vdare--2020-01-22--SAID IN SPANISH: Guatemalans Who Don’t Speak Spanish: LA OPINION Warns Illegals Where Not To Go; Cha

SAID IN SPANISH: Guatemalans Who Don’t Speak Spanish: LA OPINION Warns Illegals Where Not To Go; Chapo’s Daughter Launches El Chapo Beer; ETC. (4 ITEMS)

Just after New Year ’ s , VDARE brought you the horror story of a Guatemalan child rapist who might never be caught because of what the MSM Naples Daily News politely called a “ language barrier.
” The latest from Guatemala City ’ s second largest newspaper , Prensa Libre : many Guatemalans who cross the border don ’ t speak English or Spanish : If migrating illegally to the United States is difficult , it is even worse for those who do it knowing neither English nor Spanish , as in the case of thousands of indigenous Guatemalans @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rural areas , have made the trip , despite the fact that they only speak their mother tongue .
[ Guatemaltecos cuidan a otros guatemaltecos en las cortes de inmigración ( “ Guatemalans take care of other Guatemalans in Immigration Courts ” ) , by Sergio Morales Rodas , January 4 , 2020 ] It seems translators in the “ Maya language ” are in short supply .
That used of the singular hides an important truth .
Guatemala recognizes 21 such languages ; Mexico recognizes eight .
Some of them might well @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , but in any event finding an interpreter for an immigrant takes some doing : Pardon me for asking , but isn ’ t the American Dream for Americans ?
To elaborate on the plight of Maya-speaking Guatemalan illegals La Prensa found a translator , immigrant Aldo Waykan , whom the newspaper also described as a migrant leader .
The illegals are clueless , he said : In other words , they can ’ t peddle a false asylum claim .
Activists are available to coach them , of course , but how @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also worries that unscrupulous lawyers rob the illegals .
The lawyers charge as much as $ 15,000 to file an asylum claim but know “ that type of client is not going to stay.
” As for the 16 Guatemalan consulates on U.S. soil , translators who work for immigration courts think the consulates must do more .
Problem is , they ’ re geared for Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and don ’ t have enough Maya translators .
Recall La Prensa ’ s headline : “ Guatemalans Taking Care of Other Guatemalans in [ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ if Guatemalans take care of other Guatemalans in Guatemala ?
La Opinion Tells Readers Places To Avoid So They Don ’ t Get Deported La Opinión , the largest Spanish-language paper in the United States , is openly subverting U.S. immigration law by offering tips to illegal-alien readers on avoiding capture and deportation .
That suggests that illegals and their supporters compose a significant portion of La Opinión ’ s readership .
Arrogantly , the newspaper didn ’ t bother disguising its efforts—hence the headline over its article on January 12 : Los @ @ @ @ @ @ @ de deportación : “ Places the Undocumented Should Avoid Due to Danger of Deportation.
” The folks at La Opinión don ’ t like that , so they helpfully provided a list of places to avoid : Post offices , expert Ezekiel Hernandez is quoted as saying , can be risky : “ Even post offices are federal buildings , in case you commit an infraction they can process you under migratory regulations.
” And those aren ’ t the only dangers that lurk around every corner for the innocent illegal alien : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ immigration , which in turn means ICE .
A week earlier , La Opinión warned illegal-alien readers to beware of exposing themselves on social media because ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are watching that , too : The American MSM has also reported on that smart tactic .
The New York Times , which recounted the tale of Gladys Diaz Tadeo , a previously-deported illegal who offered a pinata , made by her daughters , for sale on Facebook [ How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age , by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ] .
“ The next day , an account on that social network with a ‘ Hispanic name ’ and the profile photo of a dog had responded , ” as La Opinión reported of the Times ’ s account .
Two ICE agents detained her when she arranged a meeting to sell the item .
Lamented La Opinión : “ She was deported to Mexico 3 weeks later and the Facebook account that had responded to her ad was eliminated.
” La Opinión also recounted the sad tale of previously-deported “ Sid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ [ How ICE Uses Social Media To Surveil and Arrest Immigrants , by Max Rivlin-Nadler , December 22 , 2019 ] .
It ’ s a complicated story , again , of good police work .
The Cliff Notes version is that authorities crosschecked his Facebook account with his California illegal alien driver ’ s license , then detained him after he registered online with Home Depot for a purchase .
ICE was awaiting Sid after he left the store , and Sid was soon deported .
As Sid ’ s story illustrates @ @ @ @ @ @ @ illegal alien ’ s getting a driver ’ s license .
If you ’ re a fan of drug kingpin Joaquin “ El Chapo ” Guzman , you might soon have the chance to down a bottle of suds bearing his name .
As he languishes in the federal ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado , back home in Mexico , his daughter , Alejandrina , has introduced an El Chapo craft lager [ Marca dedicada al `` Chapo '' Guzmán incursiona en mercado de cerveza en México ( “ Brand dedicated to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ beer market ” ) , EFE , January 15 , 2020 ] .
She introduced the beer , which riffs off her Chapo 701 clothing line , at the Intermoda Fashion Fair in Guadalajara .
Bottles feature the Sinaloa cartel chief ’ s image .
One hitch : The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property , which issues patents and trademarks , hasn ’ t given her a permit to market the beer .
The name is similar to previously-registered beers called El 701 , Imperio 701 , and El Chapo de Sinaloa .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Forbes magazine determined that el Chapo was the 701st richest person in the world .
A side note on Alejandrina : Authorities deported her in 2012 after she tried to cross the border with a false passport .
She was about eight months pregnant and hoped to drop an anchor baby on U.S. soil .
Under the current disputed interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment , El Chapo ’ s grandchild would have been a U.S. citizen [ Daughter of accused drug lord deported to Mexico , by Catherine E. Shoichet , CNN @ @ @ @ @ @ @ American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard .
His VDARE.COM articles are archived here ; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here ; his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

Guatemalans Protect Guatemalans In U.S. Immigration Courts
Just after New Year’s, VDARE brought you the horror story of a Guatemalan child rapist who might never be caught because of what the MSM Naples Daily News politely called a “language barrier.”
The latest from Guatemala City’s second largest newspaper, Prensa Libre: many Guatemalans who cross the border don’t speak English or Spanish:
If migrating illegally to the United States is difficult, it is even worse for those who do it knowing neither English nor Spanish, as in the case of thousands of indigenous Guatemalans who, pushed out by poverty in rural areas, have made the trip, despite the fact that they only speak their mother tongue. [Guatemaltecos cuidan a otros guatemaltecos en las cortes de inmigración (“Guatemalans take care of other Guatemalans in Immigration Courts”), by Sergio Morales Rodas, January 4, 2020]
Translators of Maya languages are in short supply.
That's right, "languages", there are various Maya languages. Guatemala recognizes 21 such languages; Mexico recognizes eight. So finding interpreters for an immigrant takes some doing:
Therefore, the “American Dream” of these persons is transformed into a nightmare when, upon arriving to the border, they don’t understand what the U.S. border officers say to them, many of whom take it for granted that being Guatemalan, they speak Spanish.
Pardon me for asking, but isn’t the American Dream for Americans?
To elaborate on the plight of Maya-speaking Guatemalan illegals, La Prensa found a translator, immigrant Aldo Waykan, whom the newspaper also described as a migrant leader. The illegals are clueless, he said:
This is demonstrated when the migrants arrive to the border and confront a migratory system not knowing about it. They don’t even know how to fill out a form, much less prepare to face an interview to apply for asylum.
In other words, they can’t peddle a false asylum claim. Activists are available to coach them, of course, but how many speak a Maya language?
Waykan also worries that unscrupulous lawyers rob the illegals. The lawyers charge as much as $15,000 to file an asylum claim but know “that type of client is not going to stay.”
As for the 16 Guatemalan consulates on U.S. soil, translators who work for immigration courts think the consulates must do more. Problem is, they’re geared for Spanish-speaking Guatemalans and don’t have enough Maya translators.
Recall La Prensa’s headline: “Guatemalans Taking Care of Other Guatemalans in [U.S.] Immigration Courts.”
How about if Guatemalans take care of other Guatemalans in Guatemala?
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La Opinion Tells Readers Places To Avoid So They Don’t Get Deported
La Opinión, the largest Spanish-language paper in the United States, is openly subverting U.S. immigration law by offering tips to illegal-alien readers on avoiding capture and deportation.
That suggests that illegals and their supporters compose a significant portion of La Opinión’s readership.
The newspaper didn’t bother disguising its efforts—hence the headline over its article on January 12: Los lugares que indocumentados deben evitar ante peligro de deportación: “Places the Undocumented Should Avoid Due to Danger of Deportation.”
Current immigration policies not only focus on the deportation of immigrants with a criminal record, but anyone who has entered the country as an undocumented person is in danger of being detained and eventually deported.
The folks at La Opinión don’t like that, so they helpfully provided a list of places to avoid:
military bases
government buildings
airports
federal courts (consult with lawyers)
Post offices, expert Ezekiel Hernandez is quoted as saying, can be risky: “Even post offices are federal buildings, in case you commit an infraction they can process you under migratory regulations.”
And those aren’t the only dangers that lurk around every corner for the innocent illegal alien:
The experts recognize that some construction workers, such as bricklayers or electricians, even food delivery persons, are sent to federal property without the warning that they can be detained or reported to ICE. One case was the Ecuadorian Pablo Villavicencio, a pizza deliveryman who was detained by agents of the military police and turned over to “La Migra” in New York, although the man was released after strong pressure from activists.
La Migra, of course, means immigration, which in turn means ICE.
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Beware Of Social Media Also!
A week earlier, La Opinión warned illegal alien readers to beware of exposing themselves on social media because ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are watching that, too:
DHS authorities have increased their vigilance of social networks to locate undocumented immigrants. Various reports indicate that immigration authorities implement strategies to locate persons who live in the United States without documents, principally on networks such as Facebook. [¿Por qué las redes sociales pueden ser un peligro para indocumentados? (“How Can Social Media Be a Danger for the Undocumented?”), January 5, 2020]
The American MSM has also reported on that smart tactic. The New York Times, which recounted the tale of Gladys Diaz Tadeo, a previously-deported illegal who offered a pinata, made by her daughters, for sale on Facebook [How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age, by McKenzie Funk, October 2, 2019].
“The next day, an account on that social network with a ‘Hispanic name’ and the profile photo of a dog had responded,” as La Opinión reported of the Times’s account. Two ICE agents detained her when she arranged a meeting to sell the item.
Lamented La Opinión: “She was deported to Mexico 3 weeks later and the Facebook account that had responded to her ad was eliminated.”
La Opinión also recounted the sad tale of previously-deported “Sid,” as detailed in The Intercept [How ICE Uses Social Media To Surveil and Arrest Immigrants, by Max Rivlin-Nadler, December 22, 2019].
The Cliff Notes version is that authorities crosschecked his Facebook account with his California illegal alien driver’s license, then detained him after he registered online with Home Depot for a purchase. ICE was awaiting Sid after he left the store, and Sid was soon deported.
As Sid’s story illustrates, there is a downside to an illegal alien’s getting a driver’s license, from the point of view of the illegal lobby.
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Chapo Guzman’s Daughter Introduces Chapo 701 Craft Beer
If you’re a fan of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, you might soon have the chance to down a bottle of suds bearing his name.
As he languishes in the federal ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, back home in Mexico, his daughter, Alejandrina, has introduced an El Chapo craft lager [Marca dedicada al "Chapo" Guzmán incursiona en mercado de cerveza en México (“Brand dedicated to ‘Chapo’ Guzmán enters the Mexican beer market”), EFE, January 15, 2020].
She introduced the beer, which riffs off her Chapo 701 clothing line, at the Intermoda Fashion Fair in Guadalajara. Bottles feature the Sinaloa cartel chief’s image.
One hitch: The Mexican Institute of Industrial Property, which issues patents and trademarks, hasn’t given her a permit to market the beer. The name is similar to previously-registered beers called El 701, Imperio 701, and El Chapo de Sinaloa.
Why the 701? Because in 2009, Forbes magazine determined that el Chapo was the 701st richest person in the world.
A side note on Alejandrina: Authorities deported her in 2012 after she tried to cross the border with a false passport. She was about eight months pregnant and hoped to have an anchor baby on U.S. soil.
Under the current disputed interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment, El Chapo’s grandchild would have been a U.S. citizen [Daughter of accused drug lord deported to Mexico, by Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN, December 20, 2012].
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American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-01-22--A Black Reader Claims HIS Ancestors Won The Civil War

Re : Jake Dalton 's VA Second Amendment Rally An Invigorating ( And Implicitly White ) Success You are such a liar .
Most supporters of gun rights do not protest peacefully and definitely if they are talking about the Civil War that 's more explosive than any other topic , because that was the first time that white racists got their asses beat by my black ancestors .
But if you start an uproar between the racists [ Sic ] for your own good , I feel sorry for you .
James Fulford writes : In the War Between @ @ @ @ @ @ @ '' were defeated by Northern white `` racists '' , led by a president , Abraham Lincoln , who was also a white `` racist '' by current standards .
What blacks are unable to accept is that American history is , by and large , not about them , and this applies even to the Civil War .
In Ken Burns 's 1990 Civil War documentary , black female Columbia Professor Barbara J .
Field [ Email her ] can be heard saying “ It could have been a very ugly , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all .
And it was the battle for emancipation and the people who pushed it forward—the slaves , the free black people , the abolitionists , and a lot of ordinary citizens—it was they who ennobled what otherwise would have been meaningless carnage into something higher.
” This seems to be a claim that not only was the Civil War about black people , but it was only any good because of them .
This is wrong .
John Derbyshire has described the current Cold Civil War and the actual American Civil War @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two groups of white people “ with colored auxiliaries recruited by one of the sides to groom the horses and dig field latrines.
” That , in spite of the fact that there some actual black soldiers employed by the Northern side ( and a much smaller number employed by the Confederates ) remains the case .

Re: Jake Dalton's VA Second Amendment Rally An Invigorating (And Implicitly White) Success
From: Lyndon Scott Email him
You are such a liar. Most supporters of gun rights do not protest peacefully and definitely if they are talking about the Civil War that's more explosive than any other topic, because that was the first time that white racists got their asses beat by my black ancestors.
But if you start an uproar between the racists [Sic] for your own good, I feel sorry for you.
James Fulford writes: In the War Between The States, Southern white "racists" were defeated by Northern white "racists", led by a president, Abraham Lincoln, who was also a white "racist" by current standards.
What blacks are unable to accept is that American history is, by and large, not about them, and this applies even to the Civil War.
In Ken Burns's 1990 Civil War documentary, black female Columbia Professor Barbara J. Field [Email her] can be heard saying
“It could have been a very ugly, filthy war with no redeeming characteristics at all. And it was the battle for emancipation and the people who pushed it forward—the slaves, the free black people, the abolitionists, and a lot of ordinary citizens—it was they who ennobled what otherwise would have been meaningless carnage into something higher.”
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This seems to be a claim that not only was the Civil War about black people, but it was only any good because of them. This is wrong.
John Derbyshire has described the current Cold Civil War and the actual American Civil War the same way: a conflict between two groups of white people “with colored auxiliaries recruited by one of the sides to groom the horses and dig field latrines.”
That, in spite of the fact that there some actual black soldiers employed by the Northern side (and a much smaller number employed by the Confederates) remains the case.


vdare--2020-01-22--Might Somali Scammer Rep. Ilhan Omar Be Deported?

Earlier , by Steve Sailer : Ilhan Omar 's Family Values : Marrying Her Brother For Immigration Fraud Purposes ?
Recently , we concerned citizens learned that the Somalia-born representative of Minnesota ’ s 5th District in Minneapolis , Ilhan Omar , had attracted the interest of several federal agencies to investigate her for an assortment of offenses , including perjury , immigration fraud , tax fraud , student loan fraud and possibly bigamy .
Most of those crimes all sound like jail time to non-lawyer me , but an actual immigration lawyer recently wrote that it ’ s more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ removed or be deported .
Of course , the ideal outcome would be for the scheming America hater to do some hard time in the joint , followed by a one-way trip home — win , win .
But permanent removal in the near future would be an acceptable consolation prize for patriotic Americans .
The immigration lawyer examines a substantial list of questions about Omar ’ s background that has “ more questions than answers ” — and it ’ s curious that a well known public figure has so many mysteries @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lawyer warns she could be repatriated if she doesn ’ t get a good attorney — hope springs eternal !
Why Criminal Prosecution Might Be The Least Of Ilhan Omar ’ s Legal Concerns , The Federalist , by Matthew Kolken , January 21 , 2020 Rep. Ilhan Omar needs competent immigration counsel to ensure that there is no threat of her losing her citizenship , or , worse , deportation .
The Department of Justice has reportedly assigned an FBI special agent to work with Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar ( D-Minn. ) for alleged criminal violations relating to perjury , immigration fraud , marriage fraud , state and federal tax fraud , federal student loan fraud , and bigamy .
As an immigration lawyer , the very first question that came to mind when I read these reports was what immigration consequences , if any , could attach in the event that any of the above allegations are proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law .
My analysis , unfortunately , has resulted in more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ analysis started with the fact that it is widely known Omar was born in Somalia , and immigrated to the United States as a Somali refugee .
At some point after her admission to the country , she obtained U.S. citizenship .
The Associated Press reported on November 5 , 2009 , that Omar fled Somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya with her family in 1991 .
She ultimately immigrated to the United States as a refugee in 1995 .
If this report is correct , the analysis is fairly straightforward .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ refugees to apply for permanent residence , commonly known as a “ green card , ” one-year after arrival .
Five years after holding a green card , refugees may then apply to become a citizen through a process called naturalization .
Naturalization applicants must show they meet residency requirements , and have good moral character .
It was reported that Omar became a citizen in 2000 , five years after her arrival , at the age of 17 .
This last detail is important , and is where things start to get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ citizen at the age of 17 , she must have obtained it through automatic acquisition after the naturalization of at least one of her parents .
Omar would not have been able to apply for citizenship on her own because individuals are ineligible to apply for naturalization until age 18 .
Here is where it gets really complicated .
The requirements for automatic acquisition have changed several times throughout the last century .
The marital status of Omar ’ s parents would determine whether she could have acquired citizenship .
I have no @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to determine if these legal requirements were fulfilled .
However , if Omar did not have to apply for naturalization , it could eliminate one possible crime that she could be charged with : knowingly giving false information in furtherance of an application for citizenship .
A conviction for this crime would lead to her denaturalization , resulting in the loss of citizenship , and the institution of removal proceedings to deport her .
But the analysis doesn ’ t stop there .
For Omar to have automatically acquired citizenship , she @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States for permanent residence , and there are reports questioning the legality of her admission as a refugee .
David Steinberg has covered the Omar saga for several years and has openly questioned whether she is who she says she is .
Steinberg has alleged that Omar assumed her name from an unrelated family that was being granted refugee status .
Although I have no way to independently assess the veracity of this report , there is circumstantial evidence that this type of immigration fraud was rampant in the circumstances under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ States .
Specifically , in 2009 the Obama administration assessed the viability of re-employing a Bush-era pilot program that unearthed widespread immigration fraud .
It found that as many as 87 percent of applications claiming familial relationship were fraudulent .
If the reports are ultimately found true , the immigration consequences would be severe , including loss of citizenship and the institution of removal proceedings .
Moreover , there may be no defenses to removal in an immigration court setting to stop her deportation .
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Earlier, by Steve Sailer: Ilhan Omar's Family Values: Marrying Her Brother For Immigration Fraud Purposes?
Recently, we concerned citizens learned that the Somalia-born representative of Minnesota’s 5th District in Minneapolis, Ilhan Omar, had attracted the interest of several federal agencies to investigate her for an assortment of offenses, including perjury, immigration fraud, tax fraud, student loan fraud and possibly bigamy.
Most of those crimes all sound like jail time to non-lawyer me, but an actual immigration lawyer recently wrote that it’s more likely she might have her US citizenship removed or be deported.
Of course, the ideal outcome would be for the scheming America hater to do some hard time in the joint, followed by a one-way trip home — win, win. But permanent removal in the near future would be an acceptable consolation prize for patriotic Americans.
The immigration lawyer examines a substantial list of questions about Omar’s background that has “more questions than answers” — and it’s curious that a well known public figure has so many mysteries about her background and identity.
The lawyer warns she could be repatriated if she doesn’t get a good attorney — hope springs eternal!
Why Criminal Prosecution Might Be The Least Of Ilhan Omar’s Legal Concerns, The Federalist, by Matthew Kolken, January 21, 2020
Rep. Ilhan Omar needs competent immigration counsel to ensure that there is no threat of her losing her citizenship, or, worse, deportation.
The Department of Justice has reportedly assigned an FBI special agent to work with Immigration and Customs and Enforcement and the Department of Education Inspector General Charge to investigate Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) for alleged criminal violations relating to perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, state and federal tax fraud, federal student loan fraud, and bigamy.
As an immigration lawyer, the very first question that came to mind when I read these reports was what immigration consequences, if any, could attach in the event that any of the above allegations are proven beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. My analysis, unfortunately, has resulted in more unanswerable questions than definitive answers.
My analysis started with the fact that it is widely known Omar was born in Somalia, and immigrated to the United States as a Somali refugee. At some point after her admission to the country, she obtained U.S. citizenship. The Associated Press reported on November 5, 2009, that Omar fled Somalia to a refugee camp in Kenya with her family in 1991. She ultimately immigrated to the United States as a refugee in 1995.
If this report is correct, the analysis is fairly straightforward. Generally speaking, U.S. immigration law permits refugees to apply for permanent residence, commonly known as a “green card,” one-year after arrival. Five years after holding a green card, refugees may then apply to become a citizen through a process called naturalization.
Naturalization applicants must show they meet residency requirements, and have good moral character. It was reported that Omar became a citizen in 2000, five years after her arrival, at the age of 17.
This last detail is important, and is where things start to get murky. If Omar became a U.S. citizen at the age of 17, she must have obtained it through automatic acquisition after the naturalization of at least one of her parents. Omar would not have been able to apply for citizenship on her own because individuals are ineligible to apply for naturalization until age 18.
Here is where it gets really complicated. The requirements for automatic acquisition have changed several times throughout the last century. The marital status of Omar’s parents would determine whether she could have acquired citizenship. I have no details about their marital status to be able to determine if these legal requirements were fulfilled.
However, if Omar did not have to apply for naturalization, it could eliminate one possible crime that she could be charged with: knowingly giving false information in furtherance of an application for citizenship. A conviction for this crime would lead to her denaturalization, resulting in the loss of citizenship, and the institution of removal proceedings to deport her.
But the analysis doesn’t stop there. For Omar to have automatically acquired citizenship, she must also have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence, and there are reports questioning the legality of her admission as a refugee.
David Steinberg has covered the Omar saga for several years and has openly questioned whether she is who she says she is. Steinberg has alleged that Omar assumed her name from an unrelated family that was being granted refugee status. Although I have no way to independently assess the veracity of this report, there is circumstantial evidence that this type of immigration fraud was rampant in the circumstances under which Omar was admitted to the United States.
Specifically, in 2009 the Obama administration assessed the viability of re-employing a Bush-era pilot program that unearthed widespread immigration fraud. It found that as many as 87 percent of applications claiming familial relationship were fraudulent. If the reports are ultimately found true, the immigration consequences would be severe, including loss of citizenship and the institution of removal proceedings. Moreover, there may be no defenses to removal in an immigration court setting to stop her deportation. (Continues)


vdare--2020-01-22--The Old, Weird Africa: Ancient Pygmy DNA Uncovered By David Reich

With the New Bantu Expansion gearing up to be perhaps the most important global event of the 21st Century , it ’ s worth looking at the cost paid by Pygmies and other diverse groups during the Old Bantu Expansion of prehistory .
Svante Paabo ’ s breakthrough in being able to sequence DNA from ancient skeletons drove much of the most interesting science of the decade now just closed .
But , we ’ ve tended to be lacking in ancient DNA from sub-Saharan Africa because DNA breaks down faster in warm and wet climates .
A variety of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ interesting weirdnesses in current sub-Saharan DNA , such as indications of a lost “ ghost archaic ” ancestral population .
I wrote about the “ The Ghosts of Africa ” two years ago in Taki ’ s Magazine in my third review of geneticist David Reich ’ s Who We Are and How We Got Here .
Reich has now published on the Old , Weird Africa .
From Nature : Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history Mark Lipson , Isabelle Ribot , [ … ] David Reich @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 22 January 2020 Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa , particularly prior to the advent of food production , remains limited .
Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children—two of whom were buried approximately 8,000 years ago and two 3,000 years ago—from Shum Laka ( Cameroon ) , one of the earliest known archaeological sites within the probable homeland of the Bantu language group1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 .
One individual carried the deeply divergent Y chromosome haplogroup A00 , which today is found almost exclusively in the same region12,13 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ all four individuals are most similar to those of present-day hunter-gatherers from western Central Africa , which implies that populations in western Cameroon today—as well as speakers of Bantu languages from across the continent—are not descended substantially from the population represented by these four people .
We infer an Africa-wide phylogeny that features widespread admixture and three prominent radiations , including one that gave rise to at least four major lineages deep in the history of modern humans .
Central Africa is too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive—or so researchers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ four children buried thousands of years ago in a rock shelter in the grasslands of Cameroon have yielded enough DNA for scientists to analyze .
It ’ s the first ancient DNA from humans in the region , and as the team reports today in Nature , it holds multiple surprises .
For one , the area today is the homeland of Bantu speakers , the majority group in western and Central Africa .
As the world enters the age of the New Bantu Expansion , more attention should be paid to the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bantus are the primary ancestors of African-Americans .
They expanded out of a homeland near the Nigerian-Cameroon border with the aid of two major technological advances : agriculture and iron-making .
They wrested sub-Saharan Africa away from other racial groups .
In other words , the Pygmies were marginalized by the Bantu Expansion .
“ In the supposed cradle of Bantu languages and , therefore , Bantu people , these people are basically ‘ pygmy ’ hunter-gatherers , ” says Lluís Quintana-Murci , a population geneticist at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was not part of the new study .
He and others have long suspected that these groups had a larger range before the Bantu population exploded 3000 years ago .
The second big surprise came when the team compared the children ’ s DNA to other genetic data from Africa and found hints that the Baka , Aka , and other Central African hunter-gatherers belong to one of the most ancient lineages of modern humans , with roots going back 250,000 years .
In the new study , geneticists and archaeologists took samples @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the four children , who were buried 3000 and 8000 years ago at the famous archaeological site of Shum Laka .
… Comparing the sequences to those of living Africans , they found that the four children were distant cousins , and that all had inherited about one-third of their DNA from ancestors most closely related to the hunter-gatherers of western Central Africa .
Another two-thirds of children ’ s DNA came from an ancient “ basal ” source in West Africa , including some from a “ long lost ghost population of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know about before , ” says population geneticist David Reich of Harvard University , leader of the study .
The discovery underscores the diversity of African groups that inhabited the continent before the Bantus began to herd livestock in the grassy highlands of western Central Africa .
We often hear Africans saluted for their genetic diversity , but the ironic reality is that the Old Bantu Expansion was one of the great disasters for human genetic diversity .
The Bantus made pottery and forged iron , and their burgeoning populations rapidly displaced hunter-gatherers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ time before this expansion offers “ a glimpse of a human landscape that is profoundly different than today , ” Reich says .
… The team ’ s bold new model pushes back Central African hunter-gatherer origins to 200,000 to 250,000 years ago—not long after our species evolved .
The model suggests their lineage split from three other modern human lineages : one leading to the Khoisan hunter-gatherers in southern Africa , one to east Africans , and one to a now-extinct “ ghost ” population .
… Remember how I ’ ve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ York Times reporters have developed an upside-down style in which they make the beginning of their articles on potentially politically incorrect topics as boring as possible and only slip in the interesting bits toward the end , long after most NYT subscribers have moved on , reassured that reality is as uninteresting as they assumed ?
Well , NYT genetics reporter Carl Zimmer ’ s write up , “ Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans ’ Rise , ” is a classic in this regard .
The word “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the 18th paragraph and the word “ ghost ” not until the 24th paragraph .

With the New Bantu Expansion gearing up to be perhaps the most important global event of the 21st Century, it’s worth looking at the cost paid by Pygmies and other diverse groups during the Old Bantu Expansion of prehistory.
Svante Paabo’s breakthrough in being able to sequence DNA from ancient skeletons drove much of the most interesting science of the decade now just closed. But, we’ve tended to be lacking in ancient DNA from sub-Saharan Africa because DNA breaks down faster in warm and wet climates. A variety of other evidence has been pointing towards some interesting weirdnesses in current sub-Saharan DNA, such as indications of a lost “ghost archaic” ancestral population. I wrote about the “The Ghosts of Africa” two years ago in Taki’s Magazine in my third review of geneticist David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here.
Reich has now published on the Old, Weird Africa. From Nature:
Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history
Mark Lipson, Isabelle Ribot, […]David Reich
Nature (2020), Published: 22 January 2020 Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children—two of whom were buried approximately 8,000 years ago and two 3,000 years ago—from Shum Laka (Cameroon), one of the earliest known archaeological sites within the probable homeland of the Bantu language group1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11. One individual carried the deeply divergent Y chromosome haplogroup A00, which today is found almost exclusively in the same region12,13. However, the genome-wide ancestry profiles of all four individuals are most similar to those of present-day hunter-gatherers from western Central Africa, which implies that populations in western Cameroon today—as well as speakers of Bantu languages from across the continent—are not descended substantially from the population represented by these four people. We infer an Africa-wide phylogeny that features widespread admixture and three prominent radiations, including one that gave rise to at least four major lineages deep in the history of modern humans.
From Science:
DNA from child burials reveals ‘profoundly different’ human landscape in ancient Africa
By Ann GibbonsJan. 22, 2020 , 1:00 PM Central Africa is too hot and humid for ancient DNA to survive—or so researchers thought. But now the bones of four children buried thousands of years ago in a rock shelter in the grasslands of Cameroon have yielded enough DNA for scientists to analyze. It’s the first ancient DNA from humans in the region, and as the team reports today in Nature, it holds multiple surprises. For one, the area today is the homeland of Bantu speakers, the majority group in western and Central Africa.
As the world enters the age of the New Bantu Expansion, more attention should be paid to the history of the Old Bantu Expansion. Bantus are the primary ancestors of African-Americans. They expanded out of a homeland near the Nigerian-Cameroon border with the aid of two major technological advances: agriculture and iron-making. They wrested sub-Saharan Africa away from other racial groups.
But the children turned out to be most closely related to hunter-gatherers such as the Baka and Aka—groups traditionally known as “pygmies”—who today live at least 500 kilometers away in the rainforests of western Central Africa.
In other words, the Pygmies were marginalized by the Bantu Expansion.
“In the supposed cradle of Bantu languages and, therefore, Bantu people, these people are basically ‘pygmy’ hunter-gatherers,” says Lluís Quintana-Murci, a population geneticist at the Pasteur Institute and CNRS, the French national research agency, who was not part of the new study. He and others have long suspected that these groups had a larger range before the Bantu population exploded 3000 years ago. The second big surprise came when the team compared the children’s DNA to other genetic data from Africa and found hints that the Baka, Aka, and other Central African hunter-gatherers belong to one of the most ancient lineages of modern humans, with roots going back 250,000 years. In the new study, geneticists and archaeologists took samples from the DNA-rich inner ear bones of the four children, who were buried 3000 and 8000 years ago at the famous archaeological site of Shum Laka. … Comparing the sequences to those of living Africans, they found that the four children were distant cousins, and that all had inherited about one-third of their DNA from ancestors most closely related to the hunter-gatherers of western Central Africa. Another two-thirds of children’s DNA came from an ancient “basal” source in West Africa, including some from a “long lost ghost population of modern humans that we didn’t know about before,” says population geneticist David Reich of Harvard University, leader of the study. The discovery underscores the diversity of African groups that inhabited the continent before the Bantus began to herd livestock in the grassy highlands of western Central Africa.
We often hear Africans saluted for their genetic diversity, but the ironic reality is that the Old Bantu Expansion was one of the great disasters for human genetic diversity.
The Bantus made pottery and forged iron, and their burgeoning populations rapidly displaced hunter-gatherers across Africa. Analyzing DNA from a time before this expansion offers “a glimpse of a human landscape that is profoundly different than today,” Reich says. … The team’s bold new model pushes back Central African hunter-gatherer origins to 200,000 to 250,000 years ago—not long after our species evolved. The model suggests their lineage split from three other modern human lineages: one leading to the Khoisan hunter-gatherers in southern Africa, one to east Africans, and one to a now-extinct “ghost” population. …
Remember how I’ve been pointing out for years that New York Times reporters have developed an upside-down style in which they make the beginning of their articles on potentially politically incorrect topics as boring as possible and only slip in the interesting bits toward the end, long after most NYT subscribers have moved on, reassured that reality is as uninteresting as they assumed? Well, NYT genetics reporter Carl Zimmer’s write up, “Ancient DNA from West Africa Adds to Picture of Humans’ Rise,” is a classic in this regard. The word “pygmy” doesn’t appear until the 18th paragraph and the word “ghost” not until the 24th paragraph.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-01-22--WTF? Trump Campaign Manager Claims POTUS Doesn’t Need To Run On Immigration

Donald Trump ’ s campaign manager Brad Parscale thinks the president doesn ’ t need to focus on immigration to win re-election .
Fox Business ’ Lou Dobbs asked Parscale in a recent interview what are the campaign ’ s core issues .
Parscale replied that that they are the economy and healthcare .
Dobbs was puzzled by the absence of immigration and border security .
Parscale replied : `` Well I think on immigration he 's already in the winning column .
I think that those are people we already have [ as ] voters .
I think these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to get these other voters to come across to make this a landslide victory.
” Parscale ’ s message : we already think that immigration patriots are voting for Trump , so we don ’ t have to focus on immigration .
This is ridiculous .
Trump won in 2016 on his promise to build the wall and curb illegal immigration , not bring down black female unemployment .
Healthcare is an especially idiotic subject for Trump to campaign on considering the Trumpcare debacle in 2017 .
[ Rough series of polls show @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , by Jacob Pramuk , CNBC , June 28 , 2017 ] There ’ s no need to alter Trump ’ s winning message .
He just needs to work harder on fulfilling his promises and demonstrate to voters he put America first .
He defeated the Republicans who wanted to focus solely on the economy and healthcare .

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Donald Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale thinks the president doesn’t need to focus on immigration to win re-election.
Fox Business’ Lou Dobbs asked Parscale in a recent interview what are the campaign’s core issues. Parscale replied that that they are the economy and healthcare.
Dobbs was puzzled by the absence of immigration and border security.
Parscale replied: "Well I think on immigration he's already in the winning column. I think that those are people we already have [as] voters. I think these other issues, we have to continue to get these other voters to come across to make this a landslide victory.”
Parscale’s message: we already think that immigration patriots are voting for Trump, so we don’t have to focus on immigration. This is ridiculous. Trump won in 2016 on his promise to build the wall and curb illegal immigration, not bring down black female unemployment. Healthcare is an especially idiotic subject for Trump to campaign on considering the Trumpcare debacle in 2017. [Rough series of polls show Americans broadly disapprove of GOP health-care plan, by Jacob Pramuk, CNBC, June 28, 2017]
There’s no need to alter Trump’s winning message. He just needs to work harder on fulfilling his promises and demonstrate to voters he put America first. He defeated the Republicans who wanted to focus solely on the economy and healthcare.


vdare--2020-01-22--Update: "Snohomish County Man" Who Brought Coronavirus Home From China Is Chinese Immigrant With Gre

Update: "Snohomish County Man" Who Brought Coronavirus Home From China Is Chinese Immigrant With Green Card

Earlier , I asked in a blog : Is `` Snohomish County Man '' Who Brought Coronavirus Home From China @ @ @ @ @ Chinese-American ?
Almost everyone who brought Ebola back to the US during the Obama Administration @ @ @ @ @ ( We tagged posts about that crisis `` Barack Hussein Ebola '' . )
Ann @ @ @ @ @ here : Ebola Doc 's Condition Downgraded To 'Idiotic'—Ca n't Anyone Serve Christ In America @ @ @ @ @ turns out , much to my surprise , that the piece I linked to did @ @ @ @ @ seven : A Seattle Patch story also describes him as `` a permanent U.S. resident @ @ @ @ @ First U.S. Case Of Wuhan Coronavirus Confirmed In Washington , by Lucas Combos , Seattle @ @ @ @ @ 2020 .
The CDC is looking at `` screening '' people coming from Wuhan , @ @ @ @ @ , say stopping them from coming .

Earlier, I asked in a blog: Is "Snohomish County Man" Who Brought Coronavirus Home From China American, Chinese, Or Chinese-American?
Almost everyone who brought Ebola back to the US during the Obama Administration was an African immigrant.(We tagged posts about that crisis "Barack Hussein Ebola".) Ann Coulter dealt with an exception here:Ebola Doc's Condition Downgraded To 'Idiotic'—Can't Anyone Serve Christ In America Anymore?
However, it turns out, much to my surprise, that the piece I linked to did contain the information in paragraph seven:
The man is a Chinese immigrant who was visiting his home country. He’s a legal permanent resident of the U.S., Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday afternoon at a news conference at the state Public Health Laboratories in Shoreline. The man transferred flights at least once before arriving at Sea-Tac Airport on Jan. 15, but an exact itinerary hasn’t been released.
A Seattle Patch story also describes him as "a permanent U.S. resident" in paragraph three: First U.S. Case Of Wuhan Coronavirus Confirmed In Washington, by Lucas Combos, Seattle Patch, January 21, 2020.
The CDC is looking at "screening" people coming from Wuhan, but have no thought of, say stopping them from coming.


vdare--2020-01-22--After 26 Years Of Black Rule, South Africa Experiencing Nationwide Blackouts As Electricity Grid Col

After 26 Years Of Black Rule, South Africa Experiencing Nationwide Blackouts As Electricity Grid Collapses

Previously : Black-Run South Africa ‘ Democratically ’ Decides to Amend Their Constitution to Expropriate White-Owned Land Without Compensation… Twenty six years after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa and the implementation of black rule ( a nation truly proving democracy is nothing more than a racial headcount ) , we get the consequences of a people rejecting whites and mistakenly believing they can maintain the civilization and infrastructure they have inherited .
Eskom was forced to implement stage 6 load shedding in December – its worst-ever blackout – sending the country into a panic as not many people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ meant for them .
Municipalities too were caught off-guard , with Johannesburg electricity distributor City Power saying at the time that it had no load-shedding schedule for Stage 6 .
The year is 2020 , and generation and maintenance challenges continue to mount at the state company which generates 96 % of South Africa ’ s electricity .
As a result , all municipalities have been advised to adjust their load shedding schedule up to stage 8 , the Buffalo City Municipality said in a statement on Saturday ( 11 January ) .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ 5 % of the national load , stage 8 will equate to 40 % of the load being shed , the municipality said .
Under the previous load shedding schedule , four stages were implemented with between 1,000 MW and 4,000 MW of the national load shed – with ‘ stage 4 ’ being the worst possible outcome for South African consumers .
Stage 4 will typically result in consumers being without power for a total of 24 hours spread out over four days , or a total of 48 hours over eight @ @ @ @ @ @ @ revised its schedule to include up to eight different stages , and as much as 8,000 MW shed from the national grid .
During stage 8 load shedding , consumers could be without power for 48 hours over four days , or 96 hours in eight days .
As municipalities prepare for the logistics of stage 8 load shedding , an energy expert warned that South Africans should prepare for the worst – regular stage 6 load-shedding , and 10-hour daily blackouts .
EE Business Intelligence MD Chris Yelland said Eskom ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is a cause for serious concern .
The energy availability factor shows the percentage of Eskom ’ s generation capacity which is available , taking into account planned maintenance and unplanned breakdowns .
Yelland said the EAF data for 2019 paints a grim picture of ageing , under-maintained , and stressed power plants .
“ The EAF for the full 2019 calendar year has hit a new record low of 67 % , compared to the EAF of 72 % for the 2018 calendar year , ” said Yelland .
He added that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 51 of 2019 also hit record all-time lows of 59.7 % and 58.0 % respectively .
Citing an ageing fleet that requires higher levels of maintenance , Eskom has warned that the power system remains vulnerable and volatile , adding that getting back to stability will take some time .

Previously: Black-Run South Africa ‘Democratically’ Decides to Amend Their Constitution to Expropriate White-Owned Land Without Compensation…
Twenty six years after the fall of Apartheid in South Africa and the implementation of black rule (a nation truly proving democracy is nothing more than a racial headcount), we get the consequences of a people rejecting whites and mistakenly believing they can maintain the civilization and infrastructure they have inherited.
Eskom was forced to implement stage 6 load shedding in December – its worst-ever blackout – sending the country into a panic as not many people were aware of what that stage actually meant for them.
Municipalities too were caught off-guard, with Johannesburg electricity distributor City Power saying at the time that it had no load-shedding schedule for Stage 6.
The year is 2020, and generation and maintenance challenges continue to mount at the state company which generates 96% of South Africa’s electricity.
As a result, all municipalities have been advised to adjust their load shedding schedule up to stage 8, the Buffalo City Municipality said in a statement on Saturday (11 January).
With each stage representing a curtailment of 5% of the national load, stage 8 will equate to 40% of the load being shed, the municipality said.
Under the previous load shedding schedule, four stages were implemented with between 1,000 MW and 4,000 MW of the national load shed – with ‘stage 4’ being the worst possible outcome for South African consumers.
Stage 4 will typically result in consumers being without power for a total of 24 hours spread out over four days, or a total of 48 hours over eight days.
However, Eskom has since revised its schedule to include up to eight different stages, and as much as 8,000 MW shed from the national grid.
During stage 8 load shedding, consumers could be without power for 48 hours over four days, or 96 hours in eight days.
Prepare for the worst
As municipalities prepare for the logistics of stage 8 load shedding, an energy expert warned that South Africans should prepare for the worst – regular stage 6 load-shedding, and 10-hour daily blackouts.
EE Business Intelligence MD Chris Yelland said Eskom’s declining energy availability factor (EAF) is a cause for serious concern.
The energy availability factor shows the percentage of Eskom’s generation capacity which is available, taking into account planned maintenance and unplanned breakdowns.
Yelland said the EAF data for 2019 paints a grim picture of ageing, under-maintained, and stressed power plants.
“The EAF for the full 2019 calendar year has hit a new record low of 67%, compared to the EAF of 72% for the 2018 calendar year,” said Yelland.
He added that the EAF for week 50 and week 51 of 2019 also hit record all-time lows of 59.7% and 58.0% respectively.
Citing an ageing fleet that requires higher levels of maintenance, Eskom has warned that the power system remains vulnerable and volatile, adding that getting back to stability will take some time.


vdare--2020-01-22--Author Christopher Caldwell Tackles the Roots of Voter Anger: "The Civil RIghts Act Transformed Amer

Author Christopher Caldwell Tackles the Roots of Voter Anger: "The Civil RIghts Act Transformed America"

Christopher Caldwell does not write that many books—Google shows just a handful—but he is an insightful author .
I wrote a review in 2009 for The Social Contract about Refections on the Revolution in Europe : Immigration , Islam and the West and found him unafraid to speak the obvious unpleasant truths about unwise diversity : Christopher Caldwell gets off to a blunt start in his new book , Reflections on the Revolution in Europe , by declaring in the first sentence , “ Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind .
” The @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that inattention has become , as the realization grows that devolution to Eurabia will be the demographically inevitable future if something is not done .
So a new Caldwell book , The Age of Entitlement : America Since the Sixties , is worth a look—particularly so when Tucker Carlson recommended it highly , as he did on a recent show .
ne important point they discussed is that when government is allowed to have vastly expanded powers even for a laudable goal , such as ending segregation , those tools remain and may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ like giving illegal aliens rights that belong to citizens , not invaders .
Caldwell also pointed out that America ’ s immigration laws make enforcement against the lawless difficult for law-abiding citizens .
It ’ s crazy and makes people angry about government fecklessness .
In addition , I wonder how Caldwell views the current Victim culture , and whether the history he describes has encouraged the value of Victimhood rather than excellence in today ’ s society .
TUCKER CARLSON : So here ’ s a trend you may have noticed .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ t happen .
You wonder .
We vote for it again and all your neighbors vote for it , then you read a poll saying the majority of the country is in favor of it .
But again , it doesn ’ t happen and this continues for say 30 years .
And after you get frustrated and the country gets more volatile .
How is this happening ?
Is our democracy real ?
The smartest book I have read literally in years , it ’ s coming out today .
It @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and it explains exactly what ’ s going on .
It ’ s written by Chris Caldwell , one of the smartest people around , an opinion writer for the New York Times and he joins us on set .
Chris , great to see you .
CARLSON : So that ’ s the question , people are starting to think that democracy is not real because ideas that have majority support are ignored consistently .
What is happening ?
CALDWELL : Well , it ’ s a little bit complicated .
I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of an unintended consequence of a good thing , of the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s , which did away with segregation .
Now , segregation , as you know , it ’ s a big problem .
It ’ s our unique — it ’ s our great problem in our history .
CALDWELL : Yes , that ’ s right .
And it defied solution .
How did we break it in the 1960s ?
We did it by giving Washington powers that it had had never had before in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you know , it could overturn court verdicts .
It could invalidate election laws .
It could sue companies .
It could break institutions .
It was a really , really ruthless set of tools .
And in the end , it worked .
CARLSON : It did work and I ’ ll just pause by saying most people would say that ’ s a good thing .
I mean , that was awful .
You don ’ t want that .
And we ended it , and good for us .
CALDWELL @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s the problem .
It ’ s that when legal segregation ended , these very powerful tools used to overturn it did not , and in fact , they intensified .
And you ’ ve got things that that were not even in the original Civil Rights Bills like affirmative action , as we understand it now .
Busing of school children that spread .
You had busing in Louisville and Boston .
So suddenly this reform that people thought of as confined to the , you know , the segregation of South @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the key thing and here ’ s where democracy comes in .
It spread even away from segregation and even away from race .
So in the 60s and 70s , you had all sorts of people sort of wanting rights and recognition .
You know , you had women wanting to be admitted to men ’ s clubs .
You had Hispanics who wanted to cast their ballots in Spanish , and when they brought forward these claims , they did not say — they were often too impatient to wait for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , my rights are being abused .
It ’ s kind of like what was happening to the people in the south , and I don ’ t want to wait for a vote .
I want immediate action .
I want that system you used to break segregation in the south .
So you had a new system that gradually took over larger and larger parts of American life .
It was like a second Constitution that could be used to override what you ’ d call the democratic .
CARLSON : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ half of this , which is the ends are good , like this is good , we like the outcome .
But what you ’ re saying is the process put in place to achieve that outcome basically makes democracy itself impossible .
So all of a sudden , everything is achieved this way .
CALDWELL : That ’ s what — more and more gets achieved this way .
And as the years went on , you can sort of see this transformation .
I mean , in the 1980s , you @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Immigration Reform and Control Act , which was supposed to be a grand compromise that would regulate a big crisis in the country .
You had on the one hand , you had amnesty for several million migrants .
But on the other hand , you had severe penalties for people who hired illegal migration , so it was supposed to solve the problem .
The problem was that asking migrants , whether they were legal or whether they were born in Mexico turned out to violate their Civil Rights .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ It was actually more dangerous for employers to enforce this law than it was to disobey it .
CARLSON : So we passed a law that couldn ’ t be enforced ?
CALDWELL : Half of it could be enforced .
The amnesty could be enforced .
But the anti-immigration part could not be enforced , and that ’ s why people are so suspicious of immigration bills in general .
CARLSON : So what effect does this have on the country ?
If you believe that the country is calm , stable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all those things we built on the base of that stability .
If people start to suspect that they don ’ t have any control over their lives , someone they didn ’ t vote for is going to decide for them by fiat .
What effect does that have on the society ?
CALDWELL : Well , it seems it has a different effect on two halves of the society , and I think it really explains a lot of our polarization .
Okay , if you have — I mean , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ this new expansion of rights , okay , let ’ s say you ’ re a gay in a couple who can now get married .
Well , then this is wonderful .
And in fact , if you ’ re a progressive in general , I mean , this is wonderful and the fact that it ’ s not democratically arrived at may not matter so much .
But if you ’ re — if you ’ re not a beneficiary of this or if you ’ re conservatively inclined about any @ @ @ @ @ @ @ good .
CARLSON : So basically people who you never voted for telling you what to do , there ’ s literally nothing you can do about it .
And so you get angrier and angrier , like people like Donald Trump , or whomever because you ’ re really frustrated .
CALDWELL : But there ’ s another thing that ’ s activating anger , too .
And that is in order to — in order to use this rights-based system rather than the voting-based system , you need to convince the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency going on , some terrible abuse , that someone is behaving wickedly in the same way that the southern segregationists and the southern sheriffs were .
And increasingly , that role of like official wicked person gets played by people who defend ordinary American institutions .
CARLSON : So you have the sort of permanent bureaucracy at war with its own people , with the public .
CALDWELL : That ’ s the way it feels to half the country .
CARLSON : It does .
It feels that way to me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and I would recommend it to all of our viewers , Christopher Caldwell .
Thank you so much for this .

Christopher Caldwell does not write that many books—Google shows just a handful—but he is an insightful author. I wrote a review in 2009 for The Social Contract about Refections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West and found him unafraid to speak the obvious unpleasant truths about unwise diversity:
Christopher Caldwell gets off to a blunt start in his new book, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, by declaring in the first sentence, “Western Europe became a multiethnic society in a fit of absence of mind. ” The rest of the book shows how devastating that inattention has become, as the realization grows that devolution to Eurabia will be the demographically inevitable future if something is not done.
So a new Caldwell book, The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties, is worth a look—particularly so when Tucker Carlson recommended it highly, as he did on a recent show.
One important point they discussed is that when government is allowed to have vastly expanded powers even for a laudable goal, such as ending segregation, those tools remain and may be used for less desirable ends, like giving illegal aliens rights that belong to citizens, not invaders.
Caldwell also pointed out that America’s immigration laws make enforcement against the lawless difficult for law-abiding citizens. It’s crazy and makes people angry about government fecklessness.
In addition, I wonder how Caldwell views the current Victim culture, and whether the history he describes has encouraged the value of Victimhood rather than excellence in today’s society.
TUCKER CARLSON: So here’s a trend you may have noticed. You vote for something and it doesn’t happen. You wonder. We vote for it again and all your neighbors vote for it, then you read a poll saying the majority of the country is in favor of it.
But again, it doesn’t happen and this continues for say 30 years. And after you get frustrated and the country gets more volatile. How is this happening? Is our democracy real?
The smartest book I have read literally in years, it’s coming out today. It’s called The Age of Entitlement and it explains exactly what’s going on. It’s written by Chris Caldwell, one of the smartest people around, an opinion writer for the New York Times and he joins us on set.
Chris, great to see you.
AUTHOR CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL: Thank you, Tucker.
CARLSON: So that’s the question, people are starting to think that democracy is not real because ideas that have majority support are ignored consistently. What is happening?
CALDWELL: Well, it’s a little bit complicated. I’d say it’s kind of an unintended consequence of a good thing, of the Civil Rights laws of the 1960s, which did away with segregation.
Now, segregation, as you know, it’s a big problem. It’s our unique — it’s our great problem in our history.
CARLSON: The original sin of America.
CALDWELL: Yes, that’s right. And it defied solution. How did we break it in the 1960s? We did it by giving Washington powers that it had had never had before in peacetime, right? It could, you know, it could overturn court verdicts. It could invalidate election laws. It could sue companies. It could break institutions. It was a really, really ruthless set of tools. And in the end, it worked.
CARLSON: It did work and I’ll just pause by saying most people would say that’s a good thing. I mean, that was awful. You don’t want that. And we ended it, and good for us.
CALDWELL: Absolutely. Okay. Here’s the problem. It’s that when legal segregation ended, these very powerful tools used to overturn it did not, and in fact, they intensified.
And you’ve got things that that were not even in the original Civil Rights Bills like affirmative action, as we understand it now. Busing of school children that spread. You had busing in Louisville and Boston.
So suddenly this reform that people thought of as confined to the, you know, the segregation of South was nationwide. But here’s the key thing and here’s where democracy comes in.
It spread even away from segregation and even away from race. So in the 60s and 70s, you had all sorts of people sort of wanting rights and recognition.
You know, you had women wanting to be admitted to men’s clubs. You had Hispanics who wanted to cast their ballots in Spanish, and when they brought forward these claims, they did not say — they were often too impatient to wait for a vote. They said, no, my rights are being abused.
It’s kind of like what was happening to the people in the south, and I don’t want to wait for a vote. I want immediate action. I want that system you used to break segregation in the south.
So you had a new system that gradually took over larger and larger parts of American life. It was like a second Constitution that could be used to override what you’d call the democratic.
CARLSON: So we’re presented with one half of this, which is the ends are good, like this is good, we like the outcome. But what you’re saying is the process put in place to achieve that outcome basically makes democracy itself impossible. So all of a sudden, everything is achieved this way.
CALDWELL: That’s what — more and more gets achieved this way. And as the years went on, you can sort of see this transformation. I mean, in the 1980s, you had an obvious instance, you had the Immigration Reform and Control Act, which was supposed to be a grand compromise that would regulate a big crisis in the country.
You had on the one hand, you had amnesty for several million migrants. But on the other hand, you had severe penalties for people who hired illegal migration, so it was supposed to solve the problem.
The problem was that asking migrants, whether they were legal or whether they were born in Mexico turned out to violate their Civil Rights. So you couldn’t do it. It was actually more dangerous for employers to enforce this law than it was to disobey it.
CARLSON: So we passed a law that couldn’t be enforced?
CALDWELL: Half of it could be enforced. The amnesty could be enforced. But the anti-immigration part could not be enforced, and that’s why people are so suspicious of immigration bills in general.
CARLSON: So what effect does this have on the country? If you believe that the country is calm, stable, and therefore prosperous, we have all those things we built on the base of that stability. If people start to suspect that they don’t have any control over their lives, someone they didn’t vote for is going to decide for them by fiat. What effect does that have on the society?
CALDWELL: Well, it seems it has a different effect on two halves of the society, and I think it really explains a lot of our polarization. Okay, if you have — I mean, if you’re a beneficiary of this new expansion of rights, okay, let’s say you’re a gay in a couple who can now get married.
Well, then this is wonderful. And in fact, if you’re a progressive in general, I mean, this is wonderful and the fact that it’s not democratically arrived at may not matter so much.
But if you’re — if you’re not a beneficiary of this or if you’re conservatively inclined about any of these institutions, it looks less good.
CARLSON: So basically people who you never voted for telling you what to do, there’s literally nothing you can do about it. And so you get angrier and angrier, like people like Donald Trump, or whomever because you’re really frustrated.
CALDWELL: But there’s another thing that’s activating anger, too. And that is in order to — in order to use this rights-based system rather than the voting-based system, you need to convince the government that there’s some historic emergency going on, some terrible abuse, that someone is behaving wickedly in the same way that the southern segregationists and the southern sheriffs were.
And increasingly, that role of like official wicked person gets played by people who defend ordinary American institutions.
CARLSON: So you have the sort of permanent bureaucracy at war with its own people, with the public.
CALDWELL: That’s the way it feels to half the country.
CARLSON: It does. It feels that way to me. This is a really smart book, and I would recommend it to all of our viewers, Christopher Caldwell. Thank you so much for this.


vdare--2020-01-22--France Sentences Renaud Camus To Jail For Calling Mass Immigration An "Invasion" Unless He Pays Anti

France Sentences Renaud Camus To Jail For Calling Mass Immigration An "Invasion" Unless He Pays Anti-European Groups

File this one under `` There is no Free World . ''
Renaud Camus , the French intellectual who coined the term The Great Replacement for the ongoing invasion of the Continent is facing jail unless he pays money to anti-European organizations .
French intellectual Renaud Camus has been given a 2 month suspended prison sentence for saying that mass immigration into Europe represents an “ invasion.
” Camus will only avoid jail by paying 1800 euros to two “ anti-racist ” organizations , SOS Racisme and the LICRA ( International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism ) .
The writer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Grand Remplacement ( The Great Replacement ) , was charged with “ public incitement to hate or violence on the basis of origin , ethnicity , nationality , race or religion.
” The conviction stems from a November 2017 speech in Colombey-les-deux Eglises to the National Council of European Resistance in which Camus declared , “ Immigration has become an invasion.
” “ The irreversible colonization is demographic colonization , by the replacement of the population , ” said the author , adding , “ The ethnic substitution , the great replacement , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ history of our nation since it has existed ; as with other people , if the story continues , it will not be that of France.
” [ French intellectual sentenced to 2 months in Prison For Calling Mass Immigration an `` Invasion , '' by Paul Joseph Watson , Summit News , January 21 , 2020 ] Camus is not the first to be imprisoned nor the last for `` crimes '' of speech and writing .
The regime has repeatedly persecuted iconic French acctress Brigitte Bardot for defending animal rights , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Though the corporate media is not reporting it , the Yellow Vest movement is still active in France .
President Macron intends to cut pensions , and this has led to a whole new round of strikes and protests .
It is only being suppressed with brutal repression .
French police have fired tear gas at protesters hurling projectiles and arrested dozens of people as thousands of `` yellow vest '' anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris .
Demonstrators on Saturday shouted slogans denouncing the police , President Emmanuel Macron @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the longest French transport strike in decades , which has snarled public transportation for millions of commuters in the French capital for 45 days .
With sirens wailing , dozens of vans carrying riot police fanned out the route along which thousands of protesters marched .
Young people wearing masks shouted `` revolution '' as tear gas drifted by the Bastille , the square where the French revolution erupted in 1789 .
[ Police use tear gas in new 'yellow vest ' protests in Paris , AlJazeera , January 18 , 2020 ] @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Russia , American journos would be screaming for regime change .
We still have the First Amendment in this country so let us say it plainly .
Mass immigration is an invasion .
It 's intended as an invasion .
Its consequences are indistinguishable from that of military conquest and foreign occupation .
France , and the rest of the West , is being destroyed and it is being done on purpose .
The fact that the current French regime is reliant on force and repression means that it has no legitimacy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .

Image Source: Renaud Camus, Flickr.
File this one under "There is no Free World."
Renaud Camus, the French intellectual who coined the term The Great Replacement for the ongoing invasion of the Continent, is facing jail unless he pays money to anti-European organizations.
French intellectual Renaud Camus has been given a 2 month suspended prison sentence for saying that mass immigration into Europe represents an “invasion.” Camus will only avoid jail by paying 1800 euros to two “anti-racist” organizations, SOS Racisme and the LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism). The writer, who is the author of Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), was charged with “public incitement to hate or violence on the basis of origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.” The conviction stems from a November 2017 speech in Colombey-les-deux Eglises to the National Council of European Resistance in which Camus declared, “Immigration has become an invasion.” “The irreversible colonization is demographic colonization, by the replacement of the population,” said the author, adding, “The ethnic substitution, the great replacement, is the most important event in the history of our nation since it has existed; as with other people, if the story continues, it will not be that of France.” [French intellectual sentenced to 2 months in Prison For Calling Mass Immigration an "Invasion," by Paul Joseph Watson, Summit News, January 21, 2020]
Camus is not the first to be imprisoned nor the last for "crimes" of speech and writing. The regime has repeatedly persecuted iconic French acctress, Brigitte Bardot for defending animal rights, which she feels the Islamic influx endangers.
Though the corporate media is not reporting it, the Yellow Vest movement is still active in France. President Macron intends to cut pensions, and this has led to a whole new round of strikes and protests. It is only being suppressed with brutal repression.
French police have fired tear gas at protesters hurling projectiles and arrested dozens of people as thousands of "yellow vest" anti-government protesters returned to the streets of Paris. Demonstrators on Saturday shouted slogans denouncing the police, President Emmanuel Macron and his pension reforms that have triggered the longest French transport strike in decades, which has snarled public transportation for millions of commuters in the French capital for 45 days. With sirens wailing, dozens of vans carrying riot police fanned out the route along which thousands of protesters marched. Young people wearing masks shouted "revolution" as tear gas drifted by the Bastille, the square where the French revolution erupted in 1789. [Police use tear gas in new 'yellow vest' protests in Paris, Al Jazeera, January 18, 2020]
If scenes like this were playing out in Russia, American journos would be screaming for regime change.
We still have the First Amendment in this country so let us say it plainly. Mass immigration is an invasion. It's intended as an invasion. Its consequences are indistinguishable from that of military conquest and foreign occupation. France, and the rest of the West, is being destroyed and it is being done on purpose.
The fact that the current French regime is reliant on force and repression means that it has no legitimacy. It's simply a collaborationist government.


vdare--2020-01-22--Ann Coulter On Impeachment Week: It’s OK To Be Bored; Not OK To Be White

It ’ s weeks like this that make me wish I had a job and didn ’ t have to stay home watching TV .
With the impeachment nonsense dragging into its 56th month , I have some random observations , only a few of which have anything to do with impeachment .
1 ) As tempting as it must be for Republican senators to make a headlong rush to the TV cameras at the conclusion of the day ’ s festivities , they would be well advised to say this , and only this , each night : Here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Congress did NOT address today : • Repairing our highways , bridges and border with a major infrastructure bill .
• Ensuring that all Americans can get jobs by cutting off the deluge of cheap foreign labor .
• Providing the public with quality services by not inviting the rest of the world to come partake of government benefits meant for Americans .
• Fixing the disaster of Obamacare , so that all Americans have access to quality health care ( by activating the same mechanisms that give them quality food , housing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ contract law and occasional government subsidies ) .
• Passing a bill to defund all the pointless , expensive military deployments around the globe , so we can FINALLY address the hellfires in our own hemisphere .
• Ending the opioid crisis by declaring war on Mexican drug cartels and building a wall .
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should attach electrodes to the testicles of every Republican and blast him the moment he ( OR SHE ! )
diverges from the script .
2 ) The person I really feel sorry for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s weeping uncontrollably as she watches her chances of holding the speakership dwindle every time Jerry Nadler waddles to the mic .
True , you “ go to war with the army you have , not the army you might want , ” as Donald Rumsfeld said , but surely there are more telegenic Democrats than Nadler and Adam Schiff .
3 ) Every day since forever , The New York Times has run a column about how white people are getting on African Americans ’ last nerve .
On Monday of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Much Racism Do You Face Every Day ? ''
Example : Hearing about a family member who experiences something they described as racial discrimination .
And here ’ s one from Tuesday , titled : “ How to Convince a White Realtor You ’ re Middle Class ; Black people expend daily energy to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment.
” The examples included a white real estate agent asking a slatternly attired black woman if she could afford a specific house , and a black woman claiming she was required to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ before checking into a Portland , Oregon , Marriott .
Also since forever , whites have been trying not to offend .
Thus , on the same day as the racial stereotypes column , the Times ran an article about white Iowa voters terrified of picking a Democratic nominee whom black people won ’ t like .
It ’ s useless .
No matter how hard they try , whites just can ’ t stop offending black people with their damned “ microaggressions.
” My thought is , anyone of any race can @ @ @ @ @ @ @ other races .
What we all should endeavor to do is avoid macro-aggressions—you know , little things like murder , rape , assault and carjacking .
4 ) Last week , 20-foot-tall letters appeared on the side of a barn in Southport , England , spelling out the phrase : “ IT ’ S OK TO BE WHITE.
” British papers went on red alert , denouncing the “ [ r ] acist and anti-ethnic graffiti ” that “ [ s ] hocked ” and “ appalled ” residents .
• It might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ we ’ re not sure , we ’ ll get back to you .
• While it is certainly never OK to be white , we hope you will accept our deepest apology .
• Whiteness is not for everybody , but to say it 's ‘ OK ' to be white is not who we are .
We understand and deeply apologize for such monstrous racism .
Would any of these variants pass legal muster ?
If none of these are acceptable , please rest assured , we don ’ t mean @ @ @ @ @ @ @ We ’ re all staying late at the office to figure this out .
Food is being sent in as we speak ... At least we won ’ t have to watch impeachment news .
Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here .
Her book , ¡Adios America !
The Left ’ s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole , was released on June 1 , 2015 .
Her latest book , Resistance Is Futile !
: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost @ @ @ @ @ @ @ August 21 , 2018 .

It’s weeks like this that make me wish I had a job and didn’t have to stay home watching TV. With the impeachment nonsense dragging into its 56th month, I have some random observations, only a few of which have anything to do with impeachment.
1) As tempting as it must be for Republican senators to make a headlong rush to the TV cameras at the conclusion of the day’s festivities, they would be well advised to say this, and only this, each night:
Here are the vital issues the United States Congress did NOT address today:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell should attach electrodes to the testicles of every Republican and blast him the moment he (OR SHE!) diverges from the script.
2) The person I really feel sorry for is Nancy Pelosi. I assume she’s weeping uncontrollably as she watches her chances of holding the speakership dwindle every time Jerry Nadler waddles to the mic. True, you “go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want,” as Donald Rumsfeld said, but surely there are more telegenic Democrats than Nadler and Adam Schiff.
3) Every day since forever, the New York Times has run a column about how white people are getting on African Americans’ last nerve.
On Monday of this week, it was “How Much Racism Do You Face Every Day?"
Average for black teenager: 5x a day.
Example: Hearing about a family member who experiences something they described as racial discrimination.
And here’s one from Tuesday, titled: “How to Convince a White Realtor You’re Middle Class; Black people expend daily energy to counteract racial stereotypes and get fair treatment.”
The examples included a white real estate agent asking a slatternly attired black woman if she could afford a specific house, and a black woman claiming she was required to sign a “no party” pledge before checking into a Portland, Oregon, Marriott.
Also since forever, whites have been trying not to offend. Thus, on the same day as the racial stereotypes column, the Times ran an article about white Iowa voters terrified of picking a Democratic nominee whom black people won’t like.
It’s useless. No matter how hard they try, whites just can’t stop offending black people with their damned “microaggressions.”
My thought is, anyone of any race can commit “microaggressions" against people of other races. What we all should endeavor to do is avoid macro-aggressions—you know, little things like murder, rape, assault and carjacking.
4) Last week, 20-foot-tall letters appeared on the side of a barn in Southport, England, spelling out the phrase: “IT’S OK TO BE WHITE.” British papers went on red alert, denouncing the “[r]acist and anti-ethnic graffiti” that “[s]hocked” and “appalled” residents.
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We understand and deeply apologize for such monstrous racism. Would any of these variants pass legal muster?
It might be acceptable to be white, but we’re not sure, we’ll get back to you.
While it is certainly never OK to be white, we hope you will accept our deepest apology.
Whiteness is not for everybody, but to say it's ‘OK' to be white is not who we are.
If none of these are acceptable, please rest assured, we don’t mean to offend. Apologies all around! We’re all staying late at the office to figure this out. Food is being sent in as we speak ...
At least we won’t have to watch impeachment news.
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Ann Coulter is the author of THIRTEEN New York Times bestsellers—collect them here.
Her book, ¡Adios America! The Left’s Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hell Hole, was released on June 1, 2015.
Her latest book, Resistance Is Futile!: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind, was released on August 21, 2018.


vdare--2020-01-22--"Civil Rights Gone Wrong" —Sailer Review Of Christopher Caldwell's THE AGE OF ENTITLEMENT

A couple of heavyweight conservative thinkers , Charles Murray and Christopher Caldwell , have important new books out this month : Murray ’ s upcoming Human Diversity : The Biology of Gender , Race , and Class and Caldwell ’ s The Age of Entitlement : America Since the Sixties .
Caldwell , a distinguished prose stylist , is immensely quotable…except for his new book ’ s name .
I presume The Age of Entitlement is intended as a Voltairean pun on “ the Age of Enlightenment ” in the manner of his 2009 title Reflections on the Revolution in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the West and its Burkean riff on Reflections on the Revolution in France .
Unfortunately , the moniker The Age of Entitlement gives the vague impression that it ’ s going to be another snooze from the deep root-canal school of economics about the Social Security trust fund or whatever .
Instead , The Age of Entitlement is an explosive rethinking of history since JFK ’ s assassination that comes to the reactionary conclusion that the only salvation for American conservatism is to repeal the sainted 1964 Civil Rights Act and restore the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is a striking judgment for Caldwell , a sober and cultured ( the only conversation I can recall having with him was in 1992 , and it mostly regarded how to properly pronounce “ Nabokov ” ) analyst , to arrive at ; his career has been largely spent writing for the respectable right , such as the Financial Times , the late Weekly Standard , and The Wall Street Journal .
In contrast , I ’ ve never felt any regard for the long-gone Jim Crow era , which I ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ grotesque caste rules .

A couple of heavyweight conservative thinkers, Charles Murray and Christopher Caldwell, have important new books out this month: Murray’s upcoming Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class and Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.
Caldwell, a distinguished prose stylist, is immensely quotable…except for his new book’s name. I presume The Age of Entitlement is intended as a Voltairean pun on “the Age of Enlightenment” in the manner of his 2009 title Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West and its Burkean riff on Reflections on the Revolution in France. Unfortunately, the moniker The Age of Entitlement gives the vague impression that it’s going to be another snooze from the deep root-canal school of economics about the Social Security trust fund or whatever.
Instead, The Age of Entitlement is an explosive rethinking of history since JFK’s assassination that comes to the reactionary conclusion that the only salvation for American conservatism is to repeal the sainted 1964 Civil Rights Act and restore the constitutional right to freedom of association.
This is a striking judgment for Caldwell, a sober and cultured (the only conversation I can recall having with him was in 1992, and it mostly regarded how to properly pronounce “Nabokov”) analyst, to arrive at; his career has been largely spent writing for the respectable right, such as the Financial Times, the late Weekly Standard, and The Wall Street Journal.
In contrast, I’ve never felt any regard for the long-gone Jim Crow era, which I’ve always found almost Hindu-like in its grotesque caste rules.