[Marxism] [Fwd: Republicans Say Top Democrats Support 'Group of Gay Pedophiles']]]

[David Thorstad]

After blaming demon rum failed to deflect attention from Foley's 
tasteless, but so far totally legal, e-mails, he now drags up youthful 
massages from his priest, apparently on grounds that decades-old 
massages lead to sending tacky e-mails. It's gratifying to see an 
antigay oinker like Foley bite the dust, but don't expect the toadying 
U.S. gay groups to show any principles or backbone by pointing to the 
fact that man-boy friendships go on in every American neighborhood and 
have existed throughout human history--nor that NAMBLA is not a 
"pedophile" organization, but rather a group that advocates sexual 
freedom for consenting individuals (a goal of the Stonewall revolution 
that groups like Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian 
Task Force long ago abandoned).  Foley's attraction to teenage youths 
shows that he's a pederast, not a pedophile, but such distinctions mean 
nothing to the antisex gestapo or to "leading" gay and  lesbian groups. 
These groups are too busy trying to get married and aping heterosexuals 
to defend relationships and attractions that were embraced by many of 
history's same-sexers, whom they nevertheless continue to claim as part 
of the homosexual heritage.  Like Stalin, they prefer to rewrite 
history, and ignore science and reality, in their quest for acceptance 
by the heterosexist dictatorship. For America's pathetic and incompetent 
one-party system, focusing on sexual pecadilloes is a convenient way to 
cover up the crimes of both Democrats and Republicans in killing off 
innocent youth in Iraq to advance their imperialist goals and financial 
scams, in genuflecting before a private-enterprise ripoff health system 
instead of junking it for socialized medicine or a single-payer system, 
in supporting a police state and building prisons for all the victims of 
their failed drug war and their criminalization of any sexual behavior 
that falls outside their shrinking definition of bourgeois morality. The 
bigger scandal is that most U.S. gay/lez groups don't have the 
principles or the cojones to stand up for truth and freedom.  Indeed, 
they have helped to lay the groundwork for witchhunts by adopting the 
heterosexist, police, bourgeois feminist, and psychiatric lingo whereby 
love is rape, the erect cock is a weapon of torture rather than an 
instrument of pleasure, and dirty (gay) old men are a threat to innocent 
youth.

David
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1904969.ece

Published on Friday, October 20, 2006 by the
lndependent/UK
Republicans Say Top Democrats Support 'Group of Gay
Pedophiles'
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles

Let the dirty campaigning begin. With less than three
weeks to go before the US mid-term elections and an
embattled Republican Party struggling to hold on to
control of both the House and Senate, some of the
country's more desperate candidates are resorting to
desperate measures.

Republicans aren't going after their Democratic
challengers much on Iraq, or the war on terror, or
nuclear proliferation. Instead, members of President
Bush's party are accusing their adversaries of being
apologists for gay sex between adults and children.

In Ohio, the Republican candidate for governor,
Kenneth Blackwell, went on a tear against his
Democratic challenger, Ted Strickland, in their
concluding televised debate this week, accusing him of
cosying up to an eccentric group called the North
American Man Boy Love Association, or Nambla, and
associating himself with a man convicted of exposing
himself to young children.

The attack almost certainly had more to do with Mr
Strickland's double-digit lead in the polls than with
any real substance. The convicted man, for example,
was one of hundreds of campaign workers, not a close
confidant of Mr Strickland's. But the smear by
association with Nambla - a convoluted charge based on
a congressional vote on which Mr Strickland abstained
- does not appear to have been an accident, since
Republican candidates have been trying it out all over
the country.

In California, a struggling Republican congressman
called John Doolittle has argued that since his
opponent, Charlie Brown, is a member of the American
Civil Liberties Union, and since the ACLU has in the
past defended Nambla's free-speech rights, he is
tainted by association. "It is astounding," Mr
Doolittle said in a recent press release, "that anyone
could defend a group dedicated to aiding and abetting
pedophiles." (Mr Doolittle failed to mention that he
once acted as a character witness for a friend
convicted of sexually assaulting six of his patients.)

The Nambla charge has also been thrown at Nancy
Pelosi, the San Francisco congresswoman who would
become the next Speaker of the House if the Democrats
win a majority on 7 November and who has thus become a
multi-purpose pincushion for the Republicans. The
maverick right-winger and erstwhile presidential
candidate Pat Buchanan told a television interviewer
this week that Ms Pelosi had been on gay pride parades
where Nambla members were also present and had thus
been "marching with ".

The line of attack is remarkably brazen, given that
the Republican Party is itself being rocked by a
man-boy sex scandal. First, Florida congressman Mark
Foley was forced to resign following the publication
of predatory e-mails and instant messages he sent to
teenage pages working on Capitol Hill. Then the
Republican House leadership closed ranks over
revelations that it had known about Mr Foley's habits
for years and done nothing about them. Now a second
Republican congressman, Jim Kolbe of Arizona, is under
investigation for a camping trip he organised with a
group of pages 10 years ago.

And these are only the latest setbacks to hit a
Republican Party already mired in corruption scandals
and public disillusion on an array of issues, from
Iraq to the aftermath of last year's Hurricane
Katrina.

The thinking, though, appears to be that if Democrats
can be painted as paedophiles too, then the Foley
scandal might lose some of its bite. As Mr Buchanan
said of Ms Pelosi: "If she's been marching with
paedophiles, is she credible standing up there saying,
'I'm shocked, shocked, that some Republican is after
17-year-old pages'?"

There is a tendency in all US election campaigns to
talk about sexual morality rather than weighty matters
of state. But this yearseems to mark a new low.

Nowhere has the tone gone lower than in Winston-Salem,
North Carolina, where a Republican candidate called
Vernon Robinson has accused his opponent, incumbent
congressman Brad Miller, of wanting to import
homosexuals to the United States and spending
tax-payer dollars on filthy scientific studies on sex.

"Instead of spending money on cancer research," a
recent campaign advert ran, "Brad Miller spent your
money to study the masturbation habits of old men ...
Brad Miller even spent your tax dollars to pay teenage
girls to watch pornographic movies with probes
connected to their genitalia. Brad Miller pays for
sex, but not for body armour for our troops."

All this opprobrium stemmed from a single vote by Mr
Miller on appropriations for the National Institutes
of Health. In a campaign mailer, the unabashedly
homophobic Mr Robinson even sought to drop hints
questioning his adversary's sexuality, referring to
him pointedly as "childless". Mr Miller has since
pointed out that the reason he is childless is that
his wife had a hysterectomy 20 years ago.