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| Students at U.S. gay school arrested |
| 2003-11-07 |
| This should be quite a blow to the PC police. Ooops, sorry. Wrong choice of words. NEW YORK (Reuters) - Five boys who attend a New York high school for gay and lesbian students are accused of dressing as female prostitutes and robbing unsuspecting customers, police say. I thought this school was setup because these kids were being subjected to harrasment? Might want to rethink that, maybe? Dressed as women, the five approached men seeking prostitutes in Manhattan’s West Village, a popular spot for the illicit sex trade. They then posed as undercover police as they stripped their victims of their wallets, credit cards, bank cards and cash, police said. The youths, all aged 17 except for one 16-year-old, are charged with robbery and criminal impersonation of a police officer and will be charged as adults, police said. I’ll bet they get dick at their sentencing. Ooooops. Wrong choice of words again. Wearing wigs, earrings and makeup, the youths robbed five men, flashing phony police badges and handcuffing their victims, police said. "You couldn’t put this in a book. Nobody would believe it," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a weekly radio appearance. Who was a big, big fan of setting this place up I believe. The teens attend the city’s Harvey Milk high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students, police said. What? Aren’t there any famous gay New Yorkers they could’ve named it after? I can think of some. Any of Liza’s husbands, for instance... They are suspected of committing other robberies as well, and police are asking other possible victims to come forward. The youths were arrested on Thursday by plainclothes police who recognised one of them from the victims’ descriptions. There’s a later story on this and, guess what? The gay angle has miraculously... disappeared! |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #6 If this "gay school" is what I gather, namely a return to segregation, then I can't support it at all. If these kids were harassed in other schools, then find the harassers and expel them. In fact do that for all bullies, those that pick on fat kids and all. Don't go back to segregated schools. cingold> I'm not certain I understand your use of the word "deviant". Are you referring to everything that's of a minority status as "deviant"? Is an IQ of 160 deviancy? Or black skin? What does "deviant" mean here? I don't know the medical term if this is one. All those what-ifs are interesting, but you have to counter them with "what if the correct way of dealing with homosexual orientation is accepting it", And in liberal society of live-and-let-live dogma you have to show that homosexuality harms people by its very nature before pronouncing it a "disease" or a "disorder". The whole "making people stray from the word of God" that some people use, isn't a good enough answer, btw, in a non-theocratic society. And the "It's really icky" explanation, isn't a good enough answer either. :-) |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2003-11-7 11:18:25 PM |
| #5 Okay, Anonymous. Fat kids get harrassed in high school. When are they getting their high school? When are the kids with bad acne getting their high school? What the hell, when will the fat kids with zits get their high school? Pick a "victim", any victim at all. Look like these 5 picked their version of victimhood. Everybody loves victims, nobody likes predators. And that makes it so much harder to work your scam. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-11-7 11:02:24 PM |
| #4 Here’s at least some of the underlying animus. Homosexuality is the only psychiatric disorder (that I am aware of) that was voted out of the DSM in the 1970s for political reasons. All the other diagnostic categories, as far as I know, have at least some basis in some kind of science/research regarding human ills. That doesn’t make homosexuality more deviant than some of the other deviant ways of living (say, e.g., wife beating), but it does cause people to get irritated that a deviant sacred cow continues to be protected by those who should be smart enough to realized the inherent contradictions in their thought. For instance, what if homosexuality is truly a disorder? What if, additionally, it is a behavioral/mental set that comes from dysfunction and results in the person being more unstable and unhappy than they would be otherwise? What if these kids who engaged in thuggery would have not done so if their inner-psychic conflicts were addressed, instead of mollified by well-wishing socialites? Just something to think about . . . |
| Posted by: cingold 2003-11-7 10:51:49 PM |
| #3 I don't see the connection between these kids being gay and these kids committing crimes. You guys are showing your true colors here. I admit robbing people in drag is uniquely gay, and rather bizarre, but that doesn't automatically negate the idea that gay kids need protection from an often violent majority in many places. This story isn't a gay thing. It's a thug thing. Are you shocked that there are gay thugs? I'm not. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-7 8:53:43 PM |
| #2 "Wearing wigs, earrings and makeup, the youths..." Still had on their school uniforms,eh? |
| Posted by: Gasse Katze 2003-11-7 6:00:14 PM |
| #1 Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "Milk money," doesn't it? |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-11-7 4:55:29 PM |