Spain could soon become the first country in the world to give chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans and other great apes some of the fundamental rights granted to human beings under a law being proposed by members of the ruling Socialist coalition.

The law would eliminate the concept of “ownership” for great apes, instead placing them under the “moral guardianship” of the state ...

From the Telegraph

OK, it’s a wonderfully loopy idea which every sane person will immediately dismiss, probably through tears of laughter.  But those of us with political memories that go back to the 1980’s have heard such objection before.  We laughed at political correctness.  It didn’t stop the ratchet turning:-

EMPLOYEES who send lewd jokes around the office by e-mail or text message could land their companies with unlimited compensation payments for sexual harassment.

New advice from the Equal Opportunities Commission states that even when an offensive e-mail is not sent directly to a colleague, but is circulated to others in the same workplace, it can constitute harassment. So too can viewing pornographic images on a computer screen next to a colleague who finds them offensive.

Unacceptable e-mail behaviour ranges from the more crude practice of circulating e-mails or text messages with pornographic attachments to the more insidious one of sending e-mails laden with sexual innuendo or commenting on a colleague’s appearance.

Jenny Watson, chairwoman of the commission, said that electronic sexual harassment was “a significant new issue” for employers. “At every stage, as technology has the potential to improve lives, it has the potential to have a negative impact in other ways. It would be quite possible for an offensive e-mail to be part of an environment that constituted sexual harassment,” she said.

Now, Jenny Watson is a good example of the left at work.  Professionally, she is a human rights “advisor”, which is no profession that I understand.  It seems to mean that she is a specialist in finding cosy, taxpayer-funded sinecures where government abuts industry.  But it is her directorship of the Lichstenstein-based Global Partners & Associates that really communicates the meaning of these engagements.

GPA appears from its website to be a normal company training organisation, publishing guides and videos, and running courses for managers and sales staff.  But the description on Jenny Watson’s bio states that GPA is, in fact, “an organisation which promotes democracy and human rights world wide: working on human rights projects in the UK, clients comprise public bodies and non-governmental organisations.”  Note that the claim isn’t that GPA promotes efficiency or success.  It promotes democracy and human rights.  If that’s what it does - and I assume Jenny wrote the bio herself - the GPA website goes to a lot of trouble to avoid saying this, presumably because its few fee-paying private sector customers would baulk at a Gramscian in their midst.

There are hundreds of Jenny Watsons in every Western country.  Step by step they coerce society towards the progressive paradise.  They are the foot soldiers, winning the war on the ground.  It’s not their purpose to dream up the next great stride towards freedom, be it for blacks in America or women at work or queers anywhere or trannies or even apes.  It’s not their purpose to get elected, and to listen to the Marxist dreamers and then, in time, unfailingly incorporate their dreams into law.  But the Jenny Watsons do enter into the revolutionary process next.  Theirs is the job of injecting the many strains of egalitarian virus into our commercial and cultural bloodstream.  They do it every day of their working lives.  It is their mission, their love, and we actually have to pay for the privilege.

I suppose that in our magically equal future some thoughtless knuckle-dragger who “harrasses” a female at work might be able to claim legal dispensation under the Monkey Law.  But short of that I’m afraid we are in trouble, and it’s no longer good enough to laugh at anything our political persecutors propose.

Godless Capitalist recently banned me from the porn site “Gene Expression” (warning: if you click on that link, software written by south Asian programmer claiming to be “cognitive elitist” has been detecting that you came from Majority Rights and directs you to pornography of black men and white women and it may do so at any time).  He did so because he claims I am a white nationalist—a vague class of people banned from the site.  But he also—perhaps arguing the alternative—claimed that I am an ignoramus when it counts and not capable of critical thought when it counts—hence not suitable company for cognitive elitists such as those supposedly running and contributing to Gene Expression.

Ironically, the justification he gives for claiming this is, itself, a failure of critical thought and/or ignorance when it counts.  Moreover, this exhibition was apparently brought on by my claim that recent immigrants from India’s lower caste may be bringing intestinal flora with them that are causing the autism epidemic among Westerners.

Now, we are led by Godless Capitalist to believe his ancestry is from India, but could his ancestry be lower caste?  Taking personal offense to such an hypothesis and then abusing one’s position of privilege to suppress rational dialogue—providing logically fallacious and/or ignorant justification for these actions—is certainly something more consistent with the hypothesis that he is of lower caste ancestry than brahmin, benefiting from affirmative action and posing as a cognitive elitist, than it is that he is a genuine member of a cognitive elite.  It is tragic for all concerned when such characters succeed.

Read on for his “egregious” logical fallacy and/or ignorance.

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Patrick Cleburne blogs:

Apparently Brian Bilbray has defeated Democrat Francine Busby in California’s 50th District Congressional District. [Republican wins bellwether House race - Br Robert Tanner AP June 7 2006] As predicted by Peter Brimelow yesterday, none of the MSM outlets surveyed just now in Google News (6-35 AM NY time) mention Bilbray’s stand against the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/Immigration Acceleration bill, clearly the top factor in the race.

  I lived in US/Mexico border town Imperial Beach during Bilbray’s tenure as mayor there.  I watch the newly redeveloped waterfront being taken over by hispanic gangs and Bilbray being called a “Nazi” for his efforts to clean it up and keep TJ’s black water on the TJ side of the fence despite the refusal of the Feds to do anything.  I moved out because I think SoCal is a lost case but he stayed and fought, and given his critical win here I congratulate him for defending his home turf.

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This log at the BNP’s website will tell you all you need to know about the hatred which our masters harbour for England and the true heart of the English.  Quite disgusting.

Another day, another dolorous tale or two of vibrancy in ascensio.  Our perfect new society of universally loved beings, every one of ‘em angelically equal at birth from the neck up and encumbered only by a few trifling, culturally relative old habits, has today had a shocking fact about itself blazoned across the Telegraph.  It is a world in which cruelty to innocence prospers.

Children as young as six are being brought to Britain in their hundreds every year to be used as “slave labour” in sweatshops, private homes and cannabis factories.

The children are transported from all over Africa, Asia and eastern Europe by ruthless and highly organised gangs of traffickers.

Many are taken with the unwitting consent of their parents, who pay up to £3,000, believing the traffickers’ claims that their children are going to a better life - and will be able to send money home.

The victims are smuggled into Britain or brought in on false passports by adults posing as relatives.  They are put to work immediately, live in appalling conditions and are subjected to physical and sexual abuse.

The scale of the crisis - which has spread from London to Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle - is revealed in a consultation paper presented to the Home Office by a coalition of nine charities including Unicef, Save the Children and the NSPCC.

... Children from China, Vietnam and Malaysia, have been found in sweatshops, restaurants and suburban cannabis factories.  African children are often put into domestic servitude, working long hours for little or no reward.

Eastern European children tend to be used to beg and steal - and many more are likely to arrive next year when Romania and Bulgaria are expected to join the European Union.

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The latest clashes of black youths and French riot police have taken place in the town of Montfermeil.  It’s next door to Clichy-sur-Bois where last year’s violence was spawned.

An additional element this time is a group of black activists named Tribu KA (no link, I’m afraid - their website has been closed).  These guys made the mistake of reacting to alleged attacks by Jewish groups who themselves were protesting against the torture and murder of a young Jewish man on a black housing estate last winter.

It looks like a long hot Parisian summer is in the making.

“Public turns on animal terrorists.  The proportion of people who approve of animal testing is at an all-time high.  Activists have fatally damaged their cause.  People are fed up with protesters’ thuggery.”

So runs the current headline at the Telegraph website.  The YouGov survey which uncovered this development is here.  The supporting articles written for it are here, here and here.

The lesson is simple enough.  After the Wall went down many far left activists looking for somewhere to exorcise their demons migrated into the animal rights movement.  They quickly turned it into animal rights extremism.  Where once it was Red Lion Square it became Huntingdon Laboratory.  But, to modify Newton’s Third Law, in our society extremist activisim unfailingly produces a reaction among ordinary people.  It offends against their inate sense of justice and moderation, and thank heavens for it.

But usually there is a modifier to this: it doesn’t matter.  Reaction is rarely directly transferrable to politics.  Very many issues, and animal rights is one, never arise at election time and thus a reactionary public has no purchase on events.  It must rely on its elected representatives to share its sensibilities.

In our time we have, with the great Marxisation of the zeitgeist since the 1980’s, seen that this does not work nearly well enough.  It is a flaw in the democratic process and it has allowed extremisms other than animal rights - and ethnic interests other than our own - to seize the tiller of our politics.  All the narrow egalitarian “movements” of the last forty years have been anti-democratic in this way, and continue to be so.  What else are the special interest groups, NGO’s and what-have-you but evidence incarnate that democracy has been subborned and the will of the people dismissed?

I really don’t know how much opinion polls like this one by YouGov cost.  More than interested parties such as the BNP can afford, no doubt.  Still, it would be extremely interesting and useful (and novel) to have opinion polled using the language of political freedom.  How would the native English population answer a question that asked, “Do you think it’s right that before the end of this century the English could lose their homeland to people from the Third World?”  Or “Should you be free to speak as you wish, within the bounds of common decency, and to associate with whom you please?”  Or “Should children be taught Marxist ideals at school?”

Any billionaire reader who has tired of the Champagne lifestyle and wants to do something useful for a change could do worse than think on that.

Today Sean O’Neill of The Times deigned to inform us that “Race killings are no longer a matter of black and white”.

Well, thank you very much, Sean.  But excuse me if I am unimpressed.  Race killings never were the sole preserve of white men.  Your headline neatly avoids that, and I wonder why.  Specifically, I wonder why you didn’t write a story headlined, “Who wants you to think that race killers are always white?”

The problem, I suppose, is that it has been journalists of both left and right who wanted this.  What purpose but the construction of a false public perception did the press feeding frenzy over the Lawrence and Walker murders serve?  The Marxist prescription of white guilt somehow became theirs, and they sought to make it ours.

They have no excuses.  The purpose and perniciousness of political correctness was well understood in America by 1992, and the term itself was quite possibly recycled from early Soviet communism by right-wing academics as early as 1980.  What serious journalist of the right anywhere has not debunked it since, and enjoyed himself hugely in the process?

All the more extraordinary, then, that these proud linguistic gladiators, these professional cynics and modern inquisitors should all come to crowd together on an extreme ideological outcrop way out left of human nature.

Let’s take a look at O’Neill’s article today.  The meat of it is this:-

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