vdare--2020-06-26--The Human Genome Project: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today

Bill Clinton ’ s ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on June 26 , 2000 celebrating the “ completion ” of the Human Genome Project was one of the more influential milestones in both the overselling of genetic knowledge as the key to rapid advancement of medicine , and the concoction of the conventional wisdom that Science Has Proved that Race Does Not Exist .
Reading through the transcripts , it strikes me that giving entrepreneur Craig Venter the anchorman spot in the lineup is what caused so many to remember Clinton and Francis Collins as also endorsing the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ were blander and more ambiguous .
It ’ s Venter who bears the greatest blame for the Race Does Not Exist Genetically know-nothingism of the 21st Century .
Remarks Made by the President , Prime Minister Tony Blair of England ( via satellite ) , Dr. Francis Collins , Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute , and Dr. Craig Venter , President and Chief Scientific Officer , Celera Genomics Corporation , on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project THE PRESIDENT : … We are here @ @ @ @ @ @ @ survey of the entire human genome .
Without a doubt , this is the most important , most wondrous map ever produced by humankind .
..
It was not even 50 years ago that a young Englishman named Crick and a brash even younger American named Watson , first discovered the elegant structure of our genetic code .
Dr. Watson , the way you announced your discovery in the journal Nature , was one of the great understatements of all time .
“ This structure has novel features , which are of considerable @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you , sir .
( Applause ) James D. Watson hadn ’ t been canceled yet , so he was there in a place of honor that day .
… And we must guarantee that genetic information can not be used to stigmatize or discriminate against any individual or group .
… All of us are created equal , entitled to equal treatment under the law .
After all , I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , are more than 99.9 percent the same .
What that means is that modern science has confirmed what we first learned from ancient fates .
The most important fact of life on this Earth is our common humanity .
… Now , it is my great pleasure to turn to my friend , Prime Minister Tony Blair … And , on a personal note , I can ’ t help but think that the year of your son ’ s birth will always be remembered for the remarkable achievements we announce today @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just gone up by about 25 years .
( Laughter ) So far , not so good … Clinton and Blair then yapped for awhile about globalism .
Then Francis Collins of the government effort came on : DR. COLLINS : … So there is much to celebrate .
But I have to tell you that this morning is also a bitter-sweet experience for me , personally .
Less than 24 hours ago , I attended the funeral of my beloved sister-in-law , a wonderful marionette artist who brought magic and joy to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ She died much too soon of breast cancer .
The hope and promise of understanding all of the genes in the genome and applying this knowledge to the development of powerful new tools came just too late for her .
How are we doing on curing cancer through genetics anyway ?
It can ’ t hurt … but it sure hasn ’ t been a quick home run like many thought 20 years ago .
It ’ s almost as if your genes didn ’ t evolve to kill you .
… I @ @ @ @ @ @ @ moment jointly with our scientific colleagues at Celera Genomics , and I wish to express my personal gratitude to Dr. Craig Venter for his openness in the cooperative planning process that led to this joint announcement .
I congratulate him and his team on the work done at Celera , which uses an elegant and innovative strategy that is highly complementary to the approach taken by the public project .
Much will be learned from a comparison of the two .
I ’ m happy that today , the only race we are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Applause ) The last line was actually a joke about the stressful competition between Collins ’ slow-moving government behemoth and Venter ’ s more nimble private venture .
But I suspect a lot of people took it to mean that Race Does Not Exist , especially after Venter ’ s speech : DR. VENTER : … The method used by Celera has determined the genetic code of five individuals .
We have sequenced the genome of three females and two males , who have identified themselves has Hispanic , Asian , Caucasian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sampling not in an exclusionary way , but out of respect for the diversity that is America , and to help illustrate that the concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis .
In the five Celera genomes , there is no way to tell one ethnicity from another .
This might have been the most influential ( and dumb-downing ) sentence of the whole whoop-tee-doo .
Obviously , today we have an entire industry devoted to telling you what your ancestral ethnicities are down to 3 significant digits .
But a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seem to to have noticed that what they took on faith on June 26 , 2000 was almost immediately rendered ridiculous .
Ironically , Dr. Venter was mostly lying , both on the macro level and the micro level : the first human genome mapped was actually largely his own .
From the New York Times two years later : But in 2000 , Venter went on : I would like to particularly acknowledge Charles DeLisi from the Department of Energy , and Jim Watson from Cold Spring Harbor , both here , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Genome Project .
… The genome sequence represents a new starting point for science and medicine , with potential impact on every disease .
Taking the example , cancer , each day approximately 2,000 die in America from cancer .
As a consequence of the genome efforts that you ’ ve heard described by Dr. Collins and myself this morning , and the research that will be catalyzed by this information , there ’ s at least the potential to reduce the number of cancer deaths to zero during our lifetimes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ ?
Dr. Venter is still alive at 73 , so it could happen .
… However , I am concerned , as many of you are , that there are some who will want to use this new knowledge as a basis of discrimination .
A CNN-Time poll this morning reported that 46 percent of Americans polled believe that the impact of the Human Genome Project will be negative .
We must work together toward higher science literacy and the wise use of our common heritage .
I know from personal discussions with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and his comments here this morning , that genetic discrimination has been one of his major concerns about the impact of the genomic revolution .
While those who will base social decisions on genetic reductionism will be ultimately defeated by science , new laws to protect us from genetic discrimination are critical in order to maximize the medical benefits from genome discoveries .
… THE PRESIDENT : Well , thank you both for those remarkable statements .
I suppose , in closing , the most important thing I could do is to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ last statement .
When we get this all worked out and we ’ re all living to be 150 — ( Laughter ) — young people will still fall in love , old people will still fight about things that should have been resolved 50 years ago — ( Laughter ) — we will all , on occasion , do stupid things , and we will all see the unbelievable capacity of humanity to be noble .
This is a great day .
Thank you very much .
( Applause )

Bill Clinton’s ceremony in the White House Rose Garden on June 26, 2000 celebrating the “completion” of the Human Genome Project was one of the more influential milestones in both the overselling of genetic knowledge as the key to rapid advancement of medicine, and the concoction of the conventional wisdom that Science Has Proved that Race Does Not Exist.
Reading through the transcripts, it strikes me that giving entrepreneur Craig Venter the anchorman spot in the lineup is what caused so many to remember Clinton and Francis Collins as also endorsing the new dogma, even though their remarks were blander and more ambiguous. It’s Venter who bears the greatest blame for the Race Does Not Exist Genetically know-nothingism of the 21st Century.
Remarks Made by the President, Prime Minister Tony Blair of England (via satellite), Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, and Dr. Craig Venter, President and Chief Scientific Officer, Celera Genomics Corporation, on the Completion of the First Survey of the Entire Human Genome Project June 26, 2000
10:19 A.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: … We are here to celebrate the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. Without a doubt, this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind. .. It was not even 50 years ago that a young Englishman named Crick and a brash even younger American named Watson, first discovered the elegant structure of our genetic code. Dr. Watson, the way you announced your discovery in the journal Nature, was one of the great understatements of all time. “This structure has novel features, which are of considerable biological interest.” (Laughter) Thank you, sir. (Applause)
James D. Watson hadn’t been canceled yet, so he was there in a place of honor that day.
… And we must guarantee that genetic information cannot be used to stigmatize or discriminate against any individual or group. … All of us are created equal, entitled to equal treatment under the law. After all, I believe one of the great truths to emerge from this triumphant expedition inside the human genome is that in genetic terms, all human beings, regardless of race, are more than 99.9 percent the same. What that means is that modern science has confirmed what we first learned from ancient fates. The most important fact of life on this Earth is our common humanity. … Now, it is my great pleasure to turn to my friend, Prime Minister Tony Blair … And, on a personal note, I can’t help but think that the year of your son’s birth will always be remembered for the remarkable achievements we announce today. I think his life expectancy has just gone up by about 25 years. (Laughter)
So far, not so good …
Clinton and Blair then yapped for a while about globalism. Then Francis Collins of the government effort came on:
DR. COLLINS: … So there is much to celebrate. But I have to tell you that this morning is also a bitter-sweet experience for me, personally. Less than 24 hours ago, I attended the funeral of my beloved sister-in-law, a wonderful marionette artist who brought magic and joy to thousands of children with her art. She died much too soon of breast cancer. The hope and promise of understanding all of the genes in the genome and applying this knowledge to the development of powerful new tools came just too late for her.
How are we doing on curing cancer through genetics anyway? It can’t hurt … but it sure hasn’t been a quick home run like many thought 20 years ago. It’s almost as if your genes didn’t evolve to kill you.
… I particularly welcome the opportunity to celebrate this moment jointly with our scientific colleagues at Celera Genomics, and I wish to express my personal gratitude to Dr. Craig Venter for his openness in the cooperative planning process that led to this joint announcement. I congratulate him and his team on the work done at Celera, which uses an elegant and innovative strategy that is highly complementary to the approach taken by the public project. Much will be learned from a comparison of the two. I’m happy that today, the only race we are talking about is the human race. (Applause)
The last line was actually a joke about the stressful competition between Collins’ slow-moving government behemoth and Venter’s more nimble private venture. But I suspect a lot of people took it to mean that Race Does Not Exist, especially after Venter’s speech:
DR. VENTER: … The method used by Celera has determined the genetic code of five individuals. We have sequenced the genome of three females and two males, who have identified themselves has Hispanic, Asian, Caucasian or African American. We did this sampling not in an exclusionary way, but out of respect for the diversity that is America, and to help illustrate that the concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis. In the five Celera genomes, there is no way to tell one ethnicity from another.
This might have been the most influential (and dumb-downing) sentence of the whole whoop-tee-doo.
Obviously, today we have an entire industry devoted to telling you what your ancestral ethnicities are down to 3 significant digits. But a huge number of people don’t seem to have noticed that what they took on faith on June 26, 2000 was almost immediately rendered ridiculous.
Ironically, Dr. Venter was mostly lying, both on the macro level and the micro level: The first human genome mapped was actually largely his own. From the New York Times two years later:
Scientist Reveals Secret of Genome: It’s His
By Nicholas Wade
April 27, 2002 When scientists at Celera Genomics announced two years ago that they had decoded the human genome, they said the genetic data came from anonymous donors and presented it as a universal human map. But the scientist who led the effort, Dr. J. Craig Venter, now says that the genome decoded was largely his own. Society and medicine treats us all as members of populations, where as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. …
But in 2000, Venter went on:
I would like to particularly acknowledge Charles DeLisi from the Department of Energy, and Jim Watson from Cold Spring Harbor, both here, for their vision in helping to initiate the Genome Project. … The genome sequence represents a new starting point for science and medicine, with potential impact on every disease. Taking the example, cancer, each day approximately 2,000 die in America from cancer. As a consequence of the genome efforts that you’ve heard described by Dr. Collins and myself this morning, and the research that will be catalyzed by this information, there’s at least the potential to reduce the number of cancer deaths to zero during our lifetimes.
How’s that working out anyway? Dr. Venter is still alive at 73, so it could happen.


vdare--2020-06-26--Korean War, Karen Shaming, Tucker Carlson, And The Blacks In Brixton, Etc

14m06s Tucker and I .
( Is he right about Trump 's inaction ? )
20m37s It 's the blecks @ @ @ @ @ chase out the peelers . )
27m32s Cutting back on guest workers .
( Thank @ @ @ @ @ ) 28m21s A suggestion for the iconoclasts .
( Become ironoclasts ? )
33m24s Fined @ @ @ @ @ ( Too close to N ? )

00m52s Remembering the Korean War. (Seventy years on.)
06m05s Karen shaming. (Sport for the fellas.)
14m06s Tucker and I. (Is he right about Trump's inaction?)
20m37s It's the blecks, cont. (Brixtonoids chase out the peelers.)
27m32s Cutting back on guest workers. (Thank you, Mr President!)
28m21s A suggestion for the iconoclasts. (Become ironoclasts?)
29m21s Rugger fans culturally appropriate. (Prince Dimwit is shocked.)
33m24s Fined for using the L-word. (Too close to N?)
35m13s Name-shaming Rhode Island. (Who knew?)
37m26s Aboriginettes passing. (Rachel Dolezal, call your agent.)
41m15s Signoff. (A Korean War-adjacent song.)
01 — Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your puckishly genial host John Derbyshire.
There have been exciting developments in the saga of our new nation, Derbistan. Matters are still in progress, though, so I shall postpone a formal announcement until next week.
For now, let's just proceed directly to news of the hour, beginning with a commemoration.
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02 — Remembering the Korean War. Thursday we were chatting idly over dinner out on the back patio in the cool evening breezes. I happened to mention that it was the seventieth anniversary of the opening of the Korean War, June 25th 1950.
That caught Mrs Derbyshire's interest. Her Dad, who passed away twelve years ago, had been a veteran of that war — on the other side, of course.
I ruminated briefly on what an exceptionally horrible war it had been. Nobody's surprised when, in a war, one side performs massacres against the other side. In the Korean War, not only did each side carry out massacres of the other side, both sides — North and South — also committed massacres against their own side.
My lady is a smart, thoughtful, well-educated person, but she has some gaps in her knowledge, as we all have, and modern Korean history was one. How, she asked, after all that destruction, how had South Korea become so rich and successful?
I gave her the story as best I could from my own limited stock of knowledge: The rebuilding in the fifties and sixties under brutal Latin-American-style dictatorships, rising middle-class discontent with the brutality, student demonstrations, the 1988 Olympics, the opening-up in the nineties, today's efficient (by Asian standards), non-corrupt (by Asian standards), prosperous and successful modern republic.
"Like Taiwan, then," said Mrs Derbyshire. I said yes, the stories went pretty much parallel.
She sighed. "Why can't China follow that path? Get rid of those stupid communists?"
I seconded the thought. Then we switched topics to our latest project: solar panels for the roof of Derb Mansion. The feds and New York State offer really good incentive deals. Should we go for it? We forgot about the Korean War.
Reflecting afterwards, having in the meantime watched some news clips about our own current cultural revolution, I got to pondering the near future — through to the middle of this so-far-disappointing century.
Might mainland China indeed follow the trail blazed by South Korea and Taiwan, from prosperity-generating but crude, brutal and corrupt dictatorship to open and consensual government? I know from previous conversations with my wife, who keeps in touch with friends and relatives over there via social media, that there is a lot of middle-class discontent under the surface in China.
Whether that transformation will happen or not, I can't say. Nor, I think, can anyone else. For all we can tell to the contrary, the Chinese communists might still be running things in the current manner thirty years from now. Or they might not: a Taiwan-style, South Korea-style political transformation may have occurred.
I will, though, say the following thing with high confidence.
If that transformation does occur, China will storm ahead as the world's dominant power through the middle decades of this century. We of the West European and Anglo-Saxon nations will be left in their dust, locked in our futile, unproductive squabbles about White Fragility and how much Black Lives Matter.
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03 — "Karen shaming"? It's very handy to have well-known phrases for social phenomena. A well-crafted phrase can clarify our thinking about a phenomenon, help us see it as what it truly is.
A couple of the best such phrases to emerge in recent years are "virtue signalling" (except that we seem unable to agree on how to spell "signalling," one "l" or two) and "narrative collapse."
For listeners who've just wakened from a Rip Van Winkle-style twenty-year sleep, virtue signalling is a species of what used to be called "cheap grace," where you raise your moral standing in your peer groups by cost-free speech or actions. Narrative collapse is what happens at that point in the news cycle when the gentle black giant or winsome black teenager who suffered some misfortune at the hands of a white person turns out to be a low-life thug with a drug habit and a rap sheet.
Watching this week's clip of the lady in Seattle going into high hysterics after being confronted by a black guy over some kind of trivial negative encounter, I'm thinking we need a phrase for this. It is, after all, looking to be a thing.
[Clip: "Karen! You're not going to sit there and flip me off …" etc, etc.]
The business of Amy Cooper and her dog in New York City's Central Park four weeks ago was very similar. That was the episode that introduced the general public to the tag "Karen," indicating a white woman asserting her white privilege. So perhaps the phrase we're seeking here is something like "Karen abuse" or "Karen shaming."
These two incidents — that one in New York and this one in Seattle — are, I would guess, the tip of a very big iceberg. I can recall from private conversations across many decades, hearing stories from white women who have felt intimidated to the point of high nervousness, if not actually shrieking hysteria, by the behavior of black men in a one-on-one encounter.
In some of these episodes, as I've heard about them, the black guy is not at fault in any way. An office colleague, a young white female New Yorker of properly liberal sensibilities, once confessed to me that if she was alone in an elevator, and a large black guy got in, and the two of them rode a few floors together, she felt highly uncomfortable.
"What," I asked her, "in a way you wouldn't feel if it was a small Asian guy?" Yes, she admitted.
She was obviously wracked with guilt about what she had just confessed. Just as obviously, there is not necessarily any fault here on the part of the black guy.
You have to suspect, though, that blacks know about this; and that black men of a certain temperament have malicious fun with it. With the advent of the smartphone and the ability to make video recordings and post them, the temptation to stage a Karen-shaming incident must, to a certain personality type, be irresistible.
There is also the element of revenge. Black Americans are taught in our schools and colleges to be angry about slavery and Jim Crow. It's not surprising that some blacks, as adults, are looking for revenge against Whitey. (What's surprising is that most blacks aren't.)
White kids, undergoing that same education, are taught that they share responsibility somehow for all that cruelty and oppression, so a corresponging proportion of them arrive in adult life loaded with racial guilt.
The guilt is mixed with fear, though. Most whites, by the time they arrive at adulthood, know the Great Unmentionable of social life in our country: that blacks are, in the statistical generality, a whole order of magnitude more violent and dangerous than other races.
And there, with smartphone in hand, you have the ingredients for a perfect Karen-shaming.
Locate a Karen; get alone with her; pick a quarrel, all the while maintaining a cool middle-class non-ghetto demeanor with just the merest slight seasoning of aggression; press the quarrel to the point where her personality disintegrates; force her to a virtue-signalling punch line if possible — the Seattle lady started yelling that she has a black husband, although whether she actually does or not, I haven't been able to ascertain — then post the whole thing on social media. Hey, it's fun!
With any luck, the Karen will be identified and fired from her job — that's the real prize, the cherry on the revenge cookie. Even if she doesn't get fired, though, you've Karen-shamed her: made her look like a hysterical nitwit — and, best of all, a racist! — to millions of viewers. How sweet it is!
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04 — Tucker and I. Do I watch Tucker Carlson's show? Yes I do. In his monologues he has a good forceful style of speaking that I like, and he hits a lot of nails right on the head.
I can pick nits if you like. At this point, I can't take altogether seriously anyone who denies the reality of race, as Tucker seems to. At least, he never gets any closer to race realism than the phrase "skin color," which he likes a lot. Yo, Tucker: google with the search string "african albino."
This may be just protective on Tucker's part, though: no-one openly race-realist is going to get an opinionating slot on prime-time TV. On race-related political topics — immigration, education, law-enforcement — Tucker is pretty sound.
I'll pick some lesser nits, too. That dorky doctor he has on, Marc Siegel, sets my teeth on edge, for reasons I find hard to articulate. And what's this obsession with UFOs? UFOs? Really? I was through that stage and out the other side by age twelve, having read the books of George Adamski.
By mass-media standards, though, Tucker is a gem. Sure, I know: I won't be seeing Jared Taylor on his show, or Peter Brimelow, or Steve Sailer. That's just Fox News attending to our common safety, though. If any of those names were to appear, there would at once be a nationwide outbreak of cross-burning, lynching, and church-bombing — we all know that. Gotta preserve the public peace!
And politically, Tucker is astute. I rarely find myself disagreeing with him. He is particularly good on the uselessness of the Republican Party and the weakness of President Trump.
The other evening he worked the theme that most of what we're seeing in the news right now has an electoral dimension. It's targeted at November's voters in one way or another: either directly, by the actors themselves, or indirectly, by people financing and supporting them, or just standing by quietly to let them do what they are doing.
As Tucker's pointed out, standing by quietly while the wreckers go around freely wrecking is just as much a policy of Trump's as it is of the left-radicals running the Democratic Party. Trump seems to be calculating that a few weeks of rioting, looting, and vandalism in Democrat-run big cities like Minneapolis, New York, and Seattle will show voters what they may expect if the left takes power over the federal government.
I suppose he may be right. It's at least as likely, though, that voters will just read all the disorder as another sign of weakness at the top, along with Trump's getting the middle finger from one of his Supreme Court appointees, and along also with the near-total failure to follow through on his 2016 campaign promises about immigration and foreign entanglements.
Taking stern law-enforcement action against disorderly citizen protests isn't exactly a new thing in the U.S.A. Like my colleague James Kirkpatrick, I've been reading Christopher Caldwell's splendid new book, The Age of Entitlement. Here's a short passage from Chapter Four. The topic here is the forced de-segregation of schools in Boston during the mid-1970s. Quote:
When the whites of South Boston and Charlestown protested, their neighborhoods were put under military occupation. "Southie" had a curfew and laws against public assembly, enforced by 1,600 police officers, 100 federal marshals, 50 FBI agents, and 600 National Guard troops.
End quote.
That's a pretty forceful response. Could any government today come down on citizens with such force? Well, on white prole citizens, like those in Boston 45 years ago, maybe; but on the gentry liberals of Seattle, or the blacks of Minneapolis, perhaps not …
Still, that level of enforcement did stop the resistance, although with not quite the long-term result intended. Here is the next sentence in that paragraph from Caldwell's book, quote:
Whites made up 60 percent of the public school system on the eve of busing, less than 20 percent when it had finally done its work, little more than a decade later.
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05 — It's the blecks (cont.) Returning to the matter of memorable phrases to describe social phenomena, another one of my favorites is our own Steve Sailer's phrase "Occam's Butterknife." That's a play on Occam's Razor, the philosophical principle that when a number of explanations are on offer, we should favor the one that requires fewest prior assumptions.
Occam's Butterknife is the contrary principle: When the simplest, most straightforward explanation is unacceptable to you for social or emotional reasons, look for something more complicated.
The phrase "Occam's Butterknife" is probably too recondite for general acceptance, but it is very handy when dealing with race denialism.
Seven years ago here at Radio Derb I had some fun with bigfoot Conservatism, Inc. commentators George Will and Peggy Noonan, who were applying Occam's Butterknife to the bankruptcy of Detroit, which had just been declared. Too much democracy, said George; corrupt public officials, said Peggy; over-empowered public-sector unions, said both.
I demolished these writers with a quick slash of the original Occam's Razor — not the Butterknife, the Razor. "It's the blecks," I said. Then I explained my peculiar turn of pronunciation. Quoting myself:
I recall a fine example of Occam's Razor — not the butterknife, now, the original razor — from thirty or so years ago when I was doing office work in London. I had a colleague, a white guy from South Africa, who spoke with those strange flattened vowels they use. He actually pronounced the name of his country as "S'thefriceh."
Well, chatting around the office one day I mentioned a certain district of London that was plagued with street crime. At that time my youthful liberalism had not yet altogether worn off, so I was reaching for Occam's Butterknife, positing poverty, fatherlessness, lack of public facilities, and so on as the causes of all the street crime.
My Boer friend listened for a while till his patience ran out, then he cut me off with Occam's Razor.
"It's the blecks, dear fellow," he said. "It's the blecks."
So it was, and so it is.
End self-quote.
Well, the district of London I mentioned in that little anecdote was Brixton. Wednesday night this week, the inhabitants of Brixton were at it again. Twenty-two police officers were injured when they tried to shut down an unlicensed block party. Brixtonians — "Brixtoners"? "Brixtonoids"? I'm not sure of the correct demonym here — partygoers quickly got the upper hand. Video clips showed the police being chased out of Brixton by the jeering mob.
Community activists were on hand to explain the cause of the disturbances to BBC reporters. It shows that "local children need more support," said Community Activist A. Community Activist B agreed. She's been campaigning for a new youth centre, she said. Quote: "The kids don't have anywhere to go," end quote.
The head of London's police force, a 59-year-old lesbian who rejoices in the name Cressida Dick, blamed it on the heat and too much drinking.
May I practice my S'thefricen vowels again, please? Thank you: No, ladies, it's not the lack of youth facilities, not the heat, not the drink. It's the blecks.
Just as a footnote here, always trying to think of something constructive to offer: Watching that video of the peelers being chased out of Brixton by the mob I recalled a similar clip from four weeks ago, of bobbies on the run from a different mob in London's parliament district.
That got me thinking that perhaps this could be developed into a new Olympic event: the Bobby Dash. At the starting line you could have a couple of dozen coppers in full riot-control gear, then on another line twenty yards behind them, a crowd in street clothes armed with bottles and bricks of some regulation size. At the starter's pistol the police start running with the street people in pursuit. You could have a scoring system based on bobbies brought down by bottle, by brick, by physical tackle …
This could be a great team event. I must remember to bring it up next time I'm in conversation with Cressida Dick.
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06 — Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Before the Ever Trumpers get on my case for not having mentioned it, I shall mention this week's excellent news about the President's having shut down a big swathe of guest-worker visas through to the end of this year.
I would of course have preferred a bigger swathe, and "end of this century" would have been better than "end of this year," but I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.
This is a good sign of energy in the executive, and a welcome boost for American workers. Thank you, Mr President!
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Item: In the matter of pulling down statues, my enthusiasm was caught by this tweeted proposal from blogger Iowahawk, tweet:
Let's erect an ironic statue of people tearing down a statue, and then double-ironically tear down that statue.
End tweet.
That goes into my mental file with the New Yorker cartoon published a few days after the 9/11 attack. A woman's standing in front of a bookstore window. Prominent in the window is some bestseller with a sticker on it saying: NOW WITH 50 PERCENT LESS IRONY!
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Item: [Clip: Paul Robeson, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."]
That was Paul Robeson, of course, singing one of the most stirring of the old Negro Spirituals … or whatever we're supposed to call them nowadays. I remember it from my high-school years. It's well-known all over the world.
Especially to English fans of Rugby football. Rugby fans love to sing, and when England's team is on the field, especially when the odds are against them, this is the song you'll hear. There's a bit of sporting history behind that: You can explore it for yourselves on YouTube.
Of course, nothing as traditional as this — well, nothing belonging to white people — will be allowed to survive the present cultural revolution. The Rugby Football Union, which is the governing body for the sport in England, is pondering whether the singing of "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" by white people is a form of cultural appropriation and so should be banned.
This tiny controversy has brought forth great blasts of PC gibberish from Grievance Studies academics, the kind of thing that provides a handsome living to Ta-nehisi Coates and a legion of white hucksters like Tim Wise and Robin DeAngelo the White Fragility lady.
Here, for example, is Josephine Wright, billed here as a professor of music and black studies at the College of Wooster in Ohio. Quote from her:
Such cross-cultural appropriations of U.S. slave songs betray a total lack of understanding of the historical context in which those songs were created by the American slave.
End quote.
If you are still holding in your breakfast, here is Arthur Jones, a music history professor at the University of Denver, after being told about the rugby fans singing a spiritual, quote:
My first reaction is absolute shock — and I actually understand it when I think about it — but that's my first reaction. I feel kind of sad.
End quote.
Poor guy! The move to ban the song may get help from on high, though. No less a personage than Prince Harry Windsor seems to be on board with a ban.
Given that Harry is the least popular member of the Royal Family, as well as the least intelligent, I'd advise him not to make any appearances at rugby matches. If he does, I think I know what song will greet him.
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Item: In further news from the sceptered isle, a chap in Aberdeen, Scotland has been fined $350 for calling another man a leprechaun.
This was not without provocation. The perp, whose name is Terry Myers, had a girlfriend. This girlfriend left him and took up with another bloke, an Irishman. In a subsequent email exchange with the lady, Terry threatened to assault the new boyfriend, and referred to him using the L-word.
That, ruled the court after long and solemn deliberation, gave Terry's insults a racial motivation, aggravating the offense thereby.
Just pause, listeners, to envy the inhabitants of Aberdeen, whose police and courts have so little to do, they can spend their time soothing women whose feelings have been hurt by having their boyfriend likened to a small jolly fellow with a green hat.
I wonder what the tariff would have been if Terry had referred to his rival as a Papist bog-trotter who sleeps in his boots, keeps a pig in the parlor, and subsists entirely on potatoes and whiskey? It doesn't bear thinking about.
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Item: Places whose names bear even the faintest trace of white privilege are hastening to rename themselves. The latest case here is the state of Rhode Island.
Which part is white supremacist? you may be asking. Is it the "Rhode," or the "Island"?
It surely can't be the "Island." That's just a dictionary word, meaning … you know: island. Was Rhode some early slave-owning, colonist, perhaps a forebear of notorious 19th-century imperialist Cecil Rhodes?
Well, possibly. According to Wikipedia, which is as deep as I can be bothered to research the matter, nobody knows the origin of the "Rhode" in "Rhode Island." It is entirely possible that Roger Williams, who named the place, just pulled "Rhode" out of his … left ear.
No, what's giving offense here is the state's full name, which is: the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That word "plantations," to those sufficiently woke, conjures up images of helpless, half-starved darkies being whipped out into the fields before dawn by sadistic tobacco-chewing white overseers to pick cotton.
So those last three words in the name, "and Providence Plantations," have got to go. The fact that only eight people in the entire U.S.A. have ever heard Rhode Island referred to by its full name is of no importance.
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Item: On the same beat — the matter, that is, of renaming places with white-supremacist connotations — here's one from Australia.
Australia is divided politically into six states and several territories. One of the states is named Victoria, for Queen Victoria, of course.
A lady named Lidia Thorpe has taken exception to this. Quote from her:
Anything that's named after someone who's caused harm or murdered people, then I think we should take their name down.
End quote.
Ms Thorpe is an activist for the Aborigines of Australia, a race to which she herself belongs. She was in fact the first Aboriginal woman — "Aborigina"? "Aboriginette"? don't ask me — the first such to be elected to the Parliament of Victoria, back in 2017.
I'll confess I don't care whether or not the Australians rename the state of Victoria — well, so long as the new name doesn't include the word "Plantations." What caught my interest in this story was Ms Thorpe herself.
Her appearance, I mean: her skin is whiter than mine. She has long straight light-brown hair, a regular white-female jawline, eye-shaped eyes and a straight nose, … nothing aboriginal about her at all.
This seems to be a thing with self-consciously aboriginal Australians. Steve Sailer posted the other day on another one, also female, billed as "Australia's first Indigenous neurologist Angela Dos Santos." She looks, to borrow from one of Steve's commenters, like she came out of a Miss Alabama beauty pageant around 1955.
What's going on here? I turn to my trusted source on such matters, my 1965 edition of Carleton Coon's book The Living Races of Man. There in the photo section at the back are some pictures of, (a) and (b), front face and profile, "a blond aboriginal girl from the desert of central Australia," and (c) "a half-caste girl from South Australia," front face only. The latter, who indeed could pass as white, comes with a note that, quote: "Many half-castes are indistinguishable from Europeans."
Well, you learn something new every day. Is Rachel Dolezal still around? She could emigrate to Australia and start a whole new career down there.
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07 — Signoff. That's all I have for this week, ladies and gents. Thank you for your time and attention; and let's hope that the upcoming July 4th holiday will turn the thoughts of our fellow citizens away from sectionalism and discord towards patriotism and co-operation. Yeah, yeah, I know … but let's hope. Dum spiramus, speramus.
For sign-out music, having started with the Korean War, I thought it would be nifty to use a clip from a Korean War song. I mean, a song that people who hear it instinctively associate with that war.
A significant war usually has some song associated with it like that in the popular imagination. When I was a kid in England, the oldest cohort of adults still around remembered the Boer War, whose song was "Goodbye, Dolly Gray." If you buy me a drink, I can sing you the chorus.
World War One was loaded with songs. For Brits I think the most evocative was "Keep the Home Fires Burning"; for Yanks, it was "Over There."
World War Two likewise; although an odd thing here was that up near the top of the song list is "Lili Marlene": a lovely song, but originally German, though the late great Dame Vera Lynn turned out a very nice English version.
But the Korean War … eh. Possibly I missed something, being in England at the time, although British units did fight over there. I'd be happy to hear from Korean War vets about this, but I don't believe there was any really characteristic song for that war.
In lieu thereof, I went scanning the Billboard charts for 1950. The big hit that summer was the old Leadbelly number "Goodnight Irene," recorded by Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers; thirteen weeks at Number One, August through November. Listening to it now, I must say, I prefer Leadbelly's version.
I know, I know: We roll our eyes and shake our heads now at those damn stuck-up, self-obsessed, ungrateful Boomers and the way they sneered and scoffed at their parents' stodgy, unimaginative, whitebread suburban dullness.
As obnoxious as they were, though, the Boomers kind of had a point. Leadbelly had something the Weavers did not have, just as Little Richard [Clip] had something that Pat Boone [Clip] couldn't get within a mile of.
In all fairness, having said that, I should give you the Leadbelly version of "Goodnight, Irene." The Weavers were the ones topping the charts in 1950, though; it was their version that was humming in our guys' heads as they slogged off to fight my father-in-law; so I'm going to exercise my white privilege and give you their version of "Goodnight, Irene."
There will be more whitebread suburban dullness from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: Gordon Jenkins and The Weavers, "Goodnight, Irene."]


vdare--2020-06-27--The Duke and Duchess of Sussex to Comfort Purported Hate Crime Victim Althea Bernstein

Earlier : Will the MSM Go All in on the Althea Bernstein Hate Crime Story Out of Madison ?
From @ @ @ @ @ kounties of central Wisconsin : MADISON ( WKOW ) — Boys & Girls Club of @ @ @ @ @ said that he spoke with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle , Duchess of Sussex , @ @ @ @ @ also said Meghan Markle ’ s team that reached out to him , wanting to @ @ @ @ @ the 18-year-old who was attacked and set on fire with lighter fluid last Wednesday .
@ @ @ @ @ after all …

Earlier: Will the MSM Go All in on the Althea Bernstein Hate Crime Story Out of Madison?
From WKOW, serving the kow kounties of central Wisconsin:
Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to talk with Boys & Girls Club
June 27, 2020
5:33 pm MADISON (WKOW) — Boys & Girls Club of Dane County President Michael Johnson said that he spoke with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, on Saturday. … Johnson also said Meghan Markle’s team that reached out to him, wanting to talk to Althea Bernstein, the 18-year-old who was attacked and set on fire with lighter fluid last Wednesday.
This story may have legs after all …
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-27--The Old America Is Dead. Where Do We Go From Here?

“ Then who do we shoot ?
” Like Muley Graves the sharecropper , John Steinbeck ’ s evocative Okie everyman in John Ford ’ s 1940 film , many Americans are bewildered by a tidal wave of forces that seem beyond their control .
The answer is not easy .
But increasingly it seems likely to involve geographical partition .
Facing eviction from his dust-bowl farm , Muley confronts a man on a bulldozer who has come to demolish the shack Muley and his family live in .
The sharecropper is determined not to give in and threatens the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he is a local man , one of Muley ’ s own people .
The bulldozer driver explains it ’ s not his fault , it ’ s just a job that he was hired to do .
If Muley shoots him , then someone else will come to do the job and Muley will land in jail .
“ Then who do we shoot ?
” asks Muley .
The banker ?
The people back East who own the bank ?
Morally disarmed and demoralized , Muley can only watch as the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans understand Muley .
Our people , our culture , our history , everything we hold dear , is under relentless attack by the Main Stream Media , politicians , “ activists , ” and kritarchs in the courts , aided and abetted by enemies within , often our own kith and kin , who have internalized the blood-libel Leftist narrative of an irredeemably “ racist ” America that must be razed to the ground .
“ If you know your enemy , ” wrote Sun Tzu , “ and know yourself , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a hundred battles.
” Our enemy , in this case is the globalist Blob and its militant would-be Che Guevaras and LARPing Leninists , the MSM , the bureaucracy , the courts , the big corporations , and the education establishment .
Yet , for the most part , until recently , the Blob has not confronted the Historic American Nation head-on .
The Blob has been patient , killing us by the death of a thousand cuts , taking ground steadily through subversion , using propaganda and misinformation , censorship via Tech @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what the late Sam Francis called “ anarcho-tyranny , ” with mass immigration ( “ the Great Replacement ” ) as its weapon of mass destruction .
The Blob is amorphous , a slippery , slimy thing that probes and gropes its way into whatever social-economic-political cracks it can exploit , eventually engulfing its prey like quicksand .
It is also using “ hybrid warfare ” tactics that have been used before but have gelled with the expansion of mass communications and can quickly conjure up “ flash mobs ” and distribute “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is ‘ hybrid warfare ’ and what is meant by the ‘ grey zone ’ ?
, The Conversation , June 17 , 2019 ] The scare quote , creative editing , and constant repetition of bald-faced lies , magnified by social media , engulf us in a tidal wave of words and images .
We live in a bizarre Twilight Zone that lacks depth and context .
Give credit where credit is due .
Hybrid warfare has worked .
The Blob infiltrated and subverted American institutions by exploiting our American sense of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a relatively easy mark .
As the Blob seeped into our lives , we gradually adjusted to a “ new normal ” each and every day .
Then Donald Trump was elected president .
The Blob was shocked .
Orange Man Bad seemed to threaten its plans to finish off the Historic American Nation .
And so , ever since November 8 , 2016 , the MSM have kept the country in hysterics with one manufactured crisis after another .
Fake news via a social media , a hybrid warfare tactic , kicked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the Chinese Virus panic and ensuing lockdown and economic crash , and now the myth of St. George Floyd and blacks being “ hunted ” by whites that catalyzed the mobs that have looted and burned American cities .
Using the Chinese Virus and Floyd riots as cover , the Blob and its militant wing—Antifa and Black Lives Matter—ratcheted up anarcho-tyranny to new heights .
In some American cities , Muley ’ s question—who do we shoot—has an answer , at least in an immediate sense .
So what next ?
Where @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Trump is re-elected on a wave of anger over the looting and anarchy unleashed by the “ I-Can ’ t-Breathe ” narrative .
Trump sends Javanka packing , dispatches the troops to restore order , extends the immigration moratorium , finally builds the wall , and begins mass deportations as the White House protects the dissident Right from deplatforming by the Tech Totalitarians .
That scenario is most likely a fantasy .
Even if Trump is re-elected , his past record of bluster and little to no action speaks for itself .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Deep State , have boxed him in .
Trump and his “ team , ” if one can call it that , are as easily disarmed by the antiracists as Conservative , Inc. ’ s operatives .
Their immediate and reflexive condemnation of the police after Floyd ’ s death , like the Beltway Right ’ s compulsion to apologize for even existing , tells the tale .
Of course vote for Trump in November .
But don ’ t expect too much .
Trump has been , at best , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Blob ’ s path .
America has survived unrest before , but that was a different country .
It had a white , Christian super-majority and a shared history .
It had at least a theoretical chance of working out a modus vivendi with its black minority .
The language was English and , most of the time , we played by a set of rules to which everyone—liberal conservative , Democrat or Republican—agreed .
Elections were not winner-take-all apocalyptic events .
Nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court did not occasion brutal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ longer .
If we bank solely on electoral politics , we will lose , especially as the demographic ring closes .
The winners will show no quarter .
Political life as we knew it in America is over .
Again , the America we grew up in and loved is dead .
Elections are a holding action at best .
It seems highly unlikely that Trump ( or anyone else , for that matter ) can , for instance , deport and encourage to self-deport tens of millions of illegal aliens , even @ @ @ @ @ @ @ What ’ s more , a substantial portion of the dwindling white majority has disavowed its identity—the “ flight from white , ” as Steve Sailer calls it .
Meanwhile , the Blob controls the Deep State and its bureaucracy not only on the federal level but also in too many swing states and major metropolitan areas .
• : Trump loses , and the Blob and its allies triumph .
But because this is a country now and not a nation , with no shared sense of common identity and agreed-upon history @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , only a full-blown police state can hold it together .
Even that might not ensure order in a chaotic post-America , and the diminishing number of whites will surely not enjoy the protection of the state .
At some point , white Americans might well be living like white South Africans , ever in fear for their lives .
If order breaks down , vigilante groups , even criminal gangs , will step into the void , as vigilantes have done in Mexico and Hispanic gangs have done to protect their neighborhoods @ @ @ @ @ @ @ news : white men have followed suit when mobs threatened their homes and history .
The boys in Fishtown in metropolitan Philadelphia who protected a police station , the heroes who surrounded and protected a statue of Christopher Columbus , and a group of armed Texans who gathered to protect the Alamo , are just three examples .
Meanwhile , following the “ higher number than usual ” of Atlanta police officers calling in sick when one of their own was charged with felony murder in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks , Seth @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Blue flu ” would be “ America ’ s next pandemic.
” [ As Atlanta Police Protest , Is “ Blue Flu ” The Next Pandemic ?
, June 18 , 2020 ] .
As calls to “ defund the police ” mount , that ’ s a good question .
And it raises another : what happens if America ’ s truckers decide not to deliver to cities with no police protection ?
So far , resistance to the Blob is scattered and uncoordinated , but that could change as the American @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country breaks apart , and the Historic American people establish enclaves for themselves and others who love and fondly remember the old America .
The breakup , indeed , is underway .
Blue states and Leftist kritarchs nullify laws they don ’ t like .
Sanctuary cities and even sanctuary states defy immigration laws .
Meanwhile , American patriots have answered with Second Amendment sanctuary counties and even states .
Americans in inland California talk of seceding from the “ Left coast.
” The Left has floated secession talk as well : anarchists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ autonomous zone ” in Seattle .
West Virginia ’ s governor , Jim Justice , invited conservative counties in Virginia to secede and join the Mountain State .
[ West Virginia Republicans encourage conservative Virginia counties to 'Vexit ' by Kelly Mena , CNN , Sun February 9 , 2020 ] .
States , counties , and cities that sided with or surrendered to the mob , and the Blob ’ s intensification of anarcho-tyranny during the recent coronavirus lock down , seem to have sparked a sharp reaction from the American remnant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a Middle American defense movement .
Someday , “ blue ” and “ red ” enclaves , even whole states , might evolve into new polities .
American patriots are developing their own hybrid warfare with media of their own , effectively following the Left ’ s example of nullification and internal secession , as well as organizing an alternative cultural network that publishes its own books , educates its children , and tries to carry on despite the threat of Deep State suppression .
My guess for the future : combination of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ state tightens its grip , the result on November 3 regardless , but devolution continues .
The Blob won ’ t let up .
The riots we recently witnessed will continue even if Trump sends in the troops now .
When that happens , we won ’ t need to ask Muley ’ s question .
Wayne Allensworth is a Corresponding Editor of Chronicles magazine .
He is the author of The Russian Question : Nationalism , Modernization , and Post-Communist Russia , and a novel Field of Blood .
He will soon @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) .
The website is currently under construction .

“Then who do we shoot?” Like Muley Graves the sharecropper, John Steinbeck’s evocative Okie everyman in John Ford’s 1940 film, many Americans are bewildered by a tidal wave of forces that seem beyond their control. The answer is not easy. But increasingly it seems likely to involve geographical partition.
Facing eviction from his dust-bowl farm, Muley confronts a man on a bulldozer who has come to demolish the shack Muley and his family live in. The sharecropper is determined not to give in and threatens the bulldozer operator with a shotgun—only to discover he is a local man, one of Muley’s own people. The bulldozer driver explains it’s not his fault, it’s just a job that he was hired to do. If Muley shoots him, then someone else will come to do the job and Muley will land in jail.
“Then who do we shoot?” asks Muley. The banker? The people back East who own the bank? Morally disarmed and demoralized, Muley can only watch as the bulldozer man destroys his home.
Patriotic Americans understand Muley. Our people, our culture, our history, everything we hold dear, is under relentless attack by the Main Stream Media, politicians, “activists,” and kritarchs in the courts, aided and abetted by enemies within, often our own kith and kin, who have internalized the blood-libel Leftist narrative of an irredeemably “racist” America that must be razed to the ground.
“If you know your enemy,” wrote Sun Tzu, “and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” Our enemy, in this case is the globalist Blob and its militant would-be Che Guevaras and LARPing Leninists, the MSM, the bureaucracy, the courts, the big corporations, and the education establishment.
Yet, for the most part, until recently, the Blob has not confronted the Historic American Nation head-on. The Blob has been patient, killing us by the death of a thousand cuts, taking ground steadily through subversion, using propaganda and misinformation, censorship via Tech Totalitarians, and the slow encroachment of what the late Sam Francis called “anarcho-tyranny,” with mass immigration (“the Great Replacement”) as its weapon of mass destruction.
The Blob is amorphous, a slippery, slimy thing that probes and gropes its way into whatever social-economic-political cracks it can exploit, eventually engulfing its prey like quicksand.
It is also using “hybrid warfare” tactics that have been used before but have gelled with the expansion of mass communications and can quickly conjure up “flash mobs” and distribute “fake news" [Explainer: what is ‘hybrid warfare’ and what is meant by the ‘grey zone’?, The Conversation, June 17, 2019]. The scare quote, creative editing, and constant repetition of bald-faced lies, magnified by social media, engulf us in a tidal wave of words and images. We live in a bizarre Twilight Zone that lacks depth and context.
Give credit where credit is due. Hybrid warfare has worked. The Blob infiltrated and subverted American institutions by exploiting our American sense of Fair Play and decency that made whites a relatively easy mark. As the Blob seeped into our lives, we gradually adjusted to a “new normal” each and every day.
Then Donald Trump was elected president. The Blob was shocked. Orange Man Bad seemed to threaten its plans to finish off the Historic American Nation. And so, ever since November 8, 2016, the MSM have kept the country in hysterics with one manufactured crisis after another. Fake news via a social media, a hybrid warfare tactic, kicked into high gear: Russiagate, Ukrainegate, the Chinese Virus panic and ensuing lockdown and economic crash, and now the myth of St. George Floyd and blacks being “hunted” by whites that catalyzed the mobs that have looted and burned American cities.
Using the Chinese Virus and Floyd riots as cover, the Blob and its militant wing—Antifa and Black Lives Matter—ratcheted up anarcho-tyranny to new heights.
In some American cities, Muley’s question—who do we shoot—has an answer, at least in an immediate sense.
So what next? Where do we go from here?
America faces three scenarios.
One : Trump is re-elected on a wave of anger over the looting and anarchy unleashed by the “I-Can’t-Breathe” narrative. Trump sends Javanka packing, dispatches the troops to restore order, extends the immigration moratorium, finally builds the wall, and begins mass deportations as the White House protects the dissident Right from deplatforming by the Tech Totalitarians.
That scenario is most likely a fantasy.
Even if Trump is re-elected, his past record of bluster and little to no action speaks for itself. The Blob and its executive arm, the Deep State, have boxed him in. Trump and his “team,” if one can call it that, are as easily disarmed by the antiracists as Conservative, Inc.’s operatives. Their immediate and reflexive condemnation of the police after Floyd’s death, like the Beltway Right’s compulsion to apologize for even existing, tells the tale.
Of course vote for Trump in November. But don’t expect too much. Trump has been, at best, a speedbump, not a roadblock, in the Blob’s path.
America has survived unrest before, but that was a different country. It had a white, Christian super-majority and a shared history. It had at least a theoretical chance of working out a modus vivendi with its black minority. The language was English and, most of the time, we played by a set of rules to which everyone—liberal conservative, Democrat or Republican—agreed. Elections were not winner-take-all apocalyptic events. Nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court did not occasion brutal, partisan, ideological war. No longer.
If we bank solely on electoral politics, we will lose, especially as the demographic ring closes. The winners will show no quarter.
Political life as we knew it in America is over. Again, the America we grew up in and loved is dead. Elections are a holding action at best. It seems highly unlikely that Trump (or anyone else, for that matter) can, for instance, deport and encourage to self-deport tens of millions of illegal aliens, even assuming a desire to do so.
What’s more, a substantial portion of the dwindling white majority has disavowed its identity—the “flight from white,” as Steve Sailer calls it. Meanwhile, the Blob controls the Deep State and its bureaucracy not only on the federal level but also in too many swing states and major metropolitan areas.
Two : Trump loses, and the Blob and its allies triumph. But because this is a country now and not a nation, with no shared sense of common identity and agreed-upon history, culture, beliefs, or language, only a full-blown police state can hold it together.
Even that might not ensure order in a chaotic post-America, and the diminishing number of whites will surely not enjoy the protection of the state. At some point, white Americans might well be living like white South Africans, ever in fear for their lives.
If order breaks down, vigilante groups, even criminal gangs, will step into the void, as vigilantes have done in Mexico and Hispanic gangs have done to protect their neighborhoods during the Floyd riots.
The good news: White men have followed suit when mobs threatened their homes and history. The boys in Fishtown in metropolitan Philadelphia who protected a police station, the heroes who surrounded and protected a statue of Christopher Columbus, and a group of armed Texans who gathered to protect the Alamo, are just three examples.
Meanwhile, following the “higher number than usual” of Atlanta police officers calling in sick when one of their own was charged with felony murder in the shooting of Rayshard Brooks, Seth Cohen at Forbes wondered whether the “Blue flu” would be “America’s next pandemic" [As Atlanta Police Protest, Is “Blue Flu” The Next Pandemic?, June 18, 2020]. As calls to “defund the police” mount, that’s a good question.
And it raises another: What happens if America’s truckers decide not to deliver to cities with no police protection?
So far, resistance to the Blob is scattered and uncoordinated, but that could change as the American systemic crisis deepens.
Three : The country breaks apart, and the Historic American people establish enclaves for themselves and others who love and fondly remember the old America.
The breakup, indeed, is underway. Blue states and Leftist kritarchs nullify laws they don’t like. Sanctuary cities and even sanctuary states defy immigration laws. Meanwhile, American patriots have answered with Second Amendment sanctuary counties and even states. Americans in inland California talk of seceding from the “Left coast.” The Left has floated secession talk as well: Anarchists have seized and established their own “autonomous zone” in Seattle. West Virginia’s governor, Jim Justice, invited conservative counties in Virginia to secede and join the Mountain State [West Virginia Republicans encourage conservative Virginia counties to 'Vexit,' by Kelly Mena, CNN, Sun February 9, 2020] .
States, counties, and cities that sided with or surrendered to the mob, and the Blob’s intensification of anarcho-tyranny during the recent coronavirus lock down, seem to have sparked a sharp reaction from the American remnant that could provide the bare bones of a Middle American defense movement.
Someday, “blue” and “red” enclaves, even whole states, might evolve into new polities.
American patriots are developing their own hybrid warfare with media of their own, effectively following the Left’s example of nullification and internal secession, as well as organizing an alternative cultural network that publishes its own books, educates its children, and tries to carry on despite the threat of Deep State suppression.
My guess for the future: combination of scenarios two and three. The managerial state tightens its grip, the result on November 3 regardless, but devolution continues.
The Blob won’t let up. The riots we recently witnessed will continue even if Trump sends in the troops now.
When that happens, we won’t need to ask Muley’s question.
Wayne Allensworth is a Corresponding Editor of Chronicles magazine. He is the author of The Russian Question: Nationalism, Modernization, and Post-Communist Russia, and a novel Field of Blood. He will soon be writing at American Remnant (www.american-remnant.com). The website is currently under construction.


vdare--2020-06-27--A New York Survivor Says De Blasio’s New York Is Returning To Pre-Giuliani Levels Of Street Menace

Earlier ( 2015 ) by Ann Coulter : Murders , Rapes , Slashed Faces , Broken Limbs And Ruined Lives—Liberals Want Pre-Giuliani New York Back From : New York Survivor [ Email him ] Here 's an example of the `` bad old days '' back in spades .
At 6PM today , I walked `` a gauntlet '' from 40th & 8th Ave to 33rd & 8th .
The devolution of this avenue ( never high in the firmament ) , is swift .
Every skel , miscreant , toothless skinny junkie bitch , cretin , menacing nut job @ @ @ @ @ @ @ cussing , pissing on that Avenue .
We the `` normals '' are the oddballs .
I even saw a white chick ( tight denim short shorts ) obviously a hooker with her `` man '' —the usual black pimp .
I ai n't seen that on the Ave in almost thirty years !
I worked nightclubs in this `` gauntlet '' forty years ago So I remember it well , especially the young lads who tried to stab me every once and awhile .
It would look like that after 11:30 PM @ @ @ @ @ @ @ better do something about it .
James Fulford writes : When the reader mentioned street awfulness in New York , I thought of the famous movie Taxi Driver , a scene from which is pictured below .
That was made in 1976 , and things would continue to get worse for another 20 years .
Check out Ann Coulter 's book Mugged for more details .

Earlier (2015) by Ann Coulter: Murders, Rapes, Slashed Faces, Broken Limbs And Ruined Lives—Liberals Want Pre-Giuliani New York Back
From: New York Survivor [Email him]
Here's an example of the "bad old days" back in spades.
At 6PM today, I walked "a gauntlet" from 40th & 8th Ave to 33rd & 8th. The devolution of this avenue (never high in the firmament), is swift. Every skel, miscreant, toothless skinny junkie bitch, cretin, menacing nut job is once again nodding, scratching, cussing, pissing on that Avenue. We the "normals" are the oddballs. I even saw a white chick (tight denim short shorts) obviously a hooker with her "man"—the usual black pimp. I ain't seen that on the Ave in almost thirty years!
I worked nightclubs in this "gauntlet" forty years ago So I remember it well, especially the young lads who tried to stab me every once and awhile.
It's back with vengeance.
It would look like that after 11:30 PM, THIS WAS 6PM!
The city better do something about it.
James Fulford writes: When the reader mentioned street awfulness in New York, I thought of the famous movie Taxi Driver, a scene from which is pictured above. That was made in 1976, and things would continue to get worse for another 20 years. Check out Ann Coulter's book Mugged for more details.


vdare--2020-06-27--Trump's Moratorium On Visas A Start, But Saboteurs Had Their Impact

President Trump thwarted the Open Borders saboteurs in his own Administration , issuing an Executive Order on restricting certain Non-Immigrant Visas ( NIV ) based on employment ; H-1B , H-2B , L-1 , and J-1 .
It is late , it is a start , it will help Americans suffering under the China Virus fraud that was deliberately stage-managed to thwart his own re-election .
It is uncertain if President Trump understands that this was a deliberate fraud directed at him .
He has good instincts , but is either unable or unwilling to act in his own and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have noted that it is his own fault , as he has been functionally unable to find and appoint those who support his ostensible beliefs as expressed during his campaign .
Consequently he has been captured by either the incompetent , such as Jeff Sessions who allowed the Spygate coup d ’ etat to run under his very nose , to Jared Kushner who has his own agenda to the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff that actively opposed his policies and is openly insubordinate , to Deep State saboteurs in various @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Homeland Security ( DHS ) openly lying to him .
But we have a good start with the recent Executive Order .
And note it was a real Executive Order .
Unlike the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ( DACA ) and the Deferred Action for Parents Of American Citizens ( DAPA ) creation and repeal , which were despite the complete confusion on both the right and the left , not Executive Orders by either President Obama or President Trump .
Both DACA and DAPA were created by policy memoranda signed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Executive Order is not limited by the Administrative Procedure Act ( APA ) and can be immediately implemented .
Also of import , the Executive Order was specifically restricted to the issuance of the above NIVs after the date of the EO and does not affect NIVs issued before that date , which is a major problem .
In addition , pursuant to Proclamation 10014 , the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Homeland Security reviewed nonimmigrant programs and found that the present admission of workers within several nonimmigrant visa categories also @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States workers during the current recovery .
NOW , THEREFORE , I , DONALD J. TRUMP , [ Capitalization in the original .
ed . ]
President of the United States , by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America , including sections 212 ( f ) and 215 ( a ) of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( INA ) ( 8 U.S.C .
1182 ( f ) and 1185 ( a ) ) and section 301 of title 3 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the entry into the United States of persons described in section 1 of Proclamation 10014 , except as provided in section 2 of Proclamation 10014 , and persons described in section 2 of this proclamation , except as provided for in section 3 of this proclamation , would be detrimental to the interests of the United States , and that their entry should be subject to certain restrictions , limitations , and exceptions .
I therefore hereby proclaim the following : Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Donald J. Trump , President of the United States , June 22 , 2020 As always , the devil is in the details .
The first problem is that it is only newly issued NIVs that are affected .
This means that any employment based NIV listed in the ban , H-1B , H-2B , L-1 , and J-1 that was issued on or before June 22 , 2020 , is still valid , even if the alien has not yet made their initial entry into the United States .
What this means @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be limited .
For example , the H-1B selection process for the year has already been completed and most NIVs that had an approved labor certification have been issued and the alien is free to enter the United States .
That is over 65,000 new H-1Bs under the quota , then add the 20,000 or more Science , Technology , Engineering , and Medical ( STEM ) graduates who qualify for H-1Bs over the quota , plus the unlimited number of H-1B NIVs available to non-profits and government agencies , mostly State @ @ @ @ @ @ @ colleges , and universities .
While the non-quota H-1Bs may apply all year , most are used up early in the year .
Clearly the evil Jared Kushner had a hand in this and the saboteurs in DHS snuck this through knowing the limited impact .
Importantly left off was Optional Practical Training ( OPT ) and Curricular Practical Training ( CPT ) , both employment programs for foreign students in the United States on F-1 NIVs .
OPT and CPT provide cheap labor , mostly in the tech industry , using substandard @ @ @ @ @ @ @ after graduation .
Foreign students on OPT and CPT are sucked up by both the titans of tech like Google and Facebook , but also by fly-by-night Indian job shops , as well as massive tech contracting firms like Infosys , Wipro , HCL , and Tata that openly replace American workers .
OPT and CPT are unaffected and open for employers of all sorts to game the system .
Expect a huge increase in Indian and Chinese foreign students coming to get third , fourth , and fifth Bachelor ’ s degrees @ @ @ @ @ @ @ universities who will issue OPT and CPT on the first day of classes , the students will go through the motions of taking courses , the schools will collect outlandish fees , and Amazon and Microsoft will continue their indentured workforce , just transferring from H-1B dependence to OPT and CPT dependence .
Also not addressed , is the current number of employment based NIVs in the United States : for H-1Bs alone it is estimated to be 3 million , not including dependents on H-4 NIVs and their anchor babies .
A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ prohibiting any H-1B from entering the United States regardless of the date of issue of the visa , but this would affect only a few who are out of the U.S. temporarily for a business or personal trip .
What really needs to happen is that all H-1Bs , H-2Bs , and J-1s need to be ordered to depart the United States .
With regard to L-1s , all should leave , with a limited exception of 1 NIV holder per employer or 1 per every 1,000 American employees at a particular company @ @ @ @ @ @ @ practice by which employers bring in aliens illegally on B-1 and B-2 NIVs and illegally put those employees to work in the United States .
The Indian job shops like Infosys are notorious for this , but American firms like Boeing also use this scam .
Similarly , unaddressed is employers bringing in employees on B-1 , B-2 , and F-1 NIVs and then applying to adjust status to an employment based NIV , mostly H-1B and L-1 after entry .
There is nothing in the EO that prohibits employers from exploiting this @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , apply to adjust status to H-1B or L-1 and you beat the EO .
So , there are definately saboteurs at DHS who did not warn the President about this .
So , the EO is a start , but President Trump needs to up his game .
Personnel is policy , and his personnel are not serving him or the American people .

President Trump thwarted the Open Borders saboteurs in his own Administration, issuing an Executive Order on restricting certain Non-Immigrant Visas (NIV) based on employment; H-1B, H-2B, L-1, and J-1. It is late, it is a start, it will help Americans suffering under the China Virus fraud that was deliberately stage-managed to thwart his own re-election. It is uncertain if President Trump understands that this was a deliberate fraud directed at him. He has good instincts, but is either unable or unwilling to act in his own and America’s best interest.
I have noted that it is his own fault, as he has been functionally unable to find and appoint those who support his ostensible beliefs as expressed during his campaign. Consequently he has been captured by either the incompetent, such as Jeff Sessions, who allowed the Spygate coup d’etat to run under his very nose, to Jared Kushner who has his own agenda to the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff that actively opposed his policies and is openly insubordinate, to Deep State saboteurs in various agencies, but especially in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) openly lying to him.
But we have a good start with the recent Executive Order. And note it was a real Executive Order. Unlike the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and the Deferred Action for Parents Of American Citizens (DAPA) creation and repeal, which were, despite the complete confusion on both the right and the left, not Executive Orders by either President Obama or President Trump.
Both DACA and DAPA were created by policy memoranda signed by the Secretaries of DHS. An Executive Order is not limited by the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and can be immediately implemented. Also of import, the Executive Order was specifically restricted to the issuance of the above NIVs after the date of the EO and does not affect NIVs issued before that date, which is a major problem.
First, the EO:
In addition, pursuant to Proclamation 10014, the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Homeland Security reviewed nonimmigrant programs and found that the present admission of workers within several nonimmigrant visa categories also poses a risk of displacing and disadvantaging United States workers during the current recovery. NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, [Capitalization in the original. ed.] President of the United States, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a)) and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, hereby find that the entry into the United States of persons described in section 1 of Proclamation 10014, except as provided in section 2 of Proclamation 10014, and persons described in section 2 of this proclamation, except as provided for in section 3 of this proclamation, would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, and that their entry should be subject to certain restrictions, limitations, and exceptions. I therefore hereby proclaim the following: Proclamation Suspending Entry of Aliens Who Present a Risk to the U.S. Labor Market Following the Coronavirus Outbreak, Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, June 22, 2020
As always, the devil is in the details. The first problem is that it is only newly issued NIVs that are affected.
Scope of Suspension and Limitation on Entry. (a) The suspension and limitation on entry pursuant to section 2 of this proclamation shall apply only to any alien who: (i) is outside the United States on the effective date of this proclamation; (ii) does not have a nonimmigrant visa that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation; and (iii) does not have an official travel document other than a visa (such as a transportation letter, an appropriate boarding foil, or an advance parole document) that is valid on the effective date of this proclamation or issued on any date thereafter that permits him or her to travel to the United States and seek entry or admission.
This means that any employment based NIV listed in the ban, H-1B, H-2B, L-1, and J-1 that was issued on or before June 22, 2020, is still valid, even if the alien has not yet made their initial entry into the United States.
What this means is that the effect of the ban will be limited. For example, the H-1B selection process for the year has already been completed and most NIVs that had an approved labor certification have been issued and the alien is free to enter the United States.
That is over 65,000 new H-1Bs under the quota, then add the 20,000 or more Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medical (STEM) graduates who qualify for H-1Bs over the quota, plus the unlimited number of H-1B NIVs available to non-profits and government agencies, mostly State and local governments, primarily schools, colleges, and universities. While the non-quota H-1Bs may apply all year, most are used up early in the year. Clearly the evil Jared Kushner had a hand in this and the saboteurs in DHS snuck this through knowing the limited impact.
Importantly left off was Optional Practical Training (OPT) and Curricular Practical Training (CPT), both employment programs for foreign students in the United States on F-1 NIVs. OPT and CPT provide cheap labor, mostly in the tech industry, using substandard wages for as long as two years after graduation. Foreign students on OPT and CPT are sucked up by both the titans of tech like Google and Facebook, but also by fly-by-night Indian job shops, as well as massive tech contracting firms like Infosys, Wipro, HCL, and Tata that openly replace American workers.
OPT and CPT are unaffected and open for employers of all sorts to game the system. Expect a huge increase in Indian and Chinese foreign students coming to get third, fourth, and fifth Bachelor’s degrees or Master’s degrees at fraudulent universities who will issue OPT and CPT on the first day of classes. The students will go through the motions of taking courses, the schools will collect outlandish fees, and Amazon and Microsoft will continue their indentured workforce, just transferring from H-1B dependence to OPT and CPT dependence.
Also not addressed, is the current number of employment based NIVs in the United States: For H-1Bs alone it is estimated to be 3 million, not including dependents on H-4 NIVs and their anchor babies. A solution for this problem could range from prohibiting any H-1B from entering the United States regardless of the date of issue of the visa, but this would affect only a few who are out of the U.S. temporarily for a business or personal trip. What really needs to happen is that all H-1Bs, H-2Bs, and J-1s need to be ordered to depart the United States. With regard to L-1s, all should leave, with a limited exception of 1 NIV holder per employer or 1 per every 1,000 American employees at a particular company.
Also not addressed was the ongoing practice by which employers bring in aliens illegally on B-1 and B-2 NIVs and illegally put those employees to work in the United States. The Indian job shops like Infosys are notorious for this, but American firms like Boeing also use this scam.
Similarly, unaddressed is employers bringing in employees on B-1, B-2, and F-1 NIVs and then applying to adjust status to an employment based NIV, mostly H-1B and L-1 after entry. There is nothing in the EO that prohibits employers from exploiting this loophole. Just bring in an employee, apply to adjust status to H-1B or L-1 and you beat the EO. So, there are definitely saboteurs at DHS who did not warn the President about this.
So, the EO is a start, but President Trump needs to up his game. Personnel is policy, and his personnel are not serving him or the American people.


vdare--2020-06-27--Kritarch Dolly Gee Strikes Again, Releases Illegals In The Name Of Coronavirus: Time For The Andrew

Kritarch Dolly Gee Strikes Again, Releases Illegals In The Name Of Coronavirus: Time For The Andrew Jackson Option!

Kritarch Dolly Gee has struck again .
Gee is a Chinese agent in the judiciary and intent on flooding the United States with Third World illegal aliens so as to destroy the United States and hasten the rise of Red China to the dominant hyperpower of the world .
Gee also serves as a Chinese soldier in war on the Historical American Nation—the daughter of Chinese immigrants is resentful of white achievement and knows she is an affirmative action baby .
She serves two masters with one goal , the end of White America .
I warned of the danger @ @ @ @ @ @ @ no avail .
The latest abomination from Kritarch Gee is an order to release all minors in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ) due to a threat of the China Virus .
This is all the more outrageous in that minors are the group least likely to die from the Wuhan Coronavirus .
In fact , minors neither become infected nor spread the Wu Flu .
But Kritarch Gee has an agenda , and that is the election of a new people , facts and science be damned @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pandemic , a federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday ordered the release of migrant children held in the country ’ s three family detention centers .
The order to release the children by July 17 came after plaintiffs in a long-running case reported that some of them have tested positive for the virus .
It applies to children who have been held for more than 20 days in the detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement , two in Texas and one in Pennsylvania .
There were 124 children living in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the ruling .
[ U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers , Judge Rules , Miriam Jordan , NYT , June 26 , 2020 ] And , of course , it is not about the children , it is about releasing their parents as well , so they can disappear into the United States , never appear for the deportation hearings , and be around for the next amnesty .
Given the pandemic , Judge Gee wrote , ICE must work to release the children with “ all deliberate speed , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to suitable guardians with the consent of their parents .
The order was the first time a court had set a firm deadline for the release of minors in family detention if their parents designated a relative in the United States to take custody .
Recent orders had required their “ prompt ” release .
This despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that asylum seekers have no due process rights other than that provided by legislation and no habeas corpus claim during removal proceedings .
It is past time the Administration kowtows to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ her orders using the Andrew Jackson precedent .
A nation ’ s eyes turn to you , Andrew Jackson , in our time of need .

Kritarch Dolly Gee has struck again. Gee is a Chinese agent in the judiciary and intent on flooding the United States with Third World illegal aliens so as to destroy the United States and hasten the rise of Red China to the dominant hyperpower of the world.
Gee also serves as a Chinese soldier in war on the Historical American Nation—the daughter of Chinese immigrants is resentful of white achievement and knows she is an affirmative action baby. She serves two masters with one goal, the end of White America. I warned of the danger presented by Kritarch Gee. But to no avail.
Tyrant Kritarch Dolly Gee
The latest abomination from Kritarch Gee is an order to release all minors in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) due to a threat of the China Virus. This is all the more outrageous in that minors are the group least likely to die from the Wuhan Coronavirus. In fact, minors neither become infected nor spread the Wu Flu.
But Kritarch Gee has an agenda, and that is the election of a new people, facts and science be damned.
Citing the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles on Friday ordered the release of migrant children held in the country’s three family detention centers. The order to release the children by July 17 came after plaintiffs in a long-running case reported that some of them have tested positive for the virus. It applies to children who have been held for more than 20 days in the detention centers run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, two in Texas and one in Pennsylvania. There were 124 children living in those facilities on June 8, according to the ruling. [U.S. Must Release Children From Family Detention Centers, Judge Rules, Miriam Jordan, NYT, June 26, 2020]
And, of course, it is not about the children, it is about releasing their parents as well, so they can disappear into the United States, never appear for the deportation hearings, and be around for the next amnesty.
Given the pandemic, Judge Gee wrote, ICE must work to release the children with “all deliberate speed,” either along with their parents or to suitable guardians with the consent of their parents. The order was the first time a court had set a firm deadline for the release of minors in family detention if their parents designated a relative in the United States to take custody. Recent orders had required their “prompt” release.
This despite the recent Supreme Court ruling that asylum seekers have no due process rights other than that provided by legislation and no habeas corpus claim during removal proceedings.
It is past time the Administration kowtows to this Chinese Kritarch. Time to ignore her orders using the Andrew Jackson precedent.
The Solution To Kritarchs
A nation’s eyes turn to you, Andrew Jackson, in our time of need.


vdare--2020-06-27--Denver Kit Carson Monument Pulled Down By City Before Anti-White Mob Can Tear It Down

It ’ s happening so fast few dare speak out , because no one has the words to accurately articulate the scope of the devastation .
The acts of pure anti-white animosity .
Manifest Destiny has been supplanted .
The rule of Black-Run America ( BRA ) is washing away the civilization our ancestors built out of the wilderness on this continent .
Kit Carson , Part Of Pioneer Monument At Colfax And Broadway , Removed By Denver Crews , by Rick Salinger , CBS Denver , June 26 , 2020 The Kit Carson portion of the Pioneer Monument at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Denver city crews on Friday afternoon .
It ’ s the latest statue to be dismantled in Denver , the others were toppled by protesters .
One man at the corner of Broadway and Colfax in Denver shouted , “ If they don ’ t do it , I will !
” Christopher “ Kit ” Carson , once married to an indigenous woman , later became known for his actions under Union orders during the Civil War against numerous tribes .
Tessa McLean , speaking for the American Indian Movement , told @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Kit Carson statue to us represents genocide .
He was an Indian killer.
” Scott Gilmore of the City of Denver Parks and Recreation Department said , “ We decided it would be best instead of people sneaking out at night and trying to pull it down we ’ d be more proactive and remove the statue.
” On Thursday the American Indian Movement of Colorado sent a letter to Denver leaders calling for the removal of “ two racist , anti-Indian icons : the plaque honoring Christopher Columbus in Civic Center @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the corner of Colfax and Broadway streets.
” “ The historical moment has arrived for Denver to find the moral courage to begin the process of removal of these vicious and divisive monuments to invasion and colonialism .
The removal of these statues will only begin the discussion of the remediation of the history of anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity in Denver , which is epitomized by the ongoing tribute to the African slave-trading , Indian-murdering Christopher Columbus , ” the group said in a statement .
The city did not have a chance to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people using ropes were seen in a phone video taking down the statue during the night .
At daybreak Friday the 15-foot bronze statue was over on its side and on the ground .
While it does not depict Columbus there is a plaque referring to him as an Italian visionary and great explorer .
Carl Huey a bystander said , “ This is appalling it ’ s unjust and it ’ s inept we just don ’ t need it.
” Columbus was accused of torture and mutilation of his colonial subjects @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was there too , to survey what happened , “ we were hoping we could pull the plaque off and we could bring people together to discuss the issue.
” This week , a Civil War statue in front of the Colorado State Capitol was toppled and damaged , presumably for its reference to the Sand Creek massacre of indigenous people .
The statue and its base have been repeatedly vandalized since the George Floyd death protests began in Denver .
Gov .
Jared Polis has indicated it will be repaired and replaced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ end slavery .
As for the Pioneer Monument statue of Kit Carson , Mayor Michael Hancock has formed a commission to examine all controversial names within the City of Denver .
The Pioneer Monument with Kit Carson was created by artist Frederick MacMonnies and was erected in 1911 .
According to the Denver Arts & Venues website , [ the monument is described as ] Bronze figures of The Hunter , The Prospector , The Pioneer Mother and Child , designed by the artist .
Initially conceived in 1905 by members of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supported by Mayor Speer , who promised a suitable site if the money for the statue was raised .
The site chosen marks the end of the Smokey Hill Trail , which started in Abilene Kansas .
Before the sculpture was erected , there was a pump house for the Denver Fire Department on the site .

It’s happening so fast few dare speak out, because no one has the words to accurately articulate the scope of the devastation. The acts of pure anti-white animosity.
Manifest Destiny has been supplanted. The rule of Black-Run America (BRA) is washing away the civilization our ancestors built out of the wilderness on this continent.
Kit Carson, Part Of Pioneer Monument At Colfax And Broadway, Removed By Denver Crews, by Rick Salinger, CBS Denver, June 26, 2020
The Kit Carson portion of the Pioneer Monument at Colfax Avenue and Broadway was removed by Denver city crews on Friday afternoon. It’s the latest statue to be dismantled in Denver, the others were toppled by protesters.
One man at the corner of Broadway and Colfax in Denver shouted, “If they don’t do it, I will!”
Christopher “Kit” Carson, once married to an indigenous woman, later became known for
his actions under Union orders during the Civil War against numerous tribes.
Tessa McLean, speaking for the American Indian Movement, told CBS4’s Rick Sallinger, “The Kit Carson statue to us represents genocide. He was an Indian killer.”
Scott Gilmore of the City of Denver Parks and Recreation Department said, “We decided it would be best instead of people sneaking out at night and trying to pull it down we’d be more proactive and remove the statue.”
On Thursday the American Indian Movement of Colorado sent a letter to Denver leaders calling for the removal of “two racist, anti-Indian icons: the plaque honoring Christopher Columbus in Civic Center Park and the Pioneer Fountain monument at the corner of Colfax and Broadway streets.”
“The historical moment has arrived for Denver to find the moral courage to begin the process of removal of these vicious and divisive monuments to invasion and colonialism. The removal of these statues will only begin the discussion of the remediation of the history of anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity in Denver, which is epitomized by the ongoing tribute to the African slave-trading, Indian-murdering Christopher Columbus,” the group said in a statement.
The city did not have a chance to remove the Columbus one first. Several people using ropes were seen in a phone video taking down the statue during the night. At daybreak Friday the 15-foot bronze statue was over on its side and on the ground. While it does not depict Columbus there is a plaque referring to him as an Italian visionary and great explorer.
Carl Huey a bystander said, “This is appalling it’s unjust and it’s inept we just don’t need it.”
Columbus was accused of torture and mutilation of his colonial subjects.
Gilmore, with the city, was there too, to survey what happened, “we were hoping we could pull the plaque off and we could bring people together to discuss the issue.”
This week, a Civil War statue in front of the Colorado State Capitol was toppled and damaged, presumably for its reference to the Sand Creek massacre of indigenous people. The statue and its base have been repeatedly vandalized since the George Floyd death protests began in Denver.
Gov. Jared Polis has indicated it will be repaired and replaced because it honored those who fought to end slavery. As for the Pioneer Monument statue of Kit Carson, Mayor Michael Hancock has formed a commission to examine all controversial names within the City of Denver.
The Pioneer Monument with Kit Carson was created by artist Frederick MacMonnies and was erected in 1911.
According to the Denver Arts & Venues website,
[the monument is described as]
Bronze figures of The Hunter, The Prospector, The Pioneer Mother and Child, designed by the artist.
Initially conceived in 1905 by members of the Denver Real Estate Exchange. They were supported by Mayor Speer, who promised a suitable site if the money for the statue was raised. The site chosen marks the end of the Smokey Hill Trail, which started in Abilene Kansas. Before the sculpture was erected, there was a pump house for the Denver Fire Department on the site.