It’s an hour-long show, with Peter Brimelow and the late Julian Simon on first.

The Bush Administration recently encouraged Ethiopia to invade Somalia, which had, after a number of years of quasi-anarchy, come under the rule of Islamic clerics. Who knows, it might work! An alliance with Ethiopia from the mid-1970s onward sure did the Soviet Union a load of good!

The funny thing is that forging an alliance with Abyssinia to catch the Musselmen in a pincer movement has been the most legendary of all strategic brainstorms. The Crusaders had heard that their was a Christian king named Prester John somewhere on the other side of the Islamic world, and their grand strategy was to get him to open a second front in the war with Islam. Eventually, they narrowed Prester John’s home down to the Christian kingdom in the Ethiopian highlands, and over several centuries diplomatic missions were exchanged. Thirty Ethiopians visited Pope Clement V at Avignon around 1306. In 1520, Father Francisco Alvares was part of a 13 man delegation from the King of Portugal to Prester John, King of Ethiopia. Alvares published a detailed account of his travels in 1540. He returned from Ethiopia with a letter from the king of Ethiopia to the king of Portugal expressing the hope that “we might tear out and cast forth the evil Moors, Jews, and heathens from [our] countries.”

Recently, the Billings Gazette reported (”Border Patrol agents arrest 11,” 9/15/2007) on the local arrest of 11 illegal aliens, rather a large clutch for Montana.

(If you go to the article, note the tag end of its URL: “lamigra.txt” Lamigra?!?! I see that the Gazette’s “Online Programmer” and “Online Editor” are named Terry Borning and Chris Cast, respectively. Neither name sounds Hispanic to me.)

The article is rather brief, but over subsequent days, it attracted an astonishing 119 online comments from readers — go to the link and scroll down. Most commenters would seem to share VDARE readers’ orientation on the subject, but there are also a few let’s-buy-the-world-a-Coke flower children among the host. And it’s clear that many — but not all — of the commenters are, indeed, Montanans.

According to the article, “The agents stopped to investigate after seeing a group of seven Hispanic men getting out of a minivan with out-of-state plates.” One of the online commenters wondered the same thing I did: Is the Border Patrol allowed to do that??

Well, another commenter is named “BPLaredo.” First he introduces himself and provides a chilling piece of information (chilling, at least, if you care about Montana’s future, as I do):

“I am a Border Patrol Agent born and raised in Billings stationed in Laredo, TX. When we arrest illegals crossing the border, one of the things that we are required to ask them is “where were you planning to go inside the U.S.?” During the last 6 months or so, it has been alarming to me how many claim to be heading to MT. Many of them with criminal records.” [I omit the remainder of this L O N G comment.]

Of course such comments are fundamentally anonymous. Can we be sure BPLaredo is a genuine Border Patrol agent? I suppose not, but he provided several subsequent comments that are enough to convince me that he’s an insider. And, once one’s convinced, they contain some very useful information.

Here’s what BPLaredo tells us about border comings-and-goings by Canadians:

“Citizens of Canada are exempt from the visa and passport requirement of Immigration and Nationality Act (section 212(a)(7).) To enter the United States, a Canadian citizen must be able to establish both identity and citizenship. Documents that may establish citizenship are: Birth certificate Citizenship certificate Passport. Although a CBP officer may accept an oral declaration of citizenship, it is recommended that a Canadian citizen carry a document that establishes citizenship. Under current procedures, all travelers may be required to present photo-identification. That documentation is from the CBP website. A Canadian only needs a visa if he is going to live or work here. They can come and go as they please.”

Later, he responds to another commenter and describes what life’s like for his family in Laredo:

“It is convenient to put a race label on the whole issue of illegal immigration. Why are white people always demonized for being the racists? I live in Laredo, TX (98% Hispanic) I am white. There is only a small portion of this city that my family and I can go to without a realistic threat of violence towards us. I encounter racism every day. Here in Laredo, people refuse to speak to me and my family in English as a show of my kind not being welcome here. When I respond to them in Spanish, it makes them extremely angry that a white man can speak the language. I here the words, ‘Pinche Gringo’ ['damned little gringo,' according to Babel Fish] everyday from men, women and children. There is a bounty of a reported 30 to 50 thousand dollars on the heads of us Border Patrol Agents (depending on the going rate). We are often shot at from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. There are bumper stickers in this city that read ‘Keep Laredo Brown.’”

BPLaredo’s next-to-last comment is also L O N G and contains some real insights into Border Patrol procedures. Two excerpts [with punctuation and spelling as in the original]:

“When developing reasonable suspicion to make an arrest for illegal immigration, race is a factor that can legally be included in a court of law. Facts that are gathered to develop suspicion prior to making an arrest are called articulable facts. In the Billings case, the illegal aliens were packed into a van with out-of-town plates (in the BP’s experience this is a common practice with illegal alien transportation). The illegal aliens appeared to be hispanic. It is a common practice for illegal aliens from south of the border to be transferred to and from the work sites in large numbers using vans. (this is another articulable fact that is allowed in court if it is backed by other evidence, which it was). The Border Patrol in Billings had developed Resonable Suspicion to talk with these individuals and eventially arrest them.”

[snip]

“Race can be legally used in developing a case against an individual in an immigration violation if it is backed by other supporting evidence. Which it was (van, out-of-town plates, traveling in large numbers). This was a legal arrest, no ones Fourth Amendment Rights were violated. If agents encounter a group of white people that speak with strong European accents, their presence in this country would be investigated as well (along with Chinese, Middle Easterns, etc.) Here on the southern border we are not just arresting Hispanics coming across the Rio Grande River. The last shooting about three months ago was when a border patrol agent stopped a white male who was standing near the Rio Grande next to his car. The agent approached this male for questioning because the area he was in was an all Hispanic neighborhood where he stood out with his blonde hair and fair skin. While being questioned he shot the agent and fled across the river to Mexico, where he was arrested by Mexican authorities because he was the white male US authorities were searching for!”

In my first BPLaredo quote above, he said many illegal aliens caught in Laredo have criminal records. I presume this means that they have criminal records in the U.S., so they’ve probably also interacted with our immigration authorities before. Conveniently, there was an article in the Tucson paper the day before (”Border Patrol finds dying crosser near Sells,” Arizona Daily Star, 9/14/2007) quantifying this. The last line of the article tells us:

“From Oct. 1 through Aug. 31, agents in the Tucson Sector apprehended 34,388 illegal entrants with criminal records, which accounts for 10 percent of all apprehensions.”

It’s striking how much demand there is in modern America for evidence that some whites somewhere are still committing the same crimes against blacks as in the distant past. It’s even more striking that in a country of 300 million where surely it’s statistically plausible that somebody somewhere is doing any horrible thing you can imagine, that so many of these media campaigns end up humiliating themselves.

For example, the prestige media, led by the New York Times, fell so hard for the Duke lacrosse hoax in part because they so desperately wanted a news story about white men raping a black woman. They wanted it so bad that they threw out all their standards and principles to push it endlessly until it blew up in their faces.

Similarly, the Jena Six story is all about America’s craving for proof that white Southerners are still a lynch mob. That’s why every recounting starts with nooses being hung from a tree on campus three months before the Jena Six stomped that kid.

Yet, as the facts emerge (see my VDARE article), we’re able to start piecing together a very different, much more modern narrative of what happened, one that is much less redolent of poor Emmett Till, and much more reminiscent of OJ Simpson. The Emmett Till narrative was constructed long after the stomping by cherrypicking events, and leaving out massively relevant facts, like that the Jena Six, far from being despised outcasts, were the best football players in a football mad small town.

Mychal Bell was to Jena what OJ was to LA.

As you’ll recall, Johnnie Cochran persuaded the jury (which ultimately was three-fourth black, with eight black women jurors, due to prosecutor Marcia Clark’s doctrinaire feminist assumption that gender trumps race in a domestic abuse case) that the racist LAPD was out to frame OJ.

In reality, most cops loved OJ. Whenever the late Nicole Brown Simpson would call 911 to report that her husband was beating her, a couple of LAPD’s finest would go around to the Brentwood house, and … “Hey! You’re OJ!” So, they’d wind up getting his autograph and some pictures taken with great man himself, and a grand old time was had by all. Except by the victim, but, while cute, she never rushed for 2003 yards in a season, did she? Did Leslie Nielsen ever slap her on the back, sending her wheelchair careening down the steps and off the grandstand at Dodger Stadium in “The Naked Gun?” I think not.

The only cop that took Nicole’s 911 calls seriously was evil old Mark Fuhrman

This doesn’t mean the average white LAPD cop liked blacks in general — the ones cops come in contact with the most, other than their partners, are not the kind of people that inspire warm feelings — but OJ was a football star!

And the Jena Six knew they were football stars, and like so many star athletes, exploited their privileged position to run wild. Finally, they went too far.

And that explains the initial attempted murder charges (lowered to aggravated battery in the actual trial of Mychal Bell, the first defendant), which appear to have been necessary to get them out of the juvenile justice system that had completely failed to dissuade them from committing more crimes. Bell, we now know, was convicted in the juvenile system on four occasions over the over 12 months before his involvement in stomping the unconscious kid, including two crimes of violence. “Sources told ESPN that one of those cases was a battery in which Bell punched a 17-year-old girl in the face.” (The juvenile records of the other five have yet to be unsealed.)

Yet, Bell didn’t miss the football season, in which he averaged 101 yards rushing and 12 tackles per game, and 17 yards per punt return, earning him All-State honors as a junior.

Was the DA’s legal ploy justified? Maybe, maybe not. A higher court ruled it was not. But, the judge recently refused to reduce Bell’s bail enough to get him out of jail — this is one scary guy who has been convicted five separate times since Christmas Day 2005!

Was the DA’s reasoning so preposterous that his real motivation must have been racism? Obviously not.

It is clear that the juvenile justice system can’t get the job done of adequately punishing the stompers — the one member of the Jena Six who was so young (14 at the time) that he had to be left in the juvenile system has now taken Bell’s place on the Jena HS football team and has averaged 100 yards rushing per game this season!

The interesting question is whether anybody ever learns from repeatedly getting snookered over these kind of racial brouhahas in the media.

Any responsible government would have ended the immigration of possible terrorists immediately after 9/11. Yet the idiotic diversity visa program has cruised along on automatic pilot and has brought in thousands of persons who must be considered undesirable from a national security viewpoint.

Nearly 10,000 people from countries designated as sponsors of terrorism have entered the United States under an immigration diversity program with relatively few restrictions, a report released on Friday said.

The report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office said the State Department’s inspector general warned in 2003 that the Diversity Visa Program posed a significant risk to national security and recommended it be closed to people from countries on the U.S. list of state terrorism sponsors.

But four years later, the program remains open to people from those nations and little is known about what becomes of them once they enter the United States, the GAO said.

From 2000 to 2006, the program allowed 3,703 people from Sudan, 3,164 from Iran, 2,763 from Cuba and 162 from Syria to enter the United States and apply for permanent legal resident status, the report said. That totals 9,792 new immigrants.
[U.S. admits nearly 10,000 from "terrorism" states Washington Post 9/21/07]

The subject of diversity visas from terror-supporting nations should already be familiar to VDARE.com readers. I made similar points about national security in a 2006 blog item Diversity Is Alive and Well at the State Department and in a 2004 VDARE.com article, Time to Dump the Diversity Visa.

(See also the original GAO report (PDF) Border Security: Fraud Risks Complicate State’s Abaility to Manage Diversity Visa Program.)

We are a nation at war with islamofascists. Yet the President refuses to name the enemy and celebrates Ramadan in the White House. Franklin Roosevelt did not “reach out” during WWII to foreigners from Axis countries residing in this country; instead he ordered the internment of over 31,000 suspected enemy aliens from Germany, Italy and Japan.