The Crusade against Discrimination in Britain Part 3

Posted by jrackell on November 07, 2009, 12:08 AM | #

I get a strange feeling of Alice in Wonderland reading this article, that the law is whatever the Establishment wants it to mean.  In New York, if a man was watching a woman undress in an open window he was guilty of voyeurism.  If a woman was watching a man in the same circumstance, the man was guilty of exhibitionism.  So Moslems can hold placards saying Death to the West or Kill the Pope but if we get offended and riot then we are locked under public order offenses just because an MP is so darned civilized nothing offends him.  For us to get offended is racist.  But even discussing our own ensuing dispossession is bound to offend someone and make us guilty in the eyes of the law.  Now, why do Anglo Saxons revere the law so much?

I think Sean Gabb was dead on right that Maggie Thatcher was a disaster for Britain and for British liberty because she made the whole corporate welfare state work, whereas it would have imploded under another Labor Government.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 07, 2009, 12:47 AM | #

Congratulations to Dan Dare on preparing (and to Guessedworker on publishing) yet another outstanding piece of internet journalism, reporting of highest quality.

Posted by Robert Reis on November 08, 2009, 06:00 AM | #

Italy: Lighter Sentence for Murderer With ‘Bad Genes’

Italian court reduces jail term after tests identify genes linked to violent behaviour.

A court in Italy has cut a prisoner’s jail term because he has genes associated with aggressive behaviour.Ingram PublishingAn Italian court has cut the sentence given to a convicted murderer by a year because he has genes linked to violent behaviour — the first time that behavioural genetics has affected a sentence passed by a European court. But researchers contacted by Nature have questioned whether the decision was based on sound science.

Abdelmalek Bayout, an Algerian citizen who has lived in Italy since 1993, admitted in 2007 to stabbing and killing Walter Felipe Novoa Perez on 10 March. Perez, a Colombian living in Italy, had, according to Bayout’s testimony, insulted him over the kohl eye make-up the Algerian was wearing. Bayout, a Muslim, claims he wore the make-up for religious reasons.

During the trial, Bayout’s lawyer, Tania Cattarossi, asked the court to take into account that her client may have been mentally ill at the time of the murder. After considering three psychiatric reports, the judge, Paolo Alessio Vernì, partially agreed that Bayout’s psychiatric illness was a mitigating factor and sentenced him to 9 years and 2 months in prison — around three years less than Bayout would have received had he been deemed to be of sound mind.

But at an appeal hearing in May this year, Pier Valerio Reinotti, a judge of the Court of Appeal in Trieste, asked forensic scientists for a new independent psychiatric report to decide whether he should commute the sentence further.

For the new report, Pietro Pietrini, a molecular neuroscientist at Italy’s University of Pisa, and Giuseppe Sartori, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Padova, conducted a series of tests and found abnormalities in brain-imaging scans and in five genes that have been linked to violent behaviour — including the gene encoding the neurotransmitter-metabolizing enzyme monoamine oxidase A (MAOA). A 2002 study led by Terrie Moffitt, a geneticist at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, had found low levels of MAOA expression to be associated with aggressiveness and criminal conduct of young boys raised in abusive environments1.

In the report, Pietrini and Sartori concluded that Bayout’s genes would make him more prone to behaving violently if provoked. “There’s increasing evidence that some genes together with a particular environmental insult may predispose people to certain behaviour,” says Pietrini.

On the basis of the genetic tests, Judge Reinotti docked a further year off the defendant’s sentence, arguing that the defendant’s genes “would make him particularly aggressive in stressful situations”. Giving his verdict, Reinotti said he had found the MAOA evidence particularly compelling.

Reinotti made the decision in September, but the case only came to light a month later when the local paper MessaggeroVeneto reported the story.

Weighing up the evidence

But forensic scientists and geneticists contacted by Nature question whether the scientific evidence supports the conclusions reached in the psychiatric report presented to Judge Reinotti.

“We don’t know how the whole genome functions and the [possible] protective effects of other genes,” says Giuseppe Novelli, a forensic scientist and geneticist at the University Tor Vergata in Rome. Tests for single genes such as MAOA are “useless and expensive”, he adds.

One problem is that the effects of the MAOA gene are known to vary between different ethnic groups, Moffit says. A 2006 study in the United States found that former victims of child abuse with high levels of MAOA were less likely to commit violent crimes — but only if they were white. The effect was not evident in non-white children2.

“If the defendant has any African ancestry, this could bring up a question of how well the genotype of that particular gene could relate to his personal behaviour,” Moffitt says.

Pietrini and Sartori, however, did not test Bayout for his ethnicity.

“The ethnicity of the defendant is irrelevant” in this case, Pietrini told Nature. He argues that the defendent does not belong to any of the non-white ethnic groups considered in the 2006 study. “Besides, MAOA is just one of the candidate genes we analysed,” he added.

Other genes, such as those that encode the serotonin transporter, have also been linked to different reactions to stress. But these also show a large degree of dependence on environmental factors. “The point is that behavioural genetics is not there yet, we cannot explain individual behaviour, only large population statistics,” says Nita Farahany of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, who specializes in the legal and ethical issues arising from behavioural genetics and neuroscience.

Cattarossi argues that all evidence that has a bearing on her client’s mental health should be considered by the court. “My client is clearly an ill person and everything that allows the judge to better evaluate the case and to decide the right sentence should be investigated,” she says.

Since the 1994 Stephen Mobley case in the United States — the first case in the world in which the defence asked to have their client tested for MAOA deficiency — lawyers have increasingly been trying to bring MAOA deficits and similar genetic evidence into courtrooms worldwide. According to Farahany, who updates a personal database on sentences passed in the United States, in the past five years there have been at least 200 cases where lawyers have attempted to use genetic evidence to support the idea their clients’ were predisposed to violent behaviour, depression or drug or alcohol abuse. In Britain, there have been at least 20 such cases in the past five years.

Up to now most such efforts have been unsuccessful in court — although a few have influenced sentencing in the United States. Judges have tended to reject the idea that a person has no control over their choices because of their genes, says Farahany.

Some fear that such cases could lead to the acceptance of genetic determinism — the idea that genes determine the behaviour of an organism — in criminal cases.

“90% of all murders are committed by people with a Y chromosome — males. Should we always give males a shorter sentence?” says Steve Jones, a geneticist at University College London. “I have low MAOA activity but I don’t go around attacking people.”

Farahany points out that prosecutors could use the same genetic evidence to argue for tougher sentences by suggesting people with such genes are inherently ‘bad’.

“The question is where do you stop,” Jones adds.

— Hat tip: Nilk

http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/11/gates-of-vienna-news-feed-1172009.html#33636

Posted by Frank on November 08, 2009, 08:08 AM | #

Having bad genes might excuse a person somewhat, but that only makes them more of a threat to society.

The purpose of prison is largely to separate a dangerous person from the rest of society - same with the death penalty.

Other parts are to prevent vigilante behaviour and to symbolically link certain crimes with a sense of wrongness, but the chief reason is to prevent harm to society from the dangerous perp.

Posted by Frank on November 08, 2009, 08:10 AM | #

IOW: poor genes ought to lengthen a sentence if anything.

Posted by Wandrin on November 08, 2009, 10:48 AM | #

Congratulations to Dan Dare on preparing (and to Guessedworker on publishing) yet another outstanding piece of internet journalism, reporting of highest quality.

ditto

Posted by Robert Reis on November 09, 2009, 12:50 PM | #

http://marwinsing-marwinsing.blogspot.com/2009/11/spot-european-in-this-advert-and-win.html

Posted by Al Ross on November 10, 2009, 09:27 AM | #

Robert Reis posted a link which, in the matter of blame for White decline, includes the words “Gee thanks Jesus”. Mythological creatures should not be held accountable for the conduct of human affairs and, even if that Jerusalem - born third of Yahweh existed, the ruinously egalitarian message disseminated by his derivative vapourings was surely not intended for the Chinese or Indians who, sadly, look likely to provide a neo - Brahmin caste for the US of the next century.

Posted by fellist on November 10, 2009, 03:13 PM | #

Great series of posts, Dan. It’s very useful to have a comprehensive history of our freedoms’ theft.

This first part focuses on the genesis and development of the crusade to criminalise free speech and freedom of association in Britain in the name of what is euphemistically termed race relations.

I recently read a book about WWII propaganda and found that you can trace these trends back at least to the methods used to manage our response to the presence of Black American servicemen during that war. I posted some excerpts here:

http://songlight-for-dawn.blogspot.com/2009/10/morale-and-morale-busting.html

Posted by Desmond Jones on November 10, 2009, 06:22 PM | #

Chinese or Indians who, sadly, look likely to provide a neo - Brahmin caste for the US of the next century.

This century looks like the last century, Al. Nordics and Jews, kinda reminiscent of the Old South. Verbal IQ rules.

2009 Forbes 400 by Ethnic Origin

Northwestern European 52.5%
Jewish 35.25%
Italian 3.5%
East Asian 2%
Middle Eastern 1.75%
Eastern European 1.5%
Greek 1.5%
South Asian 1.25%
Hispanic 0.5%
Black 0.25%

http://racehist.blogspot.com/2009/10/2009-forbes-400-by-ethnic-origins.html

Posted by Dan Dare on November 10, 2009, 10:37 PM | #

I was remiss in not including the ‘RVF Five’ among the prominent casualties of the POA86. This was the 2005 case in which five members of the Combat 18 spin-off the Racial Volunteer Force were convicted of incitement to racial hatred and jailed in connection with the “Stormer” magazine.

A sixth person, Kevin Quinn, was convicted for possession of Jane Birdwood’s abovementioned pamphlet The Longest Hatred. Caution with this one, it is now banned in the UK.

The RVF website contains interviews with the alleged leader of the British arm of the RVF, Mark Atkinson, whilst he was in jail. It’s hard not to admire his guts if not his ideology.

Posted by danielj on November 11, 2009, 12:25 AM | #

This century looks like the last century, Al. Nordics and Jews, kinda reminiscent of the Old South. Verbal IQ rules.

Yeah, but the 400 ain’t really important to me or my family and certainly not representative of society at large.

Why are James’ programming colleagues up shit creek if the Nords are doing so great?

Posted by Al Ross on November 11, 2009, 01:20 AM | #

Perhaps so, Desmond. In the meantime the UK’s Methodist Church has clarified its stance on White race replacement by passing a resolution which bans any member of that denomination from becoming a member of the BNP.

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/9843

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 11, 2009, 11:16 PM | #

Not about Britain but the process is exactly identical:  A snapshot of the Dutch race-replacement process advancing right on schedule (Holland is around the half-way mark now in that process:  another half to go in this inexorable Marxo-Capitalist process before the country traditionally known as Holland will be totally non-white) (of course hopeless cases like Fjordman don’t care about that, and it’s “Nazi” to notice white and non-white.  Only the fascists of this world care about that.  The enlightened, like Fjordman, care only about “Islam,” so a Holland one hundred percent filled with Catholic Cameroonians and not a Dutchman anywhere to be seen is fine):

The Amsterdam Advisory Council for Diversity released a report stating that the leadership of civic society in Amsterdam is dominated by White people.  The Chairperson of the council, Ankie Verlaan stated [Scroob note:  Ankie Verlaan is a clueless woman by the way, hard as that will be to imagine as you read]:

”Amsterdam is almost entirely run by white Dutch people.  There is hardly anyone from an immigrant background on the boards of directors of any of the capital city’s private or public organisations.  Members of the establishment simply pass on the top jobs to old university friends, and non-Dutch people are excluded.”

As the majority of the Amsterdam population is non-white, the leadership of Amsterdam civic society is not representative of the Amsterdam population.  [Scroob note:  the majority of Amsterdam’s population is non-white thanks to whom? I demand to know who, exactly, deliberately engineered this situation, on the basis of which the other side will now insist it’s pointless to resist further because the game’s up:  Who did this? I want names please, followed by arrests and trials.  On what charges?  I’ll give you three guesses.]

”The 66 directors and board members of Amsterdam housing corporations include not a single immigrant.  In social services organisations not one of the 46 directors has a non-Dutch background.  A similar picture emerges in higher education, where there are only four immigrants out of 70 board members, and in the cultural sector the proportion is just two out of 48.”

So six out of 220 top slots are filled by minorities.  The Dutch elite is Liberal.  Non-discrimination is the highest liberal goal, the centrepiece of Liberal ideology.  The question is whether the liberal elite has this goal out of material self interest or whether they are willing to pursue Liberalism even if it means their displacement.  [Scroob note:  I don’t buy the “liberalism made me do it” explanation of race-replacing élites.  Used to.  Woke up.  As Desmond can tell you, it’s due to a combination of tribal and class interests as those interests are perceived, rightly or wrongly, by a small number of minority tribes that see “Anglos” as their rivals and by an “Anglo” élite class that sees lower white classes as its rival or as a threat — and of course by a broad, mixed élite class that sees its stock values and dividends as being bolstered the more it imports non-white slave labor.  Not only does “liberalism” have nothing to do with it, there’s no such thing as “liberalism.” Everything going on is nuts-and-bolts tribe and class interest and jockeying for tribe and class position against rival tribes and classes.  Among the tribes, the Jews of course are the biggest troublemakers in this regard but far from the only ones, expecially now since their dirty work of 1965 and the demographic fruits that’s borne for them, as planned.]

Ankie Verlaan continues:

”there is a ‘dominant white culture’ within organisations which is hard to break through.  She says that although boards of directors and supervisory boards are not deliberately excluding people from ethnic minority backgrounds, the problem is they simply don’t know people from these communities.  And people in top jobs tend to pass positions on to people in their own circle of friends and acquaintances.”

It seems that the advisory council dissaproves of minorities being underrepresented in civic leadership.  What I find strange is that liberalism posits that all people are the same and compatible.  But if a Black, Muslim or Asian connot be represented by a White person, than that gives the lie to the notion of equality and compatibility.

Finally, Ankie Verlaan states:

”It’s a typical Dutch phenomenon.  You go to university, you join a typical student fraternity with a white culture, and that’s where you know everybody, and all your life they remain your circle of friends, and that’s what you draw on.”

That’s a manifest lie.  All over the world nations are represented by people from their own nation.  In fact, between 1945 and 1960 the nations of Africa and Asia all managed to rid themselves of colonial represntation in favour of indigenous representation.  It is just the Liberal West which tries to break their own nations.

The end goal of Liberalism is the destruction of the West and its incorporation into the Middle East.  Liberalism is the treasonous behaviour by Western elites.

[ http://www.islamineurope.net/2009/11/dutch-civic-leadership-too-white.html ]

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 14, 2009, 12:42 AM | #

Signs of intelligent life in Denmark — highly intelligent ….. as intelligent as life comes, in fact — it doesn’t get any more intelligent than this …………….

The Danish government has extended its voluntary repatriation policy by increasing by ten times the amount of cash offered to Third World immigrants to return home.

Third Worlders in Denmark can each earn a healthy 100,000 kroner, the equivalent of £12,000, Danish government officials have announced.

The new policy is the result of pressure brought to bear by the Danish Peoples’ Party (DPP), which is a partner in the centre-Right coalition government in Denmark.

“The scheme is aimed at immigrants from outside the European Union and Nordic countries,” DPP deputy leader Peter Skaarup was quoted as saying.

“It in practice targets those nationals from non-Western countries who are struggling to adapt to Danish society and who would be tempted by a fairly significant sum to go back home forever,” he said.

Mr Skaarup said those taking up the offer would receive 11,000 kroner up front. The remainder of the 100,000 kroner would be paid out once they surrendered their Danish residency permits.

The agreement also calls for 20 million kroner in aid to city councils in charge of integrating immigrants, to help them “motivate” foreigners to return home.

According to the refugee, immigrant and integration ministry, some 2,524 people have voluntarily left Denmark since 1997, when the repatriation programme was introduced. Most of them were from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Somalia and Turkey.

Read the whole article,

http://bnp.org.uk/2009/11/danish-government-adopts-bnp’s-voluntary-repatriation-policy/ ,

and then break out the champagne, whiskey, or whatever is your drink, and raise a glass in a toast to brave little Denmark, to its good queen, Margaret, and most of all, to the Great and Good Danish People’s Party!

Let this be but the beginning!  Properly done, and not abandoned in mid-stream (as similar efforts have been before in France, Jewrmany, and elsewhere) it will be, just the beginning, and Denmark could become the first country in the Eurosphere to demographically detoxify its bloodstream, turn the clock back to 1955, and get on with the future that awaited it before it was attacked and threatened with extinction!

Long live brave, good Denmark!

Posted by Dan Dare on November 14, 2009, 01:32 AM | #

The BNP is being a little disingenuous in claiming credit for the idea of a voluntary repatriation programme since such a facility has been part of British immigration law for almost forty years. The 1971 Immigration Act, which is still in force, empowers the Home Secretary to make financial grants to immigrants who wish to return voluntarily to their ancestral homeland. It’s been quietly forgotten about but it’s still there, ready and waiting for a government with the political will to make use of it.

Posted by Al Ross on November 14, 2009, 03:40 AM | #

Kudos to the Danes. I fear, however, that, with the new European treaty which the Irish recently approved, the Third World venerating EU might find a way to supercede such laws as permit repatriation of the unwanted interlopers.

The recent Obama decision to admit diseased, AIDS - spreading immigrants, combined with potentially fatal, media exhortations to miscegenate with Blacks must be a tempting proposition for EU emulation.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 01:35 AM | #

Now Ireland’s doing what Denmark is:  humanely repatriating non-whites using financial incentives:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/ireland-pay-immigrants-go-home .

(Hat tip:  http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2009/11/16/republic-of-ireland-paying-non-eu-immigrants-to-go-home/ )

See?  They know exactly what to do and they can do it when they want.  Everything else is a fucking lie.  If they’re not doing it to the hilt right now it’s because they god damn well don’t want to.  (When the arrests and treason/genocide trials are up and running that won’t stand them in good stead.)

Next the Republic needs to pay Professor Ferdinand von Whatsisname to get the hell out — but not back to his native Germany PUH-LEEEEZE!  Can’t they send him to Soweto or somewhere?  Or how about pleasant Port Morseby, I hear it’s nice this time of year?  Right, a one-way ticket preferably with one of those explosive collars around his neck, like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the ‘80s movie “Running Man” (the ones that exploded when you tried to leave).  Let’s get Professor Ferdinand fitted with one of those collars and sent on his way then!

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 01:45 AM | #

Excuse me, it’s Port Moresby.

(Or Pot Mosbi in the local Pigin English dialect.) Or course don’t go out at night without a rocket propelled grenade launcher, a 50 calibre machine gun, or a bren gun but for vibrancy the place can’t be beat — it’s very, very vibrant!  The Professor will love it!)

Posted by Al Ross on November 17, 2009, 01:51 AM | #

Top notch post, Fred. Thank you for the links.

Posted by Matra on November 17, 2009, 02:55 AM | #

Next the Republic needs to pay Professor Ferdinand von Whatsisname to get the hell out

Ferdinand von Prondzynski. There’s now a long Wikipedia entry for him and a link to his blog. There’s not much there on immigration but I did see this:

As I have mentioned in this blog perviously, I was not hugely impressed with some of the arguments used, on both sides, during the recent referendum campaign in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty. But perhaps the most outrageous slogan used was found on one anti-Lisbon poster: ‘Hello Lisbon, Hello Turkey, No Way’. This was outrageous for many reasons. Its basic suggestion (presumably that the Treaty would pave the way for Turkey’s admission into the EU) was nonsense factually, but that’s not my main gripe. Rather, what I abhor is the racist innuendo. The voter was to be seduced into the fear that voting yes would hasten the arrival of Turkey in the Union, with the subtext being that before we could say ‘mass migration’ hordes of Turks would come gunning for our jobs.

Lest I am misunderstood, there are perfectly reasonable questions that can asked before anyone decides on Turkey’s membership; but that was not the point here. This campaign seemed to me to want to adopt a position on largely racist grounds. Another approach with the same subtext is sometimes used by others wanting to stop Turkey’s accession: that unlike every other EU state, Turkey is not a Christian country in its religious and cultural origins. Turkey, we are being told, has a population that could subvert European culture – white Caucasian culture. Its citizens, already used to doing menial jobs in some European countries that the local workforce will no longer touch, would suddenly gain full rights.

Thankfully the posters did not do the trick, and I would like to think that this demonstrated once again that the Irish are not as open to political racism as some might have feared. But all this shows nevertheless that Europe needs to be more explicit in saying that it does not define itself in line with a neo-aryan outlook, and that its main purpose is not to maintain a particular set of ethnic cultures and to keep out others. I for one hope that it will not be long before Turkey is a member state of the EU.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 03:41 AM | #

The Irish courts need to bring back boiling in oil, just for this guy then they can rescind it again once they’ve used in on him.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 02:28 PM | #

This news that Denmark and Ireland have begun perfectly christian, perfectly humane, financially reimbursed repatriation of non-whites the hell out of their countries should not be allowed to remain “quiet” but should be seized upon and trumpeted at every opportunity by our guys.  In my view it is news as major, as important for us, as the BNP victories of the last election.  It is major, major, major news, and excellent news for our side, and has to be seen by the other side as a big defeat fraught with extremely alarming portent for their future plans.  Clearly they, the other side, are not going to talk about it much if they can avoid it, in hope of letting the news die until they can muster troops to undo it as similar efforts at repatriation sanity in France in the 1970s (aimed at North Africans) and Germany in the 1980s (aimed at Turks) were quietly, behind the scenes, undone by the other side.  That must NOT be permitted to happen this time.  On the contrary, this humanely conducted repatriation movement of non-whites MUST be encouraged to grow.  Our side needs to dwell on it, needs to intelligently applaud it, respectfully cheer it on (don’t use language like I just did above where I said “the hell out of our countries” though of course that’s damn well what we feel and rightly so), and do what we can to shepherd it along and to help it entrench itself and withstand the other side’s inevitable efforts to undo it.  We must try to make it invulnerable to counterattack and to make it grow, by doing what we can to applaud it, publicize it favorably, defend it, and encourage it.

This amazing, heartening story — the beginnings of the answer to our prayers, in essence — should not be allowed to die but should be kept in the spotlight and encouraged to the hilt!

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 02:35 PM | #

To anyone who may not know what I’m talking about in that last comment, see my pair of comments on this matter several comments above, in this thread.  Inform yourselves:  this is extremely important.

Posted by Fred Scrooby on November 17, 2009, 02:43 PM | #

“and has to be seen by the other side as a big defeat fraught with extremely alarming portent for their future plans.” (—my comment a couple above)

And what, exactly, are those “future plans” of the other side’s, the ones threatened by humanely conducted repatriation?  Well .... if you’re new to all this, perhaps a certain must-read article published just yesterday evening over at Vdare.com, will clarify a few things for you:

http://www.vdare.com/misc/091116_raehn.htm .

Oh and if you’re wondering who, exactly, the other side are, go through the linked article once more, this time asking yourself what the ethnicity of all the other side’s major players is and has been since the beginning — ask yourself what tribe they belong to, in other words. 

Let’s just say that will lead in many cases to a lightbulb going off in your head ........

And then think about the expression “tribal war.”