Robert Spencer has an article on the once and future backlash against Muslims, still not happening, even in Fort Dix, New Jersey, where many of the locals must personally know people who’ve been killed by Muslims.

But none of the backlash reports included news of any actual backlash incidents, because four days after the arrests, there hadn’t been any. Richard Sparaco, the attorney for one of the accused jihad plotters, Serdar Tatar, came closest to actually reporting one. Sparaco said that the restaurant owned by Tatar’s father, Muslim Tatar, had suffered a sharp decline in business, and that someone kicked in his door and, according to New Jersey’s Star-Ledger, “shouted a racial slur.” Muslim Tatar, according to Sparaco, had also been threatened.

That was it, as far as backlash went. The contrast is stark: when cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad appeared in a Danish newspaper, there were international riots, in which several innocent people were killed; when Pope Benedict XVI repeated a medieval emperor’s negative characterization of Muhammad, there were again riots and killings. When a mentally impaired Christian in Nigeria tore a copy of the Qur’an, rampaging Muslims burned ten churches to the ground. But when six Muslims in America were arrested for plotting to kill as many American soldiers as possible, there have been no killings. No mob action. No riots. No mosques have been torched, and no Muslims have been beaten or (with the possible lone exception of Muslim Tatar) harassed.FrontPage magazine.com :: Fort Dix: The Backlash that Wasn’t by Robert Spencer

Backlash is always a concern of the mainstream media and ethnic advocacy groups whenever a Muslim commits terrorism, or an immigrant commits some terrible crime. (See at least eight blog posts by Brenda Walker featuring this phenomenon.)

What you don’t see is representatives groups apologizing for the acts of their members, or offering to do anything to make up for it. (An honorable exception: The Korean-American Coalition, whose first response was the opposite of the Asian-American Journalists Association–see Korean American Community Expresses Outrage, Grief;Starts Memorial Fund for Victims of VA Tech Shooting, April 17, 2007[PDF])

No, I’m not promoting the theory of collective guilt, but other are promoting it about me. That’s what that Jamestown thing is about, I’m supposed to feel bad about being related to the people who survived the Indian massacres, because if it wasn’t for us, they would have been massacring each other in peace and harmony.

For an example of the collective expressions of guilt by non-immigrants, you check out the late Sam Francis’s the “The Annapolis Guilt Wallow.”

Microsoft is begging to have their intellectual property nationalized.

Their latest stunt is suing they major real competitor-the Open Source community. The problem here is that Microsoft has a long history of questionable technical practices that would come out in any serious investigation.

The thing is, this company can’t compete in a more even playing field. The Open Source community is starting to move seriously into the desktop with MIT’s OLPC initiative-and this is a serious potential threat to Microsoft.

The apparent way for the company to maintain its de facto monopoly-and continue the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed is to play politics and get laws and judicial rulings in their favor. The problem is that they have expended considerable political capital defending H-1b expansion which is most hated among the US technical community. A lot of talented engineers would quite literally love to see Microsoft go the way of DEC.

Also, Microsoft was until the 2004 election cycle a company that heavily donated to Republican candidates. There have been some attempt to weight donations to Democrats, but frankly, they’ll need to apply a lot more money to buy any love from that direction–and instead they are moving in the opposite direction.

Leaders of the left wing of the Democratic party like Dennis Kucinich look very favorably on Open Source Software, and increasingly, it is becoming politically untenable for Democrats to support H-1b visas, as the election of James Webb shows.

Personally, I plan on buying an XO machine as soon as they become available in the US. I would really like to avoid any association with management that has assaulted my family’s livelihood–and that of many of my friends–as Microsoft has.

Well, today is the big day - Jamestown Day - the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown on May 14th, 1607.

It’s cause for reflection on what has been accomplished in the past 400 years - and what we can hope to accomplish in the future.

Every generation has its own battles to fight. Four hundred years ago, the Jamestown colonists had enormous challenges in building a permanent English colony in the New World.

Four hundred years later, in 2007, our generation faces challenges, one of which is that our own elite disdains our heritage and seeks to undo our nation.

May we be successful in thwarting their plans, and preserving our nation.

If not, there may not be much to celebrate on Jamestown’s 500th anniversary.

Some of the best work to alarm Americans about the slo-mo invasion is done by our enemies, e.g. open-borders squawk box Tamar Jacoby and May Day demonstrations featuring foreign flags.

Today’s example is the fictional work by Raul Ramos y Sanchos, America Libre, about a near-future time in which Mexican squatters act out in a civil war. You can read the first chapter online, and it is mercifully brief.

As the immigration crisis reaches the boiling point, once-peaceful Latino protests explode into rioting. Cities across the nation are in flames. Anglo vigilantes bent on revenge launch drive-by shootings in the barrios, wantonly killing young and old.
[America Libre]

Well heck, what can a Aztlan commie do but be revolting? Apparently an armed insurrection follows with the men in sombreros being the good guys. Right.

Incidentally, Mexicans have a country that could do with some revolutionary activity but they don’t seem much interested in reforming the society which they profess to love.

Of course, in real life it is Americans who have been victimized by open borders, in particular the thousands killed by drunken and murderous invaders. A few remembered here on VDARE.com include:

• Suburban mom Mary Nagle was brutally murdered in her own home by an illegal alien hired to do paint prep work.
• Virginia Beach teenagers Tessa Tranchant, 16, and Allison Kunhardt, 17, were killed as they waited for the light to change by a drunk-driving illegal alien. The reaction of local Mexicans was to complain reflexively about a non-existent backlash.
• Missouri college student Nicole Allen died when the car in which she was a passenger was struck from behind by a Lincoln Town Car driven by an inebriated illegal Mexican.
• Hollywood film director (“A Christmas Story”) Bob Clark and his son Ariel were killed in a head-on collision with a drunk Mexican on the Pacific Coast Highway.

But Mexicans love to play the victim and evidently have begun to believe their own sob-story propaganda since it is frequently regurgitated by the MSM. So the big Mexo-fantasy is to rise up in Marxican rage against the cruel gringos.

Instead, why don’t Mexicans imagine replacing the oligarchy of their own wealthy country with a more representative government? Too hard a slog? Or maybe they figure the payoff wouldn’t be worth the trouble.

On Saturday I wrote about the powerful response by the blogger Katie’s Dad to a numbingly conventional piece of open borders propaganda published in the National Journal by a recent English immigrant they employ.

Articles about immigration frequently attract very interesting posts in their threads (often the best part in the case of MSM material). A correspondent to Katie’s Dad raised a crucial point:

• The remarks about H1B really resonate with me personally.
One Indian project manager at the company where I work has his green card, and he never hires Americans; everyone in his group is from China or India and all of them are either H1B or green card people. When there’s an opening in his group, Americans may be interviewed, but somehow an H1B or green card person always ‘wins out’ and gets the job.
I have friends at other companies that have reported similar experiences. I personally doubt the integrity of the hiring process in most corporations these days.

Indians, of course are by no means the most dysfunctional imports into this country, (Hmong? Haitians? Somalis?) but even a slight knowledge of their ancient culture must include its intense clannishness and familialism. They invented Caste!

Having Indians in hiring positions inevitably means native-born Americans will be discriminated against. You won’t read that in the MSM.

President Bush’s address at the Jamestown 400th anniversary ceremony yesterday did not mention the English settlers’ committment to spead Christianity, an interesting snub to the Christian groups who had made it clear they expected some acknowledgement after discovering religion had been purged, along with much else, by PC Jamestown bureaucrats. (More in excellent WorldNetDaily article here.

At VDARE.COM, named after one of the Jamestown settlers’ precursors in the Lost Colony, we are sort of relieved that the President’s speechwriters at least allowed him to acknowledge that the settlers were, well, English. He even admitted that America and Britain are “united” by a common heritage - but that heritage, in his opinion, is not national or cultural but foreign war under the slogan of “democracy”. His conclusion:

Over the years, these values have defined our two countries. Yet they are more than just American values and British values, or Western values. They are universal values that come from a power greater than any man or any country. (Applause.) These values took root at Jamestown four centuries ago. They have flourished across our land, and one day they will flourish in every land.

They will? This would have been a surprise to the Jamestown settlers, and to the Founding Fathers. President Bush did not specify the “power greater than any man or any country”, but it appears to be the messianic ghost of Woodrow Wilson. Or possibly Leon Trotsky.

Even at this late point in his disastrous Presidency, Bush continues to cling to his weird “Invade the World - Invite The World” Grand Strategy.

At first glance, Representative Steve Kagen (D-WI) looks an unlikely prospect for immigration reform patriots. A first term winner of a formerly Republican District, he joins a State Delegation with a dismal C- Americans for Better Immigration report card. Furthermore, he is Jewish, which means he belongs to a group notable as a whole for a dogmatic and inflexible commitment to heavy immigration.

But his Guest column: No more invisible borders for immigration policy Green Bay Press Gazette May 13 2007 is exemplary from a patriotic point of view

For far too long, Washington has ignored our nation’s borders and allowed uncontrolled migration outside the law.

…I have been listening to people throughout the 8th district, and everywhere I go, folks are asking me where I stand on immigration. Well, there has never been any doubt in my mind that we need a new and tough immigration policy — a national policy that stands on these three essentials: 1) secure our borders; 2) obey our laws; and 3) no amnesty or cutting in line — period.

…the proposal outlined by President Bush would create a permanent subclass of foreign workers, but we do not need to import foreign workers just to undercut the wages and benefits of Wisconsin citizens.

I was particularly impressed with the comment

The fact is our borders have been rapidly disappearing, starting with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement…In the past decade, several presidents in Washington sold us a policy of “invisible borders… what followed was not only the disappearance of our borders, but our jobs as well. This unacceptable sales job even has a name — the North American Union — which would guarantee the end of the United States of America, and I am absolutely opposed to it.

NAFTA, of course was concocted under Bush 1 but pushed through by Bill Clinton.

Steve Kagen may be uncouth but he clearly bright. (Could it be that his being a medical doctor by profession has alerted him to the drawbacks of illegal immigration?) When someone like this volunteers off of the Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration bandwagon, the Treason Lobby is in trouble. The Troops, seeing the ground, are unwilling to fight. Perhaps Randall Burns is right, and the Democrats will indeed take the immigration restraint issue away from the Republicans.