Re: Alright Moscow...Your Dark Little Secret Is Back

[TEX <tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>]

With all due respect, did this post have a point?

           Clint "Tex" Payton
       email: tex@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Vince Buntrock wrote:

> After having read the almost continuous childish bickering and squabbling
> that pretty much makes up 99% of the content of this list I was finally
> compelled to post my thoughts. Before I continue I wish to first send my
> condolences out to Wils parents, with whom I have great respect, and to Wils
> partner Jerry, with whom I can share his pain & loss.  I wish all the best
> for them from this point on. Now Moscow, let's talk about the thing you
> desperately wish to avoid, the Abduction and Murder of Wil Hendrick.  Months
> after the savage beating, torture and Murder of Gay College Student Matthew
> Shepard in the state of Wyoming, Idaho had its own case right here in sleepy
> Moscow.  Of course most everyone (with notable exceptions) did their utmost
> to distance the two cases, not wanting the kind of close examination that
> Laramie and its citizens were subject to. This included the Moscow Police
> Department, who decided that the possibility of this being a "Hate Crime"
> was something to be resisted. Unfortunately they were all to similar. Now
> the hunt for the Murderer(s) must be pushed with all speed possible because,
> as the recent incident of the flag burning at the UI shows, the bigotry and
> hatred that led to Wils Murder is still alive and well here in "such a nice
> town such as Moscow".  It is very possible that the perpetrator(s) was a
> student, and has since moved on, but maybe he/they are still here. Or
> he/they could be locals and part of the trusted "community". We do not yet
> know. But whomever the Murderer(s) prove to be I doubt that many will be
> interested and even less will truly care what the Gay Population of Moscow
> feels about its safety or how its concerns are addressed. Now I fully expect
> to get flamed by the right-wing/holier-than-thou set but I do not care.
> Their opinions mean nothing to me. I officially speak only for myself, but
> somehow I believe I speak for others also.
>
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