PURGE

Purge: an abrupt or violent removal of a group of people from an organization or place. synonyms: removal, expulsion, ejection, exclusion, eviction, dismissal, sacking and ERADICATION.

In 1692 the good Puritans afraid that their Lord and Savior was not up to snuff or tough enough to take on women gathering in groups who seemed to be dispelling religious mythes, decided to PURGE New England of assumed witches. The good Puritans felt it necessary to cleanse their homesteads and using God as scapegoat for their own human facilities tortured, tormented and burned the witches assuming that by doing so it would defeat the devil and keep their environment pure.

In 1866 the Ku Klux Klan created a run on sheets and masks and boldly under these white garments sought out to keep the Colored from ever being more then the beast of burden he was born to be and of cords to keep the US of A all white. Garnering more momentum in 1915  the KKK felt it was the Lord’s blessing for them to stop the Negro from raping white women, owning a business or land especially in the South so they empowered themselves and the cowards who once again used Jesus as their scapegoat of bias and bigotry and tried to PURGE the black folk from the the Mason-Dixon line south.

In the 1920's Anti-Immigration Organizations that had been founded in the latter parts of the first decade of the twentieth century began to receive much larger and an increasingly influential following. The Immigration Restriction League was one such group, it claimed to have 'scientific' evidence that the new immigrants from Southeast Europe were racially inferior and therefor posed to threaten the supremacy of the USA. They believed strongly in WASP values and certainly did not wish to see them become polluted by other religions from minorities like Catholics and Jews. It was both the American way and of course the Protestant Jesus’s way to PURGE these heathens from fomenting any foothold in America. Signs appeared in neighborhoods stating No Jews, No Catholics No Dogs allowed.

In 2014 a new candidate for a Michigan seat on the Republican National Committee wants gays "purged" from the GOP and claims homosexuality is a "perversion" created by Satan himself. Mary Helen Sears claimed that homosexuals prey on children, argued that "Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit" and advocated that Republicans "as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent.”

America has not always been the place referred to in the song ‘America the Beautiful’, in fact our history has showcased some bleak and ugly decades when certain types of people were never considered true citizens. The purest part of history we are told is that once it has happened we are to learn from it and make the future the next bit of history to happen much better much healthier. Each time a group of self-proclaimed Christian Americans felt threatened by nothing more then their own insecurities a PURGE became the norm, the PURGE replaced morals, values, decency and of course the Constitution. And because no one really tried to stop these Theocrats from their terrorist actions all they did was succeed. Here we go again, I fear!