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You may find it tedious, or boring, or even just plain irritating that I'm blogging about the same thing over and over again and basically repeating myself.

Obviously this is something that needs processing and information needs to be disseminated.

As I said in my previous post, I did not know the deceased, but I know people who did, because that's how small our world is.

Those kids, one of whom is in critical condition, all of whom are still in hospital as far as I'm aware, will never be the same again.
Nor will any of us, I'm afraid.
Some of those kids do not have a home to go to because they were outed and their parents and family do not want their children to be "that way".
Can they be cured?
As though the way your body, mind and heart reacts to people is some kind of horrible disfigurement of the soul.
If we even have one.

The reason I keep writing about this (and will probably write more about tomorrow) is because I am in the belief that silence is violence.
That the police do not have the beginning of a clue as to the whereabouts of the murderer and that unless he wants to be found, he will not be found.
Call me cynical, but it's been a while since I've trusted the police with anything that actually amounts to securing me and the people I know.

As for "incitement against the religious", I'll let you read the writing on the wall again.

Thoughts? Questions? Opinions?

Date: 2009-08-03 11:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sadie-sabot.livejournal.com
OMG the idea of being fucking SHOT for who you are only to be rejected by your family? for who you are? Ouch, and fuck.

Date: 2009-08-04 07:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
That youth group exists for a reason...

Date: 2009-08-03 11:38 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] geekosaur
tedious, or boring, or even just plain irritating
None of the above; angrier and angrier at someone. And of course nothing to be done for it even if I weren't on the wrong continent.

Date: 2009-08-04 07:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
If you have an event, or someone to inform, or just want do something where you are, that is something.

Date: 2009-08-04 06:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lilacsigil.livejournal.com
Those poor kids, wounded and alone.

And seriously, it's your blog, and you and your community who were attacked. Process, inform, and keep this horror in the public eye.

Date: 2009-08-04 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
My family simply rocks so hard I cannot even describe it.

I know it's my blog and all that, but I write so that people read it as well, you know, and I sometimes feel my readers are going "okay, okay we get it!".

Date: 2009-08-04 09:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Are the police still keeping gay venues closed?

Date: 2009-08-04 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Last I heard they upped the security and they're open.

Date: 2009-08-04 09:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Makes you wonder doesn't it, all of this 'security' they say we need to have to protect us from terrorists, none of it seemed to stop a masked man from shooting up a room full of kids.

Date: 2009-08-04 12:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
"There was no warning"... because homophobia is all the time.

Feck.

Date: 2009-08-04 01:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Do they still have no clues or leads?

Date: 2009-08-04 01:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Not really, an report (in Hebrew) said that the police went to queer forums online and implied that perhaps that killer was in our midst, if we anyone new began to hang around, etc.

And I was like, WTF Man! New people come all the time to these venues! Yes there are the regular established faces, but fuck, I can be considered a new face because I don't go to events often enough to be counted as a regular.

It's all so fucked up!

So no. The police are utterly clueless. They do know the killer shot the kids with an Uzi.

Date: 2009-08-04 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Can't say as I've often heard of members of a minority committing hate crimes against their own group before. Perhaps if there was somebody who had recently been denied access to the group, that might be motive. But since when do gay youth support groups deny people access?

I would hope the police are questioning all of the families of the kids who might have recently received help and support from that centre. Because that would be my immediate list of suspects.

Date: 2009-08-04 01:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
One of the victim's family members said ze was only passing through, that ze wasn't one of those people.

So, yeah.

Date: 2009-08-04 01:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gonzo21.livejournal.com
Yeah... exactly. There's some suspects right there. 'How dare those evil gay people have lead my son/daughter astray.'

Date: 2009-08-04 11:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mizzpyx.livejournal.com
I've been reading a lot about this in various media, and the thing that really, really bugs me about how this has been reported is this: in so many reports, this has been described as a shooting in a "gay club" or of a "weekly party for gay youth". It's like it's impossible to even acknowledge that this was a support group for queer kids. Not a party, not a club, a support group.

For so many people, it seems impossible to discuss queers, even in this kind of situation, without evoking images of clubs and bars and parties.

Date: 2009-08-04 12:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
I know, that's really been irritating me as well.
Being queer isn't about the parties, fuckers!
It's about this.

Of course the implication is that none of this would have happened if these kids just tried to be normal, ya know?!

Date: 2009-08-04 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ninboydean.livejournal.com
My thoughts are with you. It is a terrible shame that they were attacked. What pisses me off is that they closed the gay clubs as if they are the problem. How revolting.

Date: 2009-08-05 04:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] schemingreader.livejournal.com
Dear heart, I got an email about this:

http://keshetonline.org/news/index.php/2009/08/04/august-5-join-us-vigil-for-victims-of-tel-aviv-glbt-center-shooting/

and in it, an added event: an Orthodox synagogue in my area is reciting tehillim for the victims of the attack. I thought you might like to know that.

Date: 2009-08-05 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eumelia.livejournal.com
Thank you.
That's very thoughtful of you.

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V and Justice

V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.

Justice: Good evening, V.

V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...

Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.

V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."

V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.

Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!

V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!

V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.

Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...

V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!

V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.

V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.

Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?

V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.

*KABOOM!*

-"V for Vendetta"

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