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Oh the great community organizer only wishes he could have been there I'm sure.
"The “Stonewall Riot” that president Obama referred to started when police raided a New York City saloon called the “Stonewall Inn” that catered to transvestites. In a 2010 obituary for Seymour Pine, the police inspector who led the raid, the New York Times reported the basic facts of the incident, describing the inn as "an illegal club frequented by cross-dressers." “The club, on Christopher Street near Seventh Avenue South, was owned by members of the Mafia,” the Times reported. “Inspector Pine later said he conducted the raid on orders from superiors.
“About 200 people were inside,” said the Times. “When the officers ordered them to line up and show identification, some refused. Several transvestites refused to submit to anatomical inspections. Word of the raid filtered into the street, and soon hundreds of protesters gathered outside, shouting ‘gay power’ and calling the police ‘pigs.’
“The turning point came when a lesbian fought with officers as she was pushed into a patrol car,” said the Times. “The crowd rushed the officers, who retreated into the club. Several people ripped out a parking meter and used it as a battering ram; others tried to set fire to the club. It took police reinforcements an hour and a half to clear the street.
“It was the start of several nights of rioting, during which the police used force to disperse crowds that sometimes numbered in the thousands,” said the Times. “Fewer than three dozen protesters were arrested, but hundreds were detained and released.”
Good he should. Maybe you should actually read up on what happened that day. The raid was not to cllose down a supposedly mafia bar but it was against gays and transvestites. The police were in the wrong that time and they knew it which was why so few people actually were arrested.
Good he should. Maybe you should actually read up on what happened that day. The raid was not to cllose down a supposedly mafia bar but it was against gays and transvestites. The police were in the wrong that time and they knew it which was why so few people actually were arrested.
Says who?
And why are you always justifying destruction of property?
Oh the great community organizer only wishes he could have been there I'm sure.
"The “Stonewall Riot” that president Obama referred to started when police raided a New York City saloon called the “Stonewall Inn” that catered to transvestites. In a 2010 obituary for Seymour Pine, the police inspector who led the raid, the New York Times reported the basic facts of the incident, describing the inn as "an illegal club frequented by cross-dressers." “The club, on Christopher Street near Seventh Avenue South, was owned by members of the Mafia,” the Times reported. “Inspector Pine later said he conducted the raid on orders from superiors.
“About 200 people were inside,” said the Times. “When the officers ordered them to line up and show identification, some refused. Several transvestites refused to submit to anatomical inspections. Word of the raid filtered into the street, and soon hundreds of protesters gathered outside, shouting ‘gay power’ and calling the police ‘pigs.’
“The turning point came when a lesbian fought with officers as she was pushed into a patrol car,” said the Times. “The crowd rushed the officers, who retreated into the club. Several people ripped out a parking meter and used it as a battering ram; others tried to set fire to the club. It took police reinforcements an hour and a half to clear the street.
“It was the start of several nights of rioting, during which the police used force to disperse crowds that sometimes numbered in the thousands,” said the Times. “Fewer than three dozen protesters were arrested, but hundreds were detained and released.”
Good he should. Maybe you should actually read up on what happened that day. The raid was not to cllose down a supposedly mafia bar but it was against gays and transvestites. The police were in the wrong that time and they knew it which was why so few people actually were arrested.
Yeah, what's the world coming to when gays and crossdressers won't just meekly let themselves be arrested. From your post: "Several transvestites refused to submit to anatomical inspections." So, can you give us one good reason why transvestites should subject to being "inspected"?
I'm fully aware that the people behind CNS would much, much rather we went back to the days when the Public Morals Squad (that's what it was called) would pull late-night raids and arrest those people who don't conform to CNS' right-wing philosophy (and who give the CNS writers those bad, horrible thoughts at night).
None the less, the Stonewall raid kick-started the GLBT movement and provided the impetus for doing away with laws against cross-dressing, homosexuality etc. That makes it a landmark. And I would have thought that a freedom-loving conservative as you would applaud those who don't just bow their head and let government agents look up their underwear.
A landmark riot and attempt to murder "pigs". I guess that is what you base your landmarks on?
You're in favor of transvestites being felt up and arrested? Gays being arrrested for the crime of being gay? That was what the protest was about, you realize?
And landmark events are landmark events, you don't have to like every detail of how things went down. Ironically, the authorities invested with upholding public moral were morally in the wrong. It does surprise me to see you speak in favor of such unconditional obedience to government authorities, though.
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I guess Charlie Manson was also a hero of yours.
Put on your rational adult pants and ponder the differences. I am not going to point them out for you.
Yeah I'm sure the cops were trying to cop a feel from transvestites. They refused to show ID so they were going to be arrested most likely and the cops needed to see who was a man or woman. What do they get a riot and almost killed and you and Obama claim that is some great moment in LGTB history. That is pathetic.
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