Devon, that English county of idyllic villages, haunting sea-cliffs and wild, empty moorland, might not seem at first to be a cauldron of white racism (is there any other kind?).  But that’s all wrong.  We racist whites simply lack the insightful wisdom and beautiful souls of those good men and women of the Rural Racism Project, south-west.

Soon after the publication of the Inquiry report into the death of Stephen Lawrence, the Monitoring Group began to receive an almost daily torrent of calls from black and ethnic minority people living in rural areas. The experience of the callers was similar. They had been subject to racist abuse on a daily basis, sometimes for many years, and despite reporting their suffering they had received no support from anyone. It was almost as if the needs of the BME population in these rural had been abandoned.

...  The Rural Racism Project, based in Plymouth, aims to pioneer a range of specialist services to meet the needs of those living in predominately rural areas who are distressed or are suffering because they have been victims of racial violence, abuse, or harassment within their local community. The project will be used to provide and deliver a unique, innovative and radical region-wide programme of ‘racist incident victim support services’ for individuals, families and isolated community groups situated within the geographical counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Somerset, including those districts administered by single unitary authorities.

The Project is based in Plymouth and covers the areas of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Dorset.

And this ... is what ... they do:-

‘Racism’ protests over the high street hanging black mannequins

A chain of fashion stores has been accused of racism over a window display of black mannequins hanging from the ceiling.  Branches of All Saints are featuring headless dummies, with chains attached to the neck, dangling with their feet a few inches off the floor.

Police arrived at one branch, in Exeter, to investigate claims that the display was offensive and the Rural Racism Project says it has been “inundated” with complaints calling for it to be removed.

Spokesman John McKenzie said: “These disturbing displays are reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan and the lynching of black people in America.  The chains used to hang the mannequins also bring to mind slavery and some of the complainants have commented on this.  The overall effect is extremely ominous.

“It is unacceptable and we have received many calls from both black and white people who find it offensive.  But the retailer’s attitude has been that the stores are all making a profit, therefore it cannot be offending too many people.”

A spokesman for All Saints confirmed that the display was used at 28 of its 29 stores nationwide.

She added: “The models are not black – they are grey.

Well, quite.  Or as John Cleese once said, “This is an ex-parrot .”

The MEChA wildfire story should not have got on to the page, so it’s been taken down.  I didn’t believe it, but didn’t question the source.  It’s annoying to give a leg-up to this kind of thing.  On the other hand, the thread it spawned is interesting in its own right, and should stand.

A strategy of violence, where this has occurred in Europe and the Americas, seems to require a deep communal affront at some historical injustice.  Whether that really exists in the south-west today is doubtful.  But it might do in time.  It’s one thing to replace the white population.  It’s another to achieve the political ends that the Chicano students want - particularly to replace the old power elite.

Sorry for the misdirection, but please continue to post on the thread.

For those of you who are disgusted by sites like GNXP, and aren’t familiar with R. A. Fonda’s work, you might like looking at his site:

http://rafonda.com/

I won’t put too many words in his mouth but he’s basically been holding the line on the multiregional hypothesis against the out of Africa hypothesis.

To clarify this:  He isn’t denying that the genus Homo, from which humans evolved, originated in Africa.  He’s saying that any such “out of Africa” scenario is far more ancient, and more distantly related to modern humans, than is posited by the out of Africa hypothesis normally bandied about, and that modern humans are much more a product of “plural lineages” possessing far more genes from far more ancient, locally-evolved populations than is predicted by the out of Africa hypothesis.

If the multiregional hypothesis is true, and a reason why it is so resisted in the theocracy’s seminaries mislabeled “academia”, is that it would mean race mixing is a more risky experiment than we have heretofore been taught, and that preservation of races is also more important.

Instead of regressing to narrow xenophobia, it is time to build on the Human Rights Act. The aim of our British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities will be to clarify and explain the obligations which come with rights

Jack Straw, writing in the Telegraph subsequent to Gordon Brown’s speech on Thursday announcing this forthcoming Bill of Rights and Duties.

Because liberty as it is pursued today contains not a single seed of European survival, I spend a good deal of my thinking time trying to undermine its centrality to political life.  The problem, of course, is that Man is not perfect, and the least perfect of men seem to proliferate among those ambitious for power.  Some restraint on power, then, is essential for an equitable life.  In feudal Germany there was the Comitatus.  In our time there is democracy, and there are the Bills of Rights.

But democracy has spawned a traitorous, internationalist power elite that authors all our political misfortunes.  It denies us recognition of who we are or what unites us, so thereby it can remove from us ownership of that true guarantor of survival: our homelands.

In Britain, as Jack Straw states, this treachery is to be codified in a redefinition of the rights enshrined in the English constitution since the Bill of Rights of 1689.  Crucially, this redefinition will be cast from the Human Rights Act 1998 - specifically, one expects, from the qualifications to Article 10 on freedom of expression and to Article 11 on freedom of association and assembly, and from Article 14 on prohibition of discrimination.

This will be a highly positive (or governmentally prescribed) dispensation of rights, there being little or no sign of the negative rights enshrined in America’s Bill of Rights.  Straw’s reference to responsibilities is perfectly clear.  Big government will coerce us to deny our true self as the people of England, and to be, instead, the MultiCult.  This is a duty to die – eagerly if possible or, at worst, unknowingly.

Keen to discover more about our forthcoming new duty I consulted the words of the Prime Minister Who Is Not Tony Blair, as they were spoken at the University of Westminster, Thursday 25 October 2007, and appear now on the Labour Party website.

The speech is quite refreshingly free from the usual political-aspirational double-talk.  It makes a serious play for academic learning but, happily, is a little too self-serving and reverse-reasoned to succeed.  Its historical references are there solely to represent British history as the midwife not only of liberty but all the exotica of postmodern tolerance.  Everyone from John Milton to Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sachs gets pulled into the effort.  Thereby the dour son of the manse steadfastly dilutes the heady, 70% proof intoxicant of real liberty - after all, drunkards tend to be free with their tongues, and freedom of speech is something no postmodern Prime Minister can allow.  He establishes to his own satisfaction, at least, that England is the home of happy anti-racism and, naturally, we all want much more of it.

Here, in his own words, is how he picks his path to that goal:-

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I submitted a rather interesting story to digg.com but then it disappeared from the search results for “ron paul”.  No, it wasn’t simply “buried”—it was taken off the results of searches that included “buried” stories!

Evidence is in the screen shots provided herein.

UPDATE 5:30PM PST:  It has reappeared in the search results…

Oh, and happy Halloween!

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A Jewish woman:

somehow ended up the chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism Risk Assessment, despite being exposed as a probable agent of a foreign country—you’ll never guess which foreign country (unless you need to be sent to a mental institution for mandatory treatment of your paranoia which is so severe you’ve become a danger to yourself and others—so watch yourself).

So what does this Jewish woman do with her power to make us more “secure”? 

She establishes a “National Commission on the Prevention of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism” to study and report “who and how someone could become radicalized to the point of inflicting mass casualties on their neighbors and communities”.

Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if the minute Bush signs this into law, a violent revolution erupts?  I know—not likely—but I’ve been training a dog to behave himself recently and it does seem that I have to follow the target behavior very quickly with reinforcement for our communication to succeed.

Fortunately, humans have evolved this little thing called language to communicate more efficiently—or at least that’s what we hope it does…. so here goes:

Hey, B*tch, let me save you the effort and the taxpayers much money, confusion and persecution:

Its “people” like you.

You with your paranoid control freakish demands of “Is it safe?  Is it safe?  Is it safe?”

Inquisitions which you then project:

Project, literally as well as figuratively, onto the retinas, hence amygdalas, of our people in a never ending stream of Big Lie after Big Lie.

So now, you have helped your tribe acquire what it so compulsively and skillfully sought: More and more control over more and more aspects of society.  The result?  To quote Dustin Hoffman:

“It’s not safe.”

Compare the video of the actual contestants in this year’s Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge 2007 held at the X-Prize Cup starting tomorrow and compare it to this fictional video:

portraying the winners hoped-for by the sponsors of the recently announced Google Lunar X-Prize—a video that conforms to the standards for “ethnic diversity” in public relations images previously described here at MR.

The disparity is made even more poignant by virtue of the fact that the Google Lunar X-Prize is offering an added bonus prize for maximizing the ethnic and gender diversity of the winning team.

After all, its only “fair”.

I find it rather interesting that the history of using incentives for private competition to spur space development is largely erased from Google’s Usenet archives, as can be seen by doing a search for my name in the space discussion groups in the years prior to the International Space University’s support of prize incentives.  My posts from that era—frequently in conflict with ISU’s principles, are mostly (I’d guess something like 90%) missing from Google’s archives.

Several years ago, when I was researching the post-war history of Germany and the establishment of the Federal Republic, I found a library copy of Aidan Crawley’s Spoils of the War: The Rise of Western Germany 1945-1972.  It’s out of print these days.  But it was a good read, an eye-witness testimony mostly of the administration of the British Zone of Occupation, where Crawley was stationed.

Still, this was the first time I had read in any detail of the rapine onslaught of the Red Army, and the terrible conditions in the West visited upon the German civil population.  Their daily ration of calories was lower than that fixed by the SS for camp inmates.  Yet the Army threw good food away because they could not eat it all, and forbade locals from scavenging for it.  Crawley witnessed the spread of tuberculosis among the ruins and, inadequately treated, the toll it claimed through the terrible winter of 1946/7.

He savaged the French administration to the north for their staging of insanely grandiloquent military displays, the purpose of which was to teach the German dogs how a cultured victor behaves.  Meanwhile, of course, the dogs were starving.

But the French, as always, were of passing importance.  It was for the Americans, and most especially the high American hand in policy for all three zones, that he reserved his greatest ire.  He deplored the treatment of German soldiers, and did not shrink from calling the worst of it torture.  He railed, too, at the American insistence on reparations - in effect ripping out every worthwhile industrial machine and denying the people any chance of much-needed, normal economic activity.

Crawley, an exceptional man, died penniless in 1993 and amid much personal tragedy, which has continued to stalk his family in the years since.  I am glad, though, that he wrote Spoils of the War and helped introduce me to this extraordinary time in Europe’s history.

In April this year, though, another, weightier book was published about the same period.  It is After the Reich: From the Liberation of Vienna to the Berlin Airlift by Giles Macdonogh.  The Telegraph reviewed it on 18th April:-

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