In a characteristically disingenuous, misrepresentation-festooned posting, the Is That Legal ? blog has admitted what Peter Brimelow suspected: that it was the intervention of the blog’s proprietor Eric Muller of UNC Law School that caused Brad Krantz of Burlington N.C’s WZTK-FM to cut short a planned interview and call-in session last June:

…I contacted Brad Krantz, one of the show’s hosts, to ask whether he knew much about Brimelow’s VDARE site and some of its writers. Here’s the text of the email I sent him:

Brad

Read this stuff, and check out some of the linked material…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brimelow “Brimelow is a paleoconservative and maintains that America’s culture and way of life is threatened by unrestricted immigration from Latin America and the Third World”

It’s all about maintaining white culture.

There’s *lots* more if you dig

–Eric

Muller advances one main reason for this act of repression: he quotes several writers posted on VDARE .COM . That is it. Apparently the fact that he disagrees with them is enough to give him the right to repress their publisher.

The obvious question : if Muller was so offended by Peter Brimelow’s appearance on a local call-in show, why didn’t he pick up the phone and challenge him? Judging from his blog, his immigration views are rather primitive, but no doubt his friend Krantz would have protected “Eric”. Or is that beneath the grandeur of UNC Law Professors – unlike secret phone call assassinations?

Fundamentally, though, there is a serious issue of general principle here. Several hundred years ago, basically in England, the tradition grew up of answering political opponents with argument, rather than by force. That is where the traditions imbued in the American Constitution came from (and also Peter Brimelow, apparently to Muller’s xenophobic annoyance).

Points further east in Europe and beyond retain to this day the view that force is an adequate argument, and repression a perogative of the powerful. Clearly Eric Muller belongs to this tradition, no doubt imported with his forbears. Defending the pre - eminence of the first tradition in America was a central reason for the founding of VDARE .COM.

Tellingly, Muller scatters around his expostulation the familiar smears of “nativist” and “white nationalist”. (Reality check: As Brimelow has pointed out repeatedly, VDARE.COM is not a “white nationalist” site but an immigration reform coalition, including non-whites and purely political nationalists .)

In any case, Muller’s own site is highly judeo-centric and much pre-occuped with scoring debating points against the founding culture. But, of course, different rules apply to Professor Muller and his friends. They are allowed to operate ethnically competitive sites.

However, there is an easy way for Eric Muller to make amends for his squalid and illiberal act of repression. Let him persuade Brad Krantz to host a debate between himself and Peter Brimelow on these issues.

If he dares.

Encourage Muller here and here. Ask Krantz why not? (Krantz chose not to reply to any of Peter Brimelow’s efforts to find out what happened after last June. He may need encouragement.)

The Bill of Wrongs:
The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006.
By Dahlia Lithwick

Yeah, you guessed it: DA Mike Nifong’s Hunt for the Great White Defendants in the Duke Lacrosse Frame-Up is a no-show. You see, the long-running pattern of hate crime hoaxes victimizing white male college students is nothing compared to, say, #8 on Lithwick’s List, the Bush Administration “Slagging the Media.”

In recent news, the hoax continues to implode. Nifong dropped the rape charges but is pressing on with other felony charges. Meanwhile, the North Carolina State Bar is investigating Nifong for ethics violations. And now the North Carolina Conference of District Attorneys has asked him to recuse himself from the case. [Crossposted at Isteve.com]

Youtube video of Mary Katherine Ham doing a tour of Durham, North Carolina, talking about what didn’t happen, on the sites where it didn’t happen:

She also has a column with five good things you have not been told about the Duke Lacrosse Team, starting with the fact that unlike many athletic teams at Duke, they have a one hundred percent graduation rate. [Some good things about Duke Lacrosse for a change By Mary Katharine Ham, December 29, 2006]

If you saw my items on the Baytown rapist, Two Words Missing From This Headline, and Update On Homosexual Rape Case: Black Rapist, White Victims plus this letter, you may be wondering what’s going on with the case, and the MSM coverage of the case. Nicholas Stix has done an incredible amount of work trying to get the the Associated Press to answer questions. (Ask Michelle Malkin how easy it is to pry answers loose from the AP) The results are on his website, and while he was kind enough to give me ” tip o’ the hat ,” I have to say he’s done a lot more work. Read the whole thing.

Nicholas Stix, Uncensored: Another Associated Press Scandal: Wire Service Covers Up Black-Male-on-White-Male Rape Spree
December 28, 2006

By Nicholas Stix
Published 2:32 a.m., December 29, 2006.
Last updated 4:53 a.m., December 29, 2006.

What Did the AP Know, and When Did It Know It?

Imagine you were a member of a group being targeted by a serial rapist, but the media refused to provide you with this urgent information, which in the age of AIDS and resistant forms of venereal disease, could protect you from having your life destroyed or even ended, because it didn’t like the way the truth looked? Or imagine you wanted to learn about the prevalence of rape but you couldn’t, because the media refused to provide the public with the real story? Or you’re simply a citizen who wants to be informed, as an end-in-itself?

There is nothing theoretical about the above questions. In and around Baytown, TX, since April an armed serial rapist � “a clean-shaven black man, 18-21 years old… [5'10"-6' tall] and with a shaved head” and carrying a backpack — has been targeting small, frail, white men, 18-21 years of age, who live in their parents’ houses. The last reported rape was committed on November 30. And yet, the Associated Press doesn’t want potential victims, students of rape, or inquisitive citizens to know the truth.[MORE]

The Chronicle of Higher Education blogged recently that the report, “California Policy Options to Accelerate Latino Success in Higher Education,” was released by Excelencia in Education, a Washington-based group that seeks to accelerate Hispanic students’ achievement in higher education.

The document notes that educational attainment among Hispanic Californians is low. In 2005, the report says, only 9 percent of Hispanic residents age 25 and older held at least a bachelor’s degree…

The report recommends, among other things, that California provide all new parents in hospital maternity wards with informational packets on how to prepare and save for college, offer financial incentives to students to stay enrolled in higher education, expand state tax incentives for employers to support their employees’ education, and increase state support of colleges that enroll large percentages of students from underrepresented groups.[Report Urges California to Raise Hispanic College-Going Rate, and Suggests How to Do So]

About this, I have several thoughts:

Alex Wilson writes at Dow Jones:

MELBOURNE -(Dow Jones)- Globalization will lower the real wages of unskilled workers in advanced economies with or without the free flow of labor between countries, Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said Thursday.

King said the flow of labor from Eastern European countries to the U.K. has accelerated the growth of the labor force there.

However, a decrease in real wages in developed countries will occur regardless of efforts to cut back migration, he said.

“The impact of globalization, in terms of the impact on real wages, will occur anyway through the movement of free trade in goods and services, even if we limit migration,” he told a Melbourne Center for Financial Studies luncheon in Melbourne.

“The downward pressure on the real wages of the unskilled in advanced economies doesn’t require migration to bring it down - trade will do the same.”

King said that while economists see benefits in the free trade of goods and services and the free flow of capital, it is up to governments to set their own policies on labor flows as migration raises “deeper policy issues”.

Governor Mervyn King needs a few basic lessons. First off, the present situation of WTO managed trade is far from “free” trade. WTO managed trade is made possible by among other things enormous borrowing in the part of the United States. Now, I would agree that bad trade deals are a bigger factor than immigration in reducing wages and disposable income in developed countries (probably by a 2-1 ratio).

However, these insane, unsustainable trade deals aren’t the only possible arrangements here. Furthermore, there are big productive factors in the developed economies other than wages. How returns to property and wealth is distributed is largely a matter of political consensus. There is no particular reason for enormous returns to real estate or legal activities like we have seen in reason decades. Other arrangements could be made by a fundamental change in political consensensus and different policy decisions. As Paul Craig Roberts has pointed out, the well to do have been among the most common targets of genocide in the last century. If “leaders” like Governor King are unable or unwilling to really work at making a world that works both for a larger number of its citizens and improves the situation of citizens of their own countries, then there is every possibility that at some point Governor King will learn the same lessons as other members of failed elites that didn’t tend to business learned.

What no one has done yet is put together a viable political and economic ideology in the west that involves immigration restriction, containment of concentration of wealth and political power and guarantees of balanced trade.

We have a clear existance proof in the existence of Japan that a country can be viable in the world economy, restrict immigration and maintain high levels of wealth equality.

If the West develops similar aspirations again, statements like Governor King’s come to be seen as completely out of line.

The Times runs its second article of 2006 on how micronutrient fortification can help reduce the problem of low IQs in the Third World, equaling the number VDARE.com ran in 2004 (see here and here):Malnutrition Is Cheating Its Survivors, and Africa’s Future By Michael Wines, December 28, 2008.[See more on Isteve.com.]

One of the basic problems with the issue of immigration is the degree to which there has been enormous media distortion-and fundamental differences in the composition of congress compared to a cross section of the American Public. Some VDARE.COM readers are a bit suspicious of democracy. However, when it comes to the immigration issue, it isn’t democracy that is the problem, but the nature of the particular groups that get extra representation in the present system.

Unlike most of my VDARE.COM colleagues, I am neither a conservative nor a Republican. That gives me a certain freedom explore how immigration reform can be handled in ways that have been missed by the conservative republicans who have largely focused on this issue in recent years.

We have a practical example of an attempt to radically inprove democratic process near by my home in Washington state.

The citizens of British Columbia, Canada, explored changing their election process by appointing a “Citizens Assembly” of voters selected a random from the voter roles to explore options for electoral reform. The basic idea was to give a cross section of citizens a staff, and time to seriously explore a question. I was personally impressed that the system they supported was, STV, a system with substantial academic support-and the system of proportional representation which tends to put the least power into the hands of party leaders.

The basic approach of a Citizens’ Assembly could be used for any issue. Why not appoint a Citizens Assembly to explore the immigration issue? The Corporate Stooges that make up the bulk of congress seem to have neither the ability nor the aptitude to really handle the issue.

The BC Citizens’s Assembly was government sponsored from its onset–and was a body that put an enormous amount of work into the one issue of electoral reform.

I would suggest that something less large and elaborate might be constructed using private funds–perhaps as a means to force the government into more substantial action.

The average American has simply never had access to the most basic of information on the issue of immigration. I think if the case of organizations like VDARE.COM, NumbersUSA and the Center for Immigration Studies were made to a cross section of the American public, it would get even more of a reception than it has gotten from congress to date.

Long run, I think substantial political reform along the lines the BC assembly recommended is necessary to present corporate oligarchy from becoming utterly repressive in the US. I would also suggest that such reform is an an important means for the VDARE.COM constituency to get immigration reform.

Timeswatch is an offshoot of the Media Research Center, which to my single-issue mind seems to have done very little on immigration related media bias over the years. But now that the issue is huge in the media, they can’t help noticing it. In TimesWatch’s year-end roundup of egregious NYT Bias, they have this one:

#9 Coddling Illegal Immigrants and the Liberals Who Love Them

Collectively, the Times’ articles on the rallies this spring in support of illegal immigrants would have made for neat souvenir programs for the marchers.Top Ten Lowlights of The New York Times in 2006

Here are some of the highlights from the “newspaper of wreckage.”

Times Watch: Overwhelmed by a Huge Illegal Immigration Rally

NYT Story: Groundswell of Protests Back Illegal Immigrants By NINA BERNSTEIN March 27, 2006

Times Watch: Coldhearted Anti-Immigrant Republicans

NYT Story:Republican Split on Immigration Reflects Nation’s Struggle By RACHEL L. SWARNS March 29, 2006

Times Watch: Be Kind to Illegal Immigrants Weekend at the Times

NYT : A bunch of stories, but try this one: Across the U.S., Growing Rallies for Immigration By ROBERT D. McFADDEN April 10, 2006

For VDARE.com’s coverage of the New York Times on immigration see here. Also, check out my 2002 article on William McGowan’s book Coloring the News: How Political Correctness Has Corrupted American Journalism . McGowan is coming out with a new book, to be called Gray Lady Down. A lot has happened since 2002.

Kaus writes “According to Tamar Jacoby, the recent arrest of 1,300 suspected illegal workers at six Swift & Co. meat processing plants demonstrates the need for ‘comprehensive immigration reform.’ I don’t understand”

There follows a lengthy deconstruction of Tamar’s arguments (this takes a long time, I’ve done it myself) but for blog purposes I’ll extract one:

Jacoby notes that when Swift & Company “tried inquiring” more deeply into the backgrounds of job applicants, it was “sued for discrimination by the Justice Department.” Couldn’t President Bush–if he cares so much about workplace enforcement–have told the Justice Department to cut it out? If a conservative Republican president won’t rule out crying “discrimination” when immigration laws are applied, why do we think a liberal Democratic administration will? Our idea doesn’t work! Let’s do it!- By Mickey Kaus - Slate Magazine

See here for Bush’s normal attitude to workplace enforcement, here for his “feeling the heat” attitude, and see Marcus Epstein’s Indiscriminate Anti-Discrimination Enforcement: Why Is It Illegal To Check For Illegals for the crazy activities of the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices .