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All I know is what I read in the newspapers, And according to them, “white supremacists” have joined in the past nine weeks to murder a prosecutor in Texas, a state prison chief in Colorado, and then a second Texas prosecutor and his wife. Another Texas prosecutor responded to the carnage by quitting a federal case involving “white supremacists.” [U.S. prosecutor quits Aryan case, citing security by James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle, April 2, 2013]

(I’m putting “White Supremacist” in quotes because, as Anonymous Attorney has pointed out, these gangs are not formed not out of “supremacism” but simply out of the need to survive in America’s hellish integrated prisons. The MSM never calls the black/ Hispanic gangs “black/ Hispanic supremacists.”)

 Clearly, America is overrun with these bloody “white supremacists.” What to do? Suspend the Constitution? Use drone strikes? Eliminate habeas corpus, and all other constitutional and common law protections for white supremacists? Shoot them and their children down like dogs?

(Oh, we did that already—at Ruby Ridge).

A fearful nation demands answers—and immediate action!

The Huffington Post says so!

KAUFMAN, TX—Suspicion in the slayings of a Texas district attorney and his wife shifted Monday to a violent white supremacist prison gang that was the focus of a December law enforcement bulletin warning that its members might try to attack police or prosecutors.

The weekend deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, who were found fatally shot in their home, were especially jarring because they happened just a couple of months after one of the county's assistant district attorneys, Mark Hasse, was killed near his courthouse office.

And less than two weeks ago, Colorado's prison chief was shot to death at his front door, apparently by a white supremacist ex-convict who died in a shootout with deputies after fleeing to Texas.” [Mike McLelland Dead: Suspicion in Texas DA Death Shifts to White Supremacists by Nomaan Merchant and Juan A. Lozano, AP/Huffington Post, April 1, 2013, 10:43 p.m. ET EDT.]

The late Evan Ebel, from a quite different “white supremacist”

Richard Spencer’s Radix Journal arrived in our office early this year and I’ve had the great pleasure of slowly making my way through it over the last couple of months. (Website here). As promised, it is both powerful and beautiful (although the cover photo is a bit on the craggy, masculine end of beauty for my taste). Saying “’the Death of Print’ has become a tired cliché,” Spencer, the creator of Alternative Right and before that editor of Takimag, bucks the trend with Radix Journal by emphasizing it is designed as an actual physical publication based on trees, not pixels. This, of course, is the direct opposite of VDARE.com’s strategy and it will be interesting to see if hardcopy actually survives in our increasingly digital reader-scape.

This is the first edition of Spencer’s biannual journal. Each future edition will focus on a different theme. The theme of Radix Vol. 1 is “The Great Erasure: The Reconstruction of White Identity.” The Great Erasure is the title of Alex Kurtagic’s contribution, the first essay listed in the table of contents (and was also the title of Kurtagic’s shorter article featured on Amren.com in 2012). Unfortunately, I found his title piece for Radix academic and impenetrable (tl; dr).

Generally, though, Radix Journal hangs together very well. There is an emphasis on South Africa and the white farmer experience there, and for a good reason. In fact, this publication came at a good time for me, a moderately informed lay reader, since I recently became interested in the white struggles in South Africa after a friend of mine started sharing some of the (grossly underreported) horrors going on there. Radix provides an excellent overview of perspectives (K.R. Bolton, historical; Andy Nowicki, correspondence; Derek Turner, think-piece) on the issue. It wisely avoids the more graphic descriptions of the gruesome crimes to which Boer families have fallen prey—not because the details should be overlooked, but because their sickening cruelty is distracting from a sober discussion of the wider context that made the savage crimes possible.

The numbers alone are compelling, with nearly 2,000 murders

As the approaching Amnesty/ Immigration Surge beast bears down on America, Senator Jeff Sessions is stepping up his game. While many in the GOP seem to be fearfully hunkering down and parsing their words (lest the Open Borders media notice a tiny misstep), the Alabama Senator has been a one-man watchdog.

Consider his recent actions:

• In January, Sessions called for ICE Director John Morton’s resignation because he was not implementing the law as the position requires. Sessions commented: “What purpose is served to pass new laws if the ones we have are ignored by the officials charged with enforcing them?” [Sen. Sessions calls for ICE Director Morton’s resignation: ‘No comprehensive immigration reform as long as he’s the person in charge’, By Caroline May, Daily Caller, January 29, 2013]
• In mid-February, Sessions and David Vitter warned from the Senate floor that the new amnesty was shaping up to be an expanded replay of the 1986 law, noting that “for 30 or 40 years the American people have asked us to end the lawlessness” but “we’ve gone the opposite direction in a number of ways.”[Senators Caution Against 1986 Repeat On Amnesty, Video]

Senator Dave Vitter (R-La.) responded to a rhetorical question from Sessions about the history of immigration enforcement legislation:

No single major promise has been kept, whether it’s the fence, whether it’s the US-Visit program, whether it’s the overall promise of enforcement in 1986, none of those promises have been kept.

• In late February, Sessions condemned the Obama

Fresh from disrupting CPAC’s minority pandering plans, Matthew Heimbach and his Towson University White Student Union struck again last week—this time conducting campus safety patrols. Needless to say, the Towson University administration is not amused, harrumphing “we do not encourage the general public to take the law into their own hands for both their personal safety and legal protection.”

Towson claims that crime is down. But the school does send out “crime alerts” which Heimbach reports consistently feature young black males attacking females. [PDF]On Tuesday evening (April 3), Towson President Maravene Loeschke (email her) joined a student government-organized rally against the WSU, causing Heimbach to remark, entirely accurately: "Anything that doesn't fall in the far-left agenda is labeled as either a hate group or extreme." Hundreds of Towson University students walk for unity | Students react in wake of 'White Student Union' nightly patrols,  WBAL-TV, April 3, 2013.

Main Stream Media [MSM] reaction to Heimbach has been hostile, of course. [White Student Union’s plan to patrol the Baltimore area’s Towson University in response to 'black crime wave' sparks controversy, By Victoria Taylor, New York Daily News, March 28, 2013]

One of the more significant came from Total Frat Move, a news/comedy website that glorifies the stereotypical fraternity experience.

TFM reads like a Stuff White People Like for young, conservative, suburban whites, with music, merchandise, advice columns, and humor, all targeted to this specific demographic. It celebrates drinking, wealth, hazing, fratty fashion, Republicans, and most importantly, Kate Upton. (Shown right).

College fraternities are classic Burkean institutions, with as the President of Delta put it in Animal House, a “long tradition of existence to [their] members, and to the community at large.” They incorporate elements of hierarchy, tradition, and initiatic ritual—all anathema to the modern campus mania for endless equality.

In an age when separate men's and women's bathrooms are seen as incipient fascism, fraternities remain a bastion of male identity and exclusivity. Even when unconscious of their own roots, fraternity men proudly claim superiority to the masses. Predictably, most fraternity men lean to the Right. [Colleges, Fraternities, and ‘Natural Conservatives’, By Jordan Bloom, January 28, 2013]

But, surprisingly, TFM posted a smear piece on Matt Heimbach, by one “BlutarskyTFM,” so formulaic and whiny it could have come from Jezebel. [Crazy Towson Students To Patrol Campus For Crime, March 26, 2013] “BlutarskyTFM” moaned that the WSU seems “scary” and appealed to the eminently reliable Southern Poverty Law Center ($PLC to VDARE.com) to prove that the White Student Union is “extreme.”

Highpoint of the piece: BlutarskyTFM’s gloating that soon the headlines will read: “Group of small, intrusive white kids viciously beaten by Towson Football and Basketball Team Members as Cheerleaders Watch and Laugh.”

BlutarskyTFM's white male humiliation fantasies would be par for the course for Jezebel, but TFM depends on a totally different market. Just like The Blaze, Breitbart, or the Daily Caller, TFM is utterly reliant on generating traffic by posting news items about the latest Politically Correct outrage:

• UNC Drops Term “Freshman” In Order to be More “Gender Inclusive”
• Professor Fired For Forcing Students To Sign Pledge To Vote For Obama
• Vegetarians At Stanford Compare Struggle To Civil Rights Movement, Are Crazy

These are mixed with jokes that could lead to outright expulsion or severe punishment given the Orwellian speech codes at many American universities.

Feminists hate TFM and its “rape culture.” But the internet is still a liberated zone, and the webzine can continue to be TFTC (“Too Frat To Care”) about its shrill critics. TFM can hardly censor its comments for being “offensive” or “racist”—it would have none left.

But this is not at all the case on America’s campuses. Greek life on American campuses has been in retreat for

Amnesty is in the air again, and the Main Stream Media is doing its traditional job as the propaganda agency for the Open Borders gang seeking to replace the historic American nation.

And why shouldn’t the princely press preach the dogma of diversity to the little citizens? It’s uniquely positioned to regurgitate the ideology of Leftist elites—because journalists face almost no threat that their jobs will be pinched by immigrants.

For a profession that prides itself on defending the rights of the little guy, the MSM focus on foreigners’ well-being rather than citizens’ is odd to say the least. Plus, the press denizens never connect the dots between crushing unemployment and the continuing influx of millions of foreign workers. Lazy, no?

Of course, on the practical side, upper middle class editors doubtless appreciate the cheap household help.

For example, the construction industry has been overwhelmed in many regions by illegal alien workers. What was once a middle-class occupation for citizens has been taken over by foreigners willing to work for low wages.

But stories about the hardship inflicted on Americans by Open Borders run only in citizen-friendly websites like VDARE.com.

To the liberal MSM, sob stories about illegal aliens are far more appealing, particularly when including photos of adorable doe-eyed kiddies.

In contrast, readers never see sad American children whose parents have been displaced from jobs.

The MSM is on board for the cultish fixation on victimhood. Illegal aliens from the Third World fulfill the Marxist cliché of an oppressive America stomping out the aspirations of poor people.

No mention that billions of people from across the planet would flock to this racist hellhole if only they were able.

But while the MSM enthusiastically preaches diversity for others, it does not recommend or practice diverse immigration for its own newsrooms. 

When the CEOs of other industries like tech and medicine decide they want a batch of cheaper employees, they inform Congress that they need more foreigners to fill those jobs. Congress invariably hastens to comply, by creating a visa category like H-1b for information technology, or H-1c for nurses.

However, there has been no hue and cry from to open the scribbler/ gabbler field up to foreigners. Media organizations practice diversity almost entirely by having a token number of blacks, Asians and Hispanics on staff.

My modest proposal: the media profession would benefit from a stream of immigrant workers eagerly taking the jobs now held by Americans. Journalists would then experience the insecurity and unemployment they wish upon others less privileged.

Can we imagine for a moment if the thousands of foreigners crossing the border daily were not just tomato pickers and gardeners, but instead included skilled reporters and editors?

The average newsroom scribblers would then have skin in the game, and might sympathize with other Americans in the same sinking boat.

Journalists are a uniquely protected class—possibly because elite publishers

In the usual mysterious way, there’s been a step-up in Main Stream Media coverage (a.k.a. sneering at) of what the George Soros-funded Media Matters is calling Fox's Week-Long "War On Easter". Of course, this is painfully stupid. It’s not Fox’s “War On Easter”—it’s the Christophobes and bureaucrats demonstrating their “sensitivity” to religious minorities who are making war on Easter. Fox is just reporting it. (Media Matters pulled the same trick with the War On Christmas, which has been going on since 1906.)

Other examples this year:

• Fox News conjures, attacks “War on Easter”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 29, 2013
• There's No War On Easter, Hartford Courant, March 29, 2013
• Is there a war on Easter? Maybe there should be, by Alexandra Petri, Washington Post, March 28, 2013—the kind of snarky deconstruction you’re not going to see about Hanukkah, or Ramadan.
• Why there’s no need to go down the war-on-Easter rabbit hole, Macleans Magazine, March 28, 2013

Actually, the editors of Macleans Magazine, up there in Canada, apparently didn’t get the memo. They claim there isn’t any War on Easter, and that “the pleasant lack of springtime controversy suggests the possibility of a peaceful coexistence between religion as heritage and a secular society.”

I should add that the editors of Macleans Magazine are not really working in an igloo without internet access—they have heard of the War On Easter, but dismiss it as the concern of a “few over-eager culture warriors”.

The truth: the War on Easter has been growing with each Eastertide for quite a while. It’s gotten perceptibly stronger while we’ve been covering it. In 2011, my column on it was headed Yes, Virginia, There Is A War On Easter—And Also War On Easter Denial.

The news focus this year: a black middle school principal in Madison, Alabama named Lydia Davenport who decided that the Easter Egg hunt at Heritage Middle School—a series of quiz questions—couldn’t be called that.   

Davenport initially canceled the egg hunt, which was also to include kindergartners, to avoid any issues with mixing religious observances with school events.

"We had in the past a parent to question us about some of the things we do here at school, so we're just trying to make sure we respect and honor everybody's differences," Principal Lydia Davenport told The Times' news partner, WHNT News 19.  [Madison elementary school takes Easter out of egg hunt, sparks national reaction (poll), by Mark Heim, AL.com, March 27, 2013]

If anyone wants proof that there’s an attempt to suppress all reference to Easter, you only need two words: “Spring Bunny.”

A Google News search for “Spring Bunny” finds not only O’Reilly complaining  about the spring bunny, and people complaining about O’Reilly complaining about it, et cetera, but a story from Norwood, Massachusetts in which Norwood  Recreation Department Program Director Linda Berger  says, apparently with a perfectly straight face, that “The Spring Egg Hunt is a Norwood Tradition.”

At the Spring Egg Hunt

Toddlers to first graders are invited to the school, where they can hunt for eggs spread all over the Willett Field. They will also get to meet with the Spring Bunny.

[Norwood Recreation Department hosting spring activities, By Brad Cole, Wicked Local Norwood, March 22, 2013]

The “Spring Bunny,” of course, is already a euphemism. It’s just another sign of a central reality of modern American culture: Christophobia,

I discussed this just over a year ago: “Christophobia”—The Prejudice That Barely Has A Name. I was writing partly about Iowa journalism professor, Stephen G. Bloom [email him], who in an Atlantic piece called Observations From 20 Years of Iowa Life (Dec. 9 2011) had said  

"After years and years of in-your-face religion, [Bloom, born in New Jersey, moved to Iowa in 1992] I decided to give what has become an annual lecture, in which I urge my students not to bid strangers 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Easter,' 'Have you gotten all your Christmas shopping done?' or 'Are you going to the Easter egg hunt?' Such well-wishes are not appropriate for everyone, I tell my charges gently. A cheery 'Happy holidays!' will suffice. Small potatoes, I know, but did everyone have to proclaim their Christianity so loud and clear?"

Bloom was lucky that he picked as his target Christianity, the only religion in America that you’re allowed to attack. If he’d attacked Haitian devil worship, or “dissatisfied, aggressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems,” it would have been national news.

But what really puts the “phobia” in Bloom’s Christophobia is his memory

Gay Marriage and Amnesty are the two main battles in the Culture War right now. Both issues are designed to further the Left’s never-ending and unrelenting quest to create a completely egalitarian society. And, right on cue, the Left has discovered an overlooked demographic that is supposedly in dire need of direct support from our federal government and is ideal propaganda for energizing the Left’s white liberal base: illegal immigrants who happen to be gay.

Three things are certain in our world—death, taxes, and a never-ending supply of new “victims” for the Left to rally around. No matter how far the Right retreats, the Left can always create a new cause and hurl charges of “bigotry” and “discrimination.”

The history of the modern Left is a long chronology of finding new classes of “subalterns”—Antonio Gramsci’s generic term for the oppressed. Once located, these “victims of oppression” can then be rescued by brave progressives fighting evil reactionaries. This familiar narrative plays out again and again in our society—and the latest chapter is a progressive twofer of illegal immigrants and homosexuals.

Seeing that liberals worship both groups, a merger between the two is a match made in heaven for furthering Leftist social reforms—and for fattening the paychecks of “nonprofit” progressive activists.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) released a report earlier this month that focused specifically on “undocumented” gays. Not surprisingly, the report concluded that America must dramatically transform both its immigration laws and marriage requirements in order to satisfy homosexual aliens.

The report, Living in Dual Shadows: LGBT Undocumented [By Crosby Burns, Ann Garcia, and Philip E. Wolgin, March 8, 2013], clams that there are over 267,000 immigrants living illegally in America who identify as either gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered. That is a little over 2.4% of the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the US today. But this demographic, according to the CAP report, contains “society’s most vulnerable individuals.”

Why? According to the CAP report, the fact that “LGBT Undocumented” lack both a “path to citizenship” and federal recognition of their “bi-national same sex couples” leads to their marginalization.

Clearly, there can be no higher priority than federal intervention aimed at serving a population that refers to itself as “undocuqueers.” The newest client population is proudly out of the closet—and over the fence.

The plan proposed by CAP goes much further than anything the “Gang of Eight” is reportedly going to recommend.

Naturally, it already accepts a pathway to citizenship as a given, stating that, if anything, the pathway does not go far enough to help gay illegals. But in addition to demanding citizenship, the CAP report authors call for the U.S. government to end “discrimination” against bi-national same sex couples by passing both the “Reuniting Families Act” and “DREAM act”. Finally, the U.S. government should also repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.

What does the Defense of Marriage Act have to do with immigration issues—and why would its repeal help homosexual illegals? The report states:

One of the many reasons that Congress and the Supreme Court need to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act is to ensure that the government treats all families equally under existing immigration law. Congress can and should swiftly pass the Respect for Marriage Act, which would