U.N. racism investigator to visit U.S. from Monday, reports Reuter’s Stephanie Nebehay (May 16, 2008):

The United Nations said [special rapporteur] Doudou Diene [a Senagalese lawyer] would meet federal and local officials, as well as lawmakers and judicial authorities during the May 19-June 6 visit.

“The special rapporteur will…gather first-hand information on issues related to racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” a U.N. statement said on Friday.

This is of course an insult to Americans and a particular threat to white Americans, who will bear the brunt of the further government intervention that the U.N. will certainly advocate.

But look at this:

His three-week visit, at U.S. government invitation [VDARE.COM emphasis], will cover eight cities — Washington D.C., New York, Chicago, Omaha, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Bush actually invited this U.N. gauleiter in?

Reuters says sadly: “However, the United Nations has almost no clout when it comes to U.S. domestic affairs and is widely perceived by many as interfering.”

That “many”, apparently, does not include Bush. Further evidence of the peculiar post-Americanism that has caused us to speculate that he’s a Mexichurian candidate who aims to make America safe for a Bush dynasty modelled on the Mexican oligarchs.

Roll on, January 2009.

Some of the labor problems farmers face, which make them claim that they need illegal cheap labor to continue to farm, are self inflicted: they’ve made a decision to produce crops that have to be picked by hand, unlike wheat, for example. There are also mechanical solutions, but farmers aren’t interested in those as long as cheap labor is available.

George Washington was serious farmer–he once wrote to a friend that

I think that the life of a Husbandman is of all others the most delectable. It is honourable. It is amusing. And with Judicious management it is profitable. To see plants rise from the Earth and flourish by the superior skill and bounty of the labourer fills a contemplative mind with ideas which are more easy to be conceived than expressed. The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs the better I am pleased with them. I can nowhere find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits.

Of course, if you learn anything about George Washington, you learn that he was slave owner. In fact, it may be the only thing you learn about him in a modern school. Slavery is, of course, the ultimate form of cheap labor. Washington didn’t approve. Paul Johnson writes:

He regarded tidewater farming in Virginia as inefficient and degrading, with no future. It involved slavery. He always owned slaves, and at one time had more than three hundred (mainly belonging to his wife), but he regarded the institution as wrong and incurably wasteful. In the 1760s he farmed over 20,000 acres. Many rich English earls and dukes had no more. Whence the difference in their incomes and his? Because the best English farming was a judicious mixture of arable, pasture and stock raising, all for the market. By contrast Virginia tobacco was bought by London agents, who did the marketing themselves, got the profits and usually had the American planters in their debt. It was a formula for laziness and improvidence. So Washington spent his life switching from planting to scientific farming. He raised wheat, less labor intensive-a skilled plowman could do the work of forty slow-hoeing slaves–but it demanded large numbers of draft animals and they in turn needed large quantities of hay. So he planted corn fodder alongside wheat, raised root crops, forage crops like clover and alfalfa and put out fields to cattle and hogs. They, in turn, and his plow horses, produced manure which he used as fertilizer. He grew peas and potatoes, planted vines and set up fruit and vegetable gardens on all his farms.[Heroes by Paul Johnson.]

Of course, most of today’s complaining farmers are not George Washington. One way you can tell them from George Washington. that they can tell a lie–usually about crops rotting in the fields.

I’m speaking at the next John Randolph Club meeting, theme “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”, in Philadelphia September 12-13, details here.

Here’s a clever account (with video!) of the last Randolph Club meeting, by George Ajjan, who wrote for us last year about technology vs. assimilation. I spoke on immigration and also, departing from the studious neutrality I mantain in editing VDARE.COM, participated in a debate on Iraq.

The nickname of the great state of Missouri is the “Show Me State”, the connotation being “a certain self-deprecating stubbornness and devotion to simple common sense”.

These are good qualities in the fight against today’s illegal invasion and the voter fraud that accompanies it.

The New York Times ran an interesting article entitled Voter ID Battle Shifts to Proof of Citizenship [by Ian Urbina, May 12th, 2008] about the current attempt in the Show Me State to actually make people show they are citizens in order to register to vote!

In a sane country, this would not even be an issue, but given today’s environment, it’s a contentious one.

The Federal government doesn’t seem to be too concerned about illegal voting:

From October 2002 to September 2005, the Justice Department indicted 40 voters for registration fraud or illegal voting, 21 of whom were noncitizens, according to department records.

That’s all? What a joke!

But the states are taking up the slack. In the state of Missouri (where I resided for several years) there’s a proposed constitutional amendment “to enable election officials to require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.” That sounds eminently reasonable to me, and should be to anyone without some kind of subversive agenda.

The Times explains that:

The measure would allow far more rigorous demands than the voter ID requirement recently upheld by the Supreme Court, in which voters had to prove their identity with a government-issued card. Sponsors of the amendment — which requires the approval of voters to go into effect, possibly in an August referendum — say it is part of an effort to prevent illegal immigrants from affecting the political process.

The article reports that other states are mulling similar measures, but the Missouri proposal could possibly be enacted before this year’s election.

Currently, you only have to prove you are a citizen to register in one state!

In Arizona, the only state that requires proof of citizenship to register to vote, more than 38,000 voter registration applications have been thrown out since the state adopted its measure in 2004. That number was included in election data obtained through a lawsuit filed by voting rights advocates and provided to The New York Times. More than 70 percent of those registrations came from people who stated under oath that they were born in the United States, the data showed.

What ? You mean non-citizens breaking the law actually lied about it? Horrors!

As for actually proving identity when voting, half of the states require that:

Already, 25 states, including Missouri, require some form of identification at the polls. Seven of those states require or can request photo ID. More states may soon decide to require photo ID now that the Supreme Court has upheld the practice. Democrats have already criticized these requirements as implicitly intended to keep lower-income voters from the polls, and are likely to fight even more fiercely now that the requirements are expanding to include immigration status.

As I reported in a VDARE.COM article several years ago, here in Mexico they have a free government-issued voter ID card. When the voter shows up at the polls, his ID card photo is checked against that of a book that contains the photo of every voter in the precinct.

Meanwhile, back in Missouri:

The Missouri secretary of state, Robin Carnahan, a Democrat who opposes the measure, estimated that it could disenfranchise up to 240,000 registered voters who would be unable to prove their citizenship.

Well, if they really are citizens, there ought to be a way to prove it.

And here’s somebody who doesn’t think it’s a hardship:

Thor Hearne, a lawyer from Missouri who has been a strong advocate for voter ID laws, cited a California congressional race in 1996 in which a Republican, Bob Dornan, was narrowly defeated. Mr. Dornan contested the results, claiming that illegal immigrants had voted.

After a 14-month investigation by state, county and federal officials, a panel concluded that up to 624 noncitizens may have registered to vote. The report came to no firm determination of whether any of those people had actually voted.

Mr. Hearne said the requirement would not pose a significant hardship on voters.

“There were a lot of the same alarmist charges regarding Indiana voter ID law and how it would disenfranchise so many people,” Mr. Hearne said, “and those allegations were not accepted by the Supreme Court.”

And I like this part:

(Hearne) added that if states actively provided a free form of identification proving citizenship, the number of people who would be disenfranchised would be very low.

Right on! And, that’s exactly what they do in Mexico ! Why can’t they do it in the United States?

Ken Dilanian writes in USA Today:

Republicans must regain the confidence of Americans and recast their message to voters to avoid a catastrophe in the fall congressional elections, top GOP officials said Wednesday in a stark postmortem of a loss in rural Mississippi.[Republicans fear public has lost confidence, May 14, 2008]

Successful politics is a combination of money and votes. Traditionally Republicans have excelled in the fund raising arena–and that overcame the lack of popularity of many of their key issues. Since the Nixon/Ford/Reagan/Bush capitulation on the issue of immigration, there is really no broadly popular issue the Republicans have any more.

Now, the potential rebirth of the Republican party may be seen in elections like this one in a solidly Republican state (where the GOP primary effectively is the election).

Robert Gehrke and Cathy McKitrick write in the The Salt Lake Tribune:

OREM - Rep. Chris Cannon barely escaped with his political life on Saturday.
Jason Chaffetz, a former chief of staff to Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., nearly knocked off the incumbent in the Republican State Convention, but instead will face Cannon in a June 24 primary.
“A win is a win,” said Chaffetz. “We’re going to go out and take it to Cannon right from Day One.”
Chaffetz captured 563 Republican delegate votes, or 59 percent of the total. Cannon received votes from 391 delegates, 41 percent of the total. Chaffetz could have captured the nomination outright with 60 percent of the vote - a 10-vote swing.

The big difference in the positions of Chaffetz and Cannon are on the topic of immigration. Cannon has a mediocre C rating on immigration–and loves programs like H-1b. Chaffetz is pretty much a Tom Tancredo style Republican.

It may take more than addressing the issue of immigration to make the GOP a successful political party again. However, without it, the GOP is simply an employers lobby that can’t compete nationwide.

JTA, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reports:

Federal authorities charged that a methamphetamine laboratory was operating at the nation’s largest kosher slaughterhouse and that employees carried weapons to work.

The charges were among the most explosive details to emerge following the massive raid Monday at Agriprocessors in Postville, Iowa.

In a 60-page application for a search warrant, federal agents revealed details of their six-month probe of Agriprocessors. The investigation involved 12 federal agencies, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the departments of labor and agriculture.

According to the application, a former plant supervisor told investigators that some 80 percent of the workforce was illegal. They included rabbis responsible for kosher supervision, who the source believed entered the United States from Canada without proper immigration documents. The source did not provide evidence for his suspicion about the rabbis.

My sources in Iowa say that the recent raids were sparked by letter writing campaigns organized by Lutheran ministers. The Iowa community is very strict when it comes to issues of being law abiding–and the new arrivals have simply shown that isn’t a terribly high concern.

A reader sent me a long write-up on the illegal immigration scandal at the Lubavitcher slaughterhouse in a small town in Iowa, which I’ll post below. This business run by New York ultra-Orthodox Jews first became notorious a number of years ago when a Jewish academic named Stephen Bloom exposed how the newcomers were treating the Iowans. From the review in Amazon.com:

“The enterprise was a huge international success, with its kosher meats exported even to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The Jewish population grew to 150, and they were rich. The town was saved, and the people were grateful. All’s well that ends well? Not quite. The Hasidim kept to themselves, did things their own way, and basically had no interest in integrating into Postville. And why would they? Their laws are strict, their mission clear, their community defined by race and religion. They are not interested in watermelon socials or coffee klatches at the diner. Their little boys do not swim with their little girls, are not educated together, and do not go on play dates with goyim. Small-town Iowans, on the other hand, are very friendly. They know each other’s news, they support each other’s businesses, they wish each other Merry Christmas, they want you to feel at home. They don’t like that the new townspeople stomp up the street hunched over, talking in a foreign language and looking straight through them when greeted. They really don’t like it when one of the newcomers drives around town with a 10-foot candelabra strapped to his car playing music at full volume for eight consecutive winter nights.”

The point is not to pick on the business practices of ultra-Orthodox Jews. The bigger issue is that this kind of in-group morality is not at all restricted to Lubavitchers. In-group morality and sharp elbowed business practices are the norm among mercantile minorities across large swathes of the world, the great majority of them non-Jewish. (In fact, many are notoriously anti-Semitic.)

It’s the nature of low trust societies: you have the peasants and you have the business people, and never the twain shall marry. An American-style society where it’s not surprising when a farm boy like Henry Ford or Philo Farnsworth goes on to big things is a rarity in this world. (Here’s Tom Wolfe on Robert Noyce of Intel, co-inventor of the silicon chip, who grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, a small town much like Postville — except now it has an extremely rich college, due to getting in early on the companies started by Noyce and another Midwestern boy named Warren Buffett.)

Not surprisingly, lots of mercantile minorities want to emigrate to the rich pickings in America. What’s in it for Americans is less clear. (more…)

(Warning: The following post contains gruesome details.)

Upon discovering the corpses of Christopher Newsom, 23, and his girlfriend, Channon Christian, 21, on January 7 and 8, 2007, respectively, Knoxville, Tennessee authorities stonewalled the media as to the cause of death and the bodies’ condition. In response, white supremacist Internet radio host Hal Turner set in motion rumors that the assailants had lopped off Newsom’s penis and one of Christian’s breasts. But what Channon Christian actually endured proved every bit as bad as the rumors. During the first Knoxville Horror trial last month, in which Eric Dewayne Boyd was convicted as an accessory after the fact to carjacking, testimony by acting Knox County medical examiner, Dr. Darinka Mileusnic-Polchan, confirmed what federal court papers had reported in January, 2007: Christopher Newsom had been raped, with “bruising and swelling around the anus.” Mileusnic-Polchan testified that Newsom was shot, with the kill shot delivered execution-style from a gun touching the back of his head, and was already dead when his killer doused him with gasoline and set him on fire. As for Channon Christian,

Christian had been beaten with enough force to cause bruising on her brain, but the worst injuries, Mileusnic-Polchan said, were sustained in what she described as a savage sexual assault. “It’s much more than a simple sexual trauma,” she testified. “It’s extreme.” She said Christian was not only repeatedly raped both orally, vaginally and rectally, but that it appears an object was used in the attack. Christian had extensive injuries in the genital region and her mouth, including the tearing of the membrane that connected Christian’s lips to her gums.[Jury wants to go home; deliberations in Boyd case to begin in a.m.by Jamie Satterfield, Knoxville News Sentinel, April 15, 2008 ]

Christian’s assailants unsuccessfully sought to eliminate all DNA evidence from her body. Although they had already decided to kill her, to further torture her, they washed her vagina, rectum, and mouth with an astringent cleaning solution while she was alive.

[Mileusnic-Polchan] said Christian suffocated because she was [tied up and] placed into a forced fetal position inside the trash can as well as because of a plastic garbage bag that had been pulled tightly over her face. “It was a slow asphyxia death,” she said. “My conclusion was she actually died in the trash can.” Tennessee Bureau of Investigation serology expert Jennifer Millsaps linked brothers Davidson and Letalvis “Rome” Cobbins to the sexual attack on Christian.

A popular theme of Barack Obama’s campaign, going back to the opening of his 2004 Democratic Convention keynote address, is the love of his parents. Here’s the beginning of that famous speech, following a few introductory formalities:

Tonight is a particular honor for me because - let’s face it - my presence on this stage is pretty unlikely. My father was a foreign student, born and raised in a small village in Kenya. He grew up herding goats, went to school in a tin-roof shack. His father - my grandfather - was a cook, a domestic servant to the British.

But my grandfather had larger dreams for his son. Through hard work and perseverance my father got a scholarship to study in a magical place, America, that shone as a beacon of freedom and opportunity to so many who had come before.

While studying here, my father met my mother. She was born in a town on the other side of the world, in Kansas. Her father worked on oil rigs and farms through most of the Depression. The day after Pearl Harbor my grandfather signed up for duty; joined Patton’s army, marched across Europe. Back home, my grandmother raised their baby and went to work on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the G.I. Bill, bought a house through FHA, and later moved west all the way to Hawaii in search of opportunity.

And they, too, had big dreams for their daughter. A common dream, born of two continents.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or “blessed,” believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success. They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren’t rich, because in a generous America you don’t have to be rich to achieve your potential.

They are both passed away now. And yet, I know that, on this night, they look down on me with great pride.

I stand here today, grateful for the diversity of my heritage, aware that my parents’ dreams live on in my two precious daughters. I stand here knowing that my story is part of the larger American story, that I owe a debt to all of those who came before me, and that, in no other country on earth, is my story even possible.

With that, he tapped into a load of powerful sentimental fantasies rampant in America today, many of them contradictory. For example, Harold Meyerson claims today in the Washington Post:

“Now, I mean to take nothing away from McCain’s Americanness by noting that it’s Obama’s story that represents a triumph of specifically American identity over racial and religious identity. It was the lure of America, the shining city on a hill, that brought his black Kenyan father here, where he met Obama’s white Kansan mother. It is because America is uniquely the land of immigrants…”

Where to begin? First, Barack Obama Sr. was not an immigrant and didn’t conceive of himself as one– he was a foreign student, who acquired a bachelor’s and master’s degree in the U.S. in order to quickly return to Kenya and grab for the brass ring of political power.

There was nothing special about America offering scholarships to Kenyans. Barack Obama Jr.’s kinsman and sometimes political ally, Luo warlord and Kenya’s new Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, got his degree in East Germany at about the same time.

And for the love of God, Obama wrote a 442 page book about his pursuit of a racial identity, not of a “specifically American identity.”

But, let’s leave aside Meyerson’s obsession with promoting immigration and examine the warm romantic glow that surrounds so many accounts of Obama’s parents. When examined carefully, their relationship turns out to be a sordid one, with disastrous long-term consequences. That’s hardly uncommon, but what is uncommon is positioning your parents’ squalid, catastrophic relationship as a major reason for electing you President!

Let’s ask a question that I haven’t seen before:

How old was Ann Dunham when Barack Obama Sr., an already married 24-year-old, impregnated her?

Barack Obama Jr. tells us that he weighed eight pounds, two ounces when he was born on August 4, 1961 (p. 22 of Dreams from My Father), so we can assume he went close to full term, or nine months.

His parents’ bigamous marriage took place six months before on 2/2/1961, when she’d be about starting to show.

Nine months before Obama’s birth would be early November 1960, about three to four weeks before Ann Dunham’s 18th birthday on November 29, 1960.

So, Barack Sr., a married man of about 24, almost certainly impregnated a 17-year-old girl.

Recall how the big scandal discovered in the raid on the Fundamentalist Mormon town in Texas were all the girls ages 13-17 who were pregnant by polygamous older men? So, the much admired All-American love of Obama’s parents turns out to be basically the same …

Barack Sr. then bigamously married Ann, then soon abandoned her and her son because the scholarship offer from the New School of Social Research that would have paid for the whole family to move to New York City wasn’t as prestigious as the scholarship offer to Harvard that paid just his own living expenses.

The candidate’s father then married another American woman bigamously, took her back to Kenya, but carried on polygamously with his original Kenyan wife, until wife #3 divorced him. There was another kid by a fourth woman. Somewhere along the line he killed a man in a drunk driving incident, then got himself killed in another.

Meanwhile, the candidate’s mother married an Indonesian guy who tried to bring home the bacon for her and another man’s kid, but she got tired of him, had a baby with him anyway, then abandoned him, but then lived most of the rest of her life in Indonesia, anyway.

It’s the American Dream!

In August 2006, Omeed Aziz Popal, a Muslim born in Afghanistan, purposely ran down more than a dozen people in San Francisco after killing Stephen Jay Wilson in Fremont by the same means. Another victim, Susan Rajic, then a 43-year-old massage therapist, may be a quadriplegic for the rest of her life.

See my report from 2006, SUV Jihad in San Francisco?

Naturally, he is pleading insanity rather than jihad. But in a KTVU television segment shortly after the rampage was stopped, a witness reportedly said the driver (Popal) called himself a “terrorist.”

A 31-year-old Fremont man accused running down and trying to kill pedestrians in San Francisco entered a plea today of not guilty by reason of insanity to 35 felony counts.

Omeed Aziz Popal is accused of 16 counts of attempted murder, 16 assault charges and other crimes stemming from the attack Aug. 29, 2006, in which people were run down in at least 11 spots from the Tenderloin to Laurel Heights.

Prosecutors have argued that Popal drove around the city seeking out victims, even circling the block to return to “kill zones” by aiming his Honda Pilot at people prone in the street from his first try.
[Hit-run rampage suspect enters insanity plea, San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 2008]

I find it odd that Popal drove from Fremont to San Francisco (a 33-mile trip that includes crossing the 8.4-mile Bay Bridge and would take at least 40 minutes midday traffic) in order to kill random people when he was closer to the larger San Jose (population around 974,000). More curious is how his route within the city brought him close to the two synagogues on California Street. One victim was a block away from the synagogue located at the corner of Webster (see map). When Popal reached the Jewish Community Center near Presidio, he ran down two people on the sidewalk.

Did Popal travel to San Francisco to kill Jews? Maybe. Or was his Muslim sensitivity offended by San Franciscans’ famously edgy lifestyles enough to make that city his target? Also possible. And given the political correctness of the “justice” system, we’ll probably never know for sure.