While I certainly don’t endorse the action… and decidedly find the rhetoric of the “manifesto” to be more or less in opposition to my particular approach, I have to say the emotional context there is pretty strong.
It certainly get’s the point across to the HRC that they are rapidly falling out of favor with the mainstream cisGLB crowd when the more militant parts feel emboldened enough to do something like this.
And it does give us a chance to do something that needs to be done — look at the nature of the HRC and its overall involvement.
Joe Solomonese worked for Emily’s List before joining HRC. As part of that, he worked to help get Obama elected again, setting the stage for four years later.
He was a campaign fundraiser for Barney Frank.
The HRC initially told Mike Gravel he wasn’t invited to attend their Debate — and yet he spoke to marriage.
The PAC is part of the lobbying groups — they are a lobbying group to the same extent as any other.  Except they aren’t doing it the way most folks do it — they are doing it for their own reasons, not the reasons of those theyy purportedly represent.
Their star Corporate Sponsor, American Airlines, offers ZERO tangible benefits to transfolk, although they do have a written policy (that stops transfolks from  being pilots), and classes in it.
Yeah, I am in very strong opposition to incremental strategies and assimilation.
And yes, I do find the HRC to be the leading proponent of such, and I find them in bed with the usual suspects, unwilling to actually do the job they are willing to do.
And I do like a lot of what the non-PAC part of the group has done and is doing — but without the “fierce advocacy” they are supposed to be doing, and corporate malfeasance by using most of the money to raise more money to spend little on actual policy making or changing, I believe that the HRC now is utterly corrupt and of only specific practical value.

The act spoke a strong truthThe Hrc, whatever special blessing the President hs given them time and again, does not represent us any longer.
And they never represented our genderqueer brothers and sisters.
And they are the ones dying on the strets, the visible symbol of our community and the fear and loathing it generates.
If it turns out that the White House did communicate what was reported on NBC, then I might be out there with them next time.
They dismissed our permitted, scrutinised, carefully routed march
Maybe they will listen when we stop begging permission.

I can’t endorse thisbut I won’t condemn it either. It’s time to see some radicalism in our community.

Its pretty childish….But I can see where they are coming from. …..It would have been more effective if they had tagged the white house or capital building…. 

Its not like anything horrible was saidGrafiti has long been a way for those feelling opressed to speak out.
Archaeologists have found invaluable ancient grafitti carved in stone for seeing what some folk really thought.
I often use, when discussing hate crimes, the analogy of the difference between a spraypainted swastika on a synagogue and someones name on an underpass.. both vandalism but one being a threat based of hate.
Well this is, as political grafitti goes, pretty darn reasonable!
Yes it may take money to clean off, but then so does any tag.
Washing the egg off their faces if these words make them feel guilty may be much harder.

wowI can’t believe that people fighting for the same cause would condone such actions against one another. But hey it just shows the maturity level of some in our movement. If you disagree act childish and try to get attention. People need to realize that fighting against ourselves does nothing to further our cause. I wonder if it was a group of anti-gays who vandalized the building how many of you would defend them too and say they can’t blame them and they have a point to their message. Vandalism is vandalism. There is no grey area. Grow up!

i think i’m confused.isn’t the whole point of equality to assimilate? did i miss something, somewhere? admittedly, i’m a raging heterosexual, so perhaps my hormones are clouding my judgment, but i always thought the whole purpose of equal rights, for everyone, was to put all of us on a level plane.
have i been deluded all this time?

No, yes, and yes.But don’t feel bad — a lot of folks are in the same boat.

who has condoned it?

Every poster above has condoned it. By saying “It’s not like anything horrible was said” That’s condoning it.

Well unfortunately there is no quick and easy way to “FIRE” the HRC
Abnd they know that.  And they are well aware that many are pissed off at thier methods and losing strategy not to mention thier bloated OVERSIZED salaries.  
Do they change no?
Do they open a dialouge with the community?  No.
They just go on thier merry way doing what thay do whuch have yeilded very slow and sometimes painful results.
All we can do is with hold money and they’ll habg on and beg rill thier last breath.
People are pissed and rightfully so.
Perhaps if HRC owned up to thier mistakes and bloated cororate greed and slimlined and did some work.  (Cmon is Joe solomese REALLY WORTH over 300K a year…and actually are any of them?)  And then they accomplish almost next to nothing and only take on the easiest battles and slide on promises?  
I for one am not surprised that this didn;t happen earlier

Really?

I can’t believe that people fighting for the same cause would condone such actions against one another. But hey it just shows the maturity level of some in our movement. If you disagree act childish and try to get attention. People need to realize that fighting against ourselves does nothing to further our cause.

Though physical vandalism is a different matter, that last quoted sentence smacks of the same reaction that trans people received after the peaceful, non-violent picket outside of the Rhode Island Avenue Palace in 2004.
Fighting against ‘ourselves’ is what HRC has done almost from day one.  It has a constituency – and it isn’t the vast majority of people that it claims to speak for – and it has unquestionably in the past (and, until proven otherwise, is still doing so) actively worked to undermine the interests of trans people.
If trans people had never stood up to these bigots-claiming-to-be-equalitymongers HRC would still be living in 1994 (hell, 1984) as to trans-inclusion. (Of course, other than token gestures – and hire – designed to lure the dollars of the gullible, it still is.)
I am explicitly not condoning any criminal act – and the vandalism was a criminal act.
However, I’m looking for some honesty here: How many people here are surprised that it took this long for something like the vandalism to happen?  I’ll say that I was expecting things to get uglier than they did in the wake of the 2007 ENDA fiasco.
I’ll reiterate: I am explicitly not condoning any criminal act.  I’m an attorney and aspiring academic.  I ruffle feathers via research and writing.
But…
Entrenched, monied elites managing to convince themselves that there is nothing wrong with the actions they take that hurt real people rarely is not a precursor to ugliness.  Hillary Rosen may not be Marie Antoinette, but she did tell a lot of people to eat purple-n-yellow cake on CNN after Obama’s speech.

Beautifully said.

THen you lied.I was one of those poster’s above.
And I did not.

Lest we forget…and because I’m in a mood now after being lied about..
THe Boston Tea Party was vandalism.
just saying.

Quite a few childishindividuals condone this crap. There is NO excuse for it. The guilty parties should be arrested.

HRC is in a no win scenariothey happen to have enough i9nformation to know how policies are actually made in DC, and act accordingly to work the system. Yet doing so will make them an automaic enemy of the militants that can’t see the forrest for the trees. While the definately need a wider array of voices in the organization, their underlying strategy is at least politically realistic compared to the folks yelling out on the streets.  

Is Hillary Rosen in the house?

Well, she sure isn’t out in the fields.So yeah.
(thanks, I’ll be here all week, don’t forget to tip your waitresses…)

I agree with the message.I don’t agree with how they decided to spread it.

My weaknessI don’t really condone it but I took a little bit of glee in seeing someone stand up to HRC and call them out for what they truly are. Maybe it is the street activist in me. Maybe it is a minor flaw in my character.
HRC was ready to bargain away SOCIAL SECURITY for fuck’s sake. They are a danger to not just our community, but to others as well and they need to be called to account.
I never knew we had glitter bombs.

petty much?Did you outright condone it? No. You state that “I certainly don’t endorse this action” and then go on to say “I have to say the emotional context there is pretty strong”. Well one can say many illegal acts have “pretty strong emotional context”. That doesn’t make it right.

Disagree. I’ve fired them and encouraged others to do the same.The first rule of holes is, Stop digging.
In that spirit, many of us who have been sustaining major donors for many years have put down our shovels, I mean checkbooks, and told HRC that they are on borrowed time.
It helped to have the housing bubble burst, as a lot of the major donors in my locale were folks whose disposable incomes relied on easy money…but I’m grabbing for some credit too.

Scott, you’re in Princess-Bride territoryYou keep using that word ‘condone’. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Not at allAnd you still lied, and I still call you on it.
I didn’t say it made it right.  I said it has some strong emotional context. Anything more there is you reading something unwritten into it.
So own it, ScottJ — apologize.  It’s not that hard, not that difficult.  I do it when I’m wrong.
I’m a transwoman who is in a pretty nasty mood right now — if I wanted to condone it, it would be right, given the history there, and yet I didn’t.

You want a tip? Don’t eat the corned beef!

nice…

Wrong.I too might not be in agreement with the snail work HRC has done for our community, but vandalizing their offices is wrong.
Very counter productive.
STILL I understand their frustrations.  Why didn’t they just have big protest in front of HRC?  That’s one way to start expressing frustrations and disspointed with HRC.  Hey, they could have even had some media exposure.  Vandalism just puts a negative spin on what they are trying to accomplish.

They DID protestWell, I don’t know if QAA themselves protested but There were protesters outside the dinner.
I still maintain that HRC is a danger to the community as a whole and should be treated as such. The actions of QAA remind me of the actions of ACT UP. I consider this to be nothing more nor nothing less than an example of civil disobedience. You know, that tactic which has worked wonders from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King to ACT UP to…

‘Do ya hear me NOW?’I don’t agree with vandalizing their offices but I bet HRC finally heard the message.  It’s just sad that it took such an action to finally achieve cognizance.
Why do organizations supposedly for us get so sidetracked into different agendas?  I guess that standing for principle, esp. when  tempted by money, power, politics and propaganda, is a relic of he past…  :(

You reckon?Did i suggest it was not still grafitti? That the crime of vandalism was comitted is clear.
I went on to make clear how hate-grafitti is more than just grafitti but grafitti + clear threat.
But please explain to me how my sentence was false by explaining exactly how the words written are horrible, harmful, hurtful or explicitly threatening.
Now there are occassions when i do condone ethical acts of civil dissobediance and crime in the name of justice… emphasis on the word Ethical. And on very specific occassions I have stated even violence is acceptable in defending human rights (American Civil War, French Revolution, Australias Eureka Stockade, Compton and Stonewall… if we reject that violence is acceptable in defending individual rights then you must reject all modern democracy, good luck reastablishing fuedalism and on being a serf).
Now please explain to me where my pointing out the reasonableness of the words and that it costs no more to remove than any persons tag grafitti and lacks the clear threat of harm and violence of say painting a swastika on a synagogue actually says I believe its good and that i support it…
If you are under the impression that unless you clearly condemn something you automatically condone it then book yourself into a psych ASAP because thats dangerous. The world is far less binary than that and all-or-nothing thinking leads to anxiety and depression and worse, you’ll want Cognitive Behaviour therapy to weed out the ‘warped thinking’. If you can’t afford one try the moodgym site. It’s CBT for free!

Equality means integration not assimilation.Assimilation means that we need to change to become like those who have oppressed us, and give up that which makes us unique.  This amounts to an erasure of our identities. This does seem to be the strategy of some groups.
Integration means we retain our individuality, but that the larger group includes us.  That puts us all on a level playing field.
I will still be queer, even when my equality is recognized.