Archive for June 2008

When Senate Bill 08-200, dubbed as an “extension of prohibitions against discrimination,” was signed into law early this month, it added sexual orientation to an existing list of 20 protected classes of Colorado citizens. Eight of the others include physical characteristics such as race and gender, with the rest covering characteristics of choice such as religion, creed, family status and residence.

Colorado jurisdictions where these anti-discrimination measures apply include the sale and use of private housing, access to public accommodations, regulated occupations, labor hiring for public works, insurance, jury duty and public school teachers.

Some Colorado citizens may view this law, known informally as Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, or CADA, as justice. Others will see it as a predatory monster.
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There are so many crises affecting the besieged American farmer that it’s hard to tell which is worse. The flooding in the Midwest? The possibility that the latest farm bill might get vetoed? New enforcement procedures that threaten to stem the never-ending flow of cheap labor?

Actually, it’s that last one. The floods will abate eventually, and the chance of a pork-laden farm bill not passing is slim to none. But, by golly, the administration has started enforcing immigration laws! What is President Bush thinking?

Obviously, he’s not considering what enforcement might lead to. J Carnes, president of Winter Garden Produce in Uvalde and head of the Texas Vegetable Association, says enforcement is downright dangerous. But we’re doing it anyway, he says, and “damn the consequences.”

Perhaps your brethren in the dairy business would fork over some cheese to go with that whine.
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Last week, ‘forever’ incumbent U.S. House of Representatives Chris Cannon (R-UT) suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of angry voters in Mormon country. In a state so dry, you can’t spit—voters discharged the beleaguered congressman for his violation of his oath of office, his lack of respect for the U.S. Constitution and his continued support for millions of illegal alien migrants from Mexico.

Bravo! This stellar action by our fellow citizens sets the boundaries that must be in place with so-called leaders of this republic.

Utah voters rejected further linguistic chaos in their schools, anchor baby costs, paying for medical services for illegals, free breakfasts and lunches for illegal school kids, hit and run illegal drivers, drunk driving and accelerating prison costs for thousands of convicted Mexican nationals. Voters rejected the loss of their jobs to hundreds of thousands of illegals. Voters stood against in-state tuition for illegal aliens!

Why did Cannon lose when he outspent his opponent seven to one? Why did Cannon take the exit when his pro-illegal stance in Utah brought over 300,000 illegal aliens to that state? Why did he lose when he enjoyed celebration and honors by La Raza, the most racist organization in the United States with their motto: “For everyone inside the Hispanic race—everything; for anyone outside the race—nothing!”
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BUDAPEST (AFP) — The Hungarian Constitutional Court said Monday it rejected Socialist-initiated amendments of the country’s hate speech bill, calling them unconstitutional.

The amendments would cause the curtailing of freedom of expression, the court said in a statement.

“In a free and democratic society the expression of extreme and exclusive opinion does not endanger the foundations and operations of the society because by expressing such views, the discriminator confines itself to the periphery,” the court said.

The court stressed that in order to isolate voices of hate, political figures consistently have to take a stand against exclusion.

The Hungarian Parliament passed two amendments concerning hate speech with the sole support of the Socialist faction.
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Anti-immigration MP Geert Wilders will not face prosecution for inciting racial hatred for his statements on Islam or his short feature film Fitna, the public prosecution department said on Monday.

‘The fact that statements are hurtful and offensive to a large number of Muslims does not necessarily mean that such statements are punishable. It is true that some statements insult Muslims, but these were made in the context of public debate,’ the department said.

The department looked at Wilders’ film Fitna, which drew links between Islam and violence, and an article the MP wrote in the Volkskrant in which he likened the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf and said it should be banned.

Some 40 individuals and organisations had accused Wilders of encouraging religious hatred and made formal complaints against him.

‘Freedom of speech plays an essential role in public debate in a democratic society. This means that in a political debate, people may make insulting statements that are hurtful and shocking to specific groups without these statements being punishable,’ the department said.
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The largest organ of the human body is the epidermis. The next president of these United States could very well be chosen by the pigmentation of their epidermis, regardless of the experience, character, or qualifications of the entity housed inside it.

So much for all the years of crying and hand wringing for a colorblind society.

A colorblind society is what racial equalist have been crying and wringing their hands over for years. It always seemed a plausible and equitable racial nirvana worthy of achievement. But, historically, when trying to legislate and force an intangible social change, it has never had the desired effect after implementing the application process–especially when there is a black candidate running for president and many of his supporters agree with nothing he represents other than the color of his skin. Obama received over 90% of the black vote in some of the primaries against Hillary Clinton. This, coming from the fair-weather black voters, who had Clinton up by 40 points at one time, and when it looked as if Obama could actually pull it off after winning a few primaries, they came skulking back, but not to Obama per se, but to the pigmentation of his skin.
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As we celebrate our nation’s independence, it is worth keeping in mind that real independence depends on having secure borders. A nation that cannot or will not protect itself from a massive and intentional invasion for the purpose of changing its population and politics is a nation that will not exist very long.

The world’s elites, the jetsetters, the United Nations types who keep babbling about being citizens of the world and scoff at notions of national sovereignty, who deride a requirement to speak the language of the nation, and talk of multiculturalism when clearly not all cultures are equal, are a minority. The rest of us live in a specific town or city, in a specific State, in what we proudly call the United States of America.

There are many issues the forthcoming national election will address, but if illegal immigration, a broken immigration system, and the deliberate invasion of America by Mexico with the aim of changing our population and policies, is not among our priorities in 2008, then our independence, our sovereignty, is imperiled.

Real independence means secure borders. We don’t have them. What we have is a porous excuse for borders, a federal government that has not and still does not take our national security seriously enough to fix our immigration system, and a lack of will by Congress to call a moratorium on the influx of both legal and illegal immigration.
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The man said he was a retired military officer from Syria, which the American government deems a sponsor of terrorists. He wanted credentials as a chemical engineer, useful for getting a visa to work in the United States. Could James Monroe University help?

For $1,277, it did. Within days, he received three undergraduate and advanced degrees in chemistry and environmental engineering, based on his “life experience,” according to documents in federal court. Although the degrees looked authentic, Monroe had no faculty or courses; the “adviser” evaluating “life experience” was a high school dropout.

Monroe was one of more than 120 fictitious universities operated by Dixie and Steven K. Randock Sr., a couple from Colbert, Wash., who sold diplomas for a price, according to a three-year federal investigation that ended in guilty pleas from the Randocks to mail and wire fraud. The inquiry into their diploma mill, which operated most often as St. Regis University, provides the most up-to-date portrait of how diploma factories can harness the rapidly evolving power of the Internet to expand their reach.
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28 June 2008 Gracanica _ Thousands of Serbs gathered at the medieval Gracanica monastery outside Pristina to remember the 1389 Battle of Kosovo.

June 28 is St Vitus Day, or Vidovdan, when Serbs mark the 1389 Battle of Kosovo when the medieval Serbian kingdom was defeated by Ottoman Turks.

Kosovo Bishop Artemije and several colleagues from the Serbian Orthodox Church served morning high liturgy and a commemoration service. They prayed for the souls of ‘Christian dukes and knights that perished on the field of Kosovo for the honourable cross and golden freedom.’

Referring to the symbolical meaning of the battle, Bishops Amfilohije from Montenegro said in the sermon that, “the good and the evil were confronted in Kosovo, and it is likewise even today.”

Two ministers from Serbia’s outgoing government, Slobodan Samardzic and Vladimir Naumov, belonging to Vojislav Kostunica’s national Democratic Party of Serbia, were at the church service.

After that they joined several thousand Serbs by the 1950s twenty-metre high stone tower making the site of the battle.
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Well, I went to [the Brussels borough of] Molenbeek earlier this month and brought back this slide show of snaps. What you will see may call to mind something more like Little Marrakesh or Istanbultown than the so-called capital of Europe. To some, it will be possible to see in Molenbeek a fairly bustling display of non-indigenous culture certainly not unfamiliar to Americans who have both lived through and been a part of historic immigration waves. […] What is different here, of course […] is that what is going here is not a traditional process of assimilation to the host (European) culture, but a quietly revolutionary procedure best described as reverse colonization: Europe is being colonized by Islam.

I think KA is right. Race is the important factor.

Americans’ ancestors recreated Europe in America. They did not assimilate into the Indian local culture. Former immigrants to the USA had no trouble assimilating into a European culture because they were European too. But Mexican immigrants are not about to become European Americans any more than Arab immigrants will become Europeans. Taking a walk in Los Angeles or Detroit, you will notice the de-europeanization, just as in Brussels, except that Mexicans and Blacks do not wear jellabas. So, Arab immigration to Brussels is different from traditional immigration to the USA, but not from today’s Mexican immigration to the USA.
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