Ernst Roehm was eliminated during a purge in 1934 in an event now known as the “Night of the Long Knives“:
Hitler eliminated his closest friend Roehm and
certain SA leaders as potential rivals. The strictly
political motivation of this ruthless power play was
initially too obvious to be entirely denied, but later it
was conveniently obscured by charges of homosexual depravity
(Haberle:369f).
The formal accusations against Roehm and those
arrested with him centered on their homosexual activities,
which Hitler had of course known about for fifteen years and
shrugged off, it being alleged that these activities
disgraced the party. For those victims without any
homosexual background, “the Great Blood Purge” continued all
over Germany, as Nazi leaders got rid of all their most
hated enemies, as well as the inevitable “mistakes”
(Garde:726f).
I
am by no means suggesting that Republican leaders are getting ready to
murder homosexual Republicans. However, I do believe the fallout
from the Mark Foley scandal will be a springboard for the religious
right to press for a purge of the “sodomites” from important
positions. If they do that things could get quite interesting.
If Republicans try to blame homosexuals for the Foley scandal it
could blow up on them big time. As David Corn noted on Wednesday,
some of the most radical rightwing Republicans–including
Representative Katherine Harris and Henry Hyde and
Senators Bill Frist, George Allen, Mitch McConnell and Rick
Santorum–have had gay staffers. Homosexuals staffers are certain
to have loads of information about their bosses past misdeeds.
Will gay Republicans still in the closet sit idly by and be made the
scapegoat for Hastert’s failure of leadership? I don’t think
so. The Republican homosexuals have excellent media
contacts.
We’ve already seen how two of the homosexual staffers–Kirk Fordham,
Mr. Foley’s onetime chief of staff who resigned Wednesday
as an aide to Representative Thomas M. Reynolds, Republican of New
York, and Jeff Trandahl, formerly the clerk of the House of
Representatives–responded to Denny Hastert’s “memory” problems.
These gay guys ain’t walking a plank for the Republican agenda.
Some in the homosexual community continue to play defense for the Republicans. Remember our old buddy, Jeff Gannon aka Guckert?
Gannon, who posed nude appeared on several websites as a male escort,
also hung out at the White House as a faux journalist. Gannon is
helping lead the charge claiming that this scandal is the fault of George Soros and Democrats.
It would help to know why Gannon remains so protective of a White House
that espouses so many anti-homosexual policies. So far the media
has failed to investigate who Gannon was “seeing” in the White House
when not asking softball questions.
Hopefully, the homosexual community–Republican and Democrat–will
be left alone and allowed to go on serving their country just as
heterosexuals do. The Foley scandal is not about being gay; it is
about inappropriate behavior between an adult and children. As
the Republican position becomes more desperate in the coming days, the
long knives will come out. Only this go round, I don’t think the
homosexuals will take the assault lying down.
…the Foley scandal to become a gay thing. I must admit that I have about zero sympathy for any gay Republican who gets hurt by Republican efforts to retain their base – which seems to be “drifting sideways” – in this election. These men (I suppose a few women, too, although they aren’t often mentioned) who run as Republicans, serve on Republican staffs and contribute money to the party are a bane on other gays. But, if you’re a rightwinger in everything but sexual orientation, why are you going to do?
Nonetheless, despite my glee that this sexual predator has been caught out, and that the GOP leadership and the party overall may suffer greatly for it, attacking a Republican for his or her sexual orientation is beyond the Pale.
Attacking one – straight or gay – for hypocrisy, on the other hand …
Kids, I do believe that this whole Foley scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. And I agree it has nothing to do with being gay or straight. The behavior is abhorent. Anyone representing our country that had knowledge of this and let it ride needs to be fired. I for one cannot wait to see exactly just how much pull that so called republican base of hypocritical nut cases have come November 7!
I’ve been seeing Pat Buchanan trying to make it a gay thing as opposed to a child predator crime. The conservatives are already trying to infer this twisted homophobic rationalization. Its going to get real ugly.
I’ve been thinking about the missing shoe about to drop re Jeff Gannon ever since this shyt began.
Randi Rhodes had a very, very interesting piece this afternoon about the possible connections between John Karr, the Jon Benet Ramsey faux murderer, and with Denny Hastert and his live-in aide who is allegedly gay.
Supposedly, when Hastert’s wife comes a-visiting, she doesn’t stay with her husband, but in a hotel.
Hastert has been seen in the Marianas with this aide on vacation or on junkets. Rhodes also stated that the U.S.-controlled Marianas also has a unhealthy industry in the pre-pubescent child sex trade. The industry continues unabated despite the mantle the Repubs have sewn themselves about protecting the morals of the nation and its youth and children. Bills to abolish the practice have been voted down repeatedly.
Rhodes’ contention was: Could it be that Karr, who was arrested in Bangkok, knew or recognized Hastert and several other American Repubs en flagrante, was threatened if he talked, and then used the Ramsey case to get out of a possible lethal squeeze play?
Seems like a weird conspiracy theory, right? But remember that Karr is just about to be released from all charges stemming from both the California fondling case and the Ramsey case.
In California, the police recently found that all the evidence regarding the fondling case had disappeared. That I remember.. The stunning idiocy of the police just boggled my mind.
The sight of Karr being fed champagne and shrimp cocktails aboard a plane bound for the States was also unnerving.
And yet, I just feel that something like this is connected with Jeff Gannon being in the White House overnight. Not once, but several times. He wasn’t just skipping rope there. I know that people in the Orange Zone have been occasionally waxing about Bush, Rove or one other Bushite relieving their homoerotic or autoerotic urges with this clown.
It is just too, too coincidental that sooooo many Repub wingnuts in power today happen to be closeted gays.
I want the wingers to go down. Not because they are gay, but that they are closeted gays that hate themselves much like Adolf Hitler feared that he was Jewish and syphilitic, and turned that fear into political hate.
I wish someone would please begin connect the dots.
Honestly, the only ‘gay disease’ may be the one that denies its own nature ..