11 September 2008

The Jeremiah Munsen/Jena 6 Atrocity: Who, whom?

I believe Nicholas Stix’s blog today about the judicial lynching in Louisiana of Jeremiah Munson, a 19 year-old white youth, is one of VDARE.com’s most important blogs ever. This not only because of the shocking injustice involved, but also because it highlights with chilling clarity the future of American liberties in multicultural America.

Nicholas tells us

On September 20 2007 in Alexandria, Louisiana, the then-18-year Munsen, accompanied by an under-aged friend, drove past dozens of black supporters of the Jena race hoax, with two extension cord “nooses” hanging from the back of his pickup truck.

For this he has been bullied into accepting

Four months in federal prison, to be followed by one year of supervised probation and 125 hours of community service, to be followed by five more years of unsupervised probation…for committing a hate crime.

The blog continues:

Never mind that Munsen engaged in symbolic speech that is protected under the First Amendment…Never mind that the two unarmed whites were in much greater peril from a throng of racist blacks…What about Jeremiah Musen’s civil rights?

Why has this ludicrously disproportionate atrocity, which makes a mockery of America’s tradition of free speech, happened?

Answer: Because the two Federal officials involved were, in a critical sense, not American.

US Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Donald W. Washington is a black Affirmative Action beneficiary, appointed in 2001 by President Bush.

As the OJ Simpson trial proved, expecting anything except blind racial chauvinism from American blacks in legal (or political) contests where their own are involved is just naïve. In that sense, they simply do not fit into the behavioral mold the Founding Fathers brought over from England. And of course, the Jena 6 flim flam was a major black rallying point.

Grace Chung Becker, Acting Assistant Attorney General, Justice Department Civil Rights Division is, in a sense, a more alarming case. She is the daughter of Korean immigrants and judging by her educational record, does have the intelligence to grasp the issues involved here.

True, she is under fire in her confirmation hearings for not appearing zealous enough at Civil Rights in seeking privileges for minorities. A Poor Choice on Civil Rights The New York Times March 17 2008

Perhaps delivering Jeremiah Munsen’s head is supposed to be her entry fee.

But this case was under negotiation long before Chung Becker ran into opposition. The fact has to be faced: talented and industrious though the Koreans may be, they have virtually no tradition of political freedom or free speech. They are also clannish and notoriously prone to amoral familialism: what does Grace Chung Becker care about Jeremiah Munsen? He isn’t one of hers.

Welcome to Multicultural America: A black and an Asian use a perverted legal process to rob a white American of his political birthright and promote the interests of minorities. The effect will be to intimidate the entire white community from resisting another Black Scam: in other words to prevent them acting politically to defend themselves.

The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave…

(Correction: My thanks to RKK, who points out that, to be more correct, I should have said “amoral familism”. Curiously, googling on this does not any more succinct definition: this is the clearest, but it does not address the fact that amoral familism could well be a highly viable social strategy when most of the rest of the population behaves otherwise. Overall, it appears this brilliant insight was slighted as un-PC, even before “un-PC was an articulated concept.)

Peter Brimelow On Roger Hedgecock At 7:35 PM Eastern Time

Peter Brimelow will be on Roger Hedgecock  at 7:35 PM. You can listen here. Hedgecock, who used to be Mayor of San Diego, has done a lot on the immigration issue. This is from his site.

REMEMBERING 911-2001 - WORKING TO KEEP AMERICA SAFE 2008

ROGER is in DC September 9th -14th broadcasting live to secure America’s Border and remove those who have broken into our country.  We’ll be posting digital pix from DC and keeping you updated daily via the Dehesa Valley Gazette.

You can list live on the radio, via streaming audio and or time shift the shows on our posted pod casts. You can interact on Roger’s chatroom via his web page www.rogerhedgecock.com And you can email Roger during the show at roger@rogerhedgecocock.com or from his web site.

This is Roger’s 14th trip to Hold Their Feet To The Fire…almost a hundred local listeners join Roger and 40+ other radio talk show hosts from across America…and it all started here in San Diego.

Peter Brimelow On Armstrong Williams Show

Peter Brimelow will be on the Armstrong Williams Show at about 5:25 EST. (You may be able to listen online here.)

Frontier Fecundity

Here’s the opening of the Sarah Palin article I wrote last week for the upcoming issue of The American Conservative:

Why, in one uproarious week of American politicking that not even H.L. Mencken would have expected, has the once unknown Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, outraged roughly one-half of the country and overjoyed the other half?

What intrigues people about elections aren’t the platform planks. Deep down, political contests are about picking symbolic champions. Just as Barack Obama, recently of the Illinois legislature, has arationally excited tens of millions by his emphasis on his bloodlines, by his implication that national racial reconciliation is “in my DNA,” the overstuffed life story of the caribou huntress and mother of five (and soon to be grandmother at age 44) embodies the oldest boast Americans have made about their homeland: the fecundity of the frontier.

Compared to Obama’s much-lauded but tedious life, cautiously plotted in countless Chicago backrooms, the Alaskan-sized lustiness of Gov. Palin’s full-throttle biography comes as a delight. The way the only-in-Alaska factoids about her keep piling up, like in an Old West tall tale, always leaves me laughing.

Consider, for example, Palin’s husband Todd. What kind of man could be married to a woman so hormonally exuberant, with her dual archetypes straight out of a Camille Paglia reverie: half Alaskan Amazon, half Venus of Willendorf? Exactly the kind of man you’d expect: he works as both a North Shore oilfield roughneck and a salmon fisherman. He’s also won the state’s snowmobile championship, the 2,000 mile Tesoro Iron Dog race, four times, but only finished fourth this year because he had to ride the last 400 miles with a broken arm after being thrown 70 feet. Did I mention he’s part Eskimo?

I won’t give away the rest of my article, but veteran readers can guess how this all ties together with many of my long-time obsessions such as Affordable Family Formation. I’m always accused of having weird obsessions, but they seem to eventually turn out to be everybody else’s weird obsessions, too.

O Canada!–Modern Show Trials

On August 22, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal sentenced Jeremiah Munsen to four months in federal prison, to be followed by one year of supervised probation and 125 hours of community service, to be followed by five more years of unsupervised probation, after he accepted a plea bargain for committing a hate crime.

We Americans like to fancy ourselves protected from such “star chamber”-type tyranny. “It couldn’t happen here.”

Oh, but it could, and it did. Except for the reference to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal,” everything in my opening paragraph is true, Jeremiah Munsen was subjected to a malicious prosecution in a U.S. federal kangaroo court, by Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division Grace Chung Becker, and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Donald W. Washington.

On September 20, 2007 in Alexandria, Louisiana, the then-18-year-old Munson, accompanied by an under-aged friend, drove past dozens of black supporters of the Jena race hoax, with two extension cord “nooses” hanging from the back of his pickup truck.

Yeah, that guy.

U.S. Attorney Washington piled on duplicate, unconstitutional and illegal felony and misdemeanor charges such that, had the penniless, despised Munsen fought them, he would have been summarily convicted on a “felony hate crime charge of conspiring to deprive the marchers of their civil rights by using a noose to intimidate the crowd,” and sentenced to up to 11 years in prison. Washington and Becker thereby coerced Munson, in April, into making a guilty plea “to a misdemeanor federal hate crime of interrupting protesters’ federal rights to travel.”

For any slender, white teenager, serving 11 years of hard time on any charge with black and Hispanic felons entails racist gang-rape, sexual slavery and, ultimately, death from AIDS, in violation of the Constitution’s Eighth (“cruel and unusual punishment”) and Thirteenth (slavery) amendments. Doubtless, the folks at Justice saw to it that Munsen knew what awaited him.

His sentence begins on September 15.

This was an American show trial.

Never mind that Munsen engaged in symbolic speech that is protected under the First Amendment.

Never mind that the two unarmed whites were in much greater peril from a throng of racist blacks, than the blacks were from them. The blacks were waiting for buses home to Tennessee after the Nuremberg-style rally they had just attended, in support of six black high school students who had with others engaged in a racist murder attempt on a lone white victim, whom the brave blacks had suckerpunched, and stomped as he lay unconscious.

Such black-on-white gang attacks happen every day in schools across America.

In the Department of Justice’s press release celebrating Munsen’s conviction, U.S Attorney Washington claimed,

The defendant committed a federal hate crime by using a powerful symbol of hate to intimidate a group of interstate travelers because of their race. It is a violation of federal law to intimidate, oppress, injure or threaten people because of their race and because those people are exercising and enjoying rights guaranteed and protected by the laws and Constitution of the United States. Our civil rights laws protect the civil rights of all Americans, and they emphasize the reality that we are all members of one particular race — the human race.

What about Jeremiah Munsen’s civil rights?

Were Washington and Becker familiar with American constitutional law, or with the the 1964 U.S. Civil Rights Act (sections 202 and 301), they would know that that they were violating Munsen’s First Amendment right to engage in symbolic speech others deem offensive, and Fourteenth Amendment and Civil Rights Act rights to equality before the law, based on his race.

It is Becker and Washington who belong in prison.

You can have civil rights laws and their machinery of anarcho-tyranny, or you can have the Bill of Rights, but not both. And without the Bill of Rights, there is no America.

The Irrelevance Of 9/11, Continued

In the introduction to tonight’s Peter Gadiel article, I wrote “As I said in 2007, I now think there’s no point in writing anniversary reflections on 9/11—nothing changed; America’s elites didn’t really care; they all just got on with their various agendas. “

This is the post I wrote in 2007–I called itThe Irrelevance Of 9/11″:

I suppose a whole generation will always remember where they were when they heard about 9/11, just as an earlier one never forgot where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. I was exactly where I am now, looking at a computer screen behind which, through the window, the Connecticut Berkshires roll away to the horizon, when I glanced at the TV and saw the World Trade Center in flames - just as I now see Mayor Bloomberg presiding over a remembrance ceremony.

I went upstairs and told Maggy, ill in bed with the cancer that was to claim her life just 17 months later. Together, we watched the utter destruction of an area we’d both known so well when I worked for Alan Abelson’s Barron’s Magazine some 20 years earlier.

The same eerie feeling of complete change and no change comes over me when I contemplate the political consequences of 9/11. Osama bin Laden, whose head could surely have been obtained through a traditional commercial transaction with one or other local warlord, remains irritatingly at large. The government of Afghanistan, taken from the majority tribe and given to minority tribes, is obviously reverting, amid the usual chaos. Iraq continues to be the object of Washington’s intense attention, as it has been since the first Gulf War, for reasons that deserve analysis but manifestly had nothing to do with 9/11. Domestic terrorism in the U.S., which could have been as serious as the Irish Republican Army’s recent bombing campaign in Britain (why no War On Terror against them, by the way?) mysteriously did not materialize - even though episodic outbreaks of Immigrant Mass Murder sydrome have shown how easily individuals with rifles could paralyze the country. Above all, the Bush Adminstration continued with its fanatical drive to accomodate the Mexodus, heedless of border security.

I find I don’t feel like writing a VDARE.COM reflection on 9/11 this year. It’s a game. America’s elites didn’t really care. They just just got on with their agenda(s).

VDARE.COM has readers who lost loved ones in 9/11 and in the subsequent wars. To them I extend my own commiserations.