TAKE ACTION: Email the St. Maarten tourism bureau: info@st-maarten.com. Also contact the St. Maarten Bureau for Constitutional Affairs - apparently they're still part of the Netherlands and want to become an independent country. Feel free to explain to them that they just hurt their cause: sxmconstiburo@sintmaarten.net
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You are not going to believe this one. Remember I wrote a week or two ago about the senior CBS producer who was viciously attacked with a friend in St. Maarten's, a Dutch colony? Well, the local paper has entered the fray, and like I said, you're not going to believe their editorial:
Now we don't know what the news producer and his male pal, who also works for a syndicated news organization in New York, might have been drinking or ingesting before the unfortunate incident. They were in a bar setting, from accounts of eye witnesses they were "all over each other" and four upset young men didn't like it.More from GLAAD here.
They didn't like it so much that after they were asked to leave Bamboo Bernie's, they glared at the gay men, who have also been known as faggots, homos, homosexuals and other names that won't go into this family newspaper. They glared at them hard and they exited the place.
And waited in the parking lot.
Gay bashing has taken many forms over the decades. During and after World War II, it was considered common sport for military guys to let themselves be picked up by a faggot in a bar in Los Angeles or San Francisco. The one who was picked up would pretend to go along for the ride, only to turn around and beat up or rob the homo who picked him up, leaving him without wallet and sometimes teeth.
All that has changed, of course, largely due to American laws that are being spread around the world. Gay bashing is now a no-no. Slurs against homos, a no-no. And beating a person over the head for flagrant public behavior that once was considered criminal misconduct is a no-no.
This is a sorry case and we hope the police find the attackers. But it is made much worse when silly homosexuals use their power in the New York media to trash a friendly island for a one of a kind incident. The homosexual community should be ashamed.
