On May 6, a Sudanese immigrant called Luka Kang veered his car onto a sidewalk in Kearns, Utah and mowed down several children walking home from their Junior High. By good fortune, none were actually killed.

When Kang was interviewed later by detectives, the only explanation he had for the accident was that he was despondent.

“When we tried to talk about the kids, he said, ‘I wasn’t thinking about the kids,’ ” Hutson said.

Crash into Kearns kids appears intentional By Pat Reavy Deseret News May 7, 2009

As VDARE.com frequently points out, people imported into alien cultures, often without knowing the language, come under great stress. Appalling crimes do result.

Needless to say, this story has not made it into the national media and none of the local headlines refer to Kang’s immigrant status.

But this is not, alas, just another immigrant crime story. The Salt Lake County DA office has had a fit of political correctness and is pulling its punches:

Charges filed against driver accused of striking several students By Sandra Yi ksl.com May 15th, 2009 @ 3:51pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Prosecutors have filed charges against the man accused of driving down a sidewalk and hitting several students.
Prosecutors say this was not an accident and Luka Wall Kang intentionally targeted those students.
Prosecutors charged Kang with 12 counts of aggravated assault; he faces up to five years in prison for each charge.

In an Orwellian piece of doublethink

Prosecutors did not file attempted murder charges because they say that charge requires a higher level of intent.
They say it would have been difficult to prove Kang’s mindset and that he was out to kill people that day.

If one punches someone and he dies, it might well be plausible to argue that lethal intent was not present. But driving a car at them? Very difficult to prove murder was not the intention. And isn’t this kind of thing that trials are for? What about attempted vehicular homicide?

It gets worse.

Ksl.com has a Comments section. At 4-17pm East Coast time, their rather clunky software indicates 50 posts were attempted, of which 16 have been deleted. One poster asks what has happened and a pompous Norwegian (!) has replied:

It was a bunch of racial slurs and “jokes” as the bloggers liked to call them. They didn’t reflect well upon KSL or the community and I’m personally glad they were removed.

They did however permit this classic from “Jerry C”

I can understand and in fact I share the outrage against an individual who has committed a horrendous, inexcusable act of violence. However, I find the blatant racist comments equally offensive.

Equally Offensive????

This sort of thinking is why the Hate Crimes legislation is so dangerous.

I doubt very much that a significant portion of the deleted Ksl.com postings were actually obscene. People do not waste time writing things they know are certain to be thrown away – even at VDARE.com the amount of obscenity we get is fairly small, and we do not lack for hostile mail.

In the 19th Century, the Mormons, who dominate Utah, followed the mores of the time and were famously ethnocentric. Now the Mormon Establishment seems to have adopted the 21st Century mindset and is suicidally multicultural. Hence their treasonous legislators – good riddance, Chris Cannon – and no doubt, the coddling of Luka Kang.

Their notorious intolerance of dissent apparently remains.

Another NYTimes Editorial promoting amnesty,(in the form of AgJobs) and acting as if we’d all starve without immigrant labor stooping in the fields:

Because it’s hard to find Americans willing to endure the heat, cold and misery of stooping in the fields — or the low wages — growers overwhelmingly use undocumented workers. An estimated 75 percent or more of the agricultural work force is here illegally. This is bad for everybody. Undocumented workers are easy prey for exploitation and unable to assert their rights. Growers constantly complain about labor shortages and are vulnerable to disruptive immigration raids.[Farms and Immigrants, NYTimes.com, May 16, 2008]

Of course, we can live better without fresh strawberries than we can with massive immigration from Latin America (or Thailand.) Most crops in America are harvested mechanically–this is what made America an agricultural powerhouse. Hand-picked strawberries are a luxury. People can pay more for them, or substitute a fruit that’s picked mechanically.I assume the Editorial Board of the New York Times consists largely of people who have never seen a farm. They need to read my post The Needs Of America’s Farmers, which describes the situation in less sympathetic terms than the Times does.

“State GOP’s problem? Too white, too male“, by Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, May 14, 2009. (Also here if you want to comment).

“Allan Hoffenblum gave a roomful of mostly Republicans a hard look in the mirror at the Balboa Bay Club today. The major cause of the continued deterioration of the GOP in California is that it has done little to attract minorities, women and youth.”

Is this stupidity or what? We just posted Joe Guzzardi’s analysis of the CA GOP, which made it clear that GOP nominee McCain failed to carry California whites:

Thus in the 2008 Presidential election, CNN exit polls show that John McCain actually succeeded in losing the California white vote (a.k.a. what until recently would have been regarded as the American vote) 46%-52%. (McCain couldn’t even carry white men in California: he got 48% vs. 44% for white women).

In contrast, McCain swept the Alabama white vote, which is almost exactly the same proportion of the total as in California, 88%-10%. So he carried the state easily, 61%-39%.

Can nobody in California count?

Who is this Hoffenblum anyway? He googles up as “a Jewish moderate Republican consultant“ (website here). He does this for a living. No wonder the CA GOP is in the toilet.

Amazingly, Hoffenblum was speaking before something described as the “United Agribusiness League, whose members employ thousands of Latinos”. How much more blatant can they get? But reporter Wisckol apparently didn’t think to question it.

Tell Hoffenblum he’s a jackass (or worse).

Tell United Agribusiness League president Bill Goodrich he’s a traitor.

Tell reporter Wisckol he’s a stooge.

Hat tip, RC.

P.S. “Eighty-four percent (84%) of Americans say English should be the official language of the United States. Only nine percent (9%) disagree, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.” (Rasmussen Reports, May 14 2009). That must include a lot of Hispanics. How come the Hoffenblum wafflebums never suggest this wedge issue to the GOP?

From the LA Times:

Emulating a controversial practice at many colleges, two high-achieving public school districts in California are giving preference to the children of alumni.

The Beverly Hills Unified School District and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District have adopted legacy admissions policies for children of former students who live outside their enrollment boundaries. The policies appear to be the first in the nation at public schools, education experts said.

The programs vary slightly, but leaders of both districts say they hope to raise money by forging closer ties with alumni who may be priced out of their hometowns as well as with grandparents who still live there.

What’s particularly striking is that this legal privilege is more or less hereditary, being passed down to the child from grandparents who currently live in Beverly Hills and from parents who used to live there:

Beverly Hills adopted its legacy policy on a 3-2 vote last spring, allowing the children of anyone who attended city schools at least four years and whose grandparents have lived in the city for at least a decade to apply for permits. Eleven students, among 5,100 enrolled in district schools, attend school under the program.

Fenton said he proposed the idea to reconnect the district with grandparents who live within its borders and no longer have a direct stake in the city’s schools yet are asked to vote on school measures, such as a $334-million facilities bond passed in November.

Fenton also said the district needed to forge closer ties with its alumni and pointed to an example of the benefits such connections can bring: The Beverly Hills Athletic Alumni Assn. in recent years has raised more than $1 million for uniforms, scoreboards and other purchases, he said.

I wonder what Thomas Jefferson would have thought.