vdare--2020-12-03--THANK YOU! 25% of our goal on day one. Help keep it up!

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I ’ m beyond grateful to everyone who stepped forward to kick off VDARE.com ’ s Year End Appeal !
It was a huge success on several levels : • None Host our first fully produced livestream from the VDARE ’ s Berkeley Springs Castle ?
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Due entirely to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with our goal and it ’ s only day 2 of a month long appeal .
That ’ s a real achievement !
Now we just have to keep up the momentum .
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We have a lot more in store for you during this Year End Appeal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ out this Friday – so stay tuned !
There is so much to celebrate this year : the 400th anniversary of Mayflower Compact , the finale of VDARE.com ’ s own 20th anniversary year , and the victory that the Berkeley Springs Castle represents against those who wish to silence patriotic voices in America .
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Click here to help us reach our year-end goal!
I’m beyond grateful to everyone who stepped forward to kick off VDARE.com’s Year End Appeal! It was a huge success on several levels:
Host our first fully produced livestream from the VDARE’s Berkeley Springs Castle? YES!
Tour the Castle by the magic of video, providing you with a long-awaited look into our grand new venue? YES!
Meeting our matching challenge and TWO stretch goals? YES YES YES!
Due entirely to your generosity we are 25% done with our goal and it’s only day 2 of a month long appeal. That’s a real achievement! Now we just have to keep up the momentum.
If you didn’t catch the stream last night, or you just can’t get enough of Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire brandishing swords in a historic stone castle in West Virginia, you can watch the recording of our livestream here.
We have a lot more in store for you during this Year End Appeal, including a very special announcement coming out this Friday – so stay tuned!
There is so much to celebrate this year: the 400th anniversary of Mayflower Compact, the finale of VDARE.com’s own 20th anniversary year, and the victory that the Berkeley Springs Castle represents against those who wish to silence patriotic voices in America.
But ultimately, this is about you, our readers, America’s patriots. VDARE.com may be the voice of the historic American nation, but we are only the voice. The community is the body. And we’re getting stronger every day.
Help us reach our final goal—let’s keep up this incredible momentum. Please give your most generous donation now!


vdare--2020-12-03--Turkish Birth Tourism Scheme Busted; “Long Island Men” Arrested

The fact that we have birthright citizenship at all is a `` scheme '' but these guys were so blatant about it that they got themselves busted .
Ibrahim Aksakal , Enes Cakiroglu , Sarah Kaplan , Fordalisa Marte , Edgar Rodriguez and a sixth unnamed defendant who has yet to be apprehended are charged with visa fraud , money laundering and health care fraud for allegedly ripping off Medicaid to the tune of $ 2.1 million .
“ The defendants cashed in on the desire for birthright citizenship , and the American taxpayer ultimately got stuck with the $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ US Attorney Seth DuCharme for the Eastern District of New York , who announced the unsealing of the indictment at a press conference .
“ American citizenship is not for sale , and our benefits programs are not piggy banks for criminals to plunder.
” More than 100 women paid $ 7,500 each to give birth in the US between 2017 and 2020 , according to the indictment out of Central Islip federal court .
LI men busted for ‘ birth tourism ’ scheme targeting Turkish women , by Reuven Fenton and Rebecca @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , 2020

The fact that we have birthright citizenship at all is a "scheme" but these guys were so blatant about it that they got themselves busted.
Ibrahim Aksakal, Enes Cakiroglu, Sarah Kaplan, Fordalisa Marte, Edgar Rodriguez and a sixth unnamed defendant who has yet to be apprehended are charged with visa fraud, money laundering and health care fraud for allegedly ripping off Medicaid to the tune of $2.1 million.
“The defendants cashed in on the desire for birthright citizenship, and the American taxpayer ultimately got stuck with the $2.1 million bill,” said Acting US Attorney Seth DuCharme for the Eastern District of New York, who announced the unsealing of the indictment at a press conference. “American citizenship is not for sale, and our benefits programs are not piggy banks for criminals to plunder.”
More than 100 women paid $7,500 each to give birth in the US between 2017 and 2020, according to the indictment out of Central Islip federal court.
LI men busted for ‘birth tourism’ scheme targeting Turkish women, by Reuven Fenton and Rebecca Rosenberg, NY Post, December 2, 2020


vdare--2020-12-03--The Vaccine Prioritization Plan

The Vaccine Prioritization Plan

Here ’ s the federal government ’ s plan for vaccine prioritization , which was approved 13-1 this week .
States have some authority to alter it , but most are expected to more or less go along with it .
Presumably , the vertical axis is Number Vaccinated : Wow , America has 21 million health care workers .
Health care is a huge fraction of the national GDP , so I guess that makes sense , but , still , wow .
I ’ m wondering how many of them , however , are back room data clerks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to interact with patients ?
Vaccinating doctors , nurses , orderlies , etc .
up front will serve as a vast Phase IV trial to see what turns up .
Having doctors go first is good propaganda .
Most people trust their own personal doctor , so him saying , “ I got my vaccination back on New Year ’ s Eve .
My wife , who is also a doctor , and I are going out for dinner and dancing on Valentine ’ s Day because we are now virtually immune .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ASAP , right ?
” So , the Case Fatality Rate for health care personnel has been about 0.4 % .
The Infection Fatality Rate would be lower , but probably not all that much lower because health care personnel get tested a lot .
Health care workers probably average , what , in their early to mid-40s in age , and tend to be skinnier and healthier than the public average .
If you get a case of COVID at the peak of a wave in your area and have to go @ @ @ @ @ @ @ able to breathe , you don ’ t want to find when you arrive that a huge percentage of the workers at the hospital aren ’ t there because they are sick or quarantining .
So , that ’ s a Case Fatality Rate of about 14 % in Long-Term Care Facilities .
Another presentation on the Monday meeting : If they could be confident of getting a steady 10 million extra doses per week in January , then they could inoculate 40 million in late December and have enough to re-inoculate on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ then they have to keep some of the doses in the deep freeze for the second round .
How severe are the reactions to the vaccine ?
Not inconsiderable .

Here’s the federal government’s plan for vaccine prioritization, which was approved 13-1 this week. States have some authority to alter it, but most are expected to more or less go along with it.
Presumably, the vertical axis is Number Vaccinated:
Proposed groups for Phase 1a vaccination Health care Personnel (HCP) (~21 million)
Wow, America has 21 million health care workers. Health care is a huge fraction of the national GDP, so I guess that makes sense, but, still, wow. I’m wondering how many of them, however, are back room data clerks and the like who have zero need to interact with patients?
Vaccinating doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. up front will serve as a vast Phase IV trial to see what turns up.
Having doctors go first is good propaganda. Most people trust their own personal doctor, so him saying, “I got my vaccination back on New Year’s Eve. My wife, who is also a doctor, and I are going out for dinner and dancing on Valentine’s Day because we are now virtually immune. So you’ll be getting vaccinated ASAP, right?”
Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) Residents (~3M) • Skilled nursing facilities (~1.3 M beds)
• Assisted living facilities (~0.8 M beds)
• Other residential care (~0.9 M beds) Summary of Work Group considerations supporting
vaccinating health care personnel in Phase 1a
 As of Nov 30, at least 243,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases among HCP, with 858
deaths
So, the Case Fatality Rate for health care personnel has been about 0.4%. The Infection Fatality Rate would be lower, but probably not all that much lower because health care personnel get tested a lot. Health care workers probably average, what, in their early to mid-40s in age, and tend to be skinnier and healthier than the public average.
 LTCF modeling demonstrates more cases and death averted at the facility by
vaccinating staff compared to vaccinating residents2
 COVID-19 exposure (inside and outside the healthcare setting) results in
absenteeism due to quarantine, infection and illness. Vaccination has the potential
to reduce HCP absenteeism
If you get a case of COVID at the peak of a wave in your area and have to go to the hospital due to not being able to breathe, you don’t want to find when you arrive that a huge percentage of the workers at the hospital aren’t there because they are sick or quarantining.
Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) residents and staff accounted for 6% of cases
and 40% of deaths in the U.S.1 (Nov 24, 2020)
– Skilled Nursing Facilities (~1.3M)
• ~496,000 confirmed + probable cases (as of Nov 15, 2020)2
• >69,000 deaths
So, that’s a Case Fatality Rate of about 14% in Long-Term Care Facilities.
Another presentation on the Monday meeting:
By the end of December, the number of doses available will be about 40 million,
enough to vaccinate 20 million people
– Anticipate 5-10 million doses per week post-authorization
If they could be confident of getting a steady 10 million extra doses per week in January, then they could inoculate 40 million in late December and have enough to re-inoculate on schedule in January. If not, then they have to keep some of the doses in the deep freeze for the second round.
How severe are the reactions to the vaccine? Not inconsiderable.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-03--Senate Passes Indian Green Card Giveaway—Will Trump Veto?

While the nation was focused on election challenges and Joe Biden ’ s cabinet announcements , the Senate unanimously passed one of the most destructive immigration bills in recent memory .
The deceptively-named Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act scraps country caps on migration and allows India to dominate our immigration system .
It ’ s estimated that over 90 percent of professional employment-based visas would go to Indians for the next 10 years under the bill .
The Act is heavily touted by the Indian lobby and Big Tech .
The bill ’ s chief champion was Utah Sen. Mike @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s passage by voice consent Wednesday .
The voice consent would have been halted if just one senator had opposed the bill .
The bill ’ s Senate passage has previously been blocked by various senators -- including Rand Paul , David Perdue , and most recently Rick Scott -- voicing concerns over the bill .
Scott was the last holdout and it was reported just a few months ago that he wouldn ’ t budge on his opposition , effectively dooming the bill ’ s chances .
Without a unanimous voice consent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be debated on the Senate floor .
Curiously , Lee did not want this .
But Sen. Scott was brought on board to support the bill -- in spite of the Indian lobby calling him a Klansman -- with new amendments .
These new amendments supposedly cap the number of H-1B visa holders who can obtain a green card every year and bar Chinese nationals with ties to the Communist Party from qualification for a permanent visa .
None of the immigration hawkish Senators voiced opposition .
Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz didn @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cotton and David Perdue publicly supported it .
It ’ s very odd that Perdue and Kelly Loeffler didn ’ t oppose it since they are desperately trying to convince Georgia conservatives to vote for them right now [ GOP , Democrats Allow Mike Lee ’ s Middle Class Replacement Bill to Pass Senate , by Neil Munro , Breitbart , December 2 , 2020 ] .
How are they serving the interests of the historic American nation when they fail to oppose its dispossession ?
The bill was passed by an overwhelming @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there ’ s likely nothing that will stop it from reaching President Trump ’ s desk .
Trump can still stop the bill with either an outright veto or a pocket veto .
A straight veto would send the bill back to Congress and possibly put some backbone into Republican opposition .
It ’ s likely the bill would have to go through the normal Senate process under a veto , effectively curbing it .
Trump could also just not sign it until the legislative sessions ends , which prevents its enactment under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump voters show up for the Georgia runoffs to stop the Democratic apocalypse .
But are Republicans really different if they ’ re passing the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act ?

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

Previously: Establishment Senator Rick Scott Dooms Indian Green Card Giveaway Bill
While the nation was focused on election challenges and Joe Biden’s cabinet announcements, the Senate unanimously passed one of the most destructive immigration bills in recent memory.
Breaking: Sen. Mike Lee has passed HR1044 w/Lee Amendments without any objections. pic.twitter.com/QchrXPicNp — U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) December 2, 2020
The deceptively-named Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act scraps country caps on migration and allows India to dominate our immigration system. It’s estimated that over 90 percent of professional employment-based visas would go to Indians for the next 10 years under the bill. The Act is heavily touted by the Indian lobby and Big Tech.
The bill’s chief champion was Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who announced the bill’s passage by voice consent Wednesday. The voice consent would have been halted if just one senator had opposed the bill. The bill’s Senate passage has previously been blocked by various senators--including Rand Paul, David Perdue, and most recently Rick Scott--voicing concerns over the bill.
Scott was the last holdout and it was reported just a few months ago that he wouldn’t budge on his opposition, effectively dooming the bill’s chances. Without a unanimous voice consent vote, the bill would have to be debated on the Senate floor. Curiously, Lee did not want this.
But Sen. Scott was brought on board to support the bill--in spite of the Indian lobby calling him a Klansman--with new amendments. These new amendments supposedly cap the number of H-1B visa holders who can obtain a green card every year and bar Chinese nationals with ties to the Communist Party from qualification for a permanent visa.
None of the immigration hawkish Senators voiced opposition. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz didn’t make a peep. Tom Cotton and David Perdue publicly supported it. It’s very odd that Perdue and Kelly Loeffler didn’t oppose it since they are desperately trying to convince Georgia conservatives to vote for them right now [GOP, Democrats Allow Mike Lee’s Middle Class Replacement Bill to Pass Senate, by Neil Munro, Breitbart, December 2, 2020]. How are they serving the interests of the historic American nation when they fail to oppose its dispossession?
The bill was passed by an overwhelming majority in the House last year and there’s likely nothing that will stop it from reaching President Trump’s desk. Trump can still stop the bill with either an outright veto or a pocket veto. A straight veto would send the bill back to Congress and possibly put some backbone into Republican opposition. It’s likely the bill would have to go through the normal Senate process under a veto, effectively curbing it. Trump could also just not sign it until the legislative sessions ends, which prevents its enactment under his watch.
The GOP demands ordinary Trump voters show up for the Georgia runoffs to stop the Democratic apocalypse. But are Republicans really different if they’re passing the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act?


vdare--2020-12-03--Facebook: White American Men Are Officially Whoms Not Whos

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From the Washington Post news section:
Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show
The company is overhauling its algorithms that detect hate speech and deprioritizing hateful comments against Whites, men and Americans.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku and Heather Kelly
Dec. 3, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EST
Facebook is embarking on a major overhaul of its algorithms that detect hate speech, according to internal documents, reversing years of so-called “race-blind” practices.
Those practices resulted in the company being more vigilant about removing slurs lobbed against White users while flagging and deleting innocuous posts by people of color on the platform.
The overhaul, which is known as the WoW Project and is in its early stages, involves re-engineering Facebook’s automated moderation systems to get better at detecting and automatically deleting hateful language that is considered “the worst of the worst,” according to internal documents describing the project obtained by The Washington Post. The “worst of the worst” includes slurs directed at Blacks, Muslims, people of more than one race, the LGBTQ community and Jews, according to the documents.
As one way to assess severity, Facebook assigned different types of attacks numerical scores weighted based on their perceived harm. For example, the company’s systems would now place a higher priority on automatically removing statements such as “Gay people are disgusting” than “Men are pigs.”
Facebook has long banned hate speech — defined as violent or dehumanizing speech — based on race, gender, sexuality and other protected characteristics. It owns Instagram and has the same hate speech policies there. But before the overhaul, the company’s algorithms and policies did not make a distinction between groups that were more likely to be targets of hate speech versus those that have not been historically marginalized. Comments like “White people are stupid” were treated the same as anti-Semitic or racist slurs.
In the first phase of the project, which was announced internally to a small group in October, engineers said they had changed the company’s systems to deprioritize policing contemptuous comments about “Whites,” “men” and “Americans.” Facebook still considers such attacks to be hate speech, and users can still report it to the company. However, the company’s technology now treats them as “low-sensitivity” — or less likely to be harmful — so that they are no longer automatically deleted by the company’s algorithms. That means roughly 10,000 fewer posts are now being deleted each day, according to the documents.
The shift is a response to a racial reckoning within the company as well as years of criticism from civil rights advocates that content from Black users is disproportionately removed, particularly when they use the platform to describe experiences of discrimination.
Some civil rights advocates said the change was overdue.
“To me this is confirmation of what we’ve been demanding for years, an enforcement regime that takes power and historical dynamics into account,” said Arisha Hatch, vice president at the civil rights group Color of Change, who reviewed the documents on behalf of The Post but said she did not know about the changes.
“We know that hate speech targeted towards underrepresented groups can be the most harmful, which is why we have focused our technology on finding the hate speech that users and experts tell us is the most serious,” said Facebook spokeswoman Sally Aldous. “Over the past year, we’ve also updated our policies to catch more implicit hate speech, such as content depicting Blackface, stereotypes about Jewish people controlling the world, and banned Holocaust denial.”
Because describing experiences of discrimination can involve critiquing White people, Facebook’s algorithms often automatically removed that content, demonstrating the ways in which even advanced artificial intelligence can be overzealous in tackling nuanced topics.
A white man called her kids the n-word. Facebook stopped her from sharing it.
“We can’t combat systemic racism if we can’t talk about it, and challenging white supremacy and White men is an important part of having dialogue about racism,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor specializing in free speech at Boston University Law School, who also reviewed the documents. “But you can’t have the conversation if it is being filtered out, bizarrely, by overly blunt hate speech algorithms.”
In addition to deleting comments protesting racism, Facebook’s approach has at times resulted in a stark contrast between its automated takedowns and users’ actual reports about hate speech. At the height of the nationwide protests in June over the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, for example, the top three derogatory terms Facebook’s automated systems removed were “white trash,” a gay slur and “cracker,” according to an internal chart obtained by The Post and first reported by NBC News in July.


vdare--2020-12-04--Leftist Vigilante Alex Kotch Is Back—Still Spying On Us, And Still Denying Hispanic Child Rape

Earlier, by James Fulford: Yes, Virginia (DARE), There IS Hispanic “Ethnic Specialization” In Child Rape. The Totalitarian Left Just Doesn’t Want You To Know.
Rape-denier and Leftist vigilante Alex Kotch [Tweet him] Is back with his attempt to stop Dissident Right groups being funded:
At a 2017 conference hosted by the white nationalist hate group American Renaissance, Peter Brimelow, spoke about President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. “Crime in this country is ethnically variegated,” claimed Brimelow, president of the white nationalist hate group the VDARE Foundation. “There’s ethnic specialization in crime. And Hispanics do specialize in rape, particularly of children. They’re very prone to it, compared to other groups.” Blatantly racist statements like these are commonplace for Brimelow and for Jared Taylor, president of American Renaissance, two of the most notorious white nationalist leaders in the United States. “Dark Money ATM of the Conservative Movement” Gives $1.5 Million to White Nationalist Hate Group, by Alex Kotch, Exposedbycmd.org, December 4th, 2020 [Emphases added. links to SPLC in original.]
Here he is being outraged on Twitter about laws protecting donor privacy:
The reason: invoking (or evoking, Kotch seems unclear) the NAACP is bad is because they're merely BLACK Nationalists, and partake of the sacredness of the Civil Rights cause of forty or fifty years ago. The decision NAACP v. Patterson, 357 U.S. 449 (1958) (it says 1968 above, but that's because CEO Bader was speaking from memory—they fixed it on the ExposedByCMD website) said, briefly that "To require disclosure of an association's membership lists, a state must have a compelling justification for this infringement on the right of free association."
This is because, at the time, Alabama had a white government, which might discriminate in some way against black donors, or pro-black white donors. Also white-owned businesses in Alabama might use lists of donors to refuse to provide service in some way.
SCOTUS thought that was wrong. But since the Constitution is color-blind, whites have, believe it or not, the same Constitutional rights blacks had under the Jim Crow South...and less chance of enforcing them, most of the time.
But what's really annoying about this article is that it's repeating the quote from Peter Brimelow (from Q and A at the 2017 Amren Conference) about ethnic specialization in crime, with Hispanics committing more child rape, without acknowledging THAT IT'S TRUE.
I wrote a lengthy article in March, 2019, responding to a previous Kotch attack, called Yes, Virginia (DARE), There IS Hispanic “Ethnic Specialization” In Child Rape. The Totalitarian Left Just Doesn’t Want You To Know. Typically, he doesn't engage with, or link to, any of it.
Below, some excerpts from my 2019 piece:
But is it true that Hispanics specialize in the rapes of children? OF COURSE IT IS—and if you read Ann Coulter's Adios America, you know that, too. In fact, Chapter 11 is titled Why Do Hispanic Valedictorians Make The News, But Child Rapists Don’t? First of all, it’s a different culture in Mexico, where the age of consent is 12.
In 2007, Brenda Walker wrote a column here called The Top Ten Reasons Why the US Should Not Marry Mexico.
Ann Coulter detailed, among other things, the astoundingly young pregnancies found in the Hispanic community in the US, and in Latin America. This is an “ethnic specialization” thing—this is a public health problem South of the Border, and now north of it as well.
Quote from Adios America, chapter 11:
I also had a list of headlines, which I'll excerpt:


vdare--2020-12-04--A Reader Says That Demographics Will Continue To Be Destiny Even If Hispanics DO Vote Republican

Re: Giving Tuesday Was A Great Success: Raised Over $20K, Which Will Be DOUBLED By Matching Grant
From: Intellectual Embargo [Email him]
In VDARE.com's first DLive stream at the beautiful castle in Berkeley Springs, John Derbyshire brought up the increasingly popular talking point, "Demographics must not be destiny, Trump won with more non-whites than Mitt Romney!" Or in other words, Trump lost non-whites, but didn't lose them quite as badly as Romney did. Mr. Derbyshire and Mr. Brimelow didn't have time to get into this topic deeply during the stream, though it is a critical topic. Something that gets left unsaid, in response to this flimsy criticism, is that the real topic we are trying to understand the heritability of political views.
The heritability of views is something often understood implicitly. We know value and moral statements are judged in physical brain structures. And we know brains are biological organs created in accord with the organism's genetics. We know we don't all have the same genetics or identical brains. With all these facts accounted for, some heritability of political views within groups becomes quite an obvious conclusion.
When we review the scientific data on the topic we find that political views are heritable, and that views on specific issues, like immigration, are much more heritable than complex and more ephemeral topics like what political party or "wing" that person supports.
The paper "Genetic Influences on Political Ideologies: Twin Analyses of 19 Measures of Political Ideologies from Five Democracies and Genome-Wide Findings from Three Populations" published in 2014 in the journal Behavior Genetics looked at studies that included over 12,000 twin pairs. In the discussion section they write ". . . the phrase ‘‘Left–Right’’ appears highly subject to local and cultural definitions and may indicate group identification more than ideological position." They go on to say "The finding that the environment accounts for nearly all the variation on measures which use the phrase ‘‘Left–Right’’ is similar to explorations of party identification in the US during the 1980s and 1990s, which find that ideology is heritable, but party identification is not"
That is a critical fact. Party identification and if someone considers themselves "left" or "right" is highly complex and not nearly as heritable as, for example, your view on feminism). So while someone online might be quick to say something like "Hispanics will never vote Republican, because of racial conflict with whites" they're going down a dangerous path that one day they might get proved wrong on. In fact, one of the things that could get Hispanics to vote Republican is, ironically, racial conflict. If the "Black Lives Matter" movement continues to get large support from the Democrats, Hispanics whose living situation puts them in conflict with blacks more often than whites might find Democrats increasingly unpalatable, and may become open to voting Republican.
None of this is to say that we should hope that non-white races feud enough to push some of them to “our” side, because that could put additional pressure to usurp what little power we have on our own side. Consider this when Hispanics are much more against gun rights than whites, and less interested in free speech and more enthusiastic about hate speech laws than whites, if they were to start voting Republican in large numbers, what might that mean to elected Republicans who need to prove to their brand new constituents that they're worth supporting in the election cycle? Maybe a hate speech law that protects Hispanics. Might want to pump the brakes on those gun rights, but a new welfare program is almost always appreciated.
So while we could say "C'mon, they'll never vote with us," the reality is they simply aren't us. Even if they did vote with us, that would just move conflict from between parties to within parties. That's why we shouldn't plant our flag in the ground on party politics—our differences run so much deeper. Voting differences, or the lack there of, simply don't even begin approach the true meaning of "demographics is destiny."
I've also addressed this issue on my YouTube channel before the election took place:


vdare--2020-12-04--Either Kushnerism Worked For Trump In NYC...Or New Yorkers  Voted Against DeBlasio's BLM Riots

Fact: New York City swung towards Trump by 7.6 points between '16 and '20, far more than any state in the nation.
The rest of the state swung against Trump by 5.1 points. — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 3, 2020
The story is pretty clear in NYC: Biden gained ground among whites, Trump gained ground among minorities. Pro-Trump swing by borough, '16-'20:
1. Bronx +11.8
2. Queens +8.6
3. Brooklyn +7.6
4. Manhattan +3.0
5. Staten Island -0.2 — Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) December 3, 2020
I wonder how many Bronx and Queens residents voted for both Trump and AOC to make the statement: “I like my politicians LOUD!”
I’d presume these shifts in part were anti-De Blasio, who presided over / egged on a huge increase since Memorial Day in looting and shooting. On the other hand, so did Minnesota, but the dweebs of the Gopher State swung toward the Democrats.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-12-03--A Military Reader Reminds Us That Americans Have Been Self-Governing Since The MAYFLOWER...And We Ne

A Military Reader Reminds Us That Americans Have Been Self-Governing Since The MAYFLOWER...And We Need To Stay That Way!

Re: Lydia Brimelow's Introducing VDARE’s 1620 Society
From: Spirit Of The Fighting 69th [Email him]
I was pleased to see Ann Coulter quote Francis Parkman on the habits of the American Indian in her Thanksgiving essay, “Have a Historically Accurate Thanksgiving!” Parkman’s multi-volume history of the French & Indian Wars, France and England in North America is the most comprehensive work on the subject; magnificent as history and literature, its eloquence and accuracy infuriate the left.
Director Bruce Beresford’s majestic film, Black Robe depicting a fictional Jesuit mission to the Huron in 17th century French Canada draws heavily from Parkman’s The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century. Filmed in Canada as the seasons changed it is a masterpiece of nature photography as well. Adding interest was Beresford’s casting actual Indians, notably August Schellenberg as Chomina, the mission’s Algonquin guide.
The film does not shrink from showing Indian barbarism. In an early scene a middle-aged French priest is saying Mass, his middle two fingers cut off by the Indians he still desires to return to New France to bring the word of Christ. As he prepares to depart the young priest’s mother says, “I do not think I shall ever see you again.” In a later scene when the party has been captured by Iroquois who plan to murder them, the young priest has a finger joint cut off with a clamshell by an Iroquois, yet does not flinch, singing to show his imperviousness to pain. After escaping, the priest says to Chomina, “But you’re not like that” and Chomina replies, “Yes we are,” knowing the savage lurking within.
But to return to Thanksgiving, Coulter inspired me to search my shelves and pull down Governor William Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647 his history of the Plymouth colony’s struggle for existence in a land as teeming with game as it was with danger. In writing of their struggle over famine the first Thanksgiving, surprisingly, rates only one small paragraph a portion of which follows:
....And besides waterfowl there was a great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc....many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, where were not feigned but true reports.”
One of those letters, by Edward Winslow, along with describing the feast recalls their Indian guests:
...amongst the rest [of the Indians] their greatest king, Massasoit [King of the Wampanoags] with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted. And they went out and killed five deer which they brought to the plantation and bestowed on our Governor and upon the Captain and others.” [PDF]
No account of Thanksgiving would be complete without our old friend Squanto, who legend has it, taught them how to plant corn. Squanto, his tribe having been wiped out by disease three years before the Pilgrims landed, spent the rest of his life with them. Squanto, however, was not above pulling a fast one on other Indians. When he tried it on Massasoit, a livid Massasoit wanted to wring his neck, but another incident arose, Squanto narrowly escaping “Indian justice”. It will be a shock to the left to learn that Indians too were protected by English law as when the Pilgrims hanged three Englishmen for murdering an Indian. When researching my thesis I came across other instances of Indians protected by law in the Massachusetts Bay Colony records. The Pilgrims would remain at peace with the Wampanoags until the unfortunate incidents that led to King Philip’s War in 1675, but that is another story.
Reflecting on Thanksgiving, Americans need to remember that this country was self-governing from the start, that by Independence Americans had been governing themselves for a century and a half. With the accession of Biden and his statist comrades, we just might lose that inheritance.
Because of this, I have just donated once again to both VDARE.com in general, and to VDARE.com's Legal Defense Fund.
See earlier letters from the same reader.


vdare--2020-12-04--It Was Never Stolen Land, It Was Bought And Paid For. Now The Indians Are Trying To Renege.

On Twitter, Chris Rufo reports on the latest anti-white brainwashing, in San Diego, which tells participants that they're living on stolen native land.
The training begins with a "land acknowledgement," in which the teachers are asked to accept that they are colonizers living on stolen Native American land. Then they are told they will experience "guilt, anger, apathy, [and] closed-mindedness" because of their "white fragility."
Here's a screenshot of the material used: If you're wondering who the Kumeyaay are, they're California Indians who used to be called Kamia or Diegueños, and live near the California-Mexican border, where they're fighting against the Wall. Physically fighting, by the way, in breach of whatever peace treaty exists [Trump’s Border Wall Construction Disrupted by Kumeyaay, O’odham Land Defenders, by Maia Wikler, Teen Vogue, October 29, 2020]. I've been at public events where they do these "land acknowledgements," and it always annoyed me. In a 2017 blog post on the idea of "stolen land," Walter Olson of Overlawyered.com quoted "the leading 20th Century scholar of Indian law, Felix S. Cohen, architect of the “Indian New Deal” and one of the most progressive law professors and FDR appointees of his era: Fortunately for the security of American real estate titles, the business of securing cessions of Indian titles has been, on the whole, conscientiously pursued by the Federal Government, as long as there has been a Federal Government. The notion that America was stolen from the Indians is one of the myths by which we Americans are prone to hide our real virtues and make our idealism look as hard-boiled as possible. We are probably the one great nation in the world that has consistently sought to deal with an aboriginal population on fair and equitable terms. We have not always succeeded in this effort but our deviations have not been typical. It is, in fact, difficult to understand the decisions on Indian title or to appreciate their scope and their limitations if one views the history of American land settlement as a history of wholesale robbery." [Emphases added.] The quotation is from The quotation is from The Legal Conscience: Selected Papers Of Felix S Cohen ,1960.
That was all that Olson bothered to quote from in 2017, but I'll throw in some more:
I. HOW WE BOUGHT THE UNITED STATES Every American schoolboy is taught to believe that the lands of the United States were acquired by purchase or treaty from Britain, Spain, France, Mexico, and Russia, and that for all the continental lands so purchased we paid about 50 million dollars out of the Federal Treasury. Most of us believe this story as unquestioningly as we believe in electricity or corporations. We have seen little maps of the United States in our history books and big maps in our geography books showing the vast area that Napoleon sold us in 1803 for 15 million dollars and the various other cessions that make up the story of our national expansion. As for the original Indian owners of the continent, the common impression is that we took the land from them by force and proceeded to lock them up in concentration camps called "reservations." Notwithstanding this prevailing mythology, the historic fact is that practically all of the real estate acquired by the United States since 1776 was purchased not from Napoleon or any other emperor or czar but from its original Indian owners.
Cohen wrote this up originally for Colliers in 1946, available via Unz.com, and see also Olson's 2012 Cato post ‘Do Indians Rightfully Own America?’ ("The short answer to the question 'Do Indians Rightfully Own America' is, 'No, they don’t.'") and more here.
It was never stolen land, it was bought and paid for. (And built on!) What's happening is that Indians, since the Civil Rights Era, have been egged on by white-hating "anti-racists" to try and renege.
We had a name for that when I was younger. We called it being an "Indian Giver."


vdare--2020-12-03--Flynn Just The Start—Trump Can Hit Back At The Ruling Class By Pardoning Pardon Stockman, Snowden, A

Flynn Just The Start—Trump Can Hit Back At The Ruling Class By Pardoning Pardon Stockman, Snowden, And Assange

President Donald Trump’s pardon of General Michael Flynn was long overdue, but that should be just the beginning. Three other dissidents languish in prison for no other reason than the enmity of the Deep State:
Congressman SSteve Stockman, a conservative hero who was relentlessly prosecuted by the Obama Administration for revealing the Regime’s arbitrary attacks on conservative organizations;
Edward Snowden and
Julian Assange are what journalists are supposed to be, those who challenge the power structure rather than defend it.
If President Trump is to be driven out of power by the relentlessly pro-war Ruling Class, he should take it down with him. He is still President of the United States. It’s not time to tweet, it’s time to act.
Congressman Steve Stockman is in prison for alleged fundraising irregularities in a case that hinged upon technicalities and process crimes—very much like General Flynn. It was a classic case of inventing the crime to fit the man, rather than arresting a man for committing a crime. Richard Viguerie, L. Brent Bozell III and other conservative leaders said that the prosecution inappropriately applied the law and never proved any attempt to defraud. Indeed, the people Stockman supposedly defrauded never filed complaints, and it took the fourth grand jury to even get an indictment. That jury was also given misleading instructions [Conservative Nonprofit Leaders Urge SCOTUS to Hear Case of Wrongly Imprisoned Former Congressman, by Rachel Alexander, Townhall, August 17, 2020].
These conservative leaders recognize the significance of why the outgoing Obama Administration targeted Stockman. He had called for the arrest of Lois Lerner after it was exposed that the Obama Administration had used the IRS in a discriminatory manner against conservative nonprofits. It was that very month the investigation against Stockman began [Congressman Stockman’s Case Is A Dark Omen Of Political Repression To Come, by Patti Stockman, Daily Caller, August 19, 2019].
Why did they do it? The Obama Administration wanted to find a way to have the federal government shut down conservative foundations without openly repealing the First Amendment. The Harris/Biden Administration will doubtless take up the same jihad and a shaky Supreme Court will be the last line of defense.
Needless to say, when Richard Nixon allegedly attempted to do this, the same journalists who cheer repression against conservatives were scandalized.
President Trump did act in a similar case when he pardoned Dinesh D’Souza after what Senator Ted Cruz called a politically driven investigation by the Obama Administration [Dinesh D’Souza: Why did Trump pardon the provocateur, by Anthony Zurcher, BBC, May 31, 2018]. Does Stockman not deserve the same mercy?
The treatment of Stockman for process crimes is especially galling considering what has happened (or, rather, hasn’t) to prominent Left-Wing figures accused of financial improprieties. These include:
And of course, there was the murky tale of whether Hunter Biden exploited his father’s influence to secure positions overseas, something even the Obama State Department worried about [Hunter Biden: What was he doing in Ukraine and China, BBC, October 30, 2020]. Determined not to allow a repeat of the 2016 election, journalists en masse refused to cover that story, displaying that coordinated behavior Joe Sobran called typical of “The Hive” [The Hive, Sobran’s, June 1999]
None of this should be surprising except to the most naïve. America is already a Third World country. We do not have “Equality Before The Law.” The law simply doesn’t apply to some people. President Donald Trump is right that we don’t have freedom of the press, but a media class that suppresses news and speaks power to truth [Trump: ‘We Don’t Have Freedom Of The Press In This Country–We Have Suppression By The Press,’ by Jeff Poor, Breitbart, November 29, 2020]. What better way to strike a blow against them by freeing someone who is in jail today because he was trying to expose what the Main Stream Media didn’t want covered?
This is also a literally life or death issue. Because of COVID-19, many prisoners around the country are now being freed because they are at high risk of infection:
Yet Steve Stockman must remain locked up? The fact that Stockman is not being released despite having several comorbidities and being held in a dangerous environment suggests that Richard Viguerie is not exaggerating when he claims that someone “at the top” wants Stockman dead [Who In Washington Wants Steve Stockman Dead? ‘Someone at the Top,’ ConservativeHQ, July 20, 2020].
If President Trump can give violent criminals a second chance, surely he can spare compassion for one of his most devoted and endangered supporters. The best way to respond to charges of “fascism” would be with an act of mercy.
This also applies to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange. President Trump has not fully broken with neoconservatives. The recent assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, almost certainly with American foreknowledge if not involvement, shows President Trump is still firmly committed to the anti-Iranian foreign policy line. It was also President Trump who ordered the strike on Qasem Soleimani. The Trump Administration has, if anything, taken a far more militant stance against Russia than the Obama Administration. It has already led to unnecessary confrontations with the Russians for unknown purposes. None of this did him any good with the military and foreign policy establishment.
President Trump has come under extraordinary criticism from within his own administration. The so-called “Mad Dog” General James Mattis, President Trump’s first Defense Secretary, has sided with Black Lives Matter while he agitates for America’s forever war in Afghanistan [Mattis gives views on Afghanistan, by Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, December 14, 2019]. Trump’s own State Department openly defies him while it tries to push BLM in, of all places, South Korea [U.S. Embassy In South Korea Removes Its Black Lives Matter Banner, by Laurel Wamsley, NPR, June 15, 2020]. “Our” State Department pushes regime change on American allies like Hungary. Whatever side America’s diplomatic and military leaders are fighting for, it’s not America’s. And even though President Trump has mostly gone along with their agenda, they still hate him.
Why go along with this?
While American journalists fret about bigoted rocks, why calling Beethoven by his last name is racist, and the eternal crises surrounding black women’s hair, we should also remember two men who actually did what journalists claim to do. Edward Snowden revealed the extent of “our” government’s surveillance on its own people [Edward Snowden Says He’s Applying For Russian Citizenship, by Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, November 2, 2020]. Julian Assange revealed the breathtaking espionage programs the Regime on the Potomac has unleashed against the entire world, all in service to a foreign policy based on perpetual and nihilistic wars [Wikileaks ‘Cablegate’ 10 years on: An unvarnished look at US foreign policy, DW, November 28, 2020].
The best way President Trump can destroy the foreign policy establishment that hates him so much is to pardon both Snowden and Assange [Trump’s Ace: Win or lose He Can Still Devastate the Deep State With Three Perfectly-Timed Moves, Revolver, November 30, 2020].
President Trump’s presidency was successful in revealing the nature of the system that rules us. Unfortunately, he either can’t or won’t prevent the system from controlling him too. As he continues to contest the election results, Donald Trump should remember that for another few weeks, he is still the Commander-in-Chief.
True power lies not in showing cruelty but displaying mercy. Pardons for Steve Stockman, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange are the right things to do. They would also show that Donald Trump on the side of the people that the Regime on the Potomac hates most—the Historic American Nation. If Donald Trump (or one of his biological or political heirs) seeks to recapture the Oval Office, these pardons are a necessary step.
If populism is defined by opposition to a corrupt elite, President Trump should reclaim the mantle by using the power he has left by saving the lives of three men threatened by an evil system that wants us dead too.


vdare--2020-12-05--Castling With VDARE.com,  Senate Visa Giveaway, COVID Hypocrisy, And Students Cancel "Black", Etc.

01m40s VDARE's folly. (To the castle!)
07m50s VDARE.com up close. (The Dissident Right is in good hands.)
13m39s U.S. Senate to U.S. citizens: Drop dead. (Trump can still act.)
22m45s COVID hypocrisy and absolutism. (Where is the point of balance?)
30m19s Pushing back against hysteria. (No armor against fate.)
35m24s Harvard's new hire. (Hey! This anti-racist library!)
36m57s Students cancel "black." (Decolonializing language.)
38m10s Goodbye Ellen, hello Elliot. (But it's not always woke or crazy.)
40m58s An unfortunate first name … (Will Namibia invade Poland?)
42m31s … and an unfortunate last one. (Greatest what?)
44m34s Signoff. (From West Virginia.)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your melodiously genial host John Derbyshire, here with another edition of Radio Derb—where the wise, the good, and the fair go to get their news.
There's somewhat of a personal dimension to this edition. This week I finally paid a visit to VDARE.com's castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. The occasion was VDARE's Giving Tuesday, when Peter Brimelow and I, on video, opine about current events, ask for donations, and drink the liquors of our choice: Peter, Texas vodka (yes, there really is such a thing) and me, Old Crow bourbon. The entire video is up on the site, and also on BitChute.
So forgive me if I give over my first couple of segments here to the castle, and to VDARE.
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02—VDARE's folly. Yes, it really is a castle: built from great blocks of rough-cut stone mortared together, with a tower, battlements, and even a dungeon.
Berkeley Castle is in fact what in England we call a folly. The Oxford English Dictionary gives this definition, quote:
A popular name for any costly structure considered to have shown folly in the builder.
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With all proper respect to the editors of the OED, I don't think that's quite right. The folly is not the builder's; it belongs to the person who hired the builder. And it's not "folly" in the sense of foolishness or stupidity; it's more like whimsicality or eccentricity. To call some structure a folly isn't necessarily disparaging. In England we mostly like our follies.
The person who hired the builder of Berkeley Castle was a late 19th-century grandee of business and politics named Samuel Taylor Suit, who, I quote from the official history at the U.S. Census Bureau website, quote: "made his fortune from marketing whiskey in little brown jugs," end quote. Hey, there are worse ways to make a fortune.
That was in Kentucky, a state that awards the title "Colonel" to persons who have distinguished themselves in some way, not necessarily military. The title is in the gift of the Governor. Running a distillery is distinction enough to be a Kentucky Colonel. Mr Suit got the title and liked to be known as Colonel Suit.
Well, Col. Suit went into politics. He bought an estate in Maryland, just east of Washington, D.C., and enjoyed a life of wealth and influence through the 1870s. He was Ambassador to Britain for a spell. That estate is today the town of Suitland, named after him.
At some point in his late forties—so this is the last year or two of the 1870s—Col. Suit fell in love with Rosa Pelham, daughter of an Alabama congressman. She was 29 years his junior, so it took some persuading before she agreed to marry him. One of her conditions was, that he should build her a castle. The couple married in 1883; work on the castle began in 1885. Col. Suit died before it was finished in 1895.
Rosa went on living in the castle. Beautiful and spirited, she was also a high-maintenance lady, but unfortunately did not excel at financial management. The castle had to be sold in 1913. It had a number of owners and served a number of purposes until VDARE.com bought it in February this year.
There is a footnote to the history of Berkeley Castle. It's thought, although nobody seems to know for sure, that the West Virginia Berkeley Castle was designed as a scaled-down version of Berkeley Castle in England. That one is not a folly: It's a real castle, built in the 11th century after the Norman Conquest, as a place from which the Normans could keep an eye on the unruly English.
The thing every student of English history knows about that original Berkeley Castle is that it was where King Edward the Second was imprisoned and then murdered back in the fourteenth century, after having been deposed by his wife and her boyfriend.
The method of murder was exceptionally cruel, much too gruesome to be related on a family podcast. The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe included it in his play about Edward, Act Five, Scene Five, but in a way that gives the play's producer latitude to be more or less graphic. One 20th-century production was so graphic it inspired a witty reviewer to say of the murder scene that, quote: "It will keep you glued to your seat." End quote.
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03—VDARE.com up close. Well, now the Berkeley Castle in West Virginia belongs to VDARE.com, for whom I do these weekly podcasts. Peter and Lydia Brimelow have moved in and spend most of their time there with their three delightful little girls. They have the place set up pretty nicely, and I greatly enjoyed their hospitality Monday through Wednesday this week.
I don't say much about VDARE.com the organization here at Radio Derb, because I'm generally too busy opinionating about the news of the day. Let me just rectify the omission here.
The political faction that has my loyalty, what I call the Dissident Right, is conservative, in the sense of being wary of ambitious social changes, and nationalist, in the sense of believing that American policies, both domestic and foreign, should be designed and executed for the benefit of American citizens at large, not for the benefit of foreigners (who have their own governments to take care of their interests), nor for the benefit of small self-serving cliques of the wealthy and powerful, unless their interests also benefit the general.
So we are National Conservatives—a good alternate name, if you don't like Dissident Right.
Of course the definitions there need qualification and elaboration. Some social changes are good and desirable, especially when the society has been headed off in a wrong direction for a while. Sometimes what's good for a foreign nation is good for ours, too, as in the case of trade sensibly conducted. That's all open for discussion; but we define ourselves by those broad temperamental inclinations: conservative and nationalist.
The house of the Dissident Right, like the House of the Lord, has many mansions, of which VDARE.com is one. I don't think it's vainglorious of me to say that we are the most substantial and effective of those mansions, with high standards of literacy and accuracy in our editing and strong consistency in our views, now stretching back over twenty years of robust advocacy. It seems to me very appropriate that VDARE.com has found its home at last in a castle.
And I must say, seeing the energy and patriotic spirit of Peter, Lydia, and their crew up close this week, it's been a great dispeller of gloom. I left home on Monday hovering on the edge of despair at all the absurd over-reaction to the coronavirus and the farcical shambles of our recent election.
And that was just when I left home. As is happens, the Atlantic states on Monday afternoon suffered the mother of all rainstorms. Imagine your genial host hunched over his steering wheel for a couple of hundred miles, desperately concentrating on the tail-lights of the vehicle in front. Then Interstate 78 was closed down in Pennsylvania because of an accident. The interstate traffic—myself, along with an infinity of thirty-foot trailers shipping for Amazon.com, Walmart, and every other retail outlet—all that heavy traffic was shunted off along two-lane roads, crawling through Eastern Pennsylvania at five miles an hour. I lost the will to live somewhere between Reading and Lancaster.
When I finally reached the castle in late evening, I was a broken man. Peter and Lydia soon revived me. I got a good night's sleep, spent Tuesday setting up the video and learning about the castle, and by the time I left on Wednesday I had a whole new outlook on things.
With VDARE.com, with Peter and Lydia and their helpers, the Dissident Right is in very good hands. It's a privilege and a pleasure to work with these hospitable, smart, enterprising, busy people at keeping the U.S.A. on the rails.
My country, right or wrong.
If right, to keep her right;
If wrong, to put her right!
Onward and upward with VDARE!
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04—U.S. Senate to U.S. citizens: Drop dead. Outrage of the week was surely Utah Senator Mike Lee getting his S.386 bill through the U.S. Senate. S.386 means a massive loosening of the rules for foreign workers to take up white-collar jobs in the U.S.A.
Lee didn't have to break much of a sweat to get his bill passed. He used a Senate rule called "Unanimous Consent," which allows the chamber to pass legislation with no hearings or debate, so long as no Senator objects. No Senator did, not one.
One of my themes about immigration, which I've been airing for at least seventeen years, is that it's really really hard to get people to think about immigration. It's a slow, silent process, working away invisibly in the background of our national life. There's always something more urgent, more dramatic, for politicians to make speeches about. Immigration policy is the classic case of frog-boiling.
The immigration boosters—which nowadays means Big Tech, Big Agriculture, the Fortune 500, and the Chamber of Commerce, with a small and dwindling support chorus of old-style immigration romantics singing about Ellis Island and Famine Ships—the immigration boosters know how reluctant people are to think about immigration. They like that reluctance, so they make us more reluctant by adding yards and yards of fine print to the immigration rules: wrinkles, curlicues, escape hatches, specialty clauses. You need a Ph.D. level of knowledge to master it all.
I've been through the immigration system myself, twice, and I've been writing about it for twenty years; yet still today, when I'm reading some news story about the issue, I get caught by some acronym or piece of jargon I never saw before.
Just to illustrate that point, here are three short paragraphs from an article by Neil Munro at Breitbart.com, December 3rd. Neil's writing mainly about displacement of blue-collar workers here, but the level of jargon is the same for white-collar workers. Quote:
The CEOs are allowed to get green cards for roughly 11,000 blue-collar workers each year via the "Fourth Preference" category of the EB process. The 2018 data showed a work-and-wait workforce of just 737 non-college workers. But the 2020 data shows a work-and-wait population of 7,000 non-college workers.
Many blue-collar industries are using the green card workforce to hire in compliant cheap foreigners—and exclude ambitious, disabled, or uncooperative Americans—from jobs such as truck driving, meatpacking, dairy and farming, landscaping, cooking, cleaning, fast food, and home health aide.
Also, the blue-collar work-and-wait population is rising because roughly 50,000 migrants from Latin America have persuaded state judges to provide them with Special Immigrant Juvenile (SIJ) status. That is a huge jump from 19,000 in early 2018. These SIJ migrants get their green cards from the fourth category slice of EB green cards, usually with employers' approval. [CEOs Balloon Captive "Green Card Workforce" in U.S. Jobs by Neil Munro; Breitbart.com, December 3rd 2020.]
End quote.
Let me go through the jargon there. "EB" stands for "Employment-Based." That's a category of Green Cards for permanent residence in the U.S.A.
You can get permanent residence all sorts of ways—for example, by being related to a U.S. citizen. Each way of getting permanent residence is graded into preference categories; for example, in the case of family relationships, by how closely related you are to that citizen. For Employment-Based Green Cards there are five preference levels.
Hoo-kay; so what's "work and wait"? Well, while you're waiting for your Fourth Preference Employment-Based Green Card—and you could be waiting a few years—you can be working here on a guest-worker visa, like the famous H-1B.
So far so good; but then my eye got stuck on SIJ, the Special Immigrant Juvenile status. What the heck is that? All these years reading and writing about immigration, I never heard of an SIJ.
Five'll get ya ten not one U.S. Senator could explain Special Immigrant Juvenile status to you. There are likely about fifteen people in Washington, D.C. who could explain it; and every one of them is an immigration lawyer trying to game the system on behalf of some Fortune 500 client.
(Translation of the phrase "gaming the system": replacing some American worker with a cheaper foreign one.)
That's our immigration system. That's what it's like: a vast tangled knot of laws, regulations, rules, executive orders, and court rulings. If Americans at large knew it in all its cold cash-racketeering dishonesty, there would be massive nationwide indignation.
They don't, though. They have too many other things to worry about—too many to permit them to take a couple of years off to study the difference between EB and SIJ. Our legislators, or at any rate their staffs, should do the studying for us; but they are all bought and paid for by the employer lobbies and AILA … Sorry: That's A-I-L-A, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, whose members go to bed hungry very, very rarely.
There needs to be a great simplification. Someone needs to march into the Temple and overturn the tables of the money-changers. We thought Donald Trump might be the person, but he wasn't up to it.
Still, Trump can even now do the nation a service to stop the immigration system being even more of an assault on middle-class citizens than it currently is. He can veto S.386 when it comes to his desk; or, if the congresscritters try to slip it into some other funding bill, he can veto that bill, no matter what it is. We urge him to do so.
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05—Hypocrisy and absolutism. I mentioned the coronavirus back there, and what I called "the absurd over-reaction" to it. Let me enlarge on that.
You all know about the reaction, whether or not you agree with me that it's been an over-reaction. You know about the lockdowns and quarantines, the shuttering of restaurants, bars, and gyms. You've probably seen some of the protests against it all, like the big one in New York City's Staten Island midweek.
You've also seen the hypocrisy of our ruling class on flagrant display:
Nancy Pelosi getting her hair done, maskless, at a salon that was supposed to be closed.
Gavin Newsom, Governor of California, maskless, attending a birthday party at a pricey restaurant.
Michael Hancock, Mayor of Denver, the day before Thanksgiving gave a public address to the people of that city urging them to stay home and greet family by Zoom for the holiday. Less than an hour later, he got on a plane and flew to Mississippi to spend the holiday with his wife and daughter, presumably maskless.
Lori Lightfoot, Mayor of Chicago, attended a crowded street party to celebrate Joe Biden's apparent victory. That was November 7th. A week later she shut down the whole city and told Chicagoans to cancel their Thanksgiving plans. She did wear a mask some of the time at the street party, but dropped it when yelling into a bullhorn.
Steve Adler, Mayor of Austin, Texas, posted a video message to inhabitants of Austin November 9th saying, quote: "We need to stay home if you can … We need to keep the numbers down." End quote. It turned out he recorded that message while on vacation in Mexico, whither he had flown on a private jet.
Two days before flying to Mexico Adler had hosted a wedding and reception in Austin for his daughter and 20 guests—ten more than were allowed under his own city guidelines.
Two days before flying to Mexico Adler had hosted a wedding and reception in Austin for his daughter and 20 guests—ten more than were allowed under his own city guidelines. Just one more, though I could fill the whole podcast with these. This is Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York. November 18th Cuomo told reporters that, quote: "My personal advice is you don't have family gatherings—even for Thanksgiving." End quote. Next day, the 19th, he advised New Yorkers that, quote: "This year, if you love someone, it is better and safer to stay away." End quote.
But then, the following Monday, Cuomo told a radio interview, quote: "The story is, my mom is going to come up and two of my girls," end quote.
To the Governor's credit, after a fuss in the local media, he canceled the dinner. Although perhaps he flew to Mississippi to join Mayor Hancock and his family, I don't know
I know how I feel about these hypocrite politicians. I'm just having trouble imagining what you think of them if you are the owner of a small business you spent years building up, that has now been put out of business by their crazy regulations.
Isn't it all necessary, though? Wouldn't a lot more people die without those regulations? How do I feel about the possibility that I might be one of them? Or someone I love?
This is where I find myself thinking something's wrong with our deepest instincts. There is a point of balance to be found between carefree carry-on-as-normal and control-freak absolutism. We have not found that point.
Take traffic fatalities as a comparison. The U.S.A. suffers around 35,000 traffic fatalities a year. Every one is of course a heartbreaking tragedy to wives, husbands, parents, children, lovers and friends. Couldn't we get the number down somewhat?
Sure we could. We could go for control-freak absolutism: implement a nationwide no-exceptions speed limit of fifteen miles per hour. That's four times faster than walking: should be fast enough for anybody. Traffic fatalities would drop to a few hundred a year.
So why don't we do this, and spare ourselves those tens of thousands of tragedies? Because Americans wouldn't stand for it. The economy would be crippled: businesses can't move goods at fifteen miles an hour. Even just ordinary citizens would be up in arms: "What, I have to spend four hours driving to check on my granny sixty miles away?"
Sure, we take sensible measures to reduce the toll: speed limits, vehicle inspections, seat-belt laws. In the final analysis, though, we accept that normal life includes some number of deaths, possibly deaths of ourselves or our loved ones. We like normal life, even if it costs many deaths. We don't like control-freak absolutism, even if it saves many lives. We have found the point of balance.
In the case of the coronavirus, we haven't. Instead of seeking for it in a reasonable way, we have defaulted to control-freak absolutism, along with all those displays of hypocrisy from the absolutists.
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06—Pushing back against hysteria. The push-back against what I've been calling control-freak absolutism hasn't all been street demonstrations. There's been some commentary that was both thoughtful and skeptical.
Here for example was John Hinderaker at PowerLineBlog.com, November 21st. John takes the afrorementioned hypocrisy as his starting point. Sample quote:
The real significance of politicians flouting their own rules is that it shows they know those rules are unnecessary or useless. Take the case of Governor Newsom's ritzy dinner. Newsom's guests included the CEO of the California Medical Association, as well as that group's senior vice president and head lobbyist. If these people—privy to all the latest scientific information!—actually believed that COVID is a deadly disease for people in normal health, and wearing masks indoors while social distancing and associating only with one's immediate family would protect them from contracting it, you can be sure they would not have joined in the scofflaw dinner at the French Laundry. Not to protect you, but to protect themselves. [COVID Hypocrisy is the Least of It by John Hinderaker; PowerLine, November 21st 2020.]
End quote.
It's a pretty good general rule, in fact, that when progressive politicians or pundits are telling you to live your life a certain way, they are living theirs some other way.
Here's something curious from the following day, November 22nd. This came out of the students' newsletter of Johns Hopkins University. It's a study by Genevieve Briand, an economist at Johns Hopkins—in fact, assistant program director of the Applied Economics master's degree program there.
Ms Briand analyzed the numbers for total deaths in the U.S.A. from all causes, and claimed that, quote from her:
These data analyses suggest that in contrast to most people's assumptions, the number of deaths by COVID-19 is not alarming. In fact, it has relatively no effect on deaths in the United States. [A Closer Look at U.S. Deaths Due to COVID-19 by Yanni Gu; Johns Hopkins Newsletter, November 22nd 2020.]
End quote.
Ms Briand's numbers, and the conclusions she draws from them, have been criticized, and Johns Hopkins has since retracted the paper. Reuters has also published a fact-check of the deaths-from-all-causes numbers and drawn conclusions that likewise contradict Ms Briand's findings, although it's not clear they are using her data. They point out, for example, that there are quite long lags in death numbers being reported to the CDC, so that numbers even for earlier in 2020 are not final.
Fair enough, and perhaps there are excess deaths in there somewhere. I have to say, though, that some of the Johns Hopkins critique looks muddled to me. There are sentences in there I read twice without understanding what they meant. Sample, quote: "an increase in excess deaths is not represented in [Ms Briand's] proportionalities because they are offered as percentages, not raw numbers." End quote. Eh? If there's an increase in raw numbers, wouldn't there also be an increase in percentages?
Whether Ms Briand is right or wrong, it's salutary to see those year-by-year numbers for deaths from all causes. A tad short of three million Americans die every year, from coronavirus or—far more often—from something else. There is no armor against fate.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: OK, race and sex. First, race.
Harvard University has posted a job advertisement for an Associate University Librarian for Anti-Racism. The salary will be from $133,300 to $240,300, depending on qualifications.
What will he do, this Librarian for Anti-Racism? He will, edited quotes:
engage as a thought-leader … change systems, structures, policies, practices and individual behaviors that perpetuate systemic racism … create an antiracism team and lead a library-wide antiracism council.
End quotes.
I asked a friend passing through, recent graduate of a prestigious Chinese university, if they have positions like that over in China. It's been a while since I saw anyone laugh so much.
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Item: Across the pond, meanwhile: Undergraduates at Manchester University in northern England want to ban the word "black" from their course materials, at any rate in its negative connotations: "blackmail," "black sheep," "black mark," and so on.
I don't see how you can hold the line at "black." Don't all colors have negative connotations some of the time? "Blue" for sad, "green" for envy, "yellow" for cowardice, "white" for whitewash—and of course a host of other things. There is nothing positive about whiteness.
And contrariwise, "black" can be positive. If your finances are "in the black," they're healthy. "Black letter law" is the surest, most dependable kind.
Seems to me this whole project needs work.
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Item: Race and … what else did I promise you? Oh yes, sex.
All I have here is that actress Ellen Page, who I must say I've always found rather attractive, has decided she's really a guy. She's now Elliot Page.
This stuff quickly gets complicated, though. Ms Page—sorry, Mister Page—has a wife, name of Emma. I mean, she had this wife when she was female. So … is Emma going to change sex too, making them two married guys? They're not telling.
On approximately the same topic, I note the passing on November 20th of British writer Jan Morris, whose three-volume history of the British Empire is, in my opinion, a masterpiece of popular historical writing.
Jan Morris was originally James Morris. She transitioned to female in her mid-forties, after 23 years of marriage and five children. James' wife Elizabeth, mother of those five children, stayed with Jan following the transition, and survives her.
Jan wrote a book about the transition, which I have not read, although perhaps I should. Still, I've read a lot of her other stuff over the years, and thought her a very good writer: adventurous, often funny, and full of insight.
I mention this because, as a fan of normality, I'm always tempted to scoff and make jokes about this business of being confused as to your sex. Jan Morris is there to remind me that it's not just a silly fad among the Wokerati, nor a form of mental illness. You can be smart, brave, witty, well-read, thoughtful, and useful to your fellow human beings, and yet think that your mind is a different sex from your body.
I really should read that book …
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Item: Radio Derb's congratulations to Mr Uunona, winner of a regional election in Namibia, a former German colony in Southwest Africa. Mr Uunona bears the unfortunate given names Adolf Hitler. He blames his father, who was not, Mr Uunona tells us, altogether up-to-date on world affairs.
People in far places are sometimes like that. There was a player on the ten-pin bowling circuit in Hong Kong circa 1972 named Hitler Wong.
We forget that Hitler was in power for several years before he started invading other countries and generally misbehaving. During those years a lot of people in places like Africa and China got a vague impression of Hitler as a pretty good guy, and never paid enough attention to subsequent events to revise that impression.
A lot of Chiang Kai-shek's supporters were like that—hey, Hitler beat up on the communists!—and just never updated their understanding. Hence … Hitler Wong.
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Item: From unfortunate given names to an unfortunate last name: Condolences from Radio Derb to Mr Akbar Zeb of Pakistan.
The 55-year-old Mr Zeb is a professional diplomat. He was packing his suitcases to take up an appointment as Pakistan's ambassador to Saudi Arabia—a pretty nice gig, I would think.
Alas, it's all fallen through. Mr Zeb's credentials were in order, but his name wasn't.
Pakistan's a Muslim country, and their naming conventions use lots of Arabic words. That "Akbar" for example—Mr Zeb's first name—is Arabic for "greatest," as in "Allahu Akbar!"
Pakistan has a spoken language of its own, though: Urdu, an Indo-European language not related to Arabic, although they use Arabic script to write it. Mr Zeb's last name seems to be Urdu, not Arabic. I can't discover what it means, but it's nothing that's offensive to Urdu-speakers.
In Saudi Arabic, however, "zeb" is a slang word meaning "penis." The Saudis are puritanical, at any rate in public, so "Greatest Zeb" is not welcome there. Well, not in the halls of diplomacy …
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08—Signoff. That's it, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for listening, and most particular thanks to all who helped us by donating to this week's fundraiser.
For sign-off music this week, let's go back to West Virginia. The musical glory of West Virgina arises from its fiddlers. I intend absolutely no offense to pianists, guitarists, flautists, harpists, cellists, or vocal stars of any fach. There is simply no doubt about it: When you think West Virginia and music, you think fiddlers.
Here's one of the greatest: Clark Kessinger at the Newport Folk Festival in 1966, when he was seventy years old. Just for once I'm sorry this is only a podcast, not a vidcast: Half the fun of the performance is in watching Clark's moves as he fiddles. Let me tell you, a West Virginia fiddler needs good flexible knees. In fact, at 1m35s into the clip on YouTube that I took this from, Clark stops fiddling altogether and breaks into an impromptu little dance.
Ladies and gentlemen: Clark Kessinger playing the tune "Sally Ann Johnson."
There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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vdare--2020-12-04--“Wrong Place, Wrong Time.” November 2020—Another Month In The Death Of White America

Earlier: October 2020: A Month In The Death Of White America
“In the wrong place at the wrong time.” We hear it too often.
Annamarie Wagener
…didn’t know her attacker, it seems. But the 41-year-old, right, understood the risk of working past midnight in St. Paul, Minnesota. And she knew the risks of walking home alone. Reports say Wagener obtained a concealed weapon permit and carried a firearm. Still, on September 3, 2020, she was reportedly confronted by an adult male intent on robbing her. Witnesses say they heard a gunshot, a pause, and then a burst of more shots. One witness saw Wagener step back while the male continued shooting.
Paramedics found Wagener collapsed on the sidewalk. She was unconscious but still breathing. But not for long. She died at the scene.
Just arrested: Antoine Lorenzo Powell, 34:
Powell has an extensive criminal record in Minnesota that includes convictions for firearms, assault, controlled substances, drunken driving and other offenses.
Wagener was white. Powell, right, is black. The black-on-white murder is one of several reported in local media during the month of November 2020.
The incident appeared to be a random attack. Wagener was in the wrong place at the wrong time [St. Paul man charged in fatal shooting of 41-year-old woman on East Side, By Katrina Pross, Pioneer Press, November 24, 2020].
Jessica Kotulsky
…also didn’t know the person who fatally shot her in Oklahoma City. Kotulsky, 31, reportedly stopped at a gas station shortly before 11 p.m. on November 28. A group of males engaged in an altercation that escalated to an exchange of gunfire.
29-year-old Kemun Davis was arrested on complaints of felony murder and possession of a firearm after a conviction of a felony. He was identified as one of the individuals involved in the shooting. Other arrests are expected.
Authorities believe Kotulsky was an innocent bystander—another person in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Kotulsky was white. Davis, right, was black [Police: Woman shot, killed at Oklahoma City gas station was innocent bystander, by K. Querry, KFOR-TV, November 30, 2020].
Robert Jaden Urrea, Adam Gautreau
…were also in the wrong places at the wrong times! Both men, 19 and 36 respectively, were victims of a shooting spree that occurred in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The spree spanned two weeks. Authorities believe the two victims were chosen at random.
Reports say surveillance footage records the moment Urrea, right, lost his life. The teen is seen walking in the downtown area when he appears to turn towards a white Ford. He is then seen falling to the pavement as the vehicle drives away. The incident occurred at 2:56 a.m. October 31. Urrea was a student at Southern Methodist University.
Two weeks later at around 8:33 p.m. on November 14, Gautreau, left, was shot and killed in Dallas. The victim was homeless and was apparently shot at random as he panhandled at the side of the road.
Both victims were white males and both were allegedly murdered by 31-year-old Jeremy Harris. Harris, a black male, below left, is also accused of shooting another white man, 60-year-old Blair Carter. Reports say Carter was the father of the suspect’s former love interest. The suspect is accused of fatally shooting Kenneth Hamilton, 57, a black male, during the crime spree [Timeline: Alleged serial killer accused in spree of shootings across Dallas-Fort Worth, by Tasha Tsiaperas, WFAA, November 20, 2020].
The above incidents give us pause to wonder: Where are the wrong places and what are the wrong times? Where do random black-on-white murders occur and when?
David Henderson and his wife, Edith
The wrong place for this Lakeland, Florida couple was the master bedroom of their home. Authorities found them lying dead in pools of their own blood at 5:30 p.m. November 10. They had been fatally stabbed. David was 63. Edith was 67. Police had been called for a wellness check, suggesting the couple had been murdered the previous night.
Marcelle Waldon, 36, right, of Lakeland was charged with 10 felony counts, including first-degree murder, according to ABC Action News. Police believe it was a random attack. The suspect did not know the victims.
Waldon is black. The Hendersons were white ['Absolutely horrific:' Former Lakeland city commissioner, husband killed in random act, police say, by Emily McCain and Mary O'Connell, ABCActionNews.com November 12, 2020].
Eddie Hassell
Authorities claim the actor “was just a victim of wrong place, wrong time,” according to nypost.com. That place was the parking lot of the Grand Prairie apartment complex where he lived in Dallas, Texas. The time was about 2:30 a.m. on November 1.
Arrested for capital murder is 18-year-old D’jon Antone.
Antone is black. Hassell was white.
The victim was
...best known for roles in NBC’s 'Surface' and 2010’s Oscar-nominated “The Kids Are All Right.” His most recent appearances were in two 2017 films, “Oh Lucy!” And 'Bomb City.”
Oddly, news of this race-related murder drew little Main Stream Media attention—in contrast to the incident involving another actor, Jussie Smollett, which commanded front-page scrutiny for weeks on end [18-year-old arrested in fatal Texas shooting of actor Eddie Hassell, By Alex Heigl, NY Post, November 5, 2020].
Carly Rae Baron
There is no indication Baron knew the man who allegedly shot her Halloween night. Residents of Wilmington NC learned the 23-year-old died in the hospital the following day, November 1.
Reports say that Baron was shot after a traffic crash. Police rushed to the scene after hearing what would turn out to be fatal gunfire. Officers chased and eventually detained 21-year-old Jaquan Cortez Jackson. He was charged with second-degree murder.
Jackson is black. Baron was white. [Wilmington police: Traffic crash led to deadly Halloween night shooting, By Gabrielle Williams, WECT, November 1, 2020]
Deanie Logan
The wrong place, for Logan, 83, was her Shelbyville, Kentucky home. The wrong time: Sunday morning, November 22. She was found dead the next day.
Arrested is 34-year-old Alvin L. Brooks.
He is black. Logan was white.
Brooks' wife told police that Brooks told her he shot an elderly woman and took $500 cash. [Shelbyville man accused of shooting, stealing money from 83-year-old woman found dead at home, WLKY, November 27, 2020]
Darian A. Woods
The wrong place for Woods, 23, was his Collinsville IL apartment. The wrong time: November 19.
Darian Woods Funeral Fund, GoFundMe.com
The murder reportedly occurred during a home invasion. There was no indication that the victim knew his attackers.
George Lacey, 25, Adisa Smith, 27, and Demandrell Davis, 40, have been charged.
Woods was white. The suspects are black[Metro East man shot and killed in home invasion, police say | Law and order | stltoday.com, Robert Patrick , November 20, 2020].
Sara Blackwood
The wrong place for Blackwood was the 2600 block of East Washington Street in Indianapolis. The wrong time: around 10 p.m. on October 11.
The 39-year-old was fatally shot while walking home from a job at a fast-food restaurant. Robbery appears to have been the motive.
Arrested for the crime is Johnny Viverette Jr., 32. The arrest was reported on November 23.
Blackwood was white. Viverette is black.
(Personal note: When I grew up near this neighborhood, it was a white working-class area. Violent crime was virtually unknown. What changed? What made the difference between the 1960s and today?) [Man charged with murder, robbery in Oct. 11 Sara Blackwood shooting, by Lawrence Andrea, Indianapolis Star, November 23, 2020]
Jaime Humet
The wrong place for 47-year-old Humet: Miami Gardens, FL. The wrong time: the morning of December 18, 2019. Humet was fatally shot to death while sitting in his vehicle at an intersection.
An arrest was announced nearly two years later, on November 24, 2020. Arrested is 19-year-old Shaun Fortune, 17 years old at the time of the crime.
Humet, who had worked as a librarian for 21 years, was reportedly shot "almost at point blank range." Robbery may have been a motive as the victim had used an ATM moments prior to the crime. The victim's sister said: "My brother had four $10 bills in his pocket that they did not even take" suggesting Humet refused to hand over his cash and was subsequently shot.
Humet was white. Fortune is black [Arrest Made In Murder Of Miami Gardens Librarian Jamie Humet Nearly Two Years Ago, CBS Miami, November 24, 2020].
Skyler Shane Townsend
The wrong place Townsend for was the 1100 block of Center Street in Green Cove Springs, FL. The wrong: November 17.
Reports say the white 18-year-old, right, was fatally shot during a robbery attempt.
Arrested on charges of armed robbery: two black males, 23-year-old Kieshawn Ray Capri Smith and 20-year-old Daveion Breshod Austin.
Kieshawn Ray Capri Smith, 23 (left), and Daveion Breshod Austin, 20 (right)
The victim was a graduate of Orange Park High School who wanted to attend Louisiana State University to pursue a career helping animals, family members say.
Two others were shot in the incident but survived [Two men arrested in connection to Green Cove Springs shooting that left teen dead, First Coast News, November 22, 2020]
Kevin Duane Robbins
The wrong place for Robbins, 43: 267 East Broad Street in Newman, Georgia. The wrong time: 7:58 p.m. on November 5.
Robbins was one of six who were fatally shot during a crime spree in the state:
38-year-old Nicholas Martez Nelson is being charged with four of the six murders with charges pending for the other two.
Nelson, below, is suspected of forcing his way into an occupied home where he stole firearms and jewelry. Hours later he is suspected of shooting two at another residence multiple times.
Both died. One of those victims was Robbins.
Robbins was white. The suspect is black. [Suspect in custody after 'killing spree' in Newnan leaves 6 dead over 4 days, by Adrianne M Haney, The Citizen, November 10, 2020]
Other black-on-white murders making the news in November:
Justin Lett
His bullet-riddled body was found in a Birmingham, Alabama alley in 2018.
Just arrested for the crime is 29-year-old Cameron Cook, right. The arrest was reported November 26, 2020. Reports say Cook was in jail on another capital murder charge, being held without bond. His arrest was the outcome of an extensive investigation [Birmingham police make arrest in cold case murder, by Jack Helean, ABC3340.com, Thursday, November 26th, 2020]
Steven Finch, Eugene McClam, Robert Caverly.
All fatally shot in a Gwinnett County, Georgia neighborhood—aged 33, 45, and 64 respectively.
Justice R. Lusk, 21, was charged with three counts of felony murder, three counts of aggravated assault and three counts of possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Lusk is black. The three victims were white.
The motive for the crimes is under investigation. We can only speculate that the murders may have been driven by low intelligence, low impulse control, and low executive function [Man arrested in 3 shooting deaths in Gwinnett; victims ID’d, By Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, November 22, 2020].
Michelle P. Capell
Capell, 36, white, was fatally shot in Kansas City, MO. Arrested for the drive-by shooting: James Gregory, black, who has been charged with second-degree murder, first-degree assault, unlawful use of a weapon and three counts of armed criminal action.
Reports say the suspect had been in a dispute with a couple earlier in the day, and may have shot Capell out of revenge [Man charged in connection to deadly shooting Monday night at Independence and Indiana, by Brian Dulle, Fox4KC.comNovember 19, 2020]
Timothy George Milliken
Milliken, 45, was fatally shot in his Bluffton, SC home:
26-year-old Devante White, of Green Pond, South Carolina, and 22-year-old Malik White, of Beaufort, were wanted for felony warrants out of Hardeeville. The third man, 22-year-old Jamal Coakley Jr., of Dale, was arrested on a separate charge/ A fourth suspect, 17-year-old Sarah Barr, has since been arrested on warrants for murder, armed robbery and kidnapping in Milliken’s death.
No motive was reported for the crime, but reports say the victim, who was white, may have known one of those arrested.
Milliken was white. Three of the listed suspects are black males. One is a white female [4 arrested for Bluffton man’s murder, WSAV, November 20, 2020].
Scott Brooks
Brooks, 61, was fatally shot at his Charlotte NC sandwich shop in December 2019. Arrested in March 2020: 33-year-old Terry Connor. Connor was one of two accused of robbing, then fatally shooting, Brooks.
The second suspect, 31-year-old Steven Staples, was just arrested, in November 2020.
Reports say Staples was in custody for another homicide at the time of his arrest. Reports also say he is connected to four other murders,
The victim was white, the suspects black [CMPD: Man charged in NoDa sandwich shop owner’s slaying tied to 4 other murders, WSOCTV, November 17, 2020]
Tammy Ledbetter
Ledbetter, 56, was murdered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Reports say she suffered a severe head wound.
Eric Marquis Fowler, 28, was arrested after the murder due to blood evidence on his chest and legs. He is believed to have been Ledbetter's boyfriend.
Ledbetter was white, Fowler is black [Blood stains lead to arrest in domestic-related murder in Tuscaloosa, by Jeff Wyatt / Stephen Gallien, Monday, November 9th 2020].
Jamie Francis Wright ,
Wright, 34, was fatally shot at a Melbourne, FL. Restaurant on October 15, 2020. 40-year-old Latavious Shant Johnson has been charged with first-degree murder.
Reports say the victim's husband, Theron Wright, shot the suspect, below, in self-defense.
All three suffered gunshot wounds. Motives for the shootings were not disclosed. Victims white, perp black. The arrest was just reported [Melbourne police arrest suspected shooter in homicide case initially considered to be a victim, by J.D. Gallop, Florida Today, November 11, 2020].
Jeremiah Goleman
Goleman, 28, was found shot on a second-story balcony in an apartment complex in Tulsa, Oklahoma after running from a crashed vehicle, reports say.
16-year-old Zachariah Stevenson, below, was arrested.
The victim was white. The suspect is black [Police arrest 16-year-old boy in connection with deadly shooting, by Megan Butler, KTUL, November 5, 2020].
Chester Novak
…was found apparently bludgeoned to death with a sharp object near a boarding house he owned in Bibb County, GA. Two other murder victims were found inside the house and another was hospitalized in critical condition.
The suspect was identified as Ronald Green Jr.
Novak, right, was white. Green is black [Man charged with violent double murder at Georgia boarding house, FOX 5, November 9, 2020].
Leslee Umpleby
Umpleby, 49, was found murdered at a motel in Winter Haven, FL. 38-year-old Beloni Petitfrere was charged with two counts of First-Degree Murder. The suspect is believed to be the victim's ex-boyfriend.
A man who was in the room with Umpleby was also found dead.
Umpleby was white. Race of her companion is unspecified. The crimes occurred on October 13 and were reported on November 7 [Suspect Charged In Double Homicide At Rose Motel In Winter Haven, Tampa.CBSLocal.com, November 7, 2020].
Is America the wrong place? Is now the wrong time?
Kenn Gividen [Email him/Tweet him] is a retired direct marketer. He lives in Indiana with his wife. Kenn is the father of two grown children, four grandchildren, and two grand dogs. He publishes dailykenn.com and abatehate.com. In 2004 he was the Libertarian Party's candidate for governor of Indiana. In 2002 he published The Prayer of Hannah, which sold about 24,000 copies. Kenn is an alumnus of Liberty University.