You know that we aren’t dealing with just a few isolated cases of political correctness when you can find completely unrelated cases of multicultural anarcho-tyrrany within the very narrow subset of immigrant hairstyles twice in three days.

On June 16, the London Daily Mail ran a piece about how the West Midlands’ police spent £100,000 trying to find proper protective head gear for a Sikh constable who wanted to join their counter-terrorism unit, but refused to take off his turban.

The department allowed finding proper headgear to be his special project. After paying him for eighteen months with no result, they transferred him back to his old position. He promptly took long term sick leave claiming “stress.”

According to their spokesperson:

West Midlands Police is a diverse organisation, which both serves and recruits from a diverse community. No Sikh officer has applied and been turned down from joining the Operational Support Unit because of faith issues. However, it has been identified that for some members of the Sikh faith, the removal of the turban to wear a helmet and the wearing of a respirator could be problematic. As an employer committed to equality and diversity, we are working to try and find a solution to what is a national issue. This worthwhile work continues.”

The Daily Mail quotes Former West Midlands Police Chief Superintendent John Mellor of calling the situation “health and safety gone mad.” I can think of a few other things besides “health and safety.”

Two days later, the Daily Mail featured Sarah Desrosiers, a London hairstylist who owned a salon called The Wedge. Last March, a nineteen year old Muslim girl named Bushra Noah came to an interview wearing a headscarf. According to Desrosiers, there were a number of reasons why Noah was not fit for the job, but one of them was that she was wearing a headscarf that covered her entire hairline down to her eyebrows. Desrosiers asked her if she would remove the scarf when she worked to which she replied in the negative.

After she was rejected from the job, Noah sued for both direct and indirect discrimination. Derosiers spent her entire savings defending herself. She eventually won on the charges of “direct discrimination”—in that she would have denied the job to anyone who refused to show their hair regardless of race or religion.

However, the case of “indirect discrimination”—what we would call disparate impact—the burden of proof lies on the defendant to prove that there were legitimate economic concerns based on the policy. It is common sense that clients at a hair salon want to see the hairstylists’ hair style. Yet the entire multicultural regime relies upon ignoring common sense, and Derosiers was required to pay £4,000 that she doesn’t have to Noah because of “injury to her feelings.”

When the England is no longer populated by Englishmen, so goes the Rights of Englishmen.

Some Mexican policemen in Tijuana, Mexico have been accused by a certain Victor Clark Alfaro, of some outfit called the Centro Binacional de Derechos Humanos (Binational Center of Human Rights), of mistreating deported illegal aliens when they wind up in Tijuana. According to an article in El Universal, Mexico’s paper of record, (Denuncian abusos de policías de Tijuana contra indocumentados, Julieta Martínez, June 21st,2008):

Elements of the local [Tijuana] police have become ‘true migrant-hunters’, with attitudes similar to those of xenophobic groups in the United States, charged the director of the Binational Center of Human Rights, Victor Clark Alfaro, in revealing the results of a study carried out with California universities in this city [Tijuana].

The California students who carried out the study were from the University of California at San Diego, and they

…interviewed 187 migrants who were detained during the two administrations [of both the current and previous mayor], and at least 4 of every 10 [of those interviewed]reported that they had been taken to jail in more than one occasion.

Who are these migrants? According to the article they are

…recently deported Mexicans who are detained by the [Tijuana police] agents under the argument that they don’t have identification documents.

Most likely, they are Mexicans who are not from Tijuana but from other parts of Mexico. And,

…upon getting out of jail, they [the police] even arrest them on various occasions with the same accusation.

According to Clark:

One of the biggest risks that the hundreds of migrants deported [from the U.S.]daily to Tijuana confront is the illegal detention by the [Tijuana] municipal police, who under the pretext that they [the deported] do not bear identification, are interrogated, mistreated, and even beaten and robbed, before being locked up.

Bad conduct by the Tijuana police is inexcusable. But let’s look at the big picture here. Mexicans from other regions of Mexico go to the border, cross illegally, and get deported to Tijuana, a city with plenty of problems already (such as the drug cartel wars) So Tijuana police get frustrated, mistreat these people, and take advantage of them. It’s a bad scene, any way you look at it. As I’ve pointed out in my article, Border States Feel Strain…in Mexico! this is a big problem for the northern Mexican border states, which are being used by the Mexican government as a human dumping ground.

So what the Tijuana government ought to do is demand that the Mexican government condemn illegal emigration to the U.S., which is illegal under Mexican law anyway! (See my article Mexican Illegals Breaking Mexican Law Too!) If the Mexican government doesn’t get the message, the Tijuana government could do this. They could bus all deported Mexicans straight to Mexico City, guiding them into the halls of the Mexican Congress, and the presidential residence at Los Pinos. That way Calderon and Mexican Senators and Representatives (who are loud defenders of illegal aliens in the U.S.) could directly care for these deported illegal aliens. Just an idea.

… Melinda Gates, one-time boss of Microsoft Bob. To polish his public image, her monopolist husband Bill, a notorious IQ elitist in his hiring practices, has given her tens of billions with which to play Politically Correct Social Engineerette. Here’s an interview with her on NPR, “Melinda Gates Calls for More Emphasis on Education:”

Can we reasonably expect 100 percent of high school students to become college students?

Yes, I think we can. And, in fact, I’m here today in the Chicago school district visiting with students – huge number of Latinos and African-American populations, and guess what? I’m in schools where 95 to 98 percent of these kids are going on to college, and it’s because they started freshman year with teachers who believe in them and said, ‘These kids can do it.’ And maybe they are not coming in with the right reading or math skills, but we are going to bring them up, and we are going to have high expectations of them. And guess what? Those kids are succeeding, and those kids are getting into college.

That would be a dramatic increase of the share of high school students, if 100 percent went on to college. I mean, you would be effecting an enormous social change if you could reach –

Correct, and that is the idea.

How many years do you think it would take to achieve that particular –

I think it is going to take us quite a while. I think that this is a long-term effort and I think it’s one that the foundation is going to be at for a very long time. But it ought to be our goal as a nation. We shouldn’t let this number of students drop out. I think it’s a moral crisis that we’re failing students this way.

A reader comments:

Maybe Bill and Melinda should instead donate the $$ to Microsoft so it can make an operating system that works better than Vista!!

Seriously, though, this woman is trying to do serious harm to children, to prevent many decent kids from graduating from high school just because they aren’t smart enough for the University of California. You may think she’s just wasting her husbands ill-gotten profits, but the Gates Foundation is actively up to no good. The Gates Foundation was the main driver behind the Los Angeles school district, the nation’s second largest,outsourcing its high school graduation requirements planning to the elite University of California, which only allows in high students who have passed its rigorous “A-G” curriculum of required courses.

A 2005 press release from the Gates Foundation trumpeted:

“In June, the LAUSD board approved a plan requiring all high school students beginning with the class of 2008 to complete a 15-course series, known as the A-G Curriculum, in order to graduate. This is the same requirement for admission to the University of California and California State University systems.”

The new A-G Curriculum requirement will mandate two years of foreign language (i.e., Spanish, as instruction in other languages are being phased out in LA).

Obviously, this is intended as a gift to Hispanic immigrants. But it will be another cross to bear for African-Americans, who have never shown much enthusiasm for learning Spanish.

Worse, every public high school student in LA will have to pass not just Algebra I and Geometry to graduate, but also Algebra II.

By Peter Brimelow

“National Guard Quietly Ending Mission on U.S.-Mexico Border.”

A few days ago, I saw this headline signifying the end of the National Guard’s two-year mission to bolster the nation’s scandalously porous southern border.

It also signified, of course, the Washington elite’s conclusion that, with the Presidential primaries safely over, it can safely go back to sleep on the nation-breaking issue of out-of-control legal and illegal immigration.

Which is why, when I googled around, I found this story:

“Border governors worried about National Guard pullout

“MCALLEN, Texas (AP) The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors….”

(My italics.)

It was always pretty silly, needless to say. As VDARE.COM reported, when the Bush Administration dispatched the National Guard to the border, it was also deprived of guns. Don’t want to offend Mexico City!

One National Guardsman has just told a reporter that illegal aliens walked right by him: “I’ve seen it quite a few times…We have to continue working.”

The National Guard ploy was simply a ruse, a ploy by an Administration and a political elite stunned and scared by the outpouring of patriotic fury unleashed by Washington’s bipartisan attempt to push through amnesty for illegal aliens.

But at VDARE.COM, we welcomed it. Someone once said: “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.” Washington was making an empty gesture, but it was a gesture that it made because it was afraid.

And Washington was afraid because of the power that patriotic immigration reformers displayed during the debate on amnesty.

Afterwards, as we reported on our blog, one newspaper editor who supported amnesty wrote ruefully:

“The opponents of the bill prevailed and they did so in a grand manner that I had to respect. It was democracy at its best—and an instructive lesson for anyone interested in politics. Countless time a day, I received messages from a variety of groups that had Freedom or American or Liberty as part of their title.

“The discipline of these groups was a sight to behold. Someone created a set of talking points that declared opponents need only focus on one word—amnesty—to denounce the legislation. And every group that came out against it did precisely that.”

I’m not going to say that it was VDARE.COM that created that set of talking points—although early we did run articles emphasizing the decisive importance of the term amnesty—but I do believe we played a key role in the greatest patriotic uprising for many years. And that role was supplying ammunition—facts, analyses and arguments.

Now, almost exactly a year later, the political elite thinks it’s got the patriotic immigration reform movement back under control.

After some hopeful moments, both major parties have nominated candidates who want to keep immigration reform out of the election.

My view: we’ll see. The political elite was wrong about the power of the patriotic immigration reform movement during the amnesty debate. It is wrong if it thinks that power won’t be felt again soon—maybe even in this election.

Meanwhile, we have to regroup. Rebuild. Stockpile facts. Refine our arguments and analyses for when our moment comes again.

That’s why we publish writers like Steve Sailer on the latest science of human groups, Edwin S. Rubenstein on the latest government statistics, Allan Wall on the National Question as seen from Mexico, Joe Guzzardi on immigration’s Ground Zero—his California classroom. And many others, every day. (And most hours of the day when you count the blog!)

At VDARE.COM, we are in this for the long haul. We are building an institution.

But we need money to do that. We can only do it with your help.

Money is our secret weapon at VDARE.COM. Our fixed costs are very low. We have no offices, we operate entirely virtually. We don’t have to pay printing and postage (thank goodness!)

What this means: essentially everything you give goes to pay writers and editors.

Our writers and editors are not paid as much as I would like. But they do get something. This ability to pay our writers is what has distinguished VDARE.COM from a host of excellent but evanescent blogs which have come and gone.

Writers will often write for love—because they passionately believe in our cause. But in the long run, they need to be able to justify the time spent, to their families and to themselves.

To me as a professional journalist, the quantity and quality of non-professional writing on the immigration issue that comes in over the e-transom has been a revelation. Many of these writers have full-time careers in other fields, some are students; I encourage them all to write anonymously because of the very real reign of terror imposed by the curse of Political Correctness. Others are struggling, idealistic free-lancers; I shudder for them. All are patriots deprived of outlets because of the orthodoxy of the Mainstream Media.

Right now, I want to make a special offer.

We’ve just received copies of the Spring 2008 issue of The Social Contract, the quarterly magazine on immigration and related issues.

As they did last year, this issue is entirely devoted to material that originally appeared on VDARE.COM.

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