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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
CORRECTION: onwards peter puffers sellers!
Many apologies. NYer has a good eye for a story, and posts interesting threads.
Those pictures are dramatic. Mind you, everything gets dramatic in the Balkans ...
I’ve always had problems with my afters and befores. :>)
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If that is the way you feel, you can head out to the next gay pride parade and throw Molotov cocktails at gays and assault the police.
And once you are released from prison, you can let us know if your views have somehow been altered.
Mainsail has left the building. Whew!
Yes, but the evil that infects them and motivates them - rebellion to God and His laws - has been around forever. Just a new label on it.
Well he sure didn’t hang around long after a few posts. He smelled the ozone sparkin’ up...
IATZ!!
Damn, that’s one poster I wish I could have personally seen get the ZOT!!
Pegged him/her about a week ago.
Good riddance mainsail!!
Isn’t this funny.
Mainsail makes a comment - “if you agree with the protesters, go attack a gay pride parade yourself” - and not only gets banned for it, but gets repeated ZOT IBTZ OMG VIKING KITTIES comments from everyone here.
Trumandogz makes the EXACT SAME COMMENT...and nothing happens to him! No ban, no warning, not one single comment criticizing him. It’s as if he’s being protected for some reason. Which is weird, since he has a long history of pro-liberal comments, including pathetic and incredibly transparent attempts to pretend to be criticizing something from the right when he’s really attacking it from the left. Don’t take my word for it, go check his posting history.
More and more it seems that FR is a microcosm of the corrupt two-party system that makes up the U.S. government. The “pro-gay” and “anti-gay” factions on FR are no different from the Democrat and Republican parties - two sides of the same corrupt coin, who pretend to fight each other while secretly working together to destroy the little guy. Mainsail was the true independent voice, the courageous Tea Partier, and that’s why he was smacked down. Trumandogz is like the entrenched RINO backed and protected by the RNC, and that’s why he gets away with anything and everything, including trolling for Obama. He’s one of the fascist elite in power. He can make all the militantly pro-gay statements he wants and you so-called “anti-gays” will never go against him, because you’re part of the same fascist elite club.
No wonder FR’s membership is plunging and ‘thons are taking longer and longer. New members are crapped and pissed upon by the country-club elite, and naturally don’t stay here very long. You guys did this all to yourselves, FR’s decline is your own fault.
Of course, if trumandogz is banned I’ll apologize for everything I said and admit I was wrong, but somehow, I just don’t see that happening.
Is this troll a retread?
He didn’t remind me of any other trolls, but you never know.
I’ve been here since 1998, and I think I’ve got a better line on what this conservative board thinks than you do.Not to mention the "sent to massacre" crack about the Serbs trying to stem the rising Islamic tide of the 90s that did, indeed, sweep away part of their country. (With the help of the Clintons, of course.)
You know, the people protesting the homosexuals...they lost any chance at sympathy when they started throwing Molotov cocktails.
Condemning mortal sin does not translate into assaulting policemen.
As I recall, they never did find the bodies of the “millions massacred” that was the basis of our war against the Serbs.
Found more WMDs in Iraq than they did massacred muslims in bosnia and kosovo.
Please explain.
Well, we’ve got a crowd of people protesting the Gay Pride Parade. Let’s suppose, hypothetically, that ALL of them are there to protest the moral threat of homosexuality.
If that was their objective, why bring Molotov cocktails? Why throw stones at the police?
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