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Criticize Sally Clark's motives if you like but don't kid yourself into thinking that the Seattle City Council's passing a resolution decrying the violence in Russia would do ANYTHING to stop the violence.
Personally I think it appropriate for the council to pass resolution in solidarity with the LGBT community in Russia but I am not so delusional to think it is anything more than moral support, which has value, but in the end won't change anything.
I guess it's only boobies, penises and other stuff that goes under the fold as NSFW.
When it comes to sadistic violence, fuck yeah!! I love playing mind games with my PTSD friends. Turn up the Sadism Danno!
Wait, Nudity=No, Violence=Yes ---- our society is fucked.
The Stranger is as ass backward as a Mississippi televangelist.
If you gave two shits about the city council attacking this, you'd leave perceived political rivalries out of this and just ask them why they suddenly won't address this issue. Interjecting your McGinn crap pointlessly distracts from the main issue.
Sally Clark is worst type of politician. I usually don't comment just to be negative but she is so awful in every way. Waste of tax payers money. Fully. Lots of liberals prepared to do the job well.
FTW. This should be the wikipedia entry describing Seattle politics over the past 4 years.
At this point, it seems McGinn couldn't get a grant for a billion dollars passed through this Council. This is why he's a problem. I want my Mayor to be influential and persuasive. Instead, he's inert. This is a problem for me as a resident of this city. Even the hated Sidran could have passed this. If he can't pass this, he can't pass anything.
@8 Keep on trollin', lil buddy! Who knows, one day you might even get your own show on fox news!
She ought to let go and get out of that corner she's painted into. Somebody who knows her, please help her plot a course out, and soon.
Because Russian LGBTs need Dan fighting for them against their real foes, not distracted by this bullshit.
Haven't their been numerous attacks on gays on Capitol Hill.
How about focusing on that first?
Think Globally, Act Locally.
Yes, because we can only do one thing at a time. Typical republican/conservative filth thinking.
Acting locally shouldn't preclude acting globally. Asswipe.
'acting globally' probably doesn't mean what you imagine it does. but thanks for a laugh.
*shakes head*
But if people won't vote for an obviously worthwhile measure because it was proposed by the mayor, that points to their own inability to govern due to improper political or personal issues. A meritorious proposal doesn't lose its merit based on who proposed it.
Those bloody noses, broken bones, glass filled anuses, tortured and beaten to death people.....our favourite church lady, Seattleblues she promotes that. She owns it.
- request state department to prioritize and streamline process for Russian/eastern bloc LGBTQ people seeking to flee to be granted asylum in the US.
- set up safe houses for LGBTQ people seeking asylum here to provide them transitional housing and support services (naturalization, child support, psychological counseling, job training etc).
- raise funding to provide travel fare by any means possible (plan, ship, etc) to aid LGBTQ people seeking to flee Russian/eastern bloc countries.
- engage local faith-based communities to aid in these efforts.
- publicly re-affirm Seattle's status as a Sanctuary City and what that means for LGBTQ people seeking to flee Russian/eastern bloc countries.
Unfortunately not all can be saved from the horrors that are happening and the more that are coming, but we can save some, possibly more than we realize.
We must act now, not a year from now.
Where will you stand?
Sincerely,
Seattle resident
cc:
Governor Jay Inslee
Lt. Governor Brad Owen
Senator Patty Murray
Senator Maria Cantwell
Representative Adam Smith
Representative Jim McDermott
Representative Jamie Pedersen
Representative Frank Chopp
Senator Ed Murray
Representative Zack Hudgins
Representative Steve Bergquist
Senator Bob Hasegawa
Senator Adam Kline
Representative Sharon Tomiko-Santos
Representative Eric Pettigrew
Senator Sharon Nelson
Representative Eileen Cody
Representative Joe Fitzgibbon
Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles
Representative Reuven Carlyle
Representative Gael Tarleton
Senator David Frockt
Representative Gerry Pollet
Representative Jessyn Farrell
Representative Dave Upthegrove
Mayor Mike McGinn
Councilmember Sally Clark
Councilmember Sally Bagshaw
Councilmember Tim Burgess
Councilmember Richard Conlin
Councilmember Jean Godden
Councilmember Bruce Harrell
Councilmember Nick Licata
Councilmember Mike O'Brien
Councilmember Tom Rasmussen
SeattleLGBT Commission
Seattle Human Rights Commission
Seattle Womens Commission
George Bakan, Seattle Gay News
Louise Chernin, Greater Seattle Business Association
Dan Savage, The Stranger
Shaun Knittel, Social Outreach Seattle
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By the way, did the 1936 Syracuse New York City Council Resolution protesting Adolf Hitler's solidification of the Reichstag save any Jews?
Somebody really needs to write something and get through to this Clark woman!
Quick, who knows more about writing than anyone?
Paul Constant!
Have him write a movie review of Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" and get it off to Clark pronto!!
@35 - Um, what? You realize that the media landscape today worldwide is completely different from 1936 right? Oh who am I kidding, you're a conservative, why should logic get in the way of the moronic point you're trying to make.
The obvious answer to your weak objection is, SO FUCKING WHAT?.
If your willing to sit on your thumbs and do nothing while your neighbor gets beaten to death in the street because "well there was that time in my grand parents day that trying to do something didn't work"..... you've seriously lost your way.
Lets recap shall we? Russian LGBT people are asking foreigners and foreign states to protest to show that the Russian Government and their cronies are being watched.
You: "meh wont make a difference. Why bother?"
See something there? Like how you, with zero knowledge of the situation is in fact telling off someone who have almost all of the knowledge on the situation.
Wtf is wrong with your brain and why are you even trying to use it?
The Seattle City Council's job is to tend to city business. The mayor's job is to tend to city business. However, our state senators and representatives, as well as the State Department, the White House, and most of all President Barack Obama should make it their business. The federal and national level is where the focus should be.
If we get the chain of Peter principles right, maybe we'll make some headway.
But please, don't be so annoyingly condescending to suggest that just because I realize that the Seattle City Council is essentially a moot pile of pontificating overpaid egomaniacs who would rather see their names in blogs and editorials than tend to the drudgery of meaningful city business, that I am not pained by the Putin's horrors - if you really think about that you owe me an apology.
She needs to work on number typing, that wrath was not directed at how as you have no doubt surmised. Accordingly, her attempted snakebites are not worthy of anyone's response or further contemplation.
That is why "everybody [is] getting in a kerfuffle over a resolution that only provides...a statement of support." It is not a matter of providence, or diplomacy, or military action. It is a matter of direct humanitarian action and concerted humanitarian effort. If the council took time out to say no GMO salmon, they certainly can take the time show support to LGBT Russians who have told the world that just doing that much makes their homeland safer for them.
Get Ms. Patty and Ms. Maria and our House boys on it to draft a Congressional Resolution - now you're talking!
Why not put action where results are most effective. That's essentially my point.
To sum up it's the actions of a 8 year old little boy who isn't getting his way. And for anyone who has met Dan and paid attention to him over the last couple of decades knows that for all the really amazing things he does he ends up offsetting it with stupid things like this.
At least Carter had the balls to boycott the 1980 Olympics over Russia's human rights violations when they invaded a country we decided to invade 20 years later.
Not sure what you're point is, perhaps other than that you're against the city taking any position, but actually, the President has done something--something fairly significant, in fact.
Since you weren't paying attention, here's a link.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-5760…
Dom is wrong when he says these things don't hold up city business. I've watched these things on TV. The council hears testimony and there's Q&A - they take hours. Worthy causes yes, but that's someone else's job. No theirs. Remember, they're on our dime.
And what about the Coal Train? That should be their primary focus.
@35: Please do not speak to me. Thank you.
"You can blow out a candle but you can't blow out a fire, once the flame begins to catch the wind will blow it higher"
Seattle should do this, it matters it is not a waste of time. Why? Because.....Biko
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLg-8Jxi5…
Now, of course, she doesn't want to do it because she'd have to swallow her pride and admit she was just being a lazy good for nothing who couldn't be bothered to stand up for her own people (solidarity does know bounds after all, I guess).
Today's letter from Mr. Lakin addresses the latter far more tactfully than I could be trusted to do.
@56 - Do you ever contribute anything worthwhile without Obama bashing in the process? Just curious.
@Alanmt - Everytime I see your icon, I feel a lil' somethin'... where can I get the full version of it?
@lolorhone & Lissa - You remain some of my favorite people on Slog. <3
Peace, love, and chicken grease, my friends : )
I'm not trying to detract from the point of the post, but I just wanted you to be aware that in this part of the world, incidents like this aren't first and foremost gay bashing. There are lots of skinhead/neo-Nazi groups in Russia that beat up and murder Central Asians, and they probably use the gay bashing style assaults on their victims because they see it as a way to degrade their victims even further.