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Cops Raid Lesbian-Hosted Fundraiser for California Pol
by Kilian Melloy
EDGE Staff Reporter
Tuesday Jun 30, 2009
The Sheriff’s Department in Encinitas, a town outside of San Diego, reportedly responded to a June 26 noise complaint regarding a political fundraiser attended by middle-aged Democrats, many of them women, and hosted by a lesbian couple, by dispatching more than a half-dozen deputies, one of whom allegedly proceeded to throw the 60-year-old hostess to the ground and pepper-spray her guests.
The fundraiser was convened in support of politician Francine Busby, who had run for the Congressional post of Randy "Duke" Cunningham after former Rep. Cunningham, a Republican, lost his seat by being sent to federal prison on an array of corruption charges.
Busby lost that race, but is gearing up for another run at Congress.
The fact that the event was hosted by a lesbian couple apparently played a role:
Attendees of the fundraiser, meantime, were reportedly heckled by an unseen man from behind some bushes who uttered disparaging remarks about gays and about Busby, a Democrat.
Good thing Obama's going to put a stop to this kind of thing at some unspecified date in the future.
Now, imagine if the polarities were reversed and the gathering was for a Republican and some gay person had been shouting slurs at them and then made a phony noise complaint.
You just know that the police would have attacked the callerr, pepper sprayed him -- if not tasered him -- and then charged him with making a false police report -- and had a good laugh with the Republicans.
Did Ft. Worth wake up in 1969 again? WTF??
John, PLEASE keep the pressure on this issue. Thanks for shedding light and for continuing to fight the good fight.
If we do that, we will shut down Washington more completely than if we got five million people to march in the streets.
There would be no phone service available for any of the above persons and agencies. They wouldn't even be able to order a pizza, call their mistresses, or hire a hustler for the evening.
B. Many people can't take a day off without some penalty or previous permission to take a day off -- or they will be fired on the spot. So, if it's just a normal day off, it loses it's effect.
C. Many people are just getting by and can't afford to lose a day's work.
Without unions, you can't have an effective national strike -- which is one of the reasons it was necessary for the fascists to destroy the unions.
The only ones who could do what you suggest are the A-listers and they've been bought off for a couple of cheap drinks and a bowl full of cheese puffs.
And, I'm kind of offended by the "armchair activist" crap. What I suggested would have far more effect than a couple of thousand people wandering around DC for a day when no one is in town.
The rightwingers now have the initiative and Texas is the shining example of extremism toward minorities.
Sadly, I only expect more speeches explaining that the future always trumps the present.
Now 40 years after the Stonewall raids and there counterparts through out Texas we find the raids are returning... this egress into the past has to stop!
The gay community and its supports through Texas has to rise up and march every weekend till the handful of dirty cops in Fort Worth are fired, arrested and convected and are safely placed in the Texas correctional system... nothing less will do!
In addition, the governor, our senators, our representatives and our mayors in each and every urban area in this state must speak out against this type of behavior!
In addition, the republican stranglehold on this state must come to an end!
I for one am tired of living in a police state where minorities are targeted for being!
Thanks for putting up with my rant!
Then its because the gay community has not done its job!
Homophobia occurs when the public fails to understand that they come in contact with our community everyday of there lives. Texans must be made to understand that gays are real and that every living Texan does know and interact with at least one gay person everyday of there lives! The community can no longer afford to real out of sight!
It occurs when families choose not to embrace their own gay family members. Texans must know that at last one of their offspring is gay, that at lest one of their loved ones is gay, that uncle/aunt whoever is gay, that grandpa/grandma are gay and so on...
It occurs when employers are allowed to fire someone for whom they feel are gay without know so because it offense their personal values. Texans must be made to understand that it is immoral to deprive a person of their livelihood or home because you don't understand their lifestyle.
In fact its down right Un-American, there was a time when we burned people at the stack for so called witchcraft but overtime we realized that those act made no sense... the same goes for the way Texans choose to deal with gays. Would a fascist right-wing republican really push homophobia, if they remotely through that such negative actions would effect their own... HELL NO!
Its occurs when governments are allowed to push so called family values over real ethics. It time that our government is held accountable for there actions. Will Texas embrace government homophobia if there loved ones are at risk...HELL NO!
It occurs when an entire community are scapegoated in order to deflect a political shortcoming. tHE TIME HAS COME TO TURN OUT THIS REPUBLICAN PARTY THAT MAKE SECOND CLASS CITIZENS OUT OF OUR KIDS!
It occurs when the public schools are allowed to degrade because followers are easier to control than leaders.
It occurs when church and state are allow to intermingle.
IT OCCURS WHEN MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY ARE WILLING TO ENBRCE THE STATUS QUE IN ORDER TO PROTECT WHAT WE'VE GAINED WE HAVE MADE BECAUSE "WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE WHAT WE'VE GAINED"... NEVER REALIZING THAT WHAT WE HAD HAS LONE AGO SLIPPED ALWAY!
THE COMMUNITY HAS SEEN THE FUTURE AND THE FUTURE WAS YESTERDAY! IT TIME TO HIT THE STREET BEFORE WE'RE BACK IN THE 50'S YET AGAIN!
I do not believe that Texans do not care about gays.
If you can't dazzle them with your brillance, baffle them with your bullshit.
I think the bigger point is that if he throws an entire part of his constituency under the bus, he gives permission to "haters" to attack and get away with it. Holding his feet to the fire says, as the President, you have the forum to speak out against those actions and for equality.
Why would you deny yourself that protection?
All it is doing is stoking hate for the man instead of passion to fight for our rights. Its breeding the opposite - inaction. Why? Because he is painting the administration as not willing to help (true so far) but also not willing to ever help - which is not the case.
All we've gotten is excuses from and attacked by this administration.
Eventually, JFK said something thanks to Bobby telling him he had to.
Who will tell Obama to STOP with his straight man arrogance and realize to be a great president, he has to be a president for ALL Americans and also not a liar ("fierce advocate")
Oh I'm sure Obama will say the same thing he said about the DOMA brief insulting gays by saying their marriage is like incest/pedophelia: he will say NOTHING.
'In 4 or 8 years, I'll eventually get around to even slightly helping you out. Right now I need to work on giving the corporations trillions of dollars and not formulating new regulations or even re-installing the old ones.'
I would have written Dean on my ballot.
That epithet may be on its way to making a comeback.
glad obama gave a speech...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/pl_afp/usg...
Here are my questions
1) TABC and FW PD raided a gay bar, ostensibly for having drunk patrons, but did NOT bring breathalyzers. And refused to perform them when patrons asked. Sober patrons were arrested.
2) TABC/FWPD told a patron upon entry that their probable cause was a tip from a disgruntled former employee. Even though the bar had been open all of ONE WEEK.
3) Arrests were arbitrary. A female patron, even though she told the police that she was drunk was not arrested. Gay men were.
4) The TABC was apparently not following its protocol in the raid.
5) The police made the extrememly offensive assertion that the Gay men in the bar were grabbing their crotches. Assertion not validated by any of the patrons. Or the security cameras in the bar.
6) The police now claim that Mr. Gibson was the person who did the crotch grabbing. Are they going to claim ‘Gay Panic’ as an excuse.
7) Mr. Gibson was apparently not arrested for assaulting police officers because he was ’so drunk that he was throwing up all over the place’. So if I throw up, I can go assault police officers and not be charged? Wow, didn’t know that one. That cracked skull and internal bleeding in his brain had nothing to do with the vomiting apparently.
8) Now Mr. Gibson apparently fell and hit his head, thus supposedly causing the potentially life threatening head injury. And video or pics of him slipping and falling? Other than with 6 grown brutal cops throwing him to the ground?
9) Leaving Mr. Gibson aside for a brief moment, lets move on to Mr. Anderson, who claims that he was arrested for being drunk and denied a sobriety test and not read his miranda rights.
Whose a lawyer in here. How many lawsuits are we up to here? How many criminal acts by the police?
http://www.dallasvoice.com/instant-tea/2009/06/...
I know, I know, we may all be getting sick of hearing about Jackson, but he does relate to this topic: gay bashing by high ups and people who supposedly seek to protect us.
Jackson may not have lived his life as an open gay man, and brought a lot of added pain to his life by living a crazed life of convoluted denial. But he suffered all the same from the homophobia of our society, the entertainment industry, and particularly, from his whacked-out family and their enablers in the black leadership and church. Joe Jackson, his sicko father, seems truly relieved at not having to deal with his "fa**ot" son anymore. Now, if he could only keep the gravy train running.
It is a foul joke the way the media avoids this glaring reality of his life and death.
What do these phrases have in common? How is the hope expressed in these assertions different than reality? At what point do a person's actions begin to mean more than their words?
During the primaries one of my biggest fears was that Obama would negotiate away too much in the name of consensus. Are we there yet?
Again! This is all he does, make speeches. Let's see some action Obama. As I tell my dog, less bark and more wag,
He also read a press release, which I have not been able to find on the TABC website, that the TABC is also starting an internal investigation.
He asked two things of the community. 1) That we be patient as he continues the investigation. 2) That if you witnessed anything at the Rainbow Lounge please go to the Police and file a report.
He assured the community that this was not targeted and that the event was headed by the TABC and not the Fort Worth Police Department.
I hope that we will soon see results from this. He also said he believes that we need a LGBTQ liason on his staff.
If and when I can find the press release from TABC I will copy it here.
Later,
Marlin
http://tinyurl.com/lh3xqb
Later,
Marlin
I don't live in FW but I hope they demand the Chief's resignation, the firing of all bad cops involved in this travesty of law enforcement, the establishment of a GLBT community liaison like we have in Dallas, and proper screening of intolerant Police Academy applicants among other necessary reforms.
the question is, how hard to yank the chain?
we're here we're queer they'll get used to us eventually!
we're here we're queer they'll get used to us eventually!
we're here we're queer they'll get used to us eventually!
ha!
sometimes i wish we had a gay mafia.......
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/0...
I don't believe it AT ALL.
The police officers are LYING because they have no defense in the injuries they caused this young man.
And WHY would a freaking police dept. run raids on bars, inside no less, to find drunk people. Stupid jerks!