Thursday, August 11, 2011

The rule of law, and double standards

A couple of days ago, two cars full of white teenagers went prowling for a black man to beat up. They found him in a parking lot, they duly beat him up, and then the driver of one of the cars cold-bloodedly ran the man down.

The headline in the newspapers? White teenager runs down and kills black man. And within the article? Several racist - and totally inhuman - comments made by the white murderer were shared.

[Now, obviously this white teenager is an irredeemable piece of garbage, and should be euthanized forthwith, but I'm going after something else at the moment.]

Whenever a white person beats up on a black person (and of course it does happen), his/her race is immediately identified by the newspapers, and the lawyers immediately start agitating for the perpetrator to be charged under the hate crime statute. And in some cases (as in the murder I mentioned above) it clearly is all about hate.

But hate goes both ways.

And when a group of blacks gang up on one white, or a group of whites, or Latinos, or whatever, their race, and the race of their victims, should also be identified, because that is news!

Instead, 9 times out of 10, the youths (it's always youths) are just called youths, their race is not identified. Nor is the race of the victims. Of course one can extrapolate - no race mentioned, obviously the youths were black and the victims white. Or one can look at the photos, if any, that accompany the article and find out that way.

But that should not be necessary. If white perpetrators of crimes against minorities are identified - as they always are, and should be, then the race of minorities who attack whites should also be mentioned in any news article covering the incident, because that is news!

Why isn't it? Why the double standard?

Anyway, Rush read a piece written by J. Christian Adams about the riots in the major cities in England - London, Birmingham, etc. There again, the race of the perpetrators is not mentioned - or only by a very few news outlets. But England has long been working on multi-culturalism, and now they see the result.
J. Christian Adams has a piece: "The Mob Tears at the Foundations of Civilization in London and America," and normally what I do when I go through a piece, I'll highlight it. I figure, "I'm not gonna read the whole thing."

I mean, not everything is worth being read. So I went through this, every paragraph and said, "Yeah, gotta read that. Yeah, gotta read that. Yeah, gotta read that." J. Christian Adams was in the civil rights division of Justice Department. He quit when Eric Holder and the DOJ decided not to prosecute the New Black Panther Party in Philadelphia for voter intimidation. When the Justice Department under Obama and Holder said, "Ah, there is no such thing as black-on-white crime; we're not gonna prosecute that," he said, well, I'm outta here. "Watching London burn, one cannot help but sense something has gone awry in the west. London, the cradle of our law, spins toward lawlessness. The law, the steady framework of our civilization, seems incapable of response," and, by the way, that is ever-so-true here as well.

"Americans don't have the luxury anymore of watching the anarchy on television, assuming distance insulates us from the Mob-prowling neighborhoods like Camberwell and Tottenham. The howling rage has even come to our own Midwest. Hopefully time and wisdom will reveal what has fractured, but for now, we are certain of some things. We know that the House of Reeves in Croydon, South London, is a pile of ash and rubble. This furniture business had been in the Reeves family for 141 years, surviving even Hitler's blitz. But the Mob burned it down. 'I'm the fifth generation to run this place,' said owner Graham Reeves, 'I have two daughters. They would have been the sixth.'

"It was a fixture in Croydon, which may have been its doom. The Mob loves to devour the fixtures of civilization. The Mob also delights in the destruction of a father's dream for his daughter. We'll return shortly to why this may be. We know that the Mob is forcing victims to undress, to turn over family heirlooms such as wedding rings. We know the weapon of choice for this British Mob is fire. We now sense that the British government is hopeless. A government that as recently as 1970 made 'arson in a royal dockyard' a hanging offense dithers over whether to employ water cannons against the Mob. Americans who, for generations endearingly considered England a model of civility and decorum, know something must have failed catastrophically, but what?

"We also now know the Mob has visited America in recent days and years. Consider the Wisconsin State Fair last week. The 911 tapes reveal a nightmare. 'We're outside the Wisconsin State Fair and there's a white guy being beaten up by about 100 black people,' the panicked caller cries. 'They're jumping on our cars. ... My mom just got attacked by a black mob.' Multiple eyewitnesses describe white fairgoers being pulled from cars and beaten by the Mob, all black. The evidence establishes a strong presumption that race was a motivating factor in the attacks. This is America? Like in England, the law is also failing the victims in Wisconsin.

"'My wife comes home with a fricking black eye, and you guys ain't doin' (expletive) about it?' another 911 caller complains. 'You need to get the (expletive) riot squad over there and haul them off to jail.' We know that something similar happened in the town of California, Pennsylvania this year. We know that Darnell Harding, a linebacker for the local college football team, and Toni Whiteleather, a defensive back, were charged with attacking Michael Chambers. Chambers was an innocent bystander who had the misfortune of running into the two athletes just before Harding, the linebacker, said he was going to 'hit the first white person he saw.'


"As in London, the law has failed Chambers. Prosecutors dropped the state hate crimes charges in June after they failed to subpoena the victim to give evidence for a preliminary hearing. The Obama administration has also failed Chambers, as we shall see. The law has failed Marty Marshall and his Akron, Ohio, family. On the Fourth of July in 2009, he was watching fireworks in his front yard with his wife and children. A mob of 30 to 50 black teenagers went onto his property and beat up Marshall, his wife, his children and two adult male friends. 'This is our world. This is a black world,' they taunted the injured victims. Marshall spent five nights hospitalized in critical care."

Law enforcement nowhere to be seen, nowhere to be found.

"Of course there are federal hate crimes laws designed for these violent racially motivated attacks, right? But a law is only as good as the people enforcing it. The Justice Department under Eric Holder has little interest in bringing hate crimes charges to protect white victims. The corrupt dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, which I brought, made that plain. The criminal section of the civil rights division has the responsibility to prosecute racially motivated violence. But Mark Kappelhoff, the chief of the criminal section of the civil rights division, is unlikely to act if the victims are white. He was angry that the DOJ enforced the law on behalf of white victims in the voting rights case of United States v. Ike Brown.

"According to the sworn testimony of former voting section chief Christopher Coates, Kappelhoff complained equal enforcement of the law to protect whites was causing problems with 'its relations with civil rights groups.' He placed greater importance on political relations with civil rights groups than ending discrimination against white voters. Through Kappelhoff's attitude, we gain insight into a worldview that excuses wrongdoers because of whom they victimize. We glimpse the opening passages of a rotted storyline with tragic final chapters. The Mob thrives off such moral equivocation. The Mob is decisive when the law is not.

"To some, the Mob is a symptom of disenfranchisement, urban malaise or institutional hurt feelings. The Mob, after all, only awoke after a questionable police shooting in London. Excuses all, of course. Nothing justifies this behavior in nations built on the rule of law. Excuses are paralyzing those with the responsibility of enforcing the law, both in England and the United States. Let's return to the question of why. Many have absolute confidence about what we are witnessing. They can surely imagine the whispers of Wormwood to a thousand Patients. Delighted that the Mob has bypassed the gradual path toward evil, they can imagine him basking in the heat of burning double deckers in Peckham.

"They know who delights in a father's dream for his daughter destroyed. Others perhaps imagine Legion, who admits in the Gospel of Mark, 'We are many,' before being cast into the maniacal herd of pigs by Christ. No longer simply pigs, the maniacal herd for our times now roams London and stalks families in Milwaukee and Akron. Whatever has fractured, whatever has failed, we need to discover and right it. Law, informed by a reverence for human dignity, has lifted our nation, our civilization, out of the darkness of history. The mayhem and violence we are witnessing provides a glimpse of an uncivilized age beyond our memory, before law ruled. ...

"Sir Winston Churchill understood this. 'Civilization will not last,' he said at the University of Bristol in 1938, 'freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.'" Nobody fears law enforcement today. "That we have a President that contemptuously expelled this great man's bust from the Oval Office only increases our task."

That's J. Christian Adams. That's his theory on what's going on in London and here in the United States, that it's essentially lawless it is not with law enforcement doing nothing about it. I think it's far more, and a lot of people are just scared to death of getting anywhere near a political analysis of this, but of course we're not. Not us.




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