Anti-gay activist may have hoaxed son's "straight-bashing" school assault

Even before I tell you this happened in Lexington, Mass., I bet you would have guessed this involved David Parker and his Anti-gay Maoist Fag-Hag friend Brian Camsucker, right?


See:

Bullying Should Never Happen to Anyone.

MassResistance, aka Article 8, issued a press release yesterday that David Parker's son was assaulted on by 1st graders. You can read the PR at The Reality Check where they have other stories such as:

* Franklin Roosevelt Lied to Us About WMD
* Oil Is Well: The Shortage Is A Myth, And Not A New One
* Hillary Wants Fascist Corporatism

However, The Lexington Minuteman is reporting the on the press release but it appears that no one in Lexington, other than the person involved had ever heard of this incident:

Superintendent of Schools Paul Ash said he had no knowledge of the alleged incident, but said he and Jay would be looking into the matter. Ash said if a student was aggressively assaulted on school property the event would "trigger a whole series of actions," from notifying parents, staff, the school psychologist and the Department of Social Services, to filing a report with the police. Ash said the schools would also conduct its own investigation into the incident.

According to the Lexington Police Department, no complaint has been filed and they are not currently involved with an investigation into the incident.

However, the Parker's attorney did speak for the Lexington article:

Neil Tassel, the Parkers' legal counsel, spoke for the Parker family saying they had hoped to keep the incident private. Due to the age of the students involved, they had opted not to go to the police.

"It was a regrettable incident ... but no one was seriously hurt," said Tassel, adding Jacob Parker was "shaken up" by the incident.

Still, MassResistance/Article 8's Camenker didn't keep it private and gets juicy with details by saying it was fueled and incited by adults among other things. So much was keeping the incident private.

Unfortunately, all children are subjected to bullying in school which is why State Sen. Jarret Barrios sponsored a bill to prevent bullying which MassResistance blasted him for in a posting which you can read here. As the title suggests, bullying shouldn't happen to anyone gay or straight.

More:
http://massresistancewatch.blogspot.com/2006/06/bullying-should-never-happen-to-anyone.html


See also:

Alleged 1st grade Son of gay-basher allegedly bashed in school
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=158&topic_id=9148&mesg_id=9148

It looks like a right-wing operation with a lefty name, which is common among the wingnuts now -- it's the Age of Irony, dontcha know? But I've never heard of Mass Resistance. Well, not until now, anyway.

From experience, I've come to view all "Man Bites Dog"-style stories about civil rights as wingnut dog-and-pony shows, especially where fundamentalist administrators "punish" fundamentalists' kids for reciting fundamentalist prayers in schools in fundamentalist areas. After all, if the kid was really being punished, it would be some form of "good old-fashioned" (i.e., kinky) physical punishment, not something desirable, like three days' vacation from school.

Somewhere in this world, there must be fundamentalists of some stripe who are quietly burning in humiliation at the repetitive, rube-fleecing sideshow aspect of their fellow believers. I've met a few over the years. They usually end up in liberal Methodist congregations, not the rightist ones like those that produced Dubya and Condi; and, increasingly, the UUA. Their exodus is becoming news, and just at a time when the major newspapers have decided to kiss some major religious (pious frauds only) ass.

--p!
Biting people? Performing with ponies? Those poor dogs!