Some victims & vigilantes are more equal

There have been armed hold ups at hotels, clubs, convenience stores, people have been bashed, mugged, knifed, shot etc all over Sydney, yet you won't get these folks taking a tour of anywhere, they'll just hide under their tables wagging their fingers at the criminals and telling the law-abiding to hand in their guns or else. If you got raped and shot, you'd be lucky to make the back pages, let alone have the Lord Mayor fawning over you.
A SPATE of violent crime targeting the gay community prompted three prominent politicians and a drag queen to take to the streets in the early hours of yesterday. As partygoers looked on, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore, Police Minister David Campbell, Labor candidate for Wentworth George Newhouse and local drag queen Maxi Shield wandered the clubs and back alleys of Oxford Street to gauge the impact of homophobic violence. Police said there have been nine reported instances of assault related to "sexual preference prejudice" around Oxford Street this year, while there were only two such instances in the whole of 2006.

The political visit to Oxford Street came a week after The Sun-Herald revealed the gay and lesbian community is planning its own security patrols at popular events and party venues. The GenQ Street Angels want volunteers with policing, military, security or medical experience to join. They could be patrolling in Oxford Street and the King Street strip in Newtown as early as the first weekend in November. Mr Campbell singled out the long queues that snake from club entrances in Oxford Street as flashpoints for homophobic violence. SMH.
If you and I got together with a couple of other folks around the neighborhood, got us some baseball bats and started walking around patrolling the streets for thugs and scumbags, you can bet your ass the police would be telling us not to take the law into our own hands and politicians will be telling us how we need to behave and what not. Sexual preference determines whether some victims and vigilantes are more equal than others you see.

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