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

["Dan Carscallen" <predator75@moscow.com>]

Whether someone is homosexual or not makes no difference.  A person is dead, and the truth needs to be discovered.  As mentioned earlier, this is not the only unsolved disappearance in Moscow.  Were any of the others who are missing homosexuals?  Does it matter?  No, it doesn't.   

 

Let the police do their job. 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: thansen@moscow.com <thansen@moscow.com>
To: Vince Buntrock <vbuntrock@hotmail.com>; vision2020@moscow.com <vision2020@moscow.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Alright Moscow...Your Dark Little Secret Is Back

Greetings 
Visionaires -

I strongly support Vince Buntrock's comments.  Wil 
Hendrick's murderer(s) must 
be found and brought to justice.  It 
sickens me to hear (and read) comments 
that trash the gay community.  
People fear what they do not understand.

As I said before -

To a 
world sick with homophobia:  Get well soon.

Free to be you and 
me,

Tom Hansen

PS - You can alomost hear the radical right-wing 
fundamentalists rushing to 
their keyboard as I sign off.



> 
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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