Archive for June 2008

Thirty years ago this past week, Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. condemned our nation’s selective colleges and universities to live a lie. Writing the deciding opinion in the case Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, he prompted these institutions to justify their use of racial preferences in admissions with a rationale most had never considered and still do not believe – a desire to offer a better education to all students.

To this day, few colleges have even tried to establish that their race-conscious admissions policies yield broad educational benefits. The research is so fuzzy and methodologically weak that some strident proponents of affirmative action admit that social science is not on their side.

In reality, colleges profess a deep belief in the educational benefits of their affirmative-action policies mainly to save their necks. They know that, if the truth came out, courts could find them guilty of illegal discrimination against white and Asian Americans.

Selective colleges began lowering the bar for minority applicants back in the late 1960s to promote social justice and help keep the peace. They felt an obligation to help remedy society’s racial discrimination, even if they generally weren’t willing to acknowledge their own. And with riots devastating the nation’s big cities, they saw a need to send black America a clear signal that the establishment it was rebelling against was in fact open to it – and that getting a good college education, not violence, represented the best path to wealth and power.
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“United States is stupid…I come back every time.” Those words were spoken by Mexican national Rolando Mota-Campos to an immigration agent after his 11th arrest in the United States. Incredibly, Mota-Campos has been deported three times and has vowed to return again after completing his prison term and yet another arguably meaningless deportation to Mexico.

Mota-Campos whose face is adorned with a teardrop tattoo, stood in a Norfolk, Va. federal courtroom last October to be sentenced for threatening to cut off a social worker’s head with a machete. U.S. District Judge Henry Coke Morgan Jr. said: “The defendant has expressly stated that he has no respect for the United States and that once deported he will re-enter again and come back to Newport News where his history of alcohol abuse will further endanger the residents of this district.” Judge Morgan sentenced Mota-Campos to 14 1/2 years in prison.

While 42 year old Rolando Mota-Campos’ personal reign of terror is apparently over at least for a few years, it is beyond sickening why this illegal alien with ties to the Mexican Mafia has been able to disregard our border as well as the lives of innocent Americans for 19 years. He first entered this country illegally in 1988.
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A debate over racial and gender-based preference programs in Arizona has grown increasingly volatile as backers of the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative cry foul over opposition efforts led by a group from Michigan.

The Goldwater Institute released a statement June 23 decrying the practices of a group referring to itself as By Any Means Necessary. The Goldwater Institute charges that the Michigan group’s members have provided misleading information to voters stating that the initiative is supported by the Ku Klux Klan.

“These people are not interested in reasoned debate,” said Goldwater Institute attorney Clint Bolick. “Their name says it all.”

The Goldwater release includes links to videos that have been posted on the popular Web site you.tube.com that show interactions between the campaign’s hired petition circulators and their opponents.

On one such video taken on Mill Avenue in Tempe, a man signing a petition was told repeatedly that he is supporting a racist initiative designed to “re-segregate” state universities. The interaction lasted for almost two minutes before the man blurted out “Stop harassing me.”

“Enjoy your white privilege!” was the response, as the person who signed the petition crossed the street.
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Hmmm. We’re not in North Carolina, but we received an e-mail from the campaign of Republican Congressional candidate Carl Mumpower, and we find him interesting on several accounts. The first is, Mumpower supports the impeachment of President George W. Bush, but not for the reason you may think. Mumpower believes that the President’s failure to enforce illegal immigration, and the announcement of intentions to pull the National Guard from the border.

The second thing we find interesting is that following his May 6th, 2008 primary win, Carl Mumpower stated that he “will not take money from the Republican National Committee, unions PACs, or any other special interest group.” Why not? “I am not interested in purchasing a seat in Congress or selling myself to those accustomed to buying the future of America.”
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LOS ANGELES — An attorney for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and his wife were arrested on suspicion of accepting thousands of dollars from both legal and illegal immigrants in exchange for immigration benefits, authorities said.

ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Constantine Peter Kallas, 38, and wife Maria Kallas, 39, both of Alta Loma, were arrested Thursday at the San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino, where authorities believed they were accepting such a bribe, U.S. Attorney spokesman Thom Mrozek said in a statement.

A search warrant affidavit said the couple, using a pair of companies they had set up, filed false employment petitions with federal authorities for 45 illegal immigrants and two legal permanent residents.

“The egregious acts of corruption alleged in this case are extremely disturbing to those of us who have sworn to serve the United States,” U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O’Brien said in a written statement. “As a law enforcement official, Mr. Kallas abused his position in the Department of Homeland Security simply to line his own pockets.”
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Virtually all of the remaining 280 white farmers have been invaded by government supporters since Mr Mugabe lost the first round of the presidential election in March.

Yesterday Reinier van Rensburg left Upper Romsey farm for the final time, evicted by a senior official in the ruling Zanu-PF party.

He was the last of his family to cultivate the rich soil around Upper Romsey, some of the finest in Africa, on land which stretched from his homestead to the hills on the horizon, and beyond.

“This is my last day,” he said, as his few remaining staff loaded scrap metal and spare parts on to a lorry. “That’s it, we will have to get permission from court before we will be able to come back here.

“I try not to think about it. It’s obviously an emotional thing. That’s your livelihood.”
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Gov. Don Carcieri pointed a finger Tuesday at Providence Mayor David Cicilline, saying the city’s lax attitude toward illegal immigrants is partly to blame for the alleged rape of a woman by an illegal immigrant.

The governor told WPRO-AM that city police had an opportunity to help federal officials deport Marco Riz when he was arrested twice last year while under a federal deportation order. Riz was charged earlier this month with allegedly carjacking a woman in a Warwick parking lot, then driving her to a Providence park and raping her.

Both times Riz was arrested last year, Providence police faxed his name to immigration authorities as part of their standard procedures, but federal officials failed to take him into custody, Cicilline said.
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White children are much more likely to be bullied than any other ethnic group - reversing racial stereotypes surrounding playground abuse, Government research indicates.

Two thirds of children from white families say they had been bullied in the last three years but less than half of children of Indian origin make the same assertion.

Anti-bullying campaigners say white children are now in the minority in some areas raising their chances of being bullied.

Claude Knights, director of anti-bullying charity Kidscape, said:“More and more we’re hearing that in some cities it isn’t the usual isolation of ethnic groups, suddenly we have got statistics that show we have got a larger number of white young people being bullied.
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A San Jose semiconductor company has agreed to pay $168,000 to an African American worker who said he was fired after he complained about an employee’s racially offensive rap singing, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said Tuesday.

Novellus Systems Inc., while admitting no wrongdoing, agreed to include a zero-tolerance statement in its anti-harassment policy and to amend the policy to include a reference to harassment through the playing of music. The policy will also include examples of offensive musical lyrics, the federal commission said.

Novellus, which makes and services equipment used in fabricating integrated circuits, will make the changes under a two-year consent decree signed Monday by U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court last year, the federal agency accused Novellus of allowing a Vietnamese American employee to play and rap aloud to music lyrics that included anti-black epithets.
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Instead women and ethnic minorities will be favoured in the workplace under a new Bill to be revealed by Equalities Minister Harriet Harman.

Critics blasted the measure as an unworkable piece of political correctness that will see good candidates overlooked for jobs in the interests of positive discrimination.

Tory MP Mark Pritchard said: “Everyone supports equal rights, but special rights cause resentment, do nothing for community cohesion and do not tackle racial prejudice. This is another example of political correctness which will not achieve an improvement in equality.”

And John Midgley of the Campaign Against Political Correctness said: “There is nothing positive about positive action or discrimination. It is counter-productive and potentially racist and sexist. This is typical of Harriet Harman, who must be the most politically correct MP.”
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