Via: Eschaton
According to the Montgomery County Police Department, [President Bush's former domestic policy advisor Claude] Allen was arrested yesterday and charged in a felony theft and a felony theft scheme. According to a department press release, Allen conducted approximately 25 fraudulent "refunds" in Target and Hecht's stores in Maryland. On Jan. 2, a Target employee apprehended Allen after observing him receive a refund for merchandise he had not purchased. Target then contacted the Montgomery County Police. According to a source familiar with the case, Target and the police had been observing Allen since October 2005.[Note to self: Expect your son to be warped if you name him "Claude". That's just cruel.]
Background:
- Claude Allen, [K]nown as Rove's enforcer, President Bush's longtime domestic-policy adviser, resigned suddenly on Feb. 9.
- Allen led an HHS witch-hunt that investigated all of the AIDS service organizations (ASOs) receiving any federal funding.
- San Francisco's Stop AIDS Project and half a dozen other California AIDS-fighting groups, were ultimately purged from receiving U.S. funding by the Allen-led witch-hunt because Allen didn't like their science-based sex-education programs. Allen ordered Advocates for Youth, the leading national coalition for safe-sex ed, audited half a dozen times.
- Allen was the driving force to replace science-based sex ed with the failed policy of teaching that only abstinence prevents AIDS.
- A black conservative and religious primitive, Allen helped bludgeon the Centers for Disease Control, which reports to HHS, into purging safe-sex materials from its Web sites and into adopting mandatory new rules requiring AIDS-fighting groups to teach that condoms don't work in preventing the spread of AIDS.
- Allen proved himself to be so adamantly opposed to reproductive rights that he found it preferable for poor children to go without health coverage than to risk an underage sexual-abuse victim having access to state-funded abortion services."
I'm reminded of the story of this amazing philosopher/prophet/messiah who was nailed to a cross, murdered because he dared cross some ultra religious politically powerful men -- Pharasees, or something like that. If some of Mr. Allen's supporters could take some time away from mounting their reverse witch-hunt defense and fill me in on the details of this story, I'd be very appreciative.
We are living in the age of the resurrection of the Pharasees. These theocrats, holier than thou, sanctimoneous hypocrites who cannot abide by the simple norms of treating their fellow man, or woman, with compassion and charity; who would sell their own brother for power and money, and feel entitled to rip off anyone who is unaware of their diabolical nature.
They have no compunction about force-feeding their twisted morality on the rest of us. This guy is no better than evangelicals Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swagart. They are only separated from the likes of Dr. James Dobson, Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell because those bastards haven't gotten caught yet; but their souls are black.
True Christians, like peacekeeper Tom Fox, the missionary whose body was found in Iraq today, don't play power games with other people's lives. They stand, and sometimes fall, for peace.