See Tim Blair’s post on it, BEACH TRASH DUKE IT OUT. It appears that white Australian youths “clashed” with Lebanese youths.

Also check out the comments, which contain people arguing that the Lebanese started it, which may not excuse the rioting, but is an expected consequence of immigration from Lebanon, ONE OF THE MOST VIOLENT PLACES ON THE PLANET! (Sorry about that: I’m feeling better now, and promise not to shout “HELLO!” or “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?” at Australian immigration enthusiasts.)

See Racial Gangrape: Another Diversity Disaster and Racial Gang-Rape: The Sequel for previous problems integrating young Lebanese men into Australian society.

Please remember that while some refugees may be innocents fleeing violence, others may be violent people who have brought some with them.

UPDATE: From Tim Blair:VIOLENCE CONTINUES, from Wretchard, at the Belmont Club, (via Kathy Shaidle) Violence breaks out again in Cronulla, and from BiasedBBC, Two Beaches:

Two beaches. Case A: thugs attack en masse at a beach in Portugal. The race of the attackers was not mentioned by the BBC, although the prim way that the story says that the municipal authorities believed that

“the youngsters came from poorer suburbs of the capital”

made me guess that they were not white before Tim Worstall, who lives in Portugal, confirmed it.

and

Case B: thugs attack en masse at a beach in Sydney. In the BBC story the race of attackers and victims appears in the very first line:

“Thousands of young white men have converged on Cronulla Beach in Sydney, Australia, and attacked people of Arabic and Mediterranean background.”

Lebanese Australians are apparently rioting in reponse to the earlier riots, which were in reponse to earlier Lebanese violence, et cetera.

It seems that, in revenge for the events in Cronulla on Sunday, people of Lebanese origin have gone into that and neighbouring suburbs and thrown bricks. The BBC does not report the race of the perpetrators. However, in the same story, it does manage to remind us twice that “thousands of young white men” were behind Sunday’s riots. Susan writes, “Notice how MinTruth doesn’t give any racial or ethnic identifier for the thugs currently destroying cars and throwing bricks in Mabroubra and Brighton-le-Sands (Sydney suburbs). That’s your infaliable Orwellian clue to the actual ethnic identity of the thugs.”

FINAL UPDATE: Steve Sailer says

So, how long until we read articles blaming discrimination, lack of affirmative action, unemployment, and/or Le Corbusier’s soulless architecture for the white riot?

Oh, wait, that’s odd, in this case the media seem to be blaming the riot on the rioters. What a novel concept! I wonder what’s different between the French and Australian riots? Hmmhmmhm, it’s puzzling … I just can’t put my finger on the difference…

Mickey Kaus on Peggy Noonan’s immigration piece in the WSJ.

As a Reaganite, Noonan must have recognized that elite condescension instantly, allergically. It’s similar to the condescension 50s and 60s elites felt for fervent anti-Communists, and almost precisely the condescension Nixon-Moynihan-liberal welfare give-them-cash reformers of the 70s felt for those rustic, unsophisticated voters who actually wanted welfare recipients to work–as if you could do that!–rather than receive cleverly-designed guaranteed income payments. One of the great things about America is that this sort of condescension is almost always pure political poison in the long run (and usually in the short run). In the 70s, then-governor Reagan labelled Nixon’s sophisticated guaranteed income plan a “megadole.” The rest is history! We’re still waiting for the politician to credibly take on the equivalent Bush-McCain-liberal pro-amnesty consensus–and its disdain for those rustic, unsophisticated voters who actually want resident illegals to return to their home countries and get in line before they’re legalized. As if you could do that! …

In the meantime, the Wall Street Journal publishes this self-revelatory editorial:

We get the same message from nearly every business executive who comes through our offices: Without immigrants, they couldn’t possibly find enough willing workers to do the available work, no matter what the available wages. Yet Republicans seem intent not merely on increasing border patrols but also on further harassing law-abiding businesses that happen to hire illegals, as if anyone can tell the difference between real and fake immigration documents. Only Republicans would think it’s smart politics to punish their supporters for hiring willing workers.

OK, Big Business supports the Republican Party financially, but how many votes does the Business Round Table have? A hundred and sixty votes, that’s how many. But there are a lot of displaced American workers in the Republican voting base.

Eugene McCarthy died today. While he’s being remembered for his Vietnam War opposition, and for bringing down LBJ, I prefer to think of him as a politician with normal attitudes towards mass immigration.

One of the sponsors of the 1965 immigration act, he said that he and other Senate sponsors (as Roy Beck put it) “never intended to open the floodgates. “

He was the author of The Ultimate Tyranny, about the legal difficulties put in the path of any third party that tries to challenge the bipartisan consensus.

Think of him when you’re trying to find a party, any party to vote for on the immigration issue.

Update: Joe Guzzardi reminds me that McCarthy was an active member of FAIR’s advisory board, and Brenda Walker has an obit up limitstogrowth.org.

Further Update: McCarthy also contributed a blurb for the cover of Alien Nation; his own anti-immigration book was A Colony of the World. (1992)

So says “Miguel,” an illegal alien who stole some citizen’s construction job in Minneapolis, after being asked what he thought about Gov. Pawlenty’s “alarming” report showing that illegal aliens are costing Minnesota taxpayers $188 million a year. (You can read all the gory details here.)

“It doesn’t make any sense worrying how much it costs for us to be here,” says the arrogant and disrepectful Miguel. “We just come to work hard. We’re just trying to survive.”

Naturally, at least one state legislator threw her body between poor Miguel and the governor’s office:

“It’s playing to racism, basically,” said Rep. Karen Clark (e-mail her), (DFL-Minneapolis). “ … I think it is a desperate move. I’m very sad that Governor Pawlenty would go in this direction again.”

Memo to Ms. Clark: It sounds like the governor is honoring his oath of office and looking out for the public’s best interests. Whose interests are you looking after?