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The price of freedom is eternal vigilance

Posted by: lark ( Ireland ) on May 04, 1999 at 15:42:01:

In Reply to: The myth of homophobic violence? posted by Farinata on May 01, 1999 at 00:57:58:

: 2 dead, 13 serious injuries and 60 minor injuries, thanks to some fascist fuckwits planting a nail bomb in Soho at 18:30 this evening.

Yes facists who attack racial and religious minorities too and socialists aswell.

: Tell me now that gays and lesbians have as easy a life as everyone else.

Well this is very true, I generally think when I hear someone bitching about the rights some minority group has got, say blacks and affirmative action, would you like to wake up a memeber of this minority group tommorrow to face their struggles? definitely not.

: At the very least, y'all should support equal rights to stop things like this happening ever again. Except that it will happen again; as long as people nurse fear and resentment.

It all depends how you define fear and resentment I guess, would you say that someone like me who agrees with equal rights but not with either homosexuality itself or flagrant displays of sexuality is fearful or resentful?

I mean for Christ sake there's much more to life than sex or sexuality, the gay community should learn that heterosexuals learned it a long time ago.

: I knew someone in that pub. They were lucky...

I wouldnt think it's gonna be the last pub either, this guy was a loner he claimed to be part of a group but he's really a would be trend setter who's trying to get others to do exactly what he's doing without any goal or motive other than to kill people he doesnt like.

"Leaderless resistance" as they call it where every fucker with a grudge will lend a hand has been going in this country for a while, a catholic would get shot and it'd hardly matter which one of the hundreds of loyalist groups claimed it, even simultaneously, because the fact was that section of societies blood lust had been susated regardless of who had done it.

Just everyone be vigilant as hell from now on, simple freedoms are now under threat and if you believe in anything, or even nothing, your going to have to live by the motto:

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance"




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