When I read about this story, about a man who had had to defend himself against attackers twice in a short period of time being stalked by Rebecca Aguilar, now suspended from her job at KDFW, I noted that she was Hispanic Journalist of the Year.

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Are you a trigger-happy kind of person?’

Anyone who doubts journalists’ decency and good sense need only to have seen Fox 4’s Rebecca Aguilar in action this week to have their worst impressions confirmed. Ms. Aguilar confronted 70-year-old James Walton, who the day before had killed a burglar at his West Dallas machine and welding shop, his second such shooting in three weeks. He was trying to leave a sporting goods store, where he had just bought a new shotgun to replace the one police took. He clearly didn’t want to talk, so Ms. Aguilar berated him with loaded questions: “Are those tears of, what, remorse? … Are you a trigger-happy kind of person? … Is that what you wanted to do, shoot to kill?” Although Channel 4 pulled the video from its Web site, you still may find a copy floating around the Internet. Search for “reporter ambushes senior citizen.”

I thought, however that it would be something of a low blow to mention that she was Hispanic Journalist of the Year, until I found out that the Hispanic Journalists were defending her. See the letter, PDF from National Assocation of Hispanic Journalists President Rafael Olmeda[Email him].

KDFW has been trying to suppress the video, citing specious copyright claims. They’re wrong–they aren’t covering the news here, they are the news, and this now First Amendment territory, but anyhow it’s back up online, for now. Watch it, and remember that he’s not a criminal, or a suspect, but a victim, and the home invaders were breaking into his home as well as his business, and decide for yourself what kind of “Journalist of the Year” Ms. Aguilar is.

Most Americans have not yet laid in their supply of Halloween candy, but in Seattle, the authorities have already excised Christmas from public experience in the Sea-Tac Airport.[See previous Sea-Tac coverage here and here--contact Sea-Tac here.]

Instead of traditional decorations, leafless faux birch trees will be lit in magenta tones. So tasteful, multicultural and lawsuit-free. Diversity at work!

Above the trees will be a spiraling flock of migrating birds cut out of foam. Every once in a while, non-toxic snow will fall over the forest to the sound of wind chimes, joining the hubbub of Sea-Tac’s busy holiday travel season from the forest’s location at the south end of the main terminal, in the international arrivals hall.

Once the eye has adjusted to the changing lights, the snowfall and the strangeness of seeing a winter scene re-created indoors, the most noticeable aspect of the new holiday decorations will be their lack of religious symbols.
[Airport Will Celebrate Winter, but Not Christmas Seattle PI 10/19/07]

The change from traditional to multicultural results from a disagreement last year where a local rabbi asked that a menorah be added to Christmas decorations. That request seems reasonable enough, since many communities accommodate both, but the Seattle bureaucrats decided to bail on American religious values entirely.

Reportedly they feared demands for every holiday under the sun, presumably from Kwanzaa (the holiday created by Marxist Ron Karenga) to Diwali, Ramadan and Ashura.

Seattle airport honchos may have noticed Muslims who reside in Memphis, Tennessee, celebrating Ramadan recently by performing the large knife dance.

Diversity — it’s a slippery slope!

James Watson has throwaway line, not obviously related to race, that’s caused some comment:

One in three people looking for a job in temporary employment bureaux in Los Angeles is a psychopath or a sociopath. Is this a consequence of their environment or their genetic components? DNA sequencing should give us the answer. [James Watson: To question genetic intelligence is not racism - Independent Online Edition October 19, 2007 ]

A couple of people have asked what he means by this, and where he gets his figures. The Independent isn’t like VDARE.com–if one of our writers makes a claim like that, we make him prove it,with hyperlinks and citations. This also applies to respectable journals of opinion like, say Commentary Magazine, although I’m afraid there may be an upsurge in wild, unsourced, allegations under their new editor. (Don’t blame the Independent, by the way–newspapers don’t have time to factcheck, and have to trust their writers.)

Anyhow, this is what I was able to find

The men with antisocial personality disorder also exhibited reduced physiological responses in a stressful situation, the researchers found. Asked to prepare and deliver a speech ”about their faults” in front of a video camera, they had lower heart rates and sweated less during the exercise than subjects in other groups.

Such findings, Dr. Raine and his colleagues suggested, could indicate that as children, people with antisocial tendencies might be less responsive to criticism or punishment, and ”hence become predisposed to antisocial behavior.”

The subjects in the study were recruited from five temporary employment agencies in Los Angeles.(Emphasis added)[Brain Abnormality Linked To Pathology,By ERICA GOODE , New York Times, February 15, 2000]

This is based on this article:Reduced Prefrontal Gray Matter Volume and Reduced Autonomic Activity in Antisocial Personality Disorder Adrian Raine, DPhil; Todd Lencz, PhD; Susan Bihrle, PhD; Lori LaCasse, BA; Patrick Colletti, MD, Archives of General Psychiatry, 2000;57:119-127.

You need to remember that ” temporary employment agencies “ here doesn’t mean Kelly Girls, or Robert Half–it means day laborers, with strong backs and no full-time jobs.

Even when these guys are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, (which is probably rare in LA,) they tend to be somewhat given to drinking and thuggish behavior.

Thirty years ago I heard a loading dock foreman ask angrily “Why wasn’t so-and-so in on Monday?” But when he was informed that the missing worker had been in jail for being drunk and disorderly, he said, “Oh, that’s all right, not his fault, he couldn’t show up for work if he was in jail.” Don’t try this excuse at your office job–they won’t like it, but the foreman clearly felt that it would be unreasonable to expect guys who spend eight hours a day doing heavy lifting to conform to middle-class expectations.

But here’s the takeaway point, made by Brenda Walker here, for your own safety you should not be hiring illegal day labor to work in your home:

No mention of the ugly down side of the neo-slave economy, however — the murders, rapes and property crimes that occasionally result from unidentified workers.

The family of the late Mary Nagle surely regret allowing illegal alien Douglas Herrera to do painting prep work on their house. The mother of two was savagely raped and murdered in her bedroom by a man who was supposed to supply cheap labor only.

Another horrific case was the murder of an elderly couple, Eugenia and Sabato Russo, who owned a popular North Hollywood restaurant. A Mexican national who had worked as one of a flooring crew in the Russo home returned to rob and kill them.

The MSM wants naive Americans to think there is no danger in bringing total strangers from foreign countries into their homes, thereby revealing possessions, children and individual vulnerability to crime. Common sense concerns about safety would distract from the warm feelings of helping willing workers of the world, so the press leaves out that part.

Via Gateway Pundit

A young male Muslim, and associate of the Hofstad terrorist group, was shot dead after he attacked two police officers in Amsterdam on Sunday.
His death sparked Muslim riots in the Slotervaart neighbourhood in western Amsterdam including an attack on the police station!

More here, plus this video

Six years ago on VDARE.com:

Once again, the fallacy of assuming that external assimilation is more than skin deep becomes clear.

In Holland also, the Arabic and Muslim population offers critical support for the bin Laden network as well as for several other Middle Eastern terrorist groups. In fact, Muslim immigrants have invented what reporter Adriana Stuijt calls "a new form of terrorism against the civilian population at large." "’Muslim cultural organizations’ have turned the streets of Antwerp and Rotterdam into main battle grounds for Muslim-fundamentalist male criminal youth gangs who deliberately attack, rob anhttp://web.archive.org/web/20010804081746/http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/france/gb/geo/popu02.htmld invade ethno-European cultural events and throngs of shoppers in the large shopping districts." As the white European birth rate falls while that of Third World immigrants to Europe rises, the Muslims know very well whose continent Europe will soon become. It’s the Europeans who don’t have a clue.

In Rotterdam, she reports, "These gangs target major shopping districts and traditional European cultural and sporting events to rob, terrorize and abuse especially the ethno-Dutch population. During these organized attacks, the youths are also seen to deliberately target ethno-European girls and women, demanding that they start obeying the strict Muslim shari’a laws favored by terrorist regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya."

[10/18/01 - Mass Immigration Creates Terrorist Haven in Europe, By Sam Francis]