Rodney King is in the news again

First O.J., and now this:

from "Rodney King Shot, Wounded Near Home," Dan Whitcomb, AP

LOS ANGELES (Nov. 29) - Rodney King, whose videotaped police beating in 1991 led to deadly rioting when the officers involved were acquitted, was shot on a street corner, but his wounds were not life-threatening, police said.

King, 42, was shot two or three times from a distance by birdshot fired from a shotgun. He then bicycled about 1½ miles back to his home in neighboring Rialto and called police. King was hit in the face, arms, back and torso, police said.

Authorities said when they arrived at the home, King and others appeared drunk and were largely uncooperative in providing information about the shooting.

King was taken to a hospital. His condition on Thursday was not immediately known. The shooting may have involved a domestic dispute, San Bernardino police Lieutenant Scott Paterson said.

King, who is black, was videotaped being beaten by white Los Angeles police officers after he was stopped for speeding in 1991. Four officers were acquitted of most criminal charges in 1992, triggering rioting in Los Angeles and neighboring cities that left 55 people dead and caused $1 billion in property damage. King sued the city over the beating and obtained a $3.8 million settlement.

However, he continued to have run-ins with the law. In 2004, he was ordered to spend 120 days in jail and ordered into treatment after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of the drug PCP after he lost control of his SUV in 2003 and slammed into a power pole in Rialto. Rialto and San Bernardino are about 55 miles east of Los Angeles.

Apparently, little has changed since 1991, when the police argued that they had to subdue King because he was under the influence of drugs and not cooperating with police. King's supporters argued that King had cooperated and the police beating was unprovoked. Of course, King and the police are the only ones who know what happened on that night. But when these things happen over and over again, it is hard not to say that the proof is in the pudding.

The "Ron Paul Revolution" bumps into the ADL

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is leading a revolution. The monies continue to pour in, public awareness is growing, and eight days ago, CNN reported that Paul moved up to 4th place for the Republican Nomination. Not nearly enough, but a definite sign of progress for his campaign heading into December. Paul is rising from near-obscurity, but many people see embodied in him the same sort of hope for a rebounding America that others see in Barack Obama.

Well, every revolution has its opposition, and the Ron Paul Revolution is no exception. The thing is, nobody took the Paul campaign seriously until now; only now are Paul's potential enemies are beginning to stir.

Enter the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).

The ADL is suddenly very interested in the Ron Paul campaign. Assuredly, the ADL knows that Americans are tired of feeling betrayed by politicians. It probably knows that an increasing number of Americans are tired of their country being a world-refuse deposit box, too. But what the ADL doesn't know is whether Paul can be counted on to endorse current, ADL-friendly government policy. Ron Paul believes the government should have as little a role in the affairs of its people as possible. In essence, this is a return to the real Republican ideals of yesteryear, away from federalism and back to the very ideas America is supposed to represent: freedom. liberty. a national entity with limited government. That, of course, does not change the fact that organizations like the ADL have the power to throw their weight around. Indeed, one by one, count on those who control America's socio-political agenda to present their guns and ask, "Mr. Paul, are you with us?" They want the government to push their agenda.

I think the ADL is well aware of the fact that Paul wants very little to do with their organization. That is why the ADL is threatening to report that one of the millions of people who donated to his campaign was Don Black, the owner of the Stormfront Web forum for white nationalists. The ADL is planning to reach Paul privately and demand he return Black's alleged donation of $500.00 - out of a record-breaking $8,000,000.00 raised.

"If he doesn't do that, then we will decide what we're going to say publicly about it."
- Steven Freeman, Assistant Director of the ADL

Ron Paul is probably too modest to bow before the ADL in exchange for good publicity, so perhaps we should expect the ADL to respond with a "Ron Paul is racist" slander campaign in the coming weeks? If only America could be warned in advance who will be behind it, and why - because Ron Paul supports freedom of speech and limited government but the ADL does not.

Paris is burning...again!

And this time?

Two 12 or 13 year-old immigrant boys were riding on a motorbike in a Paris ghetto. Travelling at excessive speeds and without proper headgear, they sped through a red light and smashed into a police car. The accident was fatal.

According to the AP report, "Omar Sehhouli, a brother of one of the accident victims, accused police of ramming the motorbike and failing to assist the injured teens." A witness said that the rioters (non-white immigrants whom most press sources only dared to call "young people" or "youths") want Sarkozy to "come and explain" what happened to the two teenage boys.

Do we really need an explanation? Well apparently some confusion over what happens when you drive through red lights without a helmet and smash into a car is reason enough to riot these days. Eerily reminiscent of the 2005 rioting in France, African and Arab immigrant thugs took to the streets, torching a reported 80 vehicles on the first day. They also set buildings on fire and shot buckshot at police officers, injuring 82 of them.

The next day, 64 police were injured. As the rioting continued, 63 more cars were torched. The AFP reported that one group of "youths" threw projectiles at a fire engine, looted another car, set it on fire, and moved on to "beat up one French television cameraman and steal his camera."

Throughout nearby neighborhoods, buildings were set on fire by Molotov cocktails or by burning cars that these deliquents were driving into buildings. A library was damaged, a car dealership and even a nursery school. One can't help but wonder if the attackers attached little value to some of these buildings, but then again...the French will probably just build new ones for them.

France has vowed "to be harsh on those responsible for these criminal acts," with sentencing ranging from 3 to 10 months in the stony lonesome. Wow, I hope that slap on the wrist doesn't sting too bad. By comparison, former RAF-extremist-turned-far-right-supporter Horst Mahler had an extra six months tacked onto his sentence for giving the Nazi salute in front of authorities after being arrested for Holocaust denial. Maybe next time Mahler should just shoot at the police with a shotgun. Does not seem to make much of a difference.

To top off all the lunacy going on in France, somehow the press still finds its "controversial" that Nicolas Sarkozy, the former Interior Minister and recently elected President of France, called the rioters of 2005 "scum." Unbelievable.

the rights to this photo belong to Michael Sawyer, Associated Press.
Republished for non-profit, illustrative purposes only.

"It's all going to hell!" More immigrant problems in Scandinavia

excerpts from "Plain speech by the Malmö Police: It's all going to hell!" Folkets Nyheter

Welcome to Sweden.


Foto: Nordiska bildbyrån

"Its all going to hell!"

These are the words of a chief police officer who has been working for many years in Malmö, to Folkets Nyheter, about his work situation which has changed dramatically in those years. And he is perfectly clear on what it is that has caused these negative changes.

Malmö is one of Sweden's most immigrant dense cities, 40 percent of the inhabitants are of an entirely foreign background. And just as in many of the other cities of the country, serious violence and robbery, and the fear among Swedes to fall victim to these crimes, has become a part of everyday life in Malmö.

Sydsvenskan, a news paper circulated in the southern Swedish province of Skåne where Malmö is situated, claimed in an editorial earlier this year that democracy in Sweden is intact and that debate is practically unconstrained. Yet, Folkets Nyheter is forced to interview the police man anonymously, in order not to put him in jeopardy of losing his job.

• These days, we have neither freedom of speech nor opinion in Sweden, comments the police man. As long as you think the way the political power elite does, you're welcome to a career, but otherwise? Just look at what happened to my colleague.
  
  
• The colleague being referred to is Malmö policeman Bengt Lindström who was fired by the National Police Board this year after criticising the consequences of mass immigration, such as the lack of proper community services for the elderly in Malmö. A decision that naturally has had an impact on a major segment of the police force, the policeman says.
  
  
• No officer today dares utter any criticism in these matters, neither on duty nor as a private citizen. You are first and foremost concerned about your employment and your livelihood. The National Police Board made an example out of sacking Lindström: ”Don't criticise or you'll lose your job!”

He agrees wholeheartedly with Bengt Lindström's criticism of the situation in Malmö.

• When our elderly, who have toiled their whole lives and contributed to building this country, are denied community service it pains my heart. The government just recently gave the municipalities another 1,7 billion SEK (235 880 000 USD) to help them manage with the handling of all illegal immigrants. It stands to reason that we Swedes need to take care of our own first of all.
  
  
• The number of cases involving serious violence committed against citizens in public places has increased substantially since the beginning of the 90's when I started working in Malmö. It's almost exclusively immigrant youth that are the perpetrators behind robberies and assaults in public places. This is well-documented but the authorities responsible for the situation do not want to go public about it. Because it would contradict the integration propaganda of our government, they choose to keep silent.
  
  
• And the number of rapes has risen dramatically as well, which has to do with the fact that over 40 percent of Malmö's inhabitants have a different ethnic background where the men's power over women is absolute. Their view on women is so totally alien to us Swedish men and they continue living according to their own culture, paying no attention to the circumstance that they are in a different country where their own ones are in force. Unfortunately this behaviour is reinforced by Swedish authorities and courts of justice, which in their sentences take into account the ethnic culture of the suspect.
  
  

The policeman also confirms the negative way in which police and other emergency services are greeted in the suburbs of Malmö.

• Many immigrants have no respect for the police whatsoever. Many times you're treated like you've come to collect the garbage. Immigrants have so far only encountered representatives from the immigration and social services. They are used to being stroked the right way and having all of their demands satisfied.

• Certain routine matters, like checking an immigrant's driving license in Rosengård (transl. note. an infamous immigrant suburb of Malmö), easily get out of hand and become a major event where all available police sources have to intervene to restore the order. Thanks to cellphones a lot of ”supporters” join the scene in a very short time when you intervene in Rosengård. If you stop a car for a routine check, soon the whole clan show up to oppose the police.
  
  
• Unfortunately a large part of the Swedish people have a distorted view of what is happening and that is due 99 percent to the biased portrayal of reality given by the media. For example they use concepts like ”youth gangs” instead of speaking plainly and saying, like in Landskrona (transl. note. another immigrant dense city in Skåne) that it's Albanian criminal gangs who are causing problems.
  
  
• I'd like to make it clear that it is not ”Per” and ”Stina” (transl. note. common Swedish names) who are causing this hellish commotion. It's the immigrant gangs who are trying to take over control and spread fear among ordinary citizens. Unfortunately our society is showing an incredible leniency towards these behaviours so there is cause for serious concern regarding the future.

• I fully understand those who organize themselves in vigilante groups and involve and engage themselves in one of the most important issues there is, the safety of the family. When society fails to come to the aid of its citizens, of course you have to take matters in your own hands. You have a legal right to defend yourself and your property. You are even allowed to use force to the degree necessary for your protection.
  
  

The officer says that it is obvious that the tendency towards violence and crime among immigrants is concealed and excused because a clique within the corridors of power want it that way.

• My personal theory is that these individuals have their political roots in the late 60's. The era of the so-called ”fuzzy leftists”. Individuals who studied at the universities in 1968 are presently holding high positions in our society and are contributing to the moral decline and the degeneration taking place right before our eyes.
  
  

Concerning the political power in Skåne and the three premier representatives of this power, chief prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem, Malmö city councillor Ilmar Reepalu and district chief of police Anders Danielsson, the policeman says:

• All three of them represent the cemented power in Sweden at different levels and none of them seems to have the ability to think independently. They act only to satisfy their commissioners and couldn't care less about what the common citizen thinks. They are only puppets of the political power in today's Sweden. Corruptive friendships and guarding their positions of power are more important to them than dealing with the problems and tasks assigned to them. All three know each other and see each other privately.

• To me and to most other policemen Alhem is just a big clown who's only interested in showing himself off. He's long ago lost all connection with reality. Alhem is a great supporter of multiculturalism. He couldn't care less about the fact that this multiculturalism is contributing to a negative development of the society.
  
  

The officer's hope is that the actual situation in Sweden will force more and more Swedes to ”wake up”.

• Sooner or later everyone has to realize that this can't go on. There has to be a radical change in practical policies. You and I and our families have a duty to guard and uphold the heritage of our forefathers who were part of building such a successful country.

• No multicultural society has ever shown any positive development.
  
  
• There is only one alternative and that is to preserve our traditions. Behold the positive that our ancestors have contributed! An ordered society that protects the family and with conditions in which to live, to develop and to feel safe in. To care for your family and those close to you must become a matter of course for all Swedes. (full)
  

Fear of Islamization in Oslo, Norway

from Islam in Europe blog, original source: TV2 (Norwegian)

Anne Liv Gamlem is the Oslo leader for the conservative party Christian Unity Party (Kristent Samlingsparti). She says in an interveiew with iOslo.no that she is worried about "how fast the Muslim population in Oslo is growing."

"There were some American tourists I knew that were here ten years ago. They were surprised at how Muslim Oslo looked." She adds that with the politicians having allowed the immigration Norway has had, it has become what is has. "Those who have come here, they are here. I don't support sending anybody home again, but we must put Christianity in a high place. We must prevent a Muslim majority."

It must be kept in mind when people see how fast that part of the population grows, she says in the interview, which started off about Oslo police's weapon rights. Additionally Gamlem thinks that the expansion of mosques in Oslo must be regulated:

"I have nothing special against a mosque looking like a mosque. But I think that a mosque's expansion must be regulated. In the past people in several circles talked of a mosque free zone. I don't think it's natural that mosque pop up at every corner. It shouldn't pop up everywhere. People shouldn't wake up to calls for prayer," she says.

About the call to prayer from the mosques, Gamlem has strong opinions:"I was part of a action committee against Muslim calls to prayer and I continued against it. Sharia doesn't allow other religions to express themselves in the public space in the Islamic state. All prayers etc must be held inside the four walls of God's house. Forget about allowing expressions in the public space at all," she says.

The conservative Christian politician is afraid conservative Muslim politicians will get too much power. She says she's afraid that like somebody from the Islamic Council said in a debate with Carl I. Hagen on NRK: "if there will be a majority in Norway, he wants Islamic laws. Then non-Muslims will become second class citizens." (more)

Hoodwinked by Hillary; the duping of a feminist

On YouTube, there is a video of a forty-something year old woman asking Republican John McCain a rather blunt question:

"How do we beat the bitch?"

There is a moment of silence before we learn that the woman on the video is talking about Hillary Clinton.

In response to the video, Washington Post columnist Marie Cocco wrote that such derogatory remarks against Hillary are "the product of an American imagination that still cannot see strong women in the same glow as it does strong men." Cocco suggests that Hillary is victimized by "virulent sexism" and that the negativity towards her can be attributed to society's rejection of women as powerful and driven professionals.

Well now hold on a second, Cocco; could it be that Hillary does, in fact, act like a bitch and the public is only responding to that? Perhaps if a well-mannered and trustworthy female candidate were to receive the same treatment as Hillary, Cocco would have a valid point about sexism, but this is not the case. Millions of Americans despise Hillary because she seems cold, rude and self-absorbed woman, sending charisma out the window. In short, she seems like a bitch.

Cocco thinks otherwise. She is of the opinion that women are prone to be labeled as cold, rude and self-absorbed if they "show ambition, act authoritatively and are on task." She suggests that Hillary Clinton falls into this category. This is an interesting point, but the fact that Cocco is unable to consider the non-gendered factors which contribute to Hillary being labeled as she is, that she is cold, rude and self-absorbed, well, says a lot. In any case, we have the formula for "bitch": cold + rude + self-absorbed + female = "bitch".

I would venture to guess that Cocco is just another person consumed by "gender war" indoctrination, particularly the suggestion that men are evil and want to suppress women by keeping them from power. So many people are force-fed this nonsense on a daily basis in their marxist-rag university lectures and gender war dogma has been preached for quite some time, at least since the beginning of marxist scheme to divide the nation against itself in order to destroy it. One of its early proponents was Betty Friedan, a pioneer for modern feminism and miserable person who really had an axe to grind.

In any case, after years of indoctrination talking about how women are discriminated against urging them to "strive forward and show what women are made of," I am not surprised to see Cocco rushing forward to support Mrs. Clinton, the effigy of a "powerful woman". It is a shame Cocco is incapable of looking past "gender awareness" and seeing what other people see in Hillary: a snake. Feminists should not feel pressured to support Hillary simply because she is a women, and I certainly hope Cocco has not been duped into doing exactly that.

Recently, Hillary was caught rigging Q&A sessions. No sooner had she said that it would not happen again, she was caught planting questions a second time. Caught cheating...and then lying...yes, that is something one should look for in a presidential candidate (sic). Why Cocco would overlook all of this and defend Hillary simply because of her gender, I cannot imagine.

So what else can be said about Hillary? Well, I would go on, but it might be easier to let Hillary just speak for herself:

from "Hillary Clinton to Secret Service Detail: 'Get F*cked!'," The Gateway Pundit (here)

Where is the G-damn f**king flag? I want the G-damn f**king flag up every f**king morning at f**king sunrise.” (From the book “Inside The White House” by Ronald Kessler, p. 244 - Hillary to the staff at the Arkansas Governor’s mansion on Labor Day, 1991)

“You sold out, you mother f**ker! You sold out!” (From the book “Inside” by Joseph Califano, p. 213 - Hillary yelling at Democrat lawyer.)

“I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter.” (TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999 - Hillary at a White House function, proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the “religion of peace”)

"F**k off! It’s enough that I have to see you crap-kickers every day, I’m not going to talk to you too!! Just do your G*damn job and keep your mouth shut.” (From the book “American Evita” by Christopher Anderson, p. 90 - Hillary to her State Trooper bodyguards after one of them greeted her with “Good morning.”

“Why do I have to keep proving to people that I am not a liar?!”(From the book “The Survivor,” by John Harris, p. 382 - Hillary in her 2000 Senate campaign)

“No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect their right to vote.” (Was posted on Hillary Clinton’s senate.gov web site on 1/28/05)

“Put this on the ground! I left my sunglasses in the limo. I need those sunglasses. We need to go back!” (From the book “Dereliction of Duty” p. 71-72 - Hillary to Marine One helicopter pilot to turn back while en route to Air Force One.)

"A right-wing network was after his presidency…including perverting the Constitution.” (To Barbara Walters about the Republicans who impeached her husband; 20/20, ABC 6/8/2003.)

“What are you doing inviting these people into my home? These people
are our enemies! They are trying to destroy us!” (From the book “The Survivor” by John Harris, p. 99 - Hillary screaming to an aide, when she found out that some Republicans had been invited to the White House)

“I mean, you’ve got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.” (C-Span, 1/19/1997 - Hillary complains about the mainstream media, which are all conservatives in her opinion)

“You know, I’m going to start thanking the woman who cleans the restroom in the building I work in. I’m going to start thinking of her as a human being” (From the book “The Case Against Hillary Clinton” by Peggy Noonan, p. 55)

“We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 119 - During her 1993 commencement address at the University of Texas)

“The only way to make a difference is to acquire power” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 68 - Hillary to a friend before starting law school.)

“We just can’t trust the American people to make those types of choices…. Government has to make those choices for people” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p 20 - Hillary to Rep. Dennis Hastert in 1993 discussing her expensive, disastrous taxpayer-funded health care plan)

“I am a fan of the social policies that you find in Europe” (From the book “I’ve Always Been A Yankee Fan” by Thomas D. Kuiper, p. 76 - Hillary in 1996 [Ed. Note: Ironically, Europe's leaders are nearly all in agreement that their social policies, while certainly humanitarian, are not sustainable. Europe is in desperate need of reform. How peculiar that, at a time when Europe is looking to break away from its current status as a social welfare refugee state, Hillary wants to transform America into exactly that.])

'Tis the season for political correctness; Australian firm considers modifying Santa's bellylaughs

"Santa Claus outraged by 'ho ho ho' ban," by Janet Fyfe-Yeomans and Amanda Grant, Daily Telegraph (November, 2007)

Santas across Sydney are rebelling against attempts to ban their traditional greeting of "ho, ho, ho" in favour of "ha, ha, ha".

Recruitment firm Westaff - which supplies hundreds of Santas across the country - has told its trainees that the "ho ho ho" phrase could frighten children and could even be derogatory to women. Two Santa hopefuls reportedly quit the course because of the hullabaloo of the ho, ho, ho.

One would-be Santa has told The Daily Telegraph he was taught not to use "ho, ho, ho" because it was too close to the American slang for prostitute. He also quit.

"Gimme a break," Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids, said. "We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they. (more)

On honor and baseball: what has become of the 'Old National Game'?

In 1998, Major League Baseball's Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa raced to set new, single-season home run records. Both stars went on to make history. Then, rumors surfaced that they had been using performance-enhancing supplements.

McGwire admitted to having used "andro", an anabolic steroid, but only while it was still legal, which would have been early in the nineties. True or not, at least he had the decency not to lie about using steroids altogether.

Then there is Barry Bonds. Just three years after McGwire and Sosa smashed a record that stood for nearly four decades, Bonds slugged his way past McGwire's home run record to set a record of his own - at the age of 37, no less. His post-1998 resurgence wowed his fans, but his critics were already beginning to suspect that steroids were involved.

Then Bonds became a key figure in the BALCO nutritional center steroid scandal, where the firm was accused of doping up professional athletes in the California region. The MLB had just started to come down hard on the problem of steroid use, so if Bonds had anything to hide, the BALCO trial would have been the time to come forward. Jason Giambi did, and so did a host of others. Like the rest of those testifying, Bonds had been granted immunity in the case, meaning he could tell the truth without fearing legal repercussions. Nevertheless, when Bonds was called upon to give testimony, he insisted, under oath, that he had never knowingly used illegal performance-enhancing drugs. The next year, Bonds went on to break Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth's records for most career home runs in 2007. If Bonds had in fact lied about steroid use, by reaching another milestone, he had only made himself a bigger fish to fry.

In 2006, the best-selling book, Game of Shadows, was released. It claimed that Bonds had lied about steroid use, and had used the following:

• "The cream and the clear," two designer steroids distributed by BALCO
• Human growth hormone allegedly sold on the black market by cancer patients to whom it was legitimately prescribed
• Insulin, which reportedly enhances the bodybuilding effects of growth hormone
• Testosterone decanoate, a steroid often nicknamed "Mexican beans" or "Red beans"
• Trenbolone, a steroid typically used in livestock, especially cattle
• Stanozolol, sold under the brand name Winstrol

Game of Shadows references evidence collected during the BALCO investigation and some of the testimony related to the 2003 case. Apparently, the book's authors were not the only ones eyeing the details and putting together an argument implicating that Bonds lied about his steroid use. The MLB was as well. Bonds is now being indicted on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. If he is found to have lied under oath during the BALCO affair, he could face up to thirty years in jail. One can only hope justice is served.

It is not right that baseball players make their fortunes by cheating. Who can't smash a ball out of the park after shooting stuff into their arms? Doping transforms someone's body into something it normally is not. When these cheaters break MLB records, this mocks the accomplishments of those who worked to obtain a professional level of performance, setting records which others only cheated to surpass. One can only wonder how many "mediocre" players whose names were never memorized were just as good as the Jose Canseco's, Rafael Palmero's and countless others who cheated. Yet they made millions less and never achieved the fame of their counterparts.

The MLB had turned the blind eye to the steroid problem for years. Note that the Commissioner of Baseball only made a move after public outcry became a potential issue. Shame on him. Secondly, now that a move is being made, it is clear that a message will be sent about penalization, about the fear of being caught and lying. It should not have even come to this. What ever happened to just doing what is right? What ever happened to honor?

Facing legal pressure, university pulls the plug on controversial "diversity awareness" program

This fall, the University of Delaware decided it would incorporate mandatory political and ideological indoctrination into its residence hall programs. Now, after a statement issued by a individual liberties firm warning of impending legal action, it appears the program, at least in its current form, will be discontinued.

So what does the "Diversity Awareness" program at the University of Delaware look like? Consider an excerpt from the supplementary manual (full version can be accessed below):

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"A RACIST: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system, they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities, or acts of discrimination. (This does not deny the existence of such prejudices, hostilities, acts of rage or discrimination.)"—Page 3

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"REVERSE RACISM: A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege. Those in denial use the term reverse racism to refer to hostile behavior by people of color toward whites, and to affirmative action policies, which allegedly give ‘preferential treatment’ to people of color over whites. In the U.S., there is no such thing as ‘reverse racism.’"—Page 3

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"A NON-RACIST: A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and to shift responsibility for that oppression from whites to people of color (called "blaming the victim"). Responsibility for perpetuating and legitimizing a racist system rests both on those who actively maintain it, and on those who refuse to challenge it. Silence is consent."—Page 3

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"Have you ever heard a well-meaning white person say, ‘I’m not a member of any race except the human race?’ What she usually means by this statement is that she doesn’t want to perpetuate racial categories by acknowledging that she is white. This is an evasion of responsibility for her participation in a system based on supremacy for white people."—Page 8

——- from "University of Delaware Office of Residence Life Diversity Facilitation Training," here for full version (.pdf)

The program, boldly described by its engineers as "treatment" for "incorrect" attitudes and beliefs, is under attack by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE). According to FIRE, the program "requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views."

In the words of FIRE President Greg Lukianoff, “the university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional.”

Here is a more-detailed description of the program, straight from the FIRE press release:

The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”

The university suggests that at one-on-one sessions with students, RAs should ask intrusive personal questions such as “When did you discover your sexual identity?” Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA’s “worst” one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having “diversity shoved down her throat.”

According to the program’s materials, the goal of the residence life education program is for students in the university’s residence halls to achieve certain “competencies” that the university has decreed its students must develop in order to achieve the overall educational goal of “citizenship.” These competencies include: “Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society,” “Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression,” and “Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.”(more)

Dumbed-down and corrupted: today's commercially-obedient youth

The post-modern world is a place where people are molded into insatiable consumers instead of upstanding citizens; it is a place where natural sex drives are exploited to the point of social dysfunction, a place where peddlers of oversexualized glam care not what damage they are doing because their pockets are fattened regardless.

excerpt from "Sexualisation 'harms' young girls," BBC News

Magazines, television, video games and music videos all have a detrimental effect, a task force from the American Psychological Association reported.

Sexualisation can lead to a lack of confidence with their bodies as well as depression and eating disorders. Such images also have a negative effect on healthy sexual development in girls, the researchers said.

The task force was set up after mounting "public concern" about the sexualisation of young girls.

Research on the content and effects of television, music videos, music lyrics, magazines, films, video games and the internet was analysed.

Recent advertising campaigns and merchandising of products aimed at girls was also scrutinised.

Sexualisation was defined as occurring when a person's value comes only from her or his sexual appeal or behaviour, to the exclusion of other characteristics, and when a person is portrayed purely as a sex object.

They gave examples of a trainer advert that featured pop star Christina Aguilera dressed as a schoolgirl with her shirt unbuttoned, licking a lollipop.

According to the research identified by the task force, such images and promotion of girls as sexual objects negatively affects young girls in many ways.

"The consequences of the sexualisation of girls in media today are very real," said Dr. Eileen Zurbriggen, chair of the group and associate professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

"We have ample evidence to conclude that sexualisation has negative effects in a variety of domains, including cognitive functioning, physical and mental health, and healthy sexual development."

The task force called on parents, school officials, and health professionals to be alert for the potential impact on girls and young women.

And it advised that schools should teach pupils media literacy skills and should include information on the negative effects of images portraying girls as sex objects in sex education programmes.

Governments also had a responsibility to reduce the use of sexualised images in the media and advertising, they said.

[On Teenage Magazines], Dr. Zurbriggen added: "As a society, we need to replace all of these sexualised images with ones showing girls in positive settings - ones that show the uniqueness and competence of girls.

"The goal should be to deliver messages to all adolescents - boys and girls - that lead to healthy sexual development."

Professor Andrew Hill, professor of medical psychology at the University of Leeds, said it was hard to disagree with any of the reports conclusions. (more)

Note how the media responds to the problems associated with commercialized oversexualization. The report describes what happens to Jane Doe when she sees herself as only a sex object and how this leads her to suffer mentally and physically, especially if she feels she does not "measure up". However, the report fails to mention the greater problem, which is that oversexualization in the media creates an oversexualized Jane Doe who is thus enslaved to her libido and unable to appreciate monogamy or settle down to raise a family. The mainstream media seldom touches upon this end of the subject, because traditional roles and their functionality are something which the media denies as important in the first place.

Blessed is the feminist who sees an inconsistency between the spirit of the early feminist movement and what became of the movement after the 1960's: "liberation" from responsibility, monogamy and self-control.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Today is Veterans' Day. Now you'd think that the government would be taking good care of those who risked their lives in Iraq, but a new study suggests that this is nowhere near the truth.

from "Study: Veterans Make Up 1 of 4 Homeless," by Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press

Veterans make up one in four homeless people in the United States, though they are only 11 percent of the general adult population, according to a report to be released Thursday.

And homelessness is not just a problem among middle-age and elderly veterans. Younger veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan are trickling into shelters and soup kitchens seeking services, treatment or help with finding a job.

The Veterans Affairs Department has identified 1,500 homeless veterans from the current wars and says 400 of them have participated in its programs specifically targeting homelessness.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness, a public education nonprofit, based the findings of its report on numbers from Veterans Affairs and the Census Bureau. 2005 data estimated that 194,254 homeless people out of 744,313 on any given night were veterans.(more)

Book pulled from Oprah's 'special list', bashed because of author's affiliations

from "Disputed book pulled from Oprah website," by Hillel Italie, Associated Press

Oprah Winfrey has pulled a discredited children's book, Forrest Carter's "The Education of Little Tree," from a list of recommended titles on her Web site, blaming an archival "error" for including a work considered the literary hoax of a white supremacist. [considered a "literary hoax"? By whom?]

[...] First published in 1976, "The Education of Little Tree" was supposedly the real-life story of an orphaned boy raised by his Cherokee grandparents; the book became a million seller and sentimental favorite. In 1991, the American Booksellers Association gave "Little Tree" its first ever ABBY award, established "to honor the `hidden treasures' that ABA bookstore members most enjoyed recommending."

But suspicions about Carter, who died in 1979, began in his lifetime, and were raised significantly in the early 1990s, not long after the book won the ABBY. Carter was identified as Asa Earl Carter, a member of the Ku Klux Klan and speechwriter for former Alabama governor George Wallace who wrote Wallace's infamous vow: "Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!"

"`Little Tree' is a lovely little book, and I sometimes wonder if it is an act of romantic atonement by a guilt-ridden white supremacist, but ultimately I think it is the racial hypocrisy of a white supremacist," says author Sherman Alexie, whose books include "Ten Little Indians" and the young adult novel "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," a nominee this year for a National Book Award.

"I am surprised, of course, that Winfrey would recommend it," says Lorene Roy, president of the American Library Association. "Besides the questions about the author's identity, the book is known for a simplistic plot that used a lot of stereotypical imagery."

Winfrey had long been aware of the book's background and has acknowledged she once was a fan. She discussed "Little Tree" on her TV show in 1994, recalling a "loving story about a boy growing up with his grandfather and learning about nature and speaking to the trees. And it's very spiritual." When Winfrey learned the truth about Carter, she felt she "had to take the book off my shelf."

"I no longer — even though I had been moved by the story — felt the same about this book," she said in 1994. "There's a part of me that said, `Well, OK, if a person has two sides of them and can write this wonderful story and also write the segregation forever speech, maybe that's OK.' But I couldn't — I couldn't live with that."

According to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of industry sales, "Little Tree" has sold about 11,000 copies in 2007. It was originally released by the Delacorte Press, then reissued a decade later by the University of New Mexico Press, which still publishes the book.

Winfrey has endorsed at least one other work that was eventually disputed: James Frey's "A Million Little Pieces," a memoir of addiction and recovery that she chose for her book club in 2005. After learning the book contained extensive fabrications, Winfrey chewed out the author on her show, but never withdrew her pick. "A Million Little Pieces" is still listed on her Web site.

If you have a minute, why not play a little game called "Find the media bias"? Go ahead, I even gave you a head start.

Another way to play: reread the story and make the following substitutions:

• "black supremacist" for "white supremacist"...
• "Black Pather Party" for "Ku Klux Klan"...
• "Malcolm X" for "former Alabama governor George Wallace"

Don't worry if the substitutions make the story sound ridiculous, it should! You've detected the bias and won the game!

+10 points if you were able to find media bias through the substitution trick

+20 points if you were able to spot media bias before employing the substitution trick

bonus points if you realized how stupid Sherman Alexie sounded

Restating the truth: the GOP will ride the 'White horse' until the horse can't win the race

from "A Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ for a new generation," by Steve Benen, The Carpetbagger Report

"One of the underlying themes of Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie and Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal is how the modern Republican Party has relied on racial tensions for electoral gain. The exploitation of racism has varied in subtleties over the years, but the basic "Southern Strategy" has been consistent for several decades.

There was some talk in Republican circles that using race as a wedge was simply no longer a viable political strategy in the 21st century. It led then-RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman, for example, to address the NAACP in 2005, in order to acknowledge how wrong the party has been on the issue. He conceded that Republicans, for decades, tried to "benefit politically from racial polarization." Mehlman concluded, "I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

So, can we throw Republican Southern Strategies into the dustbin of history? Apparently, not yet:

Strategists for Rudy Giuliani are quietly preparing a significantly race-based campaign strategy to strengthen support among socially conservative white voters, in the South as well as in the North. […]

The themes the campaign are lining up for renewed emphasis are those reflecting Giuliani’s confrontational stance towards black New Yorkers and their white liberal allies, as well as his record of siding decisively with the police against minorities who launched protests alleging police brutality during the years he was mayor from 1994-2001.

Giuliani’s eight years as New York’s chief executive exemplified a Northern adaptation of the GOP’s politically successful “Southern strategy” - the strategy playing on white resistance to and resentment of federal legislation passed in the 1960s mandating desegregation - resistance that produced a realignment in the South and fractured the Democratic loyalties of white working class voters in the urban North from 1968 to 2004."(more)

Double standards in Israel's new immigration policy

A couple years ago, I was talking with a fellow student about Al-Jazeera’s initiative to branch out into the Americas. The student was a Jew, and he saw the news of Al-Jazeera’s expansion as part of a greater trend, one where people from the Islamic world brought their ideas with them into the West, including anti-Semitism.

I did not wish to get into an argument about clichés or who was right or wrong in the Middle East conflict, so I instead focused on the Islam invasion, particularly in Europe, and expounded on how it is threatening to change the social and political landscape there forever. He agreed.

The conversation continued, leaving me with the impression that he was aware of the power of identity politics and the problem posed by mass migration, especially when a culture clash would likely ensue. He then talked about immigration into Israel - something I knew little about at the time - and the threat the global and international setting posed to the survival of the Jews as a cohesive people, a people who observed the Jewish faith and customs and had Jewish ancestry. Suddenly, it dawned on me how controversial his ideas would have been if only he were talking about a different ethnic group with similar interests. This is not to say that the student was wrong to feel the way he did; so what if he wanted to preserve his community, culture and way of life, was that not racial instinct?

Well, it appears that my former classmate does not have to worry, because Israel is slamming the door shut on all immigrants who are not of direct Jewish ancestry. Curiously, this did not make headline news in the West the way it would have had a white, European-descended civilization even considered measures limiting the influx of non-Europeans. I would not have even known about the new policy in Israel had it not been for a dissenting editorial in the Jerusalem Post:

excerpt from "Minister Sheetrit: Let our people into the Promised Land" by Michael Freund, The Jerusalem Post:

At the instigation of Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit, the government adopted a shameful decision aimed at slamming the door shut on groups of people who want to be Jewish and come to Israel. According to the cabinet communiqué, it was decided that the Interior Ministry "would issue entry visas for groups regarding conversion and the acquisition of citizenship only with government approval and in accordance with special criteria." But behind that rather innocuous sounding language lies a far more sinister objective, which is Sheetrit's stated determination to prevent groups with historical ties to the Jewish people from returning to Judaism and moving to Israel.(more)

"Will the horrors now suffered by Whites in southern Africa be repeated in Europe and America?"

from: "Genocide of South African Whites Happening Now," National Vanguard

When multiracialists were demanding an end to White rule in South Africa they never debated whether the result might lead to horrible suffering for White women, men, and children. White activists in the West would ask why the rhetoric of multiracialists never includes the possible suffering that Whites might experience if the controversial multiracial experiment being performed on them fails.

In South Africa, in the nine years following the end of apartheid and the ‘miracle’ of South Africa’s democratic election in 1994, more than 1,000 farmers have been killed. The death rate by murder for South African farmers is 313 per 100,000, perhaps the highest for any group of people on earth who are not at war.

In 1997 four young men invaded the farm of Beatriz and Jose Freitas in the north-east of South Africa. Jose, who is disabled, was tied up while they ransacked the house. They asked Beatriz where her iron was. Then they dragged her to the laundry, took off her clothes, kicked her to the ground, raped her, poured oil over her, switched on the iron and applied it to her body. Her skin came away in flaps. Three years later Jose was shot dead. This attack, reported by the South African TV programme Carte Blanche, is not unusually gruesome. There are hundreds that are as bad or worse. Old men are forced to watch their wives being raped before the couple are painfully killed. Farmers and farmworkers are tortured over many hours. What is happening?

There are two opposing theories. At one extreme, these attacks are seen as being directed as part of the ‘Second Revolution.’ The First Revolution was the takeover of South Africa by a black government. The Second Revolution, using terror, is the establishment of a radical black communist society and the expulsion of whites. Driving the white farmers off their land is part of this process. At the other extreme, the attacks are seen as being purely criminal and without political guidance or motives. The white farming lobby is inclined to believe the former; it points to Peter Mokaba, a prominent young ANC politician, who chanted, ‘Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!’ to cheering black crowds. The ANC government says that it believes the latter.

To explain the sadism, violence and the rape in the farm attacks, you need to understand only two things: the attacks are happening in an extremely violent country with very high unemployment, and the attackers are poor, ill-educated, fatherless, jobless, rootless young men — who happen to be black. South Africa’s murder rate is 58 per 100,000, perhaps the world’s highest. (The rate for England and Wales is 1.3.) I have lived a sheltered life, but a man was shot dead across the street from me; a motorist was clubbed to death with a hockey stick by another motorist at a crossroads near me; in the bushes outside the nearest pub, a young girl was gang-raped, had one of her nipples bitten off and her mouth wedged open with a wooden stick so that they could rape her again in the mouth; I saw the mortuary photograph of a young man who had been tied to a railway line by two friends so that the train had cut off his legs at the shins and his head between the upper and lower jaws. Every South African can give a similar account.(more)