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Scores arrested in Belgrade after anti-gay riot
BBC ^ | October 10, 2010

Posted on 10/10/2010 2:52:53 PM PDT by NYer

Anti-gay protesters have fought running battles with police in an effort to disrupt a Gay Pride march in Belgrade - the first in the city since 2001.

Rioters threw petrol bombs and stones at armed police, who responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.

The office of the ruling Democratic Party was briefly set on fire, and at least one shot was fired.

Calm was eventually restored but more than 100 people, mostly police, were injured, with another 100 arrested.

Sunday's march was the first Gay Pride parade in Serbia since a 2001 event was broken up in violent clashes provoked by far-right extremists.'Hooligan gangs'

Before the march, the head of the EU mission in Serbia, Vincent Degert, addressed around 1,000 gay activists and their supporters who gathered at a park in downtown Belgrade surrounded by riot police and armoured vehicles.

"We are here to celebrate the values of tolerance, freedom of expression and assembly," Mr Degert told the crowd.

While the Gay Pride parade was moving though the city, several hundred protesters began chanting at those taking part as they tried to get close to the march.

"The hunt has begun," the AFP news agency reported them as saying. "Death to homosexuals."

Reports told of gangs of skinheads roaming the streets, throwing petrol bombs and setting off firecrackers as police battled to hold them back.

Thousands of police had sealed off central Belgrade to protect the event.

While the march took place in a heavily-protected area in and around Majek park, violence flared at several points further afield in central Belgrade.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gay; homosexualagenda; ireland; serbia
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To: wagglebee; darkwing104; Old Sarge; 50mm
I love the smell of ozone in the evening!



Lamh Foistenach Abu!
41 posted on 10/10/2010 4:17:47 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
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To: xzins; P-Marlowe
This troll's type usually think that a clergyman's function is to lead the choir in singing Kumbaya and explaining that something is only sinful if you don't enjoy it.
42 posted on 10/10/2010 4:17:53 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee; xzins
Sometimes these infiltrators aren't worth wasting our collective cyber-breath on except to show them the truth through true, love Christian.

And then zotting their @@ses!

43 posted on 10/10/2010 4:19:04 PM PDT by PROCON (23 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: NYer; mckenzie7; francky; The Doctor; router899; Qbert; Diapason; xzins; HushTX; T bench; ...
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Freep-mail me to get on or off my pro-life and Catholic List:

Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.

44 posted on 10/10/2010 4:21:12 PM PDT by narses ( 'Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.')
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To: ConorMacNessa; xzins; P-Marlowe
I haven't seen a good zot in days!
45 posted on 10/10/2010 4:22:06 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: mainsail that
Ha! So why don’t you go to a SF or NYC gay parade and do the same (destroy and loot stores, try to kill cops, burn cars etc)? If it’s right for them, why isn’t it for you?

You work for Holder? Do You get paid to troll for comments which can be construed as "violent anti-gay sentiment"?

(BTW, if womeone were going to do as you suggest, they'd have to be pretty stupid to state that intent online.)

Go troll for "hate crimes" somewhere else.

46 posted on 10/10/2010 4:23:08 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe; mainsail that

They do need to send this one back to school, don’t they? He missed the class on subtlety.

I say zot him now before he hides and becomes destructive.

According to him, only “clero-fascists” oppose gay pride parades.


47 posted on 10/10/2010 4:27:50 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: wagglebee

ooh! Do I smell ozone??? Call in the Viking Kitties!


48 posted on 10/10/2010 4:28:14 PM PDT by kimmie7 (I donÂ’t think BO is the antichrist, but he may very well be 665.)
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To: kimmie7
Nope, still waiting.
49 posted on 10/10/2010 4:29:26 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: mainsail that; darkwing104; Arrowhead1952; 50mm; ConorMacNessa

50 posted on 10/10/2010 4:31:22 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Marking Time On The Government's Dime)
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To: xzins
The term "clero-fascist" implies that someone has some real issues with clergy.

Maybe someone mentioned the outcome of that little 'pride' thingy they had going in Sodom and Gommorrah, where God expressed His views on the subject in no uncertain terms.

51 posted on 10/10/2010 4:35:56 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe

Isn’t it amazing how liberals have been around only a hundred years in just a few cultures and accepted by a minority in each of those, but they think 2000 years of Church history, countless cultures, and all of scripture should bow down to their rejection of historic Christianity?


52 posted on 10/10/2010 4:43:01 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins; mainsail that

Welcome to FR, and thank you for posting this news item. I was not aware of this story.

Balkans politics/social conflicts are always rather complicated. I assume that unemployment, underprivilege, and incitment by gangs are part of the problem here.


53 posted on 10/10/2010 4:43:37 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

NYer posted this thread.


54 posted on 10/10/2010 4:46:04 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: ConorMacNessa; darkwing104; Old Sarge; 50mm; kimmie7; xzins; P-Marlowe
It looks like the troll didn't make it.
55 posted on 10/10/2010 4:46:24 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee
I'm usually IATZ, so...

IBTZ

56 posted on 10/10/2010 4:47:43 PM PDT by PROCON (23 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: PROCON; wagglebee; P-Marlowe; little jeremiah

IBTZ!


57 posted on 10/10/2010 4:48:40 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and proud of it. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: wagglebee

Rats, IATZ!


58 posted on 10/10/2010 4:49:23 PM PDT by PROCON (23 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: xzins

Sorry, Padre, we’re both IATZ...:=(


59 posted on 10/10/2010 4:51:00 PM PDT by PROCON (23 More Days Until Independence Day, Woo-Hoo!!)
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To: xzins; PROCON; wagglebee; P-Marlowe; little jeremiah

IATZ


60 posted on 10/10/2010 4:51:48 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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