Commission of Greater Miami, made a statement on the situation which places him forever at the bottom of the retarded class. He publicly stated that homosexuals are child torturers and killers. By using the word "pervert" he lumps together all who deviate from the average; he thereby insists that to be different is to be criminal. This, in one fell swoop, ostracizes all minorities.

Recently a small boy was tortured by a Fort Lauderdale mental case. The incident has made everyone down that way extremely alert to "degeneracy." This term is much more elastic than "insanity" and can be applied more ruthlessly to anyone from alcoholics to southern democrats. You can't say, "We must stamp out insanity!" It would sound silly and medieval. But you can foam and scream to the voters that, "We must wipe out degenerates NOW!" And, in this case, because of the longitude involved, the impulse seems now to be to lynch everyone in Dade County with the hope that one of them is guilty. This Sullivan helps out by lumping terms together expertly: "I am talking about certain bars and night clubs in this country which are known to be hang outs for sex perverts and degenerates." If you dye your hair, you also torture and kill babies. Cretins on the Crime Commission

Next Sullivan does a mental strip tease as he accidentally reveals more facts on the manner in which homosexuals are preyed upon by society. He states that these degenerate bars have figured recently in two murder cases. He naively

adds that both the victims were homosexuals brutally murdered by heretosexuals. "In one bar two young service men met a man who, they said, made immoral advances to them. They beat him up and threw him into the bay where he drowned. And in bar practically next door, a bartender was murdered in his apartment by a bar patron."

In attacking the bars instead of the crimes, Sullivan implies that it's excusable to kill queers. Not strictly legal but that can be taken care of by the operating Director of the Crime Commission. ONE asks of Mr. Sullivan: What happened to the criminals in these two cases? Did you get as politically irate about a man murdered in his own apartment and another beaten by two normals then drowned? Is this not barbaric, Mr. Sullivan? Assuming momentarily that homosexuality is an illness, what would you say if the same thing happened to a man with cancer or a mental case or an alcoholic?

Further, Mr. Sullivan, ONE challenges you to prove in court (1) that homosexuals are habitually child molesters and murderers, and (2) that the insane who commit such crimes frequent homosexual bars.

I Met a Fool in the Forest

Also playing the whole thing up big for future votes was Councilman Bernard A. Frank who wrote a heated letter to the chief of police demanding that he remove all sex degenerates and female impersonators from the city. He was the sponsor of an ordinance prohibiting the

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