Scout Supporters Crash Philly Mayor’s Email
Posted on October 27, 2007
This is interesting. I’m sure the mayor has heard the message now. Hopefully he will listen.
Outraged citizens crashed the e-mail system of the Philadelphia mayor’s office after the city accused the local Boy Scouts chapter of discriminating against homosexuals and forced the organization to pay $200,000 rent for its city-owned headquarters.
About 150,000 Boy Scout-related e-mails were removed from the city’s e-mail system, reported the Bulletin newspaper of Philadelphia.
“We were deluged,” said Terry Phillis, chief information officer for Mayor John Street. “We pulled the messages off so they wouldn’t take the system down. It had to be done to protect system integrity.”
As WND reported, Philadelphia’s city council voted to renege on a 1928 ordinance allowing the Cradle of Liberty Council to have its headquarters in a building on a parcel of public land “in perpetuity” for $1 a year.
Phillis believes there was “an active campaign to let city council know they were against what happened.”
The city told the Scouts they must either adopt the city non-discrimination policies, pay the market value rent of $200,000 a year or give up the building space.
The Bulletin said the e-mails criticizing the city’s decision threatened the computer system despite a sophisticated filtering system designed to prevent overloads.
A city council man who supports the Scouts, Frank Rizzo, said he will answer every e-mail he received.
“I received more than 1,000 e-mails just Sunday,” he told the Philadelphia paper. “… I believe I have an obligation to people who write to me. I treat it just like it was a letter.”
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Just what Philly needs — fewer outlets for its young males — further opportunity to increase its gang membership and youth-related murders.
But, dhimmicratic politicians have to bend over to the homo lobby — take a deep breath!
I hope they crash it again in a few days.
Remember a few months ago when the mayor of Philly was confronted by somebody while he was waiting on line to buy an iPhone?
“There are over 200 murders in this city already!” was the man’s reaction, or something like that. The mayor had to leave before he embarrassed himself even further.
When the mayor realizes that the murder rate has tripled since Philly banned the Boy Scouts, what is he going to do? Tell the citizens “Let them eat Girl Scout cookies”?
Is he also going to ban the singing of “God Bless America” in public ceremonies? Remember that royalties for that song went to the Boy Scouts for a long time.
The scouts have held true to their moral beliefs since the beginning. Now it is decided that they have to change their rules to make the left happy.
“The scouts have held true to their moral beliefs since the beginning. Now it is decided that they have to change their rules to make the left happy. ”
If it was their moral belief that only GAY men were fit to be leaders, would you still approve of allowing them to use public property, while violating non- discrimination laws?