I grew up in this town, left in 1997 to go to college only coming back during the summers. Left Pennsylvania completely in 2004 after I had come out as a lesbian and we (my partner and I) moved to Delaware to be with her family. I love my hometown, I loved growing up there; but I don't like the narrowmindedness that still infects the town and area. This makes me sick that something like this happens there more often than not, maybe not to this extent but the intimidation against people who aren't the "norm" for the town is rampant.
"Last week, Katie Couric had the tables turned on her. During an interview with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Couric asked about Neda Soltan, the Iranian female who was shot and killed by Iranian security back in June.
After expressing his regret for the loss of life, Mr. Ahmadinejad pulled out a photo of another woman. He showed it to Ms. Couric and asked if she knew who the woman was. Couric said she didn't, and that's when Ahmadinejad pounced.
Ahmadinejad explained that the woman in the photo is Marwa Ali El-Sherbini. She was stabbed to death in a German court by a neo-Nazi. The Iranian president then asked why the death of Ms. El-Sherbini wasn't being publicized by the media in the same way as Neda's. Ahmadinejad "suggested that the western media — who turned Neda into a martyr — ignored Marwa's story."
The interview between Couric and Ahmadinejad took place last week, but the searches really started to pop this morning. Web lookups on "marwa ali el sherbini" and "who is marwa ali el sherbini" both spiked into the thousands.Ahmadinejad pawns Katie Couric.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Brian Milligan Sr. believes his son's race triggered a brutal attack on the streets of Buffalo, New York.
Armed with a chunk of concrete, several assailants beat Brian Milligan Jr. on the back of the head on August 18, leaving a 3-inch gash. They kicked him in the face, breaking his jaw.
Bloodied and bruised, the 18-year-old managed to walk five blocks to his grandmother's house before being rushed to the hospital.
Milligan's father believes several African-Americans beat his son, who is white, because he is dating an African-American woman. He wants police to treat the beating as a hate crime. He also has criticized what he calls a deafening silence from the community, police and the national media.
"If this was a black guy who was beaten by a group of white guys for dating a white girl, people would be up in arms," he said. "There's a double standard."
Buffalo police believe a group of about 10 to 15 African-American men attacked Milligan late at night, police spokesman Mike DeGeorge said. Police have made no arrests and are still investigating the motive, he said.
Milligan Sr. says he believes the attackers are the same "neighborhood guys" who threatened his son and his African-American girlfriend because of their interracial relationship.
The younger Milligan and his girlfriend, Nicola Fletcher, who is also 18, had recently complained of an increase in insults and threats in east Buffalo, where Fletcher lives and where Milligan was staying with his grandmother, Fletcher said.
"Every time they walk the streets, people stop him and call him 'cracker' and ask her why she's not with a black guy," Milligan Sr. said.
Two days before the attack, Fletcher said she was shot with paintball pellets by the same group of neighborhood aggressors.
"I'm afraid to walk the streets," she said. "Those guys are still out there."
Police "are making good progress in the case," said DeGeorge, the police spokesman. Investigators are still trying to determine if it should be declared a hate crime.
They have asked members of the community to call police if they have any information.
When Milligan was taken to Erie County Medical Center, he was unconscious and suffered blood on the brain and brain swelling as a result of the beating. He will see a neurosurgeon on September 10 to be evaluated, said his father.
He is now recovering at home and remembers nothing about the attack, which has made the police investigation even more difficult.
The story has touched a nerve with several members of Buffalo's African-American community, including a local pastor who leads a predominantly black church in Buffalo.
"At first, it didn't affect me the way that it would have if I heard it was a black teen attacked," said the Rev. Darius Pridgen, who spent years fighting for civil rights for African-Americans.
"But after I saw his father on TV pleading with the community to find the assailants, I decided I had to go after the people who beat this kid."
Pridgen said he felt that the community has turned a collective blind eye to the beating. So he gave a fire-and-brimstone sermon at the True Baptist Church on a Sunday after the attack, appealing to his congregation to help find the culprits.
"He didn't deserve to be beaten this way," Pridgen recalled saying at the service. "If you believe this, put your hands together."
If it was a black teen, Pridgen said, "We would have been protesting with flags and everything else."
Rod Watson also addressed the issue in his column in the Buffalo News. Watson, who is black, pointed out that interracial marriages are nearly 10 times higher than they were in 1960, according to U.S. Census data, but still those couples have a tough time being accepted by society.
"If blacks in Buffalo in 2009 are acting like whites in Selma in 1959, this society has big problems, despite electing a president who is himself the product of an interracial union," Watson said.NEW YORK (CNN) -- Brian Milligan Sr. believes his son's race triggered a brutal attack... more
Two transgender people who were stabbed Wednesday, one fatally, in Northwest Washington might have been victims of a hate crime, D.C. police said, although investigators had not determined what led to the violence.
The victims, one of whom suffered lacerations that were not considered life-threatening, were found bleeding in the 200 block of Q Street shortly after 2:30 p.m. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime based on "a shred of information" that detectives obtained from the survivor, said acting Lt. Brett Parsons, the department's top liaison to the city's gay community.
The surviving victim told a detective that the attacker might have used an anti-gay epithet during the incident, Parsons said. But it would be "extremely premature" for authorities to definitively classify the crime as having been motivated by the victims' gender identity, he said.
"Until we're able to do a really detailed interview with the surviving victim, I'm not sure that anyone really knows," Parsons said.
Police identified the dead victim as Joshua Mack, 21, of the 7500 block of Clinton Vista Lane in Clinton. Parsons said Mack was a biological man but was living full time as a woman, using the street name "Nana Boo." Mack was pronounced dead at Howard University Hospital.
The other victim, also a biological man living as a woman, suffered "serious lacerations" that required immediate medical treatment, Parsons said.
Detectives conducted a brief interview at the scene, Parsons said, before the surviving victim was sedated. Authorities hoped to talk more with the victim Thursday, Parsons said.
The surviving victim was a witness to the incident, and D.C. police do not publicly identify witnesses. Parsons said investigators were not completely sure of the survivor's identity.
Officers responding to a report of an assault on Q Street found a blood-soaked crime scene, Parsons said. "It was a moving scene, like the stabbing occurred at one location and the victim collapsed at another location, all within the block."
It was unclear whether a weapon was recovered.
As for Mack's wounds, Parsons said: "I can tell you, just looking at the scene, it was an artery. There was blood splashed everywhere along the block."
As is standard for D.C. police in homicide investigations, the department offered a $25,000 reward for a tip leading an arrest and conviction in Mack's killing. Police urged anyone with information about the case to call 888-919-2746 or send a text message to 50411. The department pledged to honor requests for anonymity.Two transgender people who were stabbed Wednesday, one fatally, in Northwest... more
Keep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises those planning to march in Thursday's unauthorized demonstrations in Iran cities.
"The heaviest weapon to carry is one rose in the hand," it says.
As Iranians prepare for what could be another violent day of confrontations Thursday between demonstrators and security forces, including pro-government plainclothes Basiji militias, supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi have distributed instructions to try to keep any anticipated violence to a minimum.
One video making its way around the Internet shows demonstrators how to make devices to disable the motorcycles used by truncheon-wielding Basiji and Ansar-e-Hezbollah militiamen.
The marches, which are taking place amid continued political discord over the June 12 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are meant to mark the 10-year anniversary of the storming of Tehran University dormitories by pro-government militias and subsequent weeks of unrest.
The circular urges marchers to avoid wearing the green that has become the official color of the Mousavi campaign or "flashy make-up" in order to demonstrate the marchers' serious intent.
It suggests demonstrators leave cellphones and jewelry at home and carry only an identification card and relatives' phone numbers.
If protesters decide it's too risky to take part in the rally, the circular advises them to walk or drive around in their own neighborhoods, flashing the "victory" sign with their fingers.
"Bear in mind the most important point is to walk to the destination and not follow the exact path," the message advises. "Wherever you see the anti-riot police or militia ... hindering you ... change your path ... the goal is to keep on going."
-- Los Angeles TimesKeep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises those planning to march in... more
[TEHRAN BUREAU] Elections in Iran, whether presidential, parliamentary, or even for city councils, are always preceded by great debates over a simple issue: to vote or not to vote. The typical turnout in Iranian elections is around 60% of eligible voters. Turnout has never exceeded 85%, which was attained in the presidential election of June 12, 2009. (One exception is the April 1979 referendum right after the revolution, which holds the record for turnout. Iranians were asked to cast a vote either in favor of the continuation of the monarchy or an Islamic Republic, which was not defined.) So, the vote-or-not debates are generally aimed at encouraging or discouraging the 20% of eligible voters who decide to vote on certain occasions (as they did last month, and also in 1997 and 2001, the two times in which Mohammad Khatami was elected president).
Iran’s presidential election of June 12 was no different. But that debate in Iran was practically settled as soon as Khatami announced several months ago that he would run for president. Huge crowds greeted him everywhere he went. After Khatami announced that he would withdraw in favor of Mir Hossein Mousavi and threw his support behind him, the same huge crowds began greeting Mousavi, which gave rise to the Green Movement. A great majority of Iranians came to reason that by voting they could remove Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from the presidency, and hence create a possibility for a better future.
The situation was different outside Iran. A part of the exiled opposition (if they can be called such), which included hard-core royalists, supporters of the Mojahedin-e Khalgh, and a group of politicians and journalists who emigrated from Iran in the past few years, called for boycotting the election. Given that the MEK is nothing more than a terrorist cult, I will not discuss them any further. The royalists, who are after regime change in Iran, and others, who were vehemently opposed to voting, argued, as they always do, that elections in Iran are not meaningful, and that it does not matter whether the people vote or not. But after the surge in the popularity of Mousavi, they mostly fell silent.
Among the War Party in the United States, made up of those Republican and Democrats who favor a militaristic approach to foreign policy, the debate about Iran’s presidential election was, up to 2005, always the same. Prior to Ahmadinejad becoming Iran’s president in 2005, and particularly when Khatami was president, the neoconservatives, the War Party and others always mocked him for being powerless. On the eve of Iran’s presidential election of 2005, George W. Bush declared that in Iran power is held by “an unelected few,” meaning that elections were inconsequential. But after Ahmadinejad was elected and began using his incendiary, but inconsequential rhetoric about the Holocaust and Israel, the War Party and the Israel lobby transformed him into the most powerful man in Iran, even comparing him to Adolph Hitler.
It is well known that Iran’s president, while influential to some extent, is not the ultimate decision maker when it comes to foreign policy. But, regardless, the War Party, the neoconservatives, and the Israel lobby transformed Ahmadinejad into the most powerful man on earth, a mad man who, if he got his hands on a nuclear weapon, would not hesitate to use it against Israel. They even prayed that the U.S. would attack Iran, even though there is no evidence that Iran is interested in making nuclear weapons.
ContinuedBy MUHAMMAD SAHIMI in Los Angeles | 5 July 2009
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A Beaumont woman has claimed that her nephew, who was a sailor stationed at Camp Pendleton, California, was a hate crime victim. And now his partner is speaking out about his death.
The Associated Press has reported that Rose Roy of Beaumont said her nephew Navy Seaman August Provost III complained a year before he was killed that he was being harassed because he was gay.
She reportedly advised Provost to document the incidents and alert the military, but says he was discouraged by the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
The 29-year-old from Houston died of multiple gunshot wounds Tuesday, June 30, 2009 at Camp Pendleton, located north of San Diego. He was on guard duty at the time. A "person of interest" is in custody, but no charges have been filed.
On Saturday, July 4, 2009, his partner spoke out about the killing.
A Navy spokesperson said the investigation into Seaman Provost's death is ongoing but that the murder does not appear to be a hate crime.
Captain Matt Brown said despite concerns by gay rights activists, investigators found no evidence that Provost was killed because of his sexual orientation. Brown declined to disclose any other suspected motive.A Beaumont woman has claimed that her nephew, who was a sailor stationed at Camp... more
Hate crimes against people with disabilities in Wales are unreported or unrecognised for what they are, campaigners and charities say.
Police recorded 132 such crimes last year, but charities said the true figures were much higher.
A report by cerebral palsy charity Scope suggested of 50 serious assaults against disabled people, only one was recorded as a hate crime.
Scope said more consideration was needed when categorising crimes.
Campaigners told BBC Wales' Eye on Wales programme that many disabled people were reluctant to report incidents, or were sometimes unaware they had been victimised.
Scope is calling for a more in-depth look at hostility as a motive in crimes against disabled people, with a view to tougher sentencing.
He'd come up to my shoulder and he'd say, 'you're not blind, you're…' and then various swear words
Sarah Craig
Under Section 146 of the Criminal Justice Act, sentencing can be enhanced if a hate crime motive is established.
Ruth Scott, policy director for Scope, said: "A lot of disabled people have experienced hate crime. They don't necessarily recognise that it's hate crime, they don't necessarily have the language to describe it.
"But part of that is related to the fact that disability hate crime is really hard to recognise and that the vast majority of police officers and others also don't recognise it.
"We found lots of incidences, including some very serious crimes like murders, where… this seems to have been motivated by hostility towards this person because they're a disabled person.
"[They] weren't being picked up, [or] being prosecuted using hate crime legislation, so the whole issue remains very hidden or invisible."
'Abusive'
Sarah Craig, from Bridgend, is visually impaired and uses a guide dog.
She has experienced intimidation and harassment which she believes is related to her disability.
"I had one guy who just literally followed me around Bridgend all day. He'd come up to my shoulder and he'd say, 'you're not blind, you're…' and then various swear words.
"Another guy, he… started dancing around in front of me and saying, 'how can you avoid me if you can't see me, you obviously can see me'.
"I'm lucky, I've got a little bit of sight, but even so, I knew he was there. I told him 'can I get past please' - he was just verbally abusive."
Gwent Police hosted a conference last week to raise awareness of disability hate crime, and the Crown Prosecution Service has established independent scrutiny panels to review case files on offences against disabled people.
Chris Woolley, chief crown prosecutor for south Wales, said: "This is a crime that we're all waking up to, just as we woke up to racial and religious crime some years ago, to homophobic crime, and crimes against the elderly.
"This is one more in that series that all of us working in the criminal justice system have to be alert to."Hate crimes against people with disabilities in Wales are unreported or unrecognised... more
The chairman the House Veterans Affairs Committee is calling for a Defense Department and Marine Corps probe to see if the killing of a gay sailor at Camp Pendleton was a hate crime.
Democratic Rep. Bob Filner of San Diego said Thursday he wants an investigation into the death of 29-year-old Seaman August Provost of Houston, who was found slain in a guard shack Tuesday.
Filner's call for an investigation comes after leaders in the gay community asked him to intervene.
Nicole Murray-Ramirez, chairman of the San Diego Human Relations Commission, says Provost's family told her that personnel on the base had been harassing the sailor.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service has taken a "person of interest" into custody but has not filed any charges.The chairman the House Veterans Affairs Committee is calling for a Defense Department... more
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder stepped up his call for the passage of federal hate crimes legislation Thursday, arguing that the federal government needs to address a rising tide of criminal activity fueled by bias and bigotry.
Holder made his remarks during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act.
The bill would allow the Justice Department to provide assistance to state and local authorities in the prosecution of hate crimes while also expanding federal protection against hate crimes to cover disability, gender and sexual orientation.
What do you think about the Hate Crime Bill?U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder stepped up his call for the passage of federal hate... more
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Cathal Kelly
STAFF REPORTER
The brutal death of the young Tehran woman Neda Agha-Soltani continued to prompt revulsion inside and outside Iran yesterday, but it also drew more attention to the role the women's movement has played in the current uprising.
"We have seen courageous women stand up to brutality and threats, and we have experienced the searing image of a woman bleeding to death in the streets," U.S. President Barack Obama said at a White House news conference yesterday, noting the recent events in Iran.
"While the loss is raw and painful, we also know this: those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history."
The 26-year-old woman, who is widely known simply as Neda, was shot dead Saturday near the scene of clashes between pro-government militias and demonstrators who allege rampant vote-count fraud in the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Her final seconds of life were captured in a widely distributed Internet video.
"It's heartbreaking," Obama said of the video. "I think that anybody who sees it knows that there's something fundamentally unjust about it."
Since the first embers of the pro-democracy demonstrations in Iran flared 10 days ago, women have been at the front of the battle line. Photographs show them confronting security forces and urging others in the crowd – many of them men – to press forward.
"There is an unfortunate distorted image of Iranian women. Everybody (in the West) is surprised at what's happening in Iran because they have this image of women victimized by their state, by their husbands," said Farzeneh Milani, a University of Virginia professor who has studied the Iranian women's movement for three decades.
"The truth of the matter is that the women's movement in Iran goes back to the middle of the 19th century."
Women have played a role in each one of Iran's cultural spasms. Many of the pro-Islamic activists during the 1979 Islamic Revolution were women. But the current reformist movement is a reaction to government measures aimed at pushing women to the sidelines of public life.
In 2005, the regime began a modesty campaign, the goal being a stricter enforcement of veiling.
"I call it gender apartheid, the separation of men and women in all spheres," said Shahrzad Mojab, an activist who fled Iran in 1983 and now teaches at the University of Toronto. "It really has been building up over the last 30 years."
As it followed a period of relative liberalization under former president Mohammad Khatami, the modesty campaign provoked a backlash. In 2006, a demonstration of women in Tehran was attacked by security forces. That spawned the so-called "one million signature" campaign aimed at reversing the new laws. Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi is one of the leaders of that movement.
Another key figure has been Zahra Rahnavard, wife of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
"(Rahnavard) has been a major force, sometimes much more important than her husband," said Gholam Reza Afkhami, of Washington's Foundation for Iranian Studies.
Much of the current network has blossomed inside educational institutions in large cities. Despite efforts to marginalize them, Iranian women still make up 65 per cent of all students at universities.
"Iran must be the only country in the world that's thinking of affirmative action for men," Milani said.
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This article was originally was written in response to efforts to conceal the Israeli spy scandal, the largest spy ring ever uncovered in the United States, behind cries of "hate" and "anti-Semite".
The current focus on the Israeli spy ring is about crimes committed against our nation by a foreign government, plain and simple, and whether one opposes those crimes or is accessory to those crimes by seeking to conceal them. There can be a no more dangerous path than for our government, our media, and our citizens than to ignore the presence of the largest spy ring ever uncovered within our nation simply because it is connected with a "protected" nation presumed to be above reproach or criticism.
I urge you to all to continue to contact your representatives and your local media and demand a full and public hunt for the spies in our midst. Those who seek to protect those spies by suppressing this story must be suspect.This article was originally was written in response to efforts to conceal the Israeli... more
A teenager accused of putting a noose around a Hispanic boy's neck and dragging him in a parking lot has been sentenced to 10 days in jail.
The 18-year-old was sentenced Wednesday in juvenile court in Mount Vernon, a city of 15,000 residents an hour's drive northeast of Columbus. He dropped his original plea of not guilty and pleaded no contest to ethnic intimidation.
A charge of aggravated menacing was dropped.
Seventeen-year-old Robert Cantu says in May 2008 he was dragged from a sidewalk to a parking lot with the noose wrapped around his neck by a group of teenagers shouting racial slurs. He says the teens threatened to hang him before a bystander intervened.
His family says it plans to sue the city, dubbed the state's Most Livable Community in 1994.A teenager accused of putting a noose around a Hispanic boy's neck and dragging him in... more
PSYOPS: Son of a former Anti-Defamation League board of director resurfaces to confirm his Jewish roots (like we didn't already know), and to further demonize the growing, global anti-Zionist movement, but he stops short of admitting involvement with MEMRI/IntelCenter/Rita Katz/Mossad.PSYOPS: Son of a former Anti-Defamation League board of director resurfaces to confirm... more
An East Coast 9/11 truth activist is preparing to file a defamation lawsuit against TV / radio personality, Glenn Beck, the producers of the Glenn Beck Program, and the Fox News Channel.
Specifically, Greg Hoover will be suing the above-described defendants in Federal Court for Beck’s having repeatedly broadcast statements characterizing those who question the government’s official version of the events of 9/11 as, “anarchists,” “terrorists” and as persons denying the Holocaust.
Specifically, Greg Hoover will be suing the above-described defendants in Federal Court for Beck’s having repeatedly broadcast statements characterizing those who question the government’s official version of the events of 9/11 as, “anarchists,” “terrorists” and as persons denying the Holocaust.
The complaint will note that - on October 22, 2007 - Beck suggested that those identifying themselves as associated with the 9/11 truth movement are “dangerous” “anarchists” who deny the Holocaust, and are “the kind of group that Timothy McVeigh would come from.”
The suit will also note that during Beck’s June 10th broadcast Beck linked the murder of the Washington D.C. holocaust museum guard with “9/11 truthers.”http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2009/06/911-truth-activist-sues-glenn-beck-for.ht... more
I noticed that as of June 6, 2009, the Anti-Defamation League had not yet issued a statement condemning the Zionist hate video that surfaced on June 3, 2009 and since created a firestorm on the internet. I created a response video to note that there was a complete non-response on the issue by the ADL, and to offer some commentary to the video in general.
The Anti-Defamation League purports to fight bigotry, racism and intolerance, but it has been noted here at Under The Radar Media that the organization selectively chooses which issues that it wants to address.
The Anti-Defamation League promote Zionist extremism and are a clear and present danger tp the US.by Maasanova
I noticed that as of June 6, 2009, the Anti-Defamation League had not... more
I thought that the racist Zionist video that is circulating everywhere, it would be a good reason to make a video exposing the Anti-Defamation League's hate crime bill and the hypocricy and double standard when it comes to real racism.I thought that the racist Zionist video that is circulating everywhere, it would be a... more
How sad and racist these Israeli's react to the most genuine reach out by President Obama's trip to Egypt and Saudi Arabia.How sad and racist these Israeli's react to the most genuine reach out by President... more
The true story of a Cornish Liberal Democrat Member of British Parliament and Peter Midwood, a previously homeless 15yr old gay youth in Cornwall (UK)
May 13th 2009
The British National Daily Telegraph newspaper revealed British MPs EXPLOITING TAXPAYERS THROUGH MP's EXPENCE CLAIMS .
Daily Telegraph front page exposed how Andrew George, Liberal Democrat MP for St. Ives (in Cornwall, UK), claims £847 per month from UK taxpayers for mortgage interest payments for his luxury London riverside flat....yet in 2005 Andrew George would not assist a homeless 15yr old boy, a child who was living rough on the streets of Helston, Cornwall.
Peters parents abandoned him, moving 400 miles away to Hull.
Cornwall UK is recognised as the poorest economic region in the UK with the lowest rates of pay & high unemploymentyet Mr George would not assist a homeless 15yr old get an independent Ombudsman enquiry into institutional homophobia carried out by Cornwall Police & Cornwall Social Services in 2005/06/07 and still on going!
Mr Georges London luxury flat said primarily used by his daughter & insurance is in her nameyet Mr George MP ignored letters written by Peter begging Mr George to help him regarding abuse from Cornwalls homophobic authorities. Andrew Georges expense claims reveal how MPs are able to exploit the MP system to obtain properties from which their families benefit... yet Mr George would not assist Peter, but then Mr George had attended the same school at which young Peter was homophobically abused, so what do we expect?
Andrew George MP in 2006 using his privileged MPs 2nd home allowance, he claimed back £1,898 for furnishings which were I fact delivered to his other property in Cornwall....yet Mr George would not assist Peter and did nothing about social services refusal of statutory assistance to Peter
However, Andrew George MP, stayed in hotels London. Eventually buying a flat (then used by his daughter) and made a claim for £3,999 for furniture & soft fittings. The figure reduced by the Parliamentary fees officeyet Mr George would not assist Peter, who was sleeping on a sofa of a voluntary support team member. Mr George COMPLAINED bitterly and made a further additional claim for £538 for a futon....yet Mr George would not assist Peter. Turning his back on GLBT people abused & violated by embedded & vile Cornish Institutional homophobia at County Hall
In 2007-08 Andrew George MP billed the British taxpayer for a further £1,343.81 for household goods & redecorationyet Mr Andrew George Liberal Democrat MP WOULD not lift a finger to help Peter!
Andrew George MP has left an unapologetic internet whingeing response to the Daily Telegraph exposure of British MPs who exploit the MP expenses system
Peter Midwood, will be 20yrs old this year (2009). He will NEVER vote for Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George nor will the public who DID help young Peter
Not that Liberal Democrat Andrew George MP will give a toss probably to busy filling in his expense claim forms than help his Cornish constituents like young Peter
But this is what happens in the HOMOPHOBIC AUTHORITIES of CORNWALL (UK)
also visit the Freedom Of Information Act website "What do they know" and see the catalogue of questions regarding complaints against Cornwall police officers which remain un-investigated & covered up by the Independent Police Complaints Commission & equally corrupt & homophobic Devon & Cornwall Constabulary, under the questionable command of Chief Constable Steven Otterhttp://www.pinkpasty.blogspot.com
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland became the first state in the nation to extend hate-crimes protection to homeless people under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Martin O'Malley.
The bill adds homelessness to the protected categories under Maryland's hate-crimes law, which allows prosecutors to seek tougher penalties for those who target people because of factors such as race, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.
Between 1999 and 2007, there were 774 violent attacks on homeless people in the United States, and 217 people died as a result, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless. California, Texas and Ohio are considering similar bills, and legislation has been introduced in Congress.
State Sen. Alex Mooney, the bill's sponsor, said the homeless are particularly vulnerable and deserve protection. He introduced the bill four years running before it was finally approved.
"Every year you didn't pass the bill, attacks on the homeless kept happening," Mooney said.
Mooney, one of the legislature's most conservative members, had to overcome skepticism from some colleagues who believed his true goal was to water down Maryland's hate crimes law. He had vociferously opposed adding sexual orientation to the statute.
But Mooney said he concluded that since hate crimes were well-established in Maryland law, other groups should be added even if they lack "political clout." He said he wasn't motivated by a specific attack on a homeless person but learned about the problem through news reports about several incidents.ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland became the first state in the nation to extend hate-crimes... more
