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Which Is Worse: Gang-Rape or Racism?

Posted on | May 9, 2012 | 26 Comments

British teens must be grateful their rapists weren’t victims of racism

“Individuals opposed to Party rule are selected as targets of disapproval, usually to the point of demonization. Criticism usually extends to allegations of personal corruption, wickedness, or barbarism. Terms used to vilify Party opponents are formulaic, seeming to draw from a lexicon developed for the purpose; there is little if any verbal creativity in criticism of Party-designated targets.”
— David G. Muller Jr., American Thinker, “A Leninist View of the American Media,” March 26, 2009

“Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself … she is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless by human interposition disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate, errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.”
— Thomas Jefferson, 1786

Suppose you had to choose between living in two societies: One in which police are racists, or one in which teenagers are gang-raped. Believe it or not, this isn’t entirely a hypothetical question in England:

Police and social workers were last night accused of failing to investigate an Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, allowing them to prey on up to 50 young white girls.
The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex.
However, the true number of victims, who were “passed around” by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted.
Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have now apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim — Girl A — to trial following her cry for help in August 2008. . . .
Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were “petrified of being called racist”, former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said. . . .
“This is an absolute scandal. They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness,” she said.
“They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in dealing with the issues in front of them.”
Girl A told police that she had been raped and provided DNA evidence from her attacker, however the CPS twice decided not to prosecute him.
The 15 year-old’s abuse continued and at its height she was being driven to flats and houses to be raped by up to five men a night, four or five days a week. She was singled out because she was white, vulnerable and under-age.

It is here necessary to explain that, while Americans usually employ the term “Asian” to mean East Asian — Chinese, Korean, Japanese, etc. — in Britain the term generally denotes immigrants from Pakistan, India or the Middle East. Thus, among the “Asians” convicted in the  gang-rape case were Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin and Hamid Safi.

Blogmocracy call them “Muslim scum who gang raped a 13 year old,” a description that CAIR would likely disapprove, but the question remains: What happens when fear of being accused of “racism” prevents the police from effectively enforcing the law?

We first called attention to this problem in England with a series of posts in November 2010:

Those posts concerned an entirely separate case in Derbyshire, where the accused included Abid ­Saddique, Mohammed Liaqat, Akshay Kumar, Faisal Mehmood, Mohamed Imran Rehman and Ziafat Yasin. Which is to say that we cannot dismiss these cases as isolated incidents, but must ask what underlying cultural factors are involved.

We are unlikely to get useful answers to such questions if the discussion is hemmed in by political correctness, where police and social workers — and yes, journalists — cower in fear of being accused of racism. And this leaves aside entirely the larger policy question of whether Great Britain (and other Western countries including the United States) are accepting immigrants more quickly than they can effectively assimilate them.

Two weeks ago, when two Muslim men were arrested in yet another British gang-rape case, I remarked, “You might be a right-wing extremist if . . . you think Rashid and Hussain represent an argument for stricter immigration policies.” Lots of ordinary people automatically make that mental connection, but most journalists are afraid even to take notice of this, except to abhor xenophobia, and to suggest or imply that anyone who thinks that way is in need of sensitivity training. Read more

Category: Crime, Great Britain, Islam, National Offend a Feminist Week, Racism, Sex

‘When You Wish Upon Cthulhu
Makes No Difference What You Do
Anything Your Heart Desires
Burns In Those Political Fires’

Posted on | May 9, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

The Postmodern/Progressive ideology that grips the Left continues to amaze. Its only principle is power. The capacity of the Left to use various constituencies, the LGBT folks being the most recent example, in a cynical manner should not surprise. Yet it continues to be a source of amazement and blog posts.

The Lackeys Out In Force

Start with the IPBS on Sunday, where Joe Biden and Arne Duncan were playing coy about Obama’s position (canine?) about gay marriage on the talking head shows. Allah Pundit was, perhaps, coy:

Actually, I can’t decide whether the back-to-back Biden/Duncan endorsements are a case of those guys going rogue or something they’re coordinating with O’s campaign to test the waters on Obama himself possibly backing gay marriage.

Bill Quick was having none of this:

Allah, if you think there is even the remotest possibility that Biden and Duncan are “going rogue,” then you’re too clueless to be commenting on political affairs at all.

Concur. If Biden were any more of a lapdog, BHO would be tempted to cannibalism.

Ryan T. Anderson at the National Review: “North Carolina, Biden, and Same-Sex Marriage”

On Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden declared his support of same-sex marriage: “I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction — beyond that.”
But this isn’t really about civil rights or civil liberties. No one is suggesting the state deny people who self-identify as gay or lesbian their rights to free speech, religious liberty, free association, or any other traditional civil liberty. The question is whether a new “civil right” — the right to have the government and private citizens recognize your same-sex sexual partnership as a marriage — ought to be created, redefining marriage in the process.

How is that a question? You have to stand on the Left while you manufacture rights ex nihilo for constituencies in exchange for power. Who doesn’t grasp this? Oh, yes: those with principles.

 

Brave, Brave Sir Obama

Ace had a good set of riffs on Twitter, as reported by Twitchy. He broke out the weapons-grade mockery on the blog:

“President Gutsy Call: Okay With Giving Campaign Speeches in Afghanistan; Too Craven To Give Them In North Carolina“

See, Ace: no one can sense a losing battle quite like someone who’s a total loser themselves.

This is a big old sticky wicket for Obama. The press corps is openly laughing at Jay Carney’s absurd insistence that Obama is still “evolving,” and doesn’t know if he’ll endorse gay marriage… after the election.
Hey, he needs some “space” on this issue. He’ll have more flexibility after the elections, you know.

Morrissey at Hot Air: “Obama bailed out of North Carolina visit as traditional-marriage amendment goes to voters”

Just as in Minnesota this fall, the amendment gives voters in North Carolina a chance to keep judges from redefining marriage from the bench. That’s it.

I heard on the news last night that NC makes 30 states thus far where voters, given the chance, seem to contradict lawyers and legistlators out to do the thinking for the voters. Wild, strange, and unexpected, that.

Bryan Preston at The Tatler has this gem from 2004:

OBAMA: What I believe is, that, marriage is between a man and a woman. But what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job. I think that bundle of rights…
MODERATOR: But as far as why, what in your religious faith calls you to be against gay marriage?
OBAMA: What I believe, in my faith, is that, a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God. And it’s not simply the two persons who are meeting. But that doesn’t mean that that necessarily translates into a position on public policy, or with respect to civil unions.

Thankfully, Barack’s religious faith, apparently, comes with an on/off switch.

 

Aftermath

Breitbart: “NAPOLITANO DODGES GAY MARRIAGE QUESTION; ‘PRESIDENT’S ACTIONS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES'” They sure do, Big Sis. Same falsetto as Prince, only a paraphrase: “I just want your extra cash and your kiss.”

Anthony Holm at Brietbart: “OBAMA’S GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS ‘EVOLVE’ BASED ON TIME, AUDIENCE, MONEY”

What is most significant about Obama’s reversals on gay marriage is the timing; each reversal of position just happened to greatly benefit Obama’s political interests at precisely the time they occurred.

Ed Driscoll at Instapundit: “AP: NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS APPROVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT defining marriage as union between a man and woman.”

 

Slightly Off Topic

Flamboyantly gay heterosexual ministry partners are reclaiming language and symbols. They’re pumping the rainbow and the word ‘gay’ full of hot, hot traditional meaning.

Now, I know what you’re thinking — Hutcherson, a former NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys, is referencing his views on sexuality. But this isn’t the case. Instead, the heterosexual preacher is talking about attitude. Recently, he made some interesting statements about reclaiming the word “gay” from the LGBT community (i.e. their definition of “gay” is “happy”).
Rather than serving as a word used to describe sexual preference, Hutcherson hopes that it will return to its roots of being a descriptive for “happy” or “joyous.” So he took to his church‘s web site along with fellow Pastor James Hansen to publish an article that delves into what he’s hoping to accomplish.

I read this and feel there is traditional hope, not ObamaHope, for our future.

 

What I think

The Federal government is chartered to handle multi-state and international affairs. Not bedroom affairs. I don’t even think I’m libertarian on Constitutional matters anymore: I’m for examining the objects and components of the system in context, and avoiding the Lefty conflations they’ve used, in the Cthulhu fashion, to amass power.

It seems as though things are playing out as they should; blue states are gay-friendly. Perhaps co-incidentally, the people of those blue states are reaping the economic rewards of deviating from the fundamental principle of form following function.

I need not set myself up as judge. History and Economics are doing far better than I ever could.

If the LGBT community thinks that supporting Cthulhu is their best rout to achieving their goals, one can’t fault their free-will choice to do so. Even if the results are kinda predictable, on a variety of levels.

Category: Barack Obama, Democrats, Gays, Progressivism

Say Good-Bye, Dick; Orrin’s Next

Posted on | May 9, 2012 | 23 Comments

Sen. Dick Lugar lost the Indiana GOP primary to challenger Richard Mourdock and it wasn’t even close: 61% for Mourdock, 39% for Lugar. The response from Republican leadership? RINO-tastic:

Looking toward the November election, National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman Sen. John Cornyn of Texas said two weeks ago that “it will probably make it more of a contest if Sen. Lugar is not the nominee, but I’m confident we’ll hold the seat.”
In a statement Tuesday night once the outcome was clear, Cornyn said Mourdock “has the NRSC’s full support and we are committed to helping elect him as Indiana’s next U.S. Senator in November.”

The NRSC is a corrupt incumbent-protection racket, and they don’t know how to cope with conservative challengers. Speaking of which, Orrin Hatch has just agreed to one debate with his primary opponent Dan Liljenquist:

Sen. Orrin Hatch and former state Sen. Dan Liljenquist have agreed to one debate before the Republican primary election June 26.
Hatch’s campaign manager Dave Hansen told KSL Radio on Tuesday that the senator has accepted an invitation a debate Liljenquist on the Doug Wright Show in June. A date and time has not been set.
“This will be the last one,” Hansen said.
And the only debate since Liljenquist narrowly forced the six-term senator into a primary at the state Republican Party convention last month. Hansen said Hatch isn’t doing any other debates.
Liljenquist is attempting to turn the tables on Hatch, saying that when Hatch first ran in 1976 he called for eight debates so that Utahns could see the candidates side-by-side and hear their positions.
“We expect the same courtesy from Sen. Hatch,” Liljenquist told KSL Radio. . . .
“Why does Sen. Hatch feel he is entitled to run out the clock as he runs for his seventh term and simply refuse to debate?”

DAN LILJENQUIST for U.S. SENATE

Category: Election 2012, Indiana, Republicans, Senate, Tea Party, Utah

LIVE AT FIVE – 05.09.12

Posted on | May 9, 2012 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Mourdock Defeats Lugar

Insurgent GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock

Lugar loses 40-60, Tea Party claims another scalp; omens for Orrin Hatch not looking too good right now

Suicide Bomber Was Double Agent
Al-Qaeda bomber actually agent for Saudi intelligence; infiltrated AQ and volunteered for bomb mission to steal new type bomb

NC Votes For Ban On Gay Marriage
Passes 53-47; ballot count in favor of ban exceeds Obama’s 2008 total



POLITICS
Milwaukee Mayor Will Face Scott Walker After Winning Democratic Primary

Richard Barrett

Walker wins GOP primary easily against token opposition

Speechwriter: John Edwards Knew About Coverup

Obama Denies Presiding Over Bloated Government; Data Say Otherwise

GOP Blocks Senate Debate On Student Loan Bill

GOP Fumbles Hispanic Outreach

Federal Court Strikes Down Illinois Eavesdropping Law As It Applies To Recording Police



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Crude Drops Again On Saudi Comments, Weaker Euro; NYMEX $97.26, Brent $112.73
Disney Shares Pass All-Time High On Earnings
Dow Sinks For Fifth Day In A Row
German Patience With Greece On Euro Wears Thin
Greece Could Be Out Of The Eurozone As Early As This Summer
BofA Offers Home Loan Modification
Gasoline Price Outlook Revised Downward
Ten Key Issues To Follow In Google v. Oracle Case
Twitter Downplays Reports Of 55,000 Hacked Accounts
MySpace Settles FTC Privacy Investigation
Portable Fuel Cell Charger Offers Weeks Of Smartphone Power
India Snaps On Gloves, Bends Google Over For Antitrust Probe



SPORTS
Hamilton Clubs Four Dingers As Rangers Rout O’s

Teammates congratulate Josh Hamilton after his fourth homer

First player to hit four homers in a game since the Blue Jays’ Carlos Delgado in 2003

Devils Oust Flyers From Playoffs In Game 5, 3-1

Andy Pettitte Starting On Sunday For The Yankees

Hawks Edge Celtics To Stay Alive, 87-86

Royals Rally Past Red Sox On Butler’s Three-Run Homer

Billy, Cal Ripken Agree: Hamels Hitting Harper Wasn’t “Old School”

Pirates Edge Nationals 5-4 On Barajas’ Sayonara Homer In 9th



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Travolta Hit With Second Sexual Assault Claim

John Travolta - serial groper?

Reps deny all charges, calling them “frivolous” and “fictional”

“The Voice” Torn Apart By Aguilera/Levine Brawl

Meet Charlize Theron’s Boy Jackson

Mila Kunis Saves Man’s Life

Careful With That Dress, Duchess

Maurice Sendak Dies, 83

Universal In Talks To Continue “Kick-Ass” Franchise

“Avengers” Joke Jacks Up Shawarma Sales In L.A.



FOREIGNERS
New Elections Looming For Greece?
Cracks Appear Even As UK Coalition Government Relaunches Itself
Kofi Annan: “Last Chance” To Avoid War In Syria
What the fsck does he think is going on there now?
Clinton Wraps Up Trip By Pressing Pakistan On Terrorism
Netanyahu Solidifies Power With Supermajority
Summit Canceled As Ukraine Isolation Deepens Over Treatment Of Tymoshenko
PRC Ignores Questions On Expelled Correspondent
PRC Slams Philippines For Worsening Scarborough Shoals Standoff



BLOGS & STUFF
Power Line: Lugar Routed
American Power: Lugar Concession Speech Slams Mourdock
Campaign 2012: Obama Waves Goodbye To “Friend” Lugar
LifeNews.com: White House Says Abortion OK, But Visitors Must Register Unborn Children
Legal Insurrection: Cruel Irony In Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Saga
Lonely Conservative: Interesting Twist In The Liz Warren Cherokee Heritage Story
Kathryn Lopez: The Bullies Win
Hit & Run: Chronicle Of Higher Education Fires Blogger For Questioning Seriousness Of Black Studies Departments
Weekly Standard: Obama Might Lose WV Delegate To Prison Inmate
Marco Rubio: Student Loans Are A Burden, But The Lack Of Jobs Hurts America More
Just One Minute: Lessons In Leadership From The NYT
Ed Morrissey: No Soros Money For Obama Campaign?
Bret Stephens: To The Class Of 2012

Category: Live at Five

#AskMichelle

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | 12 Comments

by Smitty

Way too much fun. Click the image for my full, unexpectedly caustic spleen dump:

Update: more via Twitchy

Update II: Still more via Just a Conservative Girl

Category: Barack Obama

Stacy McCain’s Email May Have Been Hacked

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | 19 Comments

by Smitty

If you get email from him with a link to www.onenews15.net, or similar, it is suspect.

I use Chrome & “Do Not Track Plus” to keep my browsing from becoming a bummer.

Category: Blogging

Wow. This Almost Never Happens.

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | 6 Comments

Betsy Rothstein writes something I agree with:

Were these so-called practices ever thought out or spelled out in the first place? Was Riley ever told what she could or couldn’t write? Or was the outcry of online observers — and there are a lot of them these days with loud, shrill, threatening voices — so great that McMillen collapsed under her own lack of direction and standards that were never conveyed to Riley in the first place?

This is probably a sign that the Apocalypse is upon us. On the other hand, it could be that writers who frequently piss people off have a common perspective that transcends politics. That is to say, we expect our editors to be on our side in any conflict, even if it’s a conflict the editor might have preferred to avoid.

The way Liz McMillen threw Naomi Schaefer Riley to the wolves is one of those acts of craven spinelessness that make you shudder. Having been called on the carpet and read the Riot Act a few times in my career, I’m OK with getting chewed out if I screw up.

“Watch your step” or “Don’t ever let this happen again.” — that kind of warning might be appropriate. But to just suddenly dump a writer, the first time they piss somebody off? No, uh-uh.

This was my problem with the way Rich Lowry handled the situation with John Derbyshire, who for years had been allowed to write inflammatory stuff for other outlets until one day — bam! — suddenly it was a problem and Derb got fired. Was there no point in the preceding years where Lowry could have sat down with Derbyshire and had a little chat? “Hey, Derb, about this race stuff you’ve been writing . . .”

Anyway, last time I checked, Betsy Rothstein was still an Evil Left-Wing Bitch From Hell, but she’s absolutely right about this:

In most newsrooms editors fiercely protect their reporters. Most editors don’t let strangers in the door and watch as the reporter gets bloodied. Maybe McMillen could be a real editor, hold strong and “improve” their ways instead of essentially letting a wild flash mob determine Riley’s fate.

So either Rothstein’s evil is diminishing, or I’m getting soft in my old age, or else the ancient Mayans were right about 2012 being The End.

UPDATE: Ed Driscoll has been aggregating like a mofo on this story while filling in for Instapundit today, and links this item by Jonathan Tobin at Commentary:

McMillen’s note is doubly offensive because its characterization of Riley’s post is incorrect, and because she also chose to grovel to the mob by apologizing for a previous editor’s note in which she invited readers to debate the author’s opinion. Though she now says her previous note was wrong to “elevate Riley’s post to the level of informed opinion,” the only thing that is clear from reading her obsequious apology is that in allowing Riley’s critics to dictate editorial policy, she has debased the Chronicle and herself to a point where neither can be taken seriously.

Feeding the tiger, hoping to be eaten last. Elsewhere, the ubiquitous Driscoll calls our attention to James Taranto’s take at the WSJ: “A lesson from an editor in how not to do journalism.” Still further — again, following Driscoll — we have reactions from Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard, Victor Davis Hanson at National Review and Ron Radosh at PJM.

Category: Journalism

Gaffe-Tastic!

Posted on | May 8, 2012 | 12 Comments

Joe Biden continues to demonstrate his gravitas:

“When we took office, let me remind you, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We were the problem,” Biden said. “We were diplomatically isolated in the world, in the region, in Europe.”
Biden continued, “We were neither fully respected by our friends nor feared by our opponents. Today is it starkly, starkly different.”

And Sarah Palin wasn’t qualified to be vice-president?

Category: Iran, Joe Biden
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