Talk:Charlie Howard (murder victim)
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I remember when Charles O. Howard was murdered. I remember it because it happened in my home county of Aroostook. And because I was working in radio at the time in my home town of Presque Isle. It was a topic of discussion on several talk shows I hosted and participated in. It was the primary reason I abandoned my home, family, and roamed the US looking for a "safe" place.
People didn't want the three kids, 15, 16 and 17, to be tried as adults for their crimes, and they were not. They got away with cold-blooded murder. It is a lie when they say that they didn't intend to kill Charles; a witness heard Charles beg them, as they pried his hands off the rail and threw him into the cold water twenty feet below, as Charles pleaded for his life and told them that he could not swim; as he gasped from terror and asthma and the pain of his fractured ribs from them kicking and punching him.
People in my home county did not value Charle's life. They had no interest in justice, and the message that the murder of a fagot was a much lesser crime was loud and clear. Imagine the impact on your life, to hear this message from your own mother; to hear people in your community call-in to your talk show and proclaim that Charle's death was deserved.
This crime had an impact on people. It made people afraid; it was a form of state sponsored terrorism. Justice was not served. This crime was the culmination of people in Bangor targeting Charles; they strangled his cat and left it on his doorstep. They taunted and harassed him. The days leading up to his murder were filled with the complicity of the people of Bangor. They are complicit still. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.192.42 (talk • contribs)
The above is a very sad story, but I don't expect anything better from heterosexuals. Bold text the guys names are Jim Baines and Daniel Ness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.197.19.209 (talk) 22:19, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Stephen King
Should there be a refernce in here to Stephen King's novel It? It was written around the same time, when the monster resurfaces and influences the killing of a gay man in exactly the same way as in this article. The It article even links here. See It (novel)#The Cycle under the 1984-1985 section. ArdClose (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Chuckahomo
Should it mention somewhere that some people now call the bridge the "Chuckahomo bridge"? A pun on the indian names things around here have and the fact that a homo was quite literally chucked off the bridge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OMNI (talk • contribs) 17:24, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
