The State of White America

2011-12-11T18:06:00.000-08:00

New York Girls Hoops Team Suspended Over Racist Chant
(Not a Race Hoax!)
December 10, 2011
Fox News | NewsCore

KENMORE, N.Y. -- At least a dozen female basketball players at a western New York high school were serving suspension for chanting a racial slur as part of their warmup routine, the Buffalo News reported.

The team at Kenmore East High School, near Buffalo, apparently had chanted "One, two, three [N-word]!" for years, to the ignorance of their coaches and school administrators.

The officials only learned of the practice after the current team's sole African-American, sophomore Tyra Batts, was caught brawling with a teammate over the use of the slurs.

While both girls were suspended for fighting, school district officials were called in to deal with the allegations of racism.

Batts said she only learned of the chant ahead of the season opener against Sweet Home High School on Dec. 2.

"I said, 'You're not allowed to say that word because I don't like that word,'" she told a reporter. "They said, 'You know we're not racist, Tyra. It's just a word, not a label.' I was outnumbered."

[N.S.: So, then, white girls can order black girls on majority black teams not to use words the white girls don’t like. Right?]

The investigation by Kenmore-Town of Tonawanda School District found the players guilty of violating the school's conduct code and the extracurricular athletic code, superintendent Mark P. Mondanaro confirmed.

He said the chant, apparently always delivered after adults had left the locker room, was "wrong, unacceptable, unfortunate and will never, ever be tolerated."

The offending players will each serve a one-game suspension across the season, receive a two-day, out-of-school suspension and be required to attend cultural sensitivity training. A scheduled game against Olean on Saturday was postponed.

Batts' family welcomed apologies from Mondanaro and the school's principal, but said the punishments handed out should have been more severe. [The punishments imposed on whites are never severe enough, while the punishments handed out to blacks are always too severe!]

"This wasn't something that just developed this year," father Raymond Batts Jr. said. "This is something that's been ongoing for quite some time."

[Well, I’d be lying, if said I wasn’t surprised. Not at the punishment, but at the behavior that elicited the punishment. And I do look forward to seeing black kids get punished for the same sort of offense.

Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this story.

Posted by Nicholas Stix.]

2011-11-19T22:10:00.000-08:00

Will an Academic at a Mainstream American University Ever Publish Honest Research on So-Called Racial Profiling?
More Racial Profiling Pseudo-Science
By Nicholas Stix
October 29, 2008
VDARE

Tenured antiversity activists who scream “racism!” at the drop of a pair of handcuffs can produce new “studies” “proving” that police are racially profiling blacks in their sleep. Their formula is to take the percentages of police stops/searches/arrests of blacks, and show that they exceed the percentage of blacks officially residing in the jurisdiction in question. Ta-da! And the numbers will always work, for the simple reason that blacks commit crimes vastly disproportionate to their percentage of virtually any jurisdiction’s population.

Legitimate social science would compare police stops, etc., not to the general population, but to the population of criminal suspects. But Leftwing activists refuse to compare those numbers, or even to speak of blacks as committing more crimes as opposed to being“arrested” more often than other groups - as if cops routinely got descriptions of an attacker as “a pasty-faced white guy,” and instead radioed in,“The suspect is a black male.”

Such “studies,” which make a mockery of social science, share the assumptions of Disparate Impact Theory, which is at the heart of all multicultural pseudo-science.

According to Disparate Impact Theory“researchers”

if blacks do better than whites in a given index, it is either non-essential, or proof of black superiority

Any index in which blacks do worse than whites is, ipso facto, proof of white racism; and
Since only a racist would question the research, the researchers needn’t waste their breath responding to critics.

Racial profiling fiction also assumes that hordes of white criminals wreak havoc with impunity, while racist police focus all of their energies on terrorizing innocent black and Hispanic males.

A logically consistent application of“disparate impact”would require abolishing all laws.

The Southern California ACLU paid Ian Ayres to concoct a report showing that the LAPD racially profiles innocent blacks; Ayres was happy to oblige them. (Law student Jonathan Borowsky appears to have done the work.) Ayres [Email him] is “William K. Townsend Professor” at Yale Law School. Among his mala fides, he’s a plagiarist, which has not harmed his career, and indeed qualifies him to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Abstract: We find prima facie evidence that African Americans and Hispanics are over-stopped, over-frisked, over-searched, and over-arrested.

The findings of racial disparity are supported by ancillary analyses of investigative outcomes and officer race. We find that frisks and searches are systematically less productive when conducted on blacks and Hispanics than when conducted on whites.

It is implausible that higher frisk and search rates are justified by higher minority criminality, when these frisks and searches are substantially less likely to uncover weapons, drugs or other types of contraband. We also find that the black arrest disparity was 9 percentage points lower when the stopping officer was black than when the stopping officer was not black. Similarly, the Hispanic arrest disparity was 7 percentage points lower when the stopping officer was Hispanic than when the stopping officer was a non-Hispanic white. [A Study of Racially Disparate Outcomes in the Los Angeles Police Department, by Ian Ayres and Jonathan Borowsky, ACLU, October 2008]

Given the much higher proportion of crime committed by blacks and Hispanics, a lack of disparities in stops, etc., would be a red flag.

Ayres is arguing, among other things, that officers should ignore descriptions of black or Hispanic suspects, and instead racially target whites who fit no such description, and stop, frisk, search and arrest them. I realize that sounds insane and is exactly the sort of viciously racist profiling that Ayres and his comrades fantasize is routinely carried out against blacks and Hispanics. But racial profiling pseudo-science is insane and racist.

My own research and observations have led me to conclude that white policemen have long gone out of their way to avoid confrontations with blacks; the practice is called “de-policing.”

The truth should be the easiest defense against such propaganda. But in the world of multiculturally coerced public opinion, truth = death.

In New Jersey, the ACLU and the State Conference of Racist Black Preachers, or whatever the civil rights group is called, have for years insisted that state troopers racially profile black drivers. Back in 1999, State Police Superintendent Col. Carl Williams tried responding to the charges with the truth, breaking down the groups trafficking in drugs on New Jersey’s turnpikes by drug and race or ethnicity. Liberal Republican Gov. Christie Whitman fired Williams the next day.

As for black and Hispanic officers stopping fewer drivers from their respective groups, that could indicate ethnic favoritism on their part.

The LAPD has a history of problems with such officers. During the late 1980s, the department hired cadres of racist black and Hispanic sociopaths who wreaked mayhem, causing the worst scandal in the LAPD’s history - Rampart. But Ayres and his comrades had no interest in honestly telling the Rampart story.

LAPD officer and undercover journalist “Jack Dunphy” lays out the issues facing LAPD Chief William Bratton.

[Though] Bratton was critical of the Ayres report, he has as yet failed to disclose the information [that] … is readily available and would surely refute the report’s bottom line, to wit, that blacks in Los Angeles, and to a lesser extent Hispanics, commit crimes at a far greater rate than do whites, and are therefore subjected to a greater level of attention from police officers on patrol…

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa [who flunked the California bar exam all four times he took it, and thus cannot practice law] was once president of the L.A. chapter of the ACLU, and the rest of the city government is composed almost entirely of like-minded liberals. They are far too committed to politically correct ideals to disclose the cold and persistent facts that LAPD cops, indeed cops all over the country, know all too well….

[“Racial Profiling: The Myth that Never Dies,” by Jack Dunphy, National Review, October 27, 2008.]

2011-10-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

Stuff White People Like (David Brooks) in Detroit: A “Pop-Up,” Native American Biergarten
Owners Seek to Turn Idealistic White Volunteers into Slave Labor, While Calling Business “Non-Profit”; Community Development Functionary Funding It Calls It “Commercial”
By Nicholas Stix

It’s a “community” thing, except when it comes to splitting up the proceeds, at which time it becomes a “private” thing. At some point, the 50 unpaid volunteers (read: slaves) are going to see the “nice,” “cool” people they helped making a profit off of their labors, and even paying people—other people, the owners’ friends and cronies, who didn’t build the business, while leaving the “volunteers” out in the cold.

Note that Suzanne Vier already has a profitable local business, Simply Suzanne Granola Company. She could use money from her profits to pay the people slaving for her and her partner, Aaron Wagner, and using the other business as collateral, could easily get a bank loan, to start the second business.

In America, the “21st century economy” is increasingly based on slavery, in which the slave owners seek to convince the slaves that the latter aren’t slaves at all (newspapers that deliberately rely on unpaid interns and bloggers for their profits; ditto for many Web sites; social media; Wikipedia’s Jimbo Wales, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, et al.), and on political connections, which Vier and Wagner also clearly have, with which one gets perks and money, at the taxpayer’s expense (see after the Detroit News column).

(Although “Vier” is a German name, in a certain light, she looks like she might have some South Asian blood in her. South Asians have sucked the federal Small Business Administration dry for years, and gotten every other kind of affirmative action goody under the sun, but even if Vier is white, she still gets AA through “Women and Minority Business Owner” programs, at taxpayer expense. It’s a wonder that all “Women and Minority Business Owners” aren’t gazillionaires.)

Last Updated: October 9, 2011 7:27PM
Donna Terek: Donna's Detroit

Unexpected beer garden pops up in Detroit's West Village

Detroit —Some 100,000 lots are vacant in Detroit, and do-it-yourselfers keep dreaming up ways to use them. In the West Village, an entrepreneurial partnership is putting a new spin on the urban garden. [N.S.: If they’re “entrepreneurs,” what does that make the 50 “volunteers”?]

On Van Dyke just north of Agnes, Suzanne Vier and Aaron Wagner have turned two empty lots into a beer garden that will materialize at noon on five Sundays and disappear again at nightfall. [Shouldn’t that read, “Fifty volunteers have turned two empty lots into a beer garden…”?]

"Tashmoo Biergarten is a European-style beer garden with a Detroit sensibility," says Vier, 39, who lives in Midtown and operates the Detroit-based Simply Suzanne granola company. [“With a Detroit sensibility”? Does that mean that part of the experience is getting shot, or witnessing other people getting shot? Or the place getting torched on a regular basis? That sort of thing is the only “Detroit sensibility” I’m familiar with.]

She should know. She's lived in Eastern Europe and recently witnessed the proliferation of pop-up beer venues in New York City. [She’s what passes for an “entrepreneur” in David Brooks’ SWPL world.]

Tashmoo — named after a sunken ship — is adjacent to a party store and across the street from an abandoned house that sports a familiar neighborhood watch poster with giant owl eyes. But the open-air gathering place is true to its European roots with its communal trestle tables nestled under a massive shade tree. [“European roots”? I lived in and crisscrossed Europe from 1980-85, and again for three weeks in 1989, and never saw or heard of such bars. Those roots must be pretty shallow.]

It's in the center of the area known as The Villages, which includes East Village, Indian Village, West Village, Island View and English Village, Berry Subdivision and the Gold Coast. Aside from All That Jazz in the River House, the area has no neighborhood bar.

It could be a niche begging to be filled, judging by attendance at Tashmoo, and organizers hope it could eventually become a for-profit business.

The pop-up venture's opening day Sept. 25 drew about 1,000, getting a bump from a real estate open house that day in the neighborhood. The second Sunday's attendance was closer to 600. It has three Sundays to go before it disappears like Brigadoon on Oct. 23.

Vier describes the Michigan craft beer selection, five each week, as "session" beers, which are typically moderate in alcohol content. So Tashmoo is not a place where heavy drinkers are going to get smashed and wreck the place. Food vendors include People's Pierogi, Corridor Sausage and Porktown Sausage.

It's a place for people to meet their neighbors. It's kid-friendly, with a cornhole court and board games.

"We want families to come to the biergarten," says Wagner. "And we didn't want them to be saddled with baby sitters."

[Wait a minute. Donna Terek said that “pop-up bars” had Eastern European roots. But now we hear of it as a “biergarten” which as the name implies, is German. So, to the degree that this Terek person’s words mean anything, the “European roots” are to beer gardens. I’m getting the impression that I made a mistake in taking anything Terek says seriously, and that this column was simply an instance of moron fodder for SWPLs.]

You don't have to be from The Villages to hang out. Helen Broughton, 36, came from Detroit's East English Village and says, "I want this kind of thing in my neighborhood."

Historical connection
So what's up with the name?

One of the beer garden's lots used to belong to the head engineer of the White Star Line, which owned a ship called Tashmoo, which traveled to an amusement park of the same name on Harsens Island until it sank in 1936.

"That's part of why we used the name Tashmoo," says Wagner, a West Village homeowner. "The other part is we found out in our research 'tashmoo' is a Native American word for 'meeting place,' and that just seems perfect for what we want to do with the beer garden." [Indian names—SWPLs love that! But why would one mix a German name with an Indian one? Anything SWPLs do is o.k. They make up their own aesthetic rules. By the way, I went through entry after entry at Google and Google books, and while Tashmoo is an Indian word, and the name of an early 20th century steamboat, the combination of “Tashmoo” and “meeting place” turned up only references to Suzanne Vier.]

"I wanted West Village to have something communal, something everybody could enjoy."

Help from friends

Vier and Wagner have not been alone in this venture, which they hope eventually will become a for-profit business.

They're borrowing the lots from Eastside LAND, Inc., a nonprofit subsidiary of Warren/Conner Development Coalition, which facilitates commercial development on Detroit's east side.

The liquor license and insurance are from The Villages Community Development Corp., a nonprofit that wants to lure more businesses to the area and is keeping profits from beer to fund the eventual construction of a permanent structure for a three-season beer garden.

Some 50 volunteers have built a fence and tables from reclaimed materials, designed T-shirts and work the beer-ticket table and taps. For some, it's an opportunity to prove that for-profit business can thrive in Detroit.

"It's no different than what the state does giving tax credits to for-profit businesses so they can flourish and they'll relocate here," says Donna Gardner, 45, of Detroit's Midtown.

"It's just another mechanism of economic development: volunteering." [That’s the first time I’ve heard that one! And what happens when the volunteers’ rent is due, and their larder is empty?]

Others have a less lofty motivation.

"I wanted to volunteer and get more involved with the community and drink beer at the same time," says Giuseppe Palazzolo, 22, who lives in New Center.
"It's a win-win situation."

[So, exploiting slave labor for one’s personal enrichment is a “lofty motivation,” but wanting to “volunteer and get more involved with the community and drink beer” isn’t? By what moral calculus?

My own experience with “socialism” included first being a member of a socialist vegetarian co-op, “Harkness East,” at SUNY Stony Brook, and a few weeks later, getting sucked into running it for its last three semesters of existence.

Harkness was situated in a huge, luxurious, unused university kitchen and dining room that had been built at a time when all students were forced to use the school meal plan, before students successfully went on strike, demanding the right to cook in the dorms.

The problem was that Harkness East’s founder, a poi sci grad student named Peter Hickam (or was it “Hickman”? Peter left SB several years before I arrived, and we never met) who had been a member of the Harkness Co-Op at his Ohio undergraduate school, Oberlin College, gave the restaurant a philosophical basis joining vegetarianism and altruistic socialism, but not only were few members vegetarians, but their lip-service to socialism and altruism notwithstanding, a large proportion of them sought to exploit the other members, either by being free riders who got other people to do their work, by sneaking in their non-member friends for meals at everyone else’s expense, or by using the co-op for their personal businesses.

The members also sought to privatize public property. Through the university (read: the taxpayers), the kitchen and eating area belonged to all Stony Brook students, but some leading Harkness fell in love with the fantasy that Harkness was our “property,” and that we could keep other student groups from using it. Once when a black West Indian student group wanted to use the kitchen late one night to cook curried meat for a festival the next day, the leading members insisted that I not permit it. There was metaphysical talk of “meat vibes” contaminating the pots and pans; there was talk that the kitchen was ours.

A university official was going to let the West Indians in, and then padlock the place, ending the co-op. the student government president engaged in telephone shuttle diplomacy, calling me in my dorm suite, the university official, and the West Indians. I didn’t tell the dead-enders at my end, or any other players during the negotiations, but if they hadn’t come around, I was going to quit.

Eventually, they came around, and I opened up the kitchen for the West Indians, who were Rastafarians who took the whole matter in good humor.

It was a kinder, gentler time on university campuses.

During my first semester as manager, I’d had to get rid of one-third of the membership, mostly for not showing up on their work days (though they never missed their meal days), and a few for stiffing us. I also had to routinely call on the stowaways to pay their freight, and when they wouldn’t, go up to them, publicly humiliate them, and make them pay.

As soon as I left for West Germany in the summer of 1980, Harkness died, after a history—seven years? 10? I no longer recall—of mangers suckering new people into running it, who often quit in disgust, as Peter eventually had. (The story I heard was that after getting the place up and running by working 60-80 hour weeks for a semester or two without being paid or even taking a free meal, Peter asked the members for permission to eat for free, they roundly turned him down, and he quit.)

People found it cool to tell others that they were in a co-op, but they didn’t find rolling up their sleeves and actually cooperating cool.

The pop-up bar is different, in that Suzanne Vier and Aaron Wagner have clearly founded it, in order to make money, they are suckering their neighbors into doing all of the work, they are using other people’s property without paying rent, and picking the taxpayer’s pocket—via the Community Development Corporation and illegal “non-profit” status for financing and fees.]

2011-09-27T20:33:00.001-07:00

When Did Job Qualifications Become Irrelevant for Blacks?
The Evolution of Affirmative Action's “Sticky Question”
By Nicholas Stix

Fresno Bee Reporter Pablo Lopez Calls Whether Qualifications Should Play Any Role in Hiring Decisions a “Sticky Question”

The job in question was a supervisory position tracking paroled pedophiles via a GPS system. State parole agent Philip Andrew Mounts, who is white, and was highly qualified for the job, sued when he was passed over, in favor of an unqualified black man, Ronnie Sims.

According to Pedro Lopez’ account (see below), of three candidates who were interviewed for the job, the only one who was unqualified was Ronnie Sims, the black man who got the job. The top candidate was John Hagler, according to someone Lopez spoke to, whose identity Lopez leaves unclear. Hagler is also white.

Sims shouldn’t even have gotten an interview. We know that he got the interview solely because he was black, because he was woefully unqualified, and because the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s black second-in-command, Judy Harris, got caught lying, after having previously denied knowing Sims’ race in advance. Lopes writes,

He was assigned to the Fresno parole unit that supervised high-risk sex offenders in 2001. Four years later he was one of two parole officers in the state selected to learn how to use the GPS system on high-risk sex offenders, English said. He then trained other officers to use the system, she said.

Meantime, Sims was in units that supervised parolees such as gang members, drug offenders and other criminals. He didn't receive the training to track high-risk sex offenders until he was promoted to supervisor of the unit in 2008, English said.

The assertion by the lawyer representing the state agency, assistant attorney general Connie Broussard (Proctor), that plaintiff Philip Andrew Mounts was just sore because “a black man was promoted above him,” is an ad hominem attack, screamingly stupid, and racist to the bone, whatever her race may be. (But if she isn’t a racist-to-the-bone black woman, she’s doing a heck of an imitation of one.)

Note that before she was appointed an assistant attorney general, Connie Broussard Proctor’s standing in the legal community was limited to appearances in traffic court on behalf of drivers who’d received speeding tickets, or who had been arrested for drunk driving.

How does one jump from hustling cases in traffic court, to an assistant attorney general’s gig? One would expect an attorney named to such a powerful position to have experience arguing before the State Supreme Court.

In any event, the rationale that Connie Broussard Proctor gave for the hiring of Ronnie Sims to a high-level position was based on his being “friendly” and his “community work.” Those sound like qualifications for being a Wal-Mart greeter, but hardly count toward a supervisory position tracking pedophiles. Sims’ qualifications involve gangs and drug offenders, but this job had nothing to do with them.

The best qualified candidate was Hagler. The only other qualified candidate was Mounts. Sims was only tendered an interview because Judy Harris is a racist black woman who was rigging the entire process.

Broussard gave away that Sims was hired based solely on the color of his skin, when she said, “Being race conscious is not racism.”

In the early years of affirmative action, from the mid-1960s-to-mid-1970s, its proponents claimed that it functioned by taking cases in which black and white candidates for jobs or college admissions had equal qualifications, and giving the black candidate a tie-breaker.

The reality, as San Francisco State political scientist and former CSU San Jose president John Bunzel and others later reported, was that woefully unqualified black candidates were being advantaged, at the cost of highly qualified whites.

Unfortunately, Philip Andrew Mounts lost his court case.

The notion that “diversity” (race, ethnicity, sex, etc.) should “trump” qualifications is why the Third World is the way it is, and why America is fast becoming a Third World nation. “Diversity” is why South Africa and Zimbabwe have gone from wealthy countries and the bread baskets of Southern Africa to basket cases.

Forty-odd years ago, there was a debate on affirmative action pitting meritocrats who demanded that jobs and college admissions be decided based purely on qualifications, against those who raised the “sticky question” as to whether race or sex should play any role in such decisions.

In her majority opinion in the case Grutter v. Bollinger, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor wrote,

The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved today.

Most of the meritocrats have deserted the fight, leaving us with, on one side, soothing racial sycophants who deceive like O’Connor, or those who assure us that nobody believes in affirmative action anymore; and on the other side with those who denounce defenders of the merit principle as sore losers, at best, and as “white supremacists,” at worst, and who readily turn to violence to impose their will.

[A tip ‘o the do-rag to The Man at, Nation of Cowards, and NPI.]

White parole agent claims discrimination
By Pablo Lopez
The Fresno Bee
Saturday, August 27, 2011 | 9:01 PM

The white candidate for state parole supervisor of a high-risk sex-offender unit in Fresno was a specialist in tracking pedophiles.

The black candidate had no training in tracking sex offenders, but scored points with the interview panel for being friendly and for his community work.

When state parole agent Philip Andrew Mounts didn't get the job, he wondered if the color of his skin played a role. He is white and the parole agent who was promoted -- Ronnie Sims -- is black.

Mounts sued the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for race discrimination. A jury has been selected in Fresno County Superior Court to determine whether his claim is valid. The trial resumes Monday.

The trial in Judge Alan Simpson's courtroom is tackling the sticky question of whether a person's race should trump a person's credentials to satisfy an employer's desire to create a diverse workplace.

For Mounts, a verdict in his favor would mean vindication of his right to question his superiors about the hiring process, especially when public safety is involved, said Fresno attorney Monrae English, who is representing Mounts
"Stand up and speak out -- that's the right thing to do," English said in opening statements of the trial.

But criticizing the state's hiring process has spelled trouble for her client, English said. He was alienated from his superiors and subjected to unfair criticism by them, she told the panel.

The attorney for the state corrections agency, however, said Mounts wasn't the top candidate for the supervisorial job.

"He may have felt entitled to the promotion," said Connie Broussard, a deputy attorney general. "But you can't always get what you want."

Broussard said the interview panel was impressed with Sims, a former Fresno police officer. He is friendly and has good interview skills and a bachelor's degree in criminology.

Broussard described Mounts as unfriendly, especially toward the female supervisors on the interview panel. She also said Mounts is angry because "a black man was promoted above him."

Filling the supervisor's position became a priority after California voters in November 2006 passed Proposition 83, known as Jessica's Law, which required convicted high-risk sex offenders to wear GPS monitors to track their whereabouts.

The law is named after Jessica Lunsford, a 9-year-old Florida girl who was raped and murdered in February 2005 by a convicted sex offender.

More than 1,200 California parole agents statewide were interested in the supervisor job in Fresno, Broussard said. That list was whittled to the top three candidates: John Hagler, a parole agent in Fresno who is white, Sims and Mounts.

Mounts is a former Reedley police officer and sex-crimes detective. He has been a state parole officer for 15 years and has a bachelor's degree in business.

He was assigned to the Fresno parole unit that supervised high-risk sex offenders in 2001. Four years later he was one of two parole officers in the state selected to learn how to use the GPS system on high-risk sex offenders, English said. He then trained other officers to use the system, she said.

Meantime, Sims was in units that supervised parolees such as gang members, drug offenders and other criminals. He didn't receive the training to track high-risk sex offenders until he was promoted to supervisor of the unit in 2008, English said.

According to English, Rick Burrows, the head administrator of adult parole for the region that stretches from Bakersfield to Fresno, promoted Sims on the advice of Judy Harris, who was second-in-command at the time. The hiring system was flawed because the top candidate was Hagler, but Harris told Burrows that the interview panel wanted Sims, English said.

Harris, who is African-American, initially said that she didn't know Sims was black when she talked to Burrows, English told jurors. But in a deposition before trial, Harris admitted that she knew Sims was black, English told jurors.

But Broussard said Burrows, who is white, had the final authority to hire Sims.
Mount just wasn't the right fit, she said.

"Being race conscious is not racism," Broussard told the panel.

Broussard said Mounts isn't a victim of discrimination. "He was just not picked at the time," Broussard said, noting that Mounts was promoted to a position higher than Sims after he sued the state agency.

Jury rejects reverse discrimination claim
By Anonymous
The Fresno Bee
Monday, September 12, 2011 | 10:17 PM

A jury on Monday rejected a white state parole agent’s reverse discrimination lawsuit against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Philip Andrew Mounts sued in Fresno County Superior Court after a black parole agent was promoted to supervisor of a high-risk sex-offender unit in 2008. Mounts contended that he had more experience and training than Ronnie Sims in tracking pedophiles.

The attorney for the state corrections agency, however, said Mounts wasn’t the top candidate for the supervisorial [sic] job at the time.

2011-09-26T01:40:00.001-07:00

“Plan B” Agitprop Sought to Save and, Eventually, Free Killer Troy Davis
By Nicholas Stix

Mark MacPhail, the man whom Troy Davis murdered, and whose face Davis' supporters do not want you to see.

No thanks to donkeysaddle.

It wasn’t Red Coles who “harassed” Larry Young, it was Troy Davis. And Davis didn’t “harass” Young, he pistol-whipped him. Davis murdered Officer Mark MacPhail, when MacPhail heard Young’s cries, and came to save him.

And then there’s the little matter of what Troy Davis had done prior to being driven to the strip where he murdered MacPhail. He had just shot a man named Michael Cooper in the face at a pool party in Savannah. How could this “documentary” have failed to mention that, if only to “refute” it? How about it, “donkeysaddle”?

Remember, the propagandist’s tools are omission, distortion, and outright lies.

Previously:

“Back in 2008, When Troy Davis Cheated the Executioner a Second Time”; and

“The Boston Globe’s 2008 Attempt to Blackwash Case of Racist Cop-Killer Troy Davis.”

2011-09-26T00:47:00.000-07:00

Update: The Brittney Watts Murder/Midtown Shootings in Atlanta
By David in TN

Atlanta murder victim Brittney Watts.

Shooting victim Lauren Garcia as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia's Grady College, from which she had just graduated.

By David in TN

Lauren Garcia, one of the three women shot in Atlanta in July, left the hospital on Thursday. Miss Garcia has a job offer and is a bride-to-be. Unfortunately, she is now a paraplegic.

Shooting victim Tiffany Ferenczy.

This September 22 WSB TV story calls the shooting “a random outburst of violence”—surprise, surprise—adding, “Investigators don't think he targeted any of his victims.”

This is not a parody.

Fellow UGA grad Brittney Watts was killed. Garcia’s co-worker Tiffany Ferenczy, was shot in the ankle, and returned to work the next week.

Brittney and Brian Watts had been married for less than 1,000 days, and had not yet had any children.

Defendant Nkosi Thandiwe.

The “alleged” gunman, Nkosi Thandiwe, was a security guard at the Proscenium building where the three women worked. Shortly after noon July 15, Thandiwe “allegedly” shot Watts, and took her Toyota Prius and fled. As the gunman left the parking garage, he “allegedly” fired several more shots, hitting Garcia and Ferenczy.

Atlanta PD Major Keith Meadows: Killer was "bold." (Background: Mayor Kasim Reed.)

News reports of several weeks ago indicated Thandiwe would have a court appearance on September 29, which is this Thursday. Whether it happens is to be determined.

Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

“What Was the Motive in the Atlanta Murder of Brittney Watts? APD Bigwig Calls Craven Killer ‘Bold’”;

“Brittney Watts Murder Update: After Triple Shooting, CBS News Reporter Asks, Is Midtown Atlanta Safe?”;

“The Brittney Watts Murder: Fellow Victim Lauren Garcia, 23, May be Paralyzed for Life”; and

“Exclusive! Nkosi Thandiwe, Allied Barton Security Guard Charged with Murdering Brittney Watts was a High-Tech Stalker, Reports Atlanta Source; Company Adopts Bunker Mentality.”

2011-09-25T19:03:00.000-07:00

Amber Anderson Has Now Learned the Joys of Interracial Relationships

Keith Burston has been charged, among other things, with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

By Nicholas Stix
Revised at 10:04 p.m., on September 25, 2011.

Black men like to say of white women, “When you go black, you don’t go back.”

That must be due to black men’s well-earned reputation as lovers devoted to giving their wives pleasure, dutiful dads, who sacrifice all to protect their wives and children, and selfless providers.

In the real world, the saying ought to be, “When you go black, you don’t go back… alive.”

Amber Anderson made the mistake of taking up with a violent black man, Keith Burston. Although she was too frightened to break up with him, he still allegedly let himself into her family’s home in the middle of the night with a key someone (Amber Anderson?) had given him, and stabbed the sleeping woman 39 times. Well, someone stabbed her 39 times. It must have been one of those violent, white burglar-rapist-killers that are running amok all over the country, and poor Burston is getting the blame, just for being a black man.

When Amber Anderson’s family “says she has a long road to recovery,” I don’t think they grasp the half of it.

[A tip 'o the shank to Nivius Vir: “Diversity Strikes Again – and Again, and Again.”]

Man charged with stabbing girlfriend 39 times
Thursday, September 22, 2011

By Kelli O’Hara
ROCKY MOUNT (WTVD) -- A Raleigh woman is praying for her sister’s recovery.

Holly Anderson says her sister Amber was stabbed 39 times Monday morning at their family home in Rocky Mount.

“I was holding her,” Anderson said. “She kept on saying, ‘Don't let me die. Don't let me die.’”

Anderson recalled the horrifying moment where she didn't know if her sister, her best friend, was going to live or die.

“She said she was scared, that's why she didn't break it off with him,” Anderson added.

Detectives believe Keith Burston stabbed Amber. The two were in a relationship.

“When this happened, he came in with a key,” Anderson recalled. “He didn't have permission, and we were asleep. I was awoken by a call for help.”

The family has lived in fear because Burston was on the loose since the stabbing. He was arrested Thursday evening.

Anderson has a plea for any woman or man in a violent relationship.

“If there are any women out there in a domestic relationship, get out,” she warned.
“Get out of it. There is help.”

Burston is facing several charges including assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.

Amber remains hospitalized and her condition is stable. Her family says she has a long road to recovery.

2011-09-22T22:54:00.000-07:00

In Tulsa, Two Racist Black Men Confess to Murdering Young White Couple, Execution-Style; Darren Price, 19, and Jerard Dwaine Davis, 21, Say They Were Robbing Carissa Horton, 18, and Ethan Nichols, 21, When They Decided, What the Heck, They Might as Well Murder Them, Too; Prior to Getting Caught, One Killer Gave a TV News Interview Bemoaning the Park’s Dangers

Murder victims Carissa Horton,18, and Ethan Nichols, 21.

Racist confessed murderer, Darren Price.

Racist confessed murderer, Jerard Davis.

You can bet the farm these guys will recant their confessions, say they were coerced, and plead not guilty. Then we can look forward to friends and supporters crafting a story, in which these guys were the angelic victims of racist white cops and prosecutors. We'll be paying millions for their upkeep and trials.

Thanks to reader-researcher-legman, David in TN.

Tulsa police say park shooting victims robbed, executed

By JERRY WOFFORD, BILL SHERMAN & JARREL WADE World Staff Writers
Published: 9/21/2011 2:29 AM
Last Modified: 9/21/2011 8:39 AM
Tulsa World

Two victims of an execution-style killing apparently were out on a romantic stroll Sunday night when they were "senselessly" gunned down, police said.

Carissa Horton, 18, and Ethan Nichols, 21, were found dead Monday morning at Hicks Park in the 3400 block of South Mingo Road. Horton was a week away from turning 19.

"These kids appear to be innocent folks, and these suspects appear to have ambushed them," Sgt. Dave Walker said.

Darren Price, 19, and Jerard Dwaine Davis, 21, have been arrested on two complaints each of first-degree murder and robbery. They are being held without bail.

Police said the victims were forced to their knees and were shot in the head after the robbery.

Nichols and Horton had arrived at the park to take a walk about 9:25 p.m. Sunday, Walker said.

Both Davis and Price told police that they ambushed the couple in the park with a motive to rob them but then decided to kill them, according to police reports.

Price and Davis then left in Nichols' car, a 2001 Pontiac Grand Am, about 11:20 p.m. Sunday, police allege.

Horton's and Nichols' bodies were found about 10:45 a.m. Monday along a walking trail by a couple walking their dog, police said.

Horton was a freshman at Oral Roberts University, majoring in music.

Clarence Boyd, dean of spiritual formation at ORU, said students who knew Horton were shocked by the news of the deaths.

"It was very traumatic," he said. "The young people were shook up about it." He said they have since come together in prayer and unity.

Boyd met Tuesday with several members of Horton's family, who came down from Keokuk, Iowa.

"When parents lose a child, that's devastating," he said. "It's horrific. It didn't have to happen."

Boyd said Horton loved ORU in her six weeks there.

Nichols also was from Keokuk, Iowa, and had attended Southeastern Community College, according to his Facebook profile. He had since moved to the Tulsa area and worked at Blue Bell Creamery's Broken Arrow plant.

His funeral services are pending with Hayhurst Funeral Home in Broken Arrow.

Horton's services are pending with DeJong-Greaves Funeral Home in Keokuk.

On Tuesday, a steady flow of students took the elevator up into the prayer tower on the ORU campus. A prayer vigil was held that evening.

Jessica Fitzgerald, an ORU sophomore who was the resident adviser on Horton's dormitory wing, said Horton was "very talented."

"I used to love to listen to her sing with her roommate," she said.

Fitzgerald described Horton as quiet, but "we had some good conversations," she said.

Students were sobbing and praying together at a Monday night dorm-wing meeting at which the deaths were announced, she said.

Oral Roberts University President Mark Rutland sent an email to faculty, staff and students Monday evening, notifying them of Horton's death.

He said the entire ORU family has come together in prayer.

"We know how to rejoice together, and we know how to weep together," Rutland said.

"We'll just continue to process it. It's like culture shock."

He said he was not aware of any other ORU student ever being a homicide victim.

Nichols' family called in a missing-person report Monday morning and described his vehicle, which police learned had been taken from the park, Walker said.

Police searched all apartment complexes within 10 square miles of Hicks Park and found the car at the Salida Creek apartments in the 10100 block of East 32nd Street. They watched it until two men, one of whom was identified by police as Price, were seen getting into the vehicle. Officers then attempted to stop the vehicle, but it sped off, Walker said.

The car crashed at the entrance of an apartment complex after a short chase, and the occupants fled on foot. Officers caught them and took them to the Detective Division for questioning.

Officers found the victims' cell phones in Price's possession, according to his arrest report.

The report states that the information provided by Price was "consistent with the position the victims were found (in) at the crime scene."

The other person taken into custody after the chase was released, but officers learned about Davis' possible involvement, Walker said.

Davis was located by homicide detectives, agents with the Northern Oklahoma Violent Crimes Task Force and Tulsa police warrants officers about 11 p.m. at an apartment complex near 31st Street and Mingo Road, Walker said.

He was taken into custody after a short foot chase, his arrest report states.

Officers obtained a search warrant and found a 9 mm pistol in Davis' bathroom, according to his arrest report. The pistol was "consistent with the two 9 mm shell casings recovered from the crime scene," the report states.

Tulsa County court records show that Davis was charged in January 2009 with possession of a stolen vehicle. He pleaded guilty in April 2009, and the next month, District Judge Milley Otey deferred a finding of guilt and sentencing for two years, with community service, restitution and drug-testing requirements during that period of probation.

District Judge William Kellough issued an order to accelerate the deferred sentencing in February 2010. Davis' sentencing initially was scheduled for July 6, 2010, but when he did not appear for court on that date, a bench warrant was issued for his arrest, court records show.

After his arrest, a series of other delays occurred. He was later released from jail again to allow him time to complete his restitution requirements, court records show. His sentencing was last scheduled for Nov. 7 of this year.

Before the other suspect, Price, was apprehended, he gave an interview to a KTUL, Channel 8, reporter at the park several hours after the bodies were found. In a video of the interview, posted on KTUL's website, Price told the reporter that he takes his children to the park to play, and he questioned the safety of the area.

"I think it's real crazy," Price says in the video. "I bring my kids out here to play. It's got to raise a question. Is it safe even to walk around this town with people just dying and stuff like this? It's not cool. ... It don't make me feel too easy, and I stay close by here."
________________________________________
World Assistant Editor Mary Bishop contributed to this story.

Original Print Headline: Police say victims robbed, executed

2011-09-20T22:24:00.001-07:00

Jeremy Pickney to be Tried October 11, in Second Pearcy Massacre Trial
By David in TN

Finally, a trial date of October 11 has been set for Jeremy Pickney, the second suspect to be tried for the Pearcy Massacre.

Jeremy Pickney is charged with five counts of capital murder. The prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty in what is called a “home robbery.” Pickney's co-defendant, Samuel Conway, was convicted in June and sentenced to “life in prison.” A third suspect in the killings, Marvin Stringer, was shot dead after firing on police at a motel while resisting arrest a week after the killings.

The five victims are 80-year old Edward Gentry Sr; 56-year old Edward Gentry Jr.; 52-year old Pam Gentry, 24-year old Jeremy Gentry, and his girlfriend, 19-year old Kristen Warneke. The older man was found in a Pearcy home while the others were found inside a burning mobile home next door.

[Previously:

“Never Heard of the Pearcy Massacre? One Guess Why Not!”;

“’Don't Raise Your Voice at Me!’ [Click!] ‘Read a Law Book!’ [Click!]—A Pearcy Massacre Update”; and

VDARE Pearcy Massacre Archive.

Yes, we’ve covered a racist atrocity that, according to The Pretend Encyclopedia/Wikipedia never happened, enough to have an archive on the subject.]

2011-09-20T22:06:00.000-07:00

Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? Put Differently, Should Whites Stereotype People with “Black” or “African”-Sounding Names? Only if They Wish to Stay Alive!
By Nicholas Stix

My new VDARE article is up: Are You an Evil Racist If You Balk at Hiring Someone Named “S—tavious”?

Back in 2003, the University of Chicago's Marianne Bertrand and Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sendhil Mullainathan published a classic example of pseudo-scholarship: A study showing that, all other things being equal, job applicants with “African-American” sounding names are likely to suffer job discrimination compared to applicants with white-sounding names. (Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination, MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 03-22, May 27, 2003)

The researchers sent out application letters for imaginary job candidates in which everything was equal—grades, major, school—except their names. They found that “White names receive 50 percent more callbacks for interviews” than black-sounding names.

The “study” led to a blizzard of MSM “racism” accusations against corporate America, the same world which routinely hires unqualified blacks over qualified whites. Generating such accusations was, of course, the point of the “study”....

(Read the rest here.)

2011-09-15T06:05:00.001-07:00

Six to be honored at McDonald's Hispanos Triunfadores Awards

McMurder’s, er, McDonald’s, is No Longer 365Black; Now, It’s 365Anti-White
By Nicholas Stix

[Previously, at WEJB/NSU:

“Baltimore County McDonald’s Attack Verdict: It’s O.K. to Brutally Assault Whites, as Long as They are Not Homosexuals”; and

“News of McDonald’s Beating Sentence.”]

365Racist: This is not a hoax, but rather an official corporate graphic of McDonald’s.

I’m lovin’ it: This is a hoax, but McDonald’s conscious, corporate racism is not, nor is its status as a constant crime scene of felonies committed by its preferred demographic groups.

Convicted, racist felon, Teonna Monae Brown, long a typical customer targeted by McDonald’s.

Christopher Lee ("Chrissy") Lee Polis, one of McDonald's countless white victims.

McDonald’s is now targeting the likes of Edwin Ramos as a preferred customer, as the embodiment of the diversity that Mickey D’s celebrates: He’s a racist non-white (Hispanic), an invader felon, a gang-banger, and he murdered Anthony Bologna, 49, and his sons, Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16. Who could ask for anything more?

Six to be honored at McDonald's Hispanos Triunfadores Awards
By Paula Monarez Diaz El Paso Times
El Paso Time
Posted: 9/14/2011 11:19:53 a.m. MDT

Six Hispanics from the El Paso and Las Cruces area will be honored Thursday at the 12th Annual McDonald's Hispanos Triunfadores Awards.

Those being honored include Francisco Romero for the arts, Amada Flores for business, Victor A. Flores for government service, Fred A. Morales for education, Elvira Escajeda for community service and Hector Holguin for science.

The event will be at 11:30 a.m. at the Wyndham El Paso Airport, 2027 Airway Blvd.

[Thanks to reader-researcher RC for this case of corporate “food poisoning.”]

2011-09-09T05:46:00.001-07:00

Racist NAACP Preacher/Hustler Roderick Coffee Charges White Ohio H.S. Football Team with “Racial Intimidation” for Beating Black Team

“You Mad, Bro?”

Click on image, for larger version.

“You mad bro?” meme stirs racial tension at Ohio football game
By Andrew Couts
Digital Trends
September 5, 2011

Internet humor crossed over into the realm of the real world, and immediately started causing trouble this weekend, after a group of high schoolers held up a giant sign reading “You mad bro?” during a football game in Painesville, Ohio, on Friday night.

For the uninitiated, the phrase “you mad bro?” is a meme used primarily to incite anger in someone who’s already red in the face. It’s a classic troll tactic that’s been around for ages, at least online….

Of course, anyone who’s spent much time commenting on any number of websites knows that the “You mad bro?” meme, or any of its variations, has nothing to do with race, whatsoever. Is it insensitive and unsportsmanlike? Absolutely. Trolls are, by their very nature, insensitive. That’s what makes them trolls, online or off.

Should there be an investigation? Sure — especially since it’s likely to end with stuffy school administrators having to sift through the hilarious filth of 4chan, which would make this whole saga possibly the greatest troll ever concocted.

Sign Ignites Controversy After High School Football Game
By Emily Valdez
Fox 8
10:27 p.m. EDT, September 3, 2011
PAINESVILLE, Ohio—
Kirtland crushed Painesville Harvey during Friday night's high school football game, but it was what happened after the game that has people talking.

"At the conclusion of the game, some of their students and parents put up a sign that we believe was racial intimidation, ethnic intimidation," said Roderick Coffee, president of the Lake County chapter of the NAACP, who was also at the game.

"For them to put it up there that was bad sportsmanship, too," Painesville Harvey football player, Jerome Becks said.

The big sign read: 'You Mad Bro.'

"I think the reference to 'bro' in the sign definitely has a racial connection to it," said Michael Hanlon, superintendent for Painesville City Schools.

No doubt, the sign offended people.

But some don't believe it was meant to be racist.

"I really don't I think the kids were just trying to say, 'Are you mad?' But you still don't need to put a sign up like that, and there's so many parents that felt the same way I did," Kirtland parent, Edie Cymbal said.

According to the Urban Dictionary, which is basically the online Wikipedia of slang, the phrase 'you mad bro?' means "To make a ragin [sic] person rage even more by asking the most ironic question."

To use an older slang phrase, kicking someone when they are down.

Kirtland High School Principal Lynn Campbell says there will be a thorough investigation.

"Any mal-intent at any game no matter where, is not supported, you know, the lack of sportsmanship, from taunting to insensitivity," Campbell said.

[Posted by Nicholas Stix. Thanks to The Man at Nation of Cowards, and asdf2277.]

2011-09-03T21:31:00.000-07:00

Is This a Typical Face of California Crime? In the NYT’s Racist Bizarro World, It is!

California Professor Leads a Methamphetamine Ring, the Police Say
By Rebecca Fairley Raney and Jennifer Medina
Published: September 2, 2011

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — For nearly a decade Stephen Kinzey worked as a professor of kinesiology, the study of human movement, at California State University, San Bernardino. A few students complained online that he showed up late for class and could lose his focus. But that was about it.

Stephen Kinzey/Robert A. Whitehead, CSUSB

Now, the police say, Mr. Kinzey, 43, is a man on the run, wanted on suspicion of being the ringleader of a circle of methamphetamine dealers and the president of the Devils Diciples, an outlaw motorcycle gang. (The group spells its name as such.)

Investigators from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said that they were unable to locate Mr. Kinzey, who they say supplied a ring of midlevel and street dealers with methamphetamine, a persistent scourge in the working-class cities east of Los Angeles.

“One side of him was a successful and productive member of society, but the other side of him is an outlaw motorcycle gang leader,” said Sgt. Paul Wynn, a lead investigator of the case. “He was the highest-ranking person in the group, without a doubt.”

Mr. Kinzey lived in an upper-middle-class enclave in an immaculate two-story Spanish-style home with his girlfriend, Holly Robinson, 33. When the police came to the home last Friday, Ms. Robinson was arrested along with half a dozen other members of the gang, who were there to pick up their share of a one-pound delivery of methamphetamine, police officials said. Mr. Kinzey was not there.

The police found several weapons in the home, including a shotgun, two rifles, two handguns and brass knuckles.

The department began the investigation six months ago as an undercover operation. Motorcycle gangs are common in this part of California; Hells Angels has its headquarters just a few miles away, and spotting a group of several dozen bikers cruising down the freeways on the weekend is hardly unusual.

“It’s not unheard of in the outlaw motorcycle gang world — a lot of people involved are lawyers and doctors and even kinesiology professors,” Sergeant Wynn said. “They like to give the image that they are doing good things and off on charity rides. That might be true for some.”

Sergeant Wynn said about a dozen members of outlaw motorcycle gangs had been arrested in the past year, mostly on drug charges. He said that officials were actively pursuing 15 other members of Devils Diciples.

Mr. Kinzey earned his doctorate from the University of Toledo and was apparently well liked by his students in California. On a Web site that allows students to rank professors, Mr. Kinzey had one of the top scores, with a reputation of being an easy grader and a tardy teacher. On his Twitter feed, he routinely posted updates about being late for class.

University officials were told of Mr. Kinzey’s involvement in drugs on Thursday.

“To our knowledge, this is the first notice that anyone on our campus has had regarding this situation,” said Albert Karnig, the president of the college. “If the allegations are indeed true, this is beyond disappointing.”

Several of Mr. Kinzey’s academic articles were on the department’s bulletin board. His clothing and style — a long goatee and a few visible tattoos — might have made him look different from other teachers. But Albert Cabrera, 21, a kinesiology major who was a student in two of Mr. Kinzey’s courses, said nothing about his professor stood out.

“He’s a good teacher, he’s smart,” Mr. Cabrera said. “I’ve seen his Diciples belt, but I never thought anything of it.”

Rebecca Fairley Raney reported from San Bernardino, and Jennifer Medina from Los Angeles.

Posted by Nicholas Stix.

2011-09-02T18:31:00.001-07:00

Oregon: Illegal Human Beings 'R Us!

Thanks to Occupation of Oregon blog, whose editor writes,

Illegal aliens Get Welfare

Oregon Law Center

[N.S.: The only change I made in this page is the hyperlink to the Oregon Law Center, which has changed since Occupation of Oregon posted it.]

Check out the Oregon Law Center they work for illegal aliens not Americans. Undocumented means Illegal. Illegals Aliens are not without documents. They have foreign ID, Fake ID Drivers licenses.

OregonLawHelp.org > Farm Workers > Benefits, Taxes Print

OoO reprinted the following propaganda posting targeting illegal human beings.

Public Benefits and Your Immigration Status
By: Oregon Law Center and Legal Aid Services of Oregon

The Oregon Health Plan (Separate Website)
By: Oregon Department of Human Services

Immigration Status and Eligibility for Government Help
by: Oregon Law Center

Many non-U.S. citizens and undocumented immigrants ARE eligible for public assistance!

The relationship between immigration status and eligibility for government benefits (such as food stamps, medical coverage, and cash assistance) is complicated.

If you have or are applying for permission to legally live in the United States, eligibility depends on when you entered the U.S., how you entered, your specific immigration status and sometimes, which country you came from. If you have specific questions, call the Public Benefits Hotline (1-800-520-5292) or your local Legal Aid office. Click here for a directory of legal aid programs.

This flyer provides limited general information that applies to everyone, regardless of your immigration status. In order to apply for most government assistance, you will need to submit an application at your local Department of Human Services (DHS) office.

IF YOU ARE A MIGRANT OR SEASONAL FARMWORKER, YOU MAY HAVE THE RIGHT TO EXPEDITED FOOD STAMPS:

You may have the right to expedited Food Stamps if you have little or no income when you apply. DHS must issue your Food Stamps benefits within seven days of your application. But, you must still be in the U.S. legally and meet the other immigration status and other requirements for food stamps.

OAR 461-135-0575

Even if you are undocumented, you can get the following types of help IF . . .

1. YOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES:
If your children were born in the U.S., they are citizens and can receive food stamps, Oregon Health Plan (OHP) and cash assistance (TANF), even if you yourself are not eligible.

2. YOU HAVE EMERGENCY MEDICAL NEEDS:
You may be eligible for emergency medical care and care during childbirth, even if you don’t qualify for OHP because of your immigration status. The emergency medical program is called CAWEM.
OAR 461-135-1070

3. YOU ARE PREGNANT:
If you are pregnant but you don’t meet the immigration status requirements for OHP, you can still get full medical coverage (as opposed to the more limited coverage through CAWEM) while you are pregnant if you live in Benton, Clackamas, Deschutes, Hood River, Jackson, Multnomah, and on July 1, 2010, Lane counties.

4. YOU ARE A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE:
If you are a victim of domestic violence and you have children or you are pregnant, you may be eligible for emergency cash assistance from DHS to help you get into a safe living situation. This program is called Temporary Assistance for Domestic Violence Survivors (TA-DVS).

You can also get cash assistance (TANF) on a temporary basis if you are experiencing or are at risk of domestic violence. You can get these benefits even if you are undocumented.

OAR 461-135-1200

5. YOU ARE WORKING and NEED CHILDCARE:
If you are working and need help paying for childcare, you may be able to get childcare benefits from DHS even if you are not a citizen and even if you are undocumented.

You do not have to tell DHS your immigration status

If you are undocumented, you may simply tell DHS that you are interested in applying for benefits where eligibility does not depend on immigration status. Even though we have not heard of DHS staff reporting anyone’s immigration status (and to do so would violate their rules on client confidentiality), it’s best not to disclose that you do not have documentation.

Finally, you have the right to information and materials in the language you speak and understand.

Regardless of your immigration status, you have the right to written materials in the language you speak and understand. You also have the right to work with a case worker who speaks your language or to have an interpreter provided by DHS.

ORS 411.062

For further information, call the Public Benefits Hotline (1-800-520-5292) or your local Legal Aid office. Go to www.oregonlawhelp.org for a directory of legal aid programs.

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2011-09-01T04:25:00.001-07:00

Activist Federal Judge Sandbags Alabama Immigration Law: She Needs More Time for Her DOJ/White House Masters to Draft Sophistic Pretext

Alabama Immigration Law Blocked by Federal Judge
By Jay Reeves, AP, August 29, 2011, 4 P.M. ET.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge temporarily blocked enforcement of Alabama’s new law cracking down on illegal immigration, ruling Monday that she needed more time to decide whether the law opposed by the Obama administration, church leaders and [N.S.: illegal] immigrant-rights groups is constitutional.

The brief order by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Blackburn means the law – which opponents and supporters alike have called the toughest in the nation – won’t take effect as scheduled on Thursday. The ruling was cheered both by Republican leaders who were pleased the judge didn’t gut the law and by opponents who compare it to old Jim Crow-era statutes against racial integration.

Blackburn didn’t address whether the law is constitutional, and she could still let all or parts of the law take effect later. Instead, she said she needed more time to consider lawsuits filed by the Justice Department, private groups and individuals that claim the state is overstepping its bounds.

The judge said she will issue a longer ruling by Sept. 28, and her temporary order will remain in effect until the day after. She heard arguments from the Justice Department and others during a daylong hearing last week.

Similar laws have been passed in Arizona, Utah, Indiana and Georgia. Federal judges already have blocked all or parts of the laws in those states.

Among other things, the law would require schools to verify the citizenship status of students, but it wouldn’t prevent illegal immigrants from attending public schools.

The law also would make it a crime to knowingly assist an illegal immigrant by providing them a ride, a job, a place to live or most anything else – a section that church leaders fear would hamper public assistance ministries. It also would allow police to jail suspected illegal immigrants during traffic stops.

Finding a way to curtail public spending that benefits illegal immigrants has been a pet project of Alabama conservatives for years. Census figures released earlier this year show the state’s Hispanic population more than doubled over a decade to 185,602 last year, and supporters of the law contend many of them are in the country illegally.

Isabel Rubio, executive director of the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, which is among the groups that sued over the law, hopes Blackburn will block it entirely but was happy with the temporary reprieve.

“We are pleased that Judge Blackburn is taking more time to study the case,” she said.

Republican Gov. Robert Bentley said he would continue to defend the law, and GOP leaders in the House and Senate praised Blackburn – a Republican appointee – for taking time to fully consider the law.

“We must remember that today’s ruling is simply the first round in what promises to be a long judicial fight over Alabama’s right to protect its borders,” said House Majority Leader Micky Hammon of Decatur. “To put it in sports terms, it is the first half-inning of the first game of a seven-game World Series.”

While the Obama administration contends the state law conflicts with federal immigration law, state Sen. Scott Beason, R-Gardendale, contends the federal government isn’t doing its job enforcing immigration laws. Beason said that he spent years researching immigration law to help write the 70-plus page law, and that it’s unrealistic to expect a judge to go through it all in a few days.

“You just can’t do that,” he said.

2011-08-24T04:23:00.001-07:00

“An Inmate’s Letter Recalls a Certain Summer”: Susan Jacobson, Dempsey Hawkins, and the New York Times
By Nicholas Stix

Is the New York Times Running Fake News about a 1976 Black-on-White Murder, and to What Sinister End?

Murder victim Susan Jacobson, presumably 13, in 1975.

By Nicholas Stix

On Sunday, the New York Times ran the first part of a two-part series by Michael Wilson, on what seemed to be an unsolved, 35-year-old mystery. The newspaper version was entitled, “Decades Later, Inmate Recalls Summer Love”; the Web title is “An Inmate’s Letter Recalls a Certain Summer.” How romantic.

Wilson writes tells of how mullatto 15-year-old Dempsey Hawkins and white 13-year-old Susan Jacobson moved from being good acquaintances to very good friends, and then lovers. Wilson opens,

The letter sounded like something from another age, but in fact, it was written July 31, with the return address of Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton, N.Y. It was from a 51-year-old inmate named Dempsey Hawkins, and it told the story of a stitch of time 36 years ago, when the writer fell in love with a girl named Susan Jacobson.

“I was 15, Susan, 13, when we moved beyond a casual association and began a teenage romance in the spring of 1975,” Mr. Hawkins wrote. They were neighbors and moved in the same circles, but met in earnest during a game of baseball. “I got hit in the face by the backswing of Susan’s bat,” he wrote. “As I was up next, I was standing too close to home plate and inattentive the moment the swing came round.

“Hours later I assured her I was O.K. and joked with her. Continued to joke and laugh with Susan in the following days, and began talking with her on the telephone, her front porch and during walks around the neighborhood.”

Susan’s parents were not happy about the relationship, but did nothing to stop it, until Hawkins got their daughter pregnant. Then they ordered her to stop seeing him, but she continued, anyway, on the sly.

[Note how extraordinary it was in 1975 for a 13-year-old white girl to get knocked up. In 1976, I read a poll in a ladies’ magazine that reported that over 80 percent of 18-year-old girls were still virgins. The public school campaign to get all kids “doing it,” and the switch to where, as The Boss says, “The most important lesson is how to put on a condom,” was just gearing up.]

Then, on May 15, 1976, Susan disappeared, seemingly never to be found again.

“Her family called the police, and friends and neighbors searched for her. Dempsey said he had no idea where she was, and he helped look for the girl he loved….

“It seemed no one knew what had become of a 14-year-old girl in a close-knit island neighborhood on that Saturday afternoon. It would be two years before the truth emerged: a truth that will be more fully explored in this space next Saturday.

“But in 1976, one person did know what had happened: Susan’s boyfriend, Dempsey Hawkins.

“I strangled Susan,” he wrote in the letter, “and concealed her body in a metal barrel in a wooded area across from a Procter & Gamble factory on Staten Island.”

That’s where Part I ends.

The Times staffer implies that now we finally know what happened to Susan Jacobson.

I googled under her name, and found the following comments from last year at the blog, City Noise, at a page devoted to an “Abandoned Shipyard.”

ramairgto: 15th Sep 2010 - 05:33 GMT
A 14 year old girl named Susan Jacobson was murdered here on May 15,1976 and dumped in a shaft by her 16 year old boyfriend Dempsey Hawkins. Her body was found 2 years later. Hawkins was tried and convicted in 1979 and is doing 22 years to life. As of today he is still in jail.

ramairgto: 11th Oct 2010 - 03:55 GMT
He is serving 22 years to life sentence at MT. MCGREGOR CORRECTIONAL FACILITY in upstate Wilton, New York.
http://nysdocslookup.docs.state.ny.us/GCA00P00/WIQ3/WINQ130

There is no mystery. The case was solved, the perpetrator duly convicted and imprisoned. Hawkins was not imprisoned for some other crime, and decided to reveal how he had also murdered Susan Jacobson; he was imprisoned in Mount McGregor for her murder.

Dempsey Hawkins, now 51, is a gifted writer of lush, lyrical prose that shows few of contemporary writing’s vices. He has clearly spent years studying classic, English literature. He has firm control of his metaphors, but unfortunately a history of a lack of control of his hands.

Excerpts from Hawkins' letter follow. (He wrote without paragraph breaks.)

I was in London for a moment. Just long enough to learn how to walk and talk and gather a few memories before leaving for Staten Island, where I grew up. Grew up too fast in some respects but not fast enough to outgrow the adolescent flaws and shortcomings of character to which I would steadily succumb in a bad way. I was 15, Susan, 13, when we moved beyond a casual association and began a teenage romance in the spring of 1975….Our attachment began when a group of us were playing baseball and I got hit in the face by the backswing of Susan’s bat. As I was up next, I was standing too close to home plate and inattentive the moment the swing came round and sent me to the hospital for three stitches. Hours later I assured Susan I was O.K. and joked with her. Continued to joke and laugh with Susan in the following days, and began talking with her on the telephone, her front porch and during walks around the neighborhood….I had come across Susan countless times, whether as teammates in whiffleball games played when the summer air turned aromatic from backyard barbecues or among a group sledding down the steep, icy street past snowmen sitting hatted, scarfed and smiling under winter moonlight…. We [my friends and I, not Susan and I] pretty much always had something to doi, whether playing hockey on a residential street or shooting basketballs at the CYO, our energy and enthusiasm ran like a river toward an eddy where it whirled round a few times before rushing on. Spontaneity was the spirit with which we chased fun the way we chased one another from house to house on blustery Halloween nights when jack-o-lanterns inflamed the darkness and our shouts and laughter carried in the cool air and mingled with the hurly-burly of blowing leaves. I never envisioned a moment when I’d spend more time with someone other than my immediate friends to whom I felt solidly anchored, yet I gradually became unmoored by my attraction to Susan and drifted toward her, her interests, her world. I began attending church with Susan and her siblings on Sunday mornings as well as playing afternoon card games with them in their home. After school Susan and I typically got together to do our homework at the Port Richmond Public Library. Some Saturdays we’d bike ride to Clove Lakes Park and sit on a bench and talk while ducks spun languorously atop the water. Other days we’d visit a local pizza parlor to sit and chat with pizza and Pepsi on the table and the smell of fresh dough creating an evocative comfort. The snows of December arrived and I was genuinely infatuated with Susan. Happy in her presence and seeing her in song and dream when not….School became an hourglass through which the sands of my anticipation gradually streamed until I was with Susan again at her dining room table playing Monopoly with her brothers and sisters amid a volley of giggles and chatter resonating with the undertone of Welcome Back, Kotter on television in an adjacent room….In came 1976 and the insanity and the whole Painful mess I am about to relate succinctly simply because it’s disturbing. I strangled Susan and concealed her body in a metal barrel in a wooded area across from a Procter & Gamble factory on Staten Island. The crime occurred May 15, 1976. I was 16, Susan 14. I commited the crime because Susan and I had had sex which led to an abortion and an end to our relationship. I was distraught for weeks and considered suicide and then murder as a means of ending the hurt. Began to think and began to be undermined. Deluded myself into believing I could kill someone I loved and escape the emotional vortex I was too weak to pull myself from, Had no sense of Time’s ability to heal, knew nothing of its mercy. Committed my crime, and engaged in a sweeping act of betrayal in an effort to conceal it. Time commenced as did my guilt. I confided in two friends in an effort to share my guilt and lessen it. It didn’t work, couldn’t. I was alone with my burden, my horrors. I no longer fit in with my friends. I had stepped over a divide from which I couldn’t return. A murder I committed for reasons I couldn’t possibly articulate. I don’t recall how long I remained standing in that room confronting the permanence of my crime. Its magnitude, madness, senselessness. In many senses I have never relinquished that moment. Never stopped mining for answers that don’t exist.

So, what is going on at the Times? The usual. Hawkins is up again for parole in March, 2012, and the newspaper is pulling out all the stops, trying to spring yet another black murderer. Part II next weekend will surely be followed by other reportorials and open editorials, clamoring for his release. Other lefty rags and celebrities will then join the Times’ crusade, maybe even Angelina Jolie. The crusaders will encourage the Jacobsons to embrace their daughter’s killer, the way Amy Biehl’s parents did.

This is an obsession with stupid, rich, white people, and not just communists like Times publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger Jr., though leftists are certainly worse.

Look at Republican Mike Huckabee. When Huckabee was governor of Arkansas, he paroled black predator Maurice Clemmons, over the strenuous protest of prison officials. You may have heard of Clemmons; in 2009, he ambushed and murdered four white police officers in a coffee shop in Lakeview, Washington, near Seattle.

I can hear the calls, “Free Dempsey!” “He’s been rehabilitated!”

Susan Jacobson’s murderer will get a book deal, be paroled, and hired as a college English professor. He’ll be celebrated as a hero/victim of the racist, white supremacist, criminal justice system, who should have gotten probation, or at worst, been put in kiddie prison, and released at age 21. He’ll embark on a sexual relationship with a young, dark-haired, white coed … and strangle her.

It’s not about “rehabilitation”; that’s just a cover story for the loyalty some people feel towards violent black felons, on whose behalf they will use any subterfuge to foist them back on the rest of us, “the little people,” who are banned from carrying firearms in New York City. Times publisher Pinch Sulzberger, who ardently advocates against the gun rights of the little people, never goes anywhere without his own pistol—yes, he carries—as well as chauffeur who doubles as a bodyguard.

Been there, done that. In 1980, the late lefty writer Norman Mailer, himself a violent man who should have spent 20 years in prison for stabbing one of his many wives, Adele, almost to death, but didn’t, organized a movement that succeeded at getting convicted Eurasian killer Jack Henry Abbott paroled. Abbott and Mailer’s correspondence written while Abbott was in prison was published as the book, In the Belly of the Beast. A mere six weeks after Abbott was paroled, on July 18, 1981, he went with a couple of new female companions to a 5 a.m. “breakfast” at a restaurant in Manhattan’s East Village. He started a seemingly low-level argument with Cuban immigrant waiter Richard Adan, 22, a playwright and aspiring actor who was the owner’s son-in-law, over the eatery’s rule prohibiting customers from using the lone bathroom, only to suddenly stab him to death with ferocious speed and skill, as Adan walked away from him. (As I have lectured my son, never turn your back and walk away from a fight. Always back away.)

The very next morning, July 19, 1981, the Sunday edition of the New York Times carried the review of Abbott's new book, In the Belly of the Beast. Reviewer Terrence Des Pres gave a mostly favorable report and expressed gratitude to Abbott's mentor, Norman Mailer. "We must be grateful to him (Mailer) for getting these letters into publishing form and, a job more difficult, for helping to get Abbott out on parole."

Communist movie star Susan Sarandon attended Abbott’s murder trial.

Sarandon especially, became enamored by Abbott. Shortly after the trial, she gave birth to a baby. She and the father, actor Tim Robbins, named him "Jack Henry."

There are eloquent murderers in the world. Just look at Black Panther and convicted cop-killer, Wesley Cook, better known as Mumia Abu-Jamal. Let Hawkins continue writing… from prison.

Now let’s recall the titles that Michael Wilson’s editors gave his propaganda piece: “Decades Later, Inmate Recalls Summer Love,” and “An Inmate’s Letter Recalls a Certain Summer.”

“Summer Love”?! “A Certain Summer”?! More accurate titles would have been, “Decades Later, Inmate Recalls the Promising Life He Ended,” and ““An Inmate’s Letter Recalls the Murder He Committed.”

The New York Times isn’t “vile”; it’s evil.

CRIME SCENE
An Inmate’s Letter Recalls a Certain Summer
By MICHAEL WILSON
Published: August 19, 2011

“I was in London for a moment,” the letter began. “Just long enough to learn how to walk and talk and gather a few memories before leaving for Staten Island, where I grew up. Grew up too fast in some respects but not fast enough to outgrow the adolescent flaws and shortcomings of character to which I would steadily succumb in a bad way.”

The letter sounded like something from another age, but in fact, it was written July 31, with the return address of Mount McGregor Correctional Facility in Wilton, N.Y. It was from a 51-year-old inmate named Dempsey Hawkins, and it told the story of a stitch of time 36 years ago, when the writer fell in love with a girl named Susan Jacobson.

“I was 15, Susan, 13, when we moved beyond a casual association and began a teenage romance in the spring of 1975,” Mr. Hawkins wrote. They were neighbors and moved in the same circles, but met in earnest during a game of baseball. “I got hit in the face by the backswing of Susan’s bat,” he wrote. “As I was up next, I was standing too close to home plate and inattentive the moment the swing came round.

“Hours later I assured her I was O.K. and joked with her. Continued to joke and laugh with Susan in the following days, and began talking with her on the telephone, her front porch and during walks around the neighborhood.”

She was white and he was black, the son of a white woman from England and a black man from Illinois who had met when his father was overseas with the United States Air Force. Mr. Hawkins described an almost idyllic existence: “I had come across Susan countless times, whether as teammates in whiffle-ball games played once the summer air turned aromatic from backyard barbecues or among a group sledding down the steep, icy street past snowmen sitting hatted, scarfed and smiling under winter moonlight.”

Susan’s parents were not thrilled with the courtship, warning the teens that “they were leaving themselves wide open for criticism because of the race problem,” her mother, Ellen Jacobson, said later. But no one stood in their way.

“I began attending church with Susan and her siblings on Sunday mornings as well as playing afternoon card games with them in their home,” Mr. Hawkins wrote. “Some Saturdays we’d bike ride to Clove Lakes Park and sit on a bench and talk while ducks spun languorously atop the water. Other days we’d visit a local pizza parlor to sit and chat with pizza and Pepsi on the table and the smell of fresh dough creating an evocative comfort.”

He dragged his friends to watch Susan play baseball, but eventually, they left him to go on his own.

“The snows of December arrived and I was genuinely infatuated with Susan,” he wrote. “School became an hourglass through which the sands of my anticipation gradually streamed until I was with Susan again at her dining room table playing Monopoly with her brothers and sisters amid a volley of giggles and chatter resonating with the undertone of ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ on television in an adjacent room.”

But they did more than giggle and play board games that winter, and they were careless. In January 1976, Susan discovered she was pregnant. She had an abortion. Her parents told her she was not allowed to see Dempsey anymore. She told him as much, but they continued to see each other anyway, secretly.

Spring arrived. On a hot Saturday, May 15, Susan left her house and did not come home for dinner. Her family called the police, and friends and neighbors searched for her. Dempsey said he had no idea where she was, and he helped look for the girl he loved.

But they did not find her. Months passed; nothing. Her parents, increasingly distraught, even sought help from a psychic in New Jersey who gave them tips on where to look for Susan. Nothing.

It seemed no one knew what had become of a 14-year-old girl in a close-knit island neighborhood on that Saturday afternoon. It would be two years before the truth emerged: a truth that will be more fully explored in this space next Saturday.
But in 1976, one person did know what had happened: Susan’s boyfriend, Dempsey Hawkins.

“I strangled Susan,” he wrote in the letter, “and concealed her body in a metal barrel in a wooded area across from a Procter & Gamble factory on Staten Island.”

[A clink o’ the handcuffs to Larry Auster.]

2011-08-16T23:13:00.001-07:00

Katrina, Race, and the Media:
Seven at New Orleans Times-Picayune Win Duranty-Blair Award
By Nicholas Stix

Originally published on Wednesday, August 30, 2006.
Revised, expanded version published at 2 a.m., Wednesday, September 6, 2006.
Last updated at 3 a.m., Sunday, September 10, 2006.
Correction at 1:06 a.m., on August 8, 2010: All references to a single Times-Picayune Pulitzer Prize were changed to "two" Pulitzer Prizes.
With running postscripts added on August 14-15, 2011.

Did the New Orleans Times-Picayune win two Pulitzer Prizes for a journalistic fraud? It sure looks that way.

New Orleans Times-Picayune reporters Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa; managing editors, news, Peter Kovacs and Dan Shea; and editor Jim Amoss, are the newest winners of the Duranty-Blair Award for Journalistic Infamy, for their September 26, 2005 attempt to “untell” the story of the savage violence that befell New Orleans just before and after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29 of last year.

The previous Duranty-Blair winner was former CBS News producer Mary Mapes, who engineered what became known as the “Memogate” (aka Rathergate) hoax, shortly before the 2004 election, in an effort to swing the election toward Democrat challenger, Sen. John Kerry (MA).

The Duranty-Blair Award is named for two of the most notorious scoundrels in the history of American journalism, Walter Duranty and Jayson Blair, both of whom were New York Times reporters. (See Jayson Blair I, II, and III.)

On April 17, the Times-Picayune won two Pulitzer Prizes for a September 26, 2005 story that had immediately been discredited by the bloggers “ziel” of Your Lying Eyes and Eric Scheie at Classical Values. Two weeks later, building on their work, it was also discredited by this writer.

Thanks primarily to the new Duranty-Blair winners, one year and one week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the general public knows much less about what happened in New Orleans, than it did a year ago.

The two most influential stories on post-Katrina New Orleans were both published by the Times-Picayune, the city’s only major newspaper, on September 6 and 26, respectively.

In the September 6 article, “Mayor says Katrina may have claimed more than 10,000 lives; Bodies found piled in freezer at Convention Center,” Times-Picayune reporter Brian Thevenot wrote of visiting a room at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center containing four corpses covered in sheets, and of the National Guardsmen who accompanied him.

[Mikel] Brooks and several other Guardsmen said they had seen between 30 and 40 more bodies in the Convention Center's freezer. “It's not on, but at least you can shut the door,” said fellow Guardsman Phillip Thompson.

Thevenot also quoted Brooks as saying that there was “a 7-year-old with her throat cut” in the freezer.

He moved on, walking quickly through the darkness, pulling his camouflage shirt to his face to screen out the overwhelming odor. “There's an old woman,” he said, pointing to a wheelchair covered by a sheet. “I escorted her in myself. And that old man got bludgeoned to death,” he said of the body lying on the floor next to the wheelchair….

Brooks and his unit came to New Orleans not long after serving a year of combat duty in Iraq, taking on gunfire and bombs, while losing comrades with regularity. Still, the scene at the Convention Center, where they conducted an evacuation this week, left him shell-shocked.

“I ain’t got the stomach for it, even after what I saw in Iraq,” said Brooks, referring to the freezer where the bulk of the bodies sat decomposing. “In Iraq, it's one-on-one. It's war. It's fair. Here, it's just crazy. It's anarchy. When you get down to killing and raping people in the streets for food and water … And this is America. This is just 300 miles south of where I live.”

As blogger Bonnie Wren noted in a letter she sent to Times-Picayune editors and Duranty-Blair laureates Peter Kovacs, Dan Shea, and Jim Amoss (which they chose not to publish), “This [9/6] story received widespread circulation all over the world.”

(In a featured article by Brian Thevenot in the October/November 2005 American Journalism Review, “Apocalypse in New Orleans,” he repeated his most dramatic stories.)

Hereafter, for brevity’s sake, I will refer simply to “9/6” and to “9/26,” respectively.

On 9/6, the only story Thevenot related from a National Guardsmen who did not claim to have first-hand knowledge of its truth, was the following:

One of the bodies, they said, was a girl they estimated to be 5 years old. Though they could not confirm it, they had heard she was gang-raped.

Note that the Guardsmen were quite sure that they had seen the five-year-old’s corpse.

Realizing after 9/6 that they had violated the taboo against presenting black folks behaving badly, especially after blacks across the country voiced outrage at the media for referring to black looters as, um, “looters,” and/or because Times-Picayune editors and staffers remembered, ‘Hey, we’ve got to live here,’ the newspaper reversed course, and “untold” the huge story it had broken.

Unlike Superman, however, the folks at the Times-Picayune could not reverse time by flying against the Earth’s axis more rapidly than the speed of light, so they had to be more creative.

In case the reader has come to believe that 9/6 was indeed a phony story, and thus would tend to believe a story debunking it, I ask him to keep in mind the following points: Thevenot did not retract his 9/6 story; and as I will demonstrate, through my own research and the help of several other journalists, 9/26 was a false story.

Discredited from the Get-Go

In a September 26 story, “Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated; Widely reported attacks false or unsubstantiated; 6 bodies found at Dome; 4 at Convention Center,” four Times–Picayune reporters claimed to have followed up on, and disproved the most dramatic stories, including Thevenot’s 9/6 story.

The initial criticisms of Thevenot & Co. were:

1. That 9/6 had been altered (Scheie; unfortunately, the Times-Pic is not archived in the “Wayback Machine”);

2. That 9/26 claims that “rumors” had asserted that there were over 200 corpses at the Superdome, were a straw-man argument intended, by counterposing that to extremely low “true” body counts, to discredit all stories of mayhem (ziel at Your Lying Eyes);

3. That following 9/6, but prior to 9/26, the story’s most dramatic charges “of dead children in the Convention Center” had been denounced by police Superintendent Compass as “vicious rumors,” but the Times-Picayune had never printed a correction; and in a related but richer vein,

4. The 9/26 charges that the most dramatic stories about the Convention Center were “exaggerations” and rumor-mongering would mean that Thevenot and the Times-Picayune had been guilty of “exaggerations” and rumor-mongering.

Regarding the first criticism, Eric Scheie cited gruesome material that he claimed was in the original 9/6, but no longer is in its Web version.

In the matter of the second criticism, the 9/26 team (and in a separate article, Thevenot alone, who claimed to be debunking claims of 300 corpses warehoused at one school) claimed to be responding to rumors spread by the national and foreign media that had determined most people’s impressions about post-Katrina anarchy, but I was not then and am still not aware of any such national or foreign media reports, nor were any of the bloggers or journalists whom I’ve favorably cited above.

Thevenot & Co. conjured up incredibly exaggerated reports of murder victims that were supposedly in circulation earlier, even though no one else can recall hearing them at the time.

As for the third and fourth criticisms, respectively, on September 26, in “WHO'S COMPLAINING ABOUT WHOSE EXAGGERATIONS?,” Scheie wrote,

Usually when someone tries to avoid responsibility for assigning blame to others, I’m not terribly impressed, unless it appears that the person trying to shift blame helped create the problem. And I'm wondering what’s going on with the Times Picayune’s Brian Thevenot, who’s taking a hard line in condemning earlier gruesome reports of crime which he now says were untrue….

[Scheie then quotes a long passage from 9/26]

“….

[Thevenot:] “Four weeks after the storm, few of the widely reported atrocities have been backed with evidence…. The piles of bodies never materialized, and soldiers, police officers and rescue personnel on the front lines say that although anarchy reigned at times and people suffered unimaginable indignities, most of the worst crimes reported at the time never happened.”

[Scheie:] The above is certainly good news by any standard. But what's troubling to me is that some of the bad news was reported by Thevenot himself. By implication, he's now saying that his own story, which I was unfortunate enough to link before in the assumption that it was accurate, was either lying or exaggerated. The link I posted to Thevenot’s earlier Times-Picayune story now goes nowhere except to the story Glenn [Reynolds, of instapundit.com] links today. But via the Kansas City Star, here's the earlier Times-Picayune story (edited version, unfortunately) which still bears Thevenot’s name:

[Scheie then compares and contrasts at length Thevenot 9/6 edited with Thevenot 9/26.]

….

[Schneie:] I'm a bit baffled by this. It’s one thing to correct your own story, but the earlier one appears to have been pulled, without a retraction or correction ever being issued. Instead, the reporter who wrote it seems to be attacking bad reporting -- and completely failing to point out that his own story played a key role.

The Pulitzer Prize for Deception?

In the best-case scenario, Brian Thevenot won two Pulitzer Prizes for a story he co-wrote, which discredited and at the same covered up a story he had previously botched. In the worst-case scenario, Thevenot and Gordon Russell shared two Pulitzer Prizes for a story that was fraudulent in and of itself, and that charged Thevenot’s previous story with being either a botch, in which he was made a fool of by liars, or a pack of his own lies.

In either case—cover-up or outright fraud—Thevenot shared two Pulitzers for dishonest reporting.

For a political analogy to Thevenot’s treatment, imagine Richard Nixon’s Watergate cover-up being exposed, but instead of Nixon being forced from office, Congress and the New York City Board of Estimate (which ran things in New York in those days) voting to give Nixon a tickertape parade down Manhattan’s Canyon of Heroes.

But things are even more crooked than they so far seem. For in place of the National Guardsmen’s 9/6 report of having seen with their own eyes 30-40 corpses warehoused in the Convention Center freezer, or denouncing the Guardsmen as liars, Thevenot and his 9/26 colleagues cooked up a new story entirely:

One widely circulated tale, told to The Times-Picayune by a slew of evacuees and two Arkansas National Guardsmen, held that “30 or 40 bodies” were stored in a Convention Center freezer. But a formal Arkansas Guard review of the matter later found that no soldier had actually seen the corpses, and that the information came from rumors in the food line for military, police and rescue workers in front of Harrah's New Orleans Casino, said [Lt. Col. John] Edwards, who conducted the review.

Note that the two anonymous National Guardsmen, who on 9/26 are given a new story, were identified on 9/6 as Mikel Brooks and Phillip Thompson. But on September 6, Thevenot had also mentioned “several other Guardsmen,” none of whom he named.

Rumors of Violence

Note that 9/26 used “rumor” in the sense of a lie spread by someone who claims that an unnamed person he knows, or an unnamed person who knows someone he knows, witnessed or experienced something dramatic. But as we shall see, the New Orleans “rumors” of horrific violence were based on the testimony of people who claimed to have directly witnessed or endured violent crimes, most of whom gave their names. Said witnesses are either telling the truth or lying, but they are most certainly not spreading “rumors.”

The 9/26 story was so dishonest in its attempts to discount the violence that not only had been reported by journalists from other news outlets, but which had been reported in many different stories by different reporters appearing on different days in the pages of the Times-Picayune, that I believe that 9/6 was the true story. (In any event, 9/26 is surely a fraud.) The Times-Picayune reporters who reported on the savagery included Susan Langenhennig, Susan Finch, James Varney, and of course, Brian Thevenot.

For Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa to have a chance at winning over a reader who has read both 9/6 and 9/26, they would have to have condemned National Guardsmen Mikel Brooks and Phillip Thompson as liars for their 9/6 claims. Not only did the reporters not do that, but in different parts of the same story (9/26), they impeach Brooks’ credibility without naming him, and quote him by name as a [credible] witness (see next section)!

“Disappearing Crime,” Times-Picayune Style

Through a series of quotes from officials, 9/26 sets up the reader to believe that only four people – as opposed to the 34-44 reported on 9/6 – died, whether of natural or unnatural causes, at the Convention Center. The 9/26 team then seeks to shave that number down to only one “suspected” victim of violence.

Just one of the dead appeared to be the victim of foul play, said [NOPD Capt. Jeff] Winn, one of few law enforcement officers who spent any time patrolling the Convention Center before it was secured. Winn, who did the final sweep of the building, said one body appeared to have stab wounds, but he could not be sure. Baldwin also said only one of the dead appeared to have been slain, apparently referring to the same body as Winn described. Bob Johannessen, spokesman for the Department of Health and Hospitals, also confirmed just one suspected homicide at the Convention Center, though he said the victim had been shot, not stabbed.

A Washington Post report quoted another soldier who concluded that three of the four people appeared to have been beaten to death, including an older woman in a wheelchair.

But Spc. Mikel Brooks [!], an Arkansas Guardsman who said he wheeled the woman's dead body into the food service entrance, said she appeared to have died of natural causes. Brooks went on to say that the woman had expired sitting next to her husband, who shocked him by asking him to bring the wheelchair back.

The “Non-Crime” and “Exaggeration” Strategies

The September 26 team also “disappeared” crime via two other major tactics: Re-defining violent crimes as non-crimes, and through quotes from officials, claiming that the level of violence was greatly “exaggerated.”

On September 1, the AP’s Adam Nossiter (“Anger and Unrest Mount in Desperate New Orleans,” exists on the Web only in cached form, which may expire at any time, at message boards), reported,

A National Guard military policeman was shot in the leg as the two scuffled for the MP's rifle, police Capt. Ernie Demmo said. The man was arrested.

“These are good people. These are just scared people,” Demmo said.

Capt. Demmo’s bizarre rationalization notwithstanding, other initial reports said that the military policeman was accompanied by a female comrade, and that when a man appeared in the dark, and hit each of them over the head with a metal rod, the female comrade, rather than defend her partner, ran away.

Later, the media, which had since “forgotten” the assaulted and cowardly female “soldier,” identified the assaulted military policeman as Louisiana National Guardsman Chris Watt, of the 527th Engineer Battalion. (Just as racial taboos forbid honest descriptions of black people behaving badly, sexual taboos forbid honest reporting on women who, while working in sexually inappropriate jobs—as police officers, military combat positions, “fire fighters,” etc.—prove themselves physically incompetent or show cowardice under fire.)

In 9/26, citing Watt’s commander, Thevenot, Russell, Duncan and Filosa told readers that the Guardsman’s wound was “self-inflicted,” because it came from his own rifle.

But that’s legally (not to mention, morally) irrelevant. If someone assaults a police officer, the officer draws his weapon to defend himself, and during the struggle, his weapon discharges and wounds him, the wound does not count as “self-inflicted,” because it was not accidental or the result of his intention, but rather the direct result of the assault.

Legally, the same would apply to the case of a National Guardsman keeping order. Thus, assuming the officer (soldier) survives, his attacker will be charged with first degree assault, assault with a deadly weapon, or attempted murder on a police officer (in Watt’s case, simply attempted murder). Thus, to attempt to turn the near murder of a National Guardsman into a “self-inflicted” wound is a case of sophistry in the service of evil. It also tells you what the Duranty-Blair winners think of the Guardsmen who risked their lives to save others during the savagery.

Soldier shot - by himself

Inside the Dome, where National Guardsmen performed rigorous security checks before allowing anyone inside, only one shooting has been verified. Even that incident, in which Louisiana Guardsman Chris Watt of the 527th Engineer Battalion was injured, has been widely misreported, said Maj. David Baldwin, who led the team of soldiers who arrested a suspect.

Watt was attacked inside one of the Dome's locker rooms, which he entered with another soldier. In the darkness, as he walked through about six inches of water, Watt was attacked with a metal rod, a piece of a cot. But the bullet that penetrated Watt's leg came from his own gun - he accidentally shot himself in the commotion. The attacker never took his gun from him, Baldwin said. New Orleans police investigated the matter fully and sent the suspect to jail in Breaux Bridge, Baldwin said.

As for other shootings, Baldwin said, “We actively patrolled 24 hours a day, and nobody heard another shot.”

Shame on Maj. Baldwin.

By the way, outside of science fiction and horror movies, “metal rods” do not attack people; only people and animals attack people. Talk about newspeak!

One year after Katrina, the Times-Picayune has been publishing its own propagandistic retrospectives, which apparently seek to bury the reader in so much revisionist disinformation that he never finds his way back to the truth.

In an August 30, 2006 revision by 9/26 team member, Jeff Duncan, the assault with the metal rod and the cowardly female comrade have both been sent down the memory hole, and all that is left is a “scuffle” Guardsman Watt had with an assailant, who though arrested, has never been named. One wonders what the civilian could have been charged with: Third-degree scuffling? Being a material witness to a self-inflicted wound?

If one would do violence to the English language, one must be consistent. Thus, if one would define out of existence a violent crime, one must also define out of existence the ensuing arrest for said crime.

At least we no longer have to worry about violent, lone metal rods on the prowl.

Maj. Baldwin notwithstanding, we also know of numerous cases in which people in the Superdome fired on rescue helicopters.

At the time of the attack on Guardsman Watt and his female comrade,
some of their comrades in the 527th complained to Army Times reporter Joseph R. Chenelly.

An incensed Spc. Philip Baccus said,

“I never thought that at [sic] a National Guardsman I would be shot at by other Americans. And I never thought I’d have to carry a rifle when on a hurricane relief mission. This is a disgrace.”

Spc. Cliff Ferguson … pointed out that he knows there are plenty of decent people in New Orleans, but he said it is hard to stay motivated considering the circumstances.

“This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting. You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn’t come here to fight a war. We came here to help.”

And that was before they found out that the crimes against their comrades had been re-defined out of existence.

“Exaggeration”

Another key to disappearing the crime committed during the chaos has been to claim that initial reports were wildly “exaggerated.”

The 9/26 team quoted then-Deputy Police Superintendent Warren Riley as saying, “Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated. If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them – then that became 18.”

(Following Superintendent Eddie Compass’ forced resignation, Riley was named interim superintendent, and appointed superintendent outright on November 24.)

The initial targets of the “exaggeration” criticism – spread by Mayor Ray Nagin and Police Superintendent Eddie Compass, among others – were the claims of small children having been raped and murdered in the Convention Center, and of there being as many as 10,000 dead. The conventional wisdom has gone from assuming the truth to assuming the falsity of said claims. In the interest of protecting my ankles, I’ll skip jumping on this particular bandwagon, thank you very much.

However, 9/26 went way beyond casting doubt on the aforementioned “exaggerations,” and insinuated that there had not been remarkable violence in Katrina’s wake. Well, there was no violence worth remarking on in majority white towns like Gulfport, MS, but the reports of savagery in New Orleans were largely true.

The reason I say that, is that all a news team would have had to do to show the nation mind-numbing savagery, would have been to honestly report to the nation from the Big Easy in any given week prior to Katrina.

Before the Deluge

On August 21, 2005 – eight days before Katrina made landfall in New Orleans – the Associated Press’ Alan Sayre reported on a study of crime in New Orleans. In “Murder on the rise in ill-equipped Big Easy: Homicide rate in New Orleans is 10 times national average,” Sayre reported on Crescent City residents already so inured to gunfire, that “university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.” [P.S., August 14, 2011: A later news report stated that one person had called 911 at the time.]

The same story ran the following day in the Detroit Free Press under the title, “CITIES AND CRIME: New Orleans homicides up as people fear killers, cops.”

“We're going in the reverse of 46 of the top 50 cities in the United States. Almost everyone is going down, but we're going up,” said criminologist Peter Scharf. “There is something going on in New Orleans that is not going on elsewhere.”

And yet, at its peak in 1994 (421 murders), the city’s murder rate had been 58.9 higher than its pre-Katrina (265) number in 2004.

As Nicole Gelinas reported last fall [2005], New Orleans’ murder rate doubled in the wake of Katrina. That would make it, say, 19 times the national rate, although that would “merely” have made it perhaps 25 percent higher than the city’s 1994 number. In other words, even if we ignore the most controversial claims of raped, murdered little children and 10,000 dead, given New Orleans’ history, the savagery initially reported in Katrina’s wake, appears to be a case of a city returning to a level of violence that it had previously known.

But the pre-storm murder rate Sayre and Gelinas cited was based on New Orleans’ pre-Katrina population of 480,000. And yet, the highest estimate for its population in the days after the storm hit was only 150,000, or 68.8 percent below its normal population. That means that the post-Katrina murder rate, even given the lowball figures that were released, was almost 60 times the national rate.

But it gets still worse. Reports at the time claimed that the people who remained in the city to face the brunt of Katrina were overwhelmingly women and children and the old and the ill.

And so, even the low-balled figures were high for New Orleans.

New Orleans is a city that has long been so corrupt that, during the mid-1990s, a number of black murderers were at home in the NOPD. Two of those murderers, Antoinette Frank and Len Davis, are currently sitting on Death Row for crimes they committed white they were New Orleans police officers.

Frank, already a notorious sociopath whose deranged behavior had not succeeded at keeping her off the NOPD, murdered and robbed a white, off-duty NOPD officer (Ronald Williams, who ran security for the restaurant and who sometimes, grudgingly, used Frank as fill-in), and murdered the Vietnamese owner’s son and daughter (Cuong Vu and Ha Vu) at the restaurant where Frank occasionally worked off-duty as a security guard. Frank had decided to rob the place, and rob and murder all of the employees, but two employees hid in a walk-in refrigerator; Frank was caught when she returned to the scene of the crime to finish off the two witnesses.

Len Davis was a crime kingpin while on duty. Although NOPD officials knew that Davis was a violent criminal when he applied to the force, as part of their affirmative action program, they not only hired him, but deleted his criminal record from the NOPD mainframe.

Davis had ordered a drug dealer associate, Paul “Cool” Hardy, to murder Kim Groves, after she had complained about the brutal, unprovoked beating that Davis’ partner, Sammie Williams, had administered to her nephew.

The reason that the NOPD was hiring sociopaths, was that they were black sociopaths. There was tremendous pressure from black New Orleanians to hire as few whites and as many blacks as possible – by any means necessary. Thus were intellectual and moral standards eliminated, and a residency requirement introduced that was only temporarily suspended—in spite of much black opposition—in the wake of Katrina.

Thus, although in the wake of the Antoinette Frank and Len Davis cases, the NOPD introduced some mild reforms, it should surprise no one that in Katrina’s wake, so many NOPD officers were guilty of desertion and looting.

In Alan Sayre’s aforementioned AP report, Sayre recounted figures that had as a consequence that in less than 14 percent of the city’s murder cases, was anyone being convicted. That means that following Katrina, murderers were roaming the streets at will.

It's a Crime

As for the reality of black crime, during the 1960s, black activists, black and white journalists, and black and white academics, charged that the police were an “occupying army” in black neighborhoods that routinely engaged in “police brutality.” In other words, the good guys were now the “criminals,” and the criminals were now the “good guys.”

The aforementioned groups did everything possible to support violent black predators, including helping cop-killers like Black Panther leader Huey Newton to get acquitted of the murder of white Oakland PD Officer John Frey, to defaming as racists heroic white cops who risked their lives protecting black citizens.

The same campaign promoted the normalization of black illegitimacy, which is the surest guarantee of black crime. In 1965, when Johnson administration adviser, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, one of America’s leading social scientists, wrote the report, The Negro Family: The Case For National Action, warning of its subject’s impending collapse, black activists and academics screamed bloody murder, effectively sending Moynihan, the domestic observer, into early retirement.

[Note that the Department of Labor has disabled all links to the report’s introduction and table of contents, and to each chapter; and the cache of the introduction, which is how I originally accessed each chapter earlier this summer, has also expired. Why is the government censoring a famous, 41-year-old report? However, I downloaded the report last summer, and since it was a government report funded by the taxpayer, it is therefore the people’s property, and cannot be copyrighted. Hence I cannot be sued for republishing it, which I shall do at the earliest possible opportunity. (P.S., August 14, 2011: The DOL later restored the links to the Moynihan Report.)]

Thereafter, Moynihan stopped doing bold research on domestic, and especially welfare policy. In particular, then-Sen. Moynihan opposed the 1996 welfare reform bill that was grudgingly signed into law by Pres. Clinton as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, more commonly known as the Personal Responsibility Act. I submit that Moynihan may have suffered from a racial form of Stockholm Syndrome.

At the time of the Moynihan Report, as it came to be known, the black illegitimacy rate was 21.7 percent. By 1970 (see Table 10), the black rate had risen to 37.5 percent, versus 5.5 percent for whites; in 1975, the relation was 49.5 percent versus 7.1 percent; and in 1980, it was 56.1 percent vs. 11.2 percent. The black illegitimacy rate peaked in 1998 at 69.1 percent vs. 26.3 for whites. By 2003, the black rate had flattened out at 68.2 percent, while the white rate continued to rise, hitting 29.4 percent. [P.S., August 14, 2011: During 2009, the last year for which such information is available, the non-Hispanic black illegitimacy rate rose to 72.8 percent. The non-Hispanic white rate rose to 29.0 percent, the Asian or Pacific Islander rate to 17.2 percent, the Hispanic rate to 53.2 percent, and the overall rate rose to 41.0 percent.]

Black crime exploded in complementary fashion.

The other race hoax blacks and their white allies pursued was, contradictorily, to variously rationalize the explosion in black crime that began circa 1964, and to simultaneously deny that it had occurred, by insisting that white police officers were rounding up and arresting, brutalizing, and murdering innocent black males. Circa 1999, the slogan “racial profiling” was coined, in support of what Arch Puddington that same year called, “The War on the War on Crime.”

As affirmative action gave way to “diversity,” which required not only hiring unqualified people and discriminating against qualified people, based on their respective race or ethnicity, but misrepresenting reality, to make blacks and Hispanics (and now, Arab Moslems) look good (or victimized) and whites to look bad, in addition to routinely engaging in racial and ethnic discrimination, journalism schools began demanding an implicit political loyalty oath from applicants and students that they would engage in dishonest reporting. And once “J-school” graduates were hired by media outlets, they encountered racist black and Hispanic newsroom enforcers, to ensure that they didn’t accidentally tell the truth.

Another practice in reporting on crime that took hold following “Jesse Jackson’s” 1989 syndicated column (the scare quotes are because, like other politicians of all races, Jackson doesn’t write his own material) on “black-on-black crime” was echoing the lie, according to which blacks comprised the majority of the victims of black criminals. Already prior to “Jackson’s” column, students of crime knew that although there were five-and-one half times as many whites as blacks, black criminals victimized whites more often than they did blacks. This was the real racial profiling story that no one in the MSM would report on.

However, the practice arose, whereby reporters and columnists were permitted to compassionately focus on black (but not on white, heterosexual male) crime victims, as long as they did not focus on black criminals, unless it was to somehow depict the criminals themselves as victims.

I believe that MSM reporters were attempting to follow the “black crime victims” rule early during the deluge. However, they ran into the current version of the 40-year-old, once radical but since mainstreamed black practice of “not taking yes for an answer.” That means that the more whites suck up to blacks, the angrier blacks get. (Of course, the more one refuses to suck up to blacks, the angrier they get!)

One problem the MSM reporters encountered in New Orleans was in depicting black crime victims. Apparently, it is now unacceptable to blacks to even show black crime victims, if that involves reporting on black criminals. Apparently, the only currently (i.e., as of 2:28 a.m., September 10, 2006) unobjectionable way to portray black crime victims is, as Spike Lee does, in his fictional “documentary,” When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, as the victims of white criminals.

MSM reporters were also taken to task by outraged blacks, for compassionately referring to the New Orleans refugees as, “refugees.”

Although by the early 1990s, the media practice of disappearing black crime, e.g., by editors refusing to identify black attackers, even when they were still at large and not identifying them endangered the public, and by producers depicting virtually all criminals in commercials and dramatic shows alike as white (here and here) was taking hold, activists, journalists, academics and ordinary black citizens alike made ever louder, counterfactual complaints that blacks were being demonized by the news and entertainment media, by being “stereotyped” as criminals.

I don’t know whether blacks’ complaints were conscious rhetorical strategies or the sincere expression of race mania.

In his 1993 book, The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why are Middle-Class Blacks Angry? Why Should America Care?, black journalist Ellis Cose went so far as to claim that blacks only commit violent crimes because the media depict them as criminals, causing them to become criminals. Cose’s theory is logically circular, causally backwards (since it was pervasive black crime that came before the pre-diversity reporting on it), and presupposes that blacks lack freedom of will. Note too that, contra Cose, blacks had much higher crime rates than whites in the pre-TV era.

Diversity politics protected Cose from facing any of the above criticisms from his MSM colleagues, and any non-MSM writer, such as yours truly who makes them, is either ignored or damned by the pc as a “racist.”

In 2004, Fred Reed observed that one cannot have a “diverse” newsroom and honest journalism, because any instance of honest journalism is bound to offend a member of a protected group (blacks, females, gays), who will then exercise a veto right to have the offending truth censored.

Today, it is no longer simply activists or affirmative action newsroom enforcers who impose the diversity line, but blacks from all walks of life. I can’t recall the last time I encountered a black who was honest about black crime, and who would not race-bait a white who was. On August 26 [2006], VDARE.com published a typical, outrage-filled letter from an older, Christian, black Harvard graduate, complaining of the demonization of blacks.

Just as affirmative action leads inexorably to apartheid and to Zimbabwe-style violence, it also leads inexorably to the promotion of fictional, parallel universes in journalism, academia, and among protected minority groups in general.

A National Sensation – in Reverse

The September 26 story caused a new, reverse national sensation.

Nowhere in the 3,383-word story, did the reporters admit that the “widely circulated tale” came from their own colleague, Brian Thevenot (or that 9/6 had been a Times-Picayune story at all), or that Thevenot had written that the National Guard troops he had interviewed in the Convention Center had said they had seen the dozens of corpses of whom they had spoken. Indeed, had anyone spoken of merely having “heard of” mountains of corpses, the story would not have had the power to shock. Either Thevenot was lying, or the Guardsmen were.

Since the Times-Picayune reporters refused to admit that their newspaper had circulated the original story, they were guilty of dishonesty in any event.

Last October 3, blogger Eric Scheie reported that Thevenot had responded to his e-mail asking him to explain the conflicts between his 9/6 and 9/26 stories, by insisting that he had publicly retracted his September 6 story. However, at the time, neither Scheie nor I could find any such public retraction. As far as either of us could determine, Brian Thevenot had lied about having made the retraction.

Brian Thevenot did not respond to an October 11, 2005 e-mail from this writer asking him the same question as Scheie.

Almost three months after 9/6, Thevenot finally admitted to his 9/6 errors. And yet, even then he was dishonest. In the December-January American Journalism Review, he wrote,

I corrected the freezer report – along with a slew of other rumors and myths transmitted by the media – in a September 26 Times-Picayune story coauthored by my colleague Gordon Russell. In that piece, we sought to separate fact from fiction on the narrow issue of reported violence at the Louisiana Superdome and the Convention Center.

Wrong! He never corrected the freezer report. A correction involves a newspaper explicitly saying that a report it had previously published was mistaken, and correcting the mistake. Thevenot et al., and their editors never admitted to having botched 9/6; rather they transferred the blame to faceless, nameless “rumors.” What percentage of civilian (i.e., non-journalist and non-academic) readers are likely to have read 9/6, 9/26, and the December/January AJR story? One? Two?

And on 9/26, Thevenot, et al. (he forgot to give credit to Jeff Duncan and Gwen Filosa) did not restrict themselves to the “narrow issue of reported violence at the Louisiana Superdome and the Convention Center.” Rather, they sought to discredit in the broadest sense imaginable, reports of violence in all of New Orleans, in Katrina’s wake. But then, even their 9/26 statements about the Superdome and Convention Center failed to hold water.

* * *

The mainstream national media immediately began slavishly promoting 9/26, just as they had slavishly promoted 9/6. Socialists, libertarians, and neo-conservatives, albeit for different reasons (e.g., ideology, expediency), also found the story useful. (See also here.

Thevenot, who is white, was rewarded for 9/26 not only with two Pulitzers, but with the 2006 “Award for Valor Courageous Humanitarian Deeds” from NAMME, the National Association of Minority Media Executives, a group of affirmative action functionaries, at NAMME’s April 27 “Celebration of Diversity” Awards banquet.

It was with great relief that the media latched on to 9/26. In spite of the article’s transparently dishonest character to anyone who had followed the New Orleans story, to my knowledge, not a single Big Media outlet published work contradicting 9/26. (Far from merely spreading “rumors,” in the days immediately following Katrina’s landfall, dozens of media outlets published or broadcast eyewitness accounts of horrendous violence, in which sometimes the reporter himself was the eyewitness. In many other cases, the eyewitnesses gave their names.)

In “Who’s Killing New Orleans?,” in the Autumn 2005 issue of City Journal, Nicole Gelinas provided, to my knowledge, the most comprehensive refutation of 9/26. (While Gelinas is a columnist for the Big Media, neocon New York Post, to my knowledge the Post went along with 9/26. Kudos to City Journal editor Myron Magnet for having the cojones to publish Gelinas’ exposé.)

The New York Times’s own Dan Barry, a longtime metro columnist with no history of lying, hallucinating, or repeating tall tales, witnessed the corpse of a murder victim that had been lying out for days smack in the middle of New Orleans’s central business district. “A Louisiana state trooper around the corner knew all about it: murder victim, bludgeoned, one of several in that area,” Barry wrote on September 8.

Gelinas also cited and quoted from stories from the Associated Press, New York Times, Weekly Standard and, again and again, the Times-Picayune itself (August 30 and 31, and September 1, 7, and 8).

The stories detailed corpses seen by reporters in the streets of New Orleans from shootings and bludgeonings; people shot dead by police officers (as retold by the Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash); one policeman who survived being shot in the head by a looter; a gang rape witnessed by Jake Staples, an official of the National D-Day Museum; of gunmen who randomly shot at displaced families (including Brenda Austin and her family) trudging across town; the experiences of Vinnie Pervel, as reported by Susan Langenhennig in the September 7 Times-Picayune, who was assaulted with a sledgehammer and carjacked one day, and who watched as two neighbors shot two looters the next afternoon; and of civilians (e.g., Antoinette K-Doe) and police alike facing or hearing constant gunfire.

With the exception of 9/26, constant gunfire echoes through the New Orleans stories.

Firing on Rescuers

Thevenot, Russell, Duncan and Filosa have claimed that the widely reported stories of shots being fired at rescue workers, which held up rescue efforts, were also based on mere rumors. However, their own colleague, Susan Finch, reported on September 7 that 21-year-old Wendell L. Bailey was arrested and charged with “shooting at a relief helicopter from an apartment window.”

In “New Orleans Slides into Chaos; US Scrambles to Send Troops,” in the September 2 Los Angeles Times, reporters Ellen Barry, Scott Gold and Stephen Braun quoted first-responders Dr. Charles Burnell and paramedic Toby Bergeron, as having said “several gunshots were fired at helicopters – military and commercial – during the 24 hours they spent treating refugees at the Superdome.”

Dr. Burnell reported on his observations in a September 4 interview with Fox News host, Greta Van Susteren, as well.

The Los Angeles Times also reported,

Stray gunshots and threats from evacuees led some rescuers to suspend boat searches along New Orleans’ swollen waterways. “In areas where our employees have been determined to potentially be in danger, we have pulled back,” confirmed Russ Knocke, Department of Homeland Security spokesman.

In another widely reported incident, on Sunday, September 4, eight snipers attempted to murder 14 contractors, who were seeking to help repair the levee, as the latter “were crossing the Danziger Bridge, which spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River,” in seeking to repair a breach in the 17th Street Canal. According to then-Deputy Police Superintendent Warren Riley, NOPD officers returned fire, killing five or six of the snipers. The snipers were unimpressed with the contractors’ police escort, until the police shot them dead.

[Postscript, August 14, 2011: It turns out the cops were the killers on the Danziger Bridge, and that they then orchestrated a cover-up. After New Orleans prosecutors violated grand jury proceedings—without legal repercussions—and the cop defendants were acquitted in a state proceeding, the U.S. DOJ’s Civil Rights Division committed unconstitutional double jeopardy, in order to prosecute and convict 10 defendants of charges including civil rights violations and murder. Five former officers were convicted by a federal jury only nine days ago, and have not yet been sentenced. They will be appealing their convictions.

One since-retired sergeant is to be tried in federal court next month.]

And on September 1 [2005], the Associated Press’ Adam Nossiter reported,

“Hospitals are trying to evacuate,” said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan, spokesman at the city emergency operations center. “At every one of them, there are reports that as the helicopters come in people are shooting at them. There are people just taking potshots at police and at helicopters, telling them, ‘You better come get my family.’”

In the above case, “reports” referred to information the rescue workers gave their superiors. (Holbrook Mohr, Mary Foster, Robert Tanner, Allen G. Breed, Cain Burdeau, Jay Reeves and Brett Martel also contributed to Nossiter’s report.)

In contrast, the 9/26 team would have us believe that none of the aforementioned incidents happened. As Warren Riley himself, since promoted to police chief, following the forced resignation of NOPD Superintendent Eddie Compass, would claim to the 9/26 team,

Everything was embellished, everything was exaggerated. If one guy said he saw six bodies, then another guy the same six, and another guy saw them – then that became 18.

The 9/26 team also asserted that reports of attacks on rescue workers were the unfounded products of “rumors.”

The [initial] picture that emerged was one of the impoverished, masses of flood victims resorting to utter depravity, randomly attacking each other, as well as the police trying to protect them and the rescue workers trying to save them.

Note that in the first days after Katrina hit, the Times-Picayune savaged President Bush, whom it blamed for the violence that the staunch Democrat newspaper on 9/26 would say had never happened. Police Superintendent Eddie Compass likewise was forced to resign based on the same, imaginary anarchy. If 9/26 is true, why has the Times-Picayune not apologized to President Bush, and demanded that Superintendent Compass be reinstated?

(N.B. Readers familiar with any of my many criticisms of President Bush know that I am no “Bushbot.” However, I also do not stupidly blame the man for things that are not his fault.)

The 9/26 story was also supported by the NOPD’s chief flack, Capt. Marlon Defillo, who said, apparently without breaking down in hysterical fits of laughter, “The vast majority of people [looting] were taking food and water to live. There were no killings, not one murder.” As for sniper fire: No bullet holes were found in the fuselage of any rescue helicopter.” [So, what?! That doesn’t mean they weren’t fired on.]

Republican media critic Noel Sheppard cited Capt. Defillo approvingly, in a March 6 essay decrying “Katrina Myths,” in which Sheppard asserted,

In reality, although looting and other property crimes were widespread after the flooding on Monday, Aug. 29, almost none of the stories about violent crime turned out to be true.

Sheppard was writing based on a Popular Mechanics article that had uncritically echoed the Times-Picayune cover-up. (I have for years studied the history of violence in America, and I am not aware of widespread looting ever occurring without being accompanied by widespread violence.)

No journalist worth his salt would trust the laughably discredited then-Capt. Marlon Defillo to give him the correct time of day.

Back in March, Defillo, now an assistant chief, made the unwittingly comic claim that although NOPD officers were photographed looting in stores, since no civilians were photographed looting at the same time in the same stores, the officers’ conduct did not count as looting.

Don’t ask me to explain Defillo's logic, or lack thereof.

As I said at the time of Asst. Chief Defillo: Remember that name!

As we shall later see, through the work of Nicole Gelinas, during the chaos, New Orleans suffered at least twice its pre-Katrina murder rate, a murder rate that was already five times the national average and the worst in the nation.

Considering the many eyewitness reports by first-responders, journalists on the scene, and officials of (black) snipers firing on the predominantly white folks who sought to help the people left behind – doctors, nurses, and medics; rescue workers in helicopters and boats; contractors seeking to repair the damage; and even National Guard troops – the Times-Picayune’s attempt to rewrite history is obscene. One recalls the comedy routine by the late Richard Pryor who, when his wife had caught him in bed with another woman, shouted, “Who are you gonna believe, me or your lyin’ eyes?!”

Even from the beginning, when the media were still reporting honestly on the mayhem gripping The Big Easy, police officials sought to rationalize the madness of snipers shooting at people who were already risking their lives seeking to rescue people trapped by the flooding. We were told that the snipers were “frightened,” “scared,” and were trying to “get [rescuers’] attention.” Well, they certainly succeeded.

As I wrote last October 10, the snipers weren’t “frightened” or “scared”; they likely felt a mix of racist rage and joy. It was the rescuers who were frightened out of their wits!

Unless one is a law enforcement officer or a fighting man hunting down bad guys or the enemy, only a suicidal person would respond to being fired at, by deliberately heading toward the person shooting at him. Otherwise, the sane response is to get as far away from the gunfire, as fast as possible.

I have a much simpler explanation why snipers were firing at rescue workers: The former were trying to murder the latter.

Picture the scene. Heavily armed, ultraviolent, racist black thugs (who in many cases had broken into gun shops and helped themselves to firearms and ammunition), who considered themselves in a situation of total license, and who had stationed themselves on roofs or in upper-story, high-rise and house windows, saw unarmed, vulnerable, predominantly white rescue workers and contractors in helicopters, boats, or just standing in the wide open on bridges and levees.

One crime victim who later spoke to NPR’s John Burnett, summed up the situation more accurately than the 9/26 team.

Days of Lawlessness

Anastasia is a petite, 25-year-old hairdresser who asked that her last name be omitted. She contacted the New Orleans police in October and filed a report that she was beaten with a bat and raped on Sept. 6th in broad daylight next to a flooded McDonald's at Gentilly Boulevard and Elysian Fields, near her father's house.

Anastasia says thugs were still wandering the streets of her neighborhood more than a week after the flood. “I didn't see any police officers – I could have gotten away with murder,” she says. “It was that terrible. So I can assume what the criminals were thinking, and that's exactly what happened.”

Genocide?

Rather than spread new lies, the more decent and honest thing for the Times-Picayune to do would have been to disprove the lies already spread by black supremacists, starting with Nation of Islam leader, Min. Louis Farrakhan, who had charged whites with “genocide.”

“A Culture of Murder”

As Nicole Gelinas wrote in the Fall 2005 City Journal,

The coroner’s early report implies that the murder rate among those stranded in Katrina’s aftermath was at least five times New Orleans’s normal murder rate [i.e., fifty times the national rate]. This real, not imagined, violence prevented New Orleans from getting the level of volunteer and professional help it needed after Katrina.

As Gelinas emphasized, in speaking of a “culture of murder,” savage levels of violence, unimaginable to most Americans, were already the rule in “NOLA” before Katrina ever made landfall.

But the grisly truth is that awful violence in New Orleans is never an aberration—whether before or after Katrina. Just consider the following snippets from the Times-Picayune, all printed in the month before Katrina hit. They seem just as hysterical as some of Katrina’s wildest tales.

“Violence tests the limits of mortician’s art.” “Some neighborhoods are being terrorized by thugs who have figured out that they have little to fear from the justice system.” “Almost nightly images of violent crime bludgeon New Orleans.” “Violent crime has emerged as . . . an ongoing source of national embarrassment.” “Murders are so common we have become numbed to their sting.” “Killers are killed, Orleans police say.” “The city is becoming scarier.” “Violence shows no signs of letup.” “Three men killed in seven hours; all are shot to death on New Orleans streets.” “After a short reprieve from murder and mayhem in New Orleans on Friday, six men lost their lives.” “This is Iraq right here in New Orleans. By 2020 there might not be any black people left.” “There’s a different type of murder occurring now and a different type of criminal out there.” “New Orleans area continues to log murder after murder.” “Something must be done to curb the violence festering in New Orleans.” “Now we’re in a bloody war nobody’s safe from.”

Day in and day out, Katrina or no Katrina, New Orleans is America’s most dangerous city. But the numbers don’t tell the whole story. White and black residents, rich and poor, of good neighborhoods and bad, are afraid to go out at night beyond the clear boundaries of well-patrolled areas like the heart of the French Quarter—and night means 6:00 pm, not 2:00 am. Everyone in New Orleans knows someone who has been violently mugged—and everyone knows someone who knows someone who has been violently killed.

In the weeks following 9/26, ever more outraged New Orleans crime victims and witnesses came forward from all over the country, to denounce the published crime numbers, as did first-responders who had treated some victims in the Superdome, but who were forced to flee after only 24 hours. By mid-December, even NOPD officials, such as Lt. Dave Benelli, commander of the NOPD sex crimes unit, were forced to back down from the phony crime numbers (e.g., only four rapes!) they had brazenly peddled following the anarchy, as dozens of since displaced women reported from around the country having been raped in New Orleans and environs in the days immediately following Katrina. The Times-Picayune, however, was umoved by these first-person reports.

To see the incredible character of the cover-up, read Nicole Gelinas’ story, hit the links I have provided throughout this article, and stroll through the Times-Picayune blog of stories from the middle of the chaos. One will then surely recall the TV spot reporting of the violence as it unfolded.

Any time I revisit that blog, I come across stories I hadn’t seen before that give the lie to 9/26.

Consider a random example, which was posted on September 2, 2005.

City not safe for anyone
Thursday, 3:45 p.m.

Across the city Thursday, the haunting fear of flooding was replaced
by a raw fear for life and public safety.

Navigating the St. Thomas area of the Lower Garden District in an SUV, Times-Picayune reporter [and 9/26 co-author!] Gordon Russell, accompanied by a photographer from The New York Times, described a landscape of lawlessness where he feared for his life and felt his safety was threatened at nearly every turn.

At the Superdome and Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, Russell said throngs of hungry and desperate people displaced by the flood overwhelmed the few law enforcement or miliatary personnel present.

“There was no crowd control,” Russell said. “People were swarming.
It was a near riot situation. The authorities have got to get some
military down here to get control of the situation.”

Russell witnessed a shootout between police and citizens near the
Convention Center that left one man dead in a pool of blood. Police, perhaps caught off guard by their sudden arrival on the scene, slammed Russell and the photographer against a wall and threw their gear on the ground as they exited their SUV to record the event.

The journalists retreated to Russell's home Uptown where they hid in fear. They planned to flee the city later today.

Almost everywhere Russell went Uptown, one of the few relatively dry areas in Orleans Parish, he said he felt the threat of violence.

“There is a totally different feeling here than there was yesterday
(Wednesday),” said Russell, who has reported on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina since the storm devastated the city on Monday. “I'm scared. I'm not afraid to admit it. I'm getting out of here.”

Yet another blow to the MSM’s (following the Times-Picayune) revised, official Katrina story came on November 14 [2005], when reports on New Orleans’ dead were published by the State of Louisiana. The mainstream media had promoted the notion that those who suffered in the Hurricane’s aftermath were almost exclusively black. After all, over 90 percent of those stuck in the city were reportedly black, with the blacks predominantly stuck in the Ninth Ward and environs, where the levees had been breached. And the whites who remained reportedly lived above sea level on dry land (including Uptown), in the city’s tonier precincts. One was given to expect that the dead would be virtually all black. But in fact,

Of the 562 bodies (out of 883) that had so far been identified by race, 48 percent (267) were “African American,” 41 percent (230) were “Caucasian,” eight percent (48) were “unknown,” 2 percent (13) were “Hispanic,” 1 percent (3) were “Native American,” and zero percent (1) was “other.”

Few of those “privileged” white folks, Uptown and in similar dry areas, were the victims of Katrina. As were many of the black dead, most of the white dead were likely the victims of foul play. But as Steve Sailer had predicted already on September 6, 2005 (Day 9), officials would eventually downplay the savagery, lowballing the victim count, and medical examiners would have little interest in examining bloated, waterlogged corpses for bullet or blunt trauma wounds. And citing a letter from a reader, whose doctor father had been fired on by snipers during Detroit’s massive, 1967 black race riot, Sailer noted the tradition of firing on rescue workers during race riots.

Brian Thevenot, Gordon Russell, Jeff Duncan, Gwen Filosa, Peter Kovacs, Dan Shea and Jim Amoss need to get their lies straight.

As Nicole Gelinas argued last year, if we refuse to tell the truth about New Orleans, and to eliminate its “culture of murder,” every dollar spent on rebuilding the city will have been wasted.

The Times-Picayune’s 9/26 Pulitzer juggernaut could have been stopped dead in its tracks. After all, the hardy bloggers I previously cited, Ziel and Eric Scheie, had immediately discredited the 9/26 story. But journalism, whether on the Internet or among so-called professional journalists, is largely pack journalism, effective as a public watchdog only to the degree that large numbers of scribes hunt down, and over an extended period tear apart a person or a story. But with the exception of certain issues, such as immigration reform, that transcend party lines (or are ignored by both major parties’ leadership), what Max Weber observed some 90 years ago is still true: Most journalistic issues, including among bloggers, are determined by the interests of the major parties. And the major parties do not want honest reporting on racial issues, and only a statistically negligible number of bloggers have the cojones to stand up to them.

To appreciate the horrible consequences of 9/26, not only did the media jump on the disinformation bandwagon, but ever since, racist black propagandists have fed the lies like crabgrass, while cutting out the truth. Thus, over the past week or so, TV viewers have been treated to continuous showings of Spike Lee’s four-hour-long, HBO-subsidized propumentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Lee built on both the Times-Picayune’s disinformation campaign, and on the Big Lie perpetrated by the leader of the terrorist Nation of Islam, Min. Louis Farrakhan, according to which the flooding of black neighborhoods was part of a genocidal campaign by whites to murder black New Orleanians. Lee presents as true a surreally fictional story, in which the only violence committed in New Orleans in Katrina’s wake, was perpetrated by whites against blacks.

(Note that Min. Farrakhan leads an organization that not only is based on the creed that blacks will one day annihilate all whites, but which has actually engaged in the targeted mass murder of anywhere from dozens to hundreds of whites, most notably during a genocidal, early-to-mid 1970s campaign in across the state of California. That campaign, carried out by squads of assassins known within the NOI as “death angels,” cost anywhere from 70 to “just under 270” (Clark Howard) whites their lives. The 15 [a reader who is the brother of an NOI victim, has since altered me to two more such NOI murders] black-on-white murders carried out by NOI assassins in San Francisco, came to be known as the “Zebra Murders,” because the SFPD reserved radio frequency “Z,” for “Zebra,” for police broadcasts related to the killings.

Thus is Min. Farrakhan’s talk of genocide an exercise in pure projection.)

Photojournalist-fraud Adnan Hajj notwithstanding, journalists don’t need “photoshop” or any other new technology, in order to foist hoaxes on the world. Words alone will usually do just fine.

If, as the old saw holds, journalism is history’s first draft, history is in trouble.

In the world of comic books, Superman’s father, Jor-El, gave the former a piece of advice regarding the reversing of time that reporters would do well to follow: “It is forbidden for you to interfere in human history.”

But they never learn.

2011-08-02T20:38:00.000-07:00

Show Some Compassion for Somali Refugees: It Will Only Cost You Your Own Country, Standard of Living, Your Family's Safety and Liberty, and Your Children's Life Chances

Starving Somali child, courtesy of the New York Times.

By Nicholas Stix
Thousands of racist, Moslem Somalis are presently busily destroying some of what were only a few years ago some of America’s most beautiful towns and cities: E.g., the Twin Cities, Lewiston, Maine.

But there are so many American municipalities that have still withstood the onslaught of “diversity,” and the Times’ moral and intellectual Superpersons simply cannot abide that. And so, they wish to inundate 1,000 or more additional communities with members of a nation that is in competition for the dubious distinction of being the world’s most primitive, barbaric, and evil.

Of course, the competition for that title is fierce, and pits Somalia up against the Democratic Republic of the Congo … and the Congo … and the Central African Republic … and the Ivory Coast … and Sierra Leone … and Mauritania … and Rwanda … and Burundi … and Angola … and Guinea … and Benin … and Kenya … and Niger… and Mauritius … and Cameroon … and Burkina Faso … and Mali … and Chad … and Cape Verde … and Tanzania … and Togo… and Botswana … and Swaziland … and Lesotho … and Djibouti… and Malawi … and Nigeria … and Eritrea … and Ethiopia … and Botswana … and Gambia … and Zambia … and Senegal … and Liberia … and Mozambique … and Zimbabwe … and South Africa.

Feel free to add your favorites.

Somalis Waste Away as Insurgents Block Escape from Famine
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Mohammed Ibrahim
August 1, 2011
New York Times

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The Shabab Islamist insurgent group, which controls much of southern Somalia, is blocking starving people from fleeing the country and setting up a cantonment camp where it is imprisoning displaced people who were trying to escape Shabab territory.

The group is widely blamed for causing a famine in Somalia by forcing out many Western aid organizations, depriving drought victims of desperately needed food. The situation is growing bleaker by the day, with tens of thousands of Somalis already dead and more than 500,000 children on the brink of starvation.

Every morning, emaciated parents with emaciated children stagger into Banadir Hospital, a shell of a building with floors that stink of diesel fuel because that is all the nurses have to fight off the flies. [N.S.: Considering the alternatives—feces, urine, and decaying corpses—it is ridiculous to try and emotionally exercise readers over the smell of diesel oil.] Babies are dying because of the lack of equipment and medicine. Some get hooked up to adult-size intravenous drips — pediatric versions are hard to find — and their compromised bodies cannot handle the volume of fluid.

Most parents do not have money for medicine, so entire families sit on old-fashioned cholera beds, with basketball-size holes cut out of the middle, taking turns going to the bathroom as diarrhea streams out of them.

“This is worse than 1992,” said Dr. Lul Mohamed, Banadir’s head of pediatrics, referring to Somalia’s last famine. “Back then, at least we had some help.”

Aid groups are trying to scale up their operations, and the United Nations has begun airlifting emergency food. But many seasoned aid officials are speaking in grim tones because one of Africa’s worst humanitarian disasters in decades has struck one of the most inaccessible countries on earth.

[But I thought the Sudan was “Africa’s worst humanitarian disaster[s] in decades.” And AIDS in Southern Africa. And the Congolese civil war. And Rwanda and Burundi. And …. And …. You get the idea. All of sub-Saharan Africa is such a constant disaster, since time immemorial, or at least since it threw out the white colonialists, that anyone who is paying attention, and not merely on the make, gets tired of the African aid hustle, and outraged, considering that it is being used, in order to destroy our own country. Note, in particular, that the African aid hustlers care about every one of “Africa’s worst humanitarian disasters,” except when whites are the victims, as they are in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Then the spigot of tears and compassion suddenly runs dry.]

Somalia, especially the southern third where the famine is, has been considered a no-go zone for years, a lawless caldron [sic] that has claimed the lives of dozens of aid workers, peacekeepers and American soldiers, going back to the “Black Hawk Down” battle in 1993, spelling a legacy that has scared off many international organizations.

[Detroit/Flint/Lansing/Baltimore/Memphis/Camden/Elizabeth/Paterson/Lakewood, NJ/Jersey City/Newark/Gary/Stockton/Oakland/Chicago/Cleveland/Buffalo/Houston/New Orleans/Philadelphia/St. Louis/Richmond, CA/Atlanta, aka “the city too busy to hate”/New Haven (it’s those damned Yalies running amok!)/Little Rock/Rockford, IL (all due to skinflint Thomas Fleming’s reign of terror!)/Springfield, MA /Hartford/Washington, D.C./Springfield, IL (unlucky name!)/Lowell/St. Petersburg/Indianapolis/Nashville/Kansas City, MO/Miami/East St. Louis, IL/Los Angeles/Dallas/Forth Worth ... has been considered a no-go zone for years, a lawless cauldron…]

“If this were Haiti, we would have dozens of people on the ground by now,” said Eric James, an official with the American Refugee Committee, a private aid organization.

But Somalia is considered more dangerous and anarchic than Haiti, Iraq or even Afghanistan, and the American Refugee Committee, like other aid groups, is struggling to get trained personnel here.

“It is safe to say that many people are going to die as a result of little or no access,” Mr. James said.

This leaves millions of famished Somalis with two choices, aside from fleeing the country to neighboring Kenya or Ethiopia, where there is more assistance. They can beg for help from a weak and divided transitional government in Mogadishu, the capital. Just the other day there was a shootout between government forces at the gates of the presidential palace. “Things happen,” was the response of Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Somalia’s new prime minister.

Or they can remain in territory controlled by the Shabab, who have pledged allegiance to Al Qaeda [Your guys! So, you should be celebrating them!] and have tried to rid their areas of anything Western — Western music, Western dress, even Western aid groups during a time of famine.

Much of the Horn of Africa, which includes Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti, has been struck this summer by one of the worst droughts in 60 years. But two Shabab-controlled parts of southern Somalia are the only areas where the United Nations has declared a famine, using scientific criteria of death and malnutrition rates.

People from those areas who were interviewed in Mogadishu say Shabab fighters are blocking rivers to steal water from impoverished villagers and divert it to commercial farmers who pay them taxes. The Shabab are intercepting displaced people who are trying to reach Mogadishu and forcing them to stay in a Shabab-run camp about 25 miles outside the city. The camp now holds several thousand people and receives only a trickle of food.

“I was taken off a bus and put here,” said a woman at the camp who asked not to be identified.

Several drought victims who have succeeded in making it to Mogadishu said that the Shabab were threatening to kill anyone who left their areas, either for refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia, or for government zones in Somalia, and that the only way out was to sneak away at night and avoid the main roads.

A few years ago, the Shabab began banning immunizations, deeming them a Western plot to kill Somali children. Now countless unvaccinated children are dying from measles and cholera as tens of thousands of malnourished, immunity-suppressed people flee the drought areas and pack into filthy, crowded camps.

The other day, Kufow Ali Abdi, a destitute herder who lost all his cattle, trudged out of Banadir Hospital, gently carrying a small package in his arms wrapped in blue cloth. It looked almost like a swaddled newborn but it was the opposite. It was the body of his 3-year-old daughter, Kadija, who had just succumbed to measles.

“I just hope they can save the others,” he said, referring to his two remaining children, down to skin and bone.

The magnitude of suffering could shift the political landscape, which has been dominated by chaos since 1991, when clan warlords overthrew the central government and then tore apart the country. [Although this isn’t on his tab—yet—this is also where “Obama’s” foreign policy of destabilization will lead, everywhere he imposes it.] The Transitional Federal Government — the 15th attempt at a government — is trying to assert itself and beat back the Shabab, and the famine and attendant relief effort could mean an enormous opportunity.

“It could be a face-lift for them, an opportunity to deliver services and show they are committed,” said Sheik Abdulkadir, a militia leader. “But if a lot of people die here, people will say it’s the government’s fault.”

The famine could affect the Shabab as well, deepening the fissures in their organization. Shabab leaders are now beginning to cut their own deals in the face of mass starvation. Unicef recently delivered a planeload of food and medicine to Baidoa, a Shabab stronghold. In Xarardheere, another Shabab-controlled town and a notorious pirate den, a Shabab commander said in an interview on Saturday that he would welcome Western aid organizations despite the anti-Western policies imposed by his leadership, which has been hit by the deaths of several prominent figures recently.

Sheik Yoonis, a Shabab spokesman, said in an e-mail that the declaration of a famine was “an exaggeration.” He said that Shabab fighters were not imprisoning people in the camp, but that the people were attracted to it by “this sense of serenity and security.” He also denied that the Shabab were diverting river water or scaring away aid agencies.

Still, many aid organizations are reluctant to venture into Shabab areas because of the obvious dangers — the Shabab have killed dozens of aid workers — and because of American government restrictions. In 2008, the State Department declared the Shabab a terrorist group, making it a crime to provide material assistance to them. Aid officials say the restrictions have had a chilling effect because it is nearly impossible to guarantee that the Shabab will not skim off some of the aid delivered in their areas. [What logical relation do the two last sentences have to one another? The Times reporters are insinuating that if only State hadn’t declared the Shabab a terrorist group, it wouldn’t have begun “skim[ing] off” aid, a baseless position that puts the cart before the horse. Surely, the Shabab were stealing aid before being declared a terrorist organization.]

Even United Nations contractors have been accused of siphoning food aid [surprise, surprise!], resulting in extensive investigations and cuts in life-saving assistance.

Western aid agencies are now trying to work through [crooked] Islamic and local organizations as much as possible, but the Somali [pirates] partners do not usually have as much technical expertise [and steal at least 50 percent of the assistance, which they variously take for themselves and sell on the black market]. And heavy fighting has erupted in Mogadishu again, making it dangerous even for Somali aid [thieves] workers.

“Somalia is one of the most [corrupt] complicated places in the world to deliver aid, more complicated than Afghanistan,” said Stefano Porretti, who heads the World Food Progam’s [sic] efforts in Somalia and recently worked in Afghanistan.

2011-07-19T01:57:00.000-07:00

Atlanta: The Murder of Brittney Watts: What Was the Motive? APD Bigwig Calls Craven Killer “Bold”

Murder victim Brittney Watts.

By David in TN
Last updated at 4:51 a.m., on Tuesday, July 19, 2011.

In the Brittney Watts, 26, murder case, the suspect, one Nkosi Thandiwe, 22, turned himself in and already has a lawyer. He has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.

Although according to the excerpted Atlanta Journal-Constitution story below, Thandiwe murdered Watts and then stole her Prius, there was no mention of a carjacking charge, though that may have to wait for the feds.

Brittney and Brian Watts married in November, 2008.

Defendant Nkosi Thandiwe.

This took place in a parking garage in the middle of the day in Atlanta's business section. The suspect seems to have been waiting for the victim. He was a security guard where she worked, no less.

You can guess at a possible motive-maybe he asked her for a date and Miss Watts said “No.”

The suspect also shot (one seriously) two women walking by the entrance to the parking garage as he drove out.

Although the security company Thandiwe worked for, AlliedBarton Security Services, maintains that he passed a background check, there is one red flag so far: A neighbor says that some of the people living in Thandiwe’s family’s house liked to shoot off guns into the air in the backyard. And the defendant’s father appears to be a belligerent soul.

No word, of course, on whether the suspect and his father are immigrants. [They lived in the same house since the defendant was about seven. If they were immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa, that would entail another red flag, because South Africa is the world's murder capital, and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa is only marginally more civilized.

The name “Thandiwe” is Xhosa for “loving one.” The Xhosa language is spoken by almost eight million people in South Africa, Botswana, and Lesotho. Not terribly “loving,” this one.

Will the defense be diminished capacity? Or “they called me the N-word?”

* * *

Family, friends and co-workers Saturday mourned the loss of a UGA graduate killed in a Midtown shooting spree, while her alleged assailant waived his rights to appear before a Fulton County magistrate.

Nkosi Thandiwe, 22, remained in the Fulton County Jail, charged with first-degree murder in a lunchtime triple shooting that left Brittney Watts, 26, of Decatur dead and two other women wounded Friday. The shooting occurred in a parking deck at 14th Street and Crescent Avenue….

The shooting occurred shortly before noon Friday. Police say Thandiwe, a security guard at the Proscenium building, was hired to protect the building where the three victims worked.

Authorities said Watts encountered the gunman as he lay in wait on the third floor of the parking deck. He fired one shot, hitting her in the neck, then got into her Toyota Prius and drove away.

Police issued an area-wide lookout for the car, including a license plate number described by witnesses, and for a man matching Thandiwe's description.

Maj. Keith Meadows, head of Atlanta Police Department's major crimes division, said investigators believed the gunman was waiting for Watts.

Atlanta PD Major Keith Meadows: Killer was “bold.” (Background: Mayor Kasim Reed.)

As the gunman exited the parking garage, he fired several more shots, hitting Lauren Garcia, a 23-year-old intern for Midtown public relations firm the MSL Atlanta, and her co-worker, Tiffany Ferenczy, 24. Police believe they may have been random victims….

“All of a sudden, the car came out [of the garage entrance],” Wright said. “The car was blocked and the next thing you know, the guy comes out of the car and started shooting. That's when two of the victims got shot … my daughter and the other girl.”

What followed was pandemonium, witnesses say.

Meredith Smith ran into the parking deck for cover when the shooting began.

“We were crossing the street and we heard a ‘pop, pop, pop, pop’ and we ducked for cover inside the garage,” Smith said. “When we came out, we saw a lady laying face-down in the middle of the street.”

John Kupersmith, who works at Tin Lizzy’s, heard the gunshots from the restaurant’s patio. He said rather than driving people inside, the shooting brought more people out of the nearby buildings.

“I was seating tables when I heard four to five gunshots in quick succession,” Kupersmith said. “Everybody went to look. I came out and stuck my head out onto Crescent. There was a pretty big group of people on the street.

“And a lot of people were surrounding the lady who was face-down on the ground.”
Garcia lay in the street, a bullet wound in her back, her purse and shoes strewn out across the ground in front of the entrance to the parking deck.

Ferenczy was hit in the leg….

Watts was found in the parking deck dead, a single shot to her neck, police said….

Meadows said the two survivors were taken to area hospitals where they are in “satisfactory condition” and talking with investigators.

Investigators are looking at whether the gunman was a disgruntled employee who targeted Watts.

“It was a pretty bold move of him to shoot so many people in the middle of the day,” Meadows said….

[“Bold”? I can think of many words to describe a craven, racist killer who hides, and then shoots unarmed, unwary women who had no idea what to expect, but “bold” isn’t one of them.]

2011-07-18T21:35:00.000-07:00

Criminal Justice Madness in Washington: Billy Chambers, “Tuba Man,” James Konat, the Supreme Court and the “Don’t Snitch” Rule

"Tuba Man" Ed McMichael

By Nicholas Stix
July 13, 2011, 4:40 a.m.
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

Stone Killer Billy Chambers, Who Murdered Seattle’s Beloved “Tuba Man,” Edward McMichael, is Undercharged Yet Again in His Newest Alleged Crimes

If the allegations against him are true, Billy Chambers is not only guilty of attempted murder, but of attempted murder of a witness. That would mean that instead of facing a possible two years in prison for “assault” and “hit-and-run” (the actual charges against him), he would be looking at 20-30 years. The watered-down indictment of Chambers is yet another case of criminal justice affirmative action.

[See my work in American Renaissance on the Tuba Man murder and the murders of Kris Kime and James Paroline, Three Race Murders in Seattle, and Seattle: Baby-Faced “Tuba Man” Killer, Billy Chambers, Strikes Again.]

Billy Chambers, who with two accomplices murdered McMichael in 2008.

Although Chambers had at least two crime partners who joined with him in murdering Ed McMichael, he is the only one of the gang who has bragged about the crime, which is why the Seattle media have named him. (Thank God, for small blessings!)

“Tuba Man” Killer Arrested Again (Chris Ingalls KING5.com, January 18, 2011)

Specifically, Chambers bragged about how little time he was sentenced to for murdering McMichael, and how little time he expects to do for any future crimes. Clearly, he understands the habits of mind of King County’s Prosecuting Attorney, and most Washington Supreme Court justices.

Teen in ‘Tuba Man’ Killing Charged with Assault, Hit-And-Run
Posted: 12:33 pm PDT July 12, 2011Updated: 1:49 pm PDT July 12, 2011
KIRO-TV

SEATTLE -- A teenager convicted in the beating death of Seattle’s beloved street musician known as the “Tuba Man” was in court on Tuesday, charged with two crimes.

Billy Chambers, 18, was convicted of first-degree manslaughter for the 2008 slaying of Edward McMichael.

Chambers was 15 years old at the time of the slaying and was convicted in 2009 along with two other teens.

In 2009, when Chambers was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for McMichael’s slaying, attorneys said he and his co-defendants were not bad kids and came from “mostly supportive families and had no criminal history.” [N.S.: Hahaha!]

Now an adult, Chambers appeared in King County Court to answer to charges of hit-and-run and second-degree assault. [This was assault with a deadly weapon, so how on earth can King County PA Dan Satterberg justify a mere Assault 2 indictment?]

Prosecutors said Chambers intentionally rear-ended a vehicle at a stop light last month in Seattle. A police report said that after he hit the car, Chambers moved into the lane next to the car and ran it off the road, causing the woman driver to lose control and hit a tree [!].

The victim said the incident was in retaliation for her filing a police report against Chambers for stealing items out of her car the prior week.

Aside from the manslaughter [and assault!] conviction and Tuesday’s charges, Chambers has two 2011 felony convictions for theft and was charged with three traffic offenses….

[How could he have already had two—or even one!—2011 felony convictions, and still be a free man, prior to being arrested on the instant charges?]

Previous KIRO Stories:

• April 22, 2009: Teens Sentenced In Death Of 'Tuba Man'

• April 3, 2009: Three Plead Guilty To Killing 'Tuba Man'

• November 6, 2008: Third Teen Arrested In 'Tuba Man's' Death

• November 4, 2008: Seattle's 'Tuba Man' Was Beaten, Died

The proper term for Chambers and his ilk is “super-predator.” However, blacks consider the term “racist,” when applied to any black felon; they prefer “victim,” instead.

By the way, according to King County PA Dan Satterberg, the reason Billy Chambers and his fellow killers were only convicted of “Man 1,” for which they received only a token sentence, instead of felony murder (murder while committing another felony—in this case, robbery) for killing Ed McMichael, was that all of the many witnesses to the slaying refused to testify for the prosecution. If you guessed that they were all black, you guessed right.

Why weren’t those “witnesses” prosecuted for obstruction of justice, or as accessories after the fact?

(Imagine that: Chambers and crew had no compunctions about robbing and stomping someone white to death in front of a gaggle of witnesses. Were those really “witnesses” or criminal associates? Does the distinction still mean anything, where blacks are concerned, given prosecutorial timidity on the one hand, and blacks’ enthusiastic support for black predators on the other?)

Prosecutor James Konat: Convicted of Prosecuting While White

And yet, no Washington State prosecutor may mention the “no snitching” rule that binds most of black America. Do so, and the Washington Supreme Court (WSC)—aka Black Murderers ‘R Us—will give a black killer a get-out-of-jail-free card.

Just last month, the WSC flushed the state constitution, legal precedent, and the context of the trial itself down the toilet (PDF), in throwing out the 2007 conviction of black predator Kevin L. Monday Jr. for first-degree murder and first-degree assault, claiming that white deputy King County PA James Konat had used “racist” language during the trial.

(The media claimed it was because Konat said “po-leese” in a black style to a witness during the trial. Not that that would qualify as “racist,” either, since the context was still the virtually monolithic black racist practice of obstruction of justice and perjury, but the 8-1 majority was actually outraged because Konat had explained to the jury that hostile black witnesses either perjured themselves or refused to testify about the crime they’d witnessed, due to the black “don’t snitch” code.)

Prior to the WSC outrage, PA Satterberg had defended Konat, but now he hung him out to dry, effectively ending his prosecutorial career.

Several justices had evidently decided that James Konat was too effective a prosecutor, and had to be stopped. Washingtonians may want to heed Peter Brimelow’s call to impeach outlaw judges. (I hear that outside of the “SeaTac” area the state is relatively sane, or at least was until recently. Apparently, a huge number of California socialists have fled the diversitopia that they helped impose on the once-Golden State, only to seek to impose the same insanity on Washington.)

Note that the black “don’t snitch” problem is not only real, but that prosecutors across the country—excepting those black prosecutors who themselves support the rule—have long considered it the greatest hindrance to effectively doing their job.

A majority of the WSC appears to be hell-bent on making it impossible to prosecute entire classes of black murderers for murder. That could mean many more trials for the likes of Billy Chambers, who has just begun to kill. Not to mention, many more trials for law-abiding Washingtonians.

[Thanks to my man in Seattle, BR, who sent along the KIRO story with, “Here is the latest on the Tuba Man killer's crime career.”]

2011-07-16T22:51:00.000-07:00

Jonah Goldberg on How to Avoid Talking About Race
By Nicholas Stix

Jonah Goldberg is a Republican writer who makes a handsome living bashing “liberals” and, as I recall, is sometimes funny, while doing so. He generally avoids the topic of race, and a good thing, that, but once every year or two, he just can’t help himself, and tries to talk about race … without talking about race. It’s the Republican way.

Well, he just had one of his episodes. In “‘That’s Racist’: The accusation becomes a punch line,” Goldberg talks about blacks’ second-favorite phrase.

Goldberg is chugging along, on the way to expose the dishonesty behind racist blacks’ attempts at “explaining” the mockery behind the ironic use of the phrase, but never gets there. Suddenly, the Republican version of the pc (socialist/communist) deus ex machina, the non sequitur, comes down from the stage’s ceiling to save Goldberg from speaking a home truth about race in America, turning his column into an exercise in Republican disinformation.

“That’s racist.”

It’s a comedic catchphrase these days, popularized by an online clip from a 2005 TV show Wonder Showzen on MTV2….

Perhaps the greatest sign that the punch line has gone mainstream came last week when NPR’s All Things Considered reported on “that’s racist.” Correspondent Neda Ulaby explored how a phrase once considered one of the most serious accusations possible has become a gag line. The only problem? It’s not clear she actually gets the joke.

Ulaby relied heavily on Regina Bradley, who teaches African-American literature at Florida State University. Bradley admits her students say “that’s racist” all the time: “They were simply using it to lump discussions of race and race discourse all together. Because they were just saying because we brought up issues of race that was considered to be racist.”

Okay, so apparently the reason these kids say “that’s racist” is that they’re not too bright. But, wait, there’s more. According to Ulaby, Bradley also believes that the students are using the joke to establish up front that they themselves aren’t racist. Good for them!

Hold on, another explanation is that kids simply mimic the stuff they see on TV shows like 30 Rock and South Park.

I don’t want to overanalyze, but it seems as if everyone’s bending over backward to come up with the least obvious explanations for a pretty obvious joke.

For instance, here’s Ulaby again, talking about Hannibal Buress, a comedian and writer for NBC’s 30 Rock, who uses the phrase: “‘That’s racist’ works in comedy, Buress says, because it pushes buttons.” Okay. How does it push buttons? Why does it push buttons?

We’re never told. Instead, we get a NPR tutorial on the persistence of racism. “Scholar [Hahaha!] Regina Bradley says it also works because racism’s often expressed differently than from a generation or two ago,” Ulaby explains. “The segregated neighborhoods and swimming pools of Bradley’s grandparents have yielded to more subtle forms of discrimination. That’s reflected in how ‘that’s racist’ is being used — to shut down conversations or as a joke.”

But what’s the joke? We don’t find out until a 14-year-old-boy says it plainly: “I think I or other people just sort of do it as a way of mocking people who are overly sensitive about race issues.”
Bingo!

NPR could have done the whole story in 30 seconds. But instead it spent more than five minutes trying to grapple with a wonderful yet utterly inconvenient truth for the ostentatiously liberal network: Young people just aren’t as uptight about race as their parents, never mind their grandparents, are. [Young people today receive diversity training in school, church, on TV, and in many afterschool activities. How could they possibly not be “uptight about race”?] And, by the way, the days of segregated swimming pools and neighborhoods haven’t merely “yielded” to “more subtle forms of discrimination”; they’ve yielded to — wait for it — less discrimination. [Less discrimination against blacks, he means, but what about the pervasive discrimination against whites, including segregated “public” swimming pools?]

No, racism hasn’t vanished. [Which kind?] And the legacy of racism has a long half-life. [He’s kidding, right?]

But the simple fact is “that’s racist” is the sort of thing those darn kids today say to make fun of their aging Gen X and baby-boomer parents….

Non sequitur! They’re making fun of racist blacks. But he knew that, right? He can’t possibly be as dim as he appears… right?

By the way: Racist blacks are still using their second-favorite phrase to terrorize whites, often in conjunction with the hoax charge that the whites in question used blacks’ favorite phrase of all.

Jonah, I’ve got a tip for you: The next time you don’t want to talk about race … don’t talk about race.

A tip ‘o the do-rag to James Fulford.

2011-07-05T15:46:00.000-07:00

July 4th Celebration in Milwaukee: Flash Mob of 30-40 Raceless Youths Attacks Raceless Victims

Alex Pareene. Note: That is not a cigarette in Pareene's hand. A cigarette would have humanized him.

“In an era when urban white flight is reversing and violent crime is at record lows across the nation, this world of race riots and constant violent attacks on innocent Caucasians exists only in the imaginations of Matt Drudge and the paranoid suburban and exurban white people he wants to keep terrified. Stoking those racial fears goes beyond cynical political point-scoring. To devote so much energy to attempting to make whites terrified of blacks is just vile.”

[Alex Pareene, “Matt Drudge’s disgusting race war awareness campaign; in the world of the conservative proto-blogger, ‘urban’ teenagers everywhere are terrorizing the nation,” Salon, June 1, 2011.]

Matt Drudge

Thanks to Nivius Vir.

2011-06-30T13:53:00.000-07:00

"A Group of [Raceless] Juveniles" is Targeting [Raceless] Fans After Washington Nationals Games

Robberies near Nationals Park alarm fans, neighbors
WJLA News
June 24, 2011, 5:30 pm

Three robberies near Nationals Park this week have local baseball fans on alert.

Police say a group of juveniles attacked three people on Monday and Tuesday. At least one of the victims had just come from a Nationals game.

What has been described as gangs of teenagers have accosted people on the streets near the stadium and robbed them or beaten them while trying to rob them.

And it's raising concerns particularly for Nationals fans leaving night games. One fan reported on the neighborhood listserv that would-be robbers beat and chased him.

Neighborhood activist Naomi Monk says pedestrians should be careful at night. That's when all three of the attacks occurred, one late Monday when there was no game, two late Tuesday when there was a game.

"Do not walk in this area, particularly at night even when we have games," Monk says. "Generally it's a group of kids, five or six."

Police say they've made two arrests connected to one of the robberies.

D.C. Police Cmdr. Danny Hickson says detectives are following up and investigating the other two robberies.

Police say that Nats fans--or anyone else--don't have to wait until they're actually attacked to call police. You can call if you're suspicious.

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The reader who sent this wrote,

I attended a Nats game over Memorial Day weekend. We paid $35 to park inside the stadium area. The Metro is three blocks from the stadium, through a Black area. Given that almost all the fans are White, it is safe to conclude that these are Black “youths” going after White fans.

N.S.: White fans need to boycott Nats games. (“White Fans” and “fans” are here synonyms, since “Chocolate City” blacks see the Nats merely as a source of income through jobs and crime, but do not support the team. Then again, how is this city different from all other baseball cities?) If they do, ownership will be forced to variously demand more police protection, as well as pay for more security to patrol that three block stretch, as well as stadium parking area, or lose a fortune.

In diversity, decent white people always lose, whether through muggings and harmed and lost fans, and/or through paying a fortune for enhanced private security and more police, and/or through paying extortion to criminals in the form of “jobs” and “programs.”

Diversity: It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

2011-06-24T17:03:00.000-07:00

Non-Bias Crime: Carter Strange, 18, Jumped from Behind by Eight Raceless Assailants in Columbia, SC, Beaten Almost to Death

Friday, June 24, 2011, 4:19 a.m.
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

All eight suspects in brutal Five Points beating in custody
Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:45 PM EST; Updated: June 24, 2011 12:04 AM EDT.

Victim Carter Strange, before encountering racelessness.

Carter Strange after encountering racelessness and undergoing surgery.

By Logan Smith

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - All eight suspects are in custody after a brutal attack in Five Points early Monday morning which left the teenage victim in critical condition, according to Columbia police.

Columbia Police Department spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said most of the eight suspects are juveniles, and did not release the names of any of the suspects. Timmons said no charges have been filed so far, though possible charges could include assault and battery and strong-arm robbery. [But no hate crime or gang assault charges; of course not.]

Police Chief Randy Scott said the 18-year-old victim, later identified as Carter Strange, was jogging through a parking lot near the intersection of Blossom Street and Saluda Avenue just after midnight on Monday when the assault happened. "This teenager was minding his own business, trying to make his curfew when he was brutally attacked and robbed," said Scott.

Strange's mother Vicki said her son was jogging home after visiting a friend slightly past his midnight curfew. "At 12:07 he wasn't home, I called him and said 'Carter where are you?'" recounted Vicki. "He said 'Momma, I am almost home. I'll be there in just a minute.' At 12:15 I called, but the phone was dead."

CPD spokeswoman Jennifer Timmons said surveillance video taken in the area showed four of the suspects running towards Carter, though police only released video of the suspects walking on Harden Street. Investigators believe the suspects assaulted Carter and stole his cell phone, before leaving him in the parking lot.

After the assault, Scott said Carter managed to make it a block down the road to Edisto Avenue, where a passerby found him two hours later and called 9-1-1. Carter was taken to a local hospital, where he is still in critical condition.

Vicki rushed to the hospital and to a son she could barely recognize. "I literally bent over him, I recognized his hand and his hair then I said 'that's my son,'" said Vicki.

A relative of the victim told police the beating was so severe that Carter required emergency brain surgery to remove a clot. He's also expected to need reconstructive surgery on his face.

"He did nothing to them," said Vicki. "They didn't know him, they didn't know the kind of person he was, they don't know the kind of man he's grown up to be and they don't know the lives he's touched. But they thought he was so less of a person, they thought this would be okay."

Carter's family told WIS News 10 he had recently graduated from Dreher High School. "As a parent, you don't want to see your kids hurt," said Carter's father, John Strange. "I'd give anything to trade places with him that night and now."

"We have officers working hard to identify these suspects," added Scott. "I am confident that the public will do the right thing and assist us by calling police if they know who these individuals are."

"We got lucky, lucky he didn't die," said Vicki. "Next person won't be lucky. If they did this now, what's to stop them from doing it again?"

Timmons said the most of the suspects turned themselves in with their parents after seeing themselves on the news.

8 Suspects in Custody for 5 Points Beating of 18-Year-Old Carter Strange
1:26 AM, June 24, 2011

Columbia, SC (WLTX) - Columbia police say they are questioning eight suspects in connection with the severe beating of an 18-year-old man in Five Points.

Columbia Police Spokesperson Jennifer Timmons says the group turned themselves over to police Thursday night. She says seven of them are juveniles.

No charges have been filed against the group.

Timmons says some of the suspects saw themselves in media coverage and decided to turn themselves in, and others were convinced to go to police by their parents.

The group was wanted for the assault of 18-year-old Carter Strange early Monday morning.

News 19's Nate Stewart sat down with Carter's parents, who said they can't understand why anyone would do something like this.

The family gave News19 pictures, in which you can see what 18-year-old Carter Strange now looks like. They say he was beaten, kicked, and left for dead. After he was jumped by eight men in Five Points, his parents knew something was up when he didn't make curfew.

"A friend had texted him, and he stopped to text him back and that's when they jumped him," said John Strange, his father. Sitting next to him, his Vicki tried to avoid reliving what happened.

"When you have eight people on one person and they come up from behind you and hit you on the back of the head first, what do you do? Seriously? What do you do? He didn't have a chance!"

His parents say their son always follows the rules and is always home on time.

"When I think of all of them on my son and the fact that they are probably laughing and getting amusement out of it, makes me livid. Absolutely livid. You try not to let people do that to you until the point you become who they are, but there's a part of me. Yeah I could absolutely become who they are," said Vicki.

A couple passing by spotted Carter lying in a parking lot. A few minutes later, he was being rushed to the hospital. Carter's dad John says he was relieved when he arrived.

"Honestly when I walked in, yeah it wasn't a pretty site. But I was relieved he was alive."

Vicki said her son was unrecognizable.

"That was my son, that was my son. But then it was like that's my son! Yeah we've been looking for him for four hours. Yeah we found him. Ok. We found him."

Carter has broken bones in his face, a broken nose, and had to have emergency brain surgery to remove a blood clot in his head.

"I said if this would have been a car wreck, I deal with it easier. But I can't wrap my mind around eight people, beating someone almost to death for sport," said Vicki

His parents say the first step is getting him home, then for police to arrest his attackers.

"They're criminals go ahead and get them off the street. It might save a life. Next time they might kill somebody."

Carter is expected to have surgery to repair his nose Friday morning. The parents say they hope to have him home early next week.

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Thanks to Nivius Vir, for the heads-up.

2011-06-21T12:58:00.000-07:00

A Brutal, Raceless Gang is on the Prowl in Woodbridge, VA, Attacking Raceless Men
By Nicholas Stix

Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 11:17 a.m.
Updated at 3:51 p.m., on June 21, 2011.
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

The published story sticks to the MSM’s m.o. of giving worthless, raceless descriptions, but the first giveaway is when the black anchor, Cynné Simpson, speaks of “two random attacks.” The phrase “random attacks” was originally designed to cover-up racist, black-on-white attacks, but eventually it became clear what was up, and the phrase now reveals exactly what it is supposed to hide. Then, in the video report, white reporter Brianne Carter does her job, and repeats white victims’ vague description of the attackers as black men, 17-20 years old, and approximately six feet tall. I hope Carter’s diligence and service to public safety don’t cost her her job.

Three injured in Woodbridge mob attacks
WJLA/ABC 7
June 20, 2011 - 03:14 p.m.
Updated: June 21, 2011 - 06:08 a.m.

Authorities are investigating two separate mob attacks in Woodbridge that left a pizza-delivery man with severe injuries and two others with minor injuries.
The attacks occurred at about 10 p.m. Saturday night. In the first incident, two men, 47 and 35 year old, were walking in the 14400 block of Jefferson Davis Highway when they were assaulted by a group of about five men. The attackers appeared to be in their late teens.

About five minutes later, police responded to the 14100 block of Mathews Drive, several blocks from the first incident. A 31-year-old pizza-delivery man reported that he was attacked by about five young men, who stole his pizzas.
The man was bleeding and unconscious when he was first found. He had to be airlifted to a local hospital with severe injuries.

“I just hope they catch them,” said Woodbridge resident Lyn Taylor.

Thanks to reader-researcher RC.

P.S. “Wilding with intent to murder.” The lone reader comment that WJLA’s censors let pass follows.

1. LGV814
Jun 21, 2011 - 08:39:50 AM

what did Elenor Holmes-Norton call this a few years back ???? oh yeah "wilding" with intent to murder... This article somehow ommitted this but the television reporter covering the same story said the assailants were black men between 17-21...huh an obvisious mistake. I was going to seek pastors of the local church...

2011-06-09T05:09:00.000-07:00

Who is More Important, Kim Kardashian or “Barack Obama”? And You Thought Whites were Losing Influence?!

One tertiary and two quaternary celebrities.

By Nicholas Stix

Anonymous interviewer: So it’s safe to say you don’t watch much reality TV.

Edie Falco: No, not a big fan. Like, forgive me, I don’t know if you’re friends with her — but who the hell is Kim Kardashian? Like, who are these people and why are they famous and why are they advertising things and being asked their opinions about things? I just don’t understand what these people did to be in a position of having everyone ask their opinions about stuff. I mean, if there’s something about her personality or something that she’s accomplished or her philosophy on something — but beyond that I don’t understand what’s happening. It’s actually frightening.

Chat Room, New York Magazine, June 7, 2011.

As a public service, I am going to answer Edie Falco’s question. Kim Kardashian is a tertiary celebrity, two murders removed, which is like being a third cousin, two murders removed.

The celebrity in question is black double-murderer O.J. Simpson. When a black-dominated jury acquitted Simpson in 1995 of the grisly 1994 murders of his white ex-wife Nicole and her white friend, Ron Goldman, in spite of a mountain of incriminating evidence, Simpson’s lack of any alibi, and his attempted escape to Mexico, millions of blacks celebrated across America.

The secondary celebrity is Kim Kardashian’s father, the late Robert “Bobby” Kardashian, whose celebrity derived entirely from being friends with Simpson, hosting him in his home after Simpson’s indictment for the murders, aiding and abetting his escape attempt to Mexico, and from sitting by Simpson’s side daily in court during the latter’s murder trial.

Kim Kardashian’s “celebrity” is thus entirely derived from that of the double-murderer.

O.J. Simpson has an almost Genesis-level status as a begetter of celebrityhood.

Kim Kardashian’s breasts, which consist of almost 100 percent man-made material, have a life of their own. They exist as independent, quaternary celebrities, two murders removed.

Kim Kardashian has leveraged O.J. Simpson’s celebrity by engaging the services of various high-priced plastic surgeons, using over 20 pounds of make-up per year, sleeping with various black and partially black men, and filming her derivative life as a role in “reality” TV series with other tertiary and quaternary celebrities, two murders removed, sharing her last name.

For a white female celebrity of any level, the publicity value gained through sleeping with black men is priceless. The media love white women who do this, and give them positive saturation coverage. The only way a white female celebrity not sleeping with black men can compete for publicity with one who does is to surround herself with little black children from sub-Saharan Africa, à la Angelina Jolie and Madonna Ciccone. The media also reward black men of minor celebrity status who sleep with white females of derivative celebrityhood with enhanced status. Thus, millions of people know of “Ray J” and Kris Humphries (see below) only because of their having been sexually linked by the media to Kardashian.

The greatest source of Kim Kardashian’s fame, beyond her derivation from O.J. Simpson, is due to her having made a pornographic videotape with her black then-boyfriend, the singer “Ray J.” (William Ray Norwood Jr., whose own modest career derived entirely from his being the brother of singer Brandy Norwood.)

When the videotape was circulated, Kardashian sued Vivid Entertainment, alleging that the company had violated her “right to privacy.” Vivid reportedly paid her a settlement of almost $5 million, though it is hard for this observer to understand why Vivid paid Kardashian, rather than the other way around, since the publicity was priceless, and it was publicity she sought.

Kim Kardashian is currently engaged to a partially black NBA player named Kris Humphries. Rumors have for months circulated that she is pregnant, but she has steadfastly denied that she is expecting.

Googling under the name “Kim Kardashian” returned 211 million hits. Figuring that to be a fluke, I googled under “Barack Obama,” for purposes of comparison, and came up with only 26.1 million hits. Still not believing the results, I repeated the process, with the same results.

Three sets of attempts returned three identical results. (A search of Google images alone for “Kim Kardashian” returned 25.7 million hits.)

So, there you have it: In terms of Google metrics, Kim Kardashian is over eight times as popular and influential as “Barack Obama.”

No one is aware of what Kim Kardashian really looks like, what materials she has been constructed out of, any talent she might possess, and how much DNA she shares with humans, if indeed she contains any DNA.

2011-06-08T05:45:00.000-07:00

Grand O.J. Simpson-Anthony Weiner Investigative Partnership Off, for Now
By Nicholas Stix

“It’s over” between Anthony Weiner and O.J.

Last week, following his revelation that someone had hacked into his computer, and sent fake photographs of his bulging underwear from his Twitter account to various young women, Cong. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) announced the formation of a detective partnership with widowed NFL Hall of Famer O.J. Simpson.

“Congressman Weiner and I have both been the victims of criminals and smear campaigns, and we both wish to clear our names. Therefore, we are going to partner up, and do just that. He is going to hunt down the person or persons who murdered my wife, Nicole, and I am going to hunt down the hacker who did this to him,” announced Simpson via a telephone press conference, from prison.

Simpson, who is serving a sentence of up to 33 years for kidnapping and armed robbery at Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center, planned on having associates of his not presently in prison do the gumshoe work.

After Cong. Weiner’s press conference on Monday, in which he admitted that he had not been hacked, and had in fact himself sent the Twitter pictures to young women, Simpson released a terse statement regarding the partnership: “It’s over.”

Simpson could be released as early as 2017. At present, no criminal charges have been laid against Weiner.

2011-05-26T00:12:00.001-07:00

American Hellholes
By Nicholas Stix

Is Oakland Poised to Become America’s Crime Leader?

The author of “American Hellholes” writes,

“Today, Oakland is considered the 5th most violent city in the United States.

“Will it soon become the most violent?”

I find that question underwhelming. The competition for the title of “Most Violent City in America” is incredibly fierce. Ya gotta represent. No one is standing in place. Does the writer conceive of the sort of concerted, collective effort required to climb four rungs on the ladder? The poor felons would have to work double and triple shifts wreaking havoc.

If anything, Oakland is more likely to drop in the rankings. All over America for approximately 20 years, the “best-managed” police departments have been those which perfected the method of “disappearing” urban crime. Oakland is due, under the circumstances, to become the national leader in the field. We may soon start hearing of how the city about which, in its Golden Age, Gertrude Stein wrote, “There isn't any ‘there’ there,” has become surprisingly “livable.”

If it ain’t recorded, it didn’t happen.

See my report, “‘Disappearing’ Urban Crime.”

The writer also has his causality backwards. He claims that in cities like Detroit and Camden, industry left, and “the void” was filled by gangs. In virtually any once prosperous American diversitopia, you will find that criminal blacks and/or Hispanics moved in, took over, and violently chased the whites and businesses out. As The Color of Crime (2005) shows, crime causes poverty.

I do agree, however, with the author’s judgment that the claims by politicians that things are getting better are transparent lies, and America’s economy is actually in a death spiral.

A tip ‘o the 9 mm to Conservative Heritage Times.

2011-02-24T09:08:00.001-08:00

Remember These Names: Edward Earl Gentry Sr., Edward “Eddie” Gentry Jr., Pam Gentry, Jeremy Gentry and Kristen Warneke
By Nicholas Stix

They were the victims of the Pearcy Massacre.

There are only two national stories still available on this racist atrocity, VDARE is the only publication with the courage to run them, and I wrote both of them:

“Never Heard of the Pearcy Massacre? One Guess Why Not!”; and

“‘Don’t Raise Your Voice at Me! [Click!] ‘Read a Law Book!’ [Click!]—A Pearcy Massacre Update.”

2011-02-01T21:41:00.000-08:00

City of Charlotte, NC, to Whites: Drop Dead
By Nicholas Stix
Wednesday, February 02, 2011, 12:15 a.m.

It’s over. American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor has been unable to find a hotel to substitute for the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel, which had broken its contract for the group’s February 4-6 conference, reportedly in response to threats by black Charlotte City Council President Pro Tem Patrick D. Cannon.

When we spoke with Cannon, he said he did not send out an e-mail that was against the group coming to Charlotte. He added that he personally did not have enough time to contact all the hotels in the area. [That’s what staffers are for.] And he was just keeping some of his constituents informed. [“Informed” that he was violating the First Amendment rights of Jared Taylor and everyone else who had planned on participating!] NewsChannel 36 did obtain a copy of the email sent from Cannon's personal account and it reads:

“Subject: Re: Southern Anti-Racist Network

“I have all hotels, motels, and gotels on notice and they seem to be cooperating well still. An attempt was made for accommodations at another hotel but based on what I ask to take place they were denied again. It's my thought that they will still try over and over even if they end up in Cabarras County or Rock Hill. I will keep the level of intelligence up as best I can.”

[“White supremacist group considers suing Charlotte,” by Richard Devayne, NewsChannel 36, January 31, 2011.]

Either Patrick D. Cannon or Richard Devayne is lying, and this is one case where the reporter sounds credible to me. If that is the case, it means that City Council President Pro Tem Patrick D. Cannon not only violated Jared Taylor and American Renaissance’s (and mine, come to think of it, along with all of the other would-be participants!) First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly, but felony criminal conspiracy, violation of our civil rights and, if “on notice” means the obvious—that he would see to it that local businesses suffered financially for doing business with Taylor—felony extortion.

I have urged Jared Taylor to sue the city of Charlotte for zillions.

Jared Taylor sent out the following letter to everyone who had signed up for the conference.

Dear Conference Registrant,

I am very sorry to inform you that the AR conference scheduled for February 4 through 6 must be canceled. Despite strong assurances that it would not submit to pressure, the hotel with which we had initially contracted has broken its contract with us. We have investigated many possible alternative venues but have not been able to find one.

There is evidence that at least one elected Charlotte official was working behind the scenes to deny us a venue, and our legal counsel is looking into grounds for action against the city.

We are deeply sorry for the great inconvenience this causes you, and I apologize to you personally. As the head of the publication that organized this conference, the fault is entirely mine….

We are considering alternative models for future American Renaissance conferences.

Again, please accept my sincerest apologies. We greatly value your continuing support, and deeply regret that we will not be seeing you on February 4.

Warm regards,
Jared Taylor

Although Charlotte is 32.7 percent black, it is evidently a black supremacist stronghold. Mayor Anthony Foxx is also black, as is Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department Chief Rodney Monroe.

What Patrick Cannon has made clear is that ordinary whites have no rights in the city of Charlotte. Thus, it makes perfect sense that the anti-white Democratic Party would have decided to stage its 2012 national hatefest in Charlotte, after the DNC learned of Cannon’s alleged crimes against Taylor, et al. Rather than scaring off the Democratic National Committee, that information may just have sealed the deal.

Meanwhile, this little affair may be just the boost that Patrick Cannon needed, in order to give new life to his long moribund dream to become mayor of Charlotte. The racist outrage that he allegedly perpetrated would give him a huge shot of added credibility and “moral” stature within the black community.

In their zero-sum mentality, the overwhelming majority of blacks can enjoy freedom, prosperity, happiness and even life itself, only at the expense of white slavery, impoverishment, misery and death. Never mind that in reality, left to their own devices, with no whites to terrorize and slaughter ( or to keep them in line), blacks terrorize and slaughter each other. They blame that on whites, too: “They makin’ us kill each other,” as I heard a young, malingering, malcontent black with an unearned promotion say of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Governor George Pataki to an equally racist black friend at Toys’R Us in 1998. Interrupted momentarily in his meditations by a greeting in passing from the white store director, who had given the speaker his unearned promotion, the speaker then added to his friend, “They go another one,” about his white benefactor.

America was founded based on the notion that my freedom does not preclude your freedom. “Civil rights” are the rights of all citizens. The so-called civil rights movement turned that idea upside down: “Civil rights,” according to Martin Luther King Jr. and his various black and red comrades and heirs, are privileges that accrue to blacks, based on the color of their skin, and which are thus withheld from whites for the same reason.

Thus, blacks have First Amendment rights; whites don’t. Whites must obey the law, but blacks are under no obligation to do so.

Consider Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr.’s remarks to Nashville This Morning co-host Steve Gill on the eve of the 2000 presidential election,

GILL: Let me ask you about this. It’s against IRS regulations for politicians to campaign from the pulpit. Why are these politicians campaigning in black churches?

JACKSON: I’m not totally convinced that’s true in the African-American community. Certainly there’s a separation of church and state [NS: for whites!]. But in our community there’s little distinction between our religion and our politics. ... And so in many African-American churches born out of experience in this country, the role of the churches has evolved into a very, very active political institution which has been very effective for a number of causes in the black community.

HOPKINS: And that supersedes the law?

JACKSON: Absolutely. Oh, absolutely.

The belief that the law does not apply to blacks is the basis for the “racial profiling” and “police brutality myths.” According to most blacks, for a policeman to put his hands on a black for any reason constitutes “police brutality.” Likewise, arresting or even stopping any black, even one guilty as hell, constitutes “racial profiling.”

When Thurgood Marshall was chief counsel of the NAACP Education and Legal Defense Fund, in the Brown v. Topeka Board of Education case, he argued on behalf of color-blind equality for blacks,

Distinctions by race are so evil, so arbitrary and invidious that a state, bound to defend the equal protection of the laws must not invoke them in any public sphere.

Years later, as an affirmative action Supreme Court justice, Marshall revealed his true agenda to Justice William O. Douglas, the latter of whom opposed affirmative action:

You [white] guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it’s our [blacks’] turn.

As one critic noted at Front Page Magazine years later, Marshall’s revanchist logic was so thoroughgoing that it could even rationalize blacks’ enslavement of whites. And that enslavement is central to the system of black supremacy that I 21 years ago have dubbed “Jim Snow.”

The notion that most blacks (and white and other non-white multiculturalists) are “egalitarians” is a myth shared by white leftists and conservatives alike, including even Lawrence Auster.

The problems highlighted by the American Renaissance affair are not limited to Charlotte. This is today’s America. Whites who would continue sleepwalking through life have thus been warned.

2011-02-01T21:38:00.001-08:00

Black Supremacists Win; American Renaissance Conference is Cancelled ... Again

Tuesday, February 01, 2011, 7:33 p.m.

I just got the following e-mail from American Renaissance editor-publisher Jared Taylor.

Dear Conference Registrant,

I am very sorry to inform you that the AR conference scheduled for February 4 through 6 must be canceled. Despite strong assurances that it would not submit to pressure, the hotel with which we had initially contracted has broken its contract with us. We have investigated many possible alternative venues but have not been able to find one.

There is evidence that at least one elected Charlotte official was working behind the scenes to deny us a venue, and our legal counsel is looking into grounds for action against the city.

We are deeply sorry for the great inconvenience this causes you, and I apologize to you personally. As the head of the publication that organized this conference, the fault is entirely mine....

Warm regards,
Jared Taylor

2011-02-01T21:33:00.001-08:00

Statement by American Renaissance Editor-Publisher Jared Taylor, on the Reported Illegal Banning of His Conference in Charlotte

An Appeal to the City of Charlotte and to Mayor Pro-tem Patrick Cannon

Jared Taylor, Special to AR News, January 31, 2011

The following is a statement issued by AR editor Jared Taylor at today’s press conference in Charlotte, North Carolina.

On July 29, 2010, New Century Foundation signed a contract with the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel to host the biennial American Renaissance (AR) conference. (New Century Foundation is the non-profit organization that publishes the monthly magazine, American Renaissance.)

We explained to the Sheraton that many people think the ideas discussed in AR are controversial. We explained that in 2010 a hotel that had agreed to host our conference came under pressure and broke its contract with us. The Sheraton agreed that it was therefore important to keep the location of the conference confidential. Our contacts said they understood what was at stake and that they believed in free speech.

On January 25, the Sheraton sent us a one-line e-mail message saying that because of “recent disclosures as to the nature of your event” they were breaking their contract. Since then, they refuse to speak to us. The pretence that it did not know what might be discussed at an AR conference is a pathetic, embarrassing lie.

Perhaps what the Sheraton actually found out was that Patrick Cannon, Mayor Pro-tem of the city of Charlotte, does not want AR to come to Charlotte. In an e-mail message to a constituent he wrote: “I have all hotels, motels, and gotels [sic] on notice and they seem to be cooperating well still.” The date of this e-mail was January 25, the very day the Sheraton canceled its contract.

We can only imagine that the Sheraton must have come under very heavy pressure to walk away from tens of thousands of dollars in revenues—100 hotel rooms for two nights, a formal banquet, bar and meal tabs—and to subject itself to a five-figure cancellation fee.

We have heard that another city councilman, Warren Turner, has also urged hotels not to business with us. Both Mr. Turner and Mr. Cannon are black.

Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam has been to Charlotte four or five times since 1990. Minister Farrakhan has said things about Jews and whites of a vileness that has not the slightest parallel in the writings of American Renaissance. On September 12, 2005, he was in Charlotte to tell you the US government deliberately broke the levees in New Orleans so as to flood black neighborhoods.

Imagine the outrage if two white city councilmen pressured the hospitality industry to keep Minister Farrakhan out of the city.

Just this month, the president of the National Council of La Raza (“the race”) visited Charlotte to take part in a panel discussion on education. La Raza’s motto is: Por la Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada: “For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing.” Again, a sharply divisive statement unlike anything in AR. We understand that the Charlotte Observer paid for La Raza to come here.

Can we imagine white elected officials conspiring to keep La Raza out of town?

At an AR conference, middle-aged men in suits give speeches to other middle-aged men in suits. We have nothing to hide. Our speeches are videotaped and made available on our website, amren.com. If our ideas are hopelessly wrong, they should be easy to refute. They should be a threat to no one.

Why is Charlotte in a panic about this conference?

It is because we disagree with certain prevailing views and we have the courage of our convictions. Your city is not even attempting to understand our views, much less debate them. You are trying to silence us and drive us away.

Are your citizens proud of what you are doing? In an era that claims to value “tolerance and diversity,” why do you have no tolerance for the most precious kind of diversity of all: the diversity of ideas?

Shortly after he was named US Attorney General, Eric Holder famously called Americans “a nation of cowards” because we do not talk about race, and urged us to “be honest with each other.” AR is 100 percent honest about race—and look how we are treated. Is it a wonder Americans have become cowards on race?

We have learned that Charlotte is trying to attract the Democratic convention.

What the Democratic Party should say to your city is this: “Democracy thrives on the free exchange of ideas, not on running opponents out of town. As Democrats, who take democracy seriously, we will take our convention to a city that upholds American freedoms, not to one whose leaders trample them.”

We think better of Charlotte than this. We call on Patrick Cannon and Warren Turner to consider how their actions soil the reputation of their city. We believe they should support free speech. We believe they should take a stand for genuine tolerance of a genuine diversity of ideas.

We call on them to issue an apology to American Renaissance and to make a city-owned property available to us to rent for our conference. It is still not too late to encourage the qualities that made America great, not the totalitarian impulses that Americans—at least traditionally—have always despised.

2011-02-01T21:29:00.001-08:00

Terrorist Campaigns against American Renaissance: ‘Whites Have More Freedom of Speech in Genocidal, Black Supremacist Southern Africa than in America’
By Nicholas Stix
Sunday, January 30, 2011, 11:54 p.m.

That is the opinion of South African writer Dan Roodt, who was scheduled to speak at last year’s American Renaissance conference, which was shut down by death threats that anarchists and communists made against hotel personnel, and at this year’s conference, which reportedly was shut down by illegal actions by Charlotte City Council Mayor Pro Tem, Patrick Cannon. (See my January 29 article, “American Renaissance Conference in Limbo: Charlotte City Councilman Patrick Cannon Reportedly Violated Group’s First Amendment Rights.”)

Last year, I published the following report on the campaign against AmRen. I'm proud to say that it was the first article on the campaign written by someone not an AmRen staffer. Unfortunately, it was also one of the only ones written,a sthe national MSM completely “disappeared” the story of the crimes committed against AmRen and everyone who had planned on attending, including yours truly.

“Obama” and Holder are Victorious, as Communist and Anarchist Terrorists Use Death Threats to Shut Down American Renaissance Conference

February 16, 2010
By Nicholas Stix
(Updated at 8:47 a.m. Last updated at 9:27 a.m.)

Using death threats against hotel employees, terrorists succeeded at getting the hotel hosting the American Renaissance 2010 Conference to cancel the contract. The conference had been scheduled for February 19-21, at a hotel near Dulles Airport, and this was the third hotel which had canceled.

At the hotel, the terrorists threatened staffers with murder, if the conference took place. Though this will surely be news to Attorney General Eric Holder, who believes that the laws forbid only acts committed by people he hates, that is a federal felony, as well as a violation of the group’s (and mine, since I had registered to attend) first amendment rights to freedom of opinion, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly.

(In 2008, leftwing terrorists had called hotel employees at home, and threatened to murder them, but the conference went on without a hitch, and was a rousing success. I know; I was there.)

The racist-communist group One People’s Project, which has long bragged of using violence against those whom it hates, put out a press release on its home page, preening over its victory.

“THE ANTIFA DID IT! AMERICAN RENAISSANCE CONFERENCE CANCELED!”

“Antifa,” a contemporary euphemism for “communist,” is a shortened version of the old code word, “anti-fascist.” A contemporary equivalent is “anti-racist.”

OPP chopped its press release into two parts. The first, short part, on the group’s main page, the only part that most people will read, was careful to omit the real reason for their “success”: The death threats. Instead, they make it seem as though through hard work and moral suasion, they had gotten the hotel to cancel the event, and joke about causing participants an “inconvenience.”

That's right. Done. Kaput. Finished. Over. CANCELED! After three months of getting the word out and letting people know that a group of politically connected white supremacists were planning to meet this weekend, American Renaissance editor Jared Taylor threw in the towel, effectively canceling the American Renaissance Conference 2010. Of course this comes after losing yet another hotel. Taylor and the other organizers thought that they would be able to keep the location under wraps until 48 hours before the conference, to discourage protesters from organizing, a "fool-proof plan" to hear them explain it. Memo to Jared Taylor: Antifa are not fools, and to think otherwise makes you one. People from all over the country went into overdrive trying to find out where this conference was and the effort simply paid off. It didn't help matters much that in the midst of all of this we broke the story about how ACORN videographer James O'Keefe attended a white supremacist forum with Jared Taylor on the panel, because the traffic coming from that also meant people were going to learn more about Taylor and is current activities. That meant the opposition went viral! This has never happened before. This was once a conference that you could watch on C-SPAN. Now you would be lucky if it even happens! We want to thank everyone that stayed on top of this and helped make this happen. As for the other side - those who support Taylor and this conference, especially those who were going, they will continue down their psychopathic roads, regardless of how detrimental it is to them. As Taylor should know by now, there's a lot of people who are willing to be that detriment, and Unlike Taylor, we don't apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused!

In a classic case of projection, in the short version, One People’s Project called those who had planned on attending the conference, “psychopathic.”

In other words, according to OPP, people who use scientific facts and logic to discuss controversial matters are “psychopaths,” while people who threaten hotel employees, “If you hold this conference I will go in there and shoot you,” are perfectly sane.

The permalink to the front page version, however, is to the complete version. Thus, once OPP removes the short version (see below) from its main page, there will be no more evidence of the group’s chicanery.

Note too that the “story” on muckraker James O’Keefe, who with his partner exposed ACORN, that the OPP press release refers to, was a hoax that was exposed by Larry O’Connor at Big Journalism.

With these guys, you get lies on top of lies, on top of lies.

OPP was founded by black racist/communist, Daryle Lamont Jenkins. OPP’s slogan is, “A resource for those on the front lines fighting fascism… especially those who don’t play nice.” In other word, they are violent racist communists, who make common cause with their like. OPP has not a cross word to say about genocidal black supremacists.

American Renaissance’s Jared Taylor sent out the following e-mail to all participants.

Dear AR conference registrant,

We regret to inform you that today, February 15, the hotel at which we planned to hold the conference canceled its contract with us. Hostile callers phoned the hotel and threatened employees with death. One was specifically warned, “If you hold this conference I will go in there and shoot you.” Hotel management reported these threats to the police but felt it had no choice but to cancel.

We had backup possibilities, but all have fallen through, so we will not be holding the February 19-21 conference.

We are very sorry for the great inconvenience this no doubt causes you.

If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution to American Renaissance in the amount of your registration that would be welcome. However, we stand ready to refund all registrations and banquet fees. Please let us know by return e-mail how you would like us to proceed.

We understand that many of you have bought non-refundable air tickets. Generally, the amount spent on such tickets can, for a period of a year, be used to buy a different ticket on the same airline. However, most airlines then deduct $150 from the amount that can be spent to buy the new ticket. If you bought a non-refundable ticket, please send us proof of purchase and we will send you a check for $150. We do not want anyone to suffer financial loss because of this cancelation.

Again, please accept our apologies for this very disappointing outcome. We value your continuing support and deeply regret that we will not be seeing you on February 19.

Best regards,

Jared Taylor

Taylor also put out a press release:

American Renaissance: Death Threats End Biennial Conference of Controversial Group

Is there freedom of speech and assembly in Virginia?

OAKTON, Va., Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Zealots opposed to a meeting to be held by a Virginia non-profit organization have bullied three hotels into cancelling the event, thus making it impossible for the group to hold its biennial conference. American Renaissance (AR), a monthly magazine that has published on race and immigration for 20 years, had scheduled its ninth biennial meeting for the weekend of Feb. 19 through 21.

Opponents then pressured the hotels -- leafleting the premises, flooding switchboards with phone calls, finding the home phone numbers of hotel employees and threatening them with death -- thus causing the hotels to cancel their contracts to hold the meeting. The last hotel canceled today. More than 250 people had registered for the conference, and guests and speakers were expected from as far away as Britain and South Africa.

American Renaissance has held conferences since 1994. There have been protesters and crank calls, but conferences have always taken place peacefully and successfully.
AR is a race-realist publication edited by Jared Taylor that takes controversial positions:

* That diversity is a source of conflict and not a strength.
* That people of all racial groups prefer the company of people like themselves.
* That Asians are, on average, more intelligent than whites, who are more intelligent than blacks.

However, AR's positions are much less important than what this cancellation means for freedom of speech and assembly.

Any controversial group can be kept from holding meetings by fanatics who -- through the Internet -- decide to gang up on a hotel. If this tactic works against a 501 c (3) educational non-profit like American Renaissance, what is to stop animal rights activists from shutting down a meat-packers' meeting or environmentalists from shutting down miners or foresters?

Freedom of speech and assembly are guaranteed in the Constitution but those rights will be lost if Americans do not fight back against those who would deny them. As Judge Learned Hand put it, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

For more information, please contact Stephen Webster at 703-716-0900 or webster@amren.com.

OPP worked together with the “Self-Described Anarchist Collective,” the R.E.A.L. Organization,” and the Mormon Worker newspaper.

As best I could determine, there is no organization behind the moniker, “R.E.A.L.” (Responsible for Equality And Liberty – Love is More Powerful Than Hate – Love Wins”), just one man, Jeffrey Imm. Imm, who started the ball rolling with the terrorist campaign, reportedly was an employee of the FBI, and in recent years has contracted with the Department of Homeland Security.

For Imm, terrorism equals “love.” Paging George Orwell!

The Mormon Worker claims to combine Mormonism with “radical politics.” It’s probably a scam, in order to con Mormons into becoming communists (see also “civil rights movement,” “feminism,” “environmentalism,” etc.). In any event, in addition to such well-known Mormons as Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, the contributors page lists 16 people who claim to be Mormons, or to have completed a mission abroad.

The “Self-Described Anarchist Collective” is new to me, but when they describe themselves as “hooligans,” I’m willing to take their word for it.

Or perhaps, “hooligan.” As of 6:09 a.m. today, their Web page has not been updated since February 13, and thus has no notice of the conference’s cancellation.

The chief suspects have to be OPP and Imm, since OPP celebrates violence, and Imm, with his talk of “love,” can rationalize anything.

Meanwhile, the MSM has so far refused to report on the matter.

Above all, this was a victory for Eric Holder and his boss, the John Doe calling himself “Barack Obama.”

The Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II administrations had all made life miserable for whites, and especially for race-conscious whites who were fighting to save their country. But only under “Obama,” did the enemies of liberty feel safe in engaging in terrorism. And that was no accident. “Obama,” a longtime devotee of genocidal Black Liberation Theology, has made it clear that it is open season on whites.

Acting on “Obama’s” behalf, Holder has aggressively acted to (literally) disenfranchise whites and strip them of their constitutional rights, by supporting the genocidal black supremacist, domestic terrorist group, the New Black Panther Party (NBP), and by supporting the unconstitutional Hate Crime Bill, which “Obama” has since signed into law.

As I wrote on May 12 in a VDARE exclusive, “Diversity is Strength! It’s Also…’Jim Snow’ Disenfranchisement of Whites,” on Election Day 2008, members of the NBP were caught on videotape at the entrance to a polling place in Philadelphia, dressed in military garb and with at least one (calling himself “King Samir Shabazz”) threatening white voters and poll watchers with a night stick, shouting racial epithets at them, and blocking their entrance. The Panthers made it clear to white voters and poll watchers that they were doing this, in order to help “Obama” win the election.

One of the Panthers allegedly told a white, "You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker."

The group also claimed that it planned to eventually engage in such terrorism nationwide.

(See also here, here, and here.
View and download a collection of videos of the Philadelphia Panthers’ voting rights violations here, before they’re gone.)

On January 7, the Bush Justice Department sued the New Black Panther Party. On the case’s court date, April 20, the defendants (the Panthers) refused to appear in court. The presiding judge issued a default judgment against the Panthers, as is routine in civil cases in which one side fails to appear, but on May 15, the “Obama” Justice Department insisted instead on dropping the charges against the Panthers, based on their non-appearance! (The DOJ retained only an injunction against one terrorist, to refrain from threatening voters and poll watchers with deadly weapons, pretty please, with a cherry on top. Since federal law already prohibited threatening voters and poll watchers with deadly weapons, the injunction was redundant. And why was this only a civil case, to begin with?)

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has subpoenaed the Justice Department, in order to question its officials as to their handling of the case, but Justice has stonewalled, inventing non-existent “executive privileges,” and refusing to cooperate.

And then on June 25, 2009, in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Holder explicitly stated that white heterosexual, conservative Christians would not be protected by the Hate Crimes Bill, which has since passed both chambers and been signed into law by “Obama.”

The terrorist acts that shut down the American Renaissance conference are all actionable. And in spite of the “Obama” Administration’s racism and anti-Americanism, all patriots must demand that the FBI investigate and arrest the terrorists. An example must be made of them.

Meanwhile, “Obama” and Holder have made clear that, as far as they are concerned, white Americans have no rights in their own country, and that through accelerated, mass non-white immigration, they plan on turning American into another South Africa/Zimbabwe. But if reasonable men cannot come together to speak about race and immigration employing scientific facts and logic, the stage will be left to unreasonable men, and that does not mean merely communists, black supremacists, and so forth. There is no moral argument against white nationalists shutting down lectures and conferences, using the same methods as the communists/racists, calling in bomb threats, etc. I do not propose such tactics, but I will not condemn them. As Thomas Hobbes wrote in Leviathan, in a state of anarchy, no man is obliged to follow the state’s laws. Revised for current use, make that “anarcho-tyranny.”

As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

2011-02-01T21:26:00.001-08:00

American Renaissance Conference in Limbo: Charlotte City Councilman Patrick Cannon Reportedly Violated Group’s First Amendment Rights
By Nicholas Stix

Saturday, January 29, 2011, 5:15 a.m.

According to American Renaissance, the hotel that contracted, six months ago, to host the organization’s conference on February 4-6, has suddenly broken its contract, and according to a report by Fred Clasen-Kelly in the January 26 Charlotte Observer, the hotel’s cancellation was the doing of Charlotte City Councilman Patrick Cannon.

White nationalists' conference stymied
Host hotel cancels group's reservation as Charlotte City Council member Patrick Cannon works behind scenes.
by Fred Clasen-Kelly

When a white nationalist magazine announced a conference in Charlotte, anarchists and other groups vowed to protest or disrupt the gathering.

But behind the scenes the conference apparently met an unexpected obstacle: Charlotte City Council member Patrick Cannon.

On Wednesday, American Renaissance magazine said plans for its annual conference are now in limbo because the hotel where it was scheduled to take place canceled the reservation.

An e-mail Cannon sent to a constituent early this week suggested he was lobbying local hotels to refuse to book American Renaissance.

Cannon wrote that he had contacted hotels and that "they seem to be cooperating."

"An attempt was made for accommodations at another hotel but based on what I ask to take place they were denied again," the e-mail said.

Jared Taylor, American Renaissance editor, said Cannon's e-mail violated the First Amendment.

"It's unconscionable (that) public officials would try to interfere in private contractual affairs," Taylor said. "We have never run into this before."

In a brief interview Wednesday, Cannon said he sent the e-mail to "update a constituent on where things stood."

"By no means would I be in the business of trying to violate someone's rights," Cannon said.

The news came on the same day that the Jewish Defense Organization posted a statement on its website, saying City Council member Warren Turner sent an e-mail to Charlotte hotels about the conference.

Turner denied contacting hotels to stop the conference….

Organizers scheduled a conference Feb. 4-6 at the Sheraton Charlotte Airport Hotel near Charlotte/Douglas International Airport. The group booked 100 rooms at the eight-story hotel, where rooms cost as much as $225 a night….

American Renaissance has tried to reserve rooms at other hotels but has been rebuffed, Taylor said.

Taylor said Cannon's e-mail reflected intolerance and was "profoundly hypocritical."

Richard Toenjes, associate director of UNC Charlotte's Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, said Cannon's e-mail could be construed as a violation of free speech.

"If the person used his or her name which would be recognized as the name of a council member, I'd say the member was functioning as a public official and hence out of line interfering with protected free speech," Toenjes said.

But Scott Huffmon, a professor of political science at Winthrop University, said merely warning hotels about the upcoming conference is within the rights of elected officials.

"Alerting the hotels and saying this isn't good for our image is using the bully pulpit, but not necessarily unethical," Huffmon said. "If he tried to use the position to cajole, coerce or bully that would be different."

Note Huffmon’s sophistry: How is “using the bully pulpit” not using his “position to cajole, coerce or bully”?

Meanwhile, Jared Taylor and Co. are seeking a new venue. I’ve got my ticket booked for February 4, and unless and until I hear otherwise from my friends and colleagues at American Renaissance, I’ll be flying to Charlotte next Friday.

In any event, I urge Jared to sue the pants off of the hotel and, should Clasen-Kelly’s story check out, to sue the City of Charlotte for millions. Only when such illegal conduct proves extremely costly to its agents, will it stop.

A tip ‘o the hat to American Renaissance.

2011-01-15T18:19:00.001-08:00

Where Will You be on February 4?
By Nicholas Stix

I don’t know about you, but I’ll be in Charlotte, at the Ninth American Renaissance Conference (2011): Defending the West.

I just booked my room and conference admission yesterday.

I was late not because I feared the conference wouldn’t go off, but because of domestic obligations, I rarely leave town. But I still got the early bird special, which is good through January 18, after which the price goes up $35. So, in case that isn’t enough of a hint, hit this link now!

The main attraction at these conferences is always the same: Jared Taylor. At the risk of sounding sycophantic, Jared Taylor is not only the world’s greatest living scholar and writer on race, but he’s also a crackerjack public speaker, with wit to match his depth.

Jared always has a wonderful slate of other speakers to complement him, with nine scheduled this time around, including two mystery speakers. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing the talk by Raymond Wolters, who is to my knowledge the last legitimate historian of race in academia.

A form of entertainment unique to AmRen conferences is the guessing game among participants, to try and figure out which guest is the SPLC intern who has been sent to snoop on us.

But something that is at least as important as great speeches makes AmRen conferences unforgettable: The camaraderie of raising a glass and breaking bread with fellow warriors.

Two factors promise to make this year’s conference the most successful one ever:

• The frustration of folks like me who couldn’t attend the last conference, which was shut down by a domestic terrorist campaign, and who are determined to be there this time; and

• The curiosity engendered by the unwanted publicity generated by a hysterical, so far unnamed Arizona detective in one of those regional fusion centers (the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center-ACTIC), who wrote a fraudulent report , immediately following the Tucson Massacre, falsely “linking” mass murderer Jared Lee Loughner to Jared Taylor, and dubbing American Renaissance “anti-Semitic” and “anti-ZOG.” The hoax was then promoted by a hysterical, Fox News staffer named Jennifer Griffin, who “reported” the transparently fake story as coming from the Department of Homeland Security. As a result, millions of people who had never before heard of AmRen, now have its name seared in their memory.

And to think that my good friend Alex Linder has for years charged Jared Taylor with being a ZOG puppet!

(The regional fusion centers are purportedly to investigate “terrorists,” but instead surveil patriotic Americans.)

In the age of diversity, what then happened was on the level of a political miracle: ACTIC’s commander, Major David Denlinger, announced that the report was all wet. But the miracles weren’t over yet. Reporter Kenneth P. Vogel of the Politico Web site contacted Major Denlinger, who told him, “I do have no reason to believe in anything that we did that (Loughner) had any direct connection or was being directed by American Renaissance,” and Fox News Reporter James Rosen contacted Jared Taylor, who told him that he had no connection whatsoever to Loughner, and had never before heard of him.

Although the MSM (including Fox News and Politico) couldn’t be bothered to report that, far from being a terrorist group, American Renaissance has repeatedly been victimized by leftwing terrorists, and not just regarding last year’s planned conference, given the media’s history of malice towards the organization, it was miraculous that they made any effort to get the story straight.

If you love your country, you’ll make every effort to attend. I look forward to seeing you there.

On to Charlotte!

2010-12-29T01:25:00.000-08:00

In the Twin Cities, Pioneer Press “Reporter” Bob Shaw Mugs Readers...and Crime Victims
By Nicholas Stix

Published at 5:53 PM, on Monday, December 06, 2010.
Updated at 4:20 p.m., on Thursday, December 9, 2010.
NSU

Minneapolis: Raceless Perp Sought in Home Garage Robberies of Raceless Little Old Ladies

I’ve got to come up with a new journalism booby prize for alleged reporters who have not sunk to a level deserving of one of my Duranty-Blair Awards for Journalistic Infamy.

One winner of such an award would be Bob Shaw of the Twin Cities’ Pioneer Press.

An extremely dangerous man is breaking into home garages, and terrorizing little old ladies in Minneapolis, robbing them as they return home, and exit their vehicles. Although he cases homes of elderly women—the older, the better—and used a rifle or shotgun in one robbery, and thus is extremely dangerous, Shaw refused to identify the race of the perp or the victims, thus putting the community at increased risk of robbery, rape, and murder, while causing hysteria through his worthless “reporting.”

Minneapolis police are seeking help from the public in catching a suspect in two recent robberies of senior citizens.

About 6 a.m. Saturday, a man grabbed an 85-year-old woman who was getting out of her car in her garage in the 3000 block of 45th Avenue South. He threw her to the ground and escaped with her purse.

On Monday, police believe the same man, armed with a rifle or shotgun, confronted a 66-year-old woman. She had just parked her car in her garage in the 4700 block of East 45th Street at 9 a.m....

[“Minneapolis / Suspect sought in seniors’ robberies,” by Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, Updated 12/02/2010, 11:53:22 P.M., CST.]

The anonymous reader who gave me the link to Bob Shaw’s—remember that name!—non-story has a notion as to the what the missing details of the story might be. He wrote:

The local fishwraps in Mogadishu on the Upper Mississippi aid and abet minority criminals in the same manner.

Example, this execrable excuse for reporting.

In recent years, the refugee resettlement racket has succeeded in foisting thousands of racist, violent, jihad-drunken Moslem Somalis on what had previously been one of the most wholesome, safest—and not by coincidence, whitest—areas in America. Things have deteriorated to the point where young Somali men attack lone white men on the street in broad daylight, and film the attacks. But when the police got their hands on some of the videos, they couldn’t identify any of the victims, none of whom had reported the crimes. Apparently, the police, using William Bratton-style revolutionary policing techniques, had discouraged the white populace from even reporting black-on-white crimes.

(Update: 4:20 p.m., on Thursday, December 9, 2010.)

However, we cannot assume that the perp is black (though odds are that he was), for the Twin Cities have also been blessed with Hmong gangs who have devoted themselves over the past two-three years to driving whites out of public spaces, such as the cities’ beautiful public parks.

The takeover of public space is one of the fundamental methods whereby a “diverse,” insurgent group takes a bland, boring, hideously white area, and transforms it into a vibrant diversitopia.

Since I wrote the first part of this report as “Minneapolis: Raceless Perp Sought in Home Garage Robberies of Raceless Little Old Ladies,” the same anonymous reader who first informed me about alleged reporter Bob Shaw has sent me a different story about an armed robber, written in a much different fashion by the same “reporter.” My reader remarked, “In all fairness to ‘reporter’ Bob Shaw, he can report the race of perpetrators.....when he feels like it.”

South St. Paul police are looking for a man who they say robbed the same convenience store twice, in addition to robbing a store in Edina.

About 4 p.m. Nov. 25 [NS: the day known by Americans as Thanksgiving], a man armed with a handgun robbed a gas station at 1040 S. Concord St. in South St. Paul. On Wednesday, the same man robbed the same store again, at about the same time of day.

In both cases, police said, the gunman brandished a black, semiautomatic handgun. No one was injured in the robberies.

Police believe the same man is responsible for a recent armed robbery at the Edina Market & Deli…

The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a medium build.

He was seen driving a small four-door tan vehicle with one of the rear windows broken out….

[“South St. Paul / Suspect sought in three holdups,” by Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, Updated: 12/02/2010 11:45:46 PM CST.]

(Commenter Matt quipped, “Wow, they actually said his gun was black, is that politically correct?”)

The second story is rich in the sort of details that the first story also should have contained, starting with the perp’s race, height, build, etc.

Bob Shaw, friend of non-white criminals, but scourge of white thugs!

And how do I know the armed robber in the first story wasn’t white? Because had he been white, Shaw would surely have said so.

Viva la revolucion!

The Pioneer Press brags,

Pioneer Press adult readership totals 540,000 on weekdays and 720,000 on Sundays.
That represents a strong advantage for Pioneer Press advertisers. When they combine the Pioneer Press with the reach of our other products, including TwinCities.com and Yahoo!, they can reach an audience of nearly 2 million adults.

That’s “an audience of nearly 2 million adult[s]” potential crime victims of violent, non-white felons, due to Bob Shaw’s betrayal of his readers and his profession.

The Pioneer Press provides a link for letters to the editor, letters@pioneerpress.com, and a telephone number for reader inquiries: 651-228-5545. Its publisher is Guy Gilmore. Be as polite as you can manage.

General Information — 651-222-1111

Newsroom Reader Advocate — 651-228-5446

Bob Shaw, Suburban Life Reporter, 651-228-5433 mailto:bshaw@pioneerpress.com

Thom Fladung, Vice President and Editor, 651-228-5487 mailto:tfladung@pioneerpress.com

Barb Regal, Assistant to the Editor, 651-228-5448 bjohnson@pioneerpress.com

Sue Campbell, Senior Editor (local news), 651-228-5326 scampbell@pioneerpress.com

2010-12-28T02:47:00.000-08:00

“Obama” Bestows Presidential Medal of Freedom on Unregenerate Racist
By Nicholas Stix

That would be NBA legend Bill Russell.

As Dennis Watkins writes in “Obama awards Medal of Freedom to White-hating Russell,” at Youth for Western Civilization, Russell “refused to sign autographs for young White basketball fans, on the basis of their skin color.”

However, Russell had no inhibitions about making whites pay for his signature.

For the pro-racist side, a Celtics blogger named Jay King writes,

In those days, Boston was seen as a racist city. Russell himself once called it a “flea market of racism.” In fact, Russell experienced so much racially-motivated hatred Sports Illustrated once quoted him as saying, “I dislike most white people because they are people… I like most blacks because I am black.” When he left Boston, Russell claimed the city’s media was corrupt and racist. He couldn’t even accept his fans’ adoration; he felt the white folks who asked for his autograph only liked him because he played basketball well. If he couldn’t block shots at a phenomenal rate, Russell felt, the same fans clamoring for his signature would have seen him as just another black man….

I’m not here to impart blame on either the city or Russell. The city was wrong for judging black people and treating Russell poorly.

King does not provide a single example of Bostonians treating Russell badly. On the contrary, the only example he gives took place in Kentucky. Meanwhile, he speaks vaguely of Russell abusing adoring Boston fans, but censors himself from recounting Russell’s unforgivable racism towards white children.

And Russell’s own words, which King indirectly quotes, are the most damning indictment I can think of, of Russell’s racism: Why should fans have “clamor[ed] for his signature,” if he hadn’t been an incredible player? How did it that make them racist? The implication is that in order for them to prove to him that they weren’t racist, they would have had to walk up to every black man on the street who had no basketball talent, and ask him for his signature!

What such “logic,” or lack thereof really means is that no matter how well white fans treated Russell, he was going to be racist towards them, and rationalize his own racism by projecting it onto them.

And try and make sense out of that “I dislike most white people…” quote. The online New World Encyclopedia offers the following explanation:

Russell's thinking became increasingly militant, so far that he was quoted in a 1963 Sports Illustrated interview with the words: "I dislike most white people because they are people... I like most blacks because I am black," expressing that "human" was a negative trait and "black" was a positive trait which were mutually exclusive.[52] However, when his white Celtics teammate Frank Ramsey asked whether he hated him, Russell claimed to be misquoted, but few believed it.[52] Also, [author John] Taylor remarks that Russell overlooked that his career was only made possible by the white people who were proven anti-racists, namely his white high school coach George Powles (the person who encouraged him to play basketball), his white college coach Phil Woolpert (who integrated USF basketball), white Celtics coach Red Auerbach (who is universally regarded as an anti-racist pioneer and made him the first black NBA coach), and white Celtics owner Walter A. Brown, who gave him a high $24,000 rookie contract, just $1,000 shy of the top earning veteran Bob Cousy.[49]

Bill Russell wasn’t just a racist, he was a moron.

2010-12-27T12:18:00.001-08:00

Do You Know Who Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Heather Muller, Aaron Sander and Ann Walenta were, and How They Died?

Left: Clockwise from top left: Jason Befort, Heather Miller, Aaron Sandler, Bradley Heyka; right: Ann Walenta.

By David in TN and Nicholas Stix

Twelve days ago, the Wichita Eagle had an article on the 10th anniversary of what has been called the “Wichita Horror,” or the “Wichita Massacre,” which took place in the early hours of December 15, 2000 in Wichita, Kansas. The article has several links to information that came out during the trial. It is not easy reading.

The victims were Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander, and Heather Muller. The killers were Reginald and Jonathan Carr. There was one survivor, the girlfriend of Befort, who has been called “H.G.” in media accounts. She provided critical testimony.

The Wichita Horror murder house being combed over by police in December, 2000.

On December 7, 2000, Andrew Schreiber was carjacked at gunpoint and forced to withdraw money from ATMs before being released unharmed. The tires of his car were shot.

On December 11, 2000, Ann Walenta was critically shot by the same suspects. She died of her wounds on January 2, 2001.

Bullets would tie those crimes to the same gun used to kill the four others.

The case finally comes before the Kansas Supreme Court next month. This court has overturned every death sentence since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1994.

No one has been executed in Kansas since 1965. The last were the two killers of the Clutter family in 1959, the subject of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood.

Racist rapist-murderers Jonathan and Reginald Carr.

The Carrs’ appellate lawyers are arguing that the brothers should have been tried separately instead of together and that the brother who didn’t do the shooting shouldn’t face death. They claim that the testimony of the surviving woman was that the shots came one after another, indicating only one shooter. Jonathan Carr, his lawyer argues, “watched his brother kill the four victims,” according to the briefs.

The judge in the Wichita trial rejected the defense request for a jury from outside Wichita. This will likely be in the appeal.

Ballistics consultant Richard Ernest testifying at the Carrs' trial.

Judge Baumgartner, who presided over the Knoxville Horror trials, severed the case into separate trials for each suspect. This did remove a major appellate issue, along with having juries outside Knoxville for three trials.

Will the Kansas Supreme Court overturn one of the sentences? Or both of them?

Adding a touch of the surreal to the Carrs’ crimes, the Wichita Community Foundation (WCF) has instituted “The Forget Me Not Scholarship Fund,” ostensibly to remember Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander and Heather Muller. The entire text of the WCF’s description of the fund follows below.

The Forget Me Not Scholarship Fund
(Online applications accepted, statewide focus)

***LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION NEEDED TO BE CONSIDERED***

The Forget Me Not Scholarship Fund was created in 2002 for the purpose of enabling young men and women in the State of Kansas to enroll in an accredited college, university, seminary, junior college or vocational technical college in the United States. Two scholarships are awarded annually: (1) to a high school senior graduating from an accredited high school in the State of Kansas, and (2) to a high school senior graduating from high schools in Cimarron, Dodge City, Pratt, Bishop Carroll (Wichita) and Kapaun/Mount Carmel (Wichita).

In September 2001, over 2,000 people participated in a commemorative race honoring the lives of Jason Befort, Heather Muller, Bradley Heyka and Aaron Sander, who died tragically on Dec. 15, 2000. The funds raised through this race form the basis of these continuing scholarship awards.

In his 26 years of life, Jason Befort gave it all he had. His determination was admirable and his love was genuine. He worked hard, he played hard and was intense in all aspects of his life. Jason was never without a smile or hello.

Competitive in sports, he was a perfectionist in every way. His loves included his family, his friends, the Cubs, the K-State Wildcats and life. They say you have to love yourself to pass it on. Jason did both.

Brad Heyka had a sincere love for life including his family and friends. His passion for life was catching and he enjoyed bringing people together and bringing out the best in them. Through this quiet leadership role he had attracted many new friendships in an ever-growing circle. His sense of humor should not be forgotten - it was contagious. His quick wit instantly brought a smile to your face. His passions included golf, KSU sports, competition, fairness, the desire to excel and concern for others.

Heather Muller was filled with a love for God, a love for life, and a love for children- especially her “teenies” with special needs. She had a rare talent for singing that she shared with all. Her prayer-filled life was a life of service to others of all ages and backgrounds. Heather impacted hundreds of people throughout her life and will continue to do so.

Aaron Sander graduated from high school in Cimarron, where his body now rests, before going to Wichita to earn a degree in finance from WSU. He spent the following six years working in the field of finance before taking the last six months of his life to discern a vocation in the priesthood. Aaron was a kind, gentle man, full of love and peace. He had a special charm that attracted many because he genuinely cared for those he met. He had a passion to learn and find his purpose in life, because he knew it was to serve God’s people.

Click here to apply online. Please mail a signed “hard copy” of your application, together with required attachments to the Foundation office at the address listed in the front of the Scholarship section.

Award notices will be posted on our website no later than May 15th.

“…who died tragically on Dec. 15, 2000.” A reader who didn’t know the real story would probably think that the four unfortunate young people had died in a car crash or a fire.

Clearly, the folks at WCF want everyone to forget how Jason Befort, Brad Heyka, Aaron Sander and Heather Muller died, i.e., to forget why “The Forget Me Not Scholarship Fund” exists.

The Catholic school where Heather Muller was a pre-K teacher, St. Thomas Aquinas, has instituted the “Heather Muller Love of Faith Award,” but likewise failed to explain the circumstances that inspired the award.

And while Wikipedia, or as I call it, The Pretend Encyclopedia, has an entry on the Carr brothers' crimes, censors have vigilantly deleted pictures of the respective victims and perpetrators, whenever an editor has posted them. One censor made the following complaint on the entry's talk page:

Black Profiling on this page
the first thing you see when you come to this page is two BLACK men. this is misleading because it makes people think that ALL blacks commit massacres. pleas fix the page with a better picture that doesnt make people thing black people commit massacres.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.24.236.113 (talk • contribs)

And the misconduct of the Kansas Supreme Court clearly has nothing to do with the Kansas State Constitution, and everything to do with the personal political prejudices and contempt for the law of the people who have dominated that judicial body. Peter Brimelow’s call for impeaching outlaw judges is particularly germane here.

The classic exposé on the Carr brothers’ crimes is Stephen Webster’s American Renaissance article, “The Wichita Massacre: The crime — and motive — the media ignored.” Of related interest is Richard Poe’s Front Page Magazine article, “The ‘Death Wish’ Question.”

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2010-12-20T16:25:00.000-08:00

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2010-12-18T20:27:00.001-08:00

2010-12-16T18:36:00.000-08:00

In the Twin Cities, Pioneer Press “Reporter” Bob Shaw Mugs Readers … and Crime Victims
By Nicholas Stix

December 6, 2010, updated December 8, 2010.
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored/VDARE

I’ve got to come up with a new journalism booby prize for alleged reporters who have not sunk to a level deserving of one of my Duranty-Blair Awards for Journalistic Infamy.

One winner of such an award would be Bob Shaw of the Twin Cities’ Pioneer Press.

An extremely dangerous man is breaking into home garages and terrorizing little old ladies in Minneapolis, robbing them as they return home and exit their vehicles. Although he cases homes of elderly women—the older, the better—and used a rifle or shotgun in his latest robbery, Shaw refused to identify the race of the perp or the victims, thus putting the community at increased risk of robbery, rape, and murder, while causing hysteria through his worthless “reporting.”

Minneapolis police are seeking help from the public in catching a suspect in two recent robberies of senior citizens.

About 6 a.m. Saturday, a man grabbed an 85-year-old woman who was getting out of her car in her garage in the 3000 block of 45th Avenue South. He threw her to the ground and escaped with her purse.

On Monday, police believe the same man, armed with a rifle or shotgun, confronted a 66-year-old woman. She had just parked her car in her garage in the 4700 block of East 45th Street at 9 a.m….

[Minneapolis / Suspect sought in seniors' robberies by Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, Updated 12/02/2010, 11:53:22 P.M., CST.]

The anonymous reader who gave me the link to Bob Shaw’s—remember that name!—non-story has a notion as to the what the missing details of the story might be. Referring to my article on the Daily News story, whose reporters or editor had refused to describe the race of an extremely dangerous black robber at large, he wrote:

The local fishwraps in Mogadishu on the Upper Mississippi aid and abet minority criminals in the same manner.

Example, this execrable excuse for reporting.

In recent years, the refugee resettlement racket has succeeded in foisting thousands of racist, violent, jihad-drunken Moslem Somalis on what had previously been one of the most wholesome, safest—and not by coincidence, whitest—areas in America. Things have deteriorated to the point where young Somali men attack lone white men on the street in broad daylight, and film the attacks. But when the police got their hands on some of the videos, they couldn’t identify any of the victims, none of whom had reported the crimes. Apparently, the police, using William Bratton-style revolutionary policing techniques, had discouraged the white populace from even reporting black-on-white crimes.

However, we cannot assume that the perp is black (though odds are that he was), for the Twin Cities have also been blessed with Hmong gangs who have devoted themselves over the past two-three years to driving whites out of public spaces, such as the cities’ beautiful public parks.

The takeover of public space is one of the fundamental methods whereby a “diverse,” insurgent group takes a bland, boring, hideously white area, and transforms it into a vibrant diversitopia.

Update: Since I wrote about the first story, as “Minneapolis: Raceless Perp Sought in Home Garage Robberies of Raceless Little Old Ladies,” the same anonymous reader who first informed me about alleged reporter Bob Shaw has sent me a different story about an armed robber, written in a much different fashion, by the same “reporter.”

My reader remarked, “In all fairness to ‘reporter’ Bob Shaw, he can report the race of perpetrators…..when he feels like it.”

South St. Paul police are looking for a man who they say robbed the same convenience store twice, in addition to robbing a store in Edina.

About 4 p.m. Nov. 25 [NS: the day known by Americans as Thanksgiving], a man armed with a handgun robbed a gas station at 1040 S. Concord St. in South St. Paul. On Wednesday, the same man robbed the same store again, at about the same time of day.

In both cases, police said, the gunman brandished a black, semiautomatic handgun. No one was injured in the robberies.

Police believe the same man is responsible for a recent armed robbery at the Edina Market & Deli…

The suspect is described as a white male in his late 20s, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, with a medium build.

He was seen driving a small four-door tan vehicle with one of the rear windows broken out….

[South St. Paul / Suspect sought in three holdups by Bob Shaw, Pioneer Press, Updated: 12/02/2010 11:45:46 PM CST.]

(Commenter Matt quipped, “Wow, they actually said his gun was black, is that politically correct?”)

The second story is rich in the sort of details that the first story also should have contained, starting with the perp’s race, height, build, etc.

Bob Shaw, friend of non-white criminals, scourge of white thugs!

And how do I know the armed robber in the first story wasn’t white? Because had he been white, Shaw would surely have said so.

Viva la revolucion!

The Pioneer Press brags,

Pioneer Press adult readership totals 540,000 on weekdays and 720,000 on Sundays.

That represents a strong advantage for Pioneer Press advertisers. When they combine the Pioneer Press with the reach of our other products, including TwinCities.com and Yahoo!, they can reach an audience of nearly 2 million adults.

That’s “an audience of nearly 2 million adult[s]” potential crime victims of violent, non-white felons, due to Bob Shaw’s betrayal of his readers and his profession.

The Pioneer Press provides a link for letters to the editor, letters@pioneerpress.com, and a telephone number for reader inquiries: 651-228-5545. Its publisher is Guy Gilmore. Be as polite as you can manage.

General Information — 651-222-1111

Newsroom Reader Advocate — 651-228-5446

Bob Shaw, Suburban Life Reporter, 651-228-5433 mailto:bshaw@pioneerpress.com

Thom Fladung, Vice President and Editor, 651-228-5487 mailto:tfladung@pioneerpress.com

Barb Regal, Assistant to the Editor, 651-228-5448 bjohnson@pioneerpress.com

Sue Campbell, Senior Editor (local news), 651-228-5326 scampbell@pioneerpress.com

2010-11-21T19:20:00.000-08:00

Lauren Burk, Channon Christian, and Christopher Newsom: The World is More Dangerous than Many Want to Believe, and is Getting Worse

Knoxville Horror victims, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom.

Lauren Burk

By David in TN

There is another point to make about the murder of Lauren Burk. She was not jogging alone in Washington D.C., like Chandra Levy, nor did she get in a car with three unknown men, while drunk, as did Natalee Holloway.

Lauren Burk was abducted while leaving her boyfriend's apartment, something one does every day. Channon Christian was taken, along with her boyfriend, Chris Newsom, outside her best friend's apartment.

Knoxville Horror ringleader, Lemaricus Davidson, left. Murderer and attempted rapist, Courtney Lockhart, right.

Neither was doing anything you would consider foolish. The fact is that predators hang around apartment complexes looking for these kinds of victims, especially at night. The world is more dangerous than many want to believe, and is going to become moreso.

2010-11-21T19:14:00.000-08:00

Lauren Burk's Murderer, Courtney Lockhart, Gets Sentenced to “Life Without Parole”

Lauren Burk, who was murdered, but who went down fighting.

By David in TN
Friday, November 19, 2010, 2:02 a.m.

The jury took only an hour to reach a sentence of “life without parole.”

Strangely, the prosecution didn’t call a single witness during the sentencing phase. Lauren Burk’s family seems to accept the result.

Lockhart’s mother offered a “tearful apology.” His father, whom Lockhart hadn’t seen in 20 years, testified about “not being there for his son.”

Twenty-six-year-old murderer and attempted rapist, Courtney Lockhart.

The racial makeup of the jury was finally described. It consisted of nine whites and three blacks.

NS: Translation of “life without parole”: 10-20 years inside.

As bad as it is that Lockhart was not sentenced to death, and that he will likely get out of jail a reasonably young man, with the option of again murdering innocents, things could have gone much worse. At least he and his family showed remorse. Contrast that to the demeanor of Vanessa Coleman and her family, in the Knoxville Horror case.

Coleman should have been convicted of capital murder and rape, and sentenced to death, for the gang-rape, savage beating, sexual torture, and murder of Channon Christian. Instead, as a black and a female, she got a double affirmative action bonus from racist and sexist jurors and mischievous Judge Richard Baumgartner, and was thus only convicted of “facilitating” the rape and murder of Channon Christian, and sentenced to 53 years in prison.

And though (or because?) Channon Christian’s brutalized, disfigured corpse was barely recognizable, Coleman and her family showed no remorse whatsoever. Indeed, following the gang-rape-torture murders of Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, Coleman wrote in her diary, “I’ve had one hell of an adventure in the big TN,” and “Ha Ha.” When she was interrogated by police days later, she mentioned nothing untoward regarding Christian’s appearance or condition, even just before she was murdered. Coleman talked instead of the hearty breakfast she cooked for her partners in crime. At Coleman’s sentencing, she winked at people in court, and her father was—and remains—defiant. Greg Coleman wants a white female who had nothing to do with his daughter’s crimes, punished in her stead.

If America’s diversitopian transformation is permitted to continue, it will become harder and harder, and eventually, impossible, to get convictions at any level of punishment in open-and-shut cases of racist, black-on-white, or brown-on-white murder.

2010-11-21T18:40:00.000-08:00

Courtney Lockhart Convicted of the Murder of Lauren Burk
By David in TN
Friday, November 19, 2010, 1:59 a.m.

Lauren Burke, murdered at a mere 18 years of age by Courtney Lockhart, after she had fought off his attempted rape.

Courtney Lockhart was found guilty of capital murder today in the death of Lauren Burk. The eight men and four women took six-and-a-half hours to reach the verdict. They asked the judge to define "intent" and to see Lockhart’s full confession video a second time, before reaching a verdict.

Miss Burk was found naked and dying after being shot in the back four miles from the Auburn campus. The judge explained that intent was the key issue as to whether Lockhart could be found guilty of capital murder, where the death penalty could be given, or felony murder, which would spare Lockhart’s life.

Twenty-six-year-old murderer and attempted rapist, Courtney Lockhart.

The sentencing phase will begin immediately. Death or “life without parole” are the two options.

2010-11-21T17:52:00.001-08:00

The Prosecution Rests, in the Lauren Burk Murder Trial

Lauren Burk

By David in TN
Thursday, November 18, 2010, 3:17 a.m.

Today, the prosecution rested in the Lauren Burk murder trial.

Yesterday, the jury viewed the tape of the suspect’s police interview. The suspect, Courtney Lockhart, gave his story of what happened.

Experts also testified that Lockhart had Burk’s blood on his shirt when arrested.

Courtney Lockhart

On the tape, Lockhart told of driving around the Auburn campus that day until he spotted Lauren Burk. Do you sort of wonder what Lockhart’s purpose was in driving around a college campus?

“I came up behind her and made her get in the car...and she was just screaming,” Lockhart said on tape.

Lockhart admitted that he made Miss Burk take her clothes off. He said that she begged for her life and offered to help him, but Lockhart supposedly said that she couldn’t. The gun “went off.”

The defense is presumably going to be post traumatic stress on an “Iraq war veteran.”

The Daily Beast, of all people, had a piece on the case a week ago entitled, “PTSD: How the U.S. Army Failed Veteran Courtney Lockhart.” The theme of the article is that Lockhart should not get the death penalty, because the war made him a killer.

NS: If ‘the war made Lockhart a killer,’ shouldn’t The Daily Beast be arguing against his being prosecuted at all? Or is it racist to be logically consistent?

2010-11-21T17:37:00.001-08:00

Racist Congressman Says, ‘White Boys Go to Jail, and Black Men Get Out of Jail Free’
By Nicholas Stix

July 25, 2002
Toogood Reports/A Different Drummer

Time was, you had law-and-order legislators, and soft-on-crime legislators. But the times they are a changin,’ and a new type has emerged: The racist, black legislator who does everything he can to unjustly benefit blacks, and unjustly disadvantage whites. That includes changing the laws to diminish or eliminate jail time for crimes performed predominantly by black men, and introducing jail time – extremely long jail time, at that – for crimes, and even for acts that previously were not crimes, but that are predominantly carried out by white men. Meet Democrat Detroit Congressman John Conyers Jr.

As William Saletan notes in his July 19 Slate column, in 1995, Cong. Conyers fought to reduce the chances that drug dealers would do significant jail time, and sought to prevent “non-violent” drug dealers from doing any time at all. (I challenge you to find any “non-violent” drug dealers in the city of Detroit.) Conyers fought for safeguards that would make it harder for police to arrest, and for prosecutors to convict drug dealers. He demanded more flexibility in sentencing, and told the feds to keep their hands off such cases. (Federal involvement means longer sentences, no parole, and little wiggle room for the plea bargains that are the heart of urban “justice.”)

[In 1995,] Republicans wanted to build more jails and fill them with scoundrels. Conyers replied that punishments short of jail were more appropriate for “nonviolent” offenders. He questioned whether first-time drug offenders deserved five-year sentences. He dismissed prison as “a breeding ground for more serious crime.” He argued that public funds would be better spent on programs such as midnight basketball. “We cannot incarcerate ourselves out of crime,” he said. He dismissed the GOP’s theory that harsh penalties would deter lawbreakers.

So, in the face of demands to get tough on (non-violent) corporate criminals, Conyers must be seeking to protect their rights, too, right? Wrong. As Saletan suggests, Conyers’ attitude has been ‘lock ‘em up, and throw away the key!’

Three months ago, Conyers introduced the “Corporate and Criminal Fraud Accountability Act of 2002,” trumpeting its beefed-up sentences of five and 10 years for various offenses. The best way to deter securities fraud, he asserted, was to throw lawbreakers in the slammer. ‘Tougher penalties would make it far less likely that future Enrons would occur,’ said Conyers.”...

Saletan does well to expose “liberal” (read: socialist) hypocrisy, but his own liberal timidity restrains him from pointing out what is obvious to anyone who has followed John Conyers’ career: It’s all about race, stupid!

Urban drug dealers are predominantly black; corporate criminals are predominantly white. The racist Conyers wants to keep as many black men as possible OUT of jail, and put as many white men as possible IN jail. It’s as simple as that.

Recall that since the 1980s, Cong. Conyers has led the congressional charge for slavery reparations. In January, 1989, he introduced H.R. 40, the Commission to Study [wink, wink] Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act. At his web site, the Congressman proudly observes, “I have re-introduced HR 40 every Congress since 1989, and will continue to do so until it’s passed into law.”

Cong. Conyers thinks that all whites should be paying all blacks ... forever. That’s another way of saying that he believes in slavery – as long as blacks are the slavemasters.

And considering that, excepting for major mobsters, or rich inside traders sentenced to Club Fed, a jail sentence for a white man is also a sentence to slavery and even death, through racial murder, or via AIDS through race-based rape, Conyers is betting on a prison-slavery-death-to-the-white-man trifecta.

But let us not give all the credit to Conyers; there’s enough to go around. William Saletan, in his timidity, turns a case of racism into one of liberal hypocrisy, and the Stupid Party (SP, aka GOP) has gone Conyers and Saletan one better. Rather than denounce Conyers as a racist and an anti-business opportunist, SP legislators have taken his proposal for a maximum ten-year sentence for corporate crooks, and doubled it to twenty years. With “opponents” like the SP, how can Conyers lose?

2010-10-19T18:15:00.001-07:00

Steven Farron’s The Affirmative Action Hoax Has been Revised, Greatly Expanded, and Re-Published!

By Nicholas Stix

Steven Farron has thoroughly revised his classic work, and New Century Books, the publishing wing of the parent organization of American Renaissance magazine, has published its second edition.

The following is a PR blurb that a friend from NCF/AR sent me. Usually, I at best merely reprint such PR material, but in this case, because of the reliability of the source, I am endorsing it. As I have previously written, American Renaissance magazine is the gold standard for science, history, and journalism on race. The same is true of New Century Books.

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Exhaustive, well-documented, and hard-hitting, Professor Steven Farron’s powerful critique of racial preferences, The Affirmative Action Hoax, is now available in a greatly expanded, revised second edition from New Century Books.

Since the 1980s, there has been increasing criticism of so-called affirmative action, but no other book matches The Affirmative Action Hoax in its scope and incisiveness. This book does not mince words like other critiques of racial preferences; it unmasks the defenses of preferences as the “shameless frauds and deliberate lies that they are.” It shows that elevating non-academic admissions criteria, such as “diversity” and character assessments, to the same level as objective criteria has no purpose other than to justify the anti-white discrimination that has taken hold of American universities since the 1960s.

Prof. Farron demonstrates how racial preferences have moved from admissions to grading and even graduation, and shows how the lies necessary to justify preferences corrupt our academic institutions and the people who run them. He shows—with irrefutable numeric evidence—that the true victims are not blacks and Hispanics or even Asians, all of whom enjoy undiluted advantages. The victims are whites.

Prof. Farron argues that if we must have racial preferences, explicit quotas are the most efficient, honest, and fair way to practice them.

Praise for The Affirmative Action Hoax:

“There are entire libraries of books and articles on affirmative action, but if I had to choose a single one, it would be Steven Farron’s The Affirmative Action Hoax. It is clearly written, carefully documented, and brutally honest . . . . I consider The Affirmative Action Hoax the authoritative reference book on this complicated subject . . . . It is a stellar scholarly performance.”
—Prof. (Emeritus) Robert Weissberg, University of Illinois

“Prof. Farron’s carefully documented brief leads us to believe that modern egalitarian politics is at war with Nature itself. Affirmative action therefore rewards the less talented at the expense of the better qualified. Its proponents appeal to the socially victimized or to “diversity” in order to justify disadvantaging people or groups whose only crime is to be intelligent.”
—Prof. Paul Gottfried, Elizabethtown College

You can purchase The Affirmative Action Hoax at this link.

2010-10-08T20:38:00.001-07:00

Daniela Gaskie: Fake Boobs, Fake Racial Profiling Charges, Real Violence?
By Nicholas Stix

6:29 p.m., October 7, 2010
Nicholas Stix, Uncensored

Is Daniela Gaskie, aka Miss Kentucky Latina, the victim of racial profiling? Make that, the former Miss Kentucky Latina.

Gaskie has been stripped of her title, following charges that last Wednesday, she assaulted two people in separate attacks, minutes apart, one allegedly with her fists and knee, and another with a pen. She first allegedly stabbed a gas station attendant (race and ethnicity unknown) in the neck with a pen—don’t laugh; you can kill a person that way—and then allegedly beat the heck out of a white, middle-aged, female pharmacist who had been sitting in the pharmacist’s car, across the street from the gas station, kneeing her in the stomach, and punching and scratching her bloody. According to police, Gaskie “smelled of alcohol,” even though it was only the afternoon.

[Gaskie] is charged with second-degree assault, a Class C felony; first-degree criminal mischief, a Class D felony; fourth-degree assault, a Class A misdemeanor and disorderly conduct, a Class B misdemeanor.

If convicted, Gaskie faces up to 10 years in prison.

She is free on a $10,000 cash bond.

Gaskie is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Madison District Court.

“Beauty queen accused in assault stripped of title,” by Emily Burton The Richmond Register, October 6, 2010.

Gaskie insists that she is the real victim here, not the people with wounds from punches to the face, knees to the stomach, stabbings in the neck, bites and bloody scratches. (I got the story from one of my VDARE editors, James Fulford.) She insists that she is being “racially profiled,” because she’s “Mexican.” But “Mexican” isn’t a race, and she doesn’t look Mexican, to begin with, because she’s white!

Legally, Miss Gaskie may enjoy the presumption of innocence regarding her alleged attacks, but she enjoys no such privilege regarding her racism charges, or her breasts. Both are patently fake.

Indeed, her recourse to the “racial profiling” pretext suggests, if anything, a presumption of guilt. When have you ever heard of a black or Hispanic who was a real victim, playing the racial profiling card?

Gaskie’s notoriety also shone a light of scrutiny on one of her most precious professional assets.

While I have no official credentials in such matters, I must unbosom myself of the revelation that I have spent much of my life studying the female breast. As an amateur, as it were.

In an ugly world, I search for beauty. Not all female mammaries are beautiful, but I find that below a certain age, ugly ones are the exception.

Four factors suggest a breast hoax on Miss Gaskie’s part. Her boobs are too perfectly equal, too top-heavy, too dense, and lack cleavage.

As all bosomologists are aware, though very close, every pair of breasts is imperfect. One is slightly larger than the other, and their shapes do not perfectly match. Conversely, Miss Gaskie’s pair appears to be a perfect match. Too perfect.

Contrary to Miss Gaskie’s breasts, a real bosom is also not top-heavy. Something to do with the law of gravity.

Miss Gaskie’s breasts also have an unnatural thickness to them, beyond what a push-up bra could lend them.

And bosomy women have cleavage. Miss Gaskie has none. Large breasts without cleavage is a dead giveaway as to what the trade calls “breast augmentation.” No woman with that size natural endowment, would have such a separation.

But that’s not all folks.

It seems that Daniela “Gaskie” is a married woman, and thus ineligible to be a “Miss” anything. The Miss Latina U.S. Organization said that, had it known that she was married, she would have been stripped of her crown, even without the arrest.

Someone may also want to scrutinize “Gaskie’s” papers; she looks older than 22 to me. The Boss suggests that she’s 38; I initially thought she was about 28, but now I’m not so sure. Look at those cheeks, suffering from the beginnings of sunken cheek syndrome (typically afflicting slender women app. 35-40 years of age), that ragged jawline, the lines on her neck, the eyes. She’s a gorgeous woman with beautiful hair, but 22, she ain’t. Papers, please.

In so many fields of endeavor, we give more credit to what one has earned through grit and sweat, as opposed to the blessings of God or nature. Physical beauty is different. To the degree that a woman has gotten her “beauty” from a plastic surgeon or other man-made means, I write her off. That may be unfair, but life is unfair. If you can buy beauty, it ain’t beauty anymore.

This woman throws up so many red flags that you have to wonder what her real name and history are. “Gaskie” isn’t a Mexican name. Is it her married name? How many names has she used over the years? These are still only allegations, but what sort of person gets drunk in the afternoon, and then beats up random strangers, and does so the way “Gaskie” allegedly did? The sort of “22-year-old” who will stab one stranger in the neck with anything at hand and knee another stranger in the stomach, usually has a lot of practice at violence. Of course, since she is a member of not one but two unconstitutionally “protected groups,” “Gaskie” would have to get caught murdering someone, dealing drugs, or robbing a bank, before she would have a criminal record.

What sort of background check, if any, did Miss Latina U.S., founded by Acirema Alayeto, perform on “Gaskie”? Did they contact the high school that she claimed to have graduated from? Her college? Check her identification? Credit history? It sounds like this was yet another case of “due diligence, diversity-style.”

With that said, Miss Latina U.S. violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and is thus illegal, but don’t hold your breath, waiting for the feds to shut it down.

2010-08-03T23:58:00.000-07:00

Fifth Participant is Sentenced in the January, 2007 Racist Atrocity That the MSM is Still Suppressing!

Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom, the victims the MSM don’t want you to care about

Vanessa Coleman at her sentencing hearing.

By Nicholas Stix

“Her behavior out there indicates that she has no regard for human life”
Judge Richard Baumgartner, referring to convict Vanessa Coleman

On Friday morning, Knox County Criminal Court Judge Richard Baumgartner resisted defense attorney appeals that argued that Vanessa Coleman, 18 at the time of the Knoxville Horror murders, was “young and unable to fend for herself,” and should be classified as a “mitigated offender,” and receive a sentence of no more than 14 years in prison. She will be eligible for parole in 16 years.

The remorseless Coleman, who never sought even to feign regret, had been convicted on May 13 of “facilitating” the rapes and murder of Christian, but acquitted of the actual rapes and murder. Coleman’s defense counselors, Theodore Lavitt and Russell Green (who were assisted by three younger attorneys), portrayed her as having been as much a victim as Channon Christian. (According to my reader-researcher David in Tennessee, who attended three days of the trial, as well as the sentencing, this despicable tactic actually scored with some white female jurors.)

(I had booked airline tickets and a room, in order to be present for Coleman’s sentencing, but USAirways canceled my flight out of JFK, due to predicted thunder showers at some point on the itinerary.)

“The Knoxville Horror” is the name I coined for the atrocity that was committed between January 6 and 8, 2007, by a group of at least six blacks against the white couple, Channon Christian, 21, and Christopher Newsom, 23, in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Lemaricus Davidson, then 25, his half-brother, Letavis Cobbins, 24, George Thomas, 24, and possibly as many as three other men carjacked and kidnapped Christian and Newsom at the Washington Pike apartments. Originally, authorities believed that the carjacking and kidnapping were carried out after midnight on Sunday, January 7, 2007, but now believe that those crimes were committed at approximately 10:30 p.m., on Saturday, January 6.

The kidnappers blindfolded their victims and took them to the house at 2316 Chipman Street that Davidson was renting, and where Coleman was waiting. There, Davidson and Cobbins and two other, still unidentified men raped Christian repeatedly in every orifice, until her lower lip was ripped from her gums. The men and/or Coleman savaged her private parts, repeatedly shoving a jagged object into, and/or kicking her vagina, hour after hour after hour. Some observers believe that Coleman engaged in the sexual torture out of sexual jealousy, because her boyfriend, Cobbins, found “the white girl” more attractive than her (which was undoubtedly the case).

The medical examiner found semen from Davidson, Cobbins, and two unidentified men on Channon Christian’s panties, but none from her boyfriend. That means that two rapist-murderers are still at large.

(An unidentified member or members of the gang also raped the bound Christopher Newsom with a blunt instrument, savaging Newsom’s anus.)

What is not a matter of conjecture is that Coleman’s DNA was found on the strips of fabric used to bind Channon Christian’s wrists.

What is also not a matter of conjecture is that, far from being a prisoner, or feeling any remorse for what she had done, days after the murders, a thrilled Vanessa Coleman wrote in her journal (as David wrote on May 8):

Here is an account from the Knoxville ABC station, “I’ve had one hell of an adventure in the big TN,” and “Ha Ha.”

[NS: Coleman’s “adventure in the big TN” consisted, in its entirety, of her participation in the gang rape, torture, and murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom. So much for the disgusting contention by Coleman, her attorneys, and her family that she was a prisoner, and as much a victim as Channon Christian.]

We in the courtroom audience felt it blew apart the defense that Theodore Lavitt had put up through cross examination the last two days. Lavitt made only a brief cross on the journal even though he knew of it for months. He looked beaten to me, though I suppose he’ll think of something over the weekend. The jury, which by previous questions, seems to have some pro-defense jurors, asked no questions, perhaps out of shock. Being there in person, I could see the jury. I’ve read that most juries are half of what each side wants. This jury certainly looked half and half to me.

What is not a matter of conjecture is that in her January 31, 2007 police interrogation Coleman admitted that she was at the crime scene, while Channon Christian was being raped, beaten, tortured and murdered, and spoke of cooking her crime partners a hearty breakfast, after they had spent all night savaging the victims and murdering Christopher Newsom. According to Coleman’s own statement, she never looked in on Christian that morning, gave her anything to eat, tended to her wounds, or even gave her a thought. (Audio, Part I; audio, Part II; audio, Part III; transcript; read the transcript, the audiotapes are interminable, and of poor quality.)

Coleman also made all manner of unbelievable statements, such as denying that she could hear Channon Christian screaming in pain, even though she was just a few feet away from the doorless room in which Christian, who was not gagged, was being raped, beaten, and tortured, including cleaning fluid being poured down her throat and into her vagina, and one or more of her killers causing “blunt force trauma” to her genital area, either through hitting her there with a blunt object or kicking her there. She also denied ever having seen Newsom.

Christian had been beaten with enough force to cause bruising on her brain, but the worst injuries, [Medical Examiner Dr. Darinka] Mileusnic-Polchan said, were sustained in what she described as a savage sexual assault. “It’s much more than a simple sexual trauma,” she testified. “It’s extreme.” She said Christian was not only repeatedly raped both orally, vaginally and rectally, but that it appears an object was used in the attack. Christian had extensive injuries in the genital region and her mouth, including the tearing of the membrane that connected Christian’s lips to her gums.[“Jury wants to go home; deliberations in Boyd case to begin in a.m” by Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel, April 15, 2008 ]

As I recounted in April 2008, Christian’s assailants unsuccessfully sought to eliminate all DNA evidence from her body. Although they had already decided to kill her, to further torture her, they washed her vagina, rectum, and mouth with an astringent cleaning solution while she was alive.

Christian ultimately asphyxiated when Lemaricus Davidson shoved the hogtied woman face first, her head covered with garbage bags, into a tight garbage barrel. Coleman, Cobbins, and Thomas were all present at the time.

Although I have been highly critical of Judge Richard Baumgartner, he was not at all fooled by Coleman, and in his remarks about her, and sentencing of her, he conducted himself admirably.

As a Knoxville News Sentinel staffer wrote anonymously on Friday,

KNOXVILLE - Calling her a street-smart teenager with no regard for human life, a Knox County judge today ordered Vanessa Coleman to serve a 53-year prison term for her convictions in the 2007 killings of Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.

“We cannot tolerate this kind of crime,” Judge Richard Baumgartner said.

“Anybody that thinks they can be put in this situation and do nothing about it - I’m telling you it’s unacceptable.”

The judge said an extended sentence was needed to protect the public. Coleman is a danger to society, he said.

The judge said Coleman could have [left] but chose not to leave as the crimes were being committed in January 2007 in and around co-defendant Lemaricus Davidson’s Chipman Street rental home.”

On Friday night, David wrote me,

I’m back home from Knoxville. Judge Baumgartner gave Vanessa Coleman a 53 year sentence. After the sentencing, while being led away, Coleman smiled at winked at her family.

Here is the story from WATE, the ABC station. Here is the story from WVLT, the CBS affiliate. This story is from WBIR, the NBC station.

I stood nearby while the Newsoms were talking to the WVLT reporter. Some distance away, I saw Coleman’s attorney, Theodore Lavitt, speaking to a reporter from Kentucky, I believe. I’ll bet you would have like to have asked Lavitt a few questions.

The WATE and WLTV segments have two videos each. The WBIR story has several more.

Vanessa Coleman’s father, Greg, gave what WVLT has called “an exclusive interview about a month after the jury found her guilty.” (It’s so brief that, unless the TV station censored most of it, to save the man from leaving himself open to public ridicule—something I’ve known media organizations to do on behalf of racist blacks—the whole thing probably lasted no more than a minute.

Greg Coleman still believes his daughter did nothing wrong in connection with the case.

“How are they going to find someone guilty with not a shred of evidence,” he asked during the interview.

Coleman was convicted in the spring by a Davidson County jury. Her father believes jurors were swayed by lies told on the witness stand.

“Someone else was only trying to save their own neck," he said of some of the prosecution’s star witnesses. “Such as Daphne [Sutton], when I think of the time frame that she was in the house, I think something should've been done there."

Even though Coleman is now headed to a state prison, her father still insists details about what happened in the Chipman Street house are being withheld.

"There are other people that should've been charged in this case that didn't," he said.

Coleman acknowledges most people believe his daughter is guilty, but said they'll continue to support her. He also plans to help her appeal the conviction.
“We can only go forward and try to make the appropriate steps."

I think the man’s a racist monster, and that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. That he is presumably middle-class, since he was able to hire a private attorney to defend his daughter, is merely more grist for my mill.

Like the vast majority of blacks today, Greg Coleman is an adherent of what I call the paranoid, black supremacist, jailhouse philosophy of law. “Jailhouse,” because it was once typical of racist black jailbirds, but has since become respectable among all black social classes. He doesn’t consider it a crime to harm a white.

As I noted earlier in this article, the evidence against Greg Coleman’s daughter was overwhelming. She incriminated herself during her police interview, her DNA was on the fabric strips used to tie Channon Christian’s wrists, and she was found in possession of items stolen from Christian.

Greg Coleman pointed the finger at Daphne Sutton, for the simple reason that Sutton is white. There is no evidence whatsoever tying Sutton to the rapes, torture, and murders.

That is not to say that Sutton is innocent of all crimes. By her own admission, once she found out that the police were after Davidson, she lied to them about his whereabouts. I have argued that she should be prosecuted as an accessory after the fact, but that is not what Greg Coleman is talking about. He is saying that Sutton should have been prosecuted for his daughter’s crimes, and the only basis he has for that position is his racism.

In the first Knoxville Horror trial, Eric Boyd was convicted in federal court as an accessory after the fact, and sentenced to 18 years in prison on October 15, 2008.

Letalvis Cobbins was convicted on 33 felony counts, including almost all major charges (murder, aggravated rape, etc.), and was sentenced to “life without parole” on August 25, 2009, which was later enhanced to “life plus 100 years.”

On October 29, 2009, Lemaricus Davidson was convicted on 35 out of 38 state felony counts, including all major charges, and two days later was sentenced to death. (In the state of Tennessee all death sentences are automatically appealed.)

And on December 8, 2009, George Thomas was convicted of all 38 charges against him; on March 4, 2010, Judge Baumgartner sentenced Thomas to two consecutive life terms in prison.

The killers and their accomplices will all be appealing their verdicts, and so we have hardly seen the last of them. But the national MSM will try their best to suppress news about them, a job at which they have so far done a bang-up job. And I will continue doing the job the MSM refuse to do.

When the MSM failed, in spring 2007, to suppress knowledge of the atrocity, they and Knoxville authorities went to Plan B, which was to lie through their teeth about the crime’s transparently racial character, and to demonize as “white supremacists” anyone (including this writer) who complained about the suppression, or who refused to parrot the politically correct talking points.

When killer George Thomas’ interview by police in Kentucky on January 11, 2007 concluded, he exclaimed, “Fuck that white girl, she don’t mean nothing to me!”
Knoxville police suppressed Thomas’ racist statement for almost three years.
Ringleader Lemaricus Davidson had been a member of the racist gang, the Black Gangster Disciples, while serving a token prison sentence for an earlier carjacking.

And most tellingly, as the blogger A Race Against Time showed, Davidson led his criminal cohorts to kidnap, rape, and murder Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom only one day after Davidson’s white girlfriend, Daphne Sutton, had left him, after his constant beatings. John Gill, a spokesman for District Attorney General Randy Nichols, had argued that because Davidson & Co. “socialized” (read: had sex) with whites, that the crime could not have been racially motivated. That was pure sophistry, because authorities never permit whites’ sexual involvement with blacks to be used to exculpate them from charges of “hate crimes” against blacks, and because racist black men who are obsessed with having consensual sex with white women, are also obsessed with raping white women.

2010-06-16T19:00:00.001-07:00

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2010-06-07T20:35:00.001-07:00

The Longest Day: D-Day

By Nicholas Stix
Revised at 11:58 p.m., Sunday, June 6, 2010.

Today, we commemorate the 66th anniversary of the largest amphibious attack in the history of the world, the landing of between 160,000 and 175,000 Allied troops on the coast of Normandy, France.

Lest we forget.

The Army’s D-Day Web site.

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FDR’s Prayer, Read over the Radio on the Evening of D-Day

My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen.

Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944

For revised version, a tip ‘o the hat to Larry Auster.

2010-05-26T22:41:00.000-07:00

Convicted of being Uppity White Men: The Saga of Sean D. Fitzgerald and Zachary E. Tucker, and the University of Missouri, Columbia

The Mizzou Two Desperados: Sean D. Fitzgerald and Zachary E. Tucker

[My VDARE exclusive frontpager on the “Mizzou Two” case was just published: “Report from Occupied America: Free the Mizzou Two!” (That’s VDARE’s front page link, which is only good for about 24 hours; thereafter, hit this permalink.) The article's opening follows.]

On April 29, the dangerous Mizzou Two—white ROTC students at University of Missouri Columbia ("Mizzou"), freshman Sean D. Fitzgerald, 19, and senior Zachary E. Tucker, 21—pleaded guilty to littering. They were sentenced to two years of probation, 80 hours of community service, and had to surrender their drivers’ licenses for 60 days.

The foregoing were not typos.

On February 26, numerous cotton balls were found strewn on the ground outside Mizzou’s Black Culture Center. Fitzgerald and Tucker were arrested on felony "tampering" charges. That, too, is not a typo.

"University police say it's too early to say if the incident qualifies as a hate crime, but say they’re looking at surveillance video to find more clues," is also not a typo. [“Mizzou discusses racist display on campus,” KRCG (CBS) 13, March 2, 2010.]

The Cotton Balls of Hate

In a statement to the press, University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton denounced the atrocity as "a disheartening and inexcusable act."

"Those guilty of this despicable action have not yet been identified, but MUPD became involved immediately and is conducting an investigation. This university is fully committed to tolerance and respect for every one of its members, and this kind of conduct will not be tolerated at MU."

[This is not a satire. Read the rest here. Nicholas Stix]

2010-05-05T22:07:00.001-07:00

Divorce Court Black Children's Names

A tip 'o the hat to "CletusBoyer" at Youtube.