A few days ago, I got this email from Alexandra Bogdanovic (email her) of the Fauquier Times Democrat:

I recently received some information about “hate groups” here in Fauquier County. I understand that some organizations characterize your group as such, and that your group is also characterized as “white nationalist.” In browsing your Web site, I see that you adamantly disavow both descriptions. However, I would like to speak with you further about the issue for a story I intend to write for next week’s edition

So I did speak to her, patiently explaining that the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was of course the source of her information, is (altogether now) A SHAKEDOWN SCAM THAT PREYS ON THE ELDERLY, HOLOCAUST-HAUNTED RICH, which has been devastatingly debunked in unimpeachable MSM sources like Harper’s and the Montgomery Advertiser.

And, of course, Bogdanovitch’s article (”Hate group presence is mostly virtual“, May 7 2008) not only ignores this, but even removes those faux-impartial quotes around “hate”.

The number of active hate groups in America is growing, according to one organization that monitors them.

Three hate groups are allegedly present in Fauquier County. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, they are the Center for American Unity, the VDARE Foundation and the United Northern and Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.

Note “allegedly present” - not “alleged hate”.

Bogdanovic’s piece is riddled with minor errors of a sort that are easy to make but also easy to catch (e.g. I am not a “former” financial journalist, I have not written “two” books critical of immigration policy, just one, alas).

Plus, of course, the VDARE Foundation has never been in Fauquier County anyway. That should have alerted Bogdanovic to the SPLC’s accuracy, but obviously didn’t.

However, the real scandal is her credulous failure to distinguish between our posting polemical articles - or, in the case of CAU, highly techical amicus briefs - and lynching people, which is what the Ku Klux Klan is supposed to do. (Although in fact Bodanovic apparently failed to trace any actual KKK members in Fauquier County).

This is a distinction the SPLC is eager to erase, in its Stalinist quest for control of debate.

Oh, I explained that to Bogdanovic too. Maybe she’s just stupid.

This is a typical MSM exercise in celebrating diversity, as well as documenting (probably inadvertently) the strategy of business to avoid paying citizen workers a decent wage.

Greeley, Colorado, was the site of some well reported workplace enforcement at the local slaughterhouse in December 2006 when Mexicans were rounded up and deported. They complained because it was a special saint’s day: “This is an insult to us as Mexicans because today is El Dia de la Vigen de Guadalupe.” (Latino community outraged at timing of ICE raid).

Like they wouldn’t have minded being deported on some other day.

Anyhow, Swift & Co. has moved on, and has chosen legal refugees from Somalia as its alternative cheapo labor force. So today, we read about happy Somalis, grateful to be working for peanuts in a slaughterhouse.

It’s noon on Wednesday, and in three hours they [four Somalis] will be working along with scores of Somalis at the JBS Swift & Co. meatpacking plant.
Mohamed, who speaks English, is a trainer for new employees, making $12.10 an hour, while Abdi, in the hijab headscarf worn by Somali women, works in packaging. [...]
Ibraham Mohamed is a Greeley caseworker for Lutheran Family Services, which provides refugee resettlement services. He estimates that about 300 east Africans are in Greeley, and that “every day, 20 or 30 people are coming to get started at Swift, maybe 15 (a day). It depends on how they get the job.”
[At home in a foreign land: Somalian refugees adjust to a new life [5/11/08]

Some of these refugees are likely to be preliterate and may require instruction on how to hold a pencil. In addition, Somali culture includes social norms of polygamy, wife-beating and female genital mutilation. They are Muslims, and women are covered up in the Islamic style.

The article Various agencies help Somalis integrate into new culture notes how local police are being trained by Lutheran employees of the Refugee Industrial Complex in the politically correct manner to treat sensitive Muslims.

Ibraham Mohamed, the Lutheran group’s local caseworker, has worked with the Greeley Police Department to spread the word about outreach sessions. The Somalis learn the rules of U.S. roads and other local laws. Meanwhile, the police get a lesson in Somali customs.

“We don’t want to unintentionally insult them,” said Greeley Police Chief Jerry Garner.

Poor Greeley. They can’t be happy about this latest assault.