The following is a story about the inherent dishonesty - or possibly leftism - of the little hero of the French right, Nicolas Sarkozy.  It involves guns in private ownership, and actually originates not from a French source but from a Swiss gun website.

Swiss men, incidentally, like their guns - by which I mean not the odd twelve-bore but massively lethal military hardware.  Guns are a central part of Swiss life.  By government decree every adult male who is not on active service is a Reservist.  He must be armed and ready to venture forth in defence of his country … fighting his own way through enemy lines to join up with his unit if necessary.  So there’s cold steel in every true Switzer’s home, and that’s how they like it.  It’s been that way for generations. 

Even so, it isn’t liberal to leave well alone, and all loved customs in the West must come under the “critical” gaze.  Now there is a growing movement in Switzerland to take the gun out of the home.

But that’s Switzerland, and somewhat off-topic.  So we’d better get back to the little Hungarian Jewish guy who, as Minister for the Interior, is the top chief of police in all France.

It’s true that mainstream politicians famously dislike an armed citizenry.  But why does Sarkozy, who enjoys whipping up populist support with his tough-guy posturings on immigration, want to disarm native Frenchmen at this point in time?  Is he simply travelling leftward for political effect, as David Cameron is?  Is he trying to draw the sting from the Socialists?

His reasoning as stated below is certainly no guide.  It is contorted and unconvincing, and I don’t think he can really believe it himself.  It reads as though he confected it on the spur of the moment because the real logic of his argument can’t be made public.  See for yourself.

Here’s a translation from the Swiss website by MR reader Michael R:-

FRANCE: WORRYING NEWS FOR GUN-OWNERS

The pre-electoral campaign is underway in France.  Next year French citizens must choose a new president. The two designated favorites are:

- for the left, Segolène Royal, self-styled “passion flower”

- for the right, Nicolas Sarkozy, disfavoured by his short stature and his Hungarian name, but appreciated by his supporters for his muscular stance on the lack of security, the incapacity of French justice to command respect and restore order in les banlieues, etc.

The majority of private gun-owners and enthusiasts were getting ready to vote for Sarkozy until, during a radio show, the presidential Ccndidate answered a question about the right to keep a gun and the right of self-defence. It was on the RTL radio network on 22nd September:-

“I’d like to say one thing about my conception of the Republic …

Security is the responsibility of the State.  I am against militias.  I am against the private ownership of firearms, and I’m trying to make you think about that.

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It’s no surprise that the kings of the fraud business turn out to Nigerian.

More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said.

Nuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has “nothing much” to show for the missing money.

He said the worst period for corruption was the 1980s and ‘90s, but currently two-thirds of governors are being investigated by Mr Ribadu’s agency.

Does anyone seriously suppose things will change?  That screw-you style of pig-individualism isn’t a spot of temporary bad luck in Sub-Saharan political life.  It’s much more likely that ordinary Africans do indeed like their vaunted “strong man” rulers because they are, basically, what the ordinary African male would rather like to be himself.  A life of quiet dedication and public service doesn’t enter into it.  Lord Acton’s moral sewer does.  It’s all sociobiology.

So, then, what do the dreamers and the Western idealists think they are up to?

Ah yes, striving to devote 0.7% of the national GDP of each developed nation in aid for the fight against global poverty.

That should work.

According to the recently released Department of Justice annual hate crimes report, about 60% of all hate crimes were perpetrated by the racial category of “white”.  You can see for yourself here.  Neither Latinos nor Hispanics are mentioned, but it is well known that somewhere between 88% and 91% of all Latinos are classified as “white” by race in the USA.

However, when we look at the statistics about victims of hate crimes, we see that Latinos/Hispanics are well represented with their own ethnic category.  Look here.

This is profoundly dishonest.  MR readers may want to try their statistical skills to tease out additional problems or information.  Merging “white” and most “Latinos” in a single category of hate crime perpetrator and assigning them all the racial label “white” has been the practise since national statistics of hate crimes were first recorded.  Of course, when it comes to victim status all “Latinos” are bunched together.  Thus, the “white” perpetrator class is pumped up, and the “white” victim class is comparatively reduced.

By the way, this approach also applies in other areas.  When you look at statistics on unmarried mothers, for example, you will find that “Latinos” are scattered within the races as part of “white,” “black,” and “Asian” and serve to seriously expand the “white” racial category of unmarried mothers.

This is also the origin of the “non-Hispanic white” label although you will never see “non-Hispanic Asian” (yes, they are a real category) and “non-Hispanic black” (another big category).

Bo Sears
ResistingDefamation.org

From BBC News:-

The complete works of one of history’s greatest scientists, Charles Darwin, are being published online.

The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications - all of it searchable.

Surfers with MP3 players can even access downloadable audio files.

The resource is aimed at serious scholars, but can be used by anyone with an interest in Darwin and his theory on the evolution of life.

From a UPI article titled Gallic Intifada:-

Turf conscious bloggers in Paris’ rundown, mostly Muslim, suburban immigrant housing estates rival in violent messages that threaten to beat senseless and even kill any intruder caught in “our ghetto.” Almost every word is misspelled, in both argot slang and pidgin French. And these are not empty threats. An average of 14 policemen a day are injured in bloody clashes with jobless youngsters.

France’s Interior Ministry said 2,500 police officers had been “wounded” this year. The head of the hard-line trade union “Action Police” Michel Thooris wrote to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to describe conditions in housing developments turned slums as “intifada.” Police cruisers are pelted daily with stones and “Molotov cocktails” (gasoline-filled bottles with burning wicks that explode on impact) and Thooris said cops assigned to what was rapidly degenerating into “free fire zones” should be protected in armored vehicles. Entire tall buildings empty into the streets to chase policemen and free an arrested comrade.

“We are in a state of civil war, orchestrated by radical Islamists,” Thooris told journalists.

Meanwhile, the Telegraph has finally pondered these last two weeks of ministerial interventions in the veil row, and in this morning’s leader come up with ... the deeply obvious: Labour loses faith in multi-culturalism.

At his press briefing yesterday, the Prime Minister made it clear his Government’s approach to cultural diversity had changed. He may have couched his position in careful language, but the conclusion was inescapable: integration, rather than multi-cultural separatism, is now official policy. By saying that he “fully supported” the decision of Kirklees council to suspend the Muslim teaching assistant who had refused to remove her veil at work, and then reinforcing this point with the observation that the veil was a “mark of separation”, Mr Blair removed any doubt about the Government’s position.

He was, in effect, affirming that the contentious views expressed over recent weeks by Jack Straw, Ruth Kelly and John Reid were not maverick individual opinions, but part of a larger, concerted revision of the Cabinet’s stand.

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I was sent a petition this morning.  It concerns a cross-party anti-illegal immigration march that the authorities may disallow.  Not being a Russian speaker myself, I can’t advise when and where (presumably Moscow) the March is planned to take place.  But it is a repeat of one organised like year, images of which can be seen here.  It is claimed that 5,000 marched peacefully and out of love of Mother Russia.  A website for the March itself can be viewed - and read by Russian speakers - here.

The petition is calling for our signatures to demonstrate support for the marchers, and to help convince those who have the power to ban their protest that the anti-illegal immigration cause is a just and important one.

You can, if you wish, add your signature here.

This afternoon my OE Inbox mysteriously received Martin Hutchinson’s latest Bear’s Lair piece.  This one considers the prospects for the globalising economy.  I am very pleased to publish it here.

The Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank, is well deserved. While imperfect, his invention of micro-lending is an important tool to make the free market system work better for the world’s poor. Nevertheless, the vision that Grameen represents, of a peaceful integrated “globalized” world in which can all prosper, is increasingly coming under threat. In 1996, with Communism defeated, Bill Clinton in the White House and the Internet rising to prominence, a globalized “Washington Consensus” world seemed the inevitable future. However, it’s not 1996 any more.

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Doctor (of?) Anthony Edkins is not English.  He is, however, headmaster of the very English Harrop Fold School in Worsley, Manchester.  He is really rather keen on anti-racism, and appears to have taken to himself and his staff the task of instilling this charming philosophy in his lucky pupils.

The result is that Harrop Fold is rapidly becoming the most heavy-handed, notoriously white-hating school in the country.  Last April, a 10-year old boy who, allegedly, had called an 11-year-old mixed-race pupil a ‘Paki’, ‘Bin Laden’ and ‘nigger’ during a playground argument was charged with “a racially aggravated public order offence”.  When the case came before the court, District Judge Jonathan Finestein remarked, “This is how stupid the whole system is getting.  I was repeatedly called fat at school.  Does this amount to a criminal offence?  It’s crazy.” (For this opinion, let it be said, he received the due amount of contumely from the educrats).

It is a law of liberal life, though, that extremists, left unchecked, will unfailingly push their luck too far.  The brown-skinned Edkins, who inevitably describes his school as “vibrant”, has succeeded in this mighty ambition.  It’s surely all downhill for neo-Marxist fanaticism at Harrop Fold from here:-

Schoolgirl arrested for refusing to study with non-English pupils

A teenage schoolgirl was arrested by police for racism after refusing to sit with a group of Asian students because some of them did not speak English.

Codie Stott’s family claim she was forced to spend three-and-a-half hours in a police cell after she was reported by her teachers.

The 14-year-old - who was released without charge - said it had been a simple matter of commonsense and accused the school and police of an over-the-top reaction.

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