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Gay Men Report String Of Attacks Near Downtown Spokane
Spokesman Review
/June 28, 2008
According to the Stonewall News, several gay men have been targeted for beatings near downtown Spokane, including one victim who told the newspaper that his attackers identified themselves as members of Aryan Nations.
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on July 10th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
It is disgracefully difficult to believe that this type of harrassment occurs today but it is largely due to the lack of enducation or cranial activity/ability that this happens.
Aryan Nation, or not, or any other anti-Christian group needs to understand that the majority of people are in the new and updated understanding that no one, anywhere, is going to put up with their destructive habits any more. No matter the sexual orientation of any person…that person will be under our watchful eye and protected at all costs in this world…today.
GMMelby, Pastor/Chaplain
on July 10th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Fight back! If you are an honest hard working citizen take your butt to a concealed weapons class and get your certification and license and buy you a 9mm or a Glock with several hollow points and shoot them after they hurt you just a little bit! Every honest hard working citizen is the great country is allowed SELF DEFENSE PERIOD! I’ am telling you now I do not give a S*** I’ am not taking any kind of harrassment nor is anyone ever going to harm me in anyway and I stand there and do nothing about it! Hey if they have guns and get you atleast you went out with your boots on and not like some coward who just got killed anyway! Why do you think our Fore Fathers created the 2nd Amendment?
on July 11th, 2008 at 9:50 am
It disturbs me that the Stonewall News is the one reporting this situation, and all of the traffic is being directed to to the Spokesman-Review article, which one, you have to have an account to read, and two, it basically dismisses the situation as rumor and hysteria. The stories, including a photo of one of the victims, can be found at Stonewallnews.net
http://www.stonewallnews.net/p.....=&
Note that you can still see the boot print of the attacker on this mans face, four hours after the attack.
on July 11th, 2008 at 10:15 am
I am a gay man living in Spokane.
The local Mainstream Newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, was passively indifferent to these attacks. Despite the fact that there were a growing series of
official police reports being filed, one of their reported had the audacity to refer to the attacks as “a hoax”.
The Spokane Police Department, initially refused to even open investigations. One lame excuse after asnother — such as “the victim was unconscious so he could not identify his attackers”.
Our local gay newspaper , The Stonewall News, got involved and started asking why these brutal assaults were simply being ignored.
It concerns me that your reports, which clearly mentions Stonewall News, directs your readerds to the Spokesman-Review website, and completely ignores the ONLY local media which has taken these attacks seriously from the beginning.
The website for Stonewall News is: http://www.Stonewallnews.net.
on September 22nd, 2008 at 11:32 am
Love is good hate is corrosive to the soul and the mind.