Terming gays as potential terrorists sounds like what we've come to expect from the Red State Bible Belt region of the USA, but the Director of Alabama Homeland Security says he borrowed the idea from a Pennsylvania state sponsored site.
We knew stupidity wasn't confined to the southern region of the Empire, but it's always nice to have proof. Oh, I forgot, we already had proof because there are indeed Republicans in Pennsylvania too.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.
The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents.
If the state of Alabama thinks gays are terrorists, one can only presume the Red State must also view blacks as the perpetrators of racism aimed at the dwindling white majority.
But the Alabama web site didn't stop there. It also warned that domestic terrorists can be found in "anti-government groups that believe the 'current government is violating the basic principles laid out by the U.S. Constitution.'"
Um, in other words, if you are not a heterosexual loyal Bushie, you might be a terrorist.
Stephen P. Gordon, political director of the Libertarian National Committee, charges that "Alabama Homeland Security would incarcerate Madison, Washington and Jefferson at Guantanamo Bay, if they had that option."
Alabama Homeland Security Director Jim Walker defends the website and whines that he didn't hear any complaints until the wrath of the blogs was unleashed. Translation, there were no complaints about the bizarre website until people actually knew that the damn thing existed.
There's more at The Blend.
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