We can’t convince these people that gay people are human beings and deserve respect. We can’t persuade them that bullying is not just a matter of “boys will be boys” but can and MUST be stopped.

We have to sue them. There is precedent. Take them before a jury and ask them why they did nothing after the kid was physically beaten, day after day, forced to live in fear of violence, harassed during school and in class. Ask them why they stood by and did nothing while a vulnerable and innocent child was being tortured on their watch. Drag as much money out of them as we can, and shame them as much as possible.

I am convinced that that is the way forward.

Also, does anyone remember that asian martial arts were developed as self-protection? If these kids were earning black belts, they would be learning how to avoid confrontation whenever possible, and how to walk away unscathed otherwise. Being small is no handicap with the proper training.

I see that the police and the media protect the names of the minor thugs and killers in all 4 cases. But scores of their classmates know who they are and it only takes one kid and a twitter account to expose these thugs to the world. This should haunt them for life.

In communities that support the School Board, who support the schools, who in turn think this way, also lie the Courts and the Judges that will act accordingly to retain their positions specifically and in their communities.

Only some of them will dare to uphold justice for PERCEIVED gay conduct.

We will not gain ground by appealing to the sensibilities of these mindsets. We will have to fight.

There was a point when SB’s character was looking for her new son in his old ghetto neighborhood. The local thugs made veiled cracks about something happening to him if he didn’t do what they said and for busting up a party.

She told them she had a Saturday night special in her bag and in no uncertain terms, “you threaten my son, you threaten me.”

I’m seriously thinking maybe this mom (all parents of threatened children) needs to put out the warning that any thugs threaten her son, some hot lead might be the next answer she has for it.

Seriously people…that’s what I would LOVE to do myself!

They have a number of legal responsibilities to the children in their care, and they need to be held legally accountable for their failures.

I’ve heard him interviewed since his tirade. And he’s apologized.
But I was thinking, when are the little punks who hurt his daughter going to be compelled to apologize?

School shootings have been precipitated by bullying. If instead these youngsters had the wherewithal to shoot their tormentors, instead of harming themselves…only THEN is the school going to act?!

This is where gay folks are not given credit for responding to such tragedy in kind.
How much opportunity do any of us have for storming the school and threatening someone with violence unless they do the right thing?
How many in the number of gay young people have been brutalized, yet…the people responsible weren’t lynched.
We have waited, we allow for the law and justice to assume it’s due course…we wait and wait again.
And if any explosion occurs, like a loud rally, or flash of anger…we’re judged as if our response is inappropriate, threatening or unwarranted.

All things considered why AREN’T the adults in all this showing some introspection, some grief and MAJOR anger at the children responsible?!
Why aren’t they as upset and angry as WE are.
We. wait.
And keep waiting…and we don’t explode like a ticking bomb.
We grieve, we make phone calls and write and hope for an audience. We wait.
We get a few crumbs from the table and are made to wait and wait again…for more.
Meanwhile, there are children in pain. Who suffer enough torment to even THINK of ways to die. To kill themselves.

And those responsible dare to think we’ll wait some more.
How do they know that?

Do they really count on a non violent, silent response…all the while saying we’re violent and threatening for daring to shed tears, for shouting at them in pain?

This is a cruel bitch of a world. And the people making it this way, couldn’t care less.
Maybe that’s the calculation my friends. That WE can wait…because THEY don’t have to worry about a thing.
Really.
Or…do they?