vdare--2020-04-17--John Derbyshire: So The "N-Word" Can Only Be Spoken By Our Ruling Elite?

[ Adapted from the latest Radio Derb , now available exclusively on VDARE.com ] The Suits at VDARE.com wo n't let me spell out the N-word in full .
I understand the reasons for that and am totally on board with the policy .
It 's irksome , though ; it annoys me .
[ VDARE.com Suits : it annoys us too , but it ’ s because Tech Totalitarian corporate censorware would block us for using it ] .
Not because I dislike black people .
There are many I like a lot .
Here 's one : scholar @ @ @ @ @ @ @ University .Back in 2016 I noted a column Professor McWhorter had published at The Daily Beast under the title `` Anti-Racism , Our Flawed New Religion . ''
Anti-racism is , he wrote , is `` what we worship , as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and , among most Blue State Americans , more so . ''
But I think that a situation where one part of the citizenry is prohibited , on pain of career destruction , from uttering a word that the other part uses with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ do n't mind taboo words in themselves .
Probably every organized society needs taboo words .
A taboo word should be taboo to everybody , though .
Otherwise you 're in one of those situations Sir James Frazer wrote about in The Golden Bough , one of those primitive societies where certain words can only be spoken by members of the ruling elite .
Well , here 's a couple of stories from the past few days that I 'm going to put under the heading `` N-word Watch . ''
I may @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was a rising star in NASCAR .
Apparently—I did n't know this , and I hope I 'm getting it right—you do n't get to be a star driver in NASCAR unless you are employed by an organization that runs teams of drivers .
Larson was an employee of an outfit named Chip Ganassi Racing .
He was doing so well , he was preparing to go free agent , so that Chip Ganassi would have to fight a bidding war with other outfits for Larson 's services .
Pretty nice career spot @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Last week , it all fell apart .
Sunday night , wearing a headset for some kind of live-streamed virtual event , Larson lost communication with a colleague—a white guy , as it happens .
Checking the mike , he said : `` You ca n't hear me , [ N-word ] ? ''
Except of course he did n't say [ N-word ] .
He said the actual taboo word .
It was a hot mike .
Larson was suspended without pay by Ganassi early Monday , then suspended indefinitely by NASCAR @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Credit One Bank—started pulling out , so Ganassi totally fired him .
[ Larson Fired After Sponsors Drop NASCAR Driver over Racial Slur , AP , April 14 , 2020 ] For using the N-word—with a white colleague .
Larson , by the way , is half-Japanese , an unusual thing in auto racing .
His grandparents spent time in an internment camp in California during World War II , so he has some victim cred .
It did n't help .
Blackety-Black victimhood trumps every other kind .
• Eugene Volokh @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at UCLA Law School in , of course , Los Angeles .
The First Amendment , in case you need reminding , is the one that , inter alia , forbids Congress to make any law `` abridging the freedom of speech , or of the press . ''
VDARE.com has cited Volokh many times e.g .
Eugene And Eugenics , Eugene Volokh Repeats : “ Hate Speech ” is Not a Thing , Constitutionally Speaking , `` Letting In Immigrants Means Letting In Your Future Rulers '' , and Eugene Volokh On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's this scholar teaching First Amendment Law .
Well , last October the University of Connecticut Police Department arrested two students who were filmed shouting the N-word while walking in a parking lot [ Two students arrested in connection to racist comments , by Gabriella DeBenedictis , The Daily Campus , October 22 , 2019 ] .
The students were loud enough to be heard by two people in an adjacent apartment complex .
These people called the campus police , the students were arrested and charged under a state law that makes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ race .
Volokh , our scholar , led a class discussion about that incident .
He argued , that the law is ( a ) unconstitutional , and ( b ) was anyway misapplied in this Connecticut case .
He invited students to argue the pros and cons with him—just as a college teacher should do .
Along the way , however , he uttered the N-word in all its taboo fulness .
Some students apparently suffered hurt feelings and , when they had been revived and restored to full functioning , ratted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The law school dean , Jennifer Mnookin ( n.b .
Lance Welton—female ) issued a sniveling public apology for Volokh 's gross and shameless breach of political correctness .
Volokh has defended himself spiritedly UCLA Law Dean Apologizes for My Having Accurately Quoted the Word -- -- -- -- n Discussing a Case .
But Dean Mnookin [ Email her | Tweet her ] has responded , ominously : Since when did the First Amendment not apply to “ animus ” ?
I have not so far heard that Eugene Volokh has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Perhaps he has tenure , I do n't know .
If he should lose his job over this , I understand that Chip Ganassi Racing is looking for drivers .
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He is the author of We Are Doomed : Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books .
He has had two books published by VDARE.com @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also available in Kindle ) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II : ESSAYS 2013 .
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[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]
The Suits at VDARE.com won't let me spell out the N-word in full. I understand the reasons for that and am totally on board with the policy. It's irksome, though; it annoys me. [VDARE.com Suits: it annoys us too, but it’s because Tech Totalitarian corporate censorware would block us for using it].
Not because I dislike black people. There are many I like a lot. Here's one: scholar of human language John McWhorter of Columbia University .Back in 2016 I noted a column Professor McWhorter had published at The Daily Beast under the title "Anti-Racism, Our Flawed New Religion." Anti-racism is, he wrote, is "what we worship, as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and, among most Blue State Americans, more so."
But I think that a situation where one part of the citizenry is prohibited, on pain of career destruction, from uttering a word that the other part uses with perfect liberty, is unjust.
I don't mind taboo words in themselves. Probably every organized society needs taboo words. A taboo word should be taboo to everybody, though. Otherwise you're in one of those situations Sir James Frazer wrote about in The Golden Bough, one of those primitive societies where certain words can only be spoken by members of the ruling elite.
Well, here's a couple of stories from the past few days that I'm going to put under the heading "N-word Watch." I may make this a regular feature.
First story: Meet Kyle Larson, 27 years old, a race-car driver.
Larson was a rising star in NASCAR. Apparently—I didn't know this, and I hope I'm getting it right—you don't get to be a star driver in NASCAR unless you are employed by an organization that runs teams of drivers.
Larson was an employee of an outfit named Chip Ganassi Racing. He was doing so well, he was preparing to go free agent, so that Chip Ganassi would have to fight a bidding war with other outfits for Larson's services. Pretty nice career spot to be in for a 27-year-old.
Last week, it all fell apart. Sunday night, wearing a headset for some kind of live-streamed virtual event, Larson lost communication with a colleague—a white guy, as it happens. Checking the mike, he said: "You can't hear me, [N-word]?"
Except of course he didn't say [N-word]. He said the actual taboo word.
It was a hot mike. Larson was suspended without pay by Ganassi early Monday, then suspended indefinitely by NASCAR. Then big sponsors—Chevrolet, McDonald's, Credit One Bank—started pulling out, so Ganassi totally fired him. [Larson Fired After Sponsors Drop NASCAR Driver over Racial Slur, AP, April 14, 2020]
For using the N-word—with a white colleague.
Ridiculous & sad! Black people don’t care abt so-called “N” word! They use it ALL the time. They pretend to be hurt when whites use it so they can play victim & control whites.
BREAKING: Chip Ganassi Racing has fired star NASCAR driver #KyleLarson after his use of a racial slur https://t.co/nXOUAjlodO — Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) April 15, 2020
Larson, by the way, is half-Japanese, an unusual thing in auto racing. His grandparents spent time in an internment camp in California during World War II, so he has some victim cred.
It didn't help. Blackety-Black victimhood trumps every other kind.
So here's this scholar teaching First Amendment Law.
Well, last October the University of Connecticut Police Department arrested two students who were filmed shouting the N-word while walking in a parking lot[Two students arrested in connection to racist comments, by Gabriella DeBenedictis, The Daily Campus, October 22, 2019]. The students were loud enough to be heard by two people in an adjacent apartment complex. These people called the campus police, the students were arrested and charged under a state law that makes it an offense to ridicule someone's race.
Volokh, our scholar, led a class discussion about that incident. He argued, that the law is (a) unconstitutional, and (b) was anyway misapplied in this Connecticut case. He invited students to argue the pros and cons with him—just as a college teacher should do.
Along the way, however, he uttered the N-word in all its taboo fulness.
Some students apparently suffered hurt feelings and, when they had been revived and restored to full functioning, ratted on Prof. Volokh to the college authorities.
The law school dean, Jennifer Mnookin (n.b. Lance Welton—female , pictured right ) issued a sniveling public apology for Volokh's gross and shameless breach of political correctness. Volokh has defended himself spiritedly UCLA Law Dean Apologizes for My Having Accurately Quoted the Word--------n Discussing a Case.
Volokh is so good here. I wish the rest of the world were equally mature. https://t.co/jVeiELZ0Ay — Timothy Sandefur (@TimothySandefur) April 14, 2020
But Dean Mnookin [Email her | Tweet her] has responded, ominously:
While he has the right to make that choice as a matter of academic freedom and First Amendment rights, so long as he is not using this or other words with animus, many of us—myself included—strongly believe that he could achieve his learning goals more effectively and empathetically without repeating the word itself. UCLA Law apologizes for First Amendment scholar quoting n-word in class, by Greg Piper, The College Fix, April 15, 2020
Since when did the First Amendment not apply to “animus”?
I have not so far heard that Eugene Volokh has been fired from UCLA Law School. Perhaps he has tenure, I don't know.
If he should lose his job over this, I understand that Chip Ganassi Racing is looking for drivers.
John Derbyshire [ email him] writes an incredible amount on all sorts of subjects for all kinds of outlets. (This no longer includes National Review, whose editors had some kind of tantrum and fired him.) He is the author of We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism and several other books. He has had two books published by VDARE.com com: FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT (also available in Kindle) and FROM THE DISSIDENT RIGHT II: ESSAYS 2013.
For years he’s been podcasting at Radio Derb, now available at VDARE.com for no charge. His writings are archived at JohnDerbyshire.com.
Readers who wish to donate (tax deductible) funds specifically earmarked for John Derbyshire's writings at VDARE.com can do so here.


vdare--2020-04-17--Obama Endorses Joe, Corona Numbers, De-Globalizing America, N-Word Watch, And Stephen Lawrence Day,

Obama Endorses Joe, Corona Numbers, De-Globalizing America, N-Word Watch, And Stephen Lawrence Day, Etc.

01m29s Obama endorses Biden .
( But Trump is not Hoover . )
10m04s Numbers are of the essence .
@ @ @ @ @ ) 15m51s The de-globalizing of America .
( Let 's educate our own people in @ @ @ @ @ watch .
( Why is n't it taboo for everyone ? )
29m56s The holy @ @ @ @ @ .
( Coming up to Stephen Lawrence Day . )
34m45s Why is n't Jeff @ @ @ @ @ You know why . )
38m39s What locked-down Americans are doing .
( A possible @ @ @

01m29s Obama endorses Biden. (But Trump is not Hoover.)
10m04s Numbers are of the essence. (Our innumerate elites.)
15m51s The de-globalizing of America. (Let's educate our own people in STEM!)
22m56s N-word watch. (Why isn't it taboo for everyone?)
29m56s The holy blissful martyr for to seek. (Coming up to Stephen Lawrence Day.)
34m45s Why isn't Jeff Bezos in jail? (You know why.)
37m05s Michigan Governess sees Confederate flags, a swastika … (but no noose!)
38m39s What locked-down Americans are doing. (A possible insight.)
40m16s Signoff. (WHO, whom?)
01—Intro. And Radio Derb is on the air! Welcome to the podcast, ladies and gents. This is of course your reverently genial host John Derbyshire with VDARE.com's weekly feast of hateful hatefulness, brought to you from Hate Central here on the bosky north shore of Long Island.
Targets for my hate this week will be the Democratic Party of course, innumerate journalists, reckless globalization, the language police, false religions, Jeff Bezos, and the Governess of Michigan. That is the female of "Governor," isn't it? "Governess"? I think so.
Let's begin with the Party of the Little Guy and its prospects for November. Ethel?
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02—Obama endorses Biden. Tuesday this week Barack Obama finally endorsed Joe Biden for their party's Presidential nominee. That followed a lot of background chatter among close observers of politics that Obama had been pressing Bernie Sanders to pull out of the race, which Sanders had obligingly done the previous week.
How much is Obama's endorsement worth to Biden? Opinions differ. John Podhoretz published a column arguing that an Obama endorsement has historically been the kiss of death to candidates. He cited a number of candidates Obama had gone to bat for who face-planted in their subsequent election: Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, for example, who actually lost the Democratic primary in 2010 … to a guy who then lost in the general.
Eh, maybe. My own guess is that it's a very slight plus for Biden. A Democratic candidate needs the support of blacks and Goodwhite gentry liberals. Biden has that support anyway from having been Obama's Vice President for eight years; but not having Obama's explicit endorsement would have taken some of the shine off that.
And having that extra bit of blackety-black in his fuel tank simplifies Biden's choice of a running mate. Biden has already promised to put a Gyno-American on the ticket. If he believed he was coming up short on blackety-blackness, he'd feel pressured to pick some crazy white-hating Negress like Stacey Abrams or a mulatto-exotic Obama clone like Kamala Harris. Now, with that extra boost of negritude from Obama's endorsement, Joe can follow the sage advice Radio Derb offered him three months ago and pick Amy Klobuchar.
Can Biden win the Presidency in November? According to the analysts, it's nip and tuck. Current polling shows Biden with a good lead nationwide—five points on this week's Economist-YouGov poll. The slow demographic drift I keep harping on is in Joe's favor. The conservative and heavily-white Silent Generation is falling off the graph at one end: Joe has a nine-point lead among over-65s nationwide. Meanwhile less-white CultMarx-indoctrinated youngsters come on at the other end of the graph.
If you slice the numbers down to the electoral-college level, though, things don't look so good for Joe. Trump remains strong in the states with a big white working-class cohort of voters, states like Wisconsin and Iowa. Which, quote from the New York Times on this, April 13th, quote:
raises the possibility that Democrats could win the most votes and lose the White House for the third time in six Presidential elections.
End quote.
But then, of course, there is this damn fool virus squirting a cloud of uncertainty over everything; or not so much the virus as the economic consequences of all the lockdowns and layoffs we're going through.
President Trump is putting up a good show of being in charge here, which should be to his credit in November, if he can keep it up that long. The economic forces in play here, though, are more in the nature of a huge incoming wave he has to surf than of something he can divert or manage.
I've been starting to hear Trump spoken of as the Herbert Hoover of our age, elected in easygoing Good Times but fated to be sucked down to defeat by economic forces he can't control, or will try but fail to control.
I don't buy that. When Hoover ran for re-election in 1932 the downturn was three years along, if you date it from 1929's Black Friday—which I think you can, psychologically, although economists will give you an argument. When Trump runs for re-election in November our current lockdown-layoff crisis will be just eight months along. There won't—I was going to say "won't yet," but I think I'll stick with just "won't"—there won't be the level of despair that Americans were feeling in November 1932.
The national psychology was anyway all different 88 years ago. People back then lived on the edge, with very little of a safety net. Unemployment meant hunger and eviction. That's not to belittle the distress a lot of Americans are going through right now; I'm only pointing out some key differences that might be in play in 2020 as compared with 1932.
The unemployment numbers today, for example, are horrendous—more than 22 million jobs lost in the last thirty days. That phrase "jobs lost" needs some interpreting, though. The word "furlough" is much in the air.
You may indeed have totally lost your job and all associated benefits, 1932-style. My sincere condolences if you have, with the hope you'll be back at work soon. Or you may have been put on temporary layoff, with or without retaining your benefits, which is bad enough but not 1932-bad.
Business reporter John Crudele at the New York Post has crunched the numbers out of BLS, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and got a nice upbeat column from it. Most of the layoffs in March were of the temporary kind, says John. Well, maybe. I read that same BLS report … twice, without being able to make any sense of it. Let's just hope for the best here.
Main point: This is not 1932. Also, Trump isn't Hoover. Trump, for example, has a personality, which Hoover basically didn't. You may not like Trump's personality, but it's hard not to notice it.
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03—Numbers are of the essence. Concerning the pandemic itself, I don't have a lot to say for reasons I aired two weeks ago.
I am still, for example, getting a daily report in my New York Post on, quote, "cases"; that is, number of recorded cases of COVID-19, city, state, and nation. Recorded how? Number of hospital admissions? Then why not say so? Number of tests positive? Out of how many tested? Two thousand positives out of three thousand tested? Or two thousand positives out of a million tested? It's rare to see clear numbers spelled out.
It's likewise rare to see anything on the opportunity-cost side of the ledger. An acquaintance of mine is connected with NAPA, North American Partners in Anesthesia, which is, obviously, a professional association for anesthesiologists. They've fallen on hard times, my acquaintance tells me, because so many of the procedures that require an anesthesiologist—deep surgery, for example—have been put on hold while hospitals handle coronavirus patients.
A different acquaintance familiar with admissions to a nearby hospital emergency room tells me they are turning away cases they would not have turned away before to free up space for virus patients.
With so much of the nation's medical resources re-oriented to coronavirus cases like this, there must be some opportunity cost — surely including deaths—in health failure from other causes. Has anyone tried to quantify that? I haven't seen it; and until I do, I shall assume the numbers for coronavirus deaths need qualification they're not getting.
The general level of scientific and numerical understanding in mainstream commentary has improved some this past month, but it's still low. Journalism schools don't teach much math or statistics, I'm guessing.
Tucker Carlson, for example, had his regular medical reporter, a doctor named Marc Siegel, take a test for the virus on-air this past Monday. This is a new test developed by a lab in Chicago. We were told that, quote:
This is a rapid diagnostic test that will generate an accurate diagnosis within five minutes if the patient is positive for COVID and up to 13 minutes if they are negative.
End quote.
Dr Siegel tested negative. Well, that's great. Watching the segment, though, I was waiting for someone—Carlson, Dr Siegel, or the pathologist administering the test—I was waiting for someone to utter one of the following two phrases:
"false positive," or
"false negative."
Nobody did. Yet those are key things you want to know about any medical test, especially a brand-new test on a virus only recently come to notice.
Random story from the week's news. This was the London Daily Mail, April 16th. Headline: Nurse who twice needed hospital treatment for coronavirus casts doubt on the effectiveness of Covid-19 swabs after she tested negative THREE times.
The nurse in this story is Nicole Williams, age not given but looks to be no more than thirty, trim and fit, of Cardiff in Wales. Because she's a nurse, when she started getting symptoms she was tested right away. The test came back negative. The symptoms got worse; she was tested again, twice: negative, negative. A fourth test came up positive. The lady is now recovering, I'm glad to say.
So next time you see some TV talking head promoting a virus test, be sure to yell at the TV screen: "FALSE POSITIVES! FALSE NEGATIVES! WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS?"
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04—The de-globalizing of America. It's now a staple of deep-brow commentary on the pandemic that long-term it will mean a general retreat from the carefree globalization of the past thirty years.
As I pointed out last week, by far the greatest beneficiary from all that globalization has been the Chinese Communist Party. The party bosses have been able to keep their citizens happy with rapid economic progress, thus legitimizing their lawless, corrupt rule and keeping protest at bay. They have also, of course been able to fatten their own Swiss bank accounts.
So now there's much talk in the air about de-coupling from China. David Goldman has been all over this in his column at Asia Times. Yes, says David—and to his credit he's been saying it for years—yes, we certainly should decouple in all the areas of advanced electronics and IT that relate to our national security. Quote:
Washington should also enforce strict US content rules for sensitive defense technology. Many of the Pentagon's military systems depend on imported components. That's a concern on security grounds alone. Procurement rules should be changed to require that critical components be manufactured in the US.
End quote.
Hard to argue with that, and I won't. But then David brings out the wet blanket. Total decoupling, or anything close to it, is, he says, impossible. Further quote:
The U.S. doesn't have the skills to replace a great deal of Chinese production.
End quote.
The arts of precision engineering and process development that go into, for example, smartphones are much further advanced in China than here, says David. One more quote:
The U.S. doesn't have the engineers to make a smartphone. In fact, we don't have enough engineers to expand U.S. manufacturing output by any significant margin. As of 2015, China graduated six times as many engineers as the United States, according to the National Science Foundation. That was five years ago.
End quote.
That rang a distant bell with me. I went digging through my archives. Yep, found it. This was me, writing in the London Spectator back in, oh dear God, May of 1989. The democracy movement in China was heating up. I interviewed dissident Wang Bingzhang, who was then living in New York. Quote from him in that interview:
Do you know the proportion of engineers to lawyers in Japan? Seven to one. And in America? One to seven—just the opposite. That's the difference between a modern, civilised Oriental society and a modern, civilised Western society. China should naturally belong to the first group.
End quote.
Not the least of the problems here, as David points out, is that instead of training up our own citizens in advanced STEM subjects—that's Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math—we have given over our educational resources to training other countries' citizens, notably China's.
This, like so much else, comes down to terminally stupid immigration policies: in this case, issuing far, far too many student visas. Which, in turn, comes down to cold cash: foreign students in our universities pay full tuition, bloating college endowments up to the point where the colleges can easily buy a few congressmen to forestall any immigration reform.
Let's hope—it's a thin hope, but I'm hoping it—let's hope that with all the talk of decoupling from China in the air, we'll restore some sense to our policies on student visas. If the colleges howl about lost revenue, let's tell 'em to start graduating more Americans in STEM subjects, fewer in Gender Studies, Literary Deconstructionism, and Queer Legal Theory.
Also on the topic of de-globalization: Pat Buchanan, in his column here at VDARE.com on Thursday this week, floats the happy idea that following the flap about a coronavirus outbreak on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, and the inevitability of what Pat calls "a hard reckoning for the allocation of our diminished resources after the nation reopens," one more fatality of the pandemic may be the neocon fantasy of America playing global policeman for ever and ever, world without end, amen.
From your pen to God's eye, Pat.
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05—N-word watch. The suits at VDARE.com won't let me say or spell out the N-word in full. I understand the reasons for that and am totally on board with the policy.
It's irksome, though; it annoys me. Not because I dislike black people. There are many I like a lot—I'll mention one in just a minute—but because a situation where one part of the citizenry is prohibited, on pain of career destruction, from uttering a word that the other part uses with perfect liberty, is unjust.
I don't mind taboo words in themselves. Probably every organized society needs taboo words. A taboo word should be taboo to everybody, though. Otherwise you're in one of those situations Sir James Frazer wrote about in The Golden Bough, one of those primitive societies where certain words can only be spoken by members of the ruling elite.
Well, here's a couple of stories from the past few days that I'm going to put under the heading "N-word Watch." I may make this a regular Radio Derb feature.
First story: Meet Kyle Larson, 27 years old, a race-car driver. Larson was a rising star in NASCAR. Apparently—I didn't know this, and I hope I'm getting it right—you don't get to be a star driver in NASCAR unless you are employed by an organization that runs teams of drivers.
Larson was an employee of an outfit named Chip Ganassi Racing. He was doing so well, he was preparing to go free agent, so that Chip Ganassi would have to fight a bidding war with other outfits for Larson's services. Pretty nice career spot to be in for a 27-year-old.
Last week it all fell apart. Sunday night, wearing a headset for some kind of live-streamed virtual event, Larson lost communication with a colleague—a white guy, as it happens. Checking the mike, he said, quote: "You can't hear me, N-word?" Except of course he didn't say "N-word," he said the actual taboo word.
It was a hot mike. Larson was suspended without pay by Ganassi early Monday, then suspended indefinitely by NASCAR. Then big sponsors—Chevrolet, McDonald's, Credit One Bank—started pulling out, so Ganassi totally fired him. For using the N-word, with a white colleague.
Larson, by the way, is half-Japanese, an unusual thing in auto racing. His grandparents spent time in an internment camp in California during World War II, so he has some victim cred. It didn't help. Blackety-black victimhood trumps every other kind.
Second story: Eugene Volokh is a scholar teaching First Amendment Law at UCLA Law School in, of course, Los Angeles. The First Amendment, in case you need reminding, is the one that, inter alia, forbids Congress to make any law "abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press."
So here's this scholar teaching First Amendment Law.
Well, last October the University of Connecticut Police Department arrested two students who were filmed saying the N-word while walking in a parking lot. The students were loud enough to be heard by two people in an adjacent apartment complex. These people called the campus police, the students were arrested and charged under a state law that makes it an offense to ridicule someone's race.
Volokh, our scholar, led a class discussion about that incident. He argued that the law is (a) unconstitutional, and (b) was anyway misapplied in this Connecticut case. He invited students to argue the pros and cons with him—just as a college teacher should do. Along the way, however, he uttered the N-word in all its taboo fulness.
Some students suffered hurt feelings and, when they had been revived and restored to full functioning, ratted on Prof. Volokh to the college authorities.
The law school dean issued a sniveling public apology for Volokh's gross and shameless breach of political correctness. You can read for yourself what the dean said at the reason.com website. Volokh has reacted to that with a spirited defense of his right to treat law-school students as sentient adults.
I have not so far heard that Eugene Volokh has been fired from UCLA Law School. Perhaps he has tenure, I don't know. If he should lose his job over this, I understand that Chip Ganassi Racing is looking for drivers.
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06—The holy blissful martyr for to seek. I mentioned in that last segment that there are blacks I like a lot. Here's one: scholar of human language John McWhorter of Columbia university.
Back in 2016 I noted a column Prof. McWhorter had published at The Daily Beast under the title "Anti-Racism, Our Flawed New Religion." Anti-racism is, he wrote, quote, "what we worship, as sincerely and fervently as many worship God and Jesus and, among most Blue State Americans, more so."
I bring this up again because next Wednesday is April 22nd, feast day in Britain of the holy blessed martyr Stephen Lawrence.
I described the case of Stephen Lawrence in full two years ago; go to the Radio Derb transcripts on my website and look for the one dated April 27th 2018.
Suffice it to say here that Lawrence was a young black man who was stabbed to death by some white teenagers in London, April 22nd 1993. He has subsequently been elevated to what can only, with a nod to Prof. McWhorter, fairly be described as sainthood.
Nobody knows who killed Lawrence, but some low-life teenage males of the neighborhood were arrested, charged, and tried. The evidence wasn't strong enough to convict them, though.
Some years later the far-left, anti-white Labour party was voted into power under the unspeakably loathsome Tony Blair … excuse me, I had to go spit there.
The Blairites reopened the whole case and turned the British constitution—yes, there is one—they turned it upside down to re-try the teens, repealing the principle of double jeopardy and a good deal besides. Ancient English rights to freedom of speech and assembly were cast by the wayside.
There were endless official inquiries and reports. That word "endless" was literally the case when I made my 2018 report: an investigation was still going on, 25 years after the crime! Probably it still is, I don't know. An enormous, and extremely ugly building was erected in London and named the Stephen Lawrence Centre. Lawrence's mother, a lady of no distinction whatsoever, was raised to the House of Lords, the upper chamber of Britain's national legislature.
And at a hushed, reverent memorial service on the 25th anniversary of the murder, Britain's then-Prime Ministerette, the vapid and worthless Theresa May, told a hushed conregation of all the highest in the land, that April 22nd would henceforth be Stephen Lawrence Day.
So should you find yourself in Britain next Wednesday, be sure to visit the Stephen Lawrence Center and pay proper respects to the holy blissful martyr Stephen Lawrence, peace be upon him. Don't forget to take your prayer shawl and some suitable offerings—anything white will do.
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07—Miscellany. And now, our closing miscellany of brief items.
Imprimis: Wednesday this week on the VDARE.com site we posted one of our periodic calls for the arrest and prosecution of authority figures who aid or abet the harboring of illegal aliens in violation of U.S. Code Title 8 Section 1324.
So here's a thing I'd like to know: Why isn't Jeff Bezos in jail?
Bezos is a major contributor to TheDream.us—that's the name of the outfit, TheDream.us—which describes itself as, quote: "the nation's largest scholarship program for Dreamers," which is to say, for illegal aliens. How is that not aiding and abetting the harboring of illegal aliens?
Once securely locked up, Jeff will find himself in good company. Among the list of donors to the California Immigrant Resilience Fund, a a multi-million-dollar relief initiative for illegal aliens living in California, I see Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, along with a passel of funds and organizations with high-sounding names like Sunlight Giving, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation. That prison farm should be a regular Club Fed.
So why aren't these billionaires and managers of tony funds all doing time? You know why: Because this is a country not of laws, but of men. Especially rich men.
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Item: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been trying to enforce the country's strictest lockdown laws on the unfortunate citizens of her state.
Those citizens—well, some of them—have raised a rebellion. Several thousand of them held a protest rally at the state capitol in Lansing on Wednesday.
Governor Whitmer was not pleased. Interviewed on SiriusXM the next day, she extruded the following, quote:
It was a definitely a political rally. I've not often seen a Confederate flag at the state capitol—and there were a few of them. There was someone who had signs that had a swastika on it.
End quote.
I'm still waiting for some follow-up pictures showing those Confederate flags and that swastika. The thing I'd like to know in the meantime is: What about the noose? You mean to tell me there was a Confederate flag and a swastika but no noose? Impossible!
The noose must have slipped Governor Whitmer's mind … so to speak.
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Item: Finally, a wee insight into how Americans are occupying themselves under lockdown conditions.
A friend who lives in another state is stuck at home with her husband and late-teen daughter. The daughter is getting seriously restless. My friend thought that a jigsaw puzzle would be just the thing to keep her busy. Knowing that I am a keen puzzler, she emailed to ask if I might mail one of my old puzzles over to her. I said I'd be glad to oblige.
I wanted to get it to her as quickly as possible, though. Looking up postage rates, it occurred to me that for the same amount of money I might be able to just order a puzzle for her and have the firm ship it. Curious to see if I could in fact do that, I logged on to the U.S. website of Ravensburger, a German company that makes really good puzzles.
Up came the website's main page … with, superimposed right across the middle of it, a big blue panel saying:
Due to unexpected demand, we are unable to fulfill orders at this time.
Thank you for your understanding!
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08—Signoff. That's all I have for you this week, ladies and gents. Thanks for listening, and many thanks for your encouragement and support via emails and donations.
And among the emails, very special thanks to listeners and readers offering advice for my blocked eustachian tubes. I have learned that there is a gadget called Eustachi, available at most chain pharmacies over the counter, that does the job. It's a bit pricey—I paid $60—but worth it to get those tubes unblocked.
OK, for signout music, here's something that should block 'em up again.
Scanning the news this past couple of weeks, it's been hard to avoid seeing "WHO," W-H-O, all capital letters. That's understandable; the World Health Organization is newsy right now. For us sixties survivors, however, it's hard to keep seeing those capital letters without there coming to mind one of the great sixties rock groups—The Who.
When I went up to university in the early sixties, The Who were just getting known and still playing Saturday night college hops. They played a famous one at my college that people were talking about for years after. They showed up half an hour late and obviously stoned.
The students waiting in the dance-hall were not amused; they booed and hissed. That ticked off lead guitarist Pete Townshend. There were some potted plants in little plastic buckets set on the stage, I don't know why. Pete started picking them up and throwing them at the crowd. Students threw them back.
For a while it looked as though there might be another Altamont in the works. This was early sixties, though; things weren't yet Altamont-level crazy. Pete picked up his guitar and took the band right into their first number. The gig was a huge success at last; but that was a heck of an intro.
The Who: Here's one of their best. There will be more from Radio Derb next week.
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[Music clip: The Who, "I Can See for Miles"]


vdare--2020-04-17--ICE SVU Kowtows To Illegals Again, Promises Not To Park Near Medical Facilities Because Of Coronavir

ICE SVU Kowtows To Illegals Again, Promises Not To Park Near Medical Facilities Because Of Coronavirus

The new ICE SVU pass for illegal aliens is that they won ’ t be arrested if they are near a doctor ’ s office , an urgent care facility , a hospital , or clinic .
Does that include abortion clinics ?
Why is ICE SVU protecting illegal aliens with the Wu Flu ?
How many Americans are going to die because ICE SVU failed to deport an infected illegal alien ?
In a story planted by the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) with a fake Mexican reporter in the Lying Press , the Border Patrol was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hospital with a China Virus testing station .
The ACLU of Arizona demands answers from Customs and Border Protection after they say they have been receiving multiple reports of border patrol agents at hospitals providing COVID-19 testing .
The civil rights organization , released a video to abc15 showing a border patrol vehicle present at a COVID-19 testing site at the Diamond Children ’ s Medical Center in Tucson .
“ I don ’ t believe this is an isolated incident , but let ’ s say that it was .
it is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ behavior to have such a public presence in a hospital that is specifically giving drive-thru covid-19 testing , ” said Yvette Borja , attorney with ACLU of Arizona .
You can contact Soto here , here , and on Twitter below : Ask her what she was doing reporting a non-story .
She had no evidence that the Border Patrol was doing anything illegal , unethical , or immoral .
She made no effort to determine if any aliens were contacted or arrested at the site .
She just took the word of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nefarious deeds by the Border Patrol .
Nor did she investigate or deal with the issue of illegal aliens infected with the Chinese Virus and the impact on Americans .
She was nothing more than a transcriptionist for illegal alien advocates .
She even openly lied that there were “ reports ” of Border Patrol at multiple hospitals , implying they were arresting illegal aliens at hospitals .
Though , for the record , the Border Patrol should be patrolling hospitals for illegal aliens .
Worse yet , ICE SVU lept into action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any illegal aliens anywhere near any medical facility .
So basically , the whole of Phoenix is off limits to ICE SVU because there can be a doctor ’ s office or old folks home anywhere there .
On March 18 , U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a statement saying anyone regardless of immigration status should seek medical treatment or preventive services for coronavirus .
The statement was last updated on April 3 , it says : “ ICE will not carry out enforcement operations at or near health care facilities , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , accredited health clinics , and emergent or urgent care facilities , except in the most extraordinary of circumstances .
Individuals should not avoid seeking medical care because they fear civil immigration enforcement.
” You can contact the Special Agent-in-Charge of ICE SVU in Phoenix , Scott Brown , here and at .
He is , of course , one of the Dirty 19 Deep State saboteurs who attacked President Trump and is a Customs Puke .
He has no interest in enforcing immigration law .
In fact , he is more interested @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Ken The Knife to fire Brown .

The new ICE SVU pass for illegal aliens is that they won’t be arrested if they are near a doctor’s office, an urgent care facility, a hospital, or clinic. Does that include abortion clinics? Why is ICE SVU protecting illegal aliens with the Wu Flu? How many Americans are going to die because ICE SVU failed to deport an infected illegal alien?
In a story planted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) with a fake Mexican reporter in the Lying Press, the Border Patrol was attacked for having a vehicle at a hospital with a China Virus testing station.
The ACLU of Arizona demands answers from Customs and Border Protection after they say they have been receiving multiple reports of border patrol agents at hospitals providing COVID-19 testing. The civil rights organization, released a video to abc15 showing a border patrol vehicle present at a COVID-19 testing site at the Diamond Children’s Medical Center in Tucson. “I don’t believe this is an isolated incident, but let’s say that it was. it is particularly dangerous to be engaging in such behavior to have such a public presence in a hospital that is specifically giving drive-thru covid-19 testing,” said Yvette Borja, attorney with ACLU of Arizona. [Border Patrol Presence At COVID-19 Drive-Thrus Raises Questions, by Liliana Soto, ABC15, April 16, 2020]
You can contact Soto here, here, and on Twitter below:
What was a border patrol vehicle doing parked just steps away from a COVID-19 drive-thru? @ACLUaz pic.twitter.com/GCJ4icvkUm — Liliana soto (@LilianaSotoAZ) April 17, 2020
Ask her what she was doing reporting a non-story. She had no evidence that the Border Patrol was doing anything illegal, unethical, or immoral. She made no effort to determine if any aliens were contacted or arrested at the site. She just took the word of an activist organization and breathlessly reported some nefarious deeds by the Border Patrol. Nor did she investigate or deal with the issue of illegal aliens infected with the Chinese Virus and the impact on Americans. She was nothing more than a transcriptionist for illegal alien advocates. She even openly lied that there were “reports” of Border Patrol at multiple hospitals, implying they were arresting illegal aliens at hospitals. Though, for the record, the Border Patrol should be patrolling hospitals for illegal aliens.
Worse yet, ICE SVU lept into action, denouncing itself and denying they arrest any illegal aliens anywhere near any medical facility. So basically, the whole of Phoenix is off limits to ICE SVU because there can be a doctor’s office or old folks home anywhere there.
On March 18, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a statement saying anyone regardless of immigration status should seek medical treatment or preventive services for coronavirus. The statement was last updated on April 3, it says: “ICE will not carry out enforcement operations at or near health care facilities, such as hospitals, doctors’ offices, accredited health clinics, and emergent or urgent care facilities, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances. Individuals should not avoid seeking medical care because they fear civil immigration enforcement.” Deep State Saboteur A. Scott Brown, Protecting Illegal Aliens
You can contact the Special Agent-in-Charge of ICE SVU in Phoenix, Scott Brown, here and at . He is, of course, one of the Dirty 19 Deep State saboteurs who attacked President Trump and is a Customs Puke. He has no interest in enforcing immigration law. In fact, he is more interested in protecting illegal aliens. Time for Ken The Knife to fire Brown.


vdare--2020-04-17--John Derbyshire: Still A Coronavirus Agnostic, Because We're STILL Not Getting Good Numbers

Concerning the pandemic , I do n't have a lot to say for reasons I posted two weeks ago under the heading of `` Virus Agnosticism '' .
I am still , for example , getting a daily report in my New York Post on `` cases '' ; that is , number of recorded cases of COVID-19 , city , state , and nation .
Recorded how ?
Number of hospital admissions ?
Then why not say so ?
Number of tests positive ?
Out of how many tested ?
Two thousand positives out of three thousand tested ?
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ million tested ?
It 's rare to see clear numbers spelled out .
It 's likewise rare to see anything on the opportunity-cost side of the ledger .
An acquaintance of mine is connected with NAPA , North American Partners in Anesthesia , which is , obviously , a professional association for anesthesiologists .
They 've fallen on hard times , my acquaintance tells me , because so many of the procedures that require an anesthesiologist—deep surgery , for example—have been put on hold while hospitals handle coronavirus patients .
A different acquaintance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ emergency room tells me they are turning away cases they would not have turned away before to free up space for virus patients .
With so much of the nation 's medical resources re-oriented to coronavirus cases like this , there must be some opportunity cost—surely including deaths—in health failure from other causes .
Has anyone tried to quantify that ?
I have n't seen it ; and until I do , I shall assume the numbers for coronavirus deaths need qualification they 're not getting .
The general level of scientific and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ some this past month , but it 's still low .
Journalism schools do n't teach much math or statistics , I 'm guessing .
Tucker Carlson , for example , had his regular medical reporter , a doctor named Marc Siegel , take a test for the virus on-air this past Monday .
This is a new test developed by a lab in Chicago .
We were told that , quote : Dr Siegel tested negative .
Well , that 's great .
Watching the segment , though , I was waiting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , or the pathologist administering the test — I was waiting for someone to utter one of the following two phrases : Nobody did .
Yet those are key things you want to know about any medical test , especially a brand-new test on a virus only recently come to notice .
Random story from the week 's news .
This was the London Daily Mail , April 16th .
Headline : Nurse who twice needed hospital treatment for coronavirus casts doubt on the effectiveness of Covid-19 swabs after she tested negative THREE @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is Nicole Williams , age not given but looks to be no more than thirty , trim and fit , of Cardiff in Wales .
Because she 's a nurse , when she started getting symptoms she was tested right away .
The test came back negative .
The symptoms got worse ; she was tested again , twice : negative , negative .
A fourth test came up positive .
The lady is now recovering , I 'm glad to say .
So next time you see some TV talking head promoting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ yell at the TV screen : `` FALSE POSITIVES !
FALSE NEGATIVES !
WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS ? ''

Concerning the pandemic, I don't have a lot to say for reasons I posted two weeks ago under the heading of "Virus Agnosticism".
I am still, for example, getting a daily report in my New York Post on "cases"; that is, number of recorded cases of COVID-19, city, state, and nation. Recorded how? Number of hospital admissions? Then why not say so? Number of tests positive? Out of how many tested? Two thousand positives out of three thousand tested? Or two thousand positives out of a million tested? It's rare to see clear numbers spelled out.
It's likewise rare to see anything on the opportunity-cost side of the ledger. An acquaintance of mine is connected with NAPA, North American Partners in Anesthesia, which is, obviously, a professional association for anesthesiologists. They've fallen on hard times, my acquaintance tells me, because so many of the procedures that require an anesthesiologist—deep surgery, for example—have been put on hold while hospitals handle coronavirus patients.
A different acquaintance familiar with admissions to a nearby hospital emergency room tells me they are turning away cases they would not have turned away before to free up space for virus patients.
With so much of the nation's medical resources re-oriented to coronavirus cases like this, there must be some opportunity cost—surely including deaths—in health failure from other causes. Has anyone tried to quantify that? I haven't seen it; and until I do, I shall assume the numbers for coronavirus deaths need qualification they're not getting.
The general level of scientific and numerical understanding in mainstream commentary has improved some this past month, but it's still low. Journalism schools don't teach much math or statistics, I'm guessing.
Tucker Carlson, for example, had his regular medical reporter, a doctor named Marc Siegel, take a test for the virus on-air this past Monday. This is a new test developed by a lab in Chicago. We were told that, quote:
This is a rapid diagnostic test that will generate an accurate diagnosis within five minutes if the patient is positive for COVID and up to 13 minutes if they are negative.
Dr Siegel tested negative. Well, that's great. Watching the segment, though, I was waiting for someone — Carlson, Dr Siegel, or the pathologist administering the test — I was waiting for someone to utter one of the following two phrases:
"false positive," or
"false negative."
Nobody did. Yet those are key things you want to know about any medical test, especially a brand-new test on a virus only recently come to notice.
Random story from the week's news. This was the London Daily Mail, April 16th. Headline: Nurse who twice needed hospital treatment for coronavirus casts doubt on the effectiveness of Covid-19 swabs after she tested negative THREE times.
The nurse in this story is Nicole Williams, age not given but looks to be no more than thirty, trim and fit, of Cardiff in Wales. Because she's a nurse, when she started getting symptoms she was tested right away. The test came back negative. The symptoms got worse; she was tested again, twice: negative, negative. A fourth test came up positive. The lady is now recovering, I'm glad to say.
So next time you see some TV talking head promoting a virus test, be sure to yell at the TV screen: "FALSE POSITIVES! FALSE NEGATIVES! WHAT ARE THE NUMBERS?"


vdare--2020-04-18--Merkel's Germany Leading The Way In Fighting Asylum Fraud

As the kids say today , WTF ?
Germany ?
The land of Mutti Merkel , the land of the zerg rush of 2015 when over 1 million illegal aliens flooded Germany from the Third World ?
Well , not that , but some sensible Germans are realizing the error they made and are attempting to not correct , i.e .
deport this mess of criminals and welfare cheats , but ameliorate the problem .
Despite the lack of deportations , the German solution , or mitigation , has lessons for immigration reform in the United States .
Under a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ under a false name would later find it extremely difficult to become citizens .
The government ’ s changes could also hamper children ’ s chances of citizenship .
In an apparent bid to deter asylum-seekers from providing false information about their identities , the German government plans on making it harder for foreign nationals to attain citizenship , Die Welt newspaper reported on Friday .
A draft law drawn up by the Interior Ministry targets immigrants who have been living in Germany under a false name or provided authorities with incorrect information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arrived .
Currently , foreigners are generally eligible for German citizenship if they ’ ve lived in the country for eight years or more .
Under the new law , the years that an immigrant lived under a false identity would no longer count towards the total years required to attain citizenship .
And it is not just citizenship fraud that the Interior Ministry is targeting , it is also applications for residence permits .
The draft law would also create a second significant hurdle to citizenship by changing the rules on residence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ United States needs .
While providing a false name and other personal identifiers is considered by various provisions of the United States Code to be fraud ( as is giving false information about one ’ s citizenship and nationality ) such provisions prohibiting fraud aree rarely enforced .
In practice , there is little or no attempt to verify the personal identity of an alien applying for asylum , nor for any benefit after asylum is granted , such as legal permanent residence or citizenship .
Nor is there any attempt to verify @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and little or any effort to verify the initial claims when the alien progresses to applications for legal permanent residence and citizenship .
Generally the rule is `` fool me once , shame on me '' and nothing will happen unless there is a particularly egregious asylum fraud scheme involving multiple persons .
Otherwise , you are in free with your initial lies .
Often Deep State saboteurs in the immigration bureaucracy , kritarchs , and the Treason Bar claim that the aliens have been here long enough that we can ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they lied .
And that is it .
Frequently the Treason Bar and the aliens claim that they did not know it was wrong to lie about their names or claim they had to use a false name to avoid persecution of family members back home .
They have a million excuses .
It is time for the United States to include such specific provisions that have been proposed in Germany .
And to back up that law with the only way to root out asylum and other immigration fraud , by using @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of an alien applying for any immigration benefit , especially an asylum application .
Using polygraphs during the process will first deter fraud , as few aliens can be trained to the level necessary to beat a polygraph , as yes , you can beat the polygraph or the polygrapher , but it is very difficult .
Using polygraph examinations will also detect fraud for those who want to chance it .
But most importantly , adding the polygraph to application process for legal permanent residence and citizenship will catch those who have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is an old saying in Federal investigations , if you aren ’ t certain of their story , put them on the box .
The box will reveal the truth .
And I can say from personal experience , it works .
It ’ s like magic , but it ’ s science .
And worse yet , it is a crime that the polygraph has never been a tool in immigration benefits adjudication .
Obviously Deep State sabotage .

As the kids say today, WTF? Germany? The land of Mutti Merkel, the land of the zerg rush of 2015 when over 1 million illegal aliens flooded Germany from the Third World? Well, not that, but some sensible Germans are realizing the error they made and are attempting to not correct, i.e. deport this mess of criminals and welfare cheats, but ameliorate the problem.
Despite the lack of deportations, the German solution, or mitigation, has lessons for immigration reform in the United States.
Under a draft law, immigrants living in Germany under a false name would later find it extremely difficult to become citizens. The government’s changes could also hamper children’s chances of citizenship. In an apparent bid to deter asylum-seekers from providing false information about their identities, the German government plans on making it harder for foreign nationals to attain citizenship, Die Welt newspaper reported on Friday. A draft law drawn up by the Interior Ministry targets immigrants who have been living in Germany under a false name or provided authorities with incorrect information about their country of origin when they arrived. Currently, foreigners are generally eligible for German citizenship if they’ve lived in the country for eight years or more. Under the new law, the years that an immigrant lived under a false identity would no longer count towards the total years required to attain citizenship. [Germany Plans Stricter Citizenship Rules, Deutsche Welle, April 17, 2020]
And it is not just citizenship fraud that the Interior Ministry is targeting, it is also applications for residence permits.
The draft law would also create a second significant hurdle to citizenship by changing the rules on residence permits.
Under the new measures, immigrants found living under a false identity would be denied an unlimited or permanent residence permit. The law would make “the clarification of identity and nationality” a prerequisite for attaining permanent resident status.
This is something that the United States needs. While providing a false name and other personal identifiers is considered by various provisions of the United States Code to be fraud (as is giving false information about one’s citizenship and nationality) such provisions prohibiting fraud aree rarely enforced. In practice, there is little or no attempt to verify the personal identity of an alien applying for asylum, nor for any benefit after asylum is granted, such as legal permanent residence or citizenship.
Nor is there any attempt to verify the facts underlying the initial asylum claim, and little or any effort to verify the initial claims when the alien progresses to applications for legal permanent residence and citizenship. Generally the rule is "fool me once, shame on me" and nothing will happen unless there is a particularly egregious asylum fraud scheme involving multiple persons. Otherwise, you are in free with your initial lies.
Often Deep State saboteurs in the immigration bureaucracy, kritarchs, and the Treason Bar claim that the aliens have been here long enough that we can’t send them back, even though they lied. And that is it. Frequently the Treason Bar and the aliens claim that they did not know it was wrong to lie about their names or claim they had to use a false name to avoid persecution of family members back home. They have a million excuses.
It is time for the United States to include such specific provisions that have been proposed in Germany. And to back up that law with the only way to root out asylum and other immigration fraud, by using a polygraph examination to establish the identity of an alien applying for any immigration benefit, especially an asylum application.
Using polygraphs during the process will first deter fraud, as few aliens can be trained to the level necessary to beat a polygraph, as yes, you can beat the polygraph or the polygrapher, but it is very difficult. Using polygraph examinations will also detect fraud for those who want to chance it. But most importantly, adding the polygraph to application process for legal permanent residence and citizenship will catch those who have initially beaten the current system.
It is an old saying in Federal investigations, if you aren’t certain of their story, put them on the box. The box will reveal the truth. And I can say from personal experience, it works. It’s like magic, but it’s science. And worse yet, it is a crime that the polygraph has never been a tool in immigration benefits adjudication. Obviously Deep State sabotage.


vdare--2020-04-18--New Head Of The Border Patrol: Guatemelan Consul José Barillas Trennert

José Barillas Trennert is not even an American citizen , much less a Federal employee .
He has not been nominated by the President , nor confirmed by Congress .
He never went through any training on immigration law or enforcement procedures .
In fact , he is an employee of a foreign government .
Worse yet , he is an accredited minor diplomat from the Republic of Guatemala to the United States—not even in the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington , DC , but a consular official in Los Angeles , CA .
Strange days , but here is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Gilmer Barrios , was arrested by the Border Patrol in Southern California and removed from the United States using Expedited Removal ( ER ) .
ER is the legal process to remove illegal aliens arrested in the United States who have been in the United States less than two years .
ER has no appeals other than to a deciding officer ’ s supervisor , so it skips the immigration court bureaucracy of the Executive Office for Immigration Review ( EOIR ) so beloved of the Treason Bar and illegal aliens .
However @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , was allowed back in the United States at the instance of our new Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent , Consul General José Barillas Trennert .
Gilmer Barrios only grabbed a sweater , his cellphone , an expired ID , mask and gloves and went to the border Thursday after spending 21 days in Tijuana , Mexico .
U.S. officials who had deported him under irregular circumstances were waiting for him on the other side .
“ I ’ ve been told that the immigration agents have been waiting for me since 3:30 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he said over the phone , before getting in a car to meet with them .
Carlos Rafael Oliva Calderón , the Guatemalan consul in Tijuana , was going to accompany him to the border… Barrios , 28 , was arrested March 23 by immigration authorities in southern California and was deported four days later .
After Telemundo News reported on Barrios ’ deportation under irregular circumstances , Oliva Calderón sought out his counterpart in Los Angeles , contacted the federal government and warned Mexican immigration authorities .
[ Guatemalan Suddenly Deported Under @ @ @ @ @ @ @ To U.S. , by Damià Bonmatí , NBC/Noticias Telemundo , April 17 , 2020 ] The reporter , Damia Bonmati , implies but does not forthrightly state that Barrios was arrested and removed under the special protocols for prohibiting entry of any alien across the Mexico-United States border based on public health requirements .
Bonmatí claims there was no due process , but ER is due process and is the legal process for removing any illegal alien who has less than two years in the United States .
Nowhere does the reporter claim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the United States more than two years .
The reporter does claim that Barrios had an case in immigration court , but that just doesn ’ t sound correct .
Note the emphasis that there was no deportation order , which is irrelevant , as Barrios was likely removed under ER , but , again , the reporter leaves out any clarifying information .
Now , we are expected to believe that Barrios was in removal proceedings , but if arrested by the Border Patrol while at work , why didn ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ had previously been placed in removal proceedings with the EOIR ?
And if he was in removal proceedings and married to a U.S. citizen , he would have qualified to apply for employment authorization .
That is the first thing illegal aliens do when applying for adjustment of status or when in removal proceedings .
Both sets of applications are generally submitted together .
Now , perhaps , Barrios was in removal proceedings but had been denied employment authorization or never applied , but there would have been a record of that and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have their records checked , and either the employment authorization or the removal proceedings would have appeared in that check .
The Border Patrol Agents would have released him if he they confirmed that Barrios was in removal proceedings and had not absconded .
So Barrios either did not tell the arresting officers or , more likely , there are no removal proceedings , nor any employment authorization .
Most likely is that Barrios is not in removal proceedings , but only applied to adjust status in the United States based on a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ seems likely , as the reporter keeps emphasizing that Barrios was married to that U.S. citizen .
Now applying to adjust status does not give one any legal immunity , whether one is legally present while applying or if in the United States illegally .
Sadly , both ICE SVU and U.S .
Citizenship and Immigration Services ( USCIS ) , the interior enforcement component of the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the benefits adjudication component of DHS respectively , have an unofficial amnesty program for illegal aliens who apply @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are not immediately arrested when encountered or when applying for adjustment .
However , the Border Patrol does not have that policy .
The Border Patrol arrests all illegal aliens it encounters , and Barrios was encountered in the United States and he was either an overstay from a lawful admission or he entered illegally ( entry without inspection ) .
Our Mexican reporter does not give us any of these details , so any conclusions are based on limited evidence .
But we can safely conclude that Barrios was not in removal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be removed by ER if he was in the United States two years or less .
That is the only legal issue , was he in the U.S. more than two years , but that is not answered by the reporter , likely because he was not .
The most telling evidence is that Barrios was arrested at work , and since he had no employment authorization , was not authorized to work in the United States .
This is conclusive , as Barrios was eligible to at a minimum to apply for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he was in removal proceedings or had applied for adjustment of status .
Combine this with the fact that he did not tell the arresting agents that he was already in removal proceedings , we can conclude that he is lying .
The real question is why did the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection ( CBP ) allow this illegal alien back in the United States after he was removed ?
There is no confirmation that he was either ERed or removed under the special provisions and he remains in custody @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as claimed in the story .
In any event , the Border Patrol and CBP should not be responding to demands from diplomats to allow illegal aliens to re-enter the United States .
If Barrios did not like being in Tijuana , he could have returned to Guatemala , but he did not .
He was clearly planning to re-enter , mostly likely illegally , but could not risk getting caught again .
There is something wrong here , but it is that CBP and Border Patrol are being run by a foreign @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was deported quickly and without appeals .

José Barillas Trennert is not even an American citizen, much less a Federal employee. He has not been nominated by the President, nor confirmed by Congress. He never went through any training on immigration law or enforcement procedures. In fact, he is an employee of a foreign government. Worse yet, he is an accredited minor diplomat from the Republic of Guatemala to the United States—not even in the Guatemalan Embassy in Washington, DC, but a consular official in Los Angeles, CA.
Strange days, but here is the story: a Guatemalan illegal alien, Gilmer Barrios, was arrested by the Border Patrol in Southern California and removed from the United States using Expedited Removal (ER). ER is the legal process to remove illegal aliens arrested in the United States who have been in the United States less than two years. ER has no appeals other than to a deciding officer’s supervisor, so it skips the immigration court bureaucracy of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) so beloved of the Treason Bar and illegal aliens.
However, Barrios, for some strange reason, was allowed back in the United States at the instance of our new Border Patrol Chief Patrol Agent, Consul General José Barillas Trennert.
Gilmer Barrios only grabbed a sweater, his cellphone, an expired ID, mask and gloves and went to the border Thursday after spending 21 days in Tijuana, Mexico. U.S. officials who had deported him under irregular circumstances were waiting for him on the other side. “I’ve been told that the immigration agents have been waiting for me since 3:30 p.m. at the guard post,” he said over the phone, before getting in a car to meet with them. Carlos Rafael Oliva Calderón, the Guatemalan consul in Tijuana, was going to accompany him to the border… Barrios, 28, was arrested March 23 by immigration authorities in southern California and was deported four days later. After Telemundo News reported on Barrios’ deportation under irregular circumstances, Oliva Calderón sought out his counterpart in Los Angeles, contacted the federal government and warned Mexican immigration authorities. [Guatemalan Suddenly Deported Under Coronavirus ‘Emergency’ Measures Readmitted, To U.S., by Damià Bonmatí, NBC/Noticias Telemundo, April 17, 2020]
The reporter, Damia Bonmati, implies but does not forthrightly state that Barrios was arrested and removed under the special protocols for prohibiting entry of any alien across the Mexico-United States border based on public health requirements. Bonmatí claims there was no due process, but ER is due process and is the legal process for removing any illegal alien who has less than two years in the United States. Nowhere does the reporter claim or present proof that Barrios was in the United States more than two years.
The reporter does claim that Barrios had an case in immigration court, but that just doesn’t sound correct.
Gilmer Barrios’ case suggests border agents used the new emergency powers to deport an immigrant who had an open case in U.S. courts and no deportation order… Emilio Amaya, Barrios’ legal representative, hopes to have him released on bail soon. He said his client doesn’t have a deportation order. He does, however, have a pending case in immigration court to remain in the country legally, in part thanks to his wife, who is a U.S. citizen.
Note the emphasis that there was no deportation order, which is irrelevant, as Barrios was likely removed under ER, but, again, the reporter leaves out any clarifying information. Now, we are expected to believe that Barrios was in removal proceedings, but if arrested by the Border Patrol while at work, why didn’t Barrios tell the arresting officers that he had previously been placed in removal proceedings with the EOIR?
And if he was in removal proceedings and married to a U.S. citizen, he would have qualified to apply for employment authorization. That is the first thing illegal aliens do when applying for adjustment of status or when in removal proceedings. Both sets of applications are generally submitted together. Now, perhaps, Barrios was in removal proceedings but had been denied employment authorization or never applied, but there would have been a record of that and the removal proceedings.
All aliens arrested have their records checked, and either the employment authorization or the removal proceedings would have appeared in that check. The Border Patrol Agents would have released him if he they confirmed that Barrios was in removal proceedings and had not absconded. So Barrios either did not tell the arresting officers or, more likely, there are no removal proceedings, nor any employment authorization.
Most likely is that Barrios is not in removal proceedings, but only applied to adjust status in the United States based on a marriage to a U.S. citizen. This seems likely, as the reporter keeps emphasizing that Barrios was married to that U.S. citizen. Now applying to adjust status does not give one any legal immunity, whether one is legally present while applying or if in the United States illegally.
Sadly, both ICE SVU and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the interior enforcement component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the benefits adjudication component of DHS respectively, have an unofficial amnesty program for illegal aliens who apply to adjust status, that being they are not immediately arrested when encountered or when applying for adjustment. However, the Border Patrol does not have that policy.
The Border Patrol arrests all illegal aliens it encounters, and Barrios was encountered in the United States and he was either an overstay from a lawful admission or he entered illegally (entry without inspection). Our Mexican reporter does not give us any of these details, so any conclusions are based on limited evidence. But we can safely conclude that Barrios was not in removal proceedings, and was therefore eligible to be removed by ER if he was in the United States two years or less. That is the only legal issue, was he in the U.S. more than two years, but that is not answered by the reporter, likely because he was not.
The most telling evidence is that Barrios was arrested at work, and since he had no employment authorization, was not authorized to work in the United States. This is conclusive, as Barrios was eligible to at a minimum to apply for employment authorization, but did not if he was in removal proceedings or had applied for adjustment of status. Combine this with the fact that he did not tell the arresting agents that he was already in removal proceedings, we can conclude that he is lying.
The real question is why did the Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) allow this illegal alien back in the United States after he was removed? There is no confirmation that he was either ERed or removed under the special provisions and he remains in custody, which suggests that all is not as claimed in the story. In any event, the Border Patrol and CBP should not be responding to demands from diplomats to allow illegal aliens to re-enter the United States. If Barrios did not like being in Tijuana, he could have returned to Guatemala, but he did not. He was clearly planning to re-enter, mostly likely illegally, but could not risk getting caught again.
There is something wrong here, but it is that CBP and Border Patrol are being run by a foreign power, not that an illegal alien was deported quickly and without appeals.


vdare--2020-04-17--The Great Replacement in Birmingham: from 61% White in 1910 to 23% White in 2020...

PK NOTE : Your social distancing reading recommendation today is The Tragic City : Birmingham 1963 – 2013 .
Why @ @ @ @ @ The Great Replacement in the United States of America , when you can easily take @ @ @ @ @ s head down south to Sweet Home Alabama and take a look at Birmingham .
@ @ @ @ @ breakdown of white population in Birmingham from 1910 – 2020 : From 61 percent white @ @ @ @ @ white in 2020 .
You ’ d think a war was lost in Birmingham , @ @ @ @ @ vanquished with those numbers .
Here ’ s more , a look at what happens @ @ @ @ @ institutes black political control of a city : The Great Replacement is no myth .
@ @ @ @ @ Birmingham , where the white population dropped from 61 % in 1910 to 23 % @ @ @ @ @ , it ’ s coming to a city near you .

PK NOTE: Your social distancing reading recommendation today is The Tragic City: Birmingham 1963 – 2013.
Why take just a macro-look at The Great Replacement in the United States of America, when you can easily take a micro-look? Let’s head down south to Sweet Home Alabama and take a look at Birmingham. Here’s the racial breakdown of white population in Birmingham from 1910 – 2020:
1910 61% 1920 61% 1930 62% 1940 59% 1950 60% 1960 60% 1970 58% 1980 44% 1990 36% 2000 24% 2010 21% 2020 23%
From 61 percent white in 1910 to 23 percent white in 2020. You’d think a war was lost in Birmingham, the white population conquered and vanquished with those numbers.
Here’s more, a look at what happens when demographic replacement of whites institutes black political control of a city:
The Great Replacement is no myth. It’s happened in Birmingham, where the white population dropped from 61% in 1910 to 23% white today.
Odds are, it’s coming to a city near you.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-04-18--His Name Is Christopher Stewart: Three Blacks Murder White U.S. Army Veteran  Who Survived Tour of D

His Name Is Christopher Stewart: Three Blacks Murder White U.S. Army Veteran  Who Survived Tour of Duty in Afghanistan, But Not Diversity

PK NOTE : Their Lives Matter Too .
It ’ s a book you must pick up .
Names you ’ ve never encountered , stories you ’ ve never read about , all for one , unmentionable reason : black on white murder .
We were never supposed to notice what ’ s happening .
We were never supposed to catalogue the names and tell their stories .
But we did .
But we have .
Their Lives Matter Too .
Trust me .
You ’ ll never , ever read the name Christopher Duane Stewart again .
In @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only place you ’ ll encounter the name of Christopher Stewart at all .
He served his country in the U.S. Army in a tour of Afghanistan and then came back home to attend the University of North Carolina-Wilmington .
He was murdered by three blacks , in a crime few outside of eastern North Carolina will ever read about .
Not just murdered , but beaten to death with a 3-foot long pole .
PENDER COUNTY , NC ( WWAY ) — The Pender County Sheriff ’ s Office has made two @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Duane Stewart , and investigators are searching for a third suspect .
“ Today is a very important step in the long journey to get justice for Christopher Stewart , ” District Attorney Ben David said .
“ By any objective measure , this was an especially heinous , atrocious and cruel murder.
” Myasia Nicole Morange , 18 of Council , and Raymond Lee Brooks , Jr. , 33 also of Council , were arrested Tuesday and each charged with first degree murder .
The Pender County Sheriff ’ s Office said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ home in Bladen County .
Detectives are searching for a third suspect , Brandon Tyrell Chambers , 21 , [ Pictured right . ]
of Willard , NC , who also faces a charge of first degree murder .
Search warrants reveal the three suspects allegedly stole $ 1,500 from Stewart , along with his phone and keys .
The warrants also say the suspects beat Stewart with a 3-ft. long pole .
It ’ s unclear what led up to Stewart ’ s death , and how he died .
“ Information @ @ @ @ @ @ @ come out , ” Pender County Sheriff Alan Cutler said .
“ It ’ s to protect the integrity of the case , and that ’ s what has been done , and that seemed to have paid off.
” Morange and Brooks are charged with first degree murder , robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a dangerous weapon .
Both are being held under no bond at the Pender County Jail .
“ It is death penalty eligible under the terms of the statute , ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did at the first appearances this morning , is make sure both defendants are being held without bond.
” Detectives say Morange and Brooks are brother and sister .
They think Chambers is an acquaintance .
Following Tuesday ’ s arrest , Stewart ’ s family shared the following statement : “ On behalf of our family , we are very grateful for all that have helped share his story , prayed and supported our family during this tragedy .
We appreciate all of the love and kind words that have been sent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of everything he achieved , and all the lives he touched .
We will announce service arrangements once they can be made officially.
” Stewart was a UNCW student who was obtaining a degree in criminal justice and forensics psychology .
He also served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in the US Army and then continued his military career in the Army Reserve .
Christopher Stewart was a white male who served his country and did a tour of duty in Afghanistan .
He came home to attend college and was murdered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ only read his name here .

PK NOTE: Their Lives Matter Too. It’s a book you must pick up. Names you’ve never encountered, stories you’ve never read about, all for one, unmentionable reason: black on white murder. We were never supposed to notice what’s happening. We were never supposed to catalogue the names and tell their stories. But we did. But we have. Their Lives Matter Too.
Trust me. You’ll never, ever read the name Christopher Duane Stewart again.
In fact, this will probably be the only place you’ll encounter the name of Christopher Stewart at all.
He served his country in the U.S. Army in a tour of Afghanistan and then came back home to attend the University of North Carolina-Wilmington.
He was white male.
He was murdered by three blacks, in a crime few outside of eastern North Carolina will ever read about. Not just murdered, but beaten to death with a 3-foot long pole.
Two Charged With Murder, Third Suspect Wanted In Death Of UNCW Student, WWAYTV.COM, April 15, 2020
PENDER COUNTY, NC (WWAY) — The Pender County Sheriff’s Office has made two arrests in the death of 23-year-old Christopher Duane Stewart, and investigators are searching for a third suspect. “Today is a very important step in the long journey to get justice for Christopher Stewart,” District Attorney Ben David said. “By any objective measure, this was an especially heinous, atrocious and cruel murder.” Myasia Nicole Morange, 18 of Council, and Raymond Lee Brooks, Jr., 33 also of Council, were arrested Tuesday and each charged with first degree murder. The Pender County Sheriff’s Office said Morange and Brooks were arrested at their home in Bladen County. Detectives are searching for a third suspect, Brandon Tyrell Chambers, 21, [Pictured right.]of Willard, NC, who also faces a charge of first degree murder. Search warrants reveal the three suspects allegedly stole $1,500 from Stewart, along with his phone and keys. The warrants also say the suspects beat Stewart with a 3-ft. long pole. It’s unclear what led up to Stewart’s death, and how he died. “Information seems like it’s slow to come out,” Pender County Sheriff Alan Cutler said. “It’s to protect the integrity of the case, and that’s what has been done, and that seemed to have paid off.” Morange and Brooks are charged with first degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit armed robbery with a dangerous weapon. Both are being held under no bond at the Pender County Jail. “It is death penalty eligible under the terms of the statute,” David said. “So what we did at the first appearances this morning, is make sure both defendants are being held without bond.” Detectives say Morange and Brooks are brother and sister. They think Chambers is an acquaintance. Following Tuesday’s arrest, Stewart’s family shared the following statement: “On behalf of our family, we are very grateful for all that have helped share his story, prayed and supported our family during this tragedy. We appreciate all of the love and kind words that have been sent to us. We are so proud of everything he achieved, and all the lives he touched. We will announce service arrangements once they can be made officially.” Stewart was a UNCW student who was obtaining a degree in criminal justice and forensics psychology. He also served a tour of duty in Afghanistan in the US Army and then continued his military career in the Army Reserve.
Christopher Stewart was a white male who served his country and did a tour of duty in Afghanistan. He came home to attend college and was murdered by three blacks.
You’ll only read his name here.
[Comment at Unz.com]