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Is it true or false? It is often said that the United States made Puerto Ricans officially "second-class American citizen" in order to have a new supply of cannon fodder for World War I. (18 hrs ago | post #41)
Fortuño: Wave of crime is unacceptable/Wants increased federal ...
Not "Cayez" ... it is "Cayey". .. (19 hrs ago | post #11)
Fortuño: Wave of crime is unacceptable/Wants increased federal ...
What I cannot understand is how Puerto Rico's Senator Martinez actually had a friendship with a ruthless drug lord. There are photos showing this drug lord with Martinez while the senator was on a visit to a Puerto Rican prison. The drug lord died of natural causes. However, I still cannot understand why more of the island's people are not questioning why a Puerto Rican Senator kept company (consorted) with a drug lord and had taken him to visit a Puerto Rican visit. More recently, stories appeared in the news media that the local U.S.Justice Department is now investigating Senator Martinez for illegally doing legislation to benefit a security company, American Ranger, and other companies. Fellow NPP senators and other NPP officials immediately issued statements that they have full confidence in Senator Martinez. In contrast, not one NPP official made a statement today regarding the hate crime in Cayez. Oh yes, Rivera Schatz and a local prosecutor said that the victim of the hate crime deserved it because of his life style. We wonder why the government and LOCAL law enforcement is not respected on the island. I always feel more secure when the federals get involved. (19 hrs ago | post #8)
Fortuño: Wave of crime is unacceptable/Wants increased federal ...
“This wave of crime that is covering Puerto Rico is unacceptable. That’s it, it’s as simple as that,” Fortuño said of the at least 807 killings so far this year — as of early Sunday — 82 more homicides, or an 11 percent increase, compared to the same period last year. ---Puerto Rico Daily Sun report... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ Is drug trafficking the primary reason for the high rate of crime in Puerto Rico? With our new Superintendent of Police José Figueroa Sancha, violent crimes have actually increased. Are most of these violent crimes related to drug trafficking? (22 hrs ago | post #1)
TJM should start a blog in competition with Topix. He could call it: "Trollpix. " (Sunday | post #15)
NOT REALLY -- Did you mean his "dreams" or our "nightmares "? (Sunday | post #14)
Let's do something to end officially permitted homophobia in P....
You are an obnoxio, stupid, tedious boor. Please get lost... (Saturday | post #25)
Murder of a young gay man in P.R. is reverberating in Chicago. ...
Here is the link for the USA memorial services http://mercado-vig il.tumblr.com/ Never let it be said again that Puerto Rico's stateside LGBT brothers & sisters do not care what happens in Puerto Rico. The above link also gives access to updates about this case. (Saturday | post #1)
And TMJ (Troll Minus Joystick) is still looking for it but lost his tweezers and manifying glass. (Saturday Nov 21 | post #9)
Let's do something to end officially permitted homophobia in P....
http://www.metrowe ekly.com/gauge/las t_word/2009/11/gri sly-murder-of-gay- puerto-ri-1.html Last Word METRO/WEEKLY Washington, DC's GLBT Newsmagazine Who's saying what about gay and lesbian issues Grisly murder of gay Puerto Rican teen raises alarm in US Posted by duy on November 20, 2009 12:16 PM | Permalink ''We haven't yet heard one politician or religious leader condemn the brutal killing of this young man and it's been a week since his body was discovered.'' Rev. Dr. Samuel Cruz of the Union Theological Seminary appearing at a protest outise of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Office in NYC. Many US citizens are shocked by the death of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, who was 19 when his body was found in the street said to have been burned, cut to pieces, even decapitated. A 26-year-old man, Juan Martinez Matos, has been arrested, and some news sources say he may have been looking for female prostitutes, but instead took home Lopez Mercado. Other news agencies are coming forth with news that a "gay panic" defense may be used by Matos. (NY1) ''What happened happened because I defended myself. I cut him and beheaded him and I accept it as a man.'' Martinez Matos reportedly speaking to Telemundo about his alleged action the night he is said to have met and murdered Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado, a gay or transgender 19-year-old, that Matos may have picked up for sex, possibly thinking Lopez Mercado was a woman. Headlines this year paint the island nation in a near state of lawlessness, with enforcement officials claiming the more than 800 murders there this year are due to a culture of drug use and reliance on public assistance. (CNN International) (Latin American Herald Tribune) Comments: Michael H. Baughman, Founder of The Amancio Project As founder of The Amancio Project I've been down this road. Amancio was murdered May 6, 2005.. He was beaten then stabbed 30 times and tossed into the water. Many said, "He deserved to die." The case was declared "cold," so The Project found the killer. The killer was charged with 2nd degree murder; the Grand Jury reduced it to manslaughter (members felt he deserved it for “deceiving the killer”). A year later the killer plead guilty to attempted manslaughter and sentenced to 8yr 9mo. There are many cases like this. As with Corrales, many jurisdictions cover up this type of murder. A 15yr old was killed two weeks ago; another teen beaten with a lead pipe in another town. He told his principal, coach and teachers the attack would happen and they did nothing to stop it. We should take a moment of pause and search our souls. Does hate justify vicious treatment? A deeper blight is who taught these attackers to hate and use violence? There are better options! Assault and battery solves nothing, everyone losses; the victim is scarred for life, the perpetrator ends-up in prison. Today, 1:13:45 AM (Saturday Nov 21 | post #23)
De Castro Font allegedly authored bills aimed at helping busine...
More excerpts from Daily Sun report: "De Castro Font allegedly authored bills aimed at helping businesses." For instance, he introduced a bill that would have restricted benefits for senior citizens. Currently individuals over the age 75 are entitled to free tickets to watch plays and other artistic performances, while individuals between the ages of 60 to 74 can obtain them at half price. De Castro Font’s bill restricted the practice to just 10 percent of the tickets that are being sold for a production. The House rejected the bill. De Castro Font was co-author of the bill that would have put the Culebra Conservation and Development Authority, in charge of overseeing the island’s development, under the Department of Development and Commerce. The legislation, which was penned by NPP Sen. Roberto Arango, could have had the result of opening up the small island for development. Former Gov. Aníbal Acevedo Vila vetoed a bill that De Castro Font filed with McClintock and Senate Minority Leader José Luis Dalmau to allow local insurance companies to sell their risk to unauthorized insurers. (Saturday Nov 21 | post #1)
Let's do something to end officially permitted homophobia in P....
Troll (Internet) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search "Do not feed the trolls" and its abbreviation DNFTT redirect here. For the Wikimedia essay, see "What is a troll?". In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.[2] Contents [hide] 1 Etymology 1.1 Early history 1.2 In other languages 2 Published research on trolling 3 Concern troll 4 Troll sites 5 Usage 6 See also 7 References 8 External links 8.1 Troll FAQs [edit] Etymology "Trolling for blue fish" lithograph by Currier & Ives, 1866.The contemporary use of the term is alleged to have first appeared on the internet in the late 1980s,[3] but the earliest known example is from 1991.[4] It is thought to be a truncation of the phrase trolling for suckers, itself derived from the fishing technique of slowly dragging bait through water, known as trolling. The word also evokes the trolls portrayed in Scandinavian folklore and children's tales as they are often creatures bent on mischief and wickedness. The verb "troll" originates from Old French "troller ", a hunting term. The noun "troll", however, comes from the Old Norse word for a mythological monster.[ (Friday Nov 20 | post #18)
Let's do something to end officially permitted homophobia in P....
He is a troll. It is best to ignore trolls as though they do not exist. A troll feeds on any kind of attention, especially negative. They have no intelligence, logic or sanity. They are a cancer on blogs that debate intelligently and with politeness important issues. Trolls do not want an truthful exchange of views or a learning experience. IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE (Friday Nov 20 | post #17)
What do these 3 Democrats have in common? - VOICES / Puerto Ri...
I did not enjoy writing this VOICES letter. I debated between repressing my feelings about homophobia as I have many times to keep a friendship at the expense of the need for the truth and recognizing God's love for all his Children. At age eighty-one, I am too darn old and tired of turning the other cheek, as I have for years since my youth in grade school. I decided I too should take action. It is painful when you experience friends not having the honesty or courage to speak out against homophobia, especially when they have a political position to make change against bigotry possible. What I admire about President Barack Obama is that he did speak out. His talk to the Human Rights for LGBTT in our nation's Capitol on October 10, 2009, made me realize that I had my priories wrong regarding not expressing the truth about homophobia and the whole ugly denial caused by religious and political leaders who are plain and simple: bigots. They preach a God of Hate and Fear instead of a God of Love and Compassion. The hate-crime against nineteen-year old Jorge Steven López Mercado demands that he not die in vain. I wanted to vomit when I heard the usual Puerto Rican homophobic political and religious leaders of bigotry suggest that Jorge had it coming to him. Do we want a territory with leaders, who do not know "rice and beans" about American democracy, to become our fifty-first state? (Friday Nov 20 | post #1)
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