The liberal gay juvenile crime syndicate..
Joel Mowbray
Is Homosexual High breeding a gay crime syndicate?
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The left's latest experiment with segregation has certainly started
out with a bang. This September, New York City opened the nation's
first taxpayer-funded school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgendered teens - Harvey Milk High School - and a crime wave is
already underway.
Last week, police arrested five cross-dressing Harvey Milk students
who posed as female hookers and robbed men who approached them for
sex. According to news reports, the teens dressed up as female
hookers, and when would-be johns approached to solicit sex, other
students posing as cops would start "arresting" the men.
After allegedly taking wallets, cash, ATM and credit cards - and
apparently brandishing a gun in at least one case - the students would
say something like, "You're not such a bad guy," and "release" the
men. But before the men were set free, several of them divulged their
PIN numbers, allowing the Harvey Milk students to withdraw as much as
$1200 from each person's account.
Police say that the spree of at least six robberies started on October
5th, and was only halted last week when an officer recognized one of
the suspects from a photo taken by a bank surveillance camera.
So far, there has been little discussion in the media about the
potential role of Harvey Milk High School. If it had been only one
incident, that would be understandable.
But it was a full-fledged crime ring - and they weren't the first
criminal charges brought against the gay school's students.
Last month, three Harvey Milk students were charged with gang assault
after a group of teens stabbed a man in the back with a screwdriver in
the parking lot of a Starbucks coffee shop across the street from the
school. Several of the alleged criminals' classmate's told the media
that the victim had made homophobic remarks, but police told the New
York Daily News, "This was not motivated by him seeking to harass them
about being gay."
The police official also told the Daily News, "The Harvey Milk
students were the aggressors."
And police officials are holding out the possibility of more arrests
to come, saying, "The case is absolutely still under investigation."
How ironic that a school that was supposedly established to shelter
gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered (meaning transsexual or
transvestite) teens has become the home of what appears to be a
growing crime syndicate.
It's not as if Harvey Milk, named after a slain gay San Francisco
politician, is so big that the arrests of eight students in three
months can be considered inconsequential. The brand-new school has
just 100 pupils. And
crime wave cannot be attributed to neglect by New York City; the
politically trendy high school has already received $3.2 million for
renovations.
New York City's education department calls the criminal activity "two
serious, isolated incidents," but eight arrests out of 100 students in
less than three months of existence are not numbers to be ignored.
Maybe there's no connection between the gay school and the violent
Starbucks attack and the serial robberies. But maybe there is.
There's obviously nothing inherent to homosexuality that causes or
leads to violent crime, but maybe there is something about a
homosexual high school that does. Taking scared, confused youths -
many of whom may incorrectly believe they are gay or bisexual, just as
many teens who later turn out to be gay or bisexual believe in high
school that they are straight - and putting them into a segregated
environment could be the equivalent of putting a lit match in a tinder
box.
Protecting kids who are getting picked on - or worse - is actually a
noble goal. But why resort to the bigot's tool of segregation? Why not
just teach gay teens how to beat the snot out of bullies? Wouldn't
that be better preparation for life in general? What's a gay man or
woman to do, for example, if a thug attacks? Run to a segregated area?
Of course not. But self-defense training would seem essential in such
a situation.
When news broke this summer that Harvey Milk would become the first
public school of its kind, Principal William Salzman said, "This
school will be a model for the country and possibly the world." If the
early results are any indication, let's hope not.
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