Queer Kiss-In = Credible Threat

I know, I know. I said I wouldn’t be blogging much, but I can’t help it. There are some things that make me sicker than food poisoning, and the story I just read is one of them. You’ve heard about Dubya authorizing and justifying spying on Americans, and the news that the feds can and will interrogate you about what you read. (Stick to the Left Behind series, and you’ll be fine. Trust me.) You’ve heard that it’s all in the name of security, right?

Well.

If you need further proof that the inmate are indeed running the asylum, look no further than the latest threat to our national security: queers kissing.

I kid you not.

According to recent press reports, Pentagon officials have been spying on what they call “suspicious” meetings by civilian groups, including student groups opposed to the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual military personnel. The story, first reported by Lisa Myers and NBC News last week, noted that Pentagon investigators had records pertaining to April protests at the State University of New York at Albany and William Patterson College in New Jersey. A February protest at NYU was also listed, along with the law school’s LGBT advocacy group OUTlaw, which was classified as “possibly violent” by the Pentagon. A UC-Santa Cruz “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” protest, which included a gay kiss-in, was labeled as a “credible threat” of terrorism.

Let’s not forget, these are the same nutbags who cooked up the notion of a chemical weapon to turn enemy soldiers gay. The Pentagon confirmed it, by the way.

Can we call them crazy fanatics now? We’re not talking about people with links to terrorists. We’re talking about a group of students (gay, lesbian & probaby some straight supporters) who oppose official DoD policy and are protesting that policy as is their right as…oh, I don’t know American citizens. Maybe. Maybe not anymore.

The point is, this ain’t about “national security.” I know the true believers claim that anything remotely queer is gonna cause the mountains to crumble, the oceans to boil, and marriages all over the country to instantly end as former heterosexuals take to the streets to cavort with their new sodomite svengalis. (Of course, that sounds enough like Armageddon that it might be possible to convince them that gays in the military will speed on the end times, and they’ll be having pie in the sky with Jesus much sooner.) They probably even believe that a queer kiss-in will potentially turn a few potential soldiers queer and render them unfit for battle.

Whatever. This is about keeping tabs on Americans who oppose government policies. Period. And I’m willing to bet they folks in charge aren’t that upset that the news is getting so much play, because it sends a clear message. If more Americans know or even believe showing up at a protest could land them on a government “watch list,” or that reading the wrong kind of books could bring federal agents to their front door, they’ll be more likely to “watch what they say” and maybe even opt to stay home and watch TV. Because, they have your name, they know where to find you, and can basically do whatever they want with you courtesy of the Patriot Act. And if current political reality is any indication, most Americans won’t much care. So, nobody’s gonna stop them.

Do you really wanna give them a reason? Think about it. Faggot.