Category: 3. Enemies and Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

  • Vatican Continues to Scapegoat Homosexuals

    The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was “busy cleaning its own house” and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger. In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN […]

  • Montana's "American Police Force"

    A group spokesperson who called himself “Captain Michael” told local news channel KULR 8 that they’re more interested in setting up a $17 million training camp than in operating the prison. This man would not specify how they plan to use the camp. Gawker

  • UK Border Agency Uses DNA Testing to Determine 'True Country of Origin'

    I can’t believe we didn’t do this first in the US: Scientists are greeting with surprise and dismay a project to use DNA and isotope analysis of tissue from asylum seekers to evaluate their nationality and help decide who can enter the United Kingdom… Science has obtained Border Agency documents showing that isotope analyses of […]

  • Notes from the Homosexual Extremist Movement

    From the Phyllis Schafly’s Take Back America Conference for a session called How to Counter the Homosexual Extremist Movement: (emphasis mine) [F]ervent and relentless homosexual propaganda goose-steps along, trampling upon those who observe traditional notions of sexual morality. … Thus we find ourselves — back against the ropes — in a fight we did not […]

  • DoJ Official Blows Cover Off PATRIOT Act

    In the debate over the PATRIOT Act, the Bush White House insisted it needed the authority to search people’s homes without their permission or knowledge so that terrorists wouldn’t be tipped off that they’re under investigation. Now that the authority is law, how has the Department of Justice used the new power? To go after […]

  • Indefinite Detention to Continue Under Obama

    The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. via washingtonpost.com

  • Ex-CIA Chiefs Nervous About Investigations

    Seven former heads of the CIA on Friday urged President Barack Obama to end the probe into allegations of abuse of prisoners held by the agency, arguing that it would hamper intelligence operations. via Ex-CIA chiefs urge Obama to drop abuse investigation | Reuters.

  • Southern Fried Sex Panic

    Here’s how a sex panic works in the south: First, you convince yourself that two guys looking at each other like Elvis looked at a pork chop poses more of a threat to public safety than two guys who look at your property as if it were their own. Second, a sex panic requires you […]

  • Atlanta Police Raid Gay Bar Just Because They Wanted To

    “I hate queers,” a cop said. Other officers — some plain-clothed, some uniformed — walked around the bar demanding to know who was in the military, threatening to report them to their commanding officers. “This is a lot more fun than raiding n_ggers with crack!” Du-Wayne Ray heard one white officer say this to another; […]

  • 'Birther' Rappers Exist

    Republican rapper Hi-Caliber: We need tanks and hummers, not hybrid cars! We need honest politicians, not communist czars! USA, not the USSR. We need more Ann Coulter and less Bill Maher. […] I don’t need another lecture from the Socialistic hypocrite. Tuesday was your birthday, but where’s your birth certificate? via Think Progress