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defrogITEM [via 50000000 Sparber Fans Can't Be Wrong]: Now that conservative Christians are in a tizzy over Iowa succumbing to the Homosexual Agenda®, there’s no better time to revisit one of the greatest (if most obscure) books ever written on the subject: Destroy The Accuser: Federal Homo Power Exposed by Frederick Seelig.
To hear Max Sparber tell it (because I've never actually read the book), Seelig was a former journalist diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and in 1966 wrote this book to prove that not only was his diagnosis fraudulent, but that he was a victim of a homosexual conspiracy that reached as high as the White House, and was using Communist brainwashing techniques to attempt to dissuade him from reclaiming his two children from their foster parents, both “perverts”.
Classically deranged homophobia. What’s noteworthy is that it was taken seriously at the time – at least by several former Congressmen, as well as white nationalist Dr. Revilo P. Oliver and Sarah Palin favorite, Westbrook Pegler, all of whom endorsed the book on its jacket.
To be fair, there was a much bigger audience for Commie-related homophobia in 1967 when the book came out – it was still considered a mental illness back then. But so was paranoid schizophrenia. I guess if you were asked to trust the word of a paranoid schizophrenic or a homosexual in 1967, the paranoid would win.
Luckily that’s not true these days.
Mostly.
Diary of a madman,
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To hear Max Sparber tell it (because I've never actually read the book), Seelig was a former journalist diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, and in 1966 wrote this book to prove that not only was his diagnosis fraudulent, but that he was a victim of a homosexual conspiracy that reached as high as the White House, and was using Communist brainwashing techniques to attempt to dissuade him from reclaiming his two children from their foster parents, both “perverts”.
"It wasn't long before I established the existence of the nationwide homosexual society, with headquarters in Washington, and members in government offices, including the White House, and United Nations; their roles in tax-exempt foundations, and their international headquarters in Amsterdam, Holland!"
Classically deranged homophobia. What’s noteworthy is that it was taken seriously at the time – at least by several former Congressmen, as well as white nationalist Dr. Revilo P. Oliver and Sarah Palin favorite, Westbrook Pegler, all of whom endorsed the book on its jacket.
To be fair, there was a much bigger audience for Commie-related homophobia in 1967 when the book came out – it was still considered a mental illness back then. But so was paranoid schizophrenia. I guess if you were asked to trust the word of a paranoid schizophrenic or a homosexual in 1967, the paranoid would win.
Luckily that’s not true these days.
Mostly.
Diary of a madman,
This is dF
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on 2009-04-05 11:38 am (UTC)-- JF
PS (becoming a giant ant is fatal because one's specific gravity becomes too great at that size, which causes one's exoskeleton to collapse. Or, like, that sounds as if physics is involved.)
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on 2009-04-06 11:08 pm (UTC)