aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Terror threat in Alabama
A Web site operated by the Alabama Department of Homeland Security identified gay rights organizations, anti-abortion groups, environmentalists and people opposed to genetically-altered foods among those who could be classified as terrorists.
Certain Web pages were removed from the Internet after the agency received complaints about the site. [...]
The site indicated that these “radical elements” are found in many of the following movements:
- Environmentalists
- Anti-Genetics (those opposed to genetically-altered crops)
- Animal Rights
- Anti-Abortion
- Anti-Nuclear
- Anti-War
- Pro-Gay Rights
Disturbing on its face, I find it more so as we watch what’s going on in Moscow.
For the record, I don’t blame Alabama. I blame weak political leaders at every level - the Alabama department’s director, Jim Walker, among them - who pander and preen because they’re too incompetent and cowardly to do something effective. Demonization hurts us all.
Via Gay News Blog.
