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From: keith@whuxl.UUCP (TITUS)
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Subject: Re: Re: Turning the other cheek
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Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 18:01:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 18:01:25 1985
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> The thing that scares me is this attitude that ``homophobia'' in any
> way is responsible for the killing.  The world is full of people who
> hate homosexuals, but most of them don't beat people to death.  Can't
> you see that whatever caused those people to beat to death a Gay man
> was something very, very sick about these people?  When I lived in
> Toronto, a Chinese labourer was beaten to death not 3 blocks away from
> where I lived.  This was blamed on ``anti-chinese'' prejudice.
> 
> Don't worry about those kids much.  Next year they are due to release
> the boy who raped, tortured and murdered a friend of mine while he was
> 16.  He's been in jail 4 years now, and is getting time off for good
> behaviour.  All I can say is that I am damn glad I am not living in
> Toronto.  
> 
> It is very sad that brutes who would beat to death a total stranger on
> whim exists.  But I am not going to let this sadness keep me from
> seeing that if you release such people back onto the streets in four
> years you may be sentencing some unknown Gay man to death.  Don't
> all the non-violent members of society have thhe right to better protection?
> Or is killing people at semi-random believed just because homophobia is
> everyone's problem?
> 
> Disgusted, and frightened for a lot of friends,
> -- 
> Laura Creighton		
> sun!l5!laura		(that is ell-five, not fifteen)
> l5!laura@lll-crg.arpa

Thank you Laura, for the best response I've seen yet to this ridiculous
babble I've been reading about 'feeling sorry' for cold-blooded killers.
I too am thankful that I don't live in Toronto or anyplace else where
capital punishment is not legal.  Forget the fact that the man was gay,
or black or white or Catholic or Protestant or ect............
He was a human being, and he was BRUTALLY murdered. YES, I do expect to 
exact equal if not more punishment from those bastards who did this.
I do not believe it is the courts job to say, "well after all, he was 
nothing but a homosexual anyway, and who are we to ruin 5 perfectly good
lives".  That is bull----.  There job is to here the facts of the case
and then to dispose justice.  The State of New Jersey has capital punish-
ment, and this scum would probably be fried by now or at least given the 
lethal injection they deserve, and I, and society would be a better place
for it.

I am sick to death of thinking I have to apologize for being gay to these
idiots.  When they get off of these type of charges with light sentences
society thinks it OK.  Well, its not!  And to my liberal friends, you may
make all the excuses in the world, but wait till it happens to YOU.

Signed, 
Keep Liberals out of my town,
Keith Titus
Bell Laboratories
Whippany, NJ