Comments on: NYC firefighter settles lawsuit for $3.75M

By: Stevedmd2

Stevedmd2 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 06:49:42 +0000

Just like the republicans who turn everything inside out. They lie so much they don’t know the meaning of truth.

By: Rainfish

Rainfish — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:25:48 +0000

“He had his clique of people. I had my clique of people,” Walsh recalled of Silvestri, who was assigned to Engine Co. 151 in early 2002.

“Originally he’d do it to get a quick laugh,” Walsh said. “Then it got vicious.

“And I’m not (gay),” Walsh noted.

Although anti-gay slurs were part of the banter at the Tottenville firehouse, Walsh tried to ignore the taunts.

“I’m a big guy, I can handle myself. I just don’t think I should have to justify comments like that,” he said.

“You go to your captain and ask for help, you’re a bigger (bleep) for asking for help,” Walsh added.

(uh, I imagine the word bleeped out in the report was FAGGOT)

…Still, no mention was made, in the article above, that the victim was straight — not that it makes a difference. Yet, it does put it in a different perspective. Even Walsh professed a stereotypical view of gay people in his reaction to why he didn’t ask for the harassment to stop.

READ: http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1227273322205460.xml&coll=1&thispage=2

By: charlie

charlie — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:35:16 +0000

Unless I missed something or a lot of things, this is the first I’m hearing about this being a gay bashing. It was originally reported as a drunken brawl, an attempted cover up by the company commander which cost that captain his job. The story I got was that Walsh put in for the day off and got it,someone went sick in the battalion and the aide used the only standby. Someone else went sick and the battalion aide ordered
Walsh to work, but since he had been granted the day off he worked at the overtime rate. Silvestri apparently thought that Walsh was “getting over” or Silvestri was the standby ordered to work? Or too drunk to figure it out?
See, perfectly understandable. Much better that admitting a firefighter is gay or that firefighters could be gay bashers, both verbally and physically. Times change but things remain the same. Guess I’ll have to take a metal chair to the next company party in case I have to defend myself from some of my brothers!
No more Mr. Nice Gay! Kill them all! God will know its own!

By: chris

chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:25:58 +0000

wow, if your not a gay basher, then your something… after all the metal chair didnt make it to his head without force

By: Morgan

Morgan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:24:16 +0000

Nothing like a “liberal minded” gay basher via metal chair as a weapon of choice!

By: LOrion

LOrion — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:45:26 +0000

Yep, back of the bus…or even should be ‘interned, as Japanese,italians and Germans were here during WWII.?

See SAVE THE COUNTRY @ pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8485

for a very eloquent discussion on why we should no longer stay quiet or in the back of the bus!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:35 +0000

Sounds as liberal as our SOCAL friends who voted away our marriage rights…liberal as long as we stay quiet, sit on the back of the bus, don’t live openly or honestly. Yup, another one of our so-called liberal friends. If the dude pled guilty in 2006 why did it take 2 years for NYC to settle this lawsuite?