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

["Carl Westberg" <carlwestberg846@hotmail.com>]

I would counsel caution before jumping to conclusions regarding this matter. 
  A few years ago, there was a body found hanging in the University of Idaho 
arboretum.  Before the body was even removed from the tree, the media had 
declared it a lynching.  The national news networks got hold of the story, 
and before we knew it, the entire country was convinced that a racially 
motivated hanging had taken place in Moscow, Idaho.                          
                                                                             
                                      After the facts were discovered, it 
was a suicide, the victim was not African-American as initially believed, 
but, if memory serves, an Israeli student who hung himself in despair.  But, 
by then, too late, and the nation never knew the real story.  No one knows 
the real story now.  Let's have a little trust in law enforcement right now. 
  The sad fact is, this is not the only unsolved disappearance in the Moscow 
area right now.  Let calmer heads prevail.                                   
                                                                             
                           Carl Westberg Jr.


>From: "Vince Buntrock" <vbuntrock@hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Alright Moscow...Your Dark Little Secret Is Back
>Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:25:47 -0700
>
>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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