CLAUDE ALLEN's Replusive Resume ( presidential advisor and Target thief)

[IChing]

snip >>>>
Known as Rove’s enforcer, Allen wielded a heavy, censorious and punitive hand at HHS. In November 2001, Thompson loyally toed the Rove-Bush line when he put Allen in charge of supervising HHS’s audit of HIV-prevention spending. Allen led an HHS witch-hunt that investigated all of the AIDS service organizations (ASOs) receiving any federal funding (like New York City’s Gay Men’s Health Crisis) whose staff members had disrupted Tommy Thompson’s speech to the 14th Annual International AIDS Conference in Barcelona; they were there to protest Bush’s lethal do-nothingism about the AIDS pandemic. These audits were designed to intimidate ASOs into abandoning AIDS advocacy. A number of ASOs, like San Francisco’s Stop AIDS Project and half a dozen other California AIDS-fighting groups, were ultimately purged from receiving U.S. funding by the Allen-led witch-hunt because Allen didn’t like their science-based sex-education programs. Allen ordered Advocates for Youth, the leading national coalition for safe-sex ed, audited half a dozen times.

Moreover, Allen was the driving force to replace science-based sex ed with the failed policy of teaching that only abstinence prevents AIDS. A black conservative and religious primitive, Allen helped bludgeon the Centers for Disease Control, which reports to HHS, into purging safe-sex materials from its Web sites and into adopting mandatory new rules requiring AIDS-fighting groups to teach that condoms don’t work in preventing the spread of AIDS, as I reported in the L.A. Weekly last year ("Condom Wars," June 25–July 1). When a federal judge found that a federally funded Louisiana abstinence program "illegally handed out Bibles, staged anti-abortion prayer rallies outside women’s clinics and had students perform Bible-based skits," Allen refused to have the program audited, while continuing his repeated audit persecutions of effective AIDS-fighting groups teaching condom use.>>>>snip

Allen’s history as a gay-baiter goes back to his days as a top aide to the notorious homophobe Senator Jesse Helms. In 1984, Allen accused Helms’ Democratic challenger, then-Governor James Hunt, of having links to "queers," "radical feminists," socialists and unions (Hunt was, in fact, a Bible-quoting right-wing Dem.) And Allen forged his odious reputation as a black capo for the racist right when he continued working for Helms despite the senator’s militant opposition to making Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday a national holiday.>>>>snip

http://www.laweekly.com/news/1059/the-bush-theocracy/
http://direland.typepad.com/direland/2006/03/anothr_bush_fam.html

[OKNancy]

1. You know, it's a shame it took his shoplifting to

bring all this out. Perhaps I just haven't read the right places, but as an LBN mod for a year and one-half you would think I would have seen his name before. I hope he gets humiliated and that this incident will open up even more discussion of the type of creeps Bush has around.
( I can dream )

[IChing]

4. What an ass, I'm sure it is all just a misunderstanding like the policies

he implemented.

[sattahipdeep]

20. Remo Floats

"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it."
Bobby Kennedy

:hi:

[goclark]

2. May he rot in hell with no receipts nt

What a waste of a human being.

[newswolf56]

3. No surprise: the Bush Regime would happily hire Ted Bundy if he...

regurgitated the right Bible quotes. The ugly truth -- and I know this from having lived in the Bible-belt South (which has always been a defacto theocracy) -- is that Christian Fundamentalism attracts hypocrites in the same way that carrion attracts vultures.

[bostonbabs]

5. I hope this story and the true nature

and deeds of this man are revealed...this is the quality of people that Bush has hired... immoral henchmen

[Botany]

6. Add him to the bill o'rielly, rush, bill bennett, bush , and so on list ..

.... of moral leaders.

I remember noted last Feb., when he quit to spend more time with his family that it didn't pass
the smell test.

[leftchick]

7. the scummiest of scum

when in the hell are people going to realize that scum quotiont is a requirement to be this WH.

[madrchsod]

8. what is so funny about this is...

this is one of the oldest tried and true shopping scam..just a bit higher on the scale of stuffing your purse or coat.161,000 a year and he`s scamming target? the dude has a mental problem....

couldn`t happen to a better guy!!!

[BlueManDude]

9. This dude belongs in a mental institution

instead he hangs out with the president of the united states and gets tapped for a lifetime appointment to the fed bench.

[spindrifter]

13. And, he helped write the SOTUS,

which is why they kept him on after Jan. 2, which is when they found out about his incident at Target.

[Blue_Tires]

10. lowlife piece of shit

i mean, honestly----how many more uber-conservative 'moral, religious' types have to get caught up in their own hypocrisy before people start to learn? let me guess: i bet he was one of the 'tough on crime' types as well

[Flubadubya]

11. The face of a petty shoplifter and Bushlicker...

[Sydnie]

12. He looks like someone just grabbed his balls in that picture!

:rofl:

[BlueManDude]

14. he looks to me like someone unburdened

like he was waiting to get caught and get off the hypocrital merry go round life that he's been living.

[IChing]

16. To redeem his sense of inner worthlessness

His id perpetuated a crime to mirror his true self.
good point BlueManDude

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

15. Dude seems to have been low profile prior to this... I don't recall

hearing his name or seeing his mug before...

[Mabus]

17. Bush nominated him to the bench in 2004 - 4th Circuit

From what I understand, Allen's resume and experience was neck and neck with Miers' in what it lacked.

From NOW's website:
Claude A. Allen
Take Action: Oppose Confirmation of Judicial Nominee Claude A. Allen (9/04)
Nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.

* Allen argues that the best way to prevent pregnancy, AIDS, and other sexually transmitted diseases is to encourage young people to abstain from sex until they are married.* There is no scientific evidence that abstinence-only programs have any impact.

* He has pushed for a doubling of federal funds to pursue abstinence-only educational programs, while comprehensive programs have faced deep funding cuts.

* In a speech, Allen stated that the "only thing that will help a young person avoid any of the sexually transmitted diseases is to avoid sexual activity until they are mature enough ... and we think that point is marriage."** Many gays and lesbians think this is a not-so-subtle attack on their lifestyle.

* Opposed efforts of many health groups to expand Medicaid coverage to children, calling it an expansion of welfare

rest: http://www.now.org/issues/judicial/allen.html

What freaked me out was the possibility of history repeating itself.

Like Claude Allen, Clarence Thomas was a former aide to a Republican senator who had served in the president's administration before being appointed to a federal appeals court with no judicial experience in 1990. A year later, he was on the Supreme Court.

We can't afford to make that mistake again.

http://www.keithboykin.com/arch/000730.html

[Tom Joad]

18. Wish he would have done this to WalMart

[tabasco]

19. He was a loyal servant and ass kisser. No moral courage.

Just another yes-man who did what he was told. That equals merit with the criminal Bush cabal. The Bush administration operates like a criminal syndicate, in which loyalty is the most important quality, not merit, intelligence, or character.

It is frighhtening to think how many unqualified and unprincipled assholes like this guy have been appointed to the highest positions in our government and military.

This Nation will be fortunate if it ever recovers from these years of republican dominance and corruption.