A quick one before heading to bed
Aug. 4th, 2009 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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?
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?
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Date: 2009-08-03 11:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-03 11:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 06:41 am (UTC)And seriously, it's your blog, and you and your community who were attacked. Process, inform, and keep this horror in the public eye.
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Date: 2009-08-04 07:51 am (UTC)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!".
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Date: 2009-08-04 09:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 09:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 09:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 12:51 pm (UTC)Feck.
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Date: 2009-08-04 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 01:04 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-08-04 01:11 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-08-04 01:13 pm (UTC)So, yeah.
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Date: 2009-08-04 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-04 11:33 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-08-04 12:53 pm (UTC)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?!
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Date: 2009-08-04 08:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-08-05 04:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2009-08-05 05:48 pm (UTC)That's very thoughtful of you.