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Lesbian gang epidemic

On the June 21, 2007 edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'Reilly, along with the help of "Fox crime analyst" Rod Wheeler, reported that there is a lesbian gang epidemic in the US, particularly in the Washington, D.C. area, where there are up to 150 lesbian gangs.Lesbian Gang Epidemic on YouTube To illustrate the point, he showed a video that appeared on YouTube entitled "Chick Fight." He also claims that these gangs are forcibly recruiting young girls and coercing them into homosexuality. O'Reilly provided two examples, a Tennessee-based gang called GTO (Gays Taking Over), who he claims have been involved in raping young girls, and a Philadelphia-based gang called DTO (Dykes Taking Over), both of which were easily debunked by the Southern Poverty Law Center along with one of the alleged beatings.Susy Buchanan and David Holthouse. "The Oh-Really Factor". Southern Poverty Law Center.
Sgt. Brett Parson of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department's Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit has said that there are "150 to 175 total gangs in the D.C. area, and out of those only nine where the predominance of members are female", and Detective Patrick Word, president of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network, stated there is no evidence of a lesbian gang epidemic in his region (1 lesbian gang was reported).
Wheeler mentions that these gangs are carrying pink pistols. This appears to be a shot at a gay pro-gun organization entitled Pink Pistols, whose mottos are "Armed gays don't get bashed" and "Pick on someone your own caliber."Pink Pistols official site
==Significance==
Presenting "facts" that are unsubstantiated is an easy way to create an audience. Unfortunately, fanning the flames of homophobia by creating such a story endangers the lives and livelihoods of homosexuals and those perceived as possibly being gay. All extraordinary news stories require fact-checking, as news stories often "go over the wire" and are picked up by other news agencies, perpetuating a falsehood. Similar propaganda techniques have been used by such regimes as Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, to great effect.
==Possible sources==
Armed lesbian gangs have long been a staple of certain action movies (The Lizzies in The Warriors, The Cycle Sluts in Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, etc.) Knowing him, it's possible that O'Reilly saw one of these films and mistook it for a documentary.
==See also==
*Conservative talk radio
==External links==
*"O'Reilly apologizes for overstating lesbian gang threat"
*"How I Got Fox News To Tell The Truth About 'Violent Lesbian Gangs'"
*GLAAD Demands O'Reilly Cut the Spin in Gay Gang Report
*Friday A/V Club: Pink Pistols, Bill O'Reilly, and the Lesbian Gang Menace, Reason
==References==
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Category:Conservative deceit
Category:Homophobia
Category:Neologisms
Category:Pseudohistory
Leslie Flint

Leslie Flint (1911–1994) was a British medium known for his claims of direct-voice mediumship.
==Biography==
Flint was born in London in 1911 and reached the peak of his fame from the 1930s to the 1960s as a medium. He was famous for claiming to contact spirits of dead celebrities, and his sessions were often recorded.
==Overview==
According to spiritualists, direct-voice mediumship occurs when those who have died can be heard talking in their own voices in the presence of a medium. The spirits do not use the medium's voice box or vocal organs but rather speak through a voicebox constructed of ectoplasm, a substance that forms from the medium's body.
All ectoplasm has been proven to be the result of fraud made of cheesecloth, butter, muslin, or other natural substances, so it is safe to conclude that direct-voice mediumship is also a scam. Flint prohibited any lights in his recording sessions, and he would sometimes even perform his direct-voice mediumship in a cupboard. The question needs to be asked: if direct-voice mediumship is genuine then why do mediums need dark conditions and have to hide in a cupboard? The reason, of course, is because in dark and hidden conditions all kinds of trickery can be performed by the medium. 
Flint also disallowed any filming of any kind in his recording sessions and insisted on performing in the dark, thus all seance-goers and investigators were unable to see him during the performances. So, it is very easy to suggest that he could have been using prerecorded tapes to produce voices, as well as to have live accomplices for providing two-way voice channels. The Society for Psychical Research investigated Flint and concluded that the voices heard at his seances were auditory hallucinations brought on by hypnosis.
==Voices==
The voices of the spirits via Flint's direct-voice mediumship sound like nothing of those who lived on earth. Amongst those who Flint claimed to have contacted were:
*Arthur Conan Doyle
*Marilyn Monroe
*Winston Churchill
*Mahatma Gandhi
*Oscar Wilde
*Harry Price
*Frederic Chopin
*Charles Dickens 
*Elizabeth Fry
*Bessie Smith
James H. Foreman in an article for The Skeptic Report wrote:
The Flint recording sessions of Gandhi also sound nothing like Gandhi, the accent, the intonation, etc., is totally different. Compare Flint's Gandhi with Gandhi's real voice. Flint's direct-voice mediumship of the psychical researcher Harry Price (found here) also sounds very different from the voice of the real Price.
==Sources==
*Theresa Cheung (2006). The Element Encyclopedia of the Psychic World. Harper Element. pp. 214–216
*Alexander Walker (May 10, 1994). "Obituary: Leslie Flint". The Independent. pp. 16
==References== 
Category:British people
Category:Paranormal
Category:Psychics
Letter to a Christian Nation

Letter to a Christian Nation () is a 2006 book, in essay form, by Sam Harris, to serve as rhetorical ammunition against the arguments of Christianity — specifically, to refute the inaccuracies, inadequacies, and inconsistencies of American religious fundamentalists (i.e., the Christian Right) and is a response to criticism to his earlier book, The End of Faith.
Given the timeframe, being post-9/11 and during the second term of the George W. Bush administration, many of the arguments are directed at the hot-button issues of that period in history when compassionate conservatism was in heavy practice.
==Rhetoric==
In the beginning, Harris employs the use of binary logic to set up his assertions: for example, either the Bible is true, or it isn't; either Jesus is the savior of mankind or he isn't; either Christianity is the one true path to God or it isn't. While this set-up approaches false dilemma, it is, in fact, the very same argument that theologians would use, save that theologians don't recognize the possibilities of "isn't" in either case. In his preface as well as his first paragraphs, he explains that his argument is not directed towards the religious liberal or even the religious moderate, but the religious conservative. More to the point — religious liberals/moderates offer up the possibilities of a spectrum of belief systems, whereas atheism and fundamentalism are mutually exclusive. Harris does not want a spectrum; he wants the debate to be over, with a clear winner and loser.
Harris uses Bible quotes to show the target Christian the insanity or inanity of Christian beliefs, quoting passages that he assumes the average Christian has probably not read to show that their morality is not based in the Scriptures — for if it were, they would be killing friends and family members for blasphemy and apostasy, delighting in the Spanish Inquisition and trading in slaves, including one's own daughters (as in ).
He makes comparisons to other religions, such as Islam and Jainism, whom both he and the fundamentalist Christian would ridicule, to show that Christianity is equally deserving of the aforementioned ridicule — but not before noting that some religions are inherently less violent than others; e.g., if Jainism is inherently less violent and judgmental than Christianity, then how can the Bible be the definitive guide to ethical conduct?
He blames fundamentalist Christianity for a lack of a consistent life ethic, which not only prevents medical breakthroughs (particularly in regards to stem cell research and HPV vaccines) but also promotes death in undeveloped nations as well as infringing upon the rights of pregnant mothers everywhere.
==See also==
*The provocation
==References==
==External links==
* ISBN 0-307-26577-3
* Letter to a Christian Nation on Google Books
Category:Atheism
Category:Books
Lev Berg

Lev Semyonovich Berg was a leading Soviet geographer, biologist and ichthyologist who served as President of the Soviet Geographical Society between 1940 and 1950. He also developed his own evolutionary theory known as nomogenesis in opposition to the theories of Darwin and Lamarck.
==Nomogenesis==
His theory of evolution which he termed nomogenesis was a form of orthogenesis. According to Berg's non-Darwinian evolution theory, evolution is not a random process. He emphasized the limitations of natural selection which determine the directionality of evolution. He wrote that the variation of characters in species is confined within certain limits due to both internal and external factors. The limitation of the variability, Berg argued, left hardly any space for natural selection and he claimed this was supported by the fossil record because all the phylogenetic branches look more or less like straight lines. Berg distanced himself from both Darwinian and Lamarckian theories of evolution and instead he proposed the concept of directed mass mutations as the main mechanism for directing evolution. His views on evolution were discussed in his book Nomogenesis; or, Evolution Determined by Law (1922).
According to The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979) nomogenesis is:
==Current status==
Berg's views on evolution have received some positive comments from some scientists but are considered obsolete by the modern day scientific community.Molecular biology, darwinism and nomogenesis John A. Davison attempted to update the theories of Berg in his A Prescribed Evolutionary Hypothesis. Because of his anti-Darwinism, Berg is sometimes quote mined by creationists.
==External links==
*A man from Bendery: L.S. Berg as geographer and loess scholar
==References==
Category:Evolution
Category:Biologists
Liars for Jesus

Liars for Jesus () is a 2006 book by Chris Rodda, a researcher with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, rebutting many of the distortions of history used to bolster the "Christianisation" of America.
Starting with the non-existent importing of 20,000 Bibles by Congress at some time after 1777, the book debunks many of the myths on which the fundamentalist evangelists base their case(s). Rodda has recently made the whole book available as a free download in order to fight the myths peddled by theocrats like David Barton.Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Do Well by Doing Good
==See also==
*WallBuilders, the source of much of the bunk Chris Rodda refutes
*The United States as a Christian nation
*Lying for Jesus
==External links==
*This Week in Christian Nationalism - Rodda's blog
*Liars for Jesus - PDF download
*Liars for Jesus (2006, Booksurge) ISBN ‎978-1419644382
*Liars for Jesus official site (archived)
*Rodda's Youtube channel
==References==
Category:Books
Category:Deceit
Category:Christianity
Category:Theocracy
Liberal Democratic Party

* Liberal Democrats — British centre to centre-left (social) liberal political party.
* Liberal Democratic Party — It may be misunderstood because of its name, but it is a conservative and nationalist right-wing party in Japan, similar to the Republican Party in the United States.
* Liberal Democratic Party of Russia — Russia's far-right nationalist party. In the early days of its foundation, there were some centre-right conservative liberals, but now it is completely dominated by anti-liberal ultra-nationalists.
* Free Democratic Party — German centre to centre-right (classical) liberal party. It is sometimes referred to as a "Liberal Democratic Party".
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), commonly the Tamil Tigers, a Sri Lankan separatist guerrilla movement, advocated the formation of a separate state for the Tamil minority of Sri Lanka. Velupillai Prabhakaran headed the Tigers from the early 1970s until the Sri Lankan army killed and beheaded him in 2009, two days after the Tigers had conceded defeat. The LTTE were involved in the assassination of the former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and in that of Sri Lankan president Ranasinghe Premadasa.
The LTTE provides a rare example of a secular group that has used suicide bombing as a tactic.In fact, many consider them the pioneers of suicide bombing. Religious apologists have cited the LTTE (along with Imperial Japan) as cases in the argument against the claim that suicide bombings are religiously motivated. Although/because the LTTE was a secular organisation, its members were free to hold whatever beliefs they saw fit.
The LTTE was also an equal-opportunities employer, with women engaging in active military service, including the aforementioned suicide attacks. The Tigers were arguably the most innovative extremist group, having pioneered many techniques such as suicide bombings. In 2009 the LTTE conceded military defeat, ending more than 25 years of civil war;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8055138.stm
at their peak they had controlled most of northeastern Sri Lanka.
==Notes==
==References==
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Category:Terrorist organisations
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Liberty

Liberty is the state of being free. In most Western societies, liberty is considered a good thing, and something that is to be preserved. Writing in 1917, John Dewey echoed Leo Tolstoy's critique of the conception of liberty in classical philosophy as freedom that is protected but also constrained by the rule of law, dismissing it as resignation in the face of oppression.John Dewey. "The Need for a Recovery of Philosophy," in Larry A. Hickman and Thomas M. Alexander, ed.s, The Essential Dewey. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. P. 76. He argued that philosophy should be more than apology for established order and that liberty should be conceived as the freedom necessary as individuals strive for full self-actualization.
==History==
The Swiss canton of Vaud has enshrined the word Liberté on its since 1803. Nevertheless, the United States considered itself the defender of liberty for a long time. However, despite the rather large statue devoted to Liberty (given to the US in 1886 by France), the US government backslid considerably after 9/11 by denying the due process that keeps its long-suffering citizens liberated. (Some people would have you believe that giving people guns is the answer to that problem; this ignores the fact that the government can always bring bigger and better guns.) That's not even getting into the things that the NSA and TSA have been doing since 2001. Then there is the whole matter of slavery being legal for the first 89 years of the country's independent existence. 
"Liberty, equality, and fraternity" was the slogan of a revolution that ended up going very badly. Too often, people promise liberty just in order to switch out the boot that's doing the oppressing. (See also the Russian Revolution.) They may also deploy a conception of liberty that demands a privileged status for themselves and the subordination of others, as is the case with the contemporary American Tea Party movement.
In the United Kingdom, Liberty (the National Council on Civil Liberties) is an organisation that seeks to protect civil liberties and promote human rights for everyone.Liberty's Website
==Trivia==
"Liberty" is also a word used for periods of time off for military types, especially sailors being given shore leave. 
Nearly half of all US states contain at least one city or town named "Liberty".https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_%28disambiguation%29
Several US Navy ships have been named USS Liberty, include one that was attacked by Israel in 1967, apparently by mistake.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
"Liberty" was also some sort of vehicle made by Jeep, a subsidiary of Chrysler, itself bailed out by the US Government and a subsidiary of Italian automotive manufacturer 
==See also==
*Liberalism
*Libertarianism
*Privacy
==References==
Category:Political terms
Liberty Beacon

The Liberty Bacon Beacon (TLB) is a fringe online news source that promotes vaccine hysteria,Why Vaccinations Harm Children: Health Experts Sound Off chemtrail conspiracy theories,Engineering Winter Storms the FEMA concentration camps conspiracy theory,The Calm Before the Storm: All Hell Will Break Loose In 2015 hysterical GMO woo,TLB discusses The GMO DARK ACT, House Bill HR 4432 with Zen Honeycutt, Founder of Moms Across America the international Jewish conspiracyKEN’S CORNER: The Deep State IS The Synagogue Of Satan and other far-right survivalist bullshit. Unsurprisingly, they embrace and promote all the wacky conspiracy theories associated with the worst of Trumpism.
The Liberty Beacon's narrative appears to be that the Obama administration (and probably the Bush administration) are/were (1) bumbling idiots, controlled by their corporate masterminds, who seek to control the government for their own purposes, and/or (2) authoritarian masterminds, who seek to use the government to control the sheeple“Herd” Mentality Explained: Why do Sheeple Flock for their own purposes. Though they claim to "produce media content" their website consists mostly of articles copied from other webshites."The eradication of programmed ignorance" at libertybeacon.com.
Sane people routinely see the Liberty Beacon and think that it must be a parody. It appears, however, to be depressingly sincere.
==See also==
*American Thinker
*Daily Mail
==External links==
*Official site
==References==
Category:Antisemites
Category:Anti-vaccination movement
Category:Chemophobes
Category:Conspiracy theorists
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Liberty Counsel

Liberty Counsel is an American right-wing nonprofit organization whose stated purpose is preserving religious liberty and helping people discover Jesus "the truth that will give true freedom."Liberty Counsel - About Us Liberty Counsel In reality, they're a disgusting and hypocritical organization that works to preserve the rights of fundamentalist Christians to force their beliefs onto others by any means necessary, especially the legal system. They until recently spent most of their time and efforts attempting to defeat marriage equality. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists them as an extremist hate group.SPLC file on Liberty CounselLiberty Counsel Has a History of Advising Clients to Defy the Law Southern Poverty Law Center It remarkably shows when its founder, Matt Staver, opposes Justice for Victims of Lynching Act of 2018 (a bill that would make lynching a federal crime... for the first time in history) because the bill included protections for gender identity and sexual orientation, which, to Staver, is just a way to sneak in protections for gender identity and sexual orientation in things like employment. Not only is this vicious, it's also idiotic because there are already protections for those two provisions in the federal hate crime laws.Butts, C. (January 18, 2019). "Staver: LGBT 'rights' sneakily added to anti-lynching bill". OneNewsNow. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
They have also opposed the rights of transgender individuals to adopt children, and have defended laws that criminalize gay sex.
==Million Dollar gospel tracts==
Liberty Counsel helped Great News Network continue their distribution of Ray Comfort's "million dollar" gospel tracts after illegal seizure by the Secret Service.
==Hypocrisy==
Liberty Counsel has suggested or insisted on several occasions that people should boycott organizations that are seen as "pro-gay" or not sufficiently "pro-Christmas".Liberty Counsel Floats Boycott Against "Pro-Homosexual" Starbucks Right Wing WatchChristians Urged to Boycott Retailers Banning 'Christmas' Christian Post At the same time, they have complained that "gays" are using boycotts "economic terrorism" in their struggle for equality.Barber: Gays Want To Put Conservatives "Behind Bars" Tasham, Brian. 30 Aug. 2011. 
==References==
Category:Hate groups
Category:Fundamentalist Christian organizations
Category:Misnomers
Category:Homophobia
Category:Transphobia
Category:Anti-LGBT bigots
Libtard

Libtard is a ham-fisted portmanteau of the words "liberal" and "retard".Urban Dictionary: libtard
It is used as a snarl word to refer to a person who identifies as a liberal and/or supports liberal causes. Or, more aptly put—to anyone not sufficiently conservative, as measured by fans of Fox News personalities or far right AM radio hosts.The corresponding neologism "conservatard" is nowhere near as widely used, despite being a somewhat smoother portmanteau due to the "t" in "conservative". Perhaps this means the left at least dislikes overt ableism.
The unironic use of the term "libtard" as an insult is generally confined to trolls, political internet bots, and immature and ignorant people with a high opinion of their own intelligence. While attempting to use intellectual disability as an insult, they're proving themselves much less interesting or insightful than your average person with an intellectual disability. (Who do you think would make a better conversation partner, a rude and raging conservative or a regular person with Down syndrome?)
Those who use it seem unaware that instead of insulting their intended targets, they're mostly just alienating people with intellectual disabilities and those who care about them, in the same way they would by using the word "retard" on its own.Duyvis, Corinne and Kayla Whaley. Disability in Kidlit: Introduction to Disability Terminology. Disabilityinkidlit.com, July 8, 2016. Of course, the far right has a long history of treating disabled people like dirt, so they're unlikely to care.Powell, Robin. Steve Bannon Is Not Only Anti-Semitic, Racist, And Misogynistic — He Is Ableist. Medium.
The term is best used in conjunction with an unfunny meme, dubious infographic or fake news article.Mix and match for best results!
In August 2017, the term was the main response Paul Joseph Watson had to offer when his laughably ignorant speculation that militant antifascist George Orwell would hate Antifa was corrected.
==See also==
*Red-baiting
*Psychological projection
*Ableism
*Tribalism
==Notes==
==References==
Category:Political terms
Category:Snarl words
Category:Ableism
Category:Alt-right
Category:Alt-lite