Official Catholic opposition to border control (as discussed in “America’s Vaticrats”) received additional attention in a Jan. 12 panel sponsored by the American Bar Association. Council of Bishops representative Kevin Appleby appeared with a gaggle of open-borders enthusiasts from Cecilia Munoz (La Raza) to Anthony Romero (ACLU).

Mr. Appleby outlined the Church’s policy positions, e.g. earned legalization and support for the McKennedy bill, also noting, “Ours is a church of immigrants.”

Toward the end of his little spiel, Appleby let it slip that “Many who oppose immigration are Catholic,” so the Church has launched a new website, Justice for Immigrants, to “educate” parishioners into correct Vaticrat thinking. Like so many institutions today, the Catholic elites are out of touch with the constituents they are supposed to serve.

You can watch the panel discussion (truly 90 minutes in space) by pasting rtsp://video.c-span.org/15days/e011206_aba.rm into the URL line of your RealPlayer, or clicking on American Bar Assn. on Immigration Reform. The link will be good for a couple weeks, and you must have RealPlayer loaded up.

In addition, Grover Norquist was memorably evil in his remarks, no small achievement among such a group. The arrogant self-designated tax reformer (recently a friend of terrorist followers of Islam) actually said that America was the pre-eminent power in the world because of our success with immigration, calling it “our number one competitive advantage against the rest of the world.” That’s extreme talk, even for the most fervent cheerleaders of unrestricted immigration.

But a day later, I could find no mention of Grover’s dramatic declaration in the press.

On early Thursday morning in Fort Lauderdale, between two and four young thugs beat, in seperate incidents, three vagrant men with baseball bats. One of the victims has died.

It appears that the assailants were white (or Hispanic - 10% of Fort Lauderdale is Latino). Judging by one surveillance video, at least one of the victims was black.

By late Thursday evening, Google News has almost 100 news stories on this incident, and rising. The major TV Networks have made it national news, newspapers all over the country have stories on their web sites and it has started to appear overseas.

On New Year’s Day in Richmond a white man who was once quite well known nationally as a musician, his wife, and two young daughters had their throats cut at the culmination of a home invasion robbery. The two black men arrested and charged for these killings have also been charged with the killings of three other blacks in another Richmond home the following Friday (one of the victims apparently was an accomplice to the first murders). They look likely to be charged in other killings and home invasions. Both have prison records: one being released after 10 years in prison in October.

As of late Thursday night, Google News has only 93 stories on this much more mature and bigger story. Almost all the coverage is local to the two towns where the accused lived and Philadelphia, where they were arrested. There has been little national coverage since the arrests.

Moronic young hoodlums making a sport of beating marginalised and pitiable derelicts is wicked and intolerable and has to be repressed.

But already-identified criminals invading apparently quite inoffensive functional homes and engaging in uninhibited slaughter is, bluntly, a far more important threat. Just as Black on white crime is far more serious than white on black. Society has to figure out how to deal with the type of people who do this sort of thing, and ignoring who they are is irresponsible.

As the European Ethnocentrism blog points out, the treatment of the Richmond massacre by the MSM is reminscent to the attempts to ignore the December 2000 Wichita atrocity. Disrupting that blackout was one of the more pleasurable activities of the early VDARE.com. Repudiating double standards is even more so.