Another Amnesty balloon has come wafting along via CNN’s State of the Union with John King today – an interview with Obama Grey Eminence David Axelrod:
White House adviser says immigration reform advancing by Todd Eastham Reuters Sun Nov 15 2009

Democrats and Republicans in Congress are working together to craft an immigration reform bill that could become law as early as next year, a senior White House adviser said on Sunday.

I think some good work is being done on both sides of the aisle to achieve that,” Axelrod said, referring to the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.

While Joe Guzzardi is characteristically optimistic, I do not like seeing a real power at the White House, as opposed to an affirmative-action Cabinet Minister, getting involved. I much preferred Rahm Emanuel’s timidity in June.

And who are these Republicans, anyway? Lindsay Graham? Jeff Flake? “Joseph” Cao?

Axelrod trotted out the same lie as Napolitano:

“We have to have better security at our borders and we are developing that,”

This falsehood was powerfully refuted by the Diggers Realm blog on Friday

Did you know the borders are now secure? Apparently the Department of Homeland Security and its leader Janet Napolitano are trying to make you think that the borders are secure. I have proof otherwise though. All you have to do is go to the website Border Invasion Pics …where volunteers have set up cameras along our border and then upload video of the continued stream of unknown illegal aliens crossing our border daily by the thousands.

Apparently our Department of Homeland Security is too stupid to actually do a quick search of the internet to see that our borders are just as open and vulnerable to illegal

Border Invasion Pics, like Diggers Realm, is a great site (the top clip 11/05/09 47 border intruders ends with a nice mountain lion sequence)

The DHS has blocked Border Invasion Pics from its in-house computers.

Get the message?

They don’t want to know!

Ask DHS why not at 1-877-DHS-1NET!

A number of blogs found President Obama’s curiously deep bow to the Emperor of Japan very distasteful - for instance Angry White Dude

Ol’ Hussein Hopenchange has done it again. This time he bowed to the Emperor of Japan…a direct descendant of Hirohito. For some reason, he cannot keep from bowing to world leaders… Obama might hate the United States and what it stands for as an individual but once he won the Presidency he represents the entire nation…

We saw Obama refuse to put his hand over his heart during the national anthem on Veteran’s Day at Arlington cemetery as (he) refused to do during the Democratic primaries… He is doing everything wrong. Which tells us he is either very stupid or very determined. I believe it is the latter.

Of course, stupid (maybe foolish would be a better word) and determined is possible.

An Informed technical discussion is here. There was a similar incident with the Saudi King in April.

The analysis advanced by Neo-Neocon is particulary persuasive:

Behind Obama’s bow: making up to Hirohito for past humiliations

I was just reminded of something I’d forgotten, something I should have recalled because, after all, I wrote an article for American Thinker about it.

Back in July, Obama was quoted as having said:

“I’m always worried about using the word ‘victory,’ because, you know, it invokes this notion of Emperor Hirohito coming down and signing a surrender to MacArthur.”

I noted in my article that the scene that so haunted Obama never occurred. But why did it bother Obama so much anyway? Here was my speculation:

“If I had to guess…I’d say that it’s related to what he sees as the humiliation (”coming down”) of a non-white (in this case, an Asian) at the hands of a white American military man…to unconditionally surrender, and then to have his country occupied by the morally despicable US.”

So my guess now is that one of the many things that motivated Obama to bow to the present emperor of Japan was to make up just a tiny bit for the terrible humiliation the previous emperor received at the hands of the United States, which had the effrontery to win a war that the Japanese began by their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor.

What makes Neo-Neocon’s assessment particularly interesting is that she is a professional therapist, trained to think about what motivates people.

As Angry White Dude said, as President, Obama “represents the entire nation”.

This gives him a unique chance to humiliate the entire nation.

Of course it is all in Steve Sailer’s book.

And, despite the frantic efforts of the MSM, white America is waking up to the fact: President Obama dislikes us.

The Democrats need to worry about 2010. (So do the rest of us if the present pile of GOP rubbish is not cleaned up.)

Readers may remember Neo-Neocon’s incisive comments on Walter Cronkite’s Tet Offensive betrayal.

The Kvetcher (a.k.a. David Kelsey), in his unswerving search for a peaceful life, has posted on Jewcy.com
The Two-Front War
How Together, the American Jewish Left and Right Endanger the U.S. November 10,2009

Vdare.com has previously chronicled his Immigration-skeptic Jewcy articles here)

This time our friend puts forward the interesting proposition:

The Jewish communal infrastructure has sought to seek a balance between the larger Jewish Left and the more active Jewish Right. That balance has traditionally been to adopt and promote the foreign policies of the Jewish Right, and the domestic policies of the Jewish Left.
Both the Jewish Left and the Jewish Right think they are fighting the good fight. But together, they are fighting American interests.

This immediately produced an appealing comment from one mobius1ski

Just go write for vdare or davidduke.com already

After that, a violent brawl broke out, unfortunately all too instructive for outsiders wishing to understand the American Immigration “Debate”. I strongly recommend the comment thread:

K:

Muslim mass immigration is not going to solve these problem, mobius. Rather, they will — through sheer numbers — increase incidents and discontent dramatically.

Who are you to pretend that you are going to change the views of everyone through aggressive, ostensibly universalist, pushy, ivory tower constructed, almost unilateral Jewish-preferred domestic policy? No wonder you are so offended.

Mobiusk1ski:

how many Christians in America have committed acts of religiously- or politically-motivated violence? Take a look at the stats on anti-abortion violence. They make the threat of Islamic terrorism in the U.S. look practically irrelevant…I reject your characterization of HIAS’ work as “aggressive, ostensibly universalist, pushy, ivory tower constructed, almost unilateral Jewish-preferred domestic policy.”

K:

please note the difference in percentage of the population. Do I really need to explain this to you?…

Look more carefully…did HIAS lead (on the issue of immigration) Jewish organizational community used all its muscle with Progress By Pesach and the Holocaust as a cudgel (would the mainstream Jewish community EVER do such thing? Misuse the Holocaust for preferred policy?!? No way!) behind closed doors?
Hmm…let’s look at the AJC files from this past spring: http://www.ajc.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ijITI2PHKoG&b=846743&…
…The Jews are at the forefront of Hate Crimes (see that Forward link) and immigration. All I am asking is for the Jewish Left to stop subverting the will of the American people on this one. They don’t want mass immigration, least of all of Muslims.

Consistently one is amazed by the reasonable nature of The Kvetcher. Where did he learn this? Is he related to Paul Gottfried?

Unfortunately the anti-Christian/Nation animosity of mobius1ski is more typically what patriots have to deal with

Last month Rob Sanchez reported on the scandalous practice, recently exemplified in Louisiana, of local school districts firing older and therefore more expensive American teachers and replacing them with younger immigrants brought in via the H-1B conduit.

He particularly excoriated the supine attitude of the Teacher Unions, perfectly happy to let their members suffer, provided the immigrants obediently join up. This politically correct and ruthlessly predatory attitude on the part of the Union leaderships is no surprise to anyone who has read Peter Brimelow’s book on the subject.

Now an even more classic case has surfaced in Washington DC

Barbara Hollingsworth: Importing teachers in the District of Columbia Washingtonexaminer.com November 10, 2009

District of Columbia Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee is in hot water for firing 266 teachers and administrators Oct. 2, just weeks into the new school year and only a few months after inexplicably hiring hundreds of new teachers. But there may have been a method to her apparent madness.

According to the federal government’s Foreign Labor Certification Data Center, D.C. Public Schools submitted 46 labor condition applications in 2007 and 2008, giving Rhee authority to import hundreds of foreign teachers on H1B visas without having to make any attempt to find eligible Americans.

Hollingsworth, who quotes from Sanchez’ VDARE.com article without acknowledging us (life’s like that at the top of the food chain) puts the matter well:

Since visa holders can easily be coerced into joining the union and forced to do whatever the union bosses demand, union officials didn’t bother to protect the 20,000 or so American educators who lost their teaching jobs to foreign competitors — many of whom they were forced to train.

However, her solution

What urban school districts really need are right-to-work laws that empower school administrators to hire professional Americans with college degrees in needed core subject areas who are willing to give teaching a chance…

misses the point. So long as unscrupulous employers can use H-1B to drive down entry level salaries, that is what they will do.

The DC case is classic, though, in another sense. Michelle Rhee, the DC Schools Chancellor, is of course Korean – the daughter of immigrants. It is a safe bet that if “hundreds of foreign teachers” are indeed imported most will be Asian – that has been the norm so far.

So, like the DC Technology Office scandal, this is another case of enterprising Asians looking after their communities at the expense of Washington’s blacks – whose political leaders are too dim or too feckless to protect them

When last December Immigration lawyer Anh “Joseph” Cao narrowly won a special election to represent Louisiana’s heavily black 2cnd Congressional District as a Republican, Minority Leader John Boehner stupidly put out a memo entitled “The Future is Cao”.

Cao has now rewarded this faith by being the only Republican Congressman to vote for the Health Bill, compounding this deed by arguing:

My vote tonight was based on my priority of doing what is best for my constituents,”

Lone GOP Supporter of House Health Care Bill Defends Vote Fox News November 08 2009

Such a remark will be treasured by the Democrats, suggesting that the Health Care bill will in fact be good for the poor – and hardly casting his supposed colleagues in a pleasant light.

As Joe Guzzardi has noted, Cao quickly set about betraying his adopted party and country once in Washington. His Numbers USA Immigration voting report card grade is “D” – the worst in the Louisiana delegation including the Democrats.

Well done, GOP Leadership. So this is your “Future“.

So Representative Eric Cantor (R-Va) feels it expedient to curry favor with the MSM by sneering at Rush Limbaugh, and smearing the patriots who prevented the election of the RNC-preferred RINO in NY-23 this past week:

Can it be? Another Republican leader taking on Rush Limbaugh? Apparently so. And that leader is Virginia’s Eric Cantor, the second-highest-ranking GOP member in the House.

Eric Cantor takes on Rush Limbaugh, harsh GOP rhetoric Steve Padilla Los Angeles Times November 6 2009

This is derived from a Bloomberg News report

Cantor Calls for Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh Rhetoric by Lorraine Woellert November 7 2009

Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong…
Cantor, 46, said Republicans must stay unified if they are to win elections. “That’s the lesson learned” from the Nov. 3 Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and the loss of a New York congressional seat in a race that divided the party

VDARE.com is not gung-ho about Rush. He and his staff resolutely fled from various credentialed attempts to get him to just consider the Alien Nation thesis when the book was published in 1996. As Peter Brimelow said at the time of the last CPAC Conference:

…there was another reason I skipped Limbaugh: I knew, from long observation, that notwithstanding his brilliant barn-burning delivery, he wouldn’t actually say anything new, especially in the area of immigration and the National Question that are VDARE.com’s focus. I think the NR editors are mediocrities intellectually and morally, but they do know a political risk when they see one, from long practice in not taking them. And they were quite right to say of Limbaugh, in their obviously uneasy editorial on the controversy: “His views are not extreme and his manner is not, for that matter, particularly angry.”

However, the fact is that he is at present – for Immigration Patriots, Conservatives, even GOPers – our Rat.

Is Cantor? As the only Jewish Republican Congressman, he comes under vicious community pressure, which calls for sympathy. But a thoughtful analysis of his Numbers USA ranking (“B”) indicates that he is not just bad – he is dangerous.

This B rating (which puts him in the middle of the Virginia Delegation, 50th out of 176 among House Republicans, and 189th out of 535 all Congress) is achieved by subterfuge.

Cantor votes steadily for enforcement proposals. Any “Law and Order” – or even “Competent Government” - man really has no alternative.

But he utterly failed (F-) on votes to “Reduce Unnecessary Visas”, did poorly (C) on “Amnesties”. Even worse, he DODGED all votes on the “Anchor Baby Citizenship” question – the Jugular of the transformation of America effort.

It needs to be emphasized: Switzerland has quantitatively a similar immigrant issue to America. It is far less of a political threat because being born there does not make a Baby Swiss.

Eric Cantor is in favor of transforming America. He opposes any effective measure to stop it. This is no surprise. His votes are probably the most extreme expessions of his prejudices his district can be fooled into tolerating.

This man deserves no place in the GOP House Leadership.

We at VDARE.com have long had good reason to think little of The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto (a.k.a. Tarantoad), the fanatically open-borders neoconservative who polices the paper’s blog.

Possibly we will have to reconsider. On Monday he posted
In Defense of Carol Swain The Wall Street Journal October 26, 2009
which takes the astonishing step (for the MSM) of attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to us).

This arises out of the $PLC’s attempt to harm black Vanderbilt Professor Swain for her endorsement of Craig Bodeker’s A Conversation About Race (VDARE.com discussion here).

“Carol Swain is an apologist for white supremacists,” Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center tells the Tennessean. Carol Swain is also a friend of this column. To our mind the charge seemed awfully far-fetched, so we decided to get to the bottom of it.

Because we think highly of Swain, we decided to watch the film and draw our own conclusion. Our reaction was mixed: We found the interviews fascinating but Bodeker’s narration disagreeable. We do, however, see Swain’s point about the film’s value in illuminating the subject of race in America.

Taranto’s piece is an astonishing 1,977 words long. This is because, while determined to defend Swain, he is not willing to take the position that A Conversation About Race deserves to be considered on its merit, regardless of what its Producer may have said elsewhere or had for breakfast. Anathematization by Association is a treasured part of the Neocon arsenal, as well as the $PLC’s.

So Taranto writes a long series of quibbles, finally reaching a polemically viable conclusion:

Bodeker …makes of himself an example of the phenomenon described in the publicity material for Carol Swain’s “The New White Nationalism”:
…Swain goes so far as to say that if liberals and African American leaders don’t start to address the legitimate concerns raised by the white nationalists on race matters, they risk being partly to blame for racial unrest in America.
This is a serious argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, even by those, like the SPLC, that disagree.

Taranto correctly concludes

dismissing Swain as “an apologist for white supremacists” is the tactic of one who is trying to shut down, not encourage, debate.

What is going on here? Neoconservatives have previously been happy to benefit from the demonization process.

Is it just that Taranto has some kind of (an ideological) crush on Swain? Or could it be that the $PLC’s increasing targeting of mainstream political and Christian groups for fundraising scares is being perceived as too provocative?

In any case, what a triumph for Carol Swain. She elicits an extremely rare MSM condemnation of the Southern Poverty Law Center, and she causes the appearance of an extensive and not wholly hostile discussion of A Conversation About Race into a major outlet.

And what an embarrassing contrast to the ineffectuality of FAIR

The news that the huge acceleration of the immigrant influx into the UK under the Tony Blair Prime Ministership was the result of deliberate anti-historic nation malice – reported by Brenda Walker and Steve Sailer yesterday – will not surprise regular VDARE.com readers.

Exactly the same appears to have been the case with the US 1965 Immigration Act. See Norbert Schlei—Guilty of Malice Aforethought in America’s Immigration Disaster?

Andrew Neather, whose urge to boast surfaced this confession in the charmingly titled article Don’t listen to the whingers - London needs immigrants London Evening Standard 23.10.09

is, for the age of Google, very elusive to research. Although the name might be thought to be English, it was virtually unknown in Ancestry.com’s benchmark 1891 Census sweep – recently adopted perhaps?

But a familiar pattern emerges from the article (which is notable for the contempt it evinces for any British not living in London):

I wrote the landmark speech given by then immigration minister Barbara Roche in September 2000, calling for a loosening of controls. It marked a major shift from the policy of previous governments: from 1971 onwards, only foreigners joining relatives already in the UK had been permitted to settle here.

…despite Roche’s keenness to…be upfront, there was a reluctance elsewhere in government to discuss what increased immigration would mean…Roche was unusual in that she was a London MP, herself of east European Jewish stock.

Well,well.

Further supporting my contention on Saturday that the Galleon insider trading case demonstrates how much Wall Street has become Minority Occupied Territory is Galleon Sinks; Informant Surfaces By SUSAN PULLIAM The Wall Street Journal October 22 2009

The informant who touched off the insider-trading case is identified by a Securities and Exchange Commission complaint as “Tipper A” … According to people familiar with the matter, the informant is Roomy Khan… The last listed address for Ms. Khan, 51 years old, and her husband, Sakhawat Khan, is Atherton, Calif.

The WSJ notes

In July 2007, the informant identified as Ms. Khan “arranged to pay” $10,000 to a junior Moody’s analyst for inside information on a takeover of Hilton, the complaint said…The former Moody’s junior analyst, identified by someone familiar with the matter as 27-year-old Deep Shah, denied Wednesday that he passed any confidential information in exchange for money, as alleged. Reached in Mumbai, he said: “I don’t know anything about this.”

The Journal further reports

The evolving details show how Mr. Rajaratnam allegedly gleaned inside information from a circle of technology analysts he had known since the 1990s, when he was an analyst at investment bank Needham & Co. They include two other cooperating witnesses: California hedge-fund managers Choo Beng Lee, who also worked at Needham, and Ali Far, who once worked at Galleon,

Do I see a pattern?

Insider trading, of course, is extremely attractive because a couple of phone calls can reap millions. Pity Vivek Kundra’s hard-working former colleagues:

Farrukh Awan…and his boss, Yusuf Acar, were fired after federal authorities accused them of asking government contractor Sushil Bansal for cash so they would approve Bansal’s employees for jobs at the city’s technology office…Awan worked for Bansal’s Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp…before being hired as a full-time city employee in 2006. By then, authorities say, Awan had already conspired with Bansal to receive kickbacks based on the hourly wage Bansal’s workers received at the technology office…One of Bansal’s employees, Sarosh Mir, has pleaded guilty to submitting inflated time sheets to the city, sometimes for employees who did not work for the District.

Another guilty plea expected in D.C. tech office kickback scheme By: FREEMAN KLOPOTT The Examiner October 23, 2009

All these details…so much administration. In the two years Kundra was “Chief Technology Officer” for the District of Columbia wouldn’t he have sensed something was going on right under his nose? But since he is protected by President Obama’s racial predelictions it does not matter.

I see the redoubtable Carol Swain will appear on the equally redoubtable Lou Dobbs’ radio show at 3-35 pm EST to discuss her latest brawl with the Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to us). Check for radio stations here.

Both parties deserve congratulations. Taking on the $PLC is considerably more dangerous than challenging the Pope in Medieval Europe.

This particular fight started when Swain defended herself on The Huffington Post after being smeared in the $PLC’s HateWatch:

Guilt by Association: The Southern Poverty Law Center Hurls a Punch October 12, 2009

I linked to the article criticizing film maker, Craig Bodeker for a DVD he produced called a Conversation About Race, for which I wrote a blurb recommending the documentary film for classroom use. Using the tactic of guilt by association and a highly selective list of the film’s reviewers, the SPLC’s article stated:

Bodeker’s documentary has received most of its praise from hate publications and groups, including Vdare.com, The Occidental Quarterly, the National Policy Institute, American Renaissance and the Council of Conservative Citizens’ Citizens Informer. (One so-called mainstream fan of the film is the controversial black scholar Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the National Council for the Humanities…

(The VDARE.com citation was originally hyperlinked, but the Left protocol is never to link to opponents).

Here is Athena Kerry’s review of a Conversation About Race.

Swain’s local newspaper then attacked her
Vanderbilt professor slammed for backing film that calls racism a myth By Janell Ross The Tennessean October 17,2009

Swain, a professor of law and political science, said in an interview with The Tennessean that she feels as if she has “been attacked” by the group.
Mark Potock, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, responded, “If that is what she believes, she is suffering from some sort of low-grade megalomania.”

Getting named by the $PLC in a context like this is a frequently lethal experience, and Potock is showing his employer’s characteristic intellectual dishonesty in his response.

It is a real culture clash. Carol Swain adheres to the Anglo-Saxon tradition of debate:

Swain sees things differently. If there are going to be conversations about race, she thinks they have to include what the Southern Poverty Law Center may consider extremist or hateful positions.
“My fear is that unless we create forums for people to safely and openly express themselves, then you are going to drive more young people into these extreme groups.””

Potock and the $PLC adhere to the contemptible civic traditions of Czarist and Stalinist Russia.

The Swain/Dobbs interview should be worthwhile.

Carol Swain’s courage puts the ineffectual FAIR reply to the SPLC to shame