FC: usqueers.com bows to pressure, deletes "should die" page

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Previous message:

Bombastic conservative demands that DOJ censor usqueers.com
http://www.politechbot.com/p-02844.html

The site now says:

> http://www.usqueers.com/commentary/die_soon.html
> That page is offline while we contemplate design changes which will allow 
> us to freely express our opinions of the "sacred cows" on the list -- as 
> they have so freely expressed similar opinions about us -- yet which will 
> not subject usQueers.com to tedious and unnecessary legal entanglements.
> So far, we have been contacted by zero law enforcement agencies of any 
> kind, not counting the "officers" who sent us their own personal opinions.

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From: dburt () n2h2 com
Subject: usqueers.com SLAPPed down
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:04:57 -0800

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/afa/292001a.asp

Pro-Homosexual Website Removes Death Threats

By Fred Jackson and Jody Brown
November 29, 2001

(AgapePress) - A California-based website that advocated the death of
several high-profile conservatives because of their stand against
homosexuality has suddenly had a change of heart.

The San Diego website goes by the name of "usqueers.com." Among others,
it called for the death of people like former President Ronald Reagan,
Rev. D. James Kennedy, evangelist Pat Robertson, and American Family
Association founder Don Wildmon. An old-fashioned "Wanted" poster had
appeared on the website with the following words: "WANTED: To Experience
a Horrible Death By Any Means Soon Well-Known Het[erosexual]
Supremacists, Deserve It As Their Reward" -- then listed the names.

But in the wake of protests from a number of legal and pro-family
organizations to law enforcement officials, the site has deleted those
names. It has also deleted solicitations of its readership for private
information on the people it targeted.

[...]




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