12/14/2005
Ford Motor Company promised to return an answer by today to the gay groups it met with recently. They met to discuss its meeting with conservative group AFA and the seemingly related decision to stop advertising in gay publications. The gay coalition demanded it reinstate advertising and have drawn up two plans contingent on Ford's response. Last night, Jon Stewart sent up Ford (and their new model, The Inseminator) in his occasional segment Gaywatch.
A teenage girl and three men who were "seeking violence for its own sake" have been convicted of manslaughter, not murder, in the death of gay barman David Morley on London's South Bank in October 2004. Last November, Pink News reported that the girl "asked a gay barman to 'pose for the camera' before she filmed her friends kicking him to death." The group was reportedly making a "happy slapping" film, a growing phenomenon in which acts of violence are recorded and distributed via the internet. Morley was 37, and was a survivor of the Soho nail bomb attack in London in 1999.
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This is beyond sad. What wastes of skin these freaks are. They each need to be "happy slapped" to oblivion. Their mourners would be few.
Posted by: Bill | Dec 14, 2005 11:24:05 AM
How is this not murder?
Back home, we'd say that these assholes need killin'.
I hope each one gets repeatedly raped and beaten in prison. That might, in a small way, provide some justice to the family and friends of an innocent man who was killed in what must have been a horrifying incident.
Justice, my ass.
Posted by: Brian | Dec 14, 2005 1:04:57 PM
I cannot even get my head around this. It sounds like something out of "A Clockwork Orange" Past a certain point, it's all psychopathology.
Posted by: Evan | Dec 14, 2005 4:51:56 PM