‘”People who commit hate crimes can expect the full attention of the police and we will not rest until the offenders are brought to justice. The offenders will learn their lesson the hard way.”

Do I agree with this or not? Make up my mind, willya.

But, it is good news that six boys were arested.’

Nice one, 21stCenturySpirituality.

At this point I am inclined to disbelieve the official position of the Police Dept quoted above; that the names of the boys should be made public at once; and that a torch parade through the alleys would be just the thing, although that does smack of Peter Tatchell’s tactics. Where is he on this, by the way?

Still, I would carry pepper spray on me, legal or not, and I would not venture out by myself in these areas.

Bottom line is that my heart does go out to the family and friends of this young man who could very well be the one to make a difference in the future.

I hope he recovers, all in good time.

There are many good comments on this thread.

I prefer the names of these 20 men, not candles . . . so that they can be shamed and made accountable for their actions

They do not care about those children future lives with their crime records in the police department. Look for someones, some institutions behide those children, not children themself

I’d send peasants with f_cking torches to where these little sods lived and hang them tarred and feathered from lamposts. Yeah, tell that to your mates. “We just got beat up by a bunch of queers”.

In light of what we know about the Roman Catholics Churches attitude towards homosexuality, we cannot pretend that this religion is not inculcated in the propagation of a myth that homosexuals are an intrinsic, and morally disordered evil

In the light of recent events on the streets of Liverpool . . . . The morally and disordered evil is quite clear in my mind

What shocks me is four of the boys arrested are now out on bail despite this being an attempted murder.

Because the little lambs are only between 14 and 17, and it would be unfair and barbaric to hold children in a cell overnight. They could catch their deaths.

Anyway, I’m sure that awfully nice judge will see the anguish and social deprivation these poor mites have suffered and let them off with suspended sentences, or maybe a community care order.
Bless their cottons.

I definitely question the parental role here, though. These kids are roaming the street late at night. Where do the parents think they are, what do they think they’re doing? Do they give a damn? They need to be made to somehow.

Liverpool is one of two places in UK where my courier company won’t go, the other being Belfast. I sold a lot of material to a development called Paradise Street, surely a contradiction in terms.
rob N is right, we have hoards of these little thugs picking on gay men becasue they think they are too weak to fight back, and if a grown man does fight back he is either stabbed, nicked by the coppers for assault, or done on some pervert charge. The kids know the law inside out, all they have to do is scream abuse or sexual assault.

This is a direct result of “understanding” thugs, and the children of thugs. Maybe becasue this has been done to an actaul copper they might get out of their offices and walk the streets to deter crime.

After 7/7 the police were drafted into central London to look for terrorists in July and August 2007 and crime went down 11%. In outer London where they had been drafted from it went up 8%. proof if ever it were needed.

More schools should participate in LGBT history month, the pre-launch event of which takes place this year on 19th November.