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S.F. man: Bathhouse raid targets gays (NM not CA)
Santa Fe New Mexican ^ | July 3, 2006 | Shannon Shaw

Posted on 07/03/2006 11:56:28 AM PDT by CedarDave

A Santa Fe man says he was humiliated and bullied when police raided an Albuquerque gay bathhouse Saturday night to serve a felony arrest warrant for liquor violations.

Officers from the Department of Public Safety, state police and the Albuquerque fire marshal's office raided Pride Gym in northwest Albuquerque around 10 p.m. and arrested manager Ron Cordova on suspicion of selling and dispensing alcohol without a liquor license, DPS spokesman Peter Olson said.

The DPS Special Investigation Division and local authorities have been cracking down on businesses around New Mexico that are selling alcohol illegally or selling to those who are underage...

But according to Santa Fe resident Brian Eckert, of the 10 to 12 times he has been to the bathhouse in the last year, he has never been sold liquor, seen anyone drinking liquor or seen anyone bring liquor into the bathhouse. He said officers with semiautomatic weapons and wearing bullet-proof vests raided the bathhouse, forced customers to lie facedown and handcuffed them with plastic ties at gunpoint.

``This is a message of violence to the gay community,'' Eckert said. ``Take out the gay context, and imagine if officers with machine guns raided an 18-and-under establishment because they heard they were selling liquor and made all the children get facedown on the ground, cuffed their hands behind their backs and pointed guns at their heads? Do you think anyone would stand for that?''

Eckert and a friend, who did not want his name published because of safety concerns, were at Pride Gym when they heard banging doors, yelling and footsteps. Each was wearing a towel, but other customers were naked as officers forced them to the floor, Eckert said. His friend gave the same account. Both said they were not cited.

(Excerpt) Read more at freenewmexican.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: bathhouse; donutwatch; gays; homosexualagenda; homosexuals; soapnotonarope; wtfiiwnm
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A sampling of comments on the article on the New Mexican website:

The police department was just doing their job, get off the "oh they are gay thats why this went this far." get over it, if they have a warrant that is just normal procedures...

All you touchy feely liberals feel like anyone and everyone who is "mistreated" by the police are done so becasue they are "different." Based on the detials of the article... serving a warrant requires officers to be ready for anything. Imagine the fire power available to bad guys (gay or straight or brown or purple), and the police are coming in to do somehting the bad guys dont want. Police must protect themselves....

Phil M. your suggestion that the police might just "want to get some gay people" seems very valid to me in light of the photographs from Abu Graibe where our lovely female soldier delights in having Iraqis masturbate.

1 posted on 07/03/2006 11:56:32 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: CedarDave
forced customers to lie facedown and handcuffed them with plastic ties at gunpoint.

For a few of them, that may have been the sexual high point of their day.

2 posted on 07/03/2006 11:59:17 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: CedarDave
Officers from the Department of Public Safety, state police and the Albuquerque fire marshal's office

Just in case there were any flamers there.

3 posted on 07/03/2006 12:00:02 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CedarDave

Awwwww, the poor homosexual was feeling "humiliated and bullied." Probably while drinking illegally-sold liquor. Idiot. Thankfully, they can't procreate.


4 posted on 07/03/2006 12:00:05 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: CedarDave

What happens when you create a protected minority? A group of people who are totally outraged when you later try to enforce any infraction on their part.


5 posted on 07/03/2006 12:03:28 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: CedarDave

Any NYT "reporters" caught?


6 posted on 07/03/2006 12:04:58 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: CedarDave
Assume the position!


7 posted on 07/03/2006 12:08:01 PM PDT by Cobra64 (All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
From further in the article:

One customer was arrested on an unspecified warrant during the raid, and five other customers were issued alcohol-related citations, Olson said. The fire marshal's office closed the building because of numerous fire-code violations, he said.

Though nothing is said in the article, they were probably looking for drugs, also.

8 posted on 07/03/2006 12:09:21 PM PDT by CedarDave (When a soldier dies, a protester gloats, a family cries, an Iraqi votes)
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They may have a different lifestyle, but the ATF cannot be trusted; especially in the Texas/New Mexico region.


9 posted on 07/03/2006 12:10:08 PM PDT by Porterville (Hispanic Republican American Bush Supporter)
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To: CedarDave; martin_fierro

I thought places like this only existed where martin lives. :)


10 posted on 07/03/2006 12:10:16 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: CedarDave

I hope the cops used their truncheons.


11 posted on 07/03/2006 12:10:42 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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get facedown on the ground, cuffed their hands behind their backs and pointed guns at their heads?

Don't you normally have to pay extra for that?

12 posted on 07/03/2006 12:10:44 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Porterville

Sounds like the feds were not involved with this raid.


13 posted on 07/03/2006 12:11:20 PM PDT by CedarDave (When a soldier dies, a protester gloats, a family cries, an Iraqi votes)
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To: CedarDave

Rub-a-dub-dub,
you're busted Bub.


14 posted on 07/03/2006 12:13:01 PM PDT by tumblindice ("`Racist': anyone beating a liberal in an argument.".... A. Coulter)
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To: Graybeard58

To be honest, if I had to deal with a bunch of naked f**ots I'd make them lay face down too. Not that the view is a great deal better in that position...


15 posted on 07/03/2006 12:13:20 PM PDT by Philistone (Turning lead into gold...)
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To: hsalaw
Thankfully, they can't procreate.

Sure they can, and a majority do.

16 posted on 07/03/2006 12:14:57 PM PDT by AntiGuv ("..I do things for political expediency.." - Sen. John McCain on FOX News)
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To: CedarDave
A couple of minor edits...

Eckert and a friend, who did not want his name published because of safety concerns, were at Pride Gym when they heard banging doors, yelling and footsteps (which is nothing out of the ordinary). Each was wearing a towel, but other customers were naked as officers forced them to the floor, Eckert said. His friend gave the same account. Both said they were not excited.

17 posted on 07/03/2006 12:16:39 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: AntiGuv

Ugh.


18 posted on 07/03/2006 12:18:29 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Tijeras_Slim; CedarDave; elkfersupper
I thought places like this only existed where martin lives. :)

They're part of a franchise that began in Rome, landed in 'Frisco, and whose evil is spreading to other cities.

Not unlike Sbarro.

19 posted on 07/03/2006 12:19:14 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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``This is a message of violence to the gay community,'' Eckert said.

Oh he's just upset because his squeeze got locked up

20 posted on 07/03/2006 12:25:03 PM PDT by Horatio Gates (GBU-10 and GBU-38...two tickets to paradise)
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