And which one is yours Ratzinger?
I guess you don't pick the date nor the topic for your first diary at the Kos, at least that's the case for me. I needed to rant, and rant I will.
How many times and for how long do you have to be insulted and disrespected for no fault of your own? Even after you are dead?
You died a
horrible death at such a young age because of your unsolicited membership in a hated minority group, your killers are only
convicted on second degree murder, never mind that after murdering you, they buried you in a shallow grave and afterwards the killers went to McDonalds, for breakfast. That's right, there's nothing else better than killing a faggot to open up your appetite. Yeah, they sure showed remorse. And they claimed the "Panic Defense" Because of what people may think of them. Nooooo... Do people really think you're faggots because you got some head from a transgender girl? Ooooooh poor babies, you were terrified so you killed her. Good defense, but it won't work. It did? Really? Go figure.
And a year later a mother grieved, and she'll grieve the loss of her beautiful and sweet daughter for the rest of her life.
In memory of Gwen Araujo - In Memory of Transgender Killed: Remembering Our Dead
"Gwen Araujo dreamed of becoming a Hollywood make up artist. She has been described as a beautiful person both inside and out and always smiling. She always thought of herself as a girl, preferred the name Gwen, and always wanted a sex change. She lived in Newark, CA, a small town 30 miles from San Francisco, the supposed gay capital of the United States."
Three charged with hate crime-murder of cross-dressing teen
"Araujo's friend, Daisy Bernal, said people didn't accept him as a female.
"People just didn't like him," she said. "She gets mad when I used to call her Eddie. She would be like, - Shut Up. Don't call me that.- After I called her that, she just said, I'm a girl, I'm just a girl trapped in a guy's body. God made me like that."
Do you know... Yes, you. Do you know how much it disrespects and hurt us TransWymen to be addressed as mister, he, his or him? Or to be called gay man/boy? Or to hear us referred as Cross-Dressers, Transvestites or Drag Queens? Have you..., or how many times have you heard or read about MTF Trannies called mister, he, his or him? What was your reaction? I'm just curious, in this bastion of Liberalism in which we analyze human rights, or the lack/abuses of them thereof, and the revolution to death, even here, I wonder, how many of you have seen, read or heard it and did nothing about it? I hope none of you did, I want soooo much to believe that none of you have.
I'm very curious because I have suffered the laughs, smirks, "knowing" smiles or looking the other way of the people around, I'm sure they are "good" people, while I was being disrespected, mocked, harassed, verbally bashed, spitted on, yes, I have been a victim of all of these crimes.
I even had to fight off assholes when I realized that no help was coming.
I'm proud to report that I kicked ass three times.
That was better that before when after the abuse, in loneliness, in my little room, the scenes would play on my mind and I'd cry, quietly, sadly, the kind of crying in which tears just keep streaming down my cheeks as it is with a faulty faucet that just drips and drips for hours. I cried not because of the abuse, (with time the skin gets thicker), but because when I looked in the eyes of the eyewitness, I couldn't even find a sympathetic or friendly smile. And I felt so sad, so, so sad at the ignorance or disregard or whatever!
"The tragedy is not the brutality of evil, but the silence of good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
To be even handed, I must say that I have seen a little change, at least on the media in the almost three years since Gwen's murder, now they say: her and Miss. I think that she is happy in the afterlife, if there is one. Her mother Silvia will see that she receives the respect she deserves(d) and will continue to fight for the rights of us transgender as her lifetime memorial to her beloved daughter Gwen. As she said in today's (Sunday) radio interview with Brian Copeland at KGO. (There are commercial gaps, just advance it 2-3 min.)
Yes, two were convicted, Silvia (Gwen's Mother) says that a murder conviction is a murder conviction, mandatory 15 yrs. to life (Hate crime would add only 4 yrs. to sentence) But the issue of Hate Crimes needs to be included, even as a symbolic conviction so at least it becomes part of the narrative. We need to highlight the circumstances. I fully agree and I'd be satisfied.
So, why am I so angry? I am full of righteous indignation because the instigators, the ones that perpetuate a climate of exclusion, discrimination and hate, the ones that commit Spiritual Violence, the ones that in my book have the tears and blood of my sisters and brothers on their hands, are free. And they are just as guilty, if not more.
Yes, I'm talking about the blobs of wasted human DNA such as the hatemongering preachers in the US and abroad, Repugnicans, specially "If I can't dazzle you with my brilliance, I'll baffle you with my bullshit Bush" Yes all of them, MAY THEY BE DAMMED TO THE HOTTEST PLACE IN HELL!
Oh! We are also responsible for 9/11 and Katrina among other disasters.
The Vatican is going "Faggot hunting" Apparently we're guilty of pedophilia.
"Things do not look very promising under the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI: the Catholic Church has instigated a witch-hunt against homosexual seminarians. The Vatican has launched an inspection of Roman Catholic seminaries in the United States to search for "evidence of homosexuality."
The inspections of hundreds of seminaries and theological schools was authorized as a response to the church's child molestation scandal."
I haven't the foggiest idea as to how they'll identify seminarians' homosexual "tendencies" Really, how are they going to conduct this witch hunt? I don't think the "Throw them in the water and if...." Method will work this time. Hey! Wait a cotton-picking-minute, it never did and as a result some of your predecessors shed the blood of, no, no, I'm wrong, the "Holy" Inquisition was not supposed to spill blood, it was verboten, so they devised the more "Moral" method of burning so no blood would be spilled. Neat feat of intellectual acrobatics and spiritual masturbation. Cooool, you guys are some piece of work.
As a Catholic I have some choice words for Ratzinger, him that controls the Holy Inquisition version 2.0.0.5.
Ratzinger, you charlatan, calling yourself the Vicar Of Christ, you claim to represent Jesus of Nazareth, I have news for you, you DENIGRATE HIM! Were he to come back, there'd be a replay of throwing the merchants out of the temple with a whip, he'd do it himself, just as he did so long ago. You and the priests of your ilk have helped make My Fathers' House in a rathole of corruption, when are you going to clean up the corruption in the Vatican Bank? When will you pay decent wages to lay workers? You exploiter - When will you get a divorce from the Murderer of so many? Yes, I'm talking about Bush, you well know that the Catholic Church is fiercely opposed to unjust wars and the death penalty, when will you denounce him? You hypocritical coward and self-serving misleader, you helped him with the '04 election, your bishops were condemning Kerry and anybody who voted for him and as a result many Catholics voted for Bush, do you have any concept of your guilt at the deaths that occurred since then? Do you realize that you are an accomplice to murder and crimes against humanity?
Do you ever consider the pain and suffering that your policies against birth control cause throughout the world? Specially in poor countries, if you don't, pity you, if you do, you sanctimonious bastard!
No, Jesus is not here to throw you out, but I'm here, I DO believe in Jesus of Nazareth and as a follower and in HIS name I'm ordering you out of our house of Prayer, I'm doing it in the finest tradition of a true Catholic, With the respect that I have, not for you, but to the Holly office that you occupy, I'm kneeling in front of you, I kiss your ring, I stand up and shaking my stretched index finger two inches from your nose, I say unto you: "The stench of corruption and sin surrounds you, you are hurting God's creation, clean up your act or leave!"