Revival time is here again.
I can smell it. The nation’s preachers are out in full force. First, there was President Obama telling us we needed to have a great race healing. Now, Attorney-General Eric Holder comes out to tell us we’re still segregated. We work together, but then we live and play by ourselves in segregated groups. We’re all cowards when it comes to race, says Holder.
Holder might have had a point and so might Obama had they spoken at any other time…and in any other way. But frankly the only segregation that really matters now is the segregation of the political class and its clients from the rest of us. It doesn’t matter which neighborhood you live in, black, white, brown or parti-colored – they all spell b-r-o-k-e the same way.
Barack Obama is a likeable guy. Not for one minute do I believe that he’s doing anything but the best he can. He’s sincere.
That may just be the trouble. It seems to be the delusion of societies to think they lack precisely what they have too much of. C. S. Lewis said as much. Cultures awash with hedonism believe themselves puritanically repressed; societies long lost to any orthodoxy fear religious dogma; and now with race at the center of talk shows and college seminars, of gym etiquette and prison protocol, we’re told that more race-talk is what we need.
Is it?
Do we really need to spend more time spewing what we think of each other like inbred cousins on a Jerry Springer show? Jerry used to be my vacuum time, so I actually know how those things ended – in a scrum of tattoos and ripped shirts, fake hair and flying cusses.
If that’s togetherness, a bit of segregation might be more civil.
And a bit of proportion might be more sensible.
We can call it segregation today, but I wonder what people segregated a century ago would think about that. Students clustered in groups of their own choosing are not terrified men and women fleeing dogs and police batons.
Actually, you don’t need to go back a century. You can find the same thing today in prisons, at non-violent demonstrations, wherever people are rounded up and snatched out of their houses. The victims are black, brown and white. And they’re not where they are because we don’t talk enough about race in this country. They’re there because we don’t talk enough about the state.
That’s from my latest piece at Lew Rockwell.
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Robert
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 6:21 AM
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D. Carver
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 12:01 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
I would like to show you a few things in the Constitution that I am sure
you will find to be very interesting.
Article 1. Section 9.3} No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall
be passed.
I hate to have to break this to you, but the 14th Amendment fails these
basic tests of Constitutionality. That amendment is a bill of attainder
and it was passed ex post facto. I will not even mention the coercion
and illegal expulsion from Congress of our Representatives and Senators
for our failure to ratify this Amendment. The history of this amendment
is a three ring circus of lies and murder.
Article 3. Section 3.2} The Congress shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work
corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person
attained.
This is really great. Remember that Article 1.Section 9.3} declared
that Congress may not pass Bills of Attainder or ex post facto laws. Now
we see an exception or a mistake.
Attainders of treason are permitted with some very serious restrictions
on them to protect the decendants of the traitors. That is us, by the
way. The language of the Section seems to me to imply that ex post
facto is okay here because otherwise the attainder could not work
forfiture. No person would vote beforehand to give up his property for
his upcoming treason unless he is insane, therefore we can safely say
that the 13th Amendment is okay.
The entire problem is the 14th Amendment.
The value of the slaves concerns us here. That value is the forfiture
that is Constitutionally bound to be returned to the Southern people as
we shall not suffer Corruption of Blood or lose our property except
during the lifetimes of the Confederate Politicians and Soldiers.
They are now all dead. Also, the theory known as the Incorporation Doctrine
is defunct. The application of the Incorporation Doctrine is Corruption
of Blood and is Unconstitutional. We, the Southerners living now, are
not and have never been Traitors to the United States.
We are thereby under the jurisdiction of the original Constitution or else Corruption
of Blood is being allowed to function as the Supreme Law of the Land
rather than the Constitution of the United States. This cannot continue.
The goal is eternal political slavery to the Federal Government for all Americans .
Re: Mama, we’re all racist now.
From: Andrew Taylor
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 12:13 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
Re your article in today’s LewRockwelColumn.
You may be interested in this blog I came across. I am in the UK, but if the race issue continues to be pushed down people’s throats, this is the sort of thing that may happen.
______________________________________________
Andrew “Ampers” Taylor – London UK – Journalist
Blog: http://ampers.blogspot.com (RSS available)
Former Editor of Connectivity and Computivity.
Founder and first editor of The Archer (North London local newspaper)
P. J. O’Rourke – “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
An interesting point is raised here. I don’t think I could ever personally vote for such a party but if they got a couple of MPs in, I would enjoy the Righteous running around like headless chickens!
Ampers.
Sent to you by Ampers via Google Reader:
Mama, we’re all racist now.
Old Holborn by Leg-iron on 20/02/09
The common ancestor of the species Politicus taxthearseoffus.
(Picture immigrated and granted residency from here)
(Apologies in advance for typos. I spilled a very nice Rioja on my keyboard and it’s still a bit sticky)
Obo makes mention of the ‘shock result’ that gave the BNP a seat on Kent council. Like Obo, I barely raised an eyebrow. I’d go so far as to say my eyebrow hairs remained entirely undisturbed at this news, apart from the long one on the left who said ‘So what?’ He’ll be well plucked for doing Ed Balls impressions later.
Why is it a surprise? The rest of the article lists other election results, in which the BNP share of the vote puts them in serious contention with the three main parties. They are not fourth in these lists, they are beating mainstream parties. There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth among the Righteous over this because they are terrified that Nick Griffin will send shaven-headed madmen round to beat them with recently deceased sparrows. How can it be, they cry. How can people be voting for a racist party?
It’s actually very simple, Righteous. You have spent the best part of a decade telling everyone who disagrees with you that they are racists. You have drummed it into them and screamed it at them. Why, then, would they fear voting for a party deemed ‘racist’? It’s what they’ve been told they are.
These people don’t know why they have been classed as racist, but they have. For years. For every utterance that does not accord with Righteous thinking. Especially when they say that maybe, just maybe, we shouldn’t let absolutely anyone into the country without let or hindrance. This is not a white-only thing. First and second generation immigrants, of all skin tones, of all religions, all of whom came here to find work and a decent life, are saying it too. Only we palefaces can be racist in Righteous terms. The others just haven’t tuned in to the message.
‘Racist’ is the battle cry of the Righteous. They think it still works, as the Dripper has demonstrated recently. Say ‘racist’ and the world clutches their collective handbag and goes ‘Ooooh’. Not any more. Still they persist.
Mary Honeymonster, all in one post, claims that UKIP are the Sinn Fein to the BNP’s IRA. She claims that the Lib Dems are Nazi sympathisers and the Tories, well we all know that Atilla the Hun was a Tory. In short, she sums up her world view as ‘anyone who doesn’t vote Labour is a racist’. She is an amazing example of pure Righteousness, and owns a prime example of an unoccupied head. Sell your brain, Mary. You won’t notice the difference and neither will we. Since it’s still in its original wrapping you’ll get a decent sum for it. Oh, she also thinks all smokers are Tory voters. Put a bid in for that brain. It’s never even had batteries installed.
Every time the BNP make a gain, there is shock and horror. Nobody seems to consider that there might be a reason people vote BNP. A reason other than the snazzy short hair, drainpipe jeans and ska music. A reason other than racism. I now know several who say they would vote BNP, though not in Scotland, and one of my long-time friends (currently in Wales) has joined the party. He’s never had a skinhead, never beaten anyone up and he hates ska. His reasons are not racist.
His reasons mainly involve a) all three main parties being the same; b) out of control borders; c) the EU. I have to say I agree with his reasons. I have pointed out some potentially deeper problems but as he says, the BNP won’t win the next election. If they get a couple of MP’s it will certainly have the rest
Re: Mama, we’re all racist now.
From: Andrew Taylor
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 12:13 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
Re your article in today’s LewRockwelColumn.
You may be interested in this blog I came across. I am in the UK, but if the race issue continues to be pushed down people’s throats, this is the sort of thing that may happen.
______________________________________________
Andrew “Ampers” Taylor – London UK – Journalist
Blog: http://ampers.blogspot.com (RSS available)
Former Editor of Connectivity and Computivity.
Founder and first editor of The Archer (North London local newspaper)
P. J. O’Rourke – “Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
An interesting point is raised here. I don’t think I could ever personally vote for such a party but if they got a couple of MPs in, I would enjoy the Righteous running around like headless chickens!
No Subject
From: JOHN C REIS
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 12:18 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
very smart and timely article
hope bo reads it john reis
excellent piece…
From: imajicah7
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 2:56 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
One man’s racist is another man’s saint. — Book of Common Misery
Best,
Paul
excellent piece…
From: imajicah7
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 2:56 PM
To: lrajiva@hotmail.com
One man’s racist is another man’s saint. — Book of Common Misery
Best,
Paul
Re: Wake Up and Smell the PR?<br />
From: Drew Hjelm
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 2:56 PM
To: Ms. Rajiva,
In regard to today’s article on Lew Rockwell.com, Wake Up and Smell the PR, I wholeheartedly agree. Since I read about Atty. Gen. Holder’s grand idea, I’ve thought he had it wrong. My personal belief is that we should accept who we are and not make a big deal of it. Holder, on the other hand, wants to make a big deal of who we are but not accept that basic fact. His philosophy is shown to be bankrupt when people congratulate Barack Obama for being the first black president, rather than just congratulate him for earning such a title after a tough election. Thank you for the article.
Drew Hjelm
Just Read “Wake up and Smell the PR” on Lew Rockwell?
From: Kevin
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 6:27 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
Great piece.
I’m trying to build very concise argument — simple to read and follow, yet says a lot; well aren’t we all (who are in the writing game).
Will you my three page paper and tell me how it speaks to you — where you can see holes or weak points.
Thanks,
Kevin
Thank You
From: Carl Schmahl
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 6:30 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
Ma’am:
Your piece at lewrockwell.com today is wonderfully written. This paragraph, especially, is brilliant: “Do we really need to spend more time spewing what we think of each other like inbred cousins on a Jerry Springer show? Jerry used to be my vacuum time, so I actually know how those things ended – in a scrum of tattoos and ripped shirts, fake hair and flying cusses. If that’s togetherness, a bit of segregation might be more civil.”
You have an eye for detail and a gift for humor which I envy.
Thank you.
Carl Schmahl
From: mario leli
Sent: Sat 2/21/09 7:52 PM
To: Lila Rajiva
I thought you had more logic that is why I am suprised at the fact you seem to swoon over Obongo who is a con man. But then again a lot of women like to be conned.Women have turned elections into an american idol contest or who they would rather date. I never thought you for a democrat and I am not sticking up for the gop they were full of shit talking about small gov’t for 30 years
Nutshell version
From: alan jacquemotte
Sent: Sun 2/22/09 2:03 AM
For everybody too busy to read a whole page:
1. The Federal Reserve’s “license to print” is revoked and the US Federal Government begins printing its own money backed by all the wealth and property of the USA. Same principle as ration coupons.
2. All federal income-based taxes (personal and corporate) are ended. The government funds itself as needed with its own money.
3. All legal U.S. residents immediately start receiving $1000 per month of the new money with no restriction on earning other income.
4. Charge an “economic infrastructure maintenance fee” of up to one percent on every electronic debit transfer (whatever is required to keep prices stable).
5. Get rid of ALL other federal government-provided personal and corporate subsidies, (including a phase-out of Social Security), any agencies which inhibit competition (like the FDA) or camoflage risk (like FDIC deposit insurance). Let the market (the purest form of direct democracy) be the brain.
Simple, fair, effective. Please help me get this done while the electricity still works. alan