal
and unanimous conclusion is that ... he is at present unfit to stand
trial'...." <1361.txt>
Bill Carter (NY Times), "[CBS and the Use Of Fake Images]," 12 Jan 00, "Dan
Rather, the CBS News anchor, called the decision to superimpose a digitally
created CBS logo to block out an NBC-sponsored sign in Times Square during
CBS's news coverage of New Year's Eve celebrations "a mistake" that he
regrets. 'There is no excuse for it," Mr. Rather said in a telephone
interview today. "I did not grasp the possible ethical implications of this
and that was wrong on my part'." <1362.txt>
BBC, "Spanish judge demands new Pinochet tests," 14 Jan 00, "The Spanish
judge spearheading attempts to bring General Augusto Pinochet to trial has
demanded a second medical examination of the former Chilean dictator. Judge
Baltasar Garzon asked for fresh tests after those carried out by the
British Government found the general unfit to be tried in Spain for human
rights' violations. In a separate move, human rights campaigners said that
they were urging other nations to put pressure on the UK government not to
allow the general to return to Chile." <1363.txt>
Justin Bachman (Associated Press), "Mrs. King Honors Husband's Legacy," 17
Jan 00, "The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow wants Americans to
'connect to the divine' and honor her husband's legacy by serving others.
Coretta Scott King said Sunday that the slain civil rights leader's vision
for the country comes closer to reality each time someone helps another
person." <1364.txt>
Timothy Williams (AP), "[NY City] Council Committee Holds Raucous Hearing
[on Mayor's Homeless Policy]," 14 Jan 00, "A City Council committee hearing
on the Giuliani administration's homeless policies devolved into bizarre
political theater Friday, replete with shouting matches, put-downs and
dueling gavel banging, but few new details. Giuliani's homeless policy has
attracted national attention because of a provision stipulating that if
able-bodied, mentally stable homeless parents refuse to work, the city can
take away their children, place them in foster care and refuse shelter for
the adults." <1365.txt>
Richard Pyle (Associated Press), "NYC Gallery Shows Lynching Photos," 14
Jan 00, "Once upon a time in America, mobs dragged people out of jails or
off the streets and hanged them from the nearest tree. Sometimes they
burned them alive. Then, often as not, members of the mob lined up to be
photographed with the deceased. Dozens of these sobering pictures- some of
them turned into postcards that were occasionally used as warnings - have
been put on public display today at a Manhattan gallery." <1366.txt>
APF, "Gays slam Vatican's 'demonisation'," 13 Jan 00, "Dozens of
homosexuals took their protest against Pope John Paul II's fierce anti-gay
stand to the streets Thursday, laying a cushion of flowers in the colors of
the gay rainbow flag in Saint Peter's square. The protest came on the
second anniversary of the suicide death of Sicilian poet Alfredo Ormando
outside Saint Peter's Basilica. 'In March the pope will pronounce a
comprehensive "mea culpa" for the Church's historic errors,' said Andrea
Ambrogetti, of a gay help group for Christian homosexuals. 'But
unfortunately he will not address the persecution and continuing sidelining
of homosexuals'." <1367.txt>
Renato Martino, Archbishop (Vatican Permanent Observer), "Catholic Church
Battles In U.N. In Favor Of Human Rights," 10 Jan 00. "The Vatican
Permanent Observer to the U.N., Archbishop Renato Martino, says that the
most gratifying part of his work is 'when the representatives of the people
turn to us, not because we are diplomats but because we are priests.'
During an interview with 'Jubilaeum,' Vatican Radio's new interactive
program, the Archbishop responded to questions in Italian, French and
English ranging from the 'Bethlehem 2000' project to the quest for human
rights." <1368.txt>
National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce, "Republican National Committee Uses
'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' As A Vehicle For More Baching of GLBT People," 10
Jan 00, "New Republican National Committee (RNC) TV ads on the 'Don't ask,
don't tell' policy are a continuation of the Republican Party's efforts to
portray gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people as unworthy of
equal rights, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force said Monday.
According to recent published reports, the RNC plans to air TV spots on the
issue in Iowa, New Hampshire, and other key primary states. 'Don't Ask,
Don't Tell' is a flawed policy that has resulted in increased discharges
of servicemen and women and, contrary to its stated goal, has led to well-
publicized witchhunts against gay, lesbian and bisexual people." <1369.txt>
AP, "State investigators arrest man on charges he tried to burn down a
black church," 19 Jan 00, "A white north Florida construction worker was
arrested on arson charges after throwing a firebomb on the roof of a small
predominantly black church, state officials said Tuesday. Damage to the St.
Marks Missionary Baptist Church in Middleburg from the device - a gasoline-
filled beer can with a wick made out of tissue paper - was minimal, the
state fire marshal's office reported. Raymond Lee Jackson, 29, was arrested
Sunday night about four hours after the attempted arson, which is being
investigated as a hate crime. ..." <1370.txt>
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