The New York Times story discussed by Steve Sailer, below, includes this quote:

“There are clear differences between people of different continental ancestries,” said Marcus W. Feldman,[email] a professor of biological sciences at Stanford University. “It’s not there yet for things like I.Q., but I can see it coming. And it has the potential to spark a new era of racism if we do not start explaining it better.”

Dr. Feldman said any finding on intelligence was likely to be exceedingly hard to pin down. But given that some may emerge, he said he wanted to create “ready response teams” of geneticists to put such socially fraught discoveries in perspective.[In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice , New York Times, By Amy Harmon, November 11, 2007]

I assume these “ready response teams” will be composed of former Clinton administration spokesmen, redefining the word “is, ” that Iraqi who sold the CIA the WMD info, historians like Michael Bellesiles, who taught that the West was Won without guns, Dan Rather and Mary Mapes, and maybe Jayson Blair.

They all have experience putting discoveries in perspective.

This is from someone at the Los Angeles Times who has apparently never heard of Japan before the year 2007:

Japan’s welcome mat getting prickly - Los Angeles Times

IN QUEUE: People wait in line for security screening at New Tokyo International Airport last year. On Nov. 20, Japan will begin taking digital fingerprints and photographs of foreign visitors.
New rules requiring fingerprints and digital photos of visitors are revealing about attitudes toward foreigners, critics say.
By Bruce Wallace, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 11, 2007
TOKYO — The kind of greeting a foreigner receives at immigration upon arrival at an international airport can be a good, if imperfect, indication of the country that waits on the other side of the barrier.

London’s Heathrow? Long queues and lousy service.

New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International? Crumbling infrastructure and over-the-top bureaucracy.

Some Middle Eastern airports? Slow-moving lines that can be circumvented with the right connections and cash.

Now the Japanese government has created new immigration procedures for foreign visitors — rules that critics say are all too revealing about official attitudes toward foreigners.

Here are some facts that most people who’ve studied Japan know:

• Japan has always been xenophobic–their foreign policy before Commodore Perry opened up Japan was “no contact with foreigners,” and after that it was “invade, conquer, and rule the foreigners.”
• Japan has always had a “Closed Door” to immigrants, and never a welcome mat.
• Japanese are authoritarians, and always have been.

So why is this a problem now? It doesn’t sound like news to me–more like the sun rising in the east. Or rather, the Rising Sun in the East. Well, the problem is that, apparently, in the world of the LA Times, Japan needs immigrants!

The story says that

But on the other, the Japanese government needs more foreigners. Japan has low unemployment by global standards and faces a demographic crunch as its population ages and workforce shrinks.

Well, I’m saddened to hear that the Japanese are suffering from “Low unemployment by global standards.” But, hey, maybe they prefer their own standards! In any event, we’ve written about the horror of Japan’s lack of immigrant welfare cases, crime, and disease in several articles, including “The New York Times Says Japan Needs Immigrants. The Japanese Politely Disagree” by Jared Taylor, and “Japanese Substitute Inventiveness for Immigration; NYT Shocked“ by Steve Sailer.

The Associated Press writes about a recent Swiss election:

The party is seeking to whip up enthusiasm for a deportation scheme that anti-racism campaigners say evokes Nazi-era practices. Under its proposed law, entire families would be expelled if their children are convicted of a violent crime, drug offenses, or benefits fraud.

If approved in a referendum, the law would be the only one of its kind in Europe.

Now, of course, Switzerland was never a Nazi country (I suspect had the Nazi’s tried invading, they would have been humiliated–the Swiss have a true national defense force, not an imperialistic military industrial complex subject to perversion via political con games).

Democracy in Switzerland goes quite a bit further than in the US. The BBC reports:

The report, from Switzerland’s Federal Commission on Racial Discrimination, recommends far-reaching changes.

It criticises the practice of allowing members of a community to vote on an individual’s citizenship application.[VDARE.com Note: Raoul Lowery Contreras hates this.]

Muslims and people from the Balkans and Africa are the most likely to be rejected, the report points out.

Switzerland has Europe’s toughest naturalisation laws. Foreigners must live for 12 years in a Swiss community before they can apply, and being born in Switzerland brings no right to citizenship.

Basically, between referendums and strong legal protections, the Swiss bureaucrats can’t elect a new people as easily as their counterparts in the US. Of course, as the failure of US immigration policy becomes more apparent, I expect there will be a strong reaction from folks in Europe.

The simple fact is that replacing the existing populations of developed countries via mass immigration depends on centralization of media, political and economic power in rather few hands. No truly democratic regime would ever do such a thing.

In my recent article, Victim Visas — How America Stupidly Rewards Misfortune and Fraud, I noted the upgrade of the U Visa to make it more available to illegal aliens who claim to be crime victims. Not only does the U Visa permit alleged victims back into the US to testify at trial (sensible), but it also allows them to apply for an eventual green card. Dumb!

A 13-year-old illegal immigrant who fled to his native Mexico amid a sex scandal with his schoolteacher could be eligible to return to the United States under a new visa the government started granting the week before he disappeared.

The visa helps illegal immigrants who are victims of sex crimes. If the boy, who spent most of his life in Lexington, Neb., qualifies, he could stay legally in the United States for four years and eventually apply for permanent residency. It also would extend temporary residency to his parents and his unmarried siblings under 18, if they applied for it.

“It’s a win-win,” U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Marilu Cabrera said of the so-called “U” visa. “It helps us and law enforcement be able to solve a crime, and it certainly helps the individual who is a victim of a crime.”
[New Visa May Aid Boy in Teacher Sex Case, San Francisco Chronicle 11/12/07]

This policy is not a win for the American people, or for justice either. Handing out green cards to illegal aliens who make accusations of crime is a gilt-edged invitation for fraud.

This case of teacher sex abuse is not one of those. However, what is this kid’s qualification for being an American beyond his sex appeal to a pervert educator? The fact that the entire family will likely benefit from this mess is even more disgusting. The whole gaggle belongs back in Mexico.

Quant blogger Half Sigma and GNXP’s Jason Malloy are quoted in a In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice” about what’s happening now that “genetic information is slipping out of the laboratory and into everyday life, carrying with it the inescapable message that people of different races have different DNA.”

In case you are wondering, this article isn’t written by Nicholas Wade, who I imagine has been put on heavy sedation by the NYT editors ever since the Watson Show Trial.

When scientists first decoded the human genome in 2000, they were quick to portray it as proof of humankind’s remarkable similarity. The DNA of any two people, they emphasized, is at least 99 percent identical.

But new research is exploring the remaining fraction to explain differences between people of different continental origins.

Scientists, for instance, have recently identified small changes in DNA that account for the pale skin of Europeans, the tendency of Asians to sweat less and West Africans’ resistance to certain diseases.

(more…)

This is the kind of behavior you generally get from low-skilled immigrant workers, not computer types.

Judge Rules Man’s Police Confession On Rapes Admissible In Court

Associated Press, Oct 29, 2007

(CINCINNATI) — A police confession by a trusted member of the Taiwanese community accused of using chloroform and a stun gun to knock out and then rape the teenage daughters of his friends was ruled admissible in court, authorities said.

Chien Tai Wu, 50, initially denied raping the young women when questioned by police on July 24, saying “Prove it” when detectives outlined details of the crimes, Hamilton County sheriff’s Detective Bryan Pitchford said at a hearing Friday.

But Wu, a computer specialist, crumbled when officers revealed that they found a clear liquid chemical and a stun gun in his desk. Wu dropped his head and said, “I did it,” Pitchford testified.

Wu told police he used garage codes or borrowed keys to gain access to his friends’ homes when he knew the teenage girls would be alone, prosecutors said.

Wu didn’t understand he had the right to remain silent during the police interview, said Wu’s lawyer, James Kolenich.

“Actually, I was intimidated,” Wu said at Friday’s hearing.

But Wu should have known about his Miranda rights, since he’s lived in the United States for more than 15 years and holds a doctorate in computer science, prosecutor Mark Piepmeier said.

He faces 17 charges including rape, felonious assault and aggravated burglary–if the ghost of Ernesto Miranda can’t get him sprung.

Ann Coulter was recently interviewed on the Miranda Decision, among other things, and here’s what she said:

Interviewer: Would you like to see the Miranda decision overturned?

Ann Coulter: Yes! But even more than that, I would like to meet one person, anywhere, anytime, who doesn’t already know from watching TV that they have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney if they’re arrested. What class of TV-deprived wretches is this rule intended to help, the Amish? Mountain-dwelling end-timers? Survivalist cave people living in polygamous clans?

Apparently, they’re trusted members of the Taiwanese immigrant community.

The Fifth Amendment protects suspects against self-incrimination. The Miranda Decision, however, means suppressing evidence of almost all voluntary confessions, in what I think of as “The right of the guilty to be found not guilty.”

This is usually because no judge, trained for years as a lawyer, can imagine himself voluntarily making such an admission. I confess, (ahem!) to the uncharitable suspicion that some judges have no personal experience with remorse of conscience.