Can Humans Just Become Extinct Now, Please?

This is absolutely revolting.

He was told there was a party at a brick house on Osborne Place, a quiet block set on a steep hill in the Bronx. He showed up last Sunday night as instructed, with plenty of cans of malt liquor. What he walked into was not a party at all, but a night of torture — he was sodomized, burned and whipped.

All punishment, the police said Friday, for being gay.

There were nine attackers, ranging from 16 to 23 years old and calling themselves the Latin King Goonies, the police said. Before setting upon their 30-year-old victim, they had snatched up two teenage boys whom they beat, the police said — until the boys — one of whom was sodomized with a plunger — admitted to having had sex with the man.

The attackers forced the man to strip to his underwear and tied him to a chair, the police said. One of the teenage victims was still there, and the “Goonies” ordered him to attack the man. The teenager hit him in the face and burned him with a cigarette on his nipple and penis as the others jeered and shouted gay slurs, the police said. Then the attackers whipped the man with a chain and sodomized him with a small baseball bat.

The beatings and robberies went on for hours. They were followed by a remarkably thorough attempt to sanitize the house — including pouring bleach down drains, the police said, as little by little word of the attacks trickled to the police. A crucial clue to the attackers was provided by someone who slipped a note to a police officer outside the crime scene, at 1910 Osborne Place in Morris Heights, near Bronx Community College.

Ah, I see - punishment for being gay. OK, right. Latin King Goonies. Cave-dwelling troglodytes have decided that people need to be "punished" for being gay. Got it. Hey guys, let's have the 7 of us trick one guy into coming over, tie him up, torture him, steal his keys, and beat and rob his brother. That will demonstrate what studs we are.

If there were any justice, each of these monsters, these animals, these cowards would get to experience the same treatment - individually, 9 gay guys against 1 "straight" waste of carbon-based material. Of course, even that would not equal the horror that their victims experienced - so perhaps we leave it up to the 9 individuals who get to administer the punishment whether or not it will result in the death penalty. That still wouldn't even things out, but it would help.

(Sources: Peter Daou's tweet and JMG)