The blogosphere proved its mettle quickly in the aftermath of Katrina: quickly identifying that the key news was the moral weakness of the New Orleans black underclass, facilitated by the failings of the black overclass in the form of the contemptable city government. Yes, suffering might have been relieved quicker by exceptionally talented Federal Action - but why was all this crime necessary?

The definitive statement on this matter is of course Jared Taylor’s. He is clearing his bookshelf for his Pulitzer Prize, doubly warranted by his subsequently published The Color of Crime.(Some loyal VDARE.com supporters have e mailed to say Steve Sailer’s comment was as good.)

Trolling around the internet today, however, I find another penetrating assessment, from National Review’s John Derbyshire

At my neighbourhood block party… a white, liberal neighbour expressed the sense of national shame that we’d all felt at some point in Katrina Week. “It was like some Third World country!” he said. “Like Somalia, or Haiti…” The guy stopped dead in his tracks, suddenly aware of what he had implied, then desperately back-pedaled, trying to erase his thoughtcrime. “I mean, you know, Third World. Like, um, Cambodia…” Those of us listening nodded in sympathy, silently thinking: Nice save there, guy.

This can be read on Derbyshire’s own site. It cannot be read, however, on NRO. I surmise this fiery, valiant, opponent of terror overseas flinched at naming the lesson of the most sustained outbreak of terror in this country in modern memory. This is that a temporary inability on the part of the authorities to maintain law and order + black underclass presence = trouble. Clearly this should be uppermost in the minds of law enforcement authorities constantly. Yet how can we expect this integrity when the allegedly “Conservative” establishment media lacks the courage to let even a columnist acknowledge that ethnic groups behave differently?

And this was the Goldwater champion!

Via Clayton Cramer’s BLOG and Michelle Malkin, I see that an Egyptian College student in Tennessee has been arrested in possession of “an airline pilot’s uniform, a chart of Memphis International Airport and instructional D-V-D’s. One was titled “How an Airline Captain Should Look and Act.”“ [Associated Press: Egyptian national ordered held until trial]

Cramer note that a Google search for “Mahmoud Maawad ” brings up www.alshaab.com/magdimail.htm as a first result, which is now defunct.

I’m probably more used to using the Internet Archive than he is, so it was no trouble to pull the old page up:

The message signed Mahmoud Maawad simply said:

Mmahmoud2004@aol.com

. i union with you and i completely agree

Mahmoud Maawad
engineenering student in USA

If you want to know the kind of thing he’s agreeing with, it’s mostly radical Islamic politics like this:

Dear Br. Magdy,

Jazaka Allah for all your Jihad. I know its only wishful thinking, but Ill vote to impeache the entire regimes of all arab states, with the exception of Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Theyre doing such a good job that any arab leader who as a bit of dignity should be ashamed of himself, or if he has more dignity should shoot himself.

If you look at the messages of the young Islamic radicals, you can see that they hate and despise Mubarak and any Arab leader who is at peace with the United States.

They would probably be in favor of assassinating or otherwise overthrowing him, and replacing him with a more terror-friendly President of Egypt. But Mubarak is fairly safe from these guys. You want to know why?

Because they’re living in the United States and Canada.

Here are some of the letter writers signatures:

• a muslim youth from USA..
• support you from Canada
• Muslim from USA
• abdalla mohammedU S A
• An Egyptian who loves his country
  Abdulah El Masry, America

Why is immigration policy importing people who hate America? And why are American taxpayers subsidizing foreign “engineenering” students who can’t spell engineering?