Archive for February 2010
Who’s Listening Now?
Duke University - Durham North Carolina
I take the view that the Duke Lacrosse case, or the Duke Lacrosse Hoax as it came to be known, gives us a very important warning of what is actually happening in Western society, where our media and the academics who teach our children are conspiring to create a completely false world view where the politically correct lies they tell in the pages of their news papers and in our nations class rooms become accepted as reality.
They seek to create an illusion, a parallel world, populated by evil, racist, white criminals and innocent, honourable, black victims in order to promote their own political agenda. In fairness, they have been very successful and there are many people who genuinely believe the lies they are told despite the evidence of their own eyes. They have achieved this by seizing upon “examples” which support their argument then they inflate them out of all proportion and repeat them over and over again, year after year after year in order to obscure all the other examples which do not support their agenda.
In Britain, we have their cherished example of the unsolved murder, seventeen years ago this April, of Stephen Lawrence, killed by a single stab wound at a South London bus stop, allegedly by a gang of white youths. As with all murders Stephen Lawrence’s killing was a tragedy, and if his killers are the white youths accused of murder by a national newspaper, but never convicted by a court, they deserve to be punished.
However, the Lawrence killing, which is in fact the exception from the norm, has been exploited relentlessly over the last seventeen years in an attempt to prove that an aberration is representative of a wider truth. Stephen Lawrence who’s behaviour in life does not bear comfortable close scrutiny, has been transformed Mandela like, into a sainted martyr with repeated memorials to him, great glass fronted tax-payer funded shrines have been erected in his name and now I find there is even a Stephen Lawrence prize for Architecture.
GOP decline linked to immigration rise
As immigrants surged into Orange County in the last two decades, the number of poeple voting for Republican presidential candidates in one of the state’s most conservative regions dropped by nearly 18 percent – to just over 50 percent, according to a report by the Center for Immigration Studies.
The correlation between increased immigration and what the study called the Republican “demise” mirrors a nationwide trend in counties, according to the report released Friday by an anti-illegal immigration group, which seeks to curb overall immigration.
In Orange County, the percent of people voting for Republicans in presidential elections dropped from 67.9 percent to 50.2 percent from 1980 to 2008. (click here to see chart). At the same time, the percentage of the foreign-born population increased by about 20 percent in the county, according to James Gimpel, who wrote “Immigration, Political Realignment, and the Demise of Republican Political Prospects.”
Orange County has also seen a drop in Republican voter registration in the last few decades. The GOP fell below having 50 percent of the county’s registered voters in 1999 and slipped to 45.5 percent in 2008.
By comparison, Los Angeles County saw a larger drop in people voting Republican in the last few presidential elections than Orange County, according to the study. As the foreign-born population in Los Angeles County ballooned by nearly 19 percent, people voting for Republican candidates dropped from 50.2% in 1980 to 28.8% in 2008 elections.
Gimpel, a government professor at the University of Maryland, said the term “immigrant” is used in the study to describe both legal immigrants and those who are in the country illegally.
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A trooper’s vindication
It is disappointing that a Rhode Island state trooper had to be dragged through the courts and held up to excessive scrutiny for doing his job well, but it is encouraging that two courts have now upheld his actions during a 2007 traffic stop. These rulings represent a victory for common sense and the rule of law.
A Boston federal appeals court this month affirmed a lower-court ruling exonerating the actions of Trooper Thomas Chabot.
The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union had alleged that Mr. Chabot engaged in racial profiling and violated the rights of 14 Guatemalan nationals when he stopped a van transporting them on Route 95 in Richmond. The trooper, who has a sworn duty to enforce the law, inquired about the immigration status of those in the van, twice patted down the driver, contacted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and transported the driver and his passengers to ICE.
Rather than receive thanks for his vigilance, Trooper Chabot earned an ACLU lawsuit.
In 2008, U.S. District Judge Mary Lisi ruled against the ACLU, concluding that Mr. Chabot acted reasonably and was legally justified. After the ACLU challenged the ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled more narrowly that Mr. Chabot was protected by “qualified immunity” from a lawsuit. He “could reasonably have believed that he had sufficient facts to warrant first reasonable suspicion, and later, probable cause of immigration violations,” the court ruled.
In other words, a state trooper has the right to do his job, and people cannot sue him into not doing his job because they might dislike the enforcement of U.S. immigration policy.
While police should be sensitive to concerns about racial profiling, they also need to act on reasonable suspicions in doing their jobs.
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Bachmann CPAC challenge: Convert libs to WND readers!
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, yesterday, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., challenged the audience to work at their dinner tables and water coolers to convert liberals one at a time into “Pat Buchanan, WorldNetDaily-reading conservative[s].”
“These elections won’t even be close if we take one person and make it our priority to utilize what we know is true,” she told the crowd at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in the nation’s capital. “Persuade one person at a time and we’ll take back Washington, D.C.”
Bachmann’s effort to “take back Washington” includes last month’s unveiling the Declaration of Health Care Independence, now signed by nearly 100 lawmakers and approaching 9,000 Americans. The declaration is a commitment to protect the rights of the American people to make their own health decisions, reduce bureaucratic red tape, decrease intergenerational debt and implement 10 common-sense principles for future health-care reform.
Now you, too, can sign on to the Declaration of Health Care Independence – just as 100 members of Congress have done.
Bachmann’s CPAC challenge came on the heels of relating a story about her oldest son, who made it a goal in medical school “to persuade one liberal to become a conservative.” Her son told her that though his assigned roommate was “a San Francisco liberal,” through a determined effort in between classes and exams, he diligently worked the powers of persuasion until one day, his effort was rewarded: The roommate emailed him a Pat Buchanan column from WND.
“I challenge everyone in this room to do what our son did,” Bachmann said. “If he can persuade a San Francisco liberal to flip and be a Pat Buchanan, WorldNetDaily-reading conservative, you can do it too!”
Bachmann’s story and challenge can be seen beginning at the 2:20 mark of the video below:
A Tradition of Resistance
The following is the text of a speech given to the North-Central Louisiana Tea Party on 01-11-10
The main topic I wish to speak to you about is state nullification. Is anyone familiar with the concept?
State nullification, whereby a state refuses to comply with a federal measure, became a formal constitutional doctrine in the United States in 1798 when Thomas Jefferson and James Madison penned the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, even though it had been practiced prior to that date.
In the Kentucky Resolution, Jefferson laid down a series of constitutional principles. It began,
“Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government…”
That statement alone is enough to shock some people today. But it gets better, much better.
“…but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self Government; and that whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party: That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.”
Two Important Videos about the Housing Bubble (Carter, Clinton, Bush, ACORN)
Will This New ACORN Video Hurt Pres. Obama?
On the campaign trail in 2008 then-candidate Barack Obama did his best to distance himself from his past involvement with the radical advocacy group ACORN, a new video of his explaining the relationship has surfaced.
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Video: The crooked judges of Amsterdam
Our View - Affirmative action not defendable policy
This country is built on foundations absent of entitlement. The meritocracy built on these foundations has developed a society unlike any other. We are not judged by the color of our skin; and the proper noun that follows our first name has no bearing on our future.
It wouldn’t be wrong to describe this understanding as idealistic but to say that it is not something we strive for, well, that’s where one would be wrong. In other words, “unamerican” would be the one who fights for anything different.
In steps that contradict the very foundations of this country, the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) announced last Tuesday, that they will file suit on behalf of California students, in order to overturn voter-approved Proposition 209.
As a reflection of language already found in our Constitution, this proposition was passed, with 54 percent of the vote on Nov. 5, 1996. Opposition was concentrated in Los Angeles County as well as the Bay Area. The proposition prohibits state institutions from considering race, sex or ethnicity.
Proposition 209’s biggest role has, undoubtedly, been in higher education. After its passage in 1996, public universities in California were barred from admitting students based on race, sex or ethnicity. This effectively ended affirmative action in the University of California system and the California State University system.
Yes, minorities in this country have not always been treated equally under the law. They’ve been segregated, attacked and even enslaved. But is affirmative action really the remedy for about 200 years of discrimination? The answer is no.
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Nigeria: Challenges of Lagos As a Mega-City
Asia and Africa have large populations and prospects for huge urban growth. In 2005, Asia had an urbanisation level of 40 percent and Africa 38 percent. In spite of political opposition to urbanisation in many countries, rates of urban growth are expected to remain relatively high over the next 25 years, with marked increases in the urban population of both continents and of the world. In 1950, 14.7 percent of Africa’s inhabitants were urban, in 2000 it was 37.2% and by 2015 it is expected to rise to 45.3 percent.
UN studies indicated that by 2005, half of the world’s population lived in urban areas, a huge jump from the 30 percent living in urban areas in 1950. Some 3.2 billion of the world’s 6.5 billion people live in cities today, and the number will increase to 5 billion- an estimated 61 percent of the global population by 2030 (UN Commission on Population and Development). In the cities, where most resources will be consumed, and most pollution and waste will be produced, nearly all of the expected increase in the world’s population will occur in developing countries. Current patterns of urban development and human activity have led to environmental degradation, and have created a threat to continued human existence, and to the sustainability of life on earth. It is possible to make the cities more liveable through effective planning (Implementation and Monitoring of planning projects and policies) and community action.
Human settlements in developing countries carry a great burden from rapid, unplanned development. Communities face the problems of inadequate funding for basic infrastructure; rapid rate of population growth and relocation, and its consequent slums, urban sprawl, depletion and intensive exploitation of natural resources.
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation with a current population of 150 million persons.
Nigerian cities such as Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Enugu, Port-Harcourt, Kaduna and Calabar grow mainly through rural-urban migration. This urbanisation process has outpaced the existing urban management system. 1996 World Bank reports on Nigeria indicated that the growth rate of urban areas has increased from 20 percent in 1970 to 33 percent in 1993. It is also projected that by the year 2025, 75 percent of Nigeria’s population of about 245 million persons is expected to live in towns and cities.
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