Then counter-retaliation would be fully warranted.
Posted on 03/29/2009 12:43:40 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Threats of protest halt Pink Swastika author's scheduled talk
by Temecula Valley News staff
The Murrieta/Temecula Republican Assembly’s (MTRA) next meeting was scheduled to be April 3; however, that meeting and location are now in doubt as a result of threats of protest.
According to MTRA president Bob Kowell, their speaker was scheduled to be Pastor Scott Lively from Abiding Truth Ministries in Massachusetts. Pastor Lively’s book, “The Pink Swastika,” has gained the attention and protest of gays and gay activists across the world.
“The meeting was to be held at Temeku Hills Country Club,” said Kowell. “Temeku Country Club informed MTRA that, due to our speaker, the event could not take place there because they had received threats of demonstrations. MTRA was informed that there could be a liability issue with someone getting hurt on their way to using the public pool while passing through demonstrators.”
A message was left with Temeku Hills Country Club for comment, but as of press time there had been no response.
The Pacific Justice Institute has pledged support of MTRA’s free speech rights. According to Chief Council Kevin Snider, they will be drafting a letter to Temeku Country Club asking them to honor the contract.
Kowell says MTRA will work with the country club to secure the spot and keep people safe as well. The police would be asked to help keep demonstrators at a safe distance.
The local chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is adamant that Lively shouldn’t be able to speak to the group at all and believes retaliation may be warranted.
(Excerpt) Read more at thevillagenews.com ...
Emphasis on "...(PFLAG) IS ADAMANT THAT LIVELY SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE GROUP AT ALL AND BELIEVES RETALIATION MAY BE WARRANTED."
Whoa! Maybe there is some truth to Lively's claim that homosexuals were prominent within Hitler's Nazi Party?
I had heard that homosexuals were active in the early years of Hitler and his rise to power through Nazism (the brown shirt SA types.)
This PFLAG group certainly acts like a bunch of brown shirts with their threats and intolerance for free speech.
Go figure...
Why would any Conservative care what some National Sociasislt wanna bees think or say about anything?
All this does is feed the false stereotype that NAZIs were somehow on the right of the political spectrum. NAZIs were, and are, half way between socislsits and communists. Hitler’s workers party, does that sound conservative?
And the people who sponsored this event let them.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, cowardly is as cowardly does. We're not going to defeat these thugs by backing down from them every time there's a threat of confrontation.
Some background info about the Southern Poverty Law Center from Discover The Networks.org:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6989
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER
* Monitors the activities of what it calls “hate groups” in the United States
* Exaggerates the prevalence of white racism directed against American minorities
Founded in 1971 by a pair of Alabama lawyers, Morris Dees and Joe Levin, the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) quickly built a reputation as America’s leading “civil rights law firm,” suing Southern institutions resistant to desegregation, publicizing hate crimes, and using the media to denounce the perpetrators of those crimes. At the time of SPLC’s founding, Julian Bond, who currently chairs the NAACP, was named the fledgling group’s first President.
During the 1970s and 1980s, SPLC courtroom challenges focused on such issues as reforming conditions in prisons and mental-health facilities. When Klansmen in Decatur, Alabama disrupted a May 26, 1979 civil rights gathering, SPLC filed its first civil suit against a major Klan organization. Within two years, the Center had launched its Klanwatch campaign (later renamed the Intelligence Project) “to monitor organized hate activity across the country.” In an effort to hold white supremacist leaders accountable for their followers’ actions, SPLC sued for monetary damages on behalf of victims of Klan violence, effectively bankrupting several major Klan organizations and “draw[ing] national attention to the growing threat of white supremacist activity.”
As part of the Intelligence Project, the SPLC website currently features a map of “Active U.S. Hate Groups.” Deeming racism the the nearly exclusive province of the “radical right,” Intelligence Project reports mostly ignore groups on the left. And although SPLC denounces extremist religious organizations like the Jewish Defense League and Westboro Baptist Church, no mention is made of any extremist Muslim groups. (In 2007, SPLC identified 888 separate “active hate groups” in the United States.)
In a 2003 article titled “Into the Mainstream,” featured in SPLC’s quarterly magazine Intelligence Report, author Chip Berlet asserted that “right-wing foundations and think tanks support efforts to make bigoted and discredited ideas respectable.”
According to SPLC, white bigotry aimed at racial and ethnic minorities has not diminished at all in recent decades. The Center states, for instance, “Like most of the southeastern U.S., Georgia has seen an explosion in Hispanic immigration in recent years. … As hate groups exploit the racial tension stemming from the area’s growth, locals have launched violent attacks against immigrant workers.” In May 2006, SPLC characterized the critics of pro-open borders rallies (held in several U.S. cities) as “anti-immigration extremists.”
In 1991 SPLC established a “Teaching Tolerance” educational program “to help K-12 teachers foster respect and understanding in the classroom.” One recent Teaching Tolerance campaign urged students to oppose the use of Native American mascots among sports teams by taking up a letter-writing campaign to owners and players of professional squads, high-school and middle-school principals, school board members, university trustees, university coaches, and the editor of a local newspaper.
Highlights of such campaigns are featured in SPLC’s biannual in-house publication, Teaching Tolerance magazine, which has a circulation of 600,000 educators in more than 70 countries. Noting that nearly 90 percent of K-12 teachers in the United States are white, while 36 percent of pupils “are students of color,” one recent article cited this fact as evidence of “a legacy of racial domination and injustice” in the teacher-hiring process. A corollary to the Teaching Tolerance initiative is another SPLC website, Tolerance.org. Created in 2001, this site “offers a wide variety of resources to support anti-bias activism.”
In 1992, SPLC asserted that some 346 white-supremacist organizations were operating in the United States. Even leftist journalist Alexander Cockburn accused SPLC’s Morris Dees of raising funds by “frightening elderly liberals that the heirs of Adolf Hitler are about to march down Main Street.” Ethical questions about SPLC’s tactics were also raised by Harper’s Magazine, which took issue with the organization’s wont for suing groups for the crimes commited by its indvidual members, “a practice that, however seemingly justified, should give civil libertarians pause.”
In 1996, USA Today called SPLC, with its $68 million in assets, “the nation’s richest civil rights organization.” By the end of fiscal year 2003, SPLC’s endowment totaled $120.6 million. Morris Dees raised eyebrows in the 1990s when he told an interviewer, “I learned everything I know about hustling from the Baptist Church. Spending Sundays on those hard benches listening to the preacher pitch salvation — why, it was like getting a Ph.D. in selling.”
In 1995, Alabama’s Montgomery Advertiser published a series of investigative reports that raised serious questions about SPLC’s finances. In one instance mentioned by the paper, SPLC won a celebrated $7 million settlement after suing a Ku Klux Klan organization in Alabama. The Klan was without assets and the SPLC client received very little from the suit. By contrast, SPLC directors — having garnered $9 million in donations in a two-year fundraising campaign for the trial — afforded themselves salaries of $350,000 for the trial’s duration.
A 1998 survey conducted by the nonpartisan publication National Journal showed that Morris Dees earned tens of thousands of dollars more each year than the officers of 78 other selected advocacy groups, including the heads of such prominent organizations as the ACLU, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and the Children’s Defense Fund. After SPLC took in more than $44 million in revenues in 1999, The Nation magazine lambasted the Center for spending nearly $6 million on fundraising activities but only $2.4 million on litigation.
Between 2001 and 2004, SPLC was the recipient of 59 foundation grants totaling $3,326,425. The donors included: the Arcus Foundation; the Baltimore Community Foundation; the Cisco Systems Foundation; the Cleveland Foundation, the Naomi and Nehemiah Cohen Foundation; the Columbus Foundation and Affiliated Organizations; the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan; the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region; Community Foundation (Silicon Valley); the Cushman Family Foundation; the Dibner Fund; the Joseph and Bessie Feinberg Foundation; the Ford Foundation; the Edward and Verna Gerbic Family Foundation; the Jackson and Irene Golden 1989 Charitable Trust; the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Fund; the Grove Foundation; the J.M. Kaplan Fund; the J.P Morgan Chase Foundation; the Kaplen Foundation; the Open Society Institute; the Albert Parvin Foundation; the Picower Foundation; the Jay Pritzker Foundation; the Louis and Harold Price Foundation; the Public Welfare Foundation; the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Family Foundation; the Spiegel Foundation; the State Street Foundation; the Steinberg Charitable Trust; and the Vanguard Public Foundation.
Incidentally, homosexuality was illegal in Germany before the Nazis took over. The Nazis changed the wording of the law so that people who weren't even homosexual could be charged with it and jailed.
Then counter-retaliation would be fully warranted.
Imagine a group who constantly whines about free speech protesting another group.
I think the 6 million Jews and the 6 million Pollocks sent to the gas chambers tells me all I need to know about NAZIs.
This book gives new meaning to the disparaging term “Pinko”!
Here is the book:
THE PINK SWASTIKA
http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/pinkswastika/html/the_pinkswastika_4th_edition_-_final.htm
Pollocks??????????????????????????
In 1972, Jeanne Manford started an international movement when she marched with her son Mortie in New York’s Gay Pride Parade.
in the 1980’s, PFLAG became involved in opposing Anita Bryant’s anti-gay crusade and worked to end the U.S. military’s efforts to discharge lesbians—more than a decade before military issues came to the forefront of the GLBT movement. And by the late 1980’s, PFLAG began to have notable success in organizing chapters in rural and Bible Belt states like Nebraska, Minnesota and the Dakotas.
In 1990, following a period of significant growth, PFLAG employed an Executive Director, expanded its staff, and consolidated operations in Washington, D.C. Also in 1990, PFLAG President Paulette Goodman sent a letter to Barbara Bush asking for Mrs. Bush’s support. The first lady’s personal replied, stating, “I firmly believe that we cannot tolerate discrimination against any individuals or groups in our country. Such treatment always brings with in pain and perpetuates intolerance.” Inadvertently given to the Associated Press, her comments caused a political maelstrom and were perhaps the first gay-positive comments ever to come out of the White House.
http://community.pflag.org/Page.aspx?pid=267
******
Morty Manford died of AIDS
Morty Manford was a lifelong New Yorker, born September 17, 1950 in Flushing, Queens, where his mother was an elementary school teacher and his father a dentist.
In June 1972 Jeanne Manford marched alongside her son in the Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, carrying a sign that read “Parents of Gays: Unite in Support of Our Children.”
direction in the glbtq rights movement, with an emphasis on “the idea of gay respectability . . . an antiactivist type of gay theology.”
After completing his degree at Columbia, Manford attended the Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University. Upon graduation, he spent four years with the Legal Aid Society of New York representing indigent defendants before receiving an appointment as an assistant state attorney general in 1986.
When he was diagnosed with AIDS, Manford returned to the home of his mother, a widow since 1982, and died there on May 14, 1992.
http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/manford_morty,3.html
We're living an Orwellian nighmere on so many levels. This kind of nazism of intimidation limiting free speech and the free flow of ideas is the worst kind of totalitarianism, yet it is just accepted by the average person. I was in college in the 70's. We were reading and discussing works like 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Future Shock, etc. etc. The standards. My kids, who are in college now, would know nothing of these books if I hadn't introduced them to them. They're not even refered to in any of their college courses. The reason college professors don't use them anymore is because they ARE the regimes Orwell and Toffler warned society about.
Imagine that.
The public should know about this.
"...(PFLAG) IS ADAMANT THAT LIVELY SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE GROUP AT ALL AND BELIEVES RETALIATION MAY BE WARRANTED."
I see no difference in the their mission statement and their reactions to those they oppose. Do any on you?
Some steel-spined folks at the Temeku Country Club, huh? Yeah, nothing more scary than an enraged faggot in little pink shorts!
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