Credit where credit is due

And we're only happy to accept it. From Conservative Heritage Times:

A Zogby/Middlebury Institute poll shows support for concept of secession now over 20 percent and is higher amongst youngsters. While I’m not a believer in secession as an ideology, clearly in the case where it's called for, removing the pyschological barrier that secession is a “fringe” idea is very important. And this is happening because organizations like the League of the South, Second Vermont Republic, Middlebury Institute, Free State Project, Christian Exodous and their websites have made the idea more popular.

American Murder Mystery

It's no mystery -- the unleashing of criminals into formerly safe neighborhoods is the result of one of the Civil Rights Revolution's proudest accomplishments -- government-financed housing vouchers, commonly known as Section 8 vouchers. Predators now enjoy new hunting grounds -- and they're taking advantage of them:

According to FBI data, America’s most dangerous spots are now places where Martin Scorsese would never think of staging a shoot-out — Florence, South Carolina; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Reading, Pennsylvania; Orlando, Florida; Memphis, Tennessee.

In the name of "civil rights," leftist agitators are conducting slow-motion war against us. Think so many Southern towns are on that list by sheer coincidence?

It's quiz time!

See if you can name the source of the pro-immigration article below:

a) John McCain for President press release

b) Southern Poverty Law Center Immigrant Project

c) Communist Party of Cuba

Here's the article:

The Guatemalan Catholic Church said illegal immigrants are humiliated in the United States, from where nearly 15,000 Guatemalans have been expelled so far this year.

Archbishop Rodolfo Quezada Toruño condemned the practice of installing chips on the immigrants to keep them under control, as they do with criminals on parole.

"Installing a device on people to locate them is humiliating. It is a sign of slavery," the cardinal said during a mass in the metropolitan cathedral.

For his part, Mauro Verzeletti, of the Catholic Church's Human Mobility Pastoral, condemned xenophobia and mass raids, as one that took place recently at a company in Postville, Iowa, where nearly 300 Guatemalans were arrested.

I admit, it's a tough question, so here's a hint: notice the writer fires all the guns typically used in pro-Open Borders propaganda, such as equating opposition to Open Borders to "slavery" and "xenophobia." Plus, pay attention to how the article plays up the religious hook in every paragraph, stressing how the Catholic Church champions the immigrants. That's supposed to shame immigration restrictionists. There's nothing quite as effective as the Trojan Horse approach, and utilizing the traditional institutions of the society you're trying to undermine is a time-tested strategy.

Give up? The answer is "c," the Cuban Communist Party's Prensa Latina English edition. But as similar as the three possible sources are on the subject of Open Borders, you still should've guessed the correct answer. Neither John McCain nor the SPLC would use the term "illegal immigrants."

Gotcha!

Scots-Irish for McCain

This political web site is just one more gauge of the growing importance of heritage as an organizing principle. As much as we'd like to take credit, no doubt the writing and career of Senator Jim Webb have fueled this trend.

As the United States is occupied by Third Worlders with no allegiance to this country, people will no longer see themselves as "Americans," already a meaningless term which can literally apply to anyone on the globe who shoves his way in. The human need to belong to something real will be answered -- and ethnicity is always there.

Number of illegal immigrants declines by 1 million

The Open Borders crowd wags its collective finger at us as it assures us the Latinization of America is a done deal. "There's no way you're going to deport 20 million ill- we mean, undocumented immigrants. Give up."

I wonder what they have to say about this:

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States may have dropped by more than 1 million over the last year, according to a report issued Wednesday.

The Center for Immigration Studies in Washington said it estimates that the number of illegal immigrants nationally was 11.2 million in May, down from a peak of 12.5 million in August 2007. ...

Last summer’s numbers, the center said, may have been impacted by publicity about Congressional debate at the time over amnesty for illegal immigrants. The legislation failed to pass.

The research institute said stepped-up law enforcement and the economy played roles in the decline that followed.

Yes, stepped-up law enforcement, largely through local governments taking things into their own hands since the Federal government has openly sided with the illegals. As we've noted before, it's not necessary to deport all the illegals -- instead, stop the handing out of rewards for their illegal behavior, and they'll self-deport:

“If we send the message that you're not going to benefit by remaining in this country illegally, people will get the message and go home,” said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform in Washington, a leading anti-illegal immigration group.

Which is exactly what happened.

The SPLC is hiring!

Times are tough in almost-post-Bush, almost-Obama America. But these are good times for the Southern Poverty Law Center, what with all those Southern streets filled with neo-Nazis and hate groups sprouting up like dandelions, and nothing to stop them from taking over except for folks like Heidi Beirich and Mark Potok.

But just as the Lone Ranger had his Tonto, they, too, need assistance in their heroic endeavors. Right now, they're looking for a Researcher/Paralegal to perform special -- research -- and paralegal stuff. Obviously, the ideal applicant will have to swallow believe the SPLC view of the South. So, if you decide to apply, you'll need to review this link for helpful interview tips -- like this typical Q & A:

Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?

Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.

Do you have what it takes to work for the SPLC?

Imagine WNC as its own state

The Asheville Citizen-Times approvingly notes the high levels of support of younger people and Southerners for secession from DC, and wonders if Western North Carolina might secede.

Seeing as how Asheville is mutating into San Francisco in the Appalachians, I'd have no objection. That is, if we can figure out how we can get them to take Chapel Hill and Durham along with them.

Strike on Iran still possible, U.S. tells Israel

Ok, we'll reconsider giving you your war -- and then daddy'll buy you a pony, too. Anything to shut this brat up:

Bush administration officials reassured Israel's defense minister this week that the United States has not abandoned all possibility of a military attack on Iran, despite widespread Israeli concern that Washington has begun softening its position toward Tehran.

Yes, we'll put "another illegal invasion" back at the top of our to-do list, and unleash our flying monkeys to spread the word that Iran's about to nuke us -- even though we both know it's a lie, and will probably ruin what's left of our military and our economy:

Israeli officials were concerned in December when a key U.S. intelligence report concluded that Iran had abandoned an effort to build a nuclear bomb. They also have noted with concern comments this month by Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that an Israeli airstrike on Iran would further destabilize the Middle East and compound the strain on overworked U.S. forces.

Whatever it takes to maintain our special relationship.

In Tennessee, testing the limits of liberalism

Here's some interesting background on the white politician who pushed through the House's apology for slavery. Seems he's had a difficult time being accepted as the representative of a majority black district in Tennessee:

One black candidate publicly pointed out that Cohen's election would mean that "for the first time in thirty years," the city "could be without African American representation." Another paid for a push poll in which recipients were reportedly asked, "Are you more likely to vote for a born-again Christian or a Jew?" A third, just three days before the primary, went even further. Pouncing on Cohen's pledge to join the CBC, longtime Shelby County Commissioner Julian Bolton sneered, "The only reason he wants to join is that he wants to get money for Israel."

He managed to win the election, but it seems the Old Guard in the Congressional Black Caucus judged him by the color of his skin rather than the pedigree of his liberalism:

Before being elected, Cohen told reporters that he would seek to become the first white member of the Congressional Black Caucus, but later decided against attempting to join after members of the CBC (influenced by co-founder Bill Clay) indicated that they would not allow a non-black to join.

Why -- they excluded Li'l Stevie for racial reasons! Cue Bruce Hornsby:

They say hey, little boy, you can't go where the others go,
'Cause you don't look like they do.
Said, hey, old man how can you stand to think that way,
Did you really think about it before you made the rules?
He said, Son,

That's just the way it is.
Some things will never change.

Will Cohen's beachhead advancing slavery reparations earn the grudging respect of the Congressional Black Caucus? Stay tuned!

House Majority Whip: Climate Change Hurts Blacks More

In an old Internet joke, a fake news headline proclaims, "Killer asteroid to destroy the Earth -- blacks and Hispanics to be disproportionately affected."

Once again, what was once satire is now policy:

Climate change is no longer just an environmental issue. It’s now an issue of race, according to global warming activists and policy makers.

“It is critical our community be an integral and active part of the debate because African-Americans are disproportionately impacted by the effects of climate change economically, socially and through our health and well-being,” House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., said July 29.

I suppose if you don't believe in global warming, you must be a racist. If an elected official says so, it must be true.

Obama And Globalism

Daniel Larison at Eunomia nails both globalist parties with this one:

The most remarkable part of Rich Lowry’s column today was this line:

Berlin at times sounded as much like Obama’s coming-out party as the candidate of a transnational progressivism — in which global norms are more important than sovereign nations — as his audition as commander-in-chief.

What struck me about this passage was its implicit pretense that McCain and the administration Lowry et al. have supported dutifully for years are not similarly transnational. For reasons I outlined yesterday, Republicans are able to use nationalist language and symbolism to their advantage, but to the extent that “transnational progressivism” is defined by endorsing the idea that “global norms are more important than sovereign nations” most of the leadership of both parties, including the current Republican nominee, can be described in the same terms.

Of course Republicans do the same thing. Neocons justify DC's neo-imperialist policies with other-worldly theories about America's
"universal nationalism," a linguistic pretzel only a Neocon could swallow and keep down -- or want to.

Excuse me?

Do these people understand what "sovereignty" means? You be the judge:

Bush Forced al-Maliki to Back Down on Pullout in 2006

George Bush blasted by Pakistan PM for US missile strike *

Israeli DM Warns Gates Not to Rule Out Attacking Iran

That last story is an example of the US busy-body getting a taste of its own medicine.

* Update - a White House release reveals the US is compensating Pakistan with an additional $145 million to the Pakistan government.

League of the South Summer Institute

Saturday, 9 August 2008, 11AM to 5PM
K&W Cafeteria Banquet Hall, Burlington, NC

"American Ideal-Southern Goal: The Consent of the Governed"

The North Carolina Chapter, League of the South proudly hosts this LS Summer Institute for members and guests. It will be an exceptional learning session of interesting topics provided by an impressive faculty, led by LSI Director David Aiken and LS Board of Directors member and former NC LS State Chair, Michael C. Tuggle. Please join us as we investigate the American ideal of liberty and political self-determination as erected by the Founding Fathers, and discuss today's growing secession movements across the country. As the premier organization that has taken the lead in effecting a return to the Founder's republic, the League has set the example for all Americans who seek answers to today's dilemma of an American welfare/warfare state, government surveillance of citizens, and continuous undeclared wars of conquest and economic imperialism which are the Founder's worst nightmare.

Tuition: $10

Faculty: Michael C. Tuggle, Dr. Tom Minsel, Alexander M. Cheek, Dr. David Aiken, Bernhard Thuersam

Topics:

"It's Time For A Tea Party," Michael C. Tuggle

"Returning Fire, Writing Effective Responses," Dr. David Aiken and Bernhard Thuersam (interactive discussion)

"Jefferson Davis and Self-Determination," Alexander M. Cheek

"A Scriptural Examination of Self-Determination," Dr. Tom Minsel

Host Hotel: Ramada Inn & Convention Center, 2629 Ramada Road, Burlington, NC, adjacent to the K&W facility. Please call for rates at 336.227.5541.

Contact: NC State Chair Bernhard Thuersam, 910.619.4619. For more information click here.

One in five Americans whistling Dixie on secession

It's always nice when others notice your work:

The People's Republic of Colorado may not be a pipe dream after all for right-wing states' rights zealots and left-wing peaceniks.

A new national Zobgy/Middlebury Institute poll reports that 22 percent of respondents believe that states have the right to peaceably secede from the United States. The figures go up considerably among liberals, Latinos, blacks, young people and Southern residents.

Pull the Plug

That's Charley Reese's advice on the "war state and empire" that's replaced the Old Republic of the Founders. Instead of armed neutrality, we have endless war. Instead of a beacon of liberty, we have the world's greatest cause of instability and chaos. DC's endless intervention has rippled into the lives of millions, spreading disorder and misery everywhere. Including the Middle East:

Sixty years after its founding, Israel is still at war with most of its neighbors precisely because it has no incentive to make a sensible peace. Why should it? It has its American attack dog.

And we know what attack dogs are going to do, no matter how you try to reform them. They will continue to behave the way this one did in Christopher Durang's wacky play "Baby With the Bathwater." After a ravenous dog noisily gulps down a slab of red meat, its owner observes:

It really loves meat. I'm a vegetarian myself. I tried to make the dog eat bean sprouts and broccoli once for a while, but it didn't work out.

Of course it didn't work out -- he wants his red meat, period.

So how do we "pull the plug" on the war state and empire? Well, here's the first step: we first have to grasp that as long as we have an empire, we will have a war state.

Attack dogs will attack. And they'll wolf down all the red meat they can catch. As Robert Higgs wrote recently:

How can a government that maintains more than 800 military facilities in more than 140 different foreign countries be anything other than an imperial power? The hundreds of thousands of troops who operate those bases and conduct operations from them, not to mention the approximately 125,000 sailors and Marines aboard the U.S. warships that cruise the oceans, are not going door to door selling Girl Scout cookies. United States of America is the name; intimidation is the game.

Thinking we can simply reform a political entity as overgrown as the United States is of the same mindset as those wimpy NC legislators who imagine we can stop the growth of illegal immigrant gangs without stopping the flow of illegal immigrants.

In both cases, we have to go for the source of the problem. As long as so much unchecked power and treasure is allowed to centralize in DC, it will tempt and beckon those who crave that kind of power. And they will use it.

House poised to apologize for slavery, Jim Crow

The text of the bill includes this:

"African-Americans continue to suffer from the consequences of slavery and Jim Crow -- long after both systems were formally abolished -- through enormous damage and loss, both tangible and intangible, including the loss of human dignity and liberty, the frustration of careers and professional lives, and the long-term loss of income and opportunity," the resolution states.

The House would also commit itself to stopping "the occurrence of human rights violations in the future," if it passes the resolution.

Can reparations be far behind? President Obama made it clear what he'd do last Saturday. Addressing minority journalists, Obama promised:

"I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged," the Democratic presidential hopeful said.

"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."

Hmmm. Think he's going to offer them the deed to his house, or yours?

About Barack's speeches

While racing through some news items, I stopped to consider Obama's recent speech in Berlin, and couldn't help but puzzle over this line:

"People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time."

It echoes a speech he gave in Minnesota last June:

"America, this is our moment. This is our time.

This is what gets him the cheers? This isn't a bunch of fluff filled with air -- it's just -- air. Of course this is our time. So what?

Obama reminds me of a wisecracking uncle who'd pretend to praise with flowery little nothings such as, "Of all the people I've ever met, he was certainly one of them."

That's what Obama is using to woo the voting public. Nothing. Pure void. Vast, blinding emptiness pretending to be something, malleable masterpieces that'll mold themselves into whatever a hungry audience wants them to be. Obama's killing 'em with blanks. And it's working.

Cause and effect?

Suspected U.S. missile strike kills six in Pakistan

A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani madrasa killed six people, including foreigners, on Monday in tribal lands regarded as an al Qaeda and Taliban hotbed, intelligence officials said.

U.S. war on terrorism loses ground in Pakistan

The Bush administration may leave the region the same way it found it, with Al Qaeda entrenched and U.S. intelligence officials frustrated.

Just wondering.

Don't hold Bosnia together artificially

The multicultural model continues its world-wide collapse -- and the ruling elite isn't happy:

Paddy Ashdown is alarmed that Bosnia might divide along ethnic lines. If the Republika Srpska were to declare independence, he frets, ethnic Croats might follow suit, leaving a "rump" Bosniak state.

Yes, my Lord. And your problem with that is...?

Ashdown trots out all the usual clichés about Balkan tragedies, and reminds us of the horrors that the South Slav peoples visited upon each other in the 1990s. But those horrors were at least as much the consequence of denying the national principle as of granting it.

The globalists are shrewd enough to grasp what's at stake here. If people are allowed to self-organize along natural cultural lines, then what's left for the big bureaucracies, both civil and military, to do? They know they must protect their cushy, parasitical jobs by forcing conflicting cultures together, creating unstable, contentious, and more easily managed populations. Artificial instability will justify more armies, more intervention, more administrative red tape, more diversity training -- all the inevitable byproducts of enforced multiculturalism.

It beats honest work any day.

DC poised to strike at the middle class again

Reports on the hidden evils of the Housing Bill that Bush is preparing to sign into law are adding up to a real horror story. Here's the latest revelation:

James Terry, Chief Public Advocate for the Consumers Rights League (CRL), released the following statement today expressing disappointment with the White House for dropping its opposition to the massive housing bill that will likely pass the U.S. House of Representatives today that includes, among other egregious provisions, more than $230 million for housing counseling -- a bailout for Wall Street and a payoff to organizations like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which is engaged in questionable practices and the potential misuse of public funds

Ain't that just typical?

The politically connected rich and the politically connected poor win big. And the "advocates" of the poor, such as ACORN, gobble up even more power -- at taxpayer expense. ACORN is a corrupt, radical group specializing in forcing taxpayers to fund their "community organization" projects.

So who's representing OUR interests? We're stuck in the middle footing the bills for corporate pirates and radical causes -- in other words, we're forced to finance those who exploit and hate us. It's increasingly clear that those of us in the middle class, including the small business owners, the farmers, and the blue and white collar workers, will have to learn to fight for ourselves, outside and against a political and economic system that both attacks us and feeds upon us.

Something's got to give.

Does the American flag belong in church?

This is one I wish I'd written:

If they think about it at all, most believers probably see the flag and Pledge as tokens of affection for their country. In reality, both symbolize an infatuation with government. Churches hope to change circumstances through political force when Jesus called us to change hearts and minds with his message. We cheat ourselves, trusting the state's inferior and transitory power instead of the Almighty.

We also enhance rather than counter the state's supremacy. Our "patriotism" is really nationalism: unquestioning and enthusiastic support of political power. Christians eager to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's have the rest of the week to do so. But the things rendered should not include our allegiance. That belongs to God. Why taint our worship by pledging it to the state's flag instead?

On trial for his life, Jesus Christ asserted his divinity while denying that his kingdom was of this world. It's ironic that Americans who accept the first truth devoutly reject the latter.

Well said. Sadly, there is no separation of church and state in the Empire because people think the government is divine.

On the brighter side, it looks like folks are beginning to notice their golden idols are tarnishing. With approval ratings for Congress and the president hitting the basement, maybe they'll soon notice the feet of clay on these false gods.

Scottish National Party scores big win

Old times here are not forgotten ...


This is another one of those stories the DC-controlled corporate media wish would just go away. Instead, thrilling tales of national pride and self-determination arising from the shadows of dying empires simply grow bigger and more frequent.

In one of its worst electoral setbacks in years, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labor Party suffered a huge defeat in a Scottish by-election, raising new questions about the British leader's ability to hold onto the job he has held for barely 12 months.

More unsettling yet for politicians in London, the defeat, announced on Friday, came at the hands of the separatist Scottish National Party which supports independence for Scotland.

Brown himself is Scottish and the Labor Party, which has long viewed Scotland as a fief, has counted heavily on its Scottish seats to cement its majority in general elections.

Brown is more precisely described as a scallywag, which, appropriately, is originally a Scottish term for a miserable reject.

Petreus: Iraq too volatile to plan pullout

Now that both McCain and Obama agree on Iraq, it's interesting to note that the man both swore they'd listen to in formulating Iraq strategy is left out in the cold:

The top U.S. military commander in Iraq isn't buying the increasingly popular idea of a publicly stated timetable for American troop withdrawal.

Gen. David Petraeus, the Iraq commander, said in an interview with McClatchy that the situation in Iraq is too volatile to "project out, and to then try to plant a flag on, a particular date." ...

Barack Obama was first, suggesting he would have combat troops home within 16 months of Inauguration Day. The idea got a big boost during his overseas trip, when Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki indicated support for that general timeline.

During a Friday interview on CNN's "The Situation Room," Republican candidate John McCain, who had opposed setting a timeline, appeared to shift ground. McCain said that 16 months "is a pretty good timetable" but must be based on conditions on the ground.

What a perfect example of how politicians function -- it's got nothing to do with "supporting the troops," or "protecting America," or "promoting democracy." It's all about winning elections.

The John Edwards non-scandal

Looks like there ARE two Americas -- there's the one where the leftist media swoop down on a Republican sex scandal, and then there's the one where Democratic sex scandals are ignored.

A lesson in unintended consequences

Andrew Sullivan, the self-proclaimed "conservative" who agitates for same-sex "marriage," rails against those eeeevil "Christianists," and still nurses a seething hatred against Jesse Helms, once cheered on the invasion of Iraq as a crusade for homosexual liberation.

Ironic, then, that his blog has this entry today:

Since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, the situation for gays and lesbians in Iraq has deteriorated. Ridiculed under Hussein, many now find themselves the targets of violence, according to humanitarian officials. ... When CNN asked Iraqis in Baghdad how they felt about homosexuals, we found intolerance to be widespread. One man said he considers gays no different from "criminals and terrorists." Another claimed that homosexuality was "illegal under Islamic law, and [gays] should be punished by law like criminals."

As Edmund Burke warned, radical change based on abstractions is more likely to end in disaster than utopia. When will we learn?

More Obama razzle-dazzle

Obama continues to amaze. He's campaigned successfully from coast to coast of the United States, from the Pacific Ocean to the Persian Gulf. In Iraq, his plan for withdrawal of US occupation troops was endorsed by the US puppet governor of the 51st State.

What confuses me, though, is how he gets away with delighting the crowds with contradictory messages. While in Israel, he re-affirmed his support for keeping Israel a Jewish state, and even pledged US support of any wars Israel would want to wage.

But in Germany, he urged the people there to ramp up the multicultural goal -- which eventually would mean surrendering their traditional culture:

Will we welcome immigrants from different lands, and shun discrimination against those who don’t look like us or worship like we do, and keep the promise of equality and opportunity for all of our people?

Yet in both cases, the crowds cheered.

NAACP's fairness questioned on Confederate flag issue

Hmm -- why should anyone expect fairness from the NAACP? Or logic, or consistency, or anything one would expect from an ethical organization with a real purpose? Instead we get this:

The NAACP's call for stepped-up sanctions against South Carolina over the Confederate flag is raising charges of unfairness against the national civil rights organization.

The NAACP and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body of college sports, have sanctions in place against South Carolina because it flies the Confederate flag. The NCAA also has sanctions against Mississippi.

Neither organization, however, penalizes Alabama, which also flies the flag. And that's unfair, some S.C. officials say.

Four Confederate flags — three national flags and a battle flag — fly at the 82-foot-high Confederate Monument, located at the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery.

"It's puzzling," said state Sen. John Courson, R-Richland.

Here's something to brighten your day, and which also suggests the perfect strategy for Southern activists trying to blunt what's left of the NAACP's edge. It comes from Ed Vaughn, president of the Alabama state NAACP, who's quoted in the article as saying why the Confederate Battleflag isn't an issue in his state:

"We don't have a problem with it there.

"There's a Confederate monument in every crook and town in Alabama," he said. "We just don't pay any attention to them."

Get the idea? And here's just one random place where you can help.

But did he muss his hair?

Oh, please be true, please be true, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!! From Fox News:

A hotel security guard told FOXNews.com he intervened this week between a man he identified as former Sen. John Edwards and tabloid reporters who chased down the former presidential hopeful after what they're calling a rendezvous with his mistress and love child.

The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men's room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.

"What are they saying about me?" the guard said Edwards asked.

"His face just went totally white," the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.

Ok, I've always made fun of National Enquirer and all the other tabloids, but if it's true this pompous, phony, multicult Pretty Boy has been caught with his pants down, I will start believing in Bat-Boy and Space Aliens for Clinton.


Can you imagine the hell John's catching from Elizabeth? How sweet it is!

The Old Confederacy needs a third Reconstruction

The Wilmington Journal reports below that Rev. William Barber, President of the North Carolina NAACP, was elected to the national NAACP Board of Trustees. Barber says of his election:

"I'm calling for the thirteen former Confederate states to come together, and deal with the uniqueness of the issues hat we face dealing with education, incarceration and economics, and really start talking about a new (Southern) Reconstruction 3, since the first two were cut off at the knees."

It's hard to imagine the President of the North Carolina chapter of any Southern heritage organization making such an inflammatory statement, and Barber's comments should not go uncriticized. You can respond to the article with a letter to the editor at wilmjourn@aol.com You can respond directly to the North Carolina NAACP at naacpncwebcom@gmail.com

Thanks to NC South!

McCain losing big with Latinos

And now, on the lighter side of the news -- a little piece we could call, "Hispandering doesn't pay."

John McCain is winning a paltry 23 percent of the Hispanic vote compared with 66 percent for Barack Obama, according to a large poll released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center. ...

That difference — from Hispanics breaking 2-to-1 for Democrats to nearly 3-to-1 today — is enough to send shockwaves through GOP circles. Republicans had hoped that McCain’s politically risky support for immigration reform, which infuriated many conservatives, would offer a unique opportunity to bring Hispanic voters back to the party fold.

It's hard to know what to say or do at times like this -- so here's the world's smallest violin playing "Dixie" in anticipation of the night McCain loses because he betrayed his political base and his nation.

Ok, I'll make one helpful suggestion to McCain: how about staking out a new position that actually represents what the majority wants, including enforcing border security, prosecuting those who hire illegal immigrants, and deporting the invaders?

Hate crimes hit 5-year high in LA County

Racial conflict in Los Angeles is an growing problem, as we've noted before. And things aren't getting any better -- in fact, 2007 crime stats show a 28% increase over 2006.

Do the experts have any idea what's behind it? As a matter of fact, they do:

Civil rights attorney Connie Rice, who had not seen the report, said it is important to remember that hate crimes represent only a tiny percentage of overall crime numbers. She said the increase is likely a reflection of economic times.

"When economic times gets tighter, hate crime violence goes up," she said, adding that child abuse and domestic violence often increase for the same reason.

Hmmm. Seems to me training in how to start a small business would be more effective in reducing hate crimes than more mind-numbing, other-worldly tolerance indoctrination -- that is, if you believe the word of an attorney actually working with the residents of Los Angeles over that of self-proclaimed "experts."

And it seems the perpetrators of these hate crimes aren't who you'd think -- that is, if you believe the stereotypes from the tolerance peddlers:

Gangs are a factor in many hate crimes. In all, 16 percent of hate crimes last year were committed by gang members. According to the report, gang members committed 120 hate crimes last year, an increase of 14 percent from 2006.

Gangs? Yes -- and we're not talking about skinheads or Nazis, but black and Latino gangs. Now that's odd -- whites constitute 47% of the population in Los Angeles, yet commit only 17% of the hate crimes, according to the report. That's a very, very different impression than what you get reading the Southern Poverty Law Center's tolerance fatwas.

The problem is obvious -- reality has failed to keep up with the SPLC message.

Housing legislation — even worse than you think

Here's a glimpse of the unseen threat of big, "benevolent" government. The Housing Bill that's going to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with taxpayer dollars hides a little lagniappe for Big Brother:

Two egregious provisions of the bill haven't gotten a lot of coverage, especially since Fannie and Freddie got thrown into the mix, but I assume they'll end up in the final version of the bill: 1) Nearly all credit-card transactions will be tracked and reported to the IRS and 2) Many people in the mortgage and real estate industries must submit to a mandatory fingerprint registry.

Just goes to show the old saying is true: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

A reader gets a phone call asking for Morris Dees

This comment is just too good to hide in the comments section:

Roger McCredie said...

Yesterday the phone rang at the Southern Legal Resource Center and it was a sweet young thing who introduced herself as clerk for a circuit judge in Florida who is apparently the head of the local bar association.

"Can you conect me with your speakers' bureau?" She said. "Im trying to reach Mr. Dees ... "

"Do tell," I said. Then, because she sounded cute and innocent, I took pity on her confusion. "Mr. Dees is head of the Southern Poverty Law Center," I said. "You've reached the Southern Legal Resource Center, which is pretty much at the opposite end of the political spetrum from those other folks. Nevertheless," I added, "we've got a speaker's bureau, too, and we'd love to come talk to your Bar Association. We could even talk about the SPLC."

"Ooh, I'm sorry," said the Sweet Young Thing. "Well,um, difference of opinion is a healthy thing, isn't it? I mean ... um ... you wouldn't happen to know their number, would you?"

"As a matter of fact, I've got it right here," I said. I gave it to her. "Don't count on finding Mr. Dees in the office this afternoon, though, " I said. "He's probably either playing golf or out on his yacht, the Poverty Princess. You need to ask for Ms. Hedi Beirich. B-e-i-r-i-c-h. She'll be glad to help you."

"Ooh, thanks, you're the best," said SYT.

"Not at all," I said. "Just tell Ms. Beirich you talked to me, and that the SLRC will expect a cut of Mr. Dees' substantial speaker honoriarium. Will you be sure and do that?"

"I sure will," she said.

As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.

Roger McCredie

The South? North? East? West? Shall Rise Again

Here's an interesting comment on our previous post, Growing support for secession, which revealed that 22% of those polled would support secession from DC:

In fairness, this isn't just a glance back at the Stars and Bars. Middlebury ties the secession question to modern concerns as to whether our current two-party system still works. The secession questions didn't exactly resonate with respondents. But a serious 44 percent of them said yes, the two-party system can't fix what's wrong with "the United States' system."

Which does raise an interesting question: if not secession, then what's the alternative -- other than hoping something magic occurs to fix an unfixable system?

Growing support for secession

No real choice between the two candidates for president, widespread government incompetence and betrayal, insane foreign wars, the economy's reeling from government mismanagement -- where will it lead?

Here, that's where:

One in five American adults — 22% — believe that any state or region has the right to “peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic,” a new Middlebury Institute/Zogby International telephone poll shows.

The level of support for the right of secession was consistent in every region in the country, though the percentage was slightly higher in the South (26%) and the East (24%). The figures were also consistent for every age group, but backing was strongest among younger adults, as 40% among those aged 18 to 24 and 24% among those aged 25 to 34 agreed states and regions have secession rights.

Be sure to read the complete breakdown by age, race, and region. Awesome!

Heritage and freedom

Both McCain and Obama agree on all the big issues -- more war, more government power to monitor Americans, and amnesty for illegal aliens.

It's no mystery. Both of these big-government politicians agree on the major issues because they both adhere to the globalist philosophy on which those positions are based. That philosophy sees traditional, historical cultures and peoples as impediments to progress that must be eliminated and replaced by ideology. To resist such progress is "racist."

Here's Obama spelling it out for us:

For a young man of mixed race, without firm anchor in any particular community, without even a father's steadying hand, it is this essential American idea - that we are not constrained by the accident of birth but can make of our lives what we will - that has defined my life, just as it has defined the life of so many other Americans.

That is why, for me, patriotism is always more than just loyalty to a place on a map or a certain kind of people. Instead, it is also loyalty to America's ideals - ideals for which anyone can sacrifice, or defend, or give their last full measure of devotion.

John McCain is just as determined to bulldoze traditional American demographics and culture and replace them according to the globalist agenda. Here's Rick Santorum describing McCain's displeasure at opponents to his amnesty bill for illegal aliens:

John McCain was the guy who was working with Ted Kennedy to drive it down our throats, and lectured us repeatedly about how xenophobic we were, lectured us, us being the Republican conference, about how wrong we were on this, how we were on the wrong side of history, and that you know, this is important for his . . . because having come from Arizona, knowing the strength of the Hispanic community, that we were going to be seen as racists, and he wasn’t going be part of that, that he was not a racist, and that if we were for tougher borders, it was a racist thing.

Get that? Those of us who resist foreign invasion are "on the wrong side of history." If that sounds like something issuing from a Trotskyite, there's good reason for it.

Problem is, once the ties of tradition and heritage are tossed out the window, and citizenship depends on adherence to prescribed thought, it's easy to define a person out of existence if he doesn't think the way he should. And that's exactly what's happened. The enlightened, multicultural approach is to create an artificial population by reengineering a tossed salad of cultures, and by winking at illegal crossings at the border. Obedience to government-approved orthodoxy defines patriotism, and, as we've noted before, any dissent will be branded as treasonous.

The rule of law and traditional rights of the "old America" also gets reengineered. Now, instead of generations of loyal citizens, we have swarms of unknown quantities within our borders, so we're all under suspicion. Thought control is the inevitable result of multiculturalism.

One of the provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act is the "sneak and peek" provision. You remember -- that's the provision that outlaws the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of illegal searches. So now, Federal agents -- and only Federal agents -- present their suspicions to the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. The PATRIOT ACT gives this secret court little discretion, which is why almost all of the government requests for a secret search and seizure have been approved. All the government has to do to bypass the Fourth Amendment is to say the magic word --"terrorism" -- and the FISC must allow the government to "eavesdrop on our phone calls, read our e-mails or conduct searches of our homes without notifying us that it ever conducted the surveillance."

Worse, on 10 July, Bush eagerly signed into law a new procedure that makes it even easier for the Federal government to surveil citizens. The secret FISC now reviews only "general procedures for spying rather than individual warrants." It will not have access to specifics about who will be wiretapped.

And thus the Fourth Amendment is dealt another bloody cut.

The real message of this is chilling. Americans are now subject to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. And why not? We're all foreigners now.

Quote of the day

"They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side, but no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen." — Huey Long

Heidi Beirich: There will be blog

Empress Heidi Beirich, Über-Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Department of Dissident Surveillance, Intimidation, and Entrapment, and Defender of the Faith of Political Correctness, has determined the League of the South blog is "unsuitable for tolerant persons." Her Most Tolerant Majesty, pictured above, cited the blog's disrespectful attitudes toward diversity, equality, and righteous fund raising as the reasons for condemning it.

Empress Beirich released this message to her obedient subjects:

"Most distressing is the Rebellion blog's calling into question Our elevated and noble purposes. To imply that We are motivated by greed, and the secret desire to shill for big government and multinational corporations is quite distressing, and must stop.

We are therefore instructing Our subjects to cease reading this loathsome Internet heresy. Every day, the Rebellion blog agitates against big government, war, illegal immigration, and social reengineering. What would this country be like if these people had their way? For one thing, We would have to find honest work. I shudder, and feel faint at the thought.

We will speak no more of this."

About that smear ...

The League of the South's primary purpose is to preserve Southern culture. There are many attitudes, customs, and values wrapped up in the term "culture," but the primary ones are instantly associated with the South -- distrust of big government, loyalty to one's family, love of tradition, and of course, faith. We believe those are things worth preserving and fighting for.

It is our public defense of those attitudes and values that keeps getting us in hot water. Just to name one example, we're all too aware that DC's Open Borders policy can lead to one outcome, and that is the destruction of our traditional way of life. No nation, no people, no culture can hope to exist without a homeland within which it is sovereign, and in which it can grow and flourish. And it is precisely because we wish to preserve an organic culture that generates its own social and political order that ambitious centralizers wish to weaken, and eventually destroy, us. Because we oppose an increasingly greedy, power-hungry ruling elite, we are demonized.

Oppose the regime's agenda, and you'll be demonized, too.

Here's yet another example. Leftists who object to globalism are similarly demonized. Here are our old friends in the Southern Poverty Law Center linking leftists and anarchists protesting globalist corporations as -- hold on -- Nazi sympathizers:

Right alongside the "progressive" groups that demonstrated in Seattle — mostly peaceful defenders of labor, the environment, animal rights and similar causes — were the hard-edged soldiers of neofascism. They carried signs decrying "The New World Order Agenda," bitterly denounced "Jewish media plus big capital" and, in at least one case, fought it out with black youths amidst the tear gas. ...

The common enemy was, in a word, globalism.

They despise capitalism, with its tendency to concentrate wealth and to make people and economies more and more alike — turning the planet into what is seen as a bland and materialistic McWorld. They pine for nations of peasant-like folk tied closely to the land and to their neighbors. They fight for a pristine environment, a land unsullied by corporate agriculture and urbanization. ...

As the German Nazis said: "Blood and Soil."

My, but doesn't that condemnation sound familiar -- and well it should, because it echoes what the SPLC said about Pat Buchanan's book, State of Emergency, in which he warned of the consequences of floodtide immigration:

To put it plainly, State of Emergency is a white nationalist tract. The thesis is that America must retain a white majority to survive as a nation. It is rooted in a blood-and-soil nationalism more blood than soil. The echoes of Nazi ideology are clear and chilling.

Nazis, Nazis, everywhere! And if you don't submit to the party line and accept the social, political, and economic revolution the globalists are imposing on this nation, you're a Nazi, too.

Why does the SPLC resort to that extreme smear? Because it works. It bludgeons dissidents back into line. The SPLC's purpose is not to exchange ideas, or defend minorities, but to serve the realm by delegitimizing dissent -- and make a ton of money in the meantime.

So please keep that in mind the next time you hear the League of the South -- or any group of dissidents -- is a "hate group" that's full of "racists."