Right about four centuries ago, the London Government, desperate to maintain control of the upwind (critical in the days of sail) and populous island of Ireland, kicked out much of the hostile Roman Catholic population of the northern province of Ulster and invited immigrants from (mainly) the Border Country between England and Scotland to replace them.

This community, known very accurately to American (but not British) historiography as the Scotch-Irish, is generally agreed by all who have subsequently had to deal with them to be the most violent and irascibly aggressive of any Anglophone population – including the native Irish.

A very few generations after going to Ireland, many of their descendents moved on to the southern United States. This process is beautifully documented in Albion’s Seed–imperative reading in my opinion for anyone who wants to understand America. My copy, alas, is not to hand, but I recollect Professor Fischer noting that, fortuitously, the most violent settlers of the East Coast met the most violent Indians–whom they promptly destroyed.

Shortly after that they supplied much of the fighting spirit of the Confederacy – along with the tunes for many of its songs and of course the Battle Flag.

Meanwhile, their cousins left in Ireland have defeated every effort to eradicate them – in recent decades shamefully connived at by Administrations in London.

And this continues. Hat Tip The Irish Savant – (the other sort of Irishman, I believe) –

Diversity Delight in Norn Iron

They’re getting their collective knickers in a twist in Northern Ireland over the spate of ‘racist’ attacks on… ‘gypsies’ ….As has been widely reported, people up there got a bit fed up with the activities of such gypsies and in the traditions of that very special place, violently ran them out. All but two of the 110 are now winging their way, at the expense of the NI taxpayers (actually the UK taxpayers, who keep NI afloat) back to their countries of origin.

“in the traditions of that very special place” - Ah, it takes an Irish way with words.

Gypsies of course are a European curse, unleashed by political correctness.

For all of them to leave the persuasion must have been…persuasive.

The question is, what is it that these Ulstermen have, that, perhaps unique in the WASP world, equips them to survive in this wretched era?

I have been complaining that none of mainstream Immigration Reform outfits – like NumbersUSA, FAIR, or CIS – nor the allegedly “Conservative” media will take a position on the baleful and threatening Hate Crimes Bill S.909 – despite many of the individuals involved knowing full well it is part of a deliberate attempt to repress the causes they are supposedly in business to advocate. So it is refreshing to note a couple of exceptions.

Hating Hate Crimes Investor’s Business Daily 07/01/2009

is a straightforward and direct condemnation:

This new law won’t reduce hate one bit, but it will limit your rights…Anyone who values the rule of law in America should reject it…in effect, the justice meted out depends on the victim’s status — not on the severity of the crime.

This violates major swaths of the Constitution. It certainly twists the 14th Amendment’s “equal protection” clause beyond recognition. And it likewise impinges on First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of speech and thought. And subjecting those guilty of state crimes to additional federal prosecution is double jeopardy.

(After Attorney General Holder’s disastrous Senate testimony last week, acceptance has broadened that the Bill is intended to create privilege.)

IBD concludes

Equal treatment under the law is a fundamental principle of American jurisprudence. Hate crimes trample this principle by creating a special class of victims.
Congress might mean well, but this is a bad law that will have bad results and only add to our nation’s growing divisions.

Some might be surprised that Investor’s Business Daily would address this subject, but in fact the paper has published some solid political material over the years.

Where are you, Wall Street Journal?

The Cato Institute’s Hate Crime Legislation: A Shocking Disregard for Federalism by David Rittgers July 1 2009 (which incorporates a podcast on the subject) is intellectually more adventurous (if wonkish). It is based on watching last week’s Judiciary Committee hearing (webcast on right). Complaining of Judiciary’s

casual disregard (if not outright hostility) for the principles of limited government and equality under the law.

Rittgers asserts

The bill federalizes violent acts against victims by reason of their actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability….
The federal government would also be authorized to prosecute whenever “the verdict or sentence obtained pursuant to State charges left demonstratively unvindicated the Federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence.” While this doesn’t violate the letter of the Supreme Court’s Double Jeopardy jurisprudence (the federal and state governments are considered separate sovereigns) it certainly violates its spirit.

Rittgers was particularly appalled, as was I, by the performance of Senator Ben Cardin :

The hearing video shows a complete disregard for limitations on federal power. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) claims that we need a “uniform” law across the states (82 minute mark). This claim…disregards the fact that general police powers belong to the states, not to the federal government.

(Cardin’s performance was chilling. He is apparently the second-generation descendent of immigrants from Russia and clearly thinks things were ordered better in the Old Country. I have not seen anything as ominous since watching Commissar Reich back in January.)

The Rittgers essay deserves credit for repudiating a dangerous assertion popular with the legislation’s boosters:

Don’t expect the application of this legislation to be the rare and exceptional prosecution that Attorney General Holder promises in his testimony. Janet Cohen testified that her upbringing in a racially divided America decades ago justifies passage of this law. She also proposes that prosecutions with the new law will be “wise” on account of Holder’s “brilliance and integrity.”

And to think, we were once a nation of laws, not of men.

History shows this kind of legislation invariably gets more damaging when implemented.

Congratulate David Rittgers.

On Sunday I considered the curious spectacle of Senator Charles Schumer of New York talking tough about illegal immigration, and even denouncing MSM efforts to euphemize it: Schumer makes Nice: Meaning What?.

I concluded that, especially considering Schumer’s mendacious performance at the Hate Crime Bill hearings late last week the man continues to be a deadly threat to the historic American Nation: and that this wheedling reflects the fact that the Treason Lobby apparently lacks the votes at present to ram through Amnesty.

Thanks DK for pointing out that our old friend Steven Steinlight has also contemplated the “new” Schumer, opting for a Western motif:
The New Sheriff in Town Center for Immigration Studies June 25 2009

Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, is point man for President Obama on immigration, riding herd on the Big Push for “comprehensive immigration reform.”… In an embarrassingly transparent effort to pander to his opponents – those of us that believe in the rule of law, giving preference to Americans in the job market as the nation hemorrhages 400,000 jobs a month, and such unfashionable things as national borders – Chuck is doing a Buffalo Bill rodeo show demonstrating his commitment to toughness in general and tough law enforcement in particular. He wants to be seen as the new sheriff in town, and as one tough hombre.

Steinlight isn’t buying:

But Sheriff Chuck: What about past illegal immigration (to the tune of 11-12 million, with some 7 million holding jobs unemployed Americans could use) or present illegal immigration? You and I both know the entire purpose of this Buffalo Bill show about future enforcement is gulling us into legalizing them.

So Steinlight has a good idea:

I don’t know if Chuck’s new diction …is the product of a mini-course on method acting (if you want to persuade those rednecks, act like one!) or whether he’s infiltrating our ranks by cleverly aping our speech patterns. Am I the only one who thinks it might be a good idea to take this guy to the Lieutenant, in the tradition of World War II movies, and test him by asking if he knows who won the 1939 World Series?

Nice job, Steven Steinlight. (His July 1st blog Siren Songs and the New York Times is also amusing: reporting the fact that the Times was the only MSM outlet to report last week’s White House Immigration meeting as extremely encouraging for the Treason Lobby:

Its wildly optimistic assessment of what transpired at the June 25 White House meeting …is not so much contrarian as it is weirdly unique…are we dealing with a delusional mentality or a Machiavellian one?… publishing something so palpably self-deluding simultaneously suggests the sirens’ transformational work is well-advanced.)

Last Thursday, as I noted in A-G Holder: No Hate Crime Protection for White Christians or Servicemen Attorney General Eric Holder made some potentially disastrous concessions while testifying for S.909, the Hate Crime Bill.

The invaluable Rev. Ted Pike has now produced a ten minute video analyzing these blunders, remarking

In Senate testimony last week, Holder attempted to justify passage of the Matthew Shephard Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Instead, he worked against it. Holder emphatically said most Americans are not given equal protection with homosexuals (and homosexual pedophiles) by the hate bill. Holder also presented no evidence that states are failing to prosecute hate crimes and need big government to get involved!… As we have seen many times over the last 11 years, God causes hate bill supporters in Congress to bungle, especially when it seems certain the hate bill is about to pass

The video is on his site here. (Also note that you can sign up for email on this legislation at the top of his site.)

Just how dangerous is this situation is well illustrated by the explosion of furious rage on this Canadian blog. The TV signal from Buffalo has the temerity to reach across the border into Hate Speech-policed Canada, as the result of which this woman found herself watching to one of the Silencing The Christians series which says it

…takes you on a journey across the country to meet citizens who have been arrested for speaking out at a public rally, students who are being forced to attend classes that require them to recite verses from the Koran and to stage their own jihad and activists pushing social tolerance to such an extreme that the Bible itself is being labeled “hate speech.”

Her rage knows no bounds

this filth was, in fact, ‘paid programming’…they promote the usual hate-filled, homophobic, ‘gay agenda’ screed, but they go a step further - blaming Pride events and gay rights demonstrations for incidents of violence against Christians….I couldn’t get through the whole thing without throwing up.

But other news from America cheered her:

Happily, it seems I wasn’t the only one repulsed by this crap:
‘Silencing Christians’ paid program draws protest calls, e-mails

TAMPA - A flood of telephone calls and e-mails cascaded into WFLA News Channel 8 on Saturday afternoon and night over the airing of “Silencing Christians…
Stratton Pollitzer, deputy director of Equality Florida, has seen the program and said the message was clearly hate speech.
“I think this program is a piece of homophobic propaganda and it has no place on a major network like NBC,” he said just after 7 p.m., as the program was airing.

(Equality Florida is a Homosexual pressure group. Protest to Stratton Pollitzer)

As matters stand at present, Silencing The Christians probably could not be aired by a Canadian broadcaster. There are plenty of Americans who would, shamefully, like to be able have that power here. As I said last Friday of the Senate Hearings (webcast here on right)

Anyone who reviews the comments and deliveries by Democratic Senators Feinstein(CA), Cardin (MD)and Schumer (NY)(c. 53 minutes, 79 minutes and 89 minutes) cannot doubt that, for them, this legislation is a stepping stone to criminalizing political opinion. Feinstein actually cited the immigration debate as necessitating passing the Bill!

This is a desperately serious matter. With a politicized judiciary, who knows where it will go?The Establishment “Conservative” media and, of course, the Plutocrats of the Immigration reform movement (NumbersUSA, FAIR, and CIS) remain silent.

Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief of The Orange County Register, is a consistent, if very measured, scource of key stories on the Immigration War.
Democrat talks tough on illegal immigration Friday June 26,2009 is such a one.

She reports of New York’s Senator Charles Schumer

The immigration reform debate began anew this week, and buried in a speech given by a Democratic senator who will be a pivotal player are a few sentences that just could help transform this emotional issue.
In remarks to a group of immigration policy wonks and advocates this past week, Schumer broached something that is usually reserved for Republicans: the fact that sneaking into this country over the border or overstaying a visa is wrong. And he also raised the notion of what to call people who are in this country illegally.
“When we use phrases like ‘undocumented workers,’ we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration, which the American people overwhelmingly oppose,” Schumer said.

Sounds great. Unfortunately, I no longer believe in Santa Claus.

On Friday I forced myself to listen to the Webcast (on right) of Thursday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on S.909 – The Hate Crimes Prevention Bill. Schumer appeared, (although he did not bother to interview those giving testimony) and at around Minute 90 said

“If we vote down this legislation…we are saying it is OK to physically harm people who you don’t like because of who they are”

From a member of the general public, this could perhaps be excused as stupidity. From a Harvard and Harvard Law Graduate, fully aware physically harming people is invariably criminal, the kindest interpretation is that it is a vicious lie.

So how should Patriots assess Schumer’s Olive Branch?

One Old Veteran carries FAIR’s wonkish but technically correct response.

Myself, I believe Schumer is a deadly enemy of the American Nation. This wheedling reflects reality: as Rahm Emmanuel says: they don’t have the votes. I admit: Joe Guzzardi seems to have judged the situation better than I.

Unfortunately, this does not change the underlying reality. As I said on Friday:

The problem the Patriots have is that time is against us. By simply not enforcing immigration law, the degeneration of the country into a third-world Spanish-speaking slum will continue, and the Democrats can look forward to being permanently what Peter Brimelow called, at the end of his CPAC essay this past March

a minority occupation government.

A valuable Vintage 2009 blog, A Race Against Time, is making a specialty of documenting Black crimes against Whites which appear to be hate-motivated. No wonder the other side hates the Internet!

Attorney General Holder: Whites Not Protected by Hate Crime Laws agrees with my assessment yesterday – derived partly from the Rev. Ted Pike’s incisive report - that the objective here is to privilege certain favored groups at the expense, basically, of straight white Christian-heritage Americans.

ARAT adds an example.

On the night of June 1, 2008, a mob of nearly two dozen black teenagers stormed through the streets of Mount Clemens, Michigan, robbing and beating any white person who crossed their path (see article here).
…a car driven by Andy Kaufmann, a 29-year-old white father of three, was surrounded and a brick was thrown through the window. Andy was beaten unconscious and left with a fractured skull…
The man who threw the brick at Kaufmann’s car and instigated the attack, 17-year-old Deonte J. Williams, was sentenced to only 19 months in prison…
In a radio interview shortly after the attack, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel was asked why hate crime charges were not sought, which would have resulted in stiffer penalties. Hackel responded that he didn’t consider hate crime laws to be applicable since Kaufmann is white, and therefore not a member of a “protected class.”

Audio here. Note that Sheriff Hackel expressed no problem with the restriction.

In his answers to Senators Sessions and Coburn on Thursday, Attorney General Holder endorsed Sheriff Hackel’s position. (See Minutes 58.30-61 and 71.30-5 of the Judiciary Committee webcast here -on right.)

As ARAT notes:

according to the Justice Department’s own statistics, in only 10% of the 650,000 violent interracial crimes that occur each year in this country are white offenders attacking black victims…In 90% of interracial violent crimes, whites are being attacked by blacks. Attacks on white individuals and couples by mobs of black youths are all too common in this country.
If any racial group is being targeted for violence in this country, it’s whites, by blacks. If any group is deserving of special protection from racially motivated violence, it’s whites.

But that is not what the Hate Crime Bill Offensive is about.

While Google Alert produces scores of items on yesterday’s Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the S.909, the Hate Crime Bill, only a few go beyond summarizing Attorney General Eric Holder’s submission to give even a cursory account of what was said in opposition.

So once again we are reliant on the invaluable service supplied by the Rev Ted Pike (sign up at the top of his web site for his email alerts)

LEAHY’S HATE BILL HEARING A SHAM 26 June 09 reports:

Today Sen. Patrick Leahy delivered on his promise to hold a federal hate bill hearing. Yet it was meant to only further his agenda, strongly slanted against opponents of the hate bill.

Attorney Gen. Eric Holder and three other hate bill witnesses chosen by Leahy had a four-to-two advantage over opponents of S. 909…Leahy’s time restrictions (little more than two hours) forced these outnumbered patriots, led by the excellent arguments of Sen. Jeff Sessions, to severely narrow their objections. An issue of such danger and complication demands at least three days of hearings, with more than just two witnesses permitted to object!

Holder’s testimony and questions lasted 75 minutes. In any normal environment his rigid and flat-footed performance would have to be deemed a disaster. As Pike notes:

Under questioning, Attorney Gen. Holder was surprisingly forthright in admitting that the hate bill is not intended to protect everyone, or even the majority. He said only historically oppressed minorities were to benefit. This means Jews, blacks, homosexuals, women, etc. Holder made it clear that if a white Christian male, including a serviceman or police officer, was the victim of a violent hate crime by any minority he would have to find redress from traditional law. He could not avail himself of the triple penalties and rapid government/justice system response given a protected minority.

These catastrophic admissions were extracted by Senators Sessions (R-AL) and Coburn (R-OK). The webcast of the Hearings is here (on right) and the relevant passages are 58.30-61 minutes (Sessions) and 71.30-5 minutes (Coburn).

Holder made it plain that he is seeking legal privileges for certain groups based on what he told Senator Sessions was

“the unfortunate history of our nation”.

Film can indeed tell more than the printed word. Anyone who reviews the comments and deliveries by Democratic Senators Feinstein(CA), Cardin (MD)and Schumer (NY)(c. 53 minutes, 79 minutes and 89 minutes) cannot doubt that, for them, this legislation is a stepping stone to criminalizing political opinion. Feinstein actually cited the immigration debate as necessitating passing the Bill!

I am afraid the Rev. Ted Pike is right and the ADL and its friends are the driving force behind this threat.

One bright note: yesterday about 2-54PM EDT (after the Hearings were over) the Daily Kos posted URGENT!! Save Hate Crimes bill NOW! By bilerico

I just got a phone call from a well placed source on Capital Hill that confirmed that the hate crimes bill currently before the Senate will be added to the Defense Authorization Bill…You need to call your Senator NOW and ask them to save the hate crimes bill from certain death! If it’s added to the defense authorization bill it will be the death of hate crimes this year.
You can look up your Senator’s direct phone number here or call (202) 224-3121 and tell them to SAVE THE HATE CRIMES BILL.

Could it be others were underwhelmed by Holder’s performance as well?

The Treason Lobby was on parade on Thursday – President Obama finally met with assorted Congressthings to plot how to foist Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration onto America. Apparently matters did not go well.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was no help. He has being widely quoted saying that the task is difficult – for instance at this Christian Science Monitor Breakfast the same morning:

I’ll say it’s self evident - one of the reasons you’re having the meeting is because the votes aren’t there. That’s kinda – If the votes were there, you wouldn’t need to have the meeting, you’d go to a roll call. OK?
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus and immigration groups have all asked for a meeting because the votes aren’t there. And they asked for the meeting and that’s why we’re doing the meeting, to help focus on what does it take….
It’s better that it happen from a policy standpoint. It’s obviously self-evident that it would be better if it happened from a political standpoint. But it’s also better that we continue to focus on moving the economy – getting the economy moving.

Possibly this lack of enthusiasm is what alarmed Amnesty fanatic Lindsey Graham (Scalawag-SC)

Senator Lindsey Graham…also said he saw only “one more chance” to pass a bill because of the political heat that immigration reform stirs up.

“If we can’t get it done this time around, no politician is going to take this up in a generation. That would be a shame for this country,” Graham said.

Obama pledges push this year for immigration reform By Doug Palmer Reuters Thursday Jun 25 2009

Graham of course has a record of making silly remarks on Immigration. But he is right to be alarmed. Without a supportive White House he is in serious danger of being proved a fool - like John McCain.

The Obama White House has no particular reason to do anything on Amnesty. The Hispanic lobby does not have the power to force the issue. They are not big enough, and they are bound hand and foot to the Democrats anyway.

The problem the Patriots have is that time is against us. By simply not enforcing immigration law, the degeneration of the country into a third-world Spanish-speaking slum will continue, and the Democrats can look forward to being permanently what Peter Brimelow called, at the end of his CPAC essay this past March

a minority occupation government.

Further evidence is accumulating that the Obama Administration is indeed abandoning enforcement of the immigration laws. They in particular want to curtail the work of Nashville’s patriotic sheriff, Daron Hall.

Illegal immigrants netted by local police could be released By Patrik Jonnsson The Christian Science Monitor June 23 2009 reports

Some undocumented immigrants swept up on minor charges such as fishing without a license won’t face federal detention. Instead, they’ll be released on their own recognizance under an Obama administration directive to a Nashville, Tenn., sheriff who charged 6,000 people with immigration crimes over the past 2-1/2 years.

(NB misleading headline.) ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is dishonestly trying to maintain that this is not a change in policy:

There hasn’t been a [policy] change: ICE always puts a priority on criminal aliens who pose a national security threat,” says Matt Chandler, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman in Washington. But he acknowledges: “We are taking a deep, hard look at the program.”

“The program” in which only some 66 law enforcement jurisdictions take part, is known as 287(g). It

in essence, deputizes local police to act as de facto immigration agents… Last year, local police made 20 percent of all immigration-related arrests in the US.

The problem with release:

Pre-2006 studies showed that about 85 percent of illegal immigrants released on bond did not show up for their court date.

Hat tip the Federale blog, which accurately said

the radical left has always considered local enforcement as unacceptable, and fought it at every step….liberals draw the line at arresting illegal aliens. And that is because they want more illegals here.

Nashville seems to be a target because the Davidson County (Nashville) Sherriff, Daron Hall, has been particularly effective in using 287(g). In discussing another report of this event ICE won’t detain non-U.S. drivers in Nashville By Kate Howard and Chris Echegaray • THE TENNESSEAN • June 22, 2009 Federale incisively remarked

ICE will no longer arrest illegal aliens before they commit other crimes, but only after. Only after an American citizen is dead, or injured, or a victim of another crime….ICE doesn’t want to participate in the Broken Windows method of solving the crime problem that Rudy Guiliani implemented in New York…Janet Reno Napalitano is ideologically obsessed with destroying America…

This is no more than the truth.

Applaud Patriot Sherriff Daron Hall.

As of 12-25 AM Wednesday morning the Daily Kos vote demanding Pat Buchanan be fired by MsnBC for allowing Peter Brimelow to speak at The American Cause conference this past weekend (see end of this) had logged an additional 451 votes since I appealed to VDARE’s friends to get involved just over 10 hours earlier. Of these, 53% (248) were against Pat and 47% (213) for him. This reduced the overall negative split to 66/31, a much better result than the 80/20 split earlier.

The Daily Kos has (suddenly) essentially stopped posting comments on this thread (only 13 since our appeal: 2.5% more to a 375 total, despite votes having risen 82% - none since 3:54PM)

On past experience this means they have been hit by the first seriously hostile submissions and are bewildered what to do.

Congratulations and thanks, VDARE.com friends.