A New "Night of Long Knives?"

By Larry C. Johnson

It looks like Republican homosexuals who work on the Hill are being set up as the ultimate scapegoat for the electoral disaster awaiting the Republicans in November. It remains to be seen whether there will be a purge, albeit a bloodless one, of homosexual staffers, but the tale of the rocky relationship between Adolf Hitler and the co-founder of the Nazis, Ernst Roehm, who also led the Storm Troopers (S.A. aka Sturmabteilung) offers some fascinating parallels.

Homosexuality was illegal in Germany prior to and during the Nazi regime. Yet, prominent leaders of the Nazi Party, like Ernst Roehm, played an active role in the Nazi party and the Nazi government. According to the New York Times and other publications, there are Republican homosexuals in key leadership positions throughout Washington - including the Congress, the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Republican National Committee......