Ramblings From the Ragged Crumbling Edge Of The Reality-Based Community

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

The Realized Closeted Fears Of Wingers And Fundies 

...there are a number of prominent conservatives and fundamentalist religious zealots who have a great deal to fear today:
Controversial British author Sebastian Horsley was denied entrance into the United States as he arrived to promote his memoir of drug addiction, sex and his dysfunctional family, his publisher said on Wednesday.

Seale Ballenger, spokesman for HarperCollins Publishers, said Horsley was stopped by immigration officials at New York's Newark airport after flying in from London on Tuesday to promote his latest book "Dandy in the Underworld."

He said the flamboyant writer...was accused of "moral turpitude" in connection with his former drug use, pro-prostitution stance and controversial self-crucifixion in the Philippines in 2000.

...clearly, if we are getting to the point where "moral turpitude" as interpreted by a federal bureaucracy is the determining basis for being allowed into this country for reasons other than for purposes of immigration, there is a long and growing list of prominent Americans from the right side of the political/social fulcrum who have aspirations of foreign travel who might want to let those opportunities pass by. The "turpitude list is pretty impressive, involving a whole bunch of activities that have been linked to various right-wing names of greater or lesser prominence over the last few years. These are dangerous times in which we live and nobody can trust that the golden key of power and prestige that has opened every door during the heyday of "anything goes" rightwing political dominance will keep working. Those who don't relish the idea of spending the rest of their days on the secret Bush compound deep in the Paraneñan hill country of Eastern Paraguay who should probably eschew foreign travel, given the risk they could face of not being allowed back in the country if their hegemony of the last fifteen years is finally busted for good...
Posted by: Jack K. / 7:44 PM

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