but tommy your democrats are the ones bailing out corporations and the tea partiers are eradicating any republicans who supported corporate bailouts from the gop
no reform among demwits though you march in lockstep with your brownshirts and suck the soros cock you are ordered to suck and you swallow On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Tommy News <[email protected]> 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.) >>>>> Rate >>>>> Text Size >>>>> [image: >>>>> del.icio.us]<http://del.icio.us/post?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt>[image: >>>>> digg]<http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt>[image: >>>>> NewsVine]<http://www.newsvine.com/_tools/seed&save?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >>>>> [image: >>>>> google]<http://www.google.com/bookmarks/mark?op=add&bkmk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >>>>> [image: >>>>> facebook]<http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?t=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chelseanow.com%2Farticles%2F2010%2F10%2F08%2Fgay_city_news%2Fnews%2Fdoc4cafcde4ba72e389718721.txt> >>>>> [image: >>>>> *]<http://adsys.townnews.com/c8183535/creative/chelseanow.com/+tools/231542-1278096524.jpg?r=http://etf1928.org/> >>>>> Several hundred LGBT New Yorkers gathered at Grand Central Terminal >>>>> during evening rush hour on Friday, October 8 to conduct what organizers >>>>> called a “Flash Mob: Homophobia Kills Die-In” in the center of the main >>>>> concourse of the nation’s busiest transit hub. >>>>> >>>>> Several minutes after 6, activist Alan Bounville brought his fingers to >>>>> his mouth to issue a loud whistle signaling the start of the action. 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#!/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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