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The Wicked Messenger (HRC Remix)
Posted: 18 years ago - Aug 13, 2008Trans-Forsaking HRC Utilizes News of Angie's Demise to Snag Good PR, Contributions -
Dear Friends,
Usually I write my own articles - but THIS is an utterly obscene OUTRAGE!
What am I talking about?
Hit the link below to visit Vanessa Edwards Foster's Transpolitical Blog, where she so deftly presents an unvarnished and comprehensive expose on how HRC has apparently utilized the grisly murder of Trans-woman Angie Zapata to bolster contribution-gathering that will most likely (and ironically) prop up more anti-Transgender nonsense like purposely leaving us out of the current version of Federal employment anti-discrimination measures that are still stuck in limbo in Washington D.C. - but will no doubt gain new life in 2009 if the new President hails from the Democratic Party.
Behold the intro text of this sick travesty:
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Saturday, August 9, 2008
"Good fences make good neighbors." — Robert Frost, The Mending Wall
"Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods." — W. H. Auden, poet
We recently saw an HRC statement on the death of Angie Zapata. Now that they've hired a trans person once again, it appears they're appointing themselves as being de facto voice for the trans community. They actually have a tranny this time, and quote her in their statement. Forget the fact that it's a rather thinly-veiled attempt by Joe Solmonese to a) get himself some free publicity on a trans death, b) attempt to paint his public relations iimage in a good light and on the cheap, and c) capitalize on a trans death in order to somehow capitalize on it. It's all for their own furtherance – whether pushing for their coverage in legislation or raising funds for themselves as being "the transgender community's primary advocate and voice" (not my impression, mind you!) or both.
You've gotta hand it to HRC: they're veritable bloodhounds when it comes to sniffing out opportunities to bolster their PR or their bottom line. What's astonishing is how remarkably shameless they are about it...
(For the full text of this article, see this link: http://transpolitical.blogspot.com/2008/08/victims-die-but-opportunism-lives-...
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Please excuse my sarcasm - but how do you take this HRC-spun Remix of Bob Dylan's old tune "The Wicked Messenger", as exposed by Vanessa?
I was at that Saturday evening Vigil for Angie in Greeley Colorado (on August 9th) and from what I could tell, there weren't any HRC people present! At least they did not mount that low amphitheater stage on the University of Northern Colorado campus to speak.
Reason being is that HRC operatives were all at the "Camp Equality" activist training event held in Denver on the same day - which I avoided like the plague when asked by several Gay friends to attend it. I don't need HRC to teach me how to be an activist! Especially when buried in fine print was an automatic membership to HRC if you paid for their training!
Pardon my "French" right here - but these S.O.B.s are desperate! As General Patton once said of his Nazi opponents, "You'll never know just how bastardly they can be!"
When will the shameless abuse of the Trans Community at the bloody hands of the unrepentant HRC opportunists ever end?
Have they now resorted to building ladders to the piggy bank shelves of others using the very bones of our fallen?
As I said - this is a HEINOUS OBSCENITY!