vdare--2020-06-10--Suppressing "George Floyd's Criminal Past"—If There Is Hope, It Must Lie In The Robots

An op-ed in the Los Angeles Times is extremely angry that Google’s artificial intelligence robots haven’t yet been fully converged with The Narrative:
Opinion: Fascists don’t need op-ed pages. They already have Facebook and Google
By BRIAN A. BOYLE
JUNE 9, 202011:01 AM
Last Wednesday, late into the afternoon, the New York Times published an op-ed essay in which Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) called for the deployment of active-duty military forces into U.S. cities with the slippery, panicked and dangerous intention of “restoring order.”
At nearly the exact same time on the exact same day, Trumpist provocateur Candace Owens began a Facebook livestream of a nearly 20-minute-long tirade declaring George Floyd a “criminal” and a “horrible human being,” among other incendiary remarks attacking the Black Lives Matter movement writ large.
The Cotton op-ed was rightly met with widespread condemnation (including criticism inside the New York Times newsroom). It has since been amended with a lengthy editors’ note and led to the resignation of editorial page editor James Bennet. It sparked a continuing debate about the role and responsibility of a free press in a country teetering on the brink of authoritarianism.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, the Owens video has since been viewed 82 million times. No retractions. No fact check. Nothing.
In case it wasn’t clear yet, fascists don’t need a New York Times op-ed to advance their movement. They already have an incredibly potent and willing partner in the shadowy algorithms of Big Tech.
Even as swells of protesters have taken to the streets in cities and towns across the entire country, it’s important to remember that for every marcher losing their protest virginity (and every lifetime activist yet again rallying for civil rights), there’s another two or three or five people digesting an inscrutable pile of disinformation and divisive junk online.
The internet is a second reality of our own design, symbiotically connected to and colliding with the lives we live when nominally offline, yet one whose impact is too often ignored. While establishment media devolves into an esoteric — necessary and righteous, but esoteric — debate about the continued relevance and importance of Gatekeeping, Owens, a known Hitler apologist, and countless other inflammatory conservative pundits like her, dominate the most important social media platforms unchecked.
Owens’ video became the top shared Facebook post of last week, according to New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose, and currently has 1.4 million shares. The Cotton op-ed, for comparison, has now been shared 16,304 times on Facebook, according to CrowdTangle, a digital tool for measuring social media engagement
This is by design. Not implicitly, per se, but certainly complicity. Facebook’s own internal investigation into its suggestive content algorithm revealed that the platform is largely based on divisiveness and inflammatory content. Provocative political content tends to keep users online longer than most other types of content. With its ad-based model, Facebook is incentivized to peddle as much divisive content as users will tolerate. More hate, more time online; more ads sold, more revenue for Zuck and Co.
And now we’re seeing the consequences of Facebook’s chaos play out in real time. When typing “George Floyd” into the Google search bar, the predictive search tool quickly reveals a search for “George Floyd criminal past” as the next most likely search (with “George Floyd criminal history” not too far behind). This is the direct result of a high frequency of searches for these exact terms, as noted by Google’s explanation for how its predictive search operates:
“We look at the real searches that happen on Google and show common and trending ones relevant to the characters that are entered and also related to your location and previous searches.”
Google, however, also says search predictions can be removed if they violate the autocomplete policies, which include:
“Hateful predictions against groups and individuals on the basis of race, religion or several other demographics. Violent predictions. Dangerous and harmful activity in predictions.”
The notion of framing Floyd as a former criminal — which is, in fact, true, though completely irrelevant — is the basis for commentators like Owens and others to paint his killing at the hands of the police as something other than tragic. Perhaps even something he deserved. It’s the same racist tactic used to discredit Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson in 2015, and even Trayvon Martin’s death in 2012 (the hoodie made him look “suspicious”). By allowing their predictive search tool to promote “George Floyd criminal past,” Google may be violating its own autocomplete policy and allowing a dangerous, hateful and racist narrative to take hold.
Using the Google Trends tool — which visualizes searches for specific terms in relation to historic frequency of searches — we see that searches for “George Floyd criminal past” were virtually nonexistent before Owens’ viral screed, and have increased dramatically in the days since.
This may be tangible digital evidence that a counter-narrative to Black Lives Matter is beginning to grip the public. And although there may not be a 1:1 correlation with users who search “George Floyd criminal past” and those who believe his criminal past should make him anything but a martyr, search trends have proved to be a powerful real-time tool for gauging public opinion in the past (data scientist and New York Times op-ed contributor Seth Stephens-Davidowitz wrote an excellent book on this very topic).
So while hundreds of thousands of protesters support the Black Lives Matter movement in the streets, it’s important to remember our lives — and public opinion — exist and are shaped by two separate, competing worlds: one physical and one digital.
Maybe the past two weeks mark a tipping point in race relations and police reform. Or maybe not, and we’re naive to think they do.
Brian A. Boyle was a 2019 intern with the Editorial Pages of the Los Angeles Times.


vdare--2020-06-10--Social Distancing with John Derbyshire Joined By Jared Taylor, TODAY, 3 p.m. EST

Law enforcement is toothless .
Officials and legislators side with the insurrection , literally kneeling before our attackers .
Rioting , looting , torching and assault are `` peaceful protests '' according to the Mainstream Media .
Every Hollywood star and major corporation is against us—cranking out vicious propaganda and pledging billions—yes BILLIONS—of dollars to the same people who execute our cops in the streets .
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They seek vengeance .
They don ’ t offer hope .
They offer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ peace .
They want power .
And power in their hands means the complete destruction of America .
Why do we allow our cities to be turned into war zones ?
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We have a say .
VDARE.com is the voice of the Historic American Nation – a nation that will never kneel to the mob .
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On Wednesday at 3 p.m. EST, our latest episode of “Social Distancing with Peter Brimelow” will livestream. Mr. Brimelow will be traveling, so he will have a guest host for the program, VDARE’s own John Derbyshire! His guest will be Jared Taylor, editor of American Renaissance.
They will be discussing the George Floyd riots and the aftermath of the shocking attack on law enforcement nationwide.
Be sure to tune for this important conversation!
They will be talking about tech censorship!
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vdare--2020-06-08--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: The Sailer Gap in Action: NYT Says in 2016 What Sailer Said in

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2016: The Sailer Gap in Action: NYT Says in 2016 What Sailer Said in 2001: "There Are More White Voters Than People Think"

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2016.
With the New York Times running a giant analysis about how the conventional wisdom about the demographics of the electorate is wrong because exit polls exaggerate the number of minority voters, especially Hispanic voters, I’d like to point out that I’ve documented that bias repeatedly since 2001. Here are excerpts from the new NYT article and below is my July 24, 2001 UPI article on pretty much the exact same subject. And then I follow up with my 2013 VDARE article on how the exit polls gotthe 2012 turnout wrong, which means the GOP Establishment’s support for “comprehensive immigration reform” was justified by innumeracy.
There Are More White Voters Than People Think. That’s Good News for Trump. Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn JUNE 9, 2016 … New analysis by The Upshot shows that millions more white, older working-class voters went to the polls in 2012 than was found by exit polls on Election Day. This raises the prospect that Mr. Trump has a larger pool of potential voters than generally believed. The wider path may help explain why Mr. Trump is competitive in early general election surveys against Hillary Clinton. And it calls into question the prevailing demographic explanation of recent elections, which held that Barack Obama did very poorly among whites and won only because young and minority voters turned out in record numbers. This story line led Republicans to conclude that they had maximized their support from white voters and needed to reach out to Hispanics to win in 2016. Those previous conclusions emerged from exit polls released on election night. The new data from the census, voter registration files, polls and the finalized results tells a subtly different story with potential consequences for the 2016 election. … Latino voters did not put Mr. Obama over the top, as many argued in the days after Mr. Obama’s re-election. He would have won even if he had done as poorly among Latino voters as John Kerry. This is all good news for Mr. Trump. There’s more room for him to make gains among white working-class voters than many assumed — enough to win without making gains among nonwhite or college-educated white voters. But Mr. Trump’s narrow path could close if he loses ground among well-educated voters and alienates even more nonwhite voters than Mitt Romney did four years ago. … When you hear about the demographic challenges facing the Republican Party, almost all of the data comes from exit polls: surveys conducted with tens of thousands of voters at precincts across the country on Election Day, along with a supplemental telephone survey with early voters. The exit polls are excellent surveys. But like any survey, they’re imperfect. The problem is that analysts, including me, have treated the exit polls like a precise account of the electorate. “There are campaigns and journalists who take the exit polls as the word of God about the shape of the electorate and their voting propensities,” said Michael McDonald, a political scientist at the University of Florida who researches voter turnout. “They’re meant to tell us why people voted. They’re not designed to tell us much about the demographic profile of the electorate.” The exit polls have a series of subtle biases that depict a younger, better-educated and more diverse electorate. Mr. McDonald tentatively reached this conclusion in 2005, and the pattern has been seen in a broader set of data. The evidence for a whiter, less-educated and older electorate comes from two main sources. The first — and longest-standing — source of alternative data is the Current Population Survey, known as the C.P.S. Conducted by the Census Bureau, it is the same monthly survey that yields the unemployment report. After elections, it includes a question about whether people voted. … But for many experts in the field, these issues pale next to those facing the exit polls. For Bernard Fraga, a professor of political science at Indiana University, there is “no question that the exit poll is not as accurate.” He added, “It’s clearly much more reliable to look at the C.P.S. or even better to look at the voter file-based work.” Today, virtually all major campaign polling, voter targeting and election law litigation is conducted using voter file data.
… Hispanic voters played only a modest role in Mr. Romney’s defeat. They cost him Florida — a must-win state for Republicans, but also the closest contest. Elsewhere, Mr. Obama would have easily survived even if Mr. Romney had equaled George W. Bush’s 2004 share of Hispanic voters.
I’ve written about this endlessly for almost 15 years. Here’s an early example from the summer of 2001 pointing out how the exit poll report that Hispanics cast 7% of the vote in 2000 Bush-Gore election was undermined by the Census Bureau analysis that pegged the Hispanic share at 5.4%.
Analysis: Mexican-Americans and the vote By STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent LOS ANGELES, July 24, 2001 (UPI) Pundits have been hailing as a “political masterstroke” the Bush Administration’s reported proposal to offer legalization to many, although not all, illegal Mexican immigrants. (Democrats have countered by suggesting programs should aid undocumented workers from all countries, not just Mexico.) Yet, new data now available on the Census Bureau’s website, although not yet formally issued to the press, shows that the voting strength of Mexican-Americans remains surprisingly limited. People identifying themselves as being of Mexican ethnicity cast only 3.0 percent of the vote in the 2000 election. In contrast, the Census Bureau found that African-Americans accounted for 11.5 percent of voters, making them almost four times as numerous as Mexican-American voters. Even Hispanics with roots in countries other than Mexico comprised 2.3 percent of the electorate, not much less than the Mexican total. Non-Hispanic whites dominated voting with 80.7 percent. Anglo whites cast almost 27 times more ballots than did Mexican-Americans. Although it’s still small, the Mexican-American share has been growing steadily. It’s up from 2.6 percent in 1996. If recent trends continue, it should reach somewhere around 3.5 percent by 2004. Similarly, the total Hispanic grew from 3.6 in 1988 to 4.7 percent in 1996 to 5.4 percent in 2000. It likely will be about six percent or slightly higher in 2004. The Voter News Service exit poll claimed that Hispanics comprised seven percent of the 2000 vote, but that was based on a sample only one quarter as large as the Census Bureau’s. The Census Bureau survey’s main weakness is that respondents can falsely claim they voted. Yet, this would only bias the results reported here if some ethnic groups lied more than others. Exit polls, however, have a hard time handling absentee voters. Although in the long term, Mexican-Americans – and Hispanics in general – are likely to wield massive influence, they probably will not play an outsized role in the 2004 election – in particular, they are unlikely to offer much aid to Bush’s expected re-election bid. Numerous commentators have uncritically repeated the claim made by Bush pollster Matthew Dowd in The Washington Post that, “As a realistic goal, we have to get somewhere between … 38 to 40 percent of the Hispanic vote,” compared to the estimated 35 percent Bush earned in 2000. Yet, simple math shows that if Bush boosts his share of the Hispanic vote from 35 percent to 40 percent, and Hispanics cast six percent of the votes in 2004, then Bush will gain a mere 0.3 percentage points overall. “Obviously, all this is trivial compared to such things as the economy,” one left-of-center election analyst commented on condition of anonymity. “If I were George W. Bush, I would just spend the next four years doing things for Florida and Pennsylvania, rather than playing Hispanic games.” Further, the Electoral College, not the national popular vote, decides presidential elections. (Otherwise, Al Gore would be President.) In 2004, Mexican-American voters are likely to have even less influence there than in the popular vote. That’s because 72.3 percent of Mexican-American voters in 2000 lived in just two states: California and Texas. Neither one is expected to be up for grabs in the next election. Bush won his home state of Texas with 59.3 percent last year. He picked up 72 percent of Texas’ white vote. If he were to need in 2004 a higher share among Mexicans just to hold on to Texas, that’s a sure sign he would be doomed to lose nationwide. In contrast, in California Bush took only 41.7 percent. Even if Bush had won 100 percent of the Mexican-American voters in California last November, he still would have lost California by around 400,000 votes. In the extremely close 2000 race, 12 states were decided by less than five percentage points. Only seven percent of all Mexican-Americans voters lived in those states. Mexican-Americans accounted for merely 0.8 percent of the all the ballots cast in those 12 states. Harry P. Pachon, head of the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute in Claremont, Calif., said, “The only countervailing facts are that in 23 of 50 states, Latinos are now the largest minority.” Pachon defended the political utility of Bush’s pro-Mexican-American push: “If 2004 is another squeaker, then it makes a lot of sense.” Pachon also pointed out that the U.S. House and Senate are almost evenly balanced, and the Mexican-American vote could decide which party controls them. Where does this little-known data come from? Right after every national election, the Census Bureau supplements its monthly Current Population Survey of 50,000 households with additional questions about voting. Jennifer Day of the Bureau said it is not planning to issue a press release on the 2000 election findings for another half year or so, but the actual data is currently available to anyone willing to use FERRET (Federal Electronic Research and Review Extraction Tool), a data query tool on the Census.gov website. This widespread assumption that policies benefiting Mexican-Americans are crucial to Bush’s reelection chances seems to have been fueled by the Census Bureau’s surprising announcement in March that Hispanics had overtaken African-Americans in numbers, and now comprise exactly one out of eight residents (12.5 percent). Yet, only one out of 33 voters was Mexican-American. That low share is largely for two reasons. First, not all Hispanics are Mexican-American. While this should be obvious, observers sometimes seem to conflate the two categories. The Bureau’s survey found that Mexicans comprised just 56 percent of all Hispanic voters in 2000. Residents of Puerto Rican and Cuban ethnicity were more than twice as likely to vote as Mexican-Americans. Unlike Mexicans, Puerto Ricans are all U.S. citizens. Cubans tend to be older and more politically active than Mexicans. This distinction between Mexicans and other Hispanics is particularly important in assessing the Bush Administration’s plan to strike an immigration deal to aid Mexican nationals with President Vicente Fox. Some non-Mexican Hispanics have complained that such a plan would be ethnically discriminatory against their peoples. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) has emphasized that the Democrats’ alternative will not be restricted to just Mexicans. Thus, because the non-Mexican Hispanic voters (2.3% of the electorate) and Asian-American voters (1.8%) combined outnumber Mexican-American voters (3.0%), Bush’s Mexican-only initiative might end up actually costing him votes among immigrant groups. Second, residents of America who identify as being of Mexican heritage are only three-eighths as likely to say they voted in November as the average American. There are several causes. Residents of Mexican descent are less likely to vote because they are less likely to be citizens. Further, they tend to be younger, poorer, and less educated than the typical American, all of which correlate with low turnout. If there is little political gain in courting the Mexican-American vote, why the seeming focus on it? One political observer suggests a symbolic but politically potent reason: “I think it goes back to Bush being nice to Hispanics to help him with suburban moderates, who don’t like Republicans who are too mean spirited.” Because non-Hispanic whites cast four out of every five ballots, that might be the most sensible explanation.
This doesn’t mean the Brimelow-Rubenstein observation of 1997 that mass immigration is massively bad for the GOP in the long run is wrong. It just means that this future won’t go through the formality of taking place as quickly as the conventional wisdom assumes, leaving an opening to do something about it.
Nor does it mean that Trump will necessarily win. He has his a lot of work cut out for him to convince enough whites to vote for him.
But these observations raise major red flags about the innumeracy of the formulators of the conventional wisdom.
A standard topic for punditry these days is Why Trump? What did the Republican Establishment do wrong to let Trump become the nominee?
Here’s an answer you haven’t heard too often: The innumeracy of the Republican Establishment Brain Trust is a major reason why the Republicans didn’t field candidates who could stop Trump. They all believed in the Hispanic Tidal Wave Theory that meant they had to Hispander like crazy.
That’s why the GOP big money made Jeb Bush the 2015 frontrunner: They thought his message that he loves Mexicans more than he likes Americans was dictated by the numbers! That’s why in 2013 Marco Rubio wrecked his 2016 chances by deciding to be the face of the Democrats’ amnesty bill. That’s even one reason why Cruz, blessed with a Hispanic surname, became a major force, despite his evident shortcomings (although that’s minor compared to the major screw-ups of Jeb running at all and Rubio choosing the wrong side on amnesty).
Back on June 3, 2013, I wrote in VDARE:


vdare--2020-06-09--Minneapolis vs. San Diego

Minneapolis vs. San Diego

In Minneapolis, a city councilwoman explains that calling the police when your house is broken into comes from a place of privilege.
Meanwhile, in increasingly utopian San Diego, which had the lowest murder rate of the 50 big cities in the U.S. in 2017, 1/27th the rate of St. Louis, the city council has voted to boost the police budget by hundreds of millions.
Relative to each other, which city do you expect to have a rising homicide rate and/or falling home values?
The especially sad thing about Minneapolis was that it probably the most successful big city in the Midwest in recent years.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-09--Roland Fryer: Viral-Driven Investigations of Police Departments Get More Civilians Murdered

From NBER:
POLICING THE POLICE: THE IMPACT OF “PATTERN-OR-PRACTICE” INVESTIGATIONS ON CRIME
Tanaya Devi
Roland G. Fryer Jr
Working Paper 27324 June 2020 ABSTRACT
This paper provides the first empirical examination of the impact of federal and state “Pattern-or-Practice” investigations on crime and policing. For investigations that were not preceded by “viral” incidents of deadly force, investigations, on average, led to a statistically significant reduction in homicides and total crime. In stark contrast, all investigations that were preceded by “viral” incidents of deadly force have led to a large and statistically significant increase in homicides and total crime. We estimate that these investigations caused almost 900 excess homicides and almost 34,000 excess felonies. The leading hypothesis for why these investigations increase homicides and total crime is an abrupt change in the quantity of policing activity.
I call this The Retreat to the Donut Shop.
In Chicago, the number of police-civilian interactions decreased by almost 90% in the month after the investigation was announced. In Riverside CA, interactions decreased 54%. In St. Louis, self-initiated police activities declined by 46%. Other theories we test such as changes in community trust or the aggressiveness of consent decrees associated with investigations — all contradict the data in important ways.
Fryer is the smart black economist who was Harvard College’s highest paid professor (because he brings in huge amounts of research grants from rich guys like Michael Bloomberg who actually want to know what the data says about crime and the like) until he got Me-Tooed for some petty Al Franken-level stuff. But he can still keep researching.
So Fryer and partner looked at 27 Federal Department of Justice investigations of city police departments. Twenty-two investigations were due to the balance of evidence suggesting that there was problem with the police departments. On average, they led to no significant change in the local homicide rates.
Five, however, were due to “viral” incidents: Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside and Ferguson.
For investigations that were preceded by a viral incident of deadly force – Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside and Ferguson – there is a marked increase in both homicide and total crime. The cumulative amount of crime that we estimate due to pattern-or-practice investigations in the two years after the announcement for this sample is 21.10 (5.54) per 100,000 for homicides and 1191.77 (429.50) per 100,000 for total felony crime. Put plainly, the causal effect of the investigations in these five cities – triggered mainly by the deaths of Freddie Gray, Laquan McDonald, Timothy Thomas, Tyisha Miller and Michael Brown at the hands of police – has resulted in 893 more homicides than would have been expected with no investigation and more than 33,472 additional felony crimes, relative to synthetic control cities. To get a sense of how large this number is, the average number of fatal shootings of African American civilians by police officers in Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Riverside and Saint Louis, per year, is 12.5 Thus, even if investigations cured these cities of all future civilian casualties at the hands of police, it would take approximately 75 years to “break even.” Our estimates suggest that investigating police departments after viral incidents of police violence is responsible for approximately 450 excess homicides per year. This is 2x the loss of life in the line of duty for the US Military in a year, 12.6x the annual loss of life due to school shootings, and 3x the loss of life due to lynchings between 1882 and 1901 – the most gruesome years.
In other words, when the DoJ investigates a police department because evidence has been piling up over the years without too much publicity that something is wrong, that usually doesn’t drive up the murder rate. But when the DoJ jumps in because of one over-publicized case, that gets a lot of people killed.


vdare--2020-06-08--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Ann Coulter On Bill O'Reilly: "The Way Republicans Win Is By Dr

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2015: Ann Coulter On Bill O'Reilly: "The Way Republicans Win Is By Driving Up The White Vote"

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2015.
Ann Coulter on Bill O'Reilly. This is the uncut version, as she says.
UNCUT O'REILLY VIDEO FROM LAST NIGHT - crucial ending about Pete Wilson's win in California w/ same demo as U.S. - http://t.co/RBtQcja9F0
he transcript below stops before the part where she debunks the Pete Wilson myth. Note that the idea of slowing legal immigration doesn't seem to have been on Bill O'Reilly's mind—all his graphics are on illegal immigration.
FoxNews.com, June 09, 2015
O'REILLY: "Personal Story" segment tonight. New book by Ann Coulter entitled "Adios America: The Left's Plan To Turn Our Country Into A Third World Hellhole." Book documents Ms. Coulter's well known opinion that illegal immigration is changing America in destructive ways. Recent Pew Poll on immigration asks how should undocumented immigrants should be handled. Allowed to stay illegally. Seventy two percent. Should not be allowed to stay, 27 percent. Don't know two percent.
What it comes to reducing illegal immigration at U.S. borders, do you think there's a lot more the government can? Yes, a lot. Fifty one percent, somewhat more 29, not much more 12. Question tonight, how should the republican presidential nominee handle the illegal immigration issue?
Here now Miss Coulter. So, you know what I'm getting at here. Mitt Romney got his butt kicked in the Hispanic American precincts less than 30 percent of the vote. President Bush the younger did well and that put him over the top against Al Gore. So, now, what's your advice to the republican nominee?
ANN COULTER, AUTHOR, "ADIOS AMERICA": That is a total cliché, completely believed by the Republican Party and it is completely wrong. For one thing correction, not illegal immigration. I'm talking about all immigration.
O'REILLY: All immigration?
COULTER: Yes, I am. In that poll you just cited is part of the media's effort to convince Republicans of what you just said which is how Republicans are going to keep losing. The way Republicans win is by driving up the white vote. It is not by women or Hispanics or Blacks. In fact, those groups are going to start fighting among one another.
O'REILLY: So, you would write off the Hispanic American vote.
COULTER: Not write off. But how about for once appealing to your base, the Democrats don't obsess on how do we get gun rights voters to support us? A tiny bit more? How do we get pro-lifers to support us? Let's get a slice of the evangelicals. The Republicans have been tricked to suicidal electoral strategy. If Romney had gotten 71 percent of the Hispanic vote, which, by the way, Bush didn't get. He got, what?
O'REILLY: Forty eight.
COULTER: No, it was less than 40. But he didn't get 51. If you are not getting 51 percent, you are losing. And that was turning his entire White House over into an — operation.
O'REILLY: Okay. Here is how I see it.
COULTER: Wait a second. Wait a second. We'll just finish the Romney thing if he had won — Romney had won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote he still loses. If he had got four pointers more of the white vote he would have won. What should Republicans be going for?
O'REILLY: But do you think that white voters at this point because you may not like the Pew Poll but almost every poll says.
COULTER: They're all lying.
O'REILLY: What do you mean they're all lying?
COULTER: I would tell you but it would be boring. I describe some of them in my book. These are all deceptive polls. They are not meant to quantify opinion.
O'REILLY: How are they deceptive?
COULTER: This one —
O'REILLY: Yes.
COULTER: I don't usually the way they do it is you have two options, neither of which exist in the world. Either we are putting illegal aliens in shackles and rounding them up at gunpoint —
O'REILLY: Okay. So, the questions are —
COULTER: — or all these hoops in this particular poll you get some of that, do you want to be a nice person or are you a jerk? But the most important way they did it was by polling all adults. That includes the people polled by Jesse Watters. This is a political question. Likely voters.
O'REILLY: Right. It's not likely voters.
COULTER: We don't even want registered voters and they oversampled democrats and the questions were ridiculous. They never take an honest poll.
O'REILLY: If I'm running for president on the republican side here is what I do. You tell me where I'm wrong. Okay? So, I say in Spanish American community there is a big traditional wing among Hispanics, all right? Traditional people. People who would respond.
COULTER: That's a rumor.
O'REILLY: Self-reliant, smaller government message. People work hard.
COULTER: No, that's the rumor. We will never going to get 51 percent that way.
O'REILLY: I'm saying there is enough of those people to make it worthwhile for me to outreach.
COULTER: No, no.
O'REILLY: You say no.
COULTER: Absolutely.
O'REILLY: He's walk away from the whole crew.
COULTER: That's what Reagan did and he won the biggest landslide in history. He got the smallest black vote of any president between LBJ and Obama. That is amazing anyone. And he won the largest electoral landslide in history.
O'REILLY: Back then the Hispanics weren't as powerful.
COULTER: Not Hispanics. He was ignoring the only vote that counted the black vote.
O'REILLY: All right. Ann Coulter everybody.


vdare--2020-06-10--Trailer With 58 Illegals Stopped At Texas Checkpoint.  Let's Not Forget The Border.

From La Opinión, biggest Spanish-language newspaper in the U.S., yet more evidence that, no matter what else is going on, we can't ignore the border:
A truck driver, arrested by the Border Patrol for transporting 58 undocumented immigrants, declared that he did the job because of threats that he received and to pay off a debt of 6,000 pesos (around 300 dollars) [Transportaba a 58 indocumentados por amenazas a sus hijos y por deuda de $300 dólares ("He was Transporting 58 Illegal Aliens Because of Threats to his Children and for a Debt of 300 Dollars") La Opinión, June 5, 2020].
They're still trying to smuggle people into the United States.
The driver, identified as David Castro Gomez, was detained on May 29 at a checkpoint on Interstate 35 near Laredo, Texas, when agents detected that in the trailer he was carrying dozens of immigrants without papers.
That's why these checkpoints are important. Kudos to the agents.
Upon being questioned about persons in the trailer, Castro Gomez said that he didn't know what he was transporting, that he was doing a friend a favor and that he had been hired in San Antonio to drive the trailer by a man he didn't know. This unknown person had said that he knew where his children in Mexico were and that if he didn't do the job something bad could happen....
There are some evil people in this business.


vdare--2020-06-11--Trump To Expel 3000 Chinese Graduate Students For Espionage—Why Not ALL Chinese Students?

The Trump Administration is considering and looking at taking action against Red China for their mass espionage and subversion in American universities by restricting student visas, F-1 and M-1 Non Immigrant Visas (NIV). Not mentioned is the mass fraud and illegal employment in which Chinese students participate. The administration is looking at expelling 3,000 graduate students likely involved in espionage of various kinds. I call this a start.
The Trump administration plans to cancel the visas of thousands of Chinese graduate students and researchers in the United States who have direct ties to universities affiliated with the People’s Liberation Army, according to American officials with knowledge of the discussions. The plan would be the first designed to bar the access of a category of Chinese students, who, over all, form the single largest foreign student population in the United States. It portends possible further educational restrictions, and the Chinese government could retaliate by imposing its own visa or educational bans on Americans. The two nations have already engaged in rounds of retribution over policies involving trade, technology and media access, and relations are at their worst point in decades. [U.S. to Expel Chinese Graduate Students With Ties to China’s Military Schools, by Edward Wong and Julian E. Barnes, NYT, May 28, 2020]
Sadly, it appears that Jared Kushner and openly anti-Trump university lobbyists are working behind the scenes to soften the blow, instead of expelling all Red Chinese students and prohibiting all future students from Red China, only a select few will get the chop.
American universities are expected to push back against the administration’s move. While international educational exchange is prized for its intellectual value, many schools also rely on full tuition payments from foreign students to help cover costs, especially the large group of students from China.
So, follow the money, American universities are dependent on Chinese students paying full tuition, though many for the last few decades have been on scholarships, including those at public universities.
But aside from the direct national security threat of Red Chinese spies, the more damaging threat is the American jobs Chinese students steal through Optional Practical Training, Curricular Practical Training, mass numbers of H-1B NIVs, employment visa fraud, and illegal employment, not to mention those who stay illegally after graduation.
More than 3,000 Red Chinese need to be expelled, all 360,000 should be expelled. Imagine the fury of the pointy headed intellectualoids in the universities who all hate President Trump! Just for political reasons alone the President should order all Red Chinese deported. This will also cause a fury in Red China, undermining the implicit agreement between the Chinese and their Red government; the government gives the population prosperity and a chance to study in America in exchange for the tyranny and corruption, but if the Reds can’t deliver prosperity and a ticket to America, things get hot. But the best part is the financial impact on leftist universities losing hundreds of millions of dollars in tuition.
Also of import besides the direct espionage are the Confucius Institutes (CI) in the United States that are directing and controlling the study of China in the United States. The CIs are Chinese government-funded and directed outlets at American colleges and universities where China provides Chinese language professors, textbooks, and study material that is supportive of Red Chinese foreign policy goals and part of the anti-White milieu on campus, blaming Europeans, Americans, and Whites in general for the problems China had in the late 19th and early 20th centuries during the later period of the Manchu rule over China. CIs spew anti-American and pro-China agitprop, as well as allying with openly anti-White groups.
As usual though the Trump Administration is doing half measures and ignoring the authority it has to summarily end the problem. First though, the Trump Administration appears to realize the power it does has, the strategy seems to be that current students of an identified security threat will have their NIVs cancelled by the State Department, an extremely powerful tool that the Administration has ignored in the past. Also not involved is ICE SVU, which will be required to act as some point.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo discussed the visa plans with President Trump on Tuesday in a White House meeting.
Now most will think "What does the State Department have to do with foreign students already admitted to the United States?" Well, even after admission, an alien lawfully in the United States, an alien inspected and admitted, is required to maintain a lawfully obtained NIV. If the NIV is cancelled, then the alien in question loses their legal status in the United States and must depart.
Generally, the Department of State (DOS) is required to cancel a visa, and that is Secretary Pompeo’s responsibility. But once the NIV is cancelled, it is the responsibility of the alien to depart. If the alien does not depart, it is the responsibility of ICE SVU to track the Reds down and make an arrest. But will that happen? The DOS has some law enforcement personnel, the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), but that is a tiny agency. ICE SVU will be charged with making the arrests, but like others in the bureaucracy, expect sabotage and insubordination.
Instead of half measures, the Trump Administration needs to expel all Chinese students, if not only to protect American jobs and end overstays by Chinese students. Ending all new F-1 and M-1 NIVs for Red Chinese is also a good idea.


vdare--2020-06-11--Patrick J. Buchanan: Will Churchill's Statue Be Next to Fall?

Three years earlier, by Peter Brimelow: "It Will Come To Blood"—Reflections On The Left's Anti-Trump Inauguration Tantrum
On Gen. George Washington's orders, the Declaration of Independence, signed in Philadelphia, was read aloud to his army. On hearing it, the troops marched to Bowling Green, decapitated and pulled down the statue of George III, and sent the remnants to be melted down into musket balls.
It was a revolutionary act, a symbolic statement. These once-loyal American subjects were now rebels and no longer owed allegiance to the king. They would fight to end his rule in America.
During the recent demonstrations and disorders here, similar acts had about them an aspect of societal rebellion and a repudiation of a heritage.
In Richmond, Virginia, a statue of Christopher Columbus, who generations of American children were raised to revere as the intrepid Italian explorer who discovered the New World, was pulled down and thrown into a lake.
In Boston, the Columbus statue was beheaded.
In a half-dozen states, statues of Confederate generals and soldiers were pulled down. Gov. Ralph Northam promises to remove the huge statues of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from their century-old places of honor on Richmond's Monument Avenue.
In Philadelphia, the statue of fabled Italian-American cop, police commissioner and mayor, Frank Rizzo, was desecrated and hauled away.
Retired Gen. David Petraeus has written to urge that all army bases bearing the names of Confederate generals, such as Forts Benning, Bragg and Hood, be renamed. Robert E. Lee, who is everywhere at West Point, says Petraeus, was a U.S. soldier who "committed treason."
Nancy Pelosi wants 11 statues, including those of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, and Sen. and U.S. Vice President John Calhoun, removed from the Capitol.
The purge of historical figures has spread to Europe.
The giant statue of King Leopold II in Brussels, who was enriched by the brutalitarian plundering of his Congo colony, has been taken down.
In Bristol, England, a statue of Edward Colston, philanthropist and patron of the city but also a slave trader, was thrown into the harbor.
At Oxford, students are moving to take down the statue of Cecil Rhodes, the archimperialist and founding father of Rhodesia who created as his legacy the Rhodes scholarships for British and American students.
Resumes of all the once-admired great men who discovered, explored and colonized the New World, as well as all those who created and first led the United States, are being investigated to determine how egregiously these men violated the egalitarian and democratist dogmas of modernity.
The list of malefactors seems impressive.
Who are we talking about?
Nearly half of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were slave owners. So, too, were five of our first seven presidents and two of the four men on Mount Rushmore.
George Washington won the war for independence. Thomas Jefferson doubled the size of the nation with the Louisiana Purchase. Andrew Jackson saved the nation from defeat by the British at the Battle of New Orleans and seized Florida. James Polk took us to war with Mexico and relieved it of what is now the American Southwest and California.
All four of these nation-builder presidents were slave owners.
The systematic dishonoring and disgracing of men once revered has only just begun. But it represents a spreading revolution in thought and belief about the origins and history of America.
How far is this going?
During the London protests in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, there was painted on the Parliament Square statue of Winston Churchill, who historians voted "the greatest man of the 20th century" for his role in leading Britain against Nazi Germany, the word "racist." The mob wanted Churchill's statue down.
And was Churchill a racist?
Surely, he was an archimperialist, a lifelong defender of the British Empire who believed in the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race and its right to rule what poet Rudyard Kipling called "the lesser breeds without the law."
Churchill disparaged people of color whom the British ruled, from the Caribbean to Africa, to the Middle and Near East, to South Asia and the Far East, in terms that would instantly end the career of any American or British politician who used them today.
Historian Andrew Roberts writes of Churchill that he was a "white ... supremacist [who] thought in terms of race to a degree that was remarkable even by the standards of his own time. He spoke of certain races with a virulent Anglo-Saxon triumphalism."
Many Americans, especially among the young, view the history of the European exploration, the colonization of the New World, and the creation of Western empires not with pride but with shame and guilt. And they want to make expiation by canceling out all the honors accorded such men, be it in statues or the names of cities, towns, parks and streets.
And their numbers and militancy are growing. The left has the bit in its teeth and is dragging the panicked elites along.
How this ends without permanent division in the country escapes me.
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His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-06-11--From Derb's Email Bag: Math, Kneeling On Suspects, Looting And Dinas Vawr, And White People's Fear O

From Derb's Email Bag: Math, Kneeling On Suspects, Looting And Dinas Vawr, And White People's Fear Of Blacks

Just a few:
(1) My worked solution(s) to the brainteaser in my May Diary are here. There was a bigger-than-usual response to this one. That gladdens my heart. I was taught plane geometry along the traditional Euclidean lines (so to speak), and the affection lingers.
One particularly diligent correspondent notes some interesting spinoffs from the puzzle, and a nifty, very Coxeterian, alternative proof: See here and here.
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(2) On Officer Chauvin's kneeling on George Floyd's neck, I got the following from a listener, which I have edited and anonymized.
Regarding the comments by Federale about kneeling on a criminal suspect's neck, as referenced in your podcast. If I understand Federale, he said that this is an accepted practice, at least where he worked. It was not an accepted practice anywhere I worked, and in fact was strongly discouraged, with certain exceptions not met in the Floyd case. I don't know Federale's CV; perhaps it is extensive and impressive. As for me, I served as a police officer from 1992 to 2015, with over 20 of those years in the high crime, majority-minority city of [name of northeastern city]. I also did two years with the US Customs Service uniformed division (now CBP); and my last year, a "retirement job," was at a sleepy university police department in [name of midwestern state]. I made thousands of arrests, many, many of them against resistant subjects. I was taught at all three agencies not to do what ex-Officer Chauvin did, precisely because of the results in the Chauvin/Floyd case: You can kill someone. To kneel on someone’s neck is potential deadly force, and you'd better be able to articulate why you were in fear of your life if you do it: e.g., a powerful, violently resistant suspect who could grab my gun and shoot me with it if he won the fight. Like Federale, I did kneel on suspect's heads, but again only against very violent suspects. I was careful as I could be, given adrenaline and often anger, to modulate the amount of weight I put on a suspect’s head, and I got off the guy once the cuffs were on. If I kneeled on someone's neck, and I am sure I did, it was only with an actively resistant suspect, and I kept my knee there only long enough for the handcuffs to go on. In the Minneapolis case, Floyd was passively resistant, throwing himself to the ground and such, and he was already handcuffed. He was little threat to the four officers at that point, and was not much more than a pain in the ass. If Chauvin thought Floyd was still a threat of some type, he could have "hobbled" Floyd by binding him at the ankles, either with shackles or a dog leash, things most competent patrol cops carry precisely for situations like this, which are common. I watched that video in dismay, almost yelling at the screen "get off him, dummy, you're going to get yourself jammed up." I don’t know why Chauvin kept his knee there so long: Perhaps it was bad training, his own incompetence, and an obstinate "FU" to the crowd of onlookers telling him to get off Floyd. I also think that even Federale might agree that knees to neck are only for actively resistant, unhandcuffed suspects, and only for a short time, not for someone acting as Floyd did that day. Bottom line: Chauvin screwed up.
Thank you, Sir. There's a clear difference of opinion here; not just with Federale, but also, as I noted in my podcast, with at least one law-enforcement periodical. If Federale wants to rebut, the site is of course open to him. Anyone else with law-enforcement experience who want to join the discussion can email in. I'll post anything that is succinct and informative.
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(3) In my June 5th podcast I made passing mention of linguistics professor John McWhorter's 2017 column "Antiracism, Our Flawed new Religion." On a Bloggingheads chat with Glenn Loury just recently, McWhorter mentioned that he's working on a book, due out next spring, about ... bad language.
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(4) A couple arising from my June 10th "Social Distancing" vidcast with Jared Taylor. First, Thomas Love Peacock's poem "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr."
On the vidcast I confessed to not knowing this poem—shame-facedly, as I fancy myself well-versed [sic] in English poetry—until I learned about it from Christopher Caldwell's new book The Age of Entitlement. In Chapter 8 Caldwell has a section headed "Manliness and Crime" which includes the following.
As the Harvard philosopher Harvey C. Mansfield explained, black culture had remained mostly immune to the purging of manly virtues that white culture had undergone in the age of feminism. That was a plus. You might be right to call gangsta rap crass, but you would be shortsighted to ignore that its Beowulfian braggadocio had once been a hallmark of the "high" European culture that other Americans were heedlessly throwing out. America's white upper middle class was producing so many "tough-minded" computer scientists and so few English majors that it had lost sight of some simple lessons that ten minutes spent with "The War-Song of Dinas Vawr" will teach you: Under certain circumstances, women prefer, and men follow, the kind of men who burn cities.
You can read the poem, and hear me declaim it, here.
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(5) Also when talking to Jared I mentioned a 1998 book titled A Thread of Years by one of my favorite historians, the late John Lukacs. I have just imaged the relevant pages here, here, and here. (From my reviewer's copy, not necessarily identical with the finished publication. My Washington Post review of the book is here.)
Lukacs is writing about a successful New York stockbroker who, in 1968 at age 63, decamped from that city to live full-time in Bremen, Maine.
....he witnessed something like a mugging. It happened in broad daylight, at a shining noon hour in mid-town Manhattan, on Forty-Fifth Street, between Madison and Park. A black deliveryman and a white deliveryman were fighting on the pavement while shouting obscenities. People watched. Another black climbed down from a truck. Together they kicked and pummeled the white one; in the end they pushed him down to the pavement, laughed and spat at him, then jumped into the truck and drove away. No one stopped them. He wanted to stop them (he had been in the Navy), but his wife screamed and held him back. What upset him was not the brutality and ugliness of the scene. He suddenly realized that whites are now afraid of blacks.
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vdare--2020-06-11--Republican Congressmen Have Their Priorities

Don’t worry, things may seem a little dicey at the moment, but Republican Congressmen have their priorities straight: What Americans need most right now is for Congress to push Iran around some more.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-10--Is San Diego America's Sanest City?

Is San Diego America's Sanest City?

On January 10, 2018, I was the first to publish 2017 homicide statistics for America’s 50 biggest cities. San Diego had the lowest murder rate, 1/27th of St. Louis’s.
With the rest of the country going crazy, San Diego is doubling down on what has been working well for it in 21st Century. From USA Today:
The San Diego City Council voted 8-1 late Monday to increase funding for its police department after nearly 10 hours of public comment that included some residents demanding to reduce police funding, NBC 7 San Diego reported.
Amid growing calls nationwide to “defund the police” in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis, California’s second largest city is doing the opposite.
And it’s going to prosecute George Floyd Memorial Undocumented Shoppers on a mass scale. From the San Diego Union-Tribune:
Video evidence will likely be key in deciding whether to prosecute looting, arson
The FBI and prosecutors in San Diego vow to go after rioters responsible for thefts and destruction following protests.
By KRISTINA DAVIS
JUNE 5, 20206 AM
For more than an hour, a large crowd descended unchecked on the La Mesa Springs Shopping Center Saturday night in a free-for-all looting spree — smashing windows, lighting fires and grabbing anything they could get their hands on.
Then they fled — arms and cars full — as police in riot gear advanced on the parking lot in a choreographed move not necessarily meant to make mass arrests, but to re-establish order.
The arrests will come later, or at least that’s the plan.
Investigators now have in front of them what is sure to be a long process of trying to identify those who took part in the devastation throughout La Mesa, and to a smaller extent downtown San Diego, where protests over the in-custody death of George Floyd were staged before rioting broke out.
This week, La Mesa police, the District Attorney’s Office and U.S. Attorney’s Office said the illegal acts won’t be overlooked.
“Protesting is an inalienable right recognized by the U.S. Constitution. Rioting is a crime,” said District Attorney Summer Stephan. “As District Attorney, it is my responsibility to prosecute those who choose violence, looting or lawlessness to harm our community.” …
Civil rights activists and black community leaders have publicly condemned the destruction.
“I greatly appreciate these investigations,” said the Rev. Shane Harris, president of the advocacy group The People’s Alliance for Justice.
“(Looters) are using George Floyd’s name to do it, and that’s a disgrace and it takes the focus off of our fight for justice and equality. We want reform, and the way to get reform is through conversation, legislation and demonstration, not through looting and rioting.”
The FBI has put out a nationwide call for tips, photos and videos to help identify “violent instigators who are exploiting legitimate, peaceful protests and engaging in violations of federal law.” La Mesa police has put out a similar request locally and provided tip lines for the public: (619) 667-7532 or lamesatips@cityoflamesa.us.
Much of the looting was caught on camera, one way or another. Television crews live-streamed the scene at La Mesa Springs, Grossmont Center mall and elsewhere, while both witnesses and participants posted their own videos on social media. However, subpoenas or search warrants may be necessary for authorities to access material that isn’t already public.
The unrest was also captured on a broad, yet patchy, network of private and public surveillance cameras.
In the city of San Diego, streetlight cameras cover large swaths of downtown. A CVS Pharmacy and 7-Eleven were among the businesses there targeted by looters on Sunday night.
There are no external security cameras at La Mesa Springs, said Cheri Eckis, who manages the shopping center for the firm Meissner Jacquet. However, many tenants, such as Vons, have their own systems inside their businesses.
Down the street, there were no outside surveillance cameras at Union Bank and Chase when people broke inside and torched the buildings. Days later, investigators with the Sheriff’s Department and U.S. Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were still working to sift through the asbestos-laden ashes in hopes of finding internal cameras that survived the blaze, said sheriff’s bomb/arson Sgt. Greg Hampton.
“It’s going to be a while,” Hampton said of the process. “We are hopeful.”


vdare--2020-06-10--CrossFit CEO Forced To Resign  For NOT Posting Anti-Racist Statement In Wake Of George Floyd Insurre

CrossFit CEO Forced To Resign  For NOT Posting Anti-Racist Statement In Wake Of George Floyd Insurrection

Never be the first to stop clapping (and always read your Solzhenitsyn).
CrossFit CEO resigns after comments about George Floyd, MarketWatch.com, June 9, 2020 The chief executive of CrossFit Inc. stepped down Tuesday, following a furor over his comments about George Floyd. “I’m stepping down as CEO of CrossFit, Inc., and I have decided to retire,” Greg Glassman said in a statement. “On Saturday I created a rift in the CrossFit community and unintentionally hurt many of its members.” Glassman posted a series of tweets Saturday that many criticized as racist and offensive. The company had also been criticized for not making an anti-racism statement as protests swept the nation, and earlier Tuesday, BuzzFeed reported Glassman said last week on a private Zoom videoconference call: “We’re not mourning for George Floyd – I don’t think me or any of my staff are. Can you tell me why I should mourn for him?” CrossFit, the world’s largest fitness chain, with more than 15,000 locations, said Dave Castro will take over as CEO.
Corporate America has bent the knee to the Black Lives Matter movement (which has one goal: forcing white America into submission).
Anyone who deviates from this dictate will be tossed out into the open air gulag that the United States is becoming. Insufficient loyalty to our new deity, George Floyd, is verboten in Black-Run America (BRA).
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-11--A Talk Radio Listener Says Conservatism, Inc. Is Insisting George Floyd Was "Murdered"—And MLK Is A

A Talk Radio Listener Says Conservatism, Inc. Is Insisting George Floyd Was "Murdered"—And MLK Is A Saint

Nigel Farage just lost his radio show after comparing the Black Lives Matter to the Taliban .
The Main Stream Media is more concerned with political correctness than they are with honest coverage of the torching and pillaging of our proud history by domestic terrorists .
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Some samples of conservative talk radio coverage:
In a related note, criticism of BLM not is allowed on British talk radio, either, as Nigel Farage found out.
The silencing and/or censoring continues! I watch @Nigel_Farage's show YouTube, this sucks!
‘Immediate Effect‘: Nigel Farage Leaving LBC Radio https://t.co/YQ2uVL27Ao via @BreitbartNews — American Brown Chick (@Mrsmmtbeauty) June 11, 2020
See earlier letters from the same reader.


vdare--2020-06-11--Alabama’s Jeff Sessions Emerges As America’s Champion On Police Defunding, Criminal Justice. Too Bad

Alabama’s Jeff Sessions Emerges As America’s Champion On Police Defunding, Criminal Justice. Too Bad President Kushner Hates Him.

washingtonwatcherii@protonmail.com (Washington  Watcher II)

See also: Entire GOP Takes Knee Before Floyd Hoax—Except Sen. Cotton. And, Maybe, Donald Trump
Former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the embattled immigration patriot contender for Alabama’s GOP Senate nomination, has emerged as just about the only Republican defending law and order, no apologies. The message might carry him to victory in the Senate primary runoff on July 14—and it also would win re-election for Donald Trump, if he would adopt it and drop his childish vendetta against Sessions. But will Jared Kushner let him?
Cities are burning, rioters are murdering cops, Leftist vandals are tearing down priceless Confederate statues—and even memorials to abolitionists—and an Antifa terror squad controls six blocks in Seattle. The Congressional GOP’s answer: concede the Black Lives Matter claims “systemic racism,” then back “criminal justice reform” while trying to evade the Left’s drive to defund the police.
In contrast, the arsonists, looters, and rioters know that Democrat/ Main Stream Media Complex will cover for them no matter what they do:
Naturally, crackpots like Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want defanged cops. “It is not crazy for black and brown communities to want what white people have already given themselves and that is funding your schools more than you fund criminalizing your own kids,” says the former barmaid known as Occasional-Cortex [Hill Democrats quash liberal push to ‘defund the police,’ by Sarah Ferris, Marianne Levine and Heather Caygle, Politico, June 8, 2020].
Of course, O-C won’t acknowledge what makes white communities livable: law-abiding white people. In fact, defunding cops in New York or anywhere else will make “non-white communities” even more like “non-white communities” in Chicago or Detroit. Even worse, it might make white communities more like non-white communities once non-white criminals know they can raid white communities with impunity.
The MSM—BLM’s ex-officio Information Ministry—is pushing the idea, too:
Just defund police. ... Instead of funding a police department, a sizable chunk of a city's budget is invested in communities, especially marginalized ones where much of the policing occurs [There's a growing call to defund the police. Here's what it means, by Scottie Andrew, CNN, June 8, 2020].
Defund the police. ... If cops cannot stop killing people, and black people in particular, society needs fewer of them [Defund the Police, by Annie Lowery, The Atlantic, June 5, 2020].
Needless to say, top Democrats know the idea is absolutely, incandescently absurd; 65 percent opposed it in a YouGov survey [What police reform does America support? by Linley Sanders, YouGov.com, June 1, 2020]. That’s why House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer are telling Democrats to shut up and focus on “reform.” The Democrat presidential nominee, Joe “Sneakyfingers” Biden, as Ace of Spades calls him, also opposes the idea, which is as nutty as abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and decriminalizing illegal immigration, two more daft ideas the ever voluble Occasional-Cortex likes.
The result of this rhetorical war on cops and the orders to stand down as rioters rampage: Irreplaceable memorials to Confederates and Christopher Columbus are gone. Cops have been murdered. “Protesters” even vandalized a statue of an abolitionist, proof positive that we’re witnessing an attack on white social order itself, not merely payback for armed robber Floyd.
More proof: Rioters in Seattle went full Bolshevik, as City Journal’s Christopher J. Rufo reported:
For the past week, Black Lives Matter and Antifa-affiliated activists have engaged in a pitched battle with Seattle police officers and National Guard soldiers in the neighborhood, with the heaviest conflict occurring at the intersection of 11th and Pike, where law enforcement had constructed a barricade to defend the Seattle Police East Precinct building. Hoping to break through the barricade, protesters attacked officers with bricks, bottles, rocks, and improvised explosive devices, sending some officers to the hospital. At the same time, activists circulated videos of the conflict and accused the police of brutality, demanding that the city cease using teargas and other anti-riot techniques. Then, in a stunning turn of events, the City of Seattle made the decision to abandon the East Precinct and surrender the neighborhood to the protesters. “This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation,” explained Chief Carmen Best. Officers and National Guardsmen emptied out the facility, boarded it up, and retreated. Immediately afterward, Black Lives Matter protesters, Antifa black shirts, and armed members of the hard-Left John Brown Gun Club seized control of the neighborhood, moved the barricades into a defensive position, and declared it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone—even putting up a cardboard sign at the barricades declaring “you are now leaving the USA.” [Anarchy in Seattle, June 10, 2020]
Seattle is “devolving into warlordism,” Rufo tweeted. “Rapper Raz Simone, who has been patrolling the barricades with an AK-47 and a handgun, has begun assaulting residents who disobey him. “We are the police now,” says his crew. “We are the leaders.” Disturbing video depicts Seattle’s new ruler—a black thug.
The #SeattleAutonomousZone is devolving into warlordism.
Rapper Raz Simone, who has been patrolling the barricades with an AK-47 and a handgun, has begun assaulting residents who disobey him.
"We are the police now," says his crew. "We are the leaders."pic.twitter.com/IJXYpyyYsy — Christopher F. Rufo ⚔ (@realchrisrufo) June 10, 2020
Wisely, Trump jumped (or at last tweeted) on it. “Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course,” he tweeted. “LAW & ORDER!”
Domestic Terrorists have taken over Seattle, run by Radical Left Democrats, of course. LAW & ORDER! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 11, 2020
He tweeted likewise on Monday: “LAW & ORDER, NOT DEFUND AND ABOLISH THE POLICE. The Radical Left Democrats have gone Crazy!”
LAW & ORDER, NOT DEFUND AND ABOLISH THE POLICE. The Radical Left Democrats have gone Crazy! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 8, 2020
Trump told reporters that defunding the police is “off the table,” and the campaign has already rolled out ads to force Biden’s hand. Other Republicans are demanding answers from their Democratic opponents [Trump and Republicans use calls to 'defund the police' to attack Democrats, by Lauren Gambino, The Guardian, June 8, 2020].
Democratic pollster Doug Schoen says the war on cops will end in a big GOP win in November [Defunding police will lead to Republican victory this year, The Hill, June 7, 2020].
That’s possible, but not if the GOP backs other anti-police policies and adopts the BLM narrative. Which is just what they’re doing, in the absence of strong leadership from Trump.
Republicans, including Vice President Mike Pence, are repeating Black Lives Matter talking points and pushing a “reform” bill that makes lynching a federal crime and features these requirements:
reports on injurious or fatal police use of force;
money for body cameras and minority cops in minority neighborhoods;
creation of a “National Criminal Justice Commission.”
Ominously, Trump sent Jared Kushner and his chief of staff Mark Meadows to the working group [Inside the Senate GOP plan for police reform, by Jonathan Swan, Axios, June 9, 2020].
Also ominously, California Rep. Tom McClintock co-sponsored the Democrats’ “reform” bill, which includes most of the GOP ideas and scraps qualified immunity for police, bans chokeholds and no-knock raids, and mandates more independent reviews of police misconduct [Democrats’ sweeping new police reform bill, explained, by Ella Nielsen and Li Zhou, Vox, June 8, 2020]. McClintock is no moderate. He vigorously defended Trump during his impeachment [Words just aren’t Trump’s ‘thing,’ Tom McClintock says as he prepares to fight impeachment, by David Lightman, McClatchyDC, November 12, 2019]. (The White House at least says ending qualified immunity is a “non-starter” [White House says reducing immunity for police is a non-starter, by Kathryn Watson, CBS News, June 8, 2020])
Also genuflecting to the BLM narrative, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he will take orders from the token black Republican senator, Tim Scott: “We’re still wrestling with America’s original sin. … And I think the best way for Senate Republicans to go forward on this is to listen to one of our own” [McConnell taps Tim Scott to lead Senate’s police reform plan, by Andrew Desiderio, Politico, June 9, 2020].
On top of it all, Trump and the GOP continue celebrating Jared Kushner’s criminal justice “reform” that released hundreds of violent felons. They even attack Joe Biden for supporting tough-on-crime measures back in 1994 that helped make America safe again.
In other words, Trump and Stupid-Party Brains Trusters are failing to exploit a major Democrat political miscalculation.
Which is why Jeff Sessions is so important. The immigration patriot’s message is pure law and order [Jeff Sessions on Defunding Police: ‘Innocent People Will Die,’ by Robert Kraychik, Breitbart, June 9, 2020]. “You pull back police, you defund police,” he said, “then the criminal element increases. You’ll see death to good, innocent people” [Sessions: ‘I will not stop defending the police,’ by Henry Thornton, Yellowhammer News, June 10, 2020].
Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton is the only other Republican who comes close, but even he is race-cucking . But recent developments are vindicating Sessions: Murders rose by more than 250 percent in Los Angeles during the last week. Chicago had its deadliest day in at least 30 years with 18 murders on May 31. May’s final weekend tally: 92 shot, 27 dead.
Sessions’ primary opponent Tommy Tuberville thinks “education and jobs” will stop the rioting, an unintentionally amusing opinion completely out of touch with reality that sounds a lot like the notorious nostrum known as “midnight basketball” [Tuberville: Nationwide unrest linked to ‘education and jobs,’ by Jeff Poor, Yellowhammer News, June 5, 2020].
No wonder Sessions is rising in the polls, despite Trump’s childish animosity toward him and endorsement of Tuberville.
The BLM-Antifa-Democrat Axis of Evil has handed Trump a slam-dunk issue. The Silent Majority is desperate for a leader who will go toe-to-toe with the thugs. They want more police, not fewer. No one wants to watch his city burn down, like Minneapolis, or see communists seize control, like Seattle.
The only one speaking for them is Trump’s former attorney general. It’s time for Trump to bury the hatchet, listen to Sessions, then hang this arson, vandalism, and murder where it belongs: on the party of Pelosi and Schumer.
Washington Watcher II [Email him] is an anonymous DC insider.


vdare--2020-06-10--Sailer in Taki's: Because White People Are Bad

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Because White People Are Bad
Steve Sailer
June 10, 2020
The single most relevant fact for understanding America right now is the one you are least supposed to mention: Blacks are vastly more homicidal than any other racial or ethnic group.
Nobody seems to know this when thinking about the reality behind our ongoing Largely Peaceful Riots, although, oddly, the same folks seem to know it when thinking about where to buy real estate or listening to rap.
While it may seem as if America’s Establishment has suddenly gone insane, elites are just following out the inevitable logic of dogmas mandated decades ago.
As I’ve been pointing out for approaching thirty years now, the rationale of mainstream left-of-centrism eventually leads to some extraordinarily radical and impractical conclusions. The current craziness is rooted in ideas that seemed rather moderate when they first became mandatory. But, as Lenin liked to point out, “He who says ‘A’ must say ‘B.’”
The bill for starting from dishonest premises is now coming due.


vdare--2020-06-12--Police Commander Travis Yates:  "'You Won't Need to Abolish Us—We Won't Be Around For It': Why Many

Police Commander Travis Yates:  "'You Won't Need to Abolish Us—We Won't Be Around For It': Why Many Police Officers Like Me Are Quitting the Force"

Travis Yates is a police commander in Tulsa, Oklahoma and a graduate of the FBI Academy. Yates been speaking out about the plight the police are in today due to the distortions and lies of the Mainstream Media and the so-called “Black Lives Matter” movement.
Yates has a powerful op-ed piece on RT, entitled ‘You won’t need to abolish us – we won’t be around for it’: Why many police officers like me are quitting the force [June 10, 2020].
The first paragraph reads
The nasty words we, the police, get called all the time have now turned into rocks, bottles and gunfire. It’s over, America: we are leaving.
Society has changed.
It’s not that law enforcement has changed for the worse but everything around it has. The mentally ill used to get treatment and now they just send cops. Kids used to be taught respect and now it’s cool to be disrespectful. Supervisors used to back you when you were right but now they accuse you of being wrong in order to appease crazy people. Parents used to get mad at their kids for getting arrested and now they get mad at us.
For police officers like Yates, being a cop is a vocation, a calling. But now…
I wouldn’t wish this job on my worst enemy…It’s the only job you can do everything right and lose everything. It’s the only job where the same citizens you risk your life for hate you for it. It’s the only segment left in society where it’s cool to discriminate and judge, just because of the uniform you wear. You never get to explain. You can never reason with them. The nasty words have now turned into rocks and bottles and gunfire. I’ve watched it happen to those around me and I have seen the total destruction of their life. This job is a walking time bomb and you could get cancelled or prosecuted on the very next call, even if you do everything right. No profession has to deal with that.
Doctors kill 250,000 people a year. They call them “medical mistakes” because society understands that they do a very difficult job under high stress and they must make the best possible decision in the moment.
Law enforcement is tasked with the same and we are highly successful. Despite the most violent society we have ever seen, less than 1,000 suspects are killed a year. 96% are attacking us with weapons and all but a few others are attacking us with their cars or their fists and more and more with simulated guns so Benjamin Crump (an American civil rights attorney) can help their family win the lottery.
I’ve seen cops risk their own lives when they shouldn’t have… just to keep from taking one. They never get the credit that other professions get.
Cowards are all around us. From chiefs to sheriffs to politicians, no one has our back.
Now, the little we have, we are told they are going to defund us or even abolish us. Citizens with a political agenda will reign over us and all you have to do is wake up and put on a uniform to be a racist.
This weekend I received death threats for just doing my job. It would have been outrageous a decade ago and made national news. Now, it’s just a Monday.
There will be more threats, more accusations of racism and more lies told about us. I used to talk cops out of leaving the job. Now I’m encouraging them. It’s over America. You finally did it.
You aren’t going to have to abolish the police, we won’t be around for it.
And while I know most Americans still appreciate us, it’s not enough and the risk is too high. Those of you that say thank you or buy the occasional meal, it means everything. But those of you that were silent while the slow turning of the knives in our backs happened by thugs and cowards, this is on you.
Your belief in hashtags and memes over the truth has and will create an environment in your community that you will never expect.
If you think Minneapolis will never turn into Mogadishu – it’s coming.
And when it does, remember what your complicity did.
This is the America that you made.


vdare--2020-06-12--Leftists Say THEY Need Anti-Bias Training

The more concerned you are about racism, the more racist you are. The first step to combating racism is admitting it’s a problem:
It’s a twist on the aphorism about wisdom and knowledge–the more you know, the more aware you become of how much you don’t know. For every internal demon of racism you slay, two more are discovered dwelling inside of you.
To claim you’re not racist is like a Christian claiming not to have a fallen nature on account of Adam’s original sin. It means you’re the most sinful of all. To atone for your non-stop sinning, you must focus obsessively on discovering additional sins you’ve committed, atone for those, and then find more.
Despite what its critics contend, Wokeism is a universal religion. Everyone–black or white, male or female–is racist. The ruler of this world rules over all of it. Everyone needs salvation, and anti-bias training is a good place to start.


vdare--2020-06-12--Blacks: All Lives Matter

Blacks: All Lives Matter

More evidence American public discourse is controlled by a small but vocal minority of young leftists who do not represent the sentiments of the majority of the citizenry. They don’t even countenance the voicing of those sentiments:
“Neutral” responses, constituting 17% of the total, and “not sure”, constituting 4%, are not shown.
People have been destroyed for expressing an innocuous phrase majorities of people of all races find unobjectionable. Another entry for the Sinitic historians of the future to reference as they compile The Decline and Fall of American Empire.


vdare--2020-06-12--Failing NASCAR’s “Drive For Diversity” Leads To Surrender On The Confederate Battle Flag. How Will T

Failing NASCAR’s “Drive For Diversity” Leads To Surrender On The Confederate Battle Flag. How Will The Fans React?

See earlier by Paul Kersey: Thought For The Daytona 500: Will Diversity Kill NASCAR?
It appears the answer to Paul Kersey’s 2012 question above is yes. Diversity might well kill NASCAR, or at least send its patriotic, middle-class, Trump-loving fans to look elsewhere for big-time racing. A few days ago, NASCAR not only banned the Confederate battle flag beloved of its fans but also dropped the requirement to stand for the National Anthem. And why was that? Because winless black driver Bubba Wallace said it had to.
What’s happened to NASCAR? Corporate cowardice and kowtowing to Black Lives Matter, that’s what. So yet another American institution has betrayed its fans in exchange for the approval of the leftist Mainstream Media, ruling class elites and their black proxy warriors who want to exterminate the Historic American Nation.
Whether Historic American Nation fans go along remains to be seen. But given that NASCAR is a Southern invention, its drivers mostly white men, and its fans mostly white men and women, the anti-white, anti-American, anti-Southern move might not work out too well.
NASCAR races always open with a prayer and salute to the American flag, and events are festooned liberally with the St. Andrew’s Cross that Confederate fighting men carried into battle. Despite events of the past few years, the racing outfit was holding its own against the larger, anti-white diversity movement and cancel culture.
As President Trump tweeted on Sep. 25, 2017: “So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag — they said it loud and clear!”
So proud of NASCAR and its supporters and fans. They won't put up with disrespecting our Country or our Flag - they said it loud and clear! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 25, 2017
Several NASCAR team owners agreed. Said Team owner Richard Petty, “Anybody that don’t stand up for that ought to be out of the country. Period. If they don’t appreciate where they’re at … what got them where they’re at? The United States” [NASCAR owners side with Trump, take firm stance against anthem protests, by Brant James, USA Today, Sep. 24, 2017].
On April 30, 2019, Trump invited 2018 NASCAR Champ Joey Logano, his wife, team owner and his Ford Fusion #22 to the White House. In February, the Trumps attended the Daytona 500. Trump was Grand Marshall. The race was completed the following day, with the president absent, but he tweeted his support for an injured driver.
Then came the George Floyd riots and NASCAR’s surrender on the flag and anthem, which was probably inevitable not only because of the riots and ensuing moral panic but also NASCAR’s race to prove its diversity bona fides with Drive for Diversity, a quota program launched in 2004 to bring in non-white and women drivers.
The results are underwhelming:
Booted from NASCAR after the usual apology, Larson is driving well in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.
In other words, Larson aside, Drive for Diversity is a sputtering jalopy that hasn’t done much except embolden those who hate NASCAR fans and the Historic American Nation they represent.
Enter Wallace, the MSM’s new hero, not for winning a race but instead for becoming a Social Justice warrior.
On June 7 at a race in Atlanta, after a week of BLM-inspired arson, looting, rioting, and murder, Kirk Price, a black technical inspector, knelt during the anthem and raised a fist salute [NASCAR official opens up about taking a knee for national anthem, prayer by Michelle R. Martinelli, USA Today, June 8, 2020].
At the same race, Wallace showed up wearing a shirt reading “I Can’t Breathe—Black Lives Matter.”
Bubba Wallace, driver of the #43 McDonald's Chevrolet, wears a "I Can't Breath - Black Lives Matter" T-shirt during the national anthem prior to a NASCAR event in Hampton, Georgia. https://t.co/yE190Yy6Ov pic.twitter.com/TCRcB1YKDg — ABC News (@ABC) June 9, 2020
On June 8, CNN’s Don Lemon gave Wallace his chance to bash the Confederate battle flag with an introductory video of white drivers in a Maoist Struggle Session.
Said the race-car driver who’s never won a race:
We are trying to figure out next steps and my next step would be to get rid of all Confederate flags. There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family, that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying. No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. So it starts with Confederate flags, get them out of here, they have no place.
Of course, no one was uncomfortable, including Wallace, who admitted the flag didn’t bother him until he was “educated:”
But diving into it and educating myself, people feel uncomfortable with that. People will talk about that. That’s the first thing they will bring up. So there’s gonna be a lot of angry people that carry those flags proudly. It’s time for a change. We have to change that. ... That’s just the start of what we need to do. Bubba Wallace full interview with Don Lemon, YouTube, June 8, 2020
“Just the start” sounds rather ominous, but anyway, NASCAR received the message from its new master loud and clear and made this statement:
The presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry. Bringing people together around a love for racing and the community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special. The display of the confederate flag will be prohibited from all NASCAR events and properties. [NASCAR statement on confederate flag , NASCAR.com June 10, 2020]
NASCAR wasn't using the flag officially. Fans bring them, and they were a fixture in the RV parks that are a large part of the NASCAR experience.
Like most Americans with an affection for the battle flag, most NASCAR fans are patriots who love the Star Spangled Banner, flag and song, which means they won’t cotton to this news, either: “NASCAR has removed guidelines that team members must stand for the national anthem, opening the way for peaceful protests during pre-race ceremonies” [NASCAR to allow peaceful protests during national anthem, by Dustin Long, NBC Sports, June 10, 2020].
NASCAR very quietly ditched that rule in Atlanta on June 7. Handouts traditionally distributed to drivers and pit crews before each race had included the respect-the-flag rule. But on June 7 the respect-the-flag rule wasn't included. So Price took a knee and raised his fist.
On June 10, the same day NASCAR announced its battle-flag ban, Wallace was the big star in Martinsville, Virginia—but again, not because he won the race. Rather, he appeared with a Black Lives Matter car and his “I Can’t Breathe” shirt. It was an historic night, we were informed, because NASCAR had finally banned the dreaded flag [Martin Truex Jr. wins Martinsville Cup race on historic night for NASCAR, by The Associated Press, USA Today, June 11, 2020].
So now, NASCAR, formerly somewhat apart from corporate-controlled professional sports, has joined the long line of those groveling before Black Lives Matter. So, too, did Richard Petty Motorsports on Twitter:
The Lemon-Wallace interview was possibly a set-up to push NASCAR across the BLM finish line, but anyway, NASCAR has been having engine trouble for some time in declining ticket sales and sponsorships [Why Americans have fallen out of love with NASCAR, by MacKenzie Sigalos, CNBC, May 27, 2018].
On June 10, the stands were empty thanks to the Chinese Virus. But what happens when the stands open again?
Will NASCAR search fans for contraband flags? Ransack RVs? Eject refuseniks who don’t like the new rule?
Whatever happens, just like Corporate America, NASCAR has betrayed its fan base and the Historic American Nation. Whatever the PR people say, that isn’t likely to halt its decline.
Those who run NASCAR deserve whatever economic harm comes from their kneeling before BLM and its fake “systemic racism” narrative. It's too bad for the fans though.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.


vdare--2020-06-12--The Rise and Fall of Murder in New York City

"Democratic leaders...are calling for a massive reduction in the NYPD's budget to show their "commitment towards moving away from the failed policing policies of the past. ”"
Snake Plissken, call your office. https://t.co/mSlDLlexdg — Andrew Stuttaford (@AStuttaford) June 12, 2020
In reality, the NYPD has implemented the most successful policing policies of the last quarter century, as this graph from Wikipedia shows:
Cities are broke, so different interest groups that rely on taxpayer dollars are trying to throw each other from the sleigh to enlarge their share of the shrinking pie.
[Comment at Unz.com]


vdare--2020-06-11--Jefferson's Prophecy, The Rest Of The Story: "The Two Races, Equally Free, Cannot Live In The Same G

Jefferson's Prophecy, The Rest Of The Story: "The Two Races, Equally Free, Cannot Live In The Same Government"

Thomas Jefferson, a great President, a great intellectual, and author of the Declaration of Independence, has a memorial called the Jefferson Memorial, which is a little large to for a mob to pull down, although I believe they've been descrating it.
There are some inscriptions on the inside, chosen in 1943 by New Deal Democrats, which include some cherry-picked anti-slavery sentences.
A reader wrote us in 2013 to point out that Jefferson's quote struck him as odd. The quote (carved in stone on a panel inside the monument) included this.
“Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Our reader looked up the whole thing and constructed this:
Citeit.net has a fuller analysis of the whole panel [Cherry-Picked Quotations on the Jefferson Memorial, January 6, 2018] in which author Tim Langerman says
Although it looks as though the text etched into Panel Three of the Jefferson Memorial is a single quotation from Jefferson, it actually is a compilation of 6 separate quotations . Can you see what was lost when the context of each excerpt was stripped away?
The quote about blacks being free—but not living with whites—is this (emphasis added by Citeit.net):
The principles of the amendment however were agreed on, that is to say, the freedom of all born after a certain day, and deportation at a proper age . But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. “Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races , equally free, cannot live in the same government . Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers . If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up. We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors.” – Jefferson’s Autobiography
So you see, Jefferson was against slavery not only because it was bad for blacks, but because it was bad for white Americans.
He didn't think a multiracial polity was going to work out, and he thought free white labor would make better Americans than black slaves, and he hoped to help the blacks return to Africa, a goal shared by Marcus Garvey and Abraham Lincoln.
Jefferson believed in liberty, but he also believed in America. That's why he's now a target.


vdare--2020-06-13--Boarding Up The Chief Scout

Boarding Up The Chief Scout

Nigel Farage just lost his radio show after comparing the Black Lives Matter to the Taliban .
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Earlier: There's a War on Britain's Past Too
A compromise has been reached on the statue of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts. Instead of being removed and put in storage, the statue in Poole, England will be boarded up to protect it from anti-white vandals.
Poole's Baden-Powell statue boarded up instead of removed - BBC News https://t.co/7hDtcAW2OS — Ethan Draddy (@EthanDraddy) June 13, 2020
My 2004 review of Baden-Powell's book Scouting for Boys is here.


vdare--2020-06-13--There's a War on Britain's Past Too

There's a War on Britain's Past Too

Just as in the U.S.A., across the pond in Britain mobs and cyber-mobs are attacking and defacing statues, calling for their removal, and in general assaulting the history of the Sceptered Isle.
There’s already a Wikipedia entry called Actions against memorials in the United Kingdom during the George Floyd protests which says that
A list of 60 statues, monuments and plaques considered to "celebrate slavery and racism" was published online as an interactive map titled Topple the Racists by the Stop Trump Coalition. Historical figures commemorated therein include Christopher Columbus, Sir Francis Drake, King Charles II, Oliver Cromwell, Admiral Lord Nelson, the prime ministers Earl Grey and William Ewart Gladstone, and Cecil Rhodes.
The Winston Churchill statue has already had to have a protective box put around it, as has that of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts.
In Liverpool, there's been a call for Penny Lane, the street made famous by a Beatles hit, to be renamed. (It's named after Liverpudlian slave ship owner James Penny.) [Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson responds to call for Penny Lane to be renamed, by Jenny Kirkham, Echo, June 10, 2020]
Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a principled criticism of this whole hysteria, in a series of tweets. Quoth the PM:
The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square is a permanent reminder of his achievement in saving this country – and the whole of Europe – from a fascist and racist tyranny. It is absurd and shameful that this national monument should today be at risk of attack by violent protesters. Yes, he sometimes expressed opinions that were and are unacceptable to us today, but he was a hero, and he fully deserves his memorial. We cannot now try to edit or censor our past. We cannot pretend to have a different history. The statues in our cities and towns were put up by previous generations. They had different perspectives, different understandings of right and wrong. But those statues teach us about our past, with all its faults. To tear them down would be to lie about our history, and impoverish the education of generations to come ['We cannot edit our past': Boris Johnson's statue tweets explained, by Peter Walker, The Guardian, June 12, 2020].
A young British conservative by the name of Darren Grimes has an interesting Twitter page, commenting on the madness which has descended on contemporary Britain.
Grimes links to a brief video commentary by Scotsman Neil Oliver, who asks if these people care about slavery today, and ends with this question:
Is this about addressing racism and the existence of slavery in our world community? Or is it simply an attempt by anarchists and communists to eat into the built fabric of Britain and thereby to bring down British society?
“I would deal with the plight of slaves who are alive today”
Historian @thecoastguy discusses the anti-racism protests. #TheNine pic.twitter.com/n7lftwr09p — The Nine (@BBCScotNine) June 12, 2020
To ask the question is to answer it.


vdare--2020-06-13--His Name Is James Blair: White Sheriff's Deputy Murdered by Black Male in Mississippi

Never forget: To Corporate America, Hollywood, Academia, Democrats, Blacks, and even many elected members of the Republican Party, Black Lives Matter more than yours.
Joaquin Blackwell is a black life that had it been taken by white police officer Jones County Sheriff’s Deputy James Blair the entire world would know their names.
As it is, just another story of a black male (this time in Mississippi) who simply murdered yet another white police officer.
Update: Deputy killed in Simpson County shooting, suspect on the run, WJTV.com, June 12, 2020 SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV)- A Simpson County deputy has died after being shot by Joaquin Stevens Blackwell, according to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened at a mental health center in Mendenhall on Friday. According to Dave Van the executive director of Regions 8 Health, Blackwell was in the custody of the sheriff’s department. He was brought to Regions 8 Health for evaluation because his family members were concerned about his mental health. After the evaluation, Blackwell grabbed the deceased deputy’s gun while getting in the car. Then, he shot the deputy and left the scene. According to the Jones County Sheriff’s Department, the deputy killed has been identified as James Blair. The Simpson County Sheriff ‘s Office is now searching for the suspect, Joaquin Stevens Blackwell. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has issued a Blue Alert to the public and believe that Blackwell is near Mississippi Highway 149 and the D-Lo area in Simpson County. He is described as a black male, 22 years old, five feet eight inches tall weighing 175 pounds with brown eyes and black hair. Blackwell was last seen wearing no shirt and white boxer shorts only. He is considered armed and dangerous.
Had George Floyd killed Officer Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis during the latter’s arrest of the black suspect, no one outside of Minneapolis would know the story of the white police officer murdered by a black criminal.
Flip the script, and cities are burning nationwide.
White lives don’t matter, unless they are police officers taking the life of a black career criminal. Then, cities must burn.
His Name is James Blair. You deserved better, sir. But as Drew Brees found out when making remarks about respecting the flag of the United States, this is no longer our country. Yes, three white cops have been murdered by blacks since George Floyd’s heart stopped during an arrest because of a fentanyl overdose.
Their Lives Matter Too.
[Comment at Unz.com]