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.