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Title: Transgender Activist Pleads Guilty to Democrats’ Office Vandalism
Post by: Shana A on December 23, 2009, 07:01:41 AM

Transgender Activist Pleads Guilty to Democrats' Office Vandalism
by Kilian Melloy
Tuesday Dec 22, 2009

http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=100345 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=100345)

A transgender anarchist has pleaded guilty to smashing windows at the Colorado Democratic Party headquarters office in Denver.

Denver Democrats and Republicans blamed each other in a back-and-forth of accusations over the act of vandalism, which was carried out by 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler and at least other accomplice in the early morning hours of last Aug. 25. Democrats were quick to say that Republicans had piqued anti-Democratic sentiment; when it was revealed in the press that Schwenkler had worked as a canvasser for a local Democratic politician, Republicans were just as quick to accuse Democrats of engineering the vandalism to win public sympathy.

Schwenkler, also known in anarchist circles as Ariel Attack, belonged to a groups called Queers Against Obama and was listed by local group Bash Back! Denver as one of its "friends and allies," reported the Denver Post in a Dec. 22 article.

also

http://coloradoindependent.com/44771/anarchist-ariel-attack-pleads-guilty-to-democratic-party-denver-vandalism (http://coloradoindependent.com/44771/anarchist-ariel-attack-pleads-guilty-to-democratic-party-denver-vandalism)

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14045675 (http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14045675)