Issue, and from a Professional Standpoint, It “Selective Enforcement” and False Arrests Has Affected Me Directly,” He Said
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Story on Great Escapes for Jeb Bush Has Another Story on Page Page 19 Worthy Causes Foot-in-Mouth Day 9 AfterAfter ‘The‘The Kiss’Kiss’ Britney Teams Up with Madonna, November 17, 2003 Volume 4, Number 46 Offers Straight Talk AboutAbout GayGay FansFans John Lloyd Park Probe Launched Articles in ‘The Express’ Lead to State Investigation of Harassment By Andy Zeffer that two of his hotel guests had been victims Featured Editor of alleged harassment and entrapment at the The Florida Inspector General’s Office park. “Personally this is a very disturbing will look into allegations of harassment, issue, and from a professional standpoint, it “selective enforcement” and false arrests has affected me directly,” he said. “This is a targeting gay men at John U. Lloyd State very serious moral issue.” Park in Dania Beach. The inquiry was Van Eron then went on to note the announced at a town meeting at Dania Beach importance of tourism, including gay tourism, City Hall Nov. 13. to the economy of Dania Beach and Broward At the meeting, a victim of the alleged County. “The perception is that Dania beach harassment testified, as did a local hotel is no longer a safe and friendly place to be. I owner who said two of his guests had been don’t think we can afford to have this kind of harassed at the park and that the situation black eye for our county or for our cities.” had negatively impacted his business and Wayne Schubnel testified at the meeting was a threat to tourism in Dania Beach. that he had been cited for a “closed area violation” at John Lloyd beach on April 1. Express Managing Editor Phil LaPadula was State Sen. Steven Geller (left) and state Rep. Timothy Ryan preside over a town hall also asked to speak about the articles he has meeting at Dania Beach City Hall. Geller announced that the state Inspector General’s He said a park officer had come up to him as written on harassment and false arrests at Office will look into allegations that park officers have harassed gay men and cited he was sitting on a sand dune just above the John Lloyd Park. The Express has published them for dubious violations at John U. Lloyd State Park. main part of the beach and told him he was a total of 11 articles on the John Lloyd Park John Lloyd Park situation when a series of completely against any selective breaking the law. He ended up paying a $172 issue since April, not including several letters articles that run in The Express were brought enforcement. I am objecting to any type of fine. “I took a picture of every sign on the to the editor and an editorial. Articles on the to his attention. He passed out copies of the enforcement based on a person’s sexual beach, and there was no sign that said I harassment issue have also appeared in the Express articles to the audience along with orientation. But at the same time, John Lloyd couldn’t be in that area,” Schubnel said. He South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Miami copies of his correspondences with DEP is a state park that families and individuals also contacted the Clerk of Courts office and Herald within the past two weeks. officials over the past few months. go to, and everybody has a right to enjoy requested a report listing everybody who State Sen. Steven Geller co-chaired the “There is an issue here,” Geller said, the park. Illicit sexual activity should not had received a “closed area violation” in meeting with state Rep. Timothy Ryan. Geller noting that if the allegations are true “they occur in the park.” recent months. Holding up the report for the said he had received a letter Nov. 7 from are serious allegations against state Joe Van Eron, owner of the Liberty Suites audience to see, Schubnel noted, “They’re Thomas S. Tramel, III, director of the employees.” Hotels, had asked for the John Lloyd issue all men listed on the report.” In fact, the Department of Environmental Protection Rep. Ryan said he had just recently to be addressed at the meeting. He noted See PARK PROBE on page 6 (DEP), Division of Law Enforcement, become involved in the John Lloyd Park confirming that the investigation would take situation. “I made contact with Tom Tramel place. Geller had requested that the Inspector and expressed my concern over what was No More Roy Moore General’s Office conduct an investigation of happening with regard to allegations of the John Lloyd Park incidents. selective enforcement and discrimination,” Anti-Gay ‘Ten Commandments Judge’ Kicked Off the Bench Geller said he first became aware of the Ryan said. “I explained to Mr. Tramel that I’m By Phil LaPadula Managing Editor Thou shalt not use the judicial bench as Henn Free on Bail in S. Fla. a political pulpit to advance your personal 9/11 Con Artist Extradited from Texas to Stand Trial agenda. That could well be the epithet for Judge Roy Moore, who was fired from his By Phil LaPadula addresses, false Social Security numbers position as chief justice of the Alabama Managing Editor and made up stories about a lavish lifestyle Supreme Court Nov. 13 for defying a federal Patric Henn, the Fort Lauderdale man to dupe charitable agencies into paying court order to remove a Ten Commandments charged with stealing him over $70,000 in cash. monument from the rotunda of the state $70,000 in 9/11 Red Cross An Express investigative supreme court building. funds, is back in South report revealed that Henn’s Moore was not fired for his virulently Florida and free on bail, Fort claims were fraudulent, that anti-gay diatribe from the bench in February Lauderdale police said. His the wealthy lover never 2002, which the mainstream media ignored trial is expected to start in existed and that the Red Cross when reporting on the Ten Commandments early December. was the victim of an organized dispute. In issuing a court opinion that Henn was extradited scheme to defraud. After The denied a lesbian mother custody of her three from Texas and then bonded Express expose, Henn children, Moore described homosexuality as out of jail, Det. James Pott reportedly admitted the scam “an inherent evil, and if a person openly told The Express. Henn to his neighbors at Middle engages in such a practice, that fact alone faces a charge of grand River Terrace, confessing that would render him or her an unfit parent.” theft, $20,000 to $100,000. he made up the story to get Moore went on to note, “The State carries In a case that made money. the power of the sword, that is, the power to Suspended Alabama Supreme Court national headlines after The Express broke Henn then fled Fort Lauderdale, but Chief Justice Roy Moore is shown prohibit conduct with physical penalties, outside the Alabama Judicial Building in the story, Henn is accused of falsely The Express stayed on his trail and learned such as confinement and even execution. It Montgomery, Ala., Wednesday, Nov. 12. claiming that his purported partner, Jeff that he attempted to continue the con job in must use that power to prevent the Moore was removed from office Anderson, perished on Sept. 11, 2001, thus Washington, D.C. and Littleton, Colo. subversion of children toward this lifestyle, Thursday, Nov. 13, for refusing to obey a entitling him to partnership and survivor Dallas police arrested Henn on June 13, federal court order to move his Ten to not encourage a criminal lifestyle.” Commandments monument from the benefits. Henn allegedly used phony 2003. 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