From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 21:28:05 MST
"Michael S. Lorrey" wrote:
>
> Jason Joel Thompson wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
> >
> > > Working in Vermont as I do, with
> > > the current Civil Union controversy raging, it has turned out that all
> > > of the overt 'hate' crimes committed here since the 'Take Back Vermont'
> > > grassroots campaign began were actually committed by gays trying to gain
> > > sympathy.
> >
BULLSHIT. That statement reeks of unsupported claim. And I know my
people better than that.
> > Please provide referrences proving your contention that all (overt?) hate
> > crimes commited in the state of Vermont in the period in question were
> > actually commited by gays.
>
> Those were the only two of consequence, that I already mentioned, but I
> will research and see if there were others. The remainder were mostly
> all phone calls to judges, clerks, and legislators. Many found that the
> majority of the hostile invective during this whole period was from
> those supporting civil unions, making many rather hateful remarks about
> those opposed to civil unions on principle but who were not anti-gay in
> particular.
>
You ducked the question Michael. Put up or withdraw this preposterous
claim.
> Most of the invective in the other direction has been, I have found,
> anger that is a consequence of the individuals it is directed at being
> royal jerks no matter what their persuasion is. If thats a crime, then
> call me a bigot. I hate assholes too.
>
You seem to have a love of empty generalizations. Can't you make your
points without them?
>
> This is funny, actually. Most of those same communities experience no
> murders, car thefts, robberies, or other major crimes, yet does the
> federal government claim they are also lying about that too? If so,
> where are the bodies??? Insurance claims? These communities typically
> have one or two part time policemen, and some go decades without any
> sort of death under questionable circumstances.
>
> As hard as it may seem for some people to believe, there are, in fact,
> many communities of peaceful, broad minded, tolerant people in this
> country who are pushing no agenda, and want nothing more than to be left
> in peace. There will always be individuals who are bigoted, but guess
> what? Its their RIGHT. So far as I know, thought is not yet a crime in
> this country, and its not your right to claim to be violated just
> because not everybody thinks you are super.
I could really give a shit what someone thinks of me. But when they
deny me the same rights as others have because of their bigoted opinion
or attack me and mine then that is a different matter entirely. Don't
trivialize this. Having people you know killed just for being different
(one publicly beat to death with baseball bats) tends to make you pissed
off as hell when someone claims that you're just upset because people
don't think you and "your kind" are super.
- samantha
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