During the march, neo-Nazi protesters pelted the marchers with eggs and chanted: "Moscow is not Sodom".
I interpret that means that anybody opposed to Homo rights are Neo-Nazis.
Posted on 05/28/2007 9:23:37 AM PDT by buccaneer81
British Pop Star Hurt On March In Moscow
Updated: 07:54, Monday May 28, 2007 Right Said Fred singer Richard Fairbrass and gay rights activist Peter Tatchell have been attacked during a march in Moscow. Trouble broke out when demonstrators tried to appeal against a ban on a gay rights march through the Russian capital. Fairbrass after the attack Fairbrass after the attack
Police arrested about a dozen demonstrators and forced them into a bus.
The banned march was aimed at marking the 14th anniversary of Russia decriminalising homosexuality.
Mr Tatchell was one of several demonstrators punched and kicked by nationalists shouting "death to homosexuals". Advertisement
He told Sky News he was kicked and beaten before being taken away by two riot policemen.
Australian-born Mr Tatchell has been an outspoken defender of gay rights. He hit the headlines in 2001 when he tried to perform a citizen's arrest on Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe in Brussels. Neo-Nazis at the gay rights protest Neo-Nazis at the gay rights protest
Fairbrass, singer with the British pop group Right Said Fred, was also attacked.
He was punched in the face and kicked while talking to a journalist.
Italian MEP Marco Cappato was also arrested but later released.
Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who imposed the ban, has called gay marches Satanic.
During the march, neo-Nazi protesters pelted the marchers with eggs and chanted: "Moscow is not Sodom."
The gay activists were trying to deliver a letter signed by 40 European politicians to the office of the Moscow mayor.
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I was going to post that the instant I saw the article!
I interpret that means that anybody opposed to Homo rights are Neo-Nazis.
What was a British pop-musician doing in Moscow? He’s not Russian. Exactly what business does he have in Russian politics?
You raise a good point.
It also highlights the fact that opposition to homosexual practices are worldwide.
We can't ALL be bigots..
"Defender"? No ADVOCATE.
Methinks the author of this puff piece is in sympathy with the movement.
BUMP. I read references to “nazis” and “nationalists” as a way to paint those who take a stand in the culture war as “neo-nazism”.
I must have glossed over the reason for these foreign nationals (the homosexuals) reason for arrest. Is it because they committed conspiracy to create a riot in a foreign country?
“Is it because they committed conspiracy to create a riot in a foreign country?”
That and the fact they were breaking the law by marching in the first place.
Book 'em, Dano!"
What’s done in the water closet should stay in the water closet. Perestroikya!
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00376/right_said_fred_Ric_376694c.jpg
Here he is being interviewed after ... some critisizm
You b*tches! I broke a nail!
call me a neo nazi then...
but this article does not mention the fact that people demonstrating were beaten by national bolsheviks and “police” (read: Putin - hired thugs) didn’t do sh*t...
If you confront primitive barbarian hooliganism with gay shame... what’s worse?
search for “russian nationalists” in google and you’ll see their achievements...
they are to dumb to understand that nationalism is another form of patriotism and has nothing to do with agression towards people being “different” (having different skin colour, religion, believes), you can disagree with their opinion, but using vulgar power is not what a civilized nation should do.
Freedom of speech goes both ways round...
Propaganda and freedom of speech are two different things...
Nationalism and national bolshevism (national socialism also) don’t go hand in hand.
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