www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news
/story99988.html

This is a link to an article about a gunman who went into the "Backstreet Cafe" killed one man and shot 5 others. He has been caught.

My partner and I were down the street at the club called "The Park" when the shooting took place. We were locked into the bar by local police as a protection from the gunman who was supposedly still wondering the streets at the time.

They were calling it a hate crime at this time. The local press here seems to be ignoring this at present or at least ignoring the gay hatecrime side of the story. The Roanoke Times which is where the article is from seems to be treating this as if it is a typical crime, as you can see no mention is made that this was a gay bar.

Also WDBJ-7 (CBS), WSLS-10 (NBC) & WSET-13 (ABC) seem not to be giving this the attention it deserves at present.

This may also be because this happened late Friday and this is Saturday. Time will tell. I am hoping you all can investigate this more thoroughly and bring it to the attention of your readers.

With the President fighting for Hate Crimes legislation this is more reason that people across the country should know.I haven't heard of anyone walking into a gay bar as of late shooting six people and killing one of them. Please investigate this. I will send more as I find it. I am also sending this to our President as well.

The Colt Man—Roanoke, Virginia, September 23

"AIDS" is actually a retrogressive movement in the practice of medicine which had already been moving toward multifactorialism prior to the onset of "AIDS." Although that movement toward mutifactorialism has been eclipsed by the "AIDS" war and the resulting propaganda, it nevertheless is still extant.

You are allying yourself with reactionary forces when I have always thought of us as being somewhat always in the avant-garde.

Hoping for better days,

Fred Cline, San Francisco

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