[DowsingSpoon]

Huh. What do you mean? Why should the phrase not be used?

My only experience with the phrase is to mean something along the lines of a calculated ploy to lure dissidents into exposing themselves for later punishment. The horrible historical context is pretty much the entire point of making the allusion at all.

[spacechild1]

Your usage is the correct one. Parent referred to people who mistakenly use the phrase in a positive sense.