*1) False* ** *2) False* ** *Yes.* *My opinion is that you are an officious, critical bully.*
On 10/9/10, Jonathan Ashley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tommy, > > I have noticed that your posts to this group come in two varieties: > > 1) You cut and paste an article or opinion piece written by someone else; > > 2) You call people names (i.e. hate speech). > > Do you ever have an opinion of your own? > > On 10/9/2010 10:49 AM, Tommy News wrote: > > > Jonathan Ashley Jonathan Ashley Jonathan Ashley > > False, False, and False. > > Officious and dismissive too. > > > > > On 10/9/10, Jonathan Ashley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Tommy! Tommy! Tommy! >> >> You use the same "cut and paste" statements over and over in an effort to >> convince others (most likely yourself) that Democrats (i.e. you) are not >> socialists. One has to wonder who the real "sheep" are. >> >> On 10/9/2010 9:57 AM, Tommy News wrote: >> >> *I am not a Marxist.* >> ** >> *Your judgemental and dismissive attitude is quite bad. * >> ** >> *Sexuality and having sex are two different things.* >> ** >> *Democrats are not Marxists, Socialists, or Communists.* >> ** >> *Republicans are misguided corporate 'Sheeple".* >> >> >> On 10/9/10, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Oh!! Now I am a homophobe......Typical hate coming from a militant >>> Marxist with a pro-Gay agenda. When you cannot address the facts or truth, >>> resort to the name calling and the hate. Class warfare, smear, and of >>> course, the "homophobe" label. >>> >>> Typical. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Tommy News <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> *You have a dirty mind, as many homophobes do.* >>>> ** >>>> *Being gay and having sex are two separate things.* >>>> >>>> >>>> On 10/9/10, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> *"END HOMO/ TRANSPHOBIC APARTHEID IN AMERICA.”* >>>>> >>>>> WTF???? >>>>> >>>>> Hey Tom!! >>>>> >>>>> You (and obviously these three hundred confused individuals who chose >>>>> to stage this "Die-In") need to stop thinking about your sexual needs and >>>>> gratifications constantly! Maybe you need to get a hobby, or do something >>>>> that is separate, distinct and apart from your focus on sex. >>>>> >>>>> The fact that the term, "Gay" defines you in total, should be troubling >>>>> in and of itself. >>>>> >>>>> Are there no other causes, concerns, or issues that you either support >>>>> or that trouble you, other than what revolves around who you choose to hop >>>>> in the sack with?? >>>>> >>>>> Geesh......I feel like I need to go and take a shower!!! >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Tommy News <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> LGBT Flash Mob of Hundreds at Grand Central >>>>>> October 8 die-in dramatizes violence, bullying facing queer community, >>>>>> need for full civil rights protections >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Published: Friday, October 8, 2010 9:55 PM CDT >>>>>> BY PAUL SCHINDLER >>>>>> >>>>>> Print<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.prt> >>>>>> E-mail<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.eml> >>>>>> Comment<http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt#top>(No >>>>>> comments posted.) 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A >>>>>> crowd of at least 300 immediately laid down on the floor, as Bounville >>>>>> and >>>>>> others unfurled a 12-foot by 12-foot yellow banner reading: END HOMO/ >>>>>> TRANSPHOBIC APARTHEID IN AMERICA.” >>>>>> >>>>>> The crowd created a blockade for thousands of commuters rushing to and >>>>>> from the subways and Metro North commuter trains in the terminal. Police >>>>>> ordered participants to disperse or face arrest, while Todd Fernandez and >>>>>> Eugene Lovendusky read the names of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and >>>>>> transgender >>>>>> victims of murder or of suicide prompted by bullying and violence. As the >>>>>> men called out each victim’s name, those on the floor shouted back the >>>>>> first >>>>>> name. >>>>>> >>>>>> As planned, after about three or four minutes on the floor, >>>>>> participants got back on their feet, and for several more minutes >>>>>> Fernandez, >>>>>> Lovendusky, and other organizers led the crowd in shouts of “Civil Rights >>>>>> Now.” >>>>>> >>>>>> Bounville and Iana Di Borna, another organizer of the protest, were >>>>>> arrested by Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) police and >>>>>> charged >>>>>> with misdemeanor obstruction of pedestrian traffic. The two were given >>>>>> desk >>>>>> appearance tickets and quickly released. >>>>>> >>>>>> Activist Ann Northrop said she witnessed a third demonstrator, who she >>>>>> knew only by the name Jeff, being taken away by police who said he was >>>>>> “inciting” the crowd. The MTA police said it arrested only two people, >>>>>> and >>>>>> the NYPD had no record of any arrest made by its officers. Detective Tim >>>>>> Duffy, the NYPD’s liaison officer to the LGBT community, said he >>>>>> witnessed >>>>>> MTA police escorting a man, without handcuffs, away from the crowd, and >>>>>> said >>>>>> he may have been the same individual Northrop saw. Duffy said the lack of >>>>>> handcuffs suggested he may not have been arrested. >>>>>> >>>>>> [image: >>>>>> *]<http://adsys.townnews.com/c78558000/creative/chelseanow.com/gay_city_news+instory/201220-1251816687.gif?r=http://www.chelseapiers.com/sc/> >>>>>> Fernandez said that MTA police officials had agreed to guidelines by >>>>>> which the demonstrators would be able to unfurl their banner from one of >>>>>> two >>>>>> balconies with steps leading down to the concourse. At 6 p.m. Friday >>>>>> evening, however, NYPD officers were stationed there, and organizers were >>>>>> not allowed to use that space. Fernandez also said that the police agreed >>>>>> the action could take place without arrests as long as the demonstrators >>>>>> limited the time they laid on the floor, as they did. >>>>>> >>>>>> The action came amidst a nationwide dialogue about a spate of recent >>>>>> suicides by young gay men — some as young as 13 — who experienced >>>>>> harassment >>>>>> and violence, generally at the hands of school classmates. Though experts >>>>>> say that suicides and suicide attempts by queer youth are a persistent >>>>>> problem, news that 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers University >>>>>> freshman, jumped off the George Washington Bridge on September 22, days >>>>>> after his roommate and a third student allegedly webcast an intimate dorm >>>>>> room encounter he had with another man, galvanized media attention on the >>>>>> issue. >>>>>> >>>>>> During the past week in Manhattan, at least four men were attacked in two >>>>>> separate anti-gay >>>>>> incidents<http://www.gaycitynews.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cae272568b5b913662489.txt>— >>>>>> one at the iconic Stonewall Bar on Christopher Street in the West >>>>>> Village, >>>>>> and the other on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea. Ben Carver, a 34-year-old >>>>>> resident >>>>>> of Washington, DC, was called a “faggot” in a bathroom at the Stonewall >>>>>> before being pummeled by two attackers. In Chelsea, a group of men were >>>>>> told, “Go home faggots; this is our neighborhood,” before being attacked >>>>>> by >>>>>> a larger group who put two of them in the hospital. Two men arrested in >>>>>> the >>>>>> Stonewall attack and one in the Chelsea incident have been charged with >>>>>> hate >>>>>> crime assaults. Other suspects are sought in connection with the Chelsea >>>>>> attack. >>>>>> >>>>>> Just hours before the Grand Central action, the NYPD announced the >>>>>> arrests of seven young men in the Bronx , members of the Latin King >>>>>> Goonies >>>>>> gang, who allegedly held three men captive in an empty apartment, forced >>>>>> them to confess to homosexual behavior, and then tortured them, cutting >>>>>> one >>>>>> of them with a box cutter, and sodomizing two of them, one with a >>>>>> plunger, >>>>>> the other with a small baseball bat. >>>>>> >>>>>> In addition to the action’s focus on anti-LGBT violence and bullying, >>>>>> it also called attention to the organizers’ push for federal legislation >>>>>> to >>>>>> incorporate anti-discrimination protections based on sexual orientation >>>>>> and >>>>>> gender identity and expression into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. >>>>>> >>>>>> Bounville, Di Borna, Fernandez, and Lovendusky are involved with Queer >>>>>> SOS! <http://www.queersos.com/>and the American Equality Bill (AEB) >>>>>> Project <http://www.aebnow.com/>. For 12 days leading up to the Grand >>>>>> Central action, Queer SOS! and the AEB Project have held vigils outside >>>>>> the >>>>>> Manhattan election campaign office of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, >>>>>> demanding >>>>>> that she introduce legislation to amend the 1964 Act. >>>>>> >>>>>> At the conclusion of the Grand Central action, Fernandez, having >>>>>> witnessed two of his fellow activists taken away by police, said of the >>>>>> MTA’s conduct, “They have set a horrible precedent today. We will never >>>>>> negotiate with them again.” >>>>>> >>>>>> According to Fernandez, he and fellow activists had extensive >>>>>> discussions with top MTA police officials, including Chief Michael Coan >>>>>> and >>>>>> an attorney Coan tasked to talk to them. When the activists arrived at >>>>>> Grand >>>>>> Central, Fernandez said, it was clear that police intended to breach the >>>>>> agreement that had been reached. >>>>>> >>>>>> Civil rights attorney Yetta Kurland, who was among a group of legal >>>>>> observers, said that the MTA police had barricades and plastic handcuffs >>>>>> assembled outside the doors of its offices downstairs from the >>>>>> concourse, an >>>>>> indication to her that officials had “prior intent” to make arrests. >>>>>> >>>>>> Kurland also noted that flash mobs of all varieties have become >>>>>> commonplace in New York, and that there are “never, never, ever any >>>>>> arrests.” >>>>>> >>>>>> “What is most alarming,” she said, “is that the distinguishing factor >>>>>> here is that the demonstration has political content, which you would >>>>>> think >>>>>> would afford it greater free speech protection.” >>>>>> >>>>>> The MTA police press office did not respond to a request for comment >>>>>> and Coan did not respond to a Facebook message sent to him. >>>>>> >>>>>> LGBT activist in the Bronx are planning a protest at *19 Osbourne >>>>>> Place, near 179th Street,* where the gang assaults took place, on >>>>>> *Saturday, >>>>>> October 9 at 11 a.m.* Demonstrators plan to meet at the *Burnside >>>>>> Avenue station on the 4 line at 10:30 t*o walk to the site. Updates >>>>>> on the event will be posted to >>>>>> facebook.com/zonarosamagazine<http://www.facebook.com/zonarosamagazine> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> On *Saturday evening, October 9*, the activist group Queer Rising is >>>>>> leading a march from *Ninth Avenue and 25th Street in Chelsea, *where >>>>>> one of the weekend attacks took place, to the Stonewall bar. >>>>>> Demonstrators >>>>>> will leave the Chelsea intersection at about *8:30 p.m*. Complete >>>>>> information is at >>>>>> facebook.com/zonarosamagazine#!/event.php?eid=123680477686130<http://www.facebook.com/zonarosamagazine#%21/event.php?eid=123680477686130> >>>>>> . >>>>>> >>>>>> More: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.chelseanow.com/articles/2010/10/08/gay_city_news/news/doc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. >>>>>> Have a great day, >>>>>> Tommy >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time. >>>>>> Have a great day, >>>>>> Tommy >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. >>>>>> For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum >>>>>> >>>>>> * Visit our other community at >>>>>> http://www.PoliticalForum.com/<http://www.politicalforum.com/> >>>>>> * It's active and moderated. 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