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		<title>When Black Lives Don&#8217;t Matter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left reveals how racist it really is.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BlackLivesMatter.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246639" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/BlackLivesMatter-450x313.png" alt="BlackLivesMatter" width="312" height="217" /></a>The slogan of the wave of Ferguson protests is “Black Lives Matter.” But progressives are far more interested in toting around the corpse of Michael Brown to their protests than in the living man he was.</p>
<p>Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and countless others like them grew up in broken families, their lives haunted by fathers and stepfathers with gang ties. The only masculine culture they had was that of the thug and that culture eventually killed them.</p>
<p>Criminal culture is even more fatal to criminals than it is to their victims. If you attack enough people, eventually one of them will fight back. Eventually one of them will kill you.</p>
<p>It wasn’t Darren Wilson who decided that black lives don’t matter. Michael Brown did. He did not grow up with a sense that his life was worth anything more than violent posturing could make of it. Just like Martin, that violent posturing eventually killed him.</p>
<p>Rappers recorded a tribute song to Michael Brown titled, “Don’t Shoot.” But Brown’s own songs had a different theme <a href="http://www.youngcons.com/michael-brown-made-some-very-graphic-rap-songs-and-the-lyrics-are-troubling/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">with lyrics like</span></a> “My favorite part of killing people is when they hit the ground.”</p>
<p>Black criminals victimize other black people first. The Ferguson looters went after businesses serving the black community and businesses owned by black people. That’s the way it always is.</p>
<p>Which black lives really matter in Missouri; the lives of criminals shot by police officers or the black lives taken by criminals?</p>
<p>Missouri has a black homicide rate that is nearly double the nationwide homicide rate for black people. And it’s nearly six times higher than the overall murder rate in Missouri.</p>
<p>If the media were really outraged by lost black lives, they would be outraged by those numbers. If the protesters really wanted to say that black lives matter, they would fight those murder rates instead of contributing to them with their protests.</p>
<p>The story of Missouri’s murder rate is the story of the left. From the beginning to the end of the 1960s, murder rates doubled, rapes, robberies and car thefts doubled, assaults tripled and thefts quadrupled.</p>
<p>A decade in which America changed left a bloody trail of death and misery in its wake. The victims of the left’s transformation of America filled the gutters, morgues, prisons and hospitals.</p>
<p>When Giuliani pointed out that the police were there to protect black people, he was asserting that black lives matter. And unlike every single one of his self-righteous critics, he actually saved black lives.</p>
<p>The decision of his Socialist successor, Bill de Blasio, to move criminals back into housing projects was a statement that they don’t. Housing projects in the pre-Giuliani era belonged to drug dealers. Getting criminals out of housing projects saved black lives, especially those of children.</p>
<p>The “Black Lives Matter” protesters claim that there’s a crisis of police shootings. There isn’t. There is a crisis of young black men shooting each other.</p>
<p>After the shooting of drug dealer Derrick Jones, the NAACP breathlessly reported that 37 black people were shot by police in Oakland over four years. Meanwhile there were 1,594 shooting victims in Oakland in one year.</p>
<p>The vast majority of the perpetrators were black. The <a href="https://oaklandnorth.net/2012/03/19/oakland-homicides-in-2011-a-statistical-breakdown/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">majority of murder victims</span></a> were young black men. So were their killers.</p>
<p>The leading cause of death for young black men is murder. The perpetrators are other young black men.</p>
<p>If black lives really mattered, then the life of a young black man shot down by a criminal would matter at least as much as Michael Brown. But those black lives don’t matter.</p>
<p>The progressive Ferguson protesters not only don’t care about them, but they want to take more black lives by empowering criminals and crippling the police.</p>
<p>The gang is to the black community as the cartel is to lawless parts of Mexico, except that the American equivalents of the Narcocorrido, the songs glamorizing cartel drug dealers, are distributed by major music labels and their performers are invited to the White House.</p>
<p>While Mexico tries to fight drug and gang music, American progressives make it mainstream.</p>
<p>Gang culture in Black America, which is responsible for most of the gun violence in the country, isn’t the work of a few thugs in a burned out building; it’s promoted by progressives in the entertainment industry. The black lives taken by its glamorization of drug dealing and violent killing also don’t matter.</p>
<p>You don’t show that black lives matter by supporting criminal control over entire black neighborhoods. When you fight the criminals who are taking black lives, when you roll back crime, then you show that black lives really matter. When you help criminals you are announcing that black lives don’t matter.</p>
<p>Despite its self-righteousness about black lives mattering, the left isn’t any good at saving them. It is however really good at taking them. Planned Parenthood’s black outreach arm announced on Twitter that it was joining the Ferguson protests <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/group-promoting-black-abortions-joins-blacklivesmatter-campaign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">because #BlackLivesMatter</span></a>.</p>
<p>More African-American lives were ended at abortion clinics in the United States than anywhere else. But those black lives also don’t matter.</p>
<p>The 6,000 black people murdered in one year don’t matter. The <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/14/african-american-pastor-horrified-when-he-learns-how-abortion-targets-blacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">400,000 black babies</span></a> killed in one year don’t matter.</p>
<p>Does a black man have to be killed by a white cop for his life to matter to the left? That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn from Ferguson.</p>
<p>To the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, the furious white hipsters crowding malls and staging die-ins, black lives only matter when they feed their own political agendas, their grudges and their own egos.</p>
<p>If black lives really mattered to the left, it would not have built an entire industry, an entire culture and an entire political movement around taking them.</p>
<p>Progressives only care about black people when they’re using them as weapons. For black lives to matter to them, they have to be dead at the hands of a white man. For black unemployment to matter to them, they have to be able to blame it on Republicans. Black poverty, black homelessness only matter to them when they can cash in on a social justice solution that doesn’t fix the problem.</p>
<p>The rest of the time they don’t pay attention and don’t care.</p>
<p>Black people exist for the political convenience of progressives. Black lives don’t matter to them except when they can make use of them. The master-slave relationship has shifted from the plantation to the poll inflating the self-esteem and power of the masters while destroying the lives of their slaves.</p>
<p>The Ferguson protests are not about saving black lives, but promoting the pro-crime politics that take them. Its message is that all black people are criminals and have to be protected from law enforcement. By turning Michael Brown into the ubiquitous black man, the left reveals how racist it really is.</p>
<p>If black lives truly matter, then they matter when the conditions of their misery can’t be blamed on white people. If black lives truly mattered to the protesters, they would fight crime instead of supporting the criminals taking black lives.</p>
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		<title>3 Myths About the Rioters and Looters of Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weather breaks up a riot faster than appeasement.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246267" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson--450x253.jpg" alt="ferguson-" width="313" height="176" /></a>The angry rioter is a sacred figure in the progressive pantheon of social justice. The shirtless men in bandanas carting away cell phones are so outraged by injustice that they are willing to take to the streets and do what progressive hipsters taking social justice selfies of themselves in souvenir t-shirts plastered with the face of the latest victim of “white supremacism” can only dream about.</p>
<p>But the saint of the looted convenience store is as mythical a figure as the selfless community organizer. The race riot isn’t a bubbling stew of outrage out of which wounded souls emerge to cry out for justice. It’s a complicated criminal conspiracy in which the perpetrators rarely suffer any consequences.</p>
<p>Here’s how a race riot is actually put together.</p>
<p><strong>3. Riots aren’t fed by outrage, but by opportunism.</strong></p>
<p>The rioters aren’t outraged, they’re usually bored young men, frustrated and lacking in empathy. Many of them have gang ties or a criminal record stretching back to kindergarten.</p>
<p>They’re the same people who commit crimes in any other non-outraged context.</p>
<p>The rest are there to get some attention while providing them with protective coloration. 9 out of 10 people screaming frenziedly while holding up “Black Lives Matter” signs would eagerly scream and hold up “Justin Bieber 4 President” or “Ferguson Loves the KKK” signs if it got them positive attention and a shot at being on television.</p>
<p>Everything you need to do know about why the riots fizzled out can be read on a thermometer. On Monday, when the grand jury failed to indict Officer Wilson, the temperature hit a high of 57 degrees. The next day it was still in the forties. Now that the temperature is in the twenties, the riots have fizzled out.</p>
<p>Weather breaks up a riot faster than appeasement. It’s hard to riot when your teeth are chattering.</p>
<p>There’s a reason that riots usually happen in the summer. If the grand jury verdict had been issued in January, it would have been met peacefully.</p>
<p>The riots in Ferguson didn’t happen because of outrage, but because the gathering mobs were told by everyone from CNN right up to Governor Nixon that angry protests were expected and would be tolerated. That was as good as throwing a match into a spreading pool of gasoline.</p>
<p>No one was stealing beauty supplies or starting fires in Walgreens because they were upset that Michael Brown got shot. They were stealing for the same reasons that Michael Brown stole; because they believed that they could get away with it.</p>
<p><strong>2. The rioters and looters aren’t burning their own community.</strong></p>
<p>A riot has two components. There are the bored and irritated locals who begin swarming streets because they have no jobs, it’s hot outside and there’s nothing good on television. They will loosely agree with whatever issue is on the table, but they aren’t all that worked up about it.</p>
<p>And then there are the outsiders.</p>
<p>Before the riot, community organizers, citizen reporters and assorted activists show up to coordinate, spread slogans and justify the coming violence. They want violence far more than the locals do and they taunt police and try to create incidents, but they usually avoid personally engaging in violence.</p>
<p>(In the early twentieth century the group stirring up riots was usually some arm of the Communist Party. Later a variety of leftist groups, many closely entangled with the Democratic Party took over. The Ferguson protests are somewhat unique in the sizable Muslim presence with their activists playing the same role that the Communist Party used to play a century ago.)</p>
<p>Most of the damage is done by looters and rioters from other areas looking for an opportunity to burn and steal. Some locals will tag after them, but they are usually responsible for the worst of the violence.</p>
<p>Being outsiders they’re unknown to the police and rarely have to worry about being identified afterwards. And they don’t care about burning down someone else’s community.</p>
<p>The media usually sticks to its narrative of an outraged community that engages in excesses, especially when it can’t tell apart the locals from the outsiders. Local cops can, but no one in the media listens to them. Arrest records usually show that most of those charged in the more violent crimes aren’t locals, but the media remains immune to facts that conflict with a favorite narrative.</p>
<p><strong>1. Riots are about power, not for the rioters, but for the establishment.</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;We must not reprimand our children for outrage when it is the outrage that was put in them by an oppressive system,&#8221; Al Sharpton had said, in the aftermath of the murder of a Jewish student by an angry black mob.</p>
<p>This same rhetoric was used by the inciters of the violence in Ferguson and has been used in similar riots going back generations. Its major theme is that the rioters are free to do whatever they want. They carry no moral responsibility for their actions.</p>
<p>And what they want is to smash and steal anything they can get their hands on. This isn’t outrage. It’s textbook amoral behavior. The riot doesn’t release anger; it frees the perpetrators of their morality.</p>
<p>The real purpose of a riot isn’t to benefit the rioters. It’s to benefit those who incite the riot. The rioters and looters react in response to riot-friendly conditions created from above. If you build the political infrastructure for a riot, the rioters and looters will come.</p>
<p>Sharpton’s riots weren’t about helping anyone except himself. By associating himself with violence, he sold the idea that he was an influential figure in the black community. Whether or not Sharpton was actually popular, his rise to the top of the political establishment became a self-fulfilling prophecy.</p>
<p>Riots are about perception, not reality. The ringleader tries to keep his hands clean while convincing the establishment that he can turn the violence on or off any time he wants to.</p>
<p>Ferguson is the product of a new generation of Sharptons, ambitious activists feeding hate, of the New Black Panther Party’s obsession with becoming relevant, of the ragged hipster ends of Occupy Wall Street drifting from occupation to occupation, of Muslim agents dreaming of turning African-Americans into a fifth column and of Obama’s clumsy efforts to keep on playing community organizer by feeding racial grievances and then pretending to rise above them.</p>
<p>Those who gain from unleashing chaos and violence are not the powerless, but the powerful. Sharpton rose to his important role as Obama’s liaison on a trail of bodies. Someone operating in Ferguson hopes to be the next Sharpton. Meanwhile Obama is playing a perverse fusion of Sharpton and MLK, amping up a bad situation and then telling blacks and whites that they need to rise above it.</p>
<p>It’s an old and cynical game that has been played in and around the Democratic Party for too long.</p>
<p>The answers to Ferguson can’t be found in its streets. The problem didn’t come from there. It came from a black political establishment that lights the fuse for its own power and profit.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Fix Ferguson by Getting Rid of the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as activist "journalists" are there, the violence won’t end.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239190" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson-450x252.png" alt="Ferguson" width="282" height="158" /></a>If there’s a problem in America or anywhere in the world, inflicting the media on it can only make it worse. By some accounts there are more reporters in Ferguson than there are protesters. That may be why the protesters ran for cover behind the media after throwing bottles of urine at the police.</p>
<p>There are so many reporters in Ferguson that the rioters and looters can use them as human shields. You just wouldn’t know it because they don’t take pictures of each other. The occasional photos of media scrums around a crying woman in the Middle East or an angry protester in Ferguson reveal the artificiality of the event. It’s okay to have one reporter in front of a camera, but when there are so many reporters at an event that they outnumber everyone else, the whole thing starts looking like a movie set on which events are staged for the entertainment and profit of the producers.</p>
<p>Remember that every time you see a masked protester caught in the act of throwing a rock or a loving couple huddled in fear of dark masked shapes in riot gear, these images are as artificial and posed as anything in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.</p>
<p>They show you what is in front of the camera, not what is behind it.</p>
<p>Look through the news reports of riots anywhere and you’ll see the same poses repeat across continents and generations. The rioters are different people with different causes and agendas, but the photos of them are being taken and selected by the same people from the same news agencies.</p>
<p>There is never anything new on the news because the media has a pre-existing formula for handling any event. What we think of as the newspaper or the evening news just plugs actual news into its formula and turns it into propaganda.</p>
<p>The national news network and the newspaper of record tell the same few stories just like Hollywood makes the same movies, even if they seem to feature different characters and places. That’s because the formula doesn’t change. The formula is what we are getting from Ferguson’s mob of professional and amateur reporters each fighting for the chance to retell the same story to the same audience.</p>
<p>Calling the packed masses of angry leftists in Ferguson “reporters” is a little unfair. Even the term media is mostly meaningless. Ferguson is packed with reporters from national and local news networks. Alongside them are crews from enemy state propaganda outlets like Al Jazeera and RT. And they’re the cream of the crop compared to Vice, Infowars and activists with digital cameras selling what they shoot to anyone who will buy it.</p>
<p>Every young leftist who is afraid of going Syria or Gaza has come down to Ferguson to pad his Instagram with something besides photos of last night’s dinner. Activism is to today’s privileged liberal youth what taking a year off to tour Europe used to be to their parents and grandparents. Instead of backpacking through France, they pop some camera gear into their messenger bags and head down to Ferguson to link hands with another Evergreen or Vassar grad while shouting about justice before posing for selfies.</p>
<p>This groundbreaking activism will be a jumping off point for their actual careers in the media where all the Evergreen and Vassar grads will meet once again, except they’ll be wearing suits or power suits and reading from a prepared script and reminiscing about the good times shouting at the cops back in 2014.</p>
<p>The problem in Ferguson revolves around the media the way that the earth revolves around the sun.</p>
<p>There’s no point in marching around and shaking your fists if no one is paying attention to you. The riots and looting will continue for as long as there are correspondents there to shove cameras into angry faces while asking them what it is that they are so angry about. And if they aren’t angry yet, they’ll find something to be angry about if they want to be on the evening news.</p>
<p>Your evening news is no different than reality television. The impromptu performers know what is expected of them and the producers and writers know the story that they want to tell. The rest is improvisation which will be polished and assembled into a more coherent story in post-production.</p>
<p>Most in this media savvy age already know what is expected of them. If they meet Jay Leno with a camera, they know that giving the dumbest possible answer to his questions about history is the way to get on television. If they’re cast on a reality show, they know that behaving like unhinged lunatics will keep the camera on them as long as possible. And if they’re in Ferguson, they know to shout about justice and peace while making death threats because that’s what will get them on television.</p>
<p>Whether it’s reporting on race riots or mass killings, the media perpetuates the behavior that it’s decrying because it delivers ratings and serves its political agenda. Most of the time its talking heads denounce a problem that has always existed and then move on to the next topic. That’s destructive because we are constantly “rediscovering” problems that have never gone away. But it’s even worse when the media camps out and refuses to go away.</p>
<p>Just ask the Israelis.</p>
<p>Thirty years ago international correspondents were paying small boys to throw rocks at Israeli tanks. These days the rocks have been replaced by rockets and the media carefully edits the footage to show the Israeli response not the Hamas attack. The ratings go through the roof and so do the rockets.</p>
<p>The conflict is an open wound because, like Ferguson, it attracted every reporter, stringer and random activist with a camera and a sociology degree to chronicle it. And if there’s no violence, then there’s nothing to chronicle. When terrorists attack Israel, they know that a media army will be there to tell the world their side of the story giving them every possible reason to use violence to control world opinion.</p>
<p>When the media colonizes a conflict, it turns into an open wound that can never heal because healing is a nice short term story, but conflict is an even better long term story. That’s what it is doing in Ferguson.</p>
<p>If Ferguson had never become a national story, the violence would already be over and the kids would be headed to school. But the violence can’t end as long as the media keeps rewarding the violent with attention and encouragement. The very presence of the media encourages protests by promising that an extra-legal option to shortcut the process will give them what they want. And Governor Nixon has already all but promised it to them. And that too is just another way of perpetuating the violence.</p>
<p>The media can be defeated. Its mass of scribblers, photographers and teleprompter readers follows the smell of blood. If a wound is open, they will tear it open and keep it from closing. But if the wound is closed, they have to pack up their tents and go find another bloody mess to feast on.</p>
<p>Don’t reason with them. Making the mistake of trying to win the media over is even more useless. All you can do is cut off their supply by shutting down the conflict as hard and fast as possible. The short term publicity will be ugly, but an ugly media day is better than a bad media month or year.</p>
<p>Conflict is the vital fluid of any narrative. Take away the conflict and there is no longer a story. Without a bleeding wound, the swarming media mobs toting cameras, microphones and iPads will follow the trail of blood to their next story.</p>
<p>And then they will become someone else’s problem.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:10:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bill-de-blasio-has-taken-a-gigantic-lead-in-the-new-york-city-mayors-race.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238332" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bill-de-blasio-has-taken-a-gigantic-lead-in-the-new-york-city-mayors-race-385x350.jpg" alt="bill-de-blasio-has-taken-a-gigantic-lead-in-the-new-york-city-mayors-race" width="251" height="228" /></a>The death of Eric Garner in Staten Island, New York City has attracted tabloid headlines for days.  His death is undoubtedly a tragedy.  Thankfully, in the midst of a New York City summer there hasn’t yet been any violence or anarchy as a result.  As a 39-year old <a href="http://www.ronntorossian.com/">born and bred New Yorker</a>, I remember the racial fears that existed in this city when I was growing up. Who can forget the racial politics of the ‘80’s and ‘90’s which today seem like so long ago?</p>
<p>Abner Louima &amp; the Crown Heights Riots? I remember so clearly being at Stuyvesant High School and school ending early in 1991 when the Rodney King riots erupted &#8211; and how the city was gripped with fear.  How I remember dreading my 1.5 hour train rides on the graffiti-filled subways.  All New Yorkers should be thankful to Rudy Giuliani – Mr. Law &amp; Order – who forever changed NYC for the better with his zero tolerance mantra.</p>
<p>One area in which he didn’t excel was in race relations. Racial tensions, however, in many ways changed with Mayor Bloomberg who was less confrontational than his predecessor. Bloomberg – along with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly – regularly dialogued with the minority community, and as a December 2013 Washington Post editorial proclaimed, Bloomberg <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/12/30/mayor-bloomberg-calmed-race-relations/">ushered in the best race relations in decades</a>. As has been widely reported, Reverend Al Sharpton received a call from Bloomberg the night he was elected, and was told:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Hello, this is Michael Bloomberg. I want you to know it will be different with me as mayor. We will not agree on everything, but you will have access to City Hall.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Like it or not, Bloomberg’s strategy worked for New Yorkers.  The economy boomed, the quality of life improved across the city and crime hit all-time lows. The equilibrium of balance which is always sensitive in this area worked.</p>
<p>This month sees the first major potential for chaos in the era with an uber-liberal Mayor Bill DeBlasio occupying City Hall. This week has seen sparing protests – amidst an announcement by Sharpton to march to the spot where Garner died over the Verrazano Bridge on August 23<sup>rd</sup>. Rev. Al’s former chief of Staff now works for the Mayor&#8217;s wife – who is herself a powerful force in NYC government.  Yet, clearly the need to make noise outside isn’t quite the same with ones’ interests being represented in government.</p>
<p>In New York, however, the police need to be given more credit.  Our heroic boys in blue are slighted &#8211; as Patrick Lynch, the president of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, said recently that police officers feel they have no officials right now in NY government. Lynch noted that “.. the City Council is not looking out for you, there’s not a voice from City Hall looking out for you.”</p>
<p><a href="http://nypost.com/2014/07/30/why-de-blasio-smears-the-nypd/">A recent editorial in The NY Post</a> noted that he shows “ boorish elitism toward the dangerous work of policing.” The editorial continued that the Mayor’s heart is “..not with those who risk their lives to keep us safe,” and continued to say that “de Blasio is still riding an anti-police agenda.”</p>
<p>With power comes responsibility to govern an entire city – and standing on the side of the police is vital for this city. The cops keep us safe, and decisions made inside the halls of power must not alienate them. So much is going right in NYC. The Disneyfication of NY has seen so many positive things – including the reduction of racial tensions.</p>
<p>Let’s hope that <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/immigrant-taxi-drivers-targeted-in-de-blasios-new-york/">Mayor DeBlasio</a> remembers that he needs to hear all of New York for the city to be effective.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>The violent, anti-Semitic nightmare Europe thought it would never see again after the Nazi Holocaust is raising its ugly head once more, this time on French soil.</p>
<p>Jew-hatred, mostly among France’s six and a half million Muslims, is reaching such threatening proportions that an increasing number of the country’s 500,000 Jews feel forced to leave their native land to ensure their safety. At one Jewish agency that assists French Jews to emigrate to Israel the telephone, it was reported, “does not stop ringing.</p>
<p>“For 2014, one will have to register a record number of departures of French Jews for Israel since its creation in 1948,” the agency’s director told the French newspaper <i>Le Figaro</i>. “It will safely exceed 5,000 people. In 2013, there were already 3,300, an increase of 73 percent compared with 2012.”</p>
<p>And one can expect the numbers to climb even higher after the recent displays of Jew-hatred in France that “shocked” and “dumbfounded” the country’s Jewish community. In two demonstrations on successive July weekends in central Paris, demonstrators, mostly Muslims of North African and Middle Eastern descent, allegedly protesting Israel’s invasion of the Gaza Strip, shouted anti-Semitic slogans, attacked police, burned vehicles and damaged stores.</p>
<p>Authorities banned the second demonstration after the first one saw two synagogues and a kosher grocery store attacked, all accompanied by shouts of ‘Death to the Jews’. But the ban didn’t make any difference. The demonstration went ahead anyways. Mob rule and barbarism won out over law and order. And the government’s apparent powerlessness, or unwillingness, to enforce the ban was very noticeable.</p>
<p>“Saturday at the synagogue, there was only talk of packing one’s suitcases,” said the publication manager of a Jewish newspaper after the riots. “One has the feeling that this is only the start, that this is going to become more radical&#8230;”</p>
<p>According to <i>Le Figaro</i>, some young, French Jewish families are leaving both because of the country’s increasingly anti-Semitic climate, which, they believe, endangers their children, and the French economy’s poor performance. Representatives of France’s Jewish community told the newspaper parents fear putting their children into Jewish schools and summer camps because of possible anti-Semitic attacks. And who can blame them when one recalls French jihadist Mohammed Merah, who murdered four people, three of them children, at a Jewish school in Toulouse in 2012.</p>
<p>“In the face of civil society’s indifference, one senses a keen anxiety of some families concerning their ability to lead a quiet life of Jewish identity in France,” said the emigration agency director.</p>
<p>While this indifference is disturbing enough, the outright support the demonstrators receive from leftist segments of the French political class is equally disconcerting. France’s radical left parties, such as the Green, Communist and New Anti-Capitalist Party have made an alliance with the anti-Semitic demonstrators from the ‘banlieues’ (France’s immigrant ghettos). The New Anti-Capitalist Party, for example, helped organise the first demonstration, and a mayor, also a Green Party member, took part in the banned protest.</p>
<p>This alliance, according to French philosopher Robert Redeker, is due to radical leftists having abandoned their traditional hope of using the working class as the instrument to destroy society. To the radical left’s eternal disappointment, French workers were not revolutionary enough. But Muslim rioters are. In them, the extreme left sees the proletariat’s replacement in carrying out the historic duty of violent revolution.</p>
<p>Members of radical left parties have also made statements that are outrageous in content but nevertheless contribute to the increasingly poisonous and threatening anti-Semitic climate facing France’s Jews. For example, a French deputy to the Europe-Ecology-The Greens (EELV), another environmental political outfit, justified the attacks on the synagogues, claiming on Twitter they are like “embassies.</p>
<p>“When the synagogues are acting like embassies, it is not surprising that they are subjected to the same attacks as an embassy,” he wrote.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the communists were also not behind in making similar, illogical claims to rationalise the violence and Jew-hatred. France’s Communist Party, along with the other radical left parties, was upset authorities banned the second demonstration. It issued a communique calling this measure a “very serious and extremely worrying hindrance concerning the right to demonstrate.” The communique also claimed “small, pro-Israeli groups” were the cause of the first demonstration’s “acts of violence and incitements to hatred.”</p>
<p>Well, one has to admit, it is nice to see someone finally calling for human rights and freedom of political expression while waving the hammer and sickle. But it seems to have escaped the French communists&#8217; notice, along with their party’s history between 1917 and 1991, that it was rioting, anti-Semitic Muslims attacking synagogues and not Jews attacking mosques that led to the ban. Besides, Islamists hardly need anyone to incite them to hate Jews. They’re self-starters.</p>
<p>One communist deputy to France’s national legislature even asked President Francois Hollande, in an open letter, to ban the Jewish Defense League (JDL), whose members defended the synagogues during the attacks. He called the JDL a “criminal, fascist organization,” since it was equally “responsible for the provocations” that led to the violence. Again, this particular communist politician needs a serious history lesson when it comes to “a criminal, fascist organisation.”</p>
<p>France’s mainstream Socialist Party (SP), which currently rules the country, is also a cause for concern. The head of France’s Jewish student union said Jewish students are still waiting for the government to “provide not only answers regarding security, but real proposals to re-establish co-existence in our neighbourhoods, our universities.</p>
<p>“We are posing questions on the ability of the Republic to protect its citizens,” he said.</p>
<p>These students might have to wait a while longer, however, if the SP’s left wing is charged with finding security and co-existence solutions, since it appears to be in the anti-Israel camp. Thirty-three SP deputies of the National Assembly signed a joint communique “for peace and justice in the Middle East” that was sent to media outlets. It called for “French and European authorities to use all their influence to stop immediately and without delay the violence which has been going on since July 8,” the date of Israel’s Gaza invasion. No mention was made of the rockets Hamas had fired at Israel prior to this date that brought about the Israeli military response.</p>
<p>“Together, we have the duty to use our freedom of expression and right to demonstrate peacefully,” the communique further stated.</p>
<p>Understandably, some editors took the communique as a SP call to demonstrate against Israel’s Gaza intervention at an upcoming protest march. Several signatories immediately denied this and blamed the media for misinterpretation, professing their opposition to anti-Semitism. However, about 30 SP deputies did take part in the authorised demonstration, which went off peacefully, possibly because the organizers had to put up security guarantees.</p>
<p>But the socialist deputies’ presence at the demonstration can be understood in a different, darker context as concerns France’s Jews. After the synagogue attacks, Francois Hollande, France’s president and SP leader, declared the fight against anti-Semitism “a national priority.” But the fact that a block of his party’s national deputies chose to be present at an event where anti-Semitic outbursts, possibly violent ones, could have occurred, shows they are not interested in any project that rejects this evil, even one initiated by their own leader. This also casts doubt on their professed anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Even worse, the Socialist deputies’ presence at the protest can be viewed as a silent endorsement of the previous demonstrations’ anti-Semitic violence. While the extreme left directly supports such vileness by openly blaming the Jews, mainstream socialists are doing the same, but indirectly and with subtlety. Which can only encourage further, anti-Jewish attacks.</p>
<p>France’s Jewish community should also not place much hope on their country’s political class resolving the deteriorating security situation, which, some believe, is now not only unresolvable but “explosive.” Hollande himself, for example, switched from a pro-Israeli position at the start of the Gaza conflict to one now termed “balanced.” This was obviously done to please France’s Muslims, which his party regards as a voting constituency. So after first appearing resolute in supporting Israel, he is now vacillating. France&#8217;s Jews can probably expect similar treatment in the future, especially around election time. Besides, one also must be quite cynical to begin with to be able to strike a “balanced” position between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>Considering the recent anti-Semitic riots and jihadist attacks their community has endured over the years, including murders, it is no surprise Jews are fleeing France in record numbers. And it is wise they do so, since, with increasing Muslim immigration, one can only expect a corresponding rise in anti-Semitism. No one speaks of a decrease.</p>
<p>But the best reason for France’s Jews to emigrate was revealed in the open letter the communist deputy sent to Hollande, calling for the JDF’s banning. By wanting to strip the synagogues of any defense, such as the JDF represents, the radical left displays its true goal, albeit its short-term one, which is for France to have its own ‘Kristallnacht’.</p>
<p>This also converges nicely with the aims of their anti-Semitic Muslim allies, already experienced in destroying synagogues and churches in Islamic countries. In a nice, Nazi-like touch, the radical left can also be expected to twist any future synagogue destruction to appear as the French Jews’ own fault. The two allies’ long-term goal, which, history has shown, occurs after a ‘Kristallnacht’, is a second Holocaust.</p>
<p>So when anti-Semitic demonstrators are yelling ‘Death to Jews’ on central Parisian streets, France’s Jews should realize they mean it. Some of those leaving now know that they do.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do the Ukraine riots, Iranian belligerence and China's new air defense zone have in common?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Picture-31.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-212201" alt="Picture 3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Picture-31.png" width="293" height="219" /></a>What do the riots in the Ukraine, Iran throwing its weight around in the Persian Gulf and China’s new air defense zone all have in common? Barack Obama and his Post-American world.</p>
<p>Nations exercise power within spheres of influence. As the American sphere of influence shrinks to nothing; Iran, China and Russia are using the opportunity to expand their own spheres of influence.</p>
<p>In Obama’s world the expansion of America’s sphere of influence is done through a non-threatening charm offensive to win over enemy countries. In the real world, charm offensives and soft power extend your influence into areas where you lack the ability to project more conventional forms of power.</p>
<p>That is why China employs soft power in America, but deploys the old fashioned kind of crude military power in the South China Sea, why Russia uses soft power in America, but a cruder form of trade blackmail in the Ukraine and why Iran may have pulled off its charm offensive at the nuclear talks with phony moderation, but its charm offensive in the Persian Gulf is backed by the overt threat of force.</p>
<p>Unlike most American leaders, Obama hasn’t used soft power to supplement or extend conventional power; instead he has traded one for the other. Trading real power for soft power is something that even Bill Clinton didn’t do and even Jimmy Carter only did within certain practical limitations.</p>
<p>Making the American sphere of influence dependent on Obama’s personal charm made as little sense in geopolitical terms as racking up a 20 trillion dollar debt and expecting to pay it off with smiles would in economic terms. Instead the American sphere of influence simply collapsed. It would have collapsed even harder and faster if there had been anyone else to pick up the slack. But Russia and China are not yet ready to dominate the world and the Caliphate is still only a twinkle in a Syrian Jihadist’s eye.</p>
<p>America holds presidential elections every four years and the rest of the world still thinks that there is a prospect of someone competent taking the helm of the ship of state. If that doesn’t happen; eight years of Hillary could make the current implosion of national power into a permanent state of affairs bringing the age of the Pax Americana to a close.</p>
<p>Liberal foreign policy experts like to think of soft power as a peaceful antidote to all those aircraft carriers and nuclear warheads. That’s only true when soft power humanizes those carriers and warheads. Not when the carriers and warheads are tossed aside for the sake of soft power.</p>
<p>The collapse of the American sphere of influence has touched off numerous conflicts. America’s enemies are becoming pushier in their own backyards and that is stirring up dangerous potential conflicts.</p>
<p>Obama’s interim nuclear deal with Iran has given the terror state the confidence it needed to begin intimidating its Gulf neighbors all over again. The Gulf oil states that depended on the projection of American military power were left naked when Obama acceded to Iran’s nuclear bid. Everyone around the Persian Gulf read the agreement as an admission that the area is no longer within the American sphere of influence and is now falling into the Iranian sphere of influence.</p>
<p>Obama’s concessions to Russia have had the same effect in the east. The “flexibility” that he transmitted to Vladimir was another strategic withdrawal of American power and influence from a crucial region and the transfer of that power and influence to Russia.</p>
<p>With his Asia pivot, Obama seems determined to make an oddball last stand. But his losses in the Middle East and Eastern Europe have significantly undermined the credibility of American staying power.</p>
<p>The People’s Republic of China would not be pushing around America’s allies this brazenly if it though that the American sphere of influence was still viable. Every time Obama has been pushed though, he has backed off. And so China has every reason to believe that Obama will also retreat in Asia if it pushes him hard enough and makes it clear that the alternative to recognizing its territorial claims is open war.</p>
<p>The People’s Republic of China is probably right. If Obama wouldn’t stand up to Russia or Iran; what reason is there to believe that he and Hanoi John Kerry will stand up to China?</p>
<p>Substituting soft power for real power tempts your opponents to test your mettle. The staring contest in the South China Sea may end in a war that a military weakened by drastic cuts is unready for. Like WW2; such a conflict would be a further demonstration of the known dangers of combining heavy doses of appeasement with belated resistance.</p>
<p>In Obama’s world, events abroad are a reflection of policies in Washington. China, Russia and Iran react to his moves rather than having motives and agendas of their own. This follows the left’s misreading of every major international event as a response to American foreign policy. Good events reflect a good foreign policy. Bad events reflect a bad foreign policy. This masochistic solipsism is at times indistinguishable from isolationism.</p>
<p>As are its consequences.</p>
<p>If America is responsible for everything; then it’s safest for it do nothing. Instead of viewing world politics as a dynamic system; the world becomes a purely reactive place. American power is treated as omnipotent and destructive. America can do everything, but should avoid doing anything except reassuring everyone that it has the best of intentions which it will prove it by doing nothing.</p>
<p>That is why Obama thinks that he can change the world by making a speech. He can, but only when the true significance of the speech is another diminution of American power. Obama isn’t actively changing the world. He’s passively changing the world by strategically withdrawing American power.</p>
<p>His soft power isn’t an act of power. It’s an omission of power. Obama is trading away American influence for goodwill and coming away with neither influence nor goodwill.</p>
<p>It’s not Obama’s world. It isn’t even America’s world anymore. There is no surer path to war than a power vacuum. And in the hopes of making peace; he has made war inevitable.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[LaShawn Marten lets us know why he left 62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt with permanent brain damage.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203502" alt="gd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gd-415x350.jpg" width="291" height="245" /></a>Before he bashed the 62-year-old Jeffrey Babbitt in the face this week in a New York park, leaving him with <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">permanent brain damage, LaShawn Marten proclaimed</a>: “I hate white people.”</p>
<p>He saved us the trouble of wondering if the attack was “racially motivated.”</p>
<p>Same for Nkosi Thandiwe. Last year in Atlanta, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">Thandiwe testified he learned to hate white people</a> in college and that is why he killed one white person and hurt a few others.</p>
<p>And if anyone had any doubts about why a car full of five black people drove through the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">French Quarter just a few days ago assaulting white and gay</a> people, they cleared that up by announcing their intentions with racial and sexual slurs.</p>
<p>But that is not how most racial violence happens.</p>
<p>Most does not come gift wrapped with racial expletives or press releases or Tweets that say “90% of white ppl are nasty. #HATE THEM.” As was the case in the recent Oklahoma killing of Chris Lane.</p>
<p>Neither do most perpetrators leave behind clues like a senior thesis at Princeton, where they accuse their white classmates of racism.</p>
<p>That’s why a crowd of 50 black people in Norfolk could beat up two reporters last year. And why their <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">editor refused to even report the crime for two weeks.</a> He said he had no evidence it was “racially motivated.”</p>
<p>Let’s give the trolls their due. A single episode of black mob violence in New York, or Atlanta, or New Orleans or Norfolk or Burlington, North Carolina is hardly enough to merit national attention.</p>
<p>But when these episodes of black mob violence continue over and over again; and when they happen exponentially out of proportion; and when many are on videos featuring the bad actors bragging about their exploits; even the brightest star in the MSNBC line-up is hard pressed to answer two questions:</p>
<p>What is going on with this epidemic of black mob violence all over the country? And how can so many editors ignore it?</p>
<p>Not just the racial violence in the Baltimores, Chicagos, Detroits, Phillies, and New Yorks. But also the Peorias, Springfields, Dovers and even Burlingtons of the world.</p>
<p>More and more people in these tiny corners of the world want to know too.</p>
<p>The Greensboro &#8211; Burlington area of North Carolina used to be Andy of Mayberry country. Today this area is a center of racial violence &#8212; and official denial. As was documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it.</p>
<p>In the upcoming new edition, readers can use their smart phones to scan QR codes so they can see the riots on video as they read about them in the book.</p>
<p>Over the last two years, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">Greensboro has been the site of more than a dozen  episodes of large-scale black mob</a> violence. Some of it on video. It got so bad prior to the Fourth of July this year that the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/for-sherry-in-greensboro-try-again/">Greensboro city council met in an emergency session</a> to slap a curfew on the downtown area.</p>
<p>In addition to violence earlier this summer, they were afraid of a repeat of last year’s Fourth of July mayhem: 1000 black people rampaged through the streets of Greensboro, beating people up, destroying property, attacking police.  Tear gas and tasers took care of that. Some of it, anyway.</p>
<p>This was hardly the first episode of black mob violence, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">as the local TV news breathlessly reported</a> in July 2012:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We’ve uncovered a series &#8212; a series! &#8212; of mob attacks in the heart downtown Greensboro,” said the anchor for the WFMY news. “All of them planned through the social media. And I know it sounds unlikely but it has happened in Chicago and Philadelphia and Milwaukee and now right here in the Triad. Every single weekend this month.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some might think it strange that hundreds of black people were storming through the busiest part of  a usually quiet city, creating epic levels of violence and mayhem, and it took the local news more than a month to notice.</p>
<p>Even then, never once reporting the race of the culprits: There were no printed signs. No epithets. No racist tweets. So it never happened.</p>
<p>At least one city council member acknowledged it in a back hand way: She said <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">she hated to play the race card, but she had to point</a> out the curfew would disproportionately affect black people.</p>
<p>Despite the curfew, the black mob violence in Greensboro continued with at least two major episodes after the curfew was imposed. Including one episode just a few blocks outside of the Maginot Line-like curfew zone.</p>
<p>Now quiet <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">Burlington is trying to</a> catch up.</p>
<p>In July, a mob of at least eight black people beat and robbed a man on a Saturday afternoon. Police soon arrested one person and are looking for the others.</p>
<p>The injuries may not have been “life threatening” as local police say, but to the victims, violent crime is life changing.</p>
<p>“If you look at the news accounts of this case of black on white violence, the police and press tell us this was not a major crime,” said <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Un-Civil-War-Confronting-African-American/dp/0615748473/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376071414&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=taleeb+starkes">Taleeb Starkes, author of The Uncivil War.</a> “There was not much money involved. The victim lived. But one of the reasons these crimes happen so much is that we take them so lightly. This kind of violent crime is life changing and traumatic to the victim. If they lose a little money and no one gets hurt, its no harm, no foul. These predators are domestic terrorists and should be treated as such.”</p>
<p>Just two days before this robbery and beat down, a group of at least five black people broke into a Burlington home and assaulted several people.</p>
<blockquote><p>“The victims described the intruders as five black males wearing black clothing; each had his face covered and was armed with a handgun.</p>
<p>According to police, several victims were physically assaulted with blunt force, and one was transported by Alamance County EMS to Alamance Regional Medical Center with injuries that weren’t considered life threatening.”</p></blockquote>
<p>“Just another day,” said Starkes. “If you believe the city officials and the press.”</p>
<p>More and more do not.</p>
<p>“It’s not going to stop,” said <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">reader David Troutman to the Times News</a> in Burlington. “Are we another Detroit in the making?”</p>
<p>“Once again the culture of violence continues,” added Chuck Spring.</p>
<p>But for every commentator like Chuck Spring looking for answers, someone like <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/for-sherry-in-greensboro-try-again/">Becky Thompson is willing to provide them</a>: Conservatives are to blame for the racial injustice that has created the tsunami of black mob violence around the country.</p>
<blockquote><p>“Chuck Spring and once again, you could help by paying living wages and start voting for jobs instead of voting against the people that need jobs by voting tea party. Obama has had a jobs bill since I believe it was 2011 but the republicans and the tea party are not interested.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This home invasion was not too different from a robbery and break-in last July. A gang of black men robbed and assaulted a 79-year Burlington woman. Several of the men were eventually arrested and the victim said she would pray for them. She said she was thankful the men did not kill her.</p>
<p>Her Burlington neighbors were not quite as forgiving: “It took 7 of them to rob a 79-year-old woman,” <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">said one reader to the local Fox affiliate.</a> “Shame, they&#8217;ll probably get a slap on the wrist…’My boy a good boy. He ain&#8217;t do nothin&#8217;.”</p>
<p>And where media outlets permit comments on racially charged crimes like this &#8212; some do, some do not &#8212; self-defense is a popular them. “Break-in on me?” asked a reader. “As soon as the pistol is in my hands you had better be out of my range.”</p>
<p>But no matter how bad the crime, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/burlington-breaks-bad-in-north-carolina-black-mob-violence/">no matter how often leniency and</a> clemency and more programs are tried and found wanting, some insist we have to continue. Danielle Smith posted her reply to the “get tough” crowd at the Fox News outlet:</p>
<blockquote><p>You seem to have little faith not only in our justice system but in humanity as a whole. Perhaps these criminals aren&#8217;t the only ones to blame (though they ARE very much in the wrong and SHOULD be punished), but who is there to help them stop? Who will take the time to help rehabilitate?</p></blockquote>
<p>Some version of this question has been asked over and over for 50 years. With still no answer.</p>
<p>More and more people are turning for answers to LaShawn and Nkosi, whom we may condemn for racial violence, but applaud for their illuminating and unflinching honesty.</p>
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		<title>Black Mob Violence in the Liberal City of Portland</title>
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<p>Portland is in the middle of a nasty bout of black mob violence. This time directed at bicyclists.</p>
<p>But Tim Oberlander does not want us to know. Oberlander says he wants to be able to live in a city that does good things for good people.</p>
<p>So what’s wrong with that?</p>
<p>Everything.</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">Oberlander is a news editor at KGW TV in Portland</a>.  His city is under attack from black mob violence centered around Martin Luther King Boulevard. This mob has been attacking bike riders, housewives, students, seniors, you name it. These attacks are part of a long &#8212; but quiet &#8212; history of racial violence in a liberal enclave that prides itself on racial tolerance and harmony.</p>
<p>But you would never know it from Oberlander.</p>
<p>Oberlander and his station are  raising money to fix the teeth of a recent victim of black mob violence. &#8220;I want to live in a city where people do good things for other people,&#8221; Tim said. &#8220;Now we&#8217;ve raised money for Andy&#8217;s teeth, I can say that we live in a city that does good things for good people.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tim might be a good person. But some of his viewers say he is a bad and dangerous and unreliable reporter for leaving out the descriptions of the predators in his news accounts.</p>
<p>Here is what <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">Tim’s station, KGW, had to say about a few recent</a> attacks:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Police were warning bicyclists in Northeast Portland to be on the lookout after two men were injured during separate attacks along Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Andy Sweeney is a biker who is also the beneficiary of Oberlander’s largesse. He was riding home from the grocery store in August when a “group of teens” threw a traffic cone at him. Knocking him off his bike, leaving him with a concussion and two shattered front teeth in what used to be a winning smile.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; Sweeney told KGW. &#8220;I don&#8217;t really understand their motivation or what they were going for.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lots of readers figured it out, even if the KGW was determined to ignore it: “Great job &#8216;whitewashing&#8217; the story,” said David Klassix at KGW’s reader comment section. “And falling to mention the attackers were black.”</p>
<p>Said another,<a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank"> Chloe Ru “Hey KGW. I will help you </a>do something called REPORTING THE FACTS instead of hiding the truth,” said Ru. Another victim said “her attackers were a group of [AFRICAN AMERICAN aka BLACK] teenage boys and she suspects they didn’t stop with her.&#8221;</p>
<p>“Anyone with any information about a roaming pack of AFRICAN AMERICAN aka BLACK teenage thugs beating anyone else, please call&#8230;..Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. They care just as much as KGW does about the community&#8217;s safety.”</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">Sweeney described his attackers</a> on Twitter: “Black kids in hoodies.”</p>
<p>After the sanitized version of the bike attacks became public, other victims of black mob violence in that area stepped forward as well, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">one at Reddit.com in response to Sweeney’s Tweet</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Same thing happened to me once except it was a rocks being thrown, and thankfully my teeth are intact. The best you can do is just avoid being around any collection of young black males. It isn&#8217;t being racist it&#8217;s just being practical.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Many of the attacks are centered around Martin Luther King Boulevard. Maybe local media thinks everyone already knows this is a black part of town. For the benefit of the out of towners, it is.</p>
<p>Some readers <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">provided a link to the Chris Rock comedy bit</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;You know what&#8217;s sad? Martin Luther King stood for non violence,” said Rock.  “And I don&#8217;t care where you are in America, if you&#8217;re on Martin Luther King Boulevard, there&#8217;s some violence going down.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>It ain’t the safest place to be. You can’t call nobody and tell them you are lost on MLK.”  (If you do, will say) RUN! RUN! RUN!.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Sad. Sad. Sad.?</p></blockquote>
<p>One of the recent victims, middle aged woman, wound up in the emergency room. The other passed around a flier, warning neighbors to be on the lookout. Said KGW:</p>
<blockquote><p>I heard some noise across the street and apparently one of the guy that was trying to vandalize the car came across the street,” said Amy Wilson. “(He) hit me very, very hard. (He) knocked me out cold. I fell back and hit my head on the sidewalk.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>She suffered a concussion and needed 12 stitches to close the wound on the back of her head.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Wilson said her attackers were a group of teenage boys and she suspects they didn’t stop with her. “I’m almost convinced that it’s the same group that we’ve talked about that are going against cyclists,” she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Then another victim came forward to <a href="http://OregeonLive.com" target="_blank">OregeonLive.com</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>It was at least the second time in less than a week that a group of teenagers had assaulted a bicyclist along MLK.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Last Tuesday night, Bill Lynch, 64, had just crossed MLK as he pedaled home from a garden party when someone in a group of &#8220;three to five young people&#8221; knocked him off his bicycle on the Northeast Going Street Neighborhood Greenway.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were walking down the middle of the street like they owned it,&#8221; Lynch said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what hit me. A strong fist? Something in someone hand? It hurt.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lynch said he was riding past the group and the blow &#8220;came out of nowhere.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“When I filed a police report the officer said similar nighttime incidents had occurred in the neighborhood recently,” Lynch writes in a flyer that he posted in his neighborhood to encourage people to be more vigilant. “I learned there was another attack on Aug. 19. In a couple of cases, the bicyclists were beaten and had their bikes stolen.”</p></blockquote>
<p>And another, Chris Freeman:  <a href="http://connect.oregonlive.com/user/chris_freeman_3/index.html" target="_blank">Chris Freeman</a> wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>I was also attacked by a group of about five kids on bikes at NE 7th and Stanton at about 11pm on Aug 17. One of them jumped off his bike and tried to push me over. Luckily I didn&#8217;t lose my balance after being pushed and was able to get away.</p></blockquote>
<p>Still another:</p>
<blockquote><p>Bummer man. I was riding near SEI in North Portland a few years ago with my 3 year old daughter in a Burley behind me when 5 dudes (yes, they had dark skin) jumped our and threw rocks at us. Amazingly, considering how close they were and how many there were they completely missed and I hightailed it out of there, just feeling really sad about humanity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some were willing to point out the obvious: “There&#8217;s a lot of black-on-white animosity in NE and N Portland. Especially towards white bicyclists.”</p>
<p>All the suspects in all of these attacks are black.</p>
<p>But others in Portland, like Tim, are eager to say they live in a city without racial tension &#8212; or violence.  Several commenters at the <a href="http://Reddit.com" target="_blank">Reddit.com</a> news site say white people do it all the time too.</p>
<blockquote><p>“But there are dumbass white kids who dress the same that are capable of doing stupid shit like this, too. The kids in this instance didn&#8217;t necessarily have to be black, but it is what it is. Dumbassedness knows no racial bounds.”</p></blockquote>
<p>But none of these people supplied police reports, links, pictures or even anecdotes of roving bands of caucasian youth creating violence against black people &#8212; or anyone else.</p>
<p>Others in Portland grudgingly admit that violence is real. But they plead guilty with an explanation: Said someone at <a href="http://Reddit.com" target="_blank">Reddit.com</a> identified as Kounterculture:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think that a lot of it has to do with the fact that in the african-american community bicycling isn&#8217;t seen as a viable alternative to the automobile. It isn&#8217;t mostly racial animosity, although I&#8217;m sure some of that goes on.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Black mob violence against bicyclists and others has been a regular &#8212; and unreported &#8212; feature of life in Portland since at least 2007. Bike Portland reported six years ago several cases of black mob violence against bikers.</p>
<p>The web site mentioned the race of the attackers, largely to dismiss racial violence as having anything to do with it:</p>
<blockquote><p>I don&#8217;t think these attacks are solely about race, but I also don&#8217;t think the conversation is real and honest if we don&#8217;t mention it.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>And I think any mention of race must also include the realities of gentrification in Northeast Portland. I think there remains resentment in the black community about gentrification&#8230;but whether that has to do with bikes and whites is hard to say.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Are bikes somehow symbolic of whites and gentrification to the eyes black community? I&#8217;m not sure, but it&#8217;s a question I&#8217;d like to delve deeper into. It&#8217;s certainly obvious that Portland&#8217;s cycling population could be more diverse.</p></blockquote>
<p>For those who require some help with translation, here it is: Black mobs attack bike riders in Portland because they are not diverse enough.</p>
<p>More than a dozen examples of black mob violence in Portland are documented in White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it. Many of these cases are on video.</p>
<p>The book features QR codes that readers can scan with their smart phones to watch the violence on their smart phones as they read about it. Some recent cases:</p>
<p>Last year, 10 to 15 hoodie wearing black people invaded Nordstrom, stole clothing and <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">raced out of the store. On video</a>.</p>
<p>The locals were far from upset. Said one man who called himself the Crazed Sex Poodle to a local news site:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I am actually sort of hoping that it happens more, it seems like a trend worth encouraging. Giant corporations like Nordstrom and Chevron steal everyday, taking back is something worth fostering.”</p></blockquote>
<p>A few days before that, a <a href="http://www.koinlocal6.com/news/local/story/Another-flash-mob-theft-this-one-turns-violent/97d14ALJA0uDMFOz7jEUbA.cspx" target="_blank">mob of 20 black people chased a white couple</a> into a convenience store. The local papers described the ensuing assault and robbery as a “fight.” The mob left when one of the employees sprayed them with “bear spray.” This too was on video, but the station has since taken it down.</p>
<p>A few days before that: “<a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/portland-black-mob-violence-in-a-liberal-sanctuary/" target="_blank">A large group of kids stormed</a>” into a convenience store and stole everything they could carry. They came back later to threaten the clerk. On video.</p>
<p>A few months after that,  a <a href="http://www.kptv.com/story/18813048/teen-mob-flash-robs-albertsons-store" target="_blank">bigger crowd attacked an Albertson’s grocery store</a>, following the same play book: Theft, destruction, intimidation. And no arrests. Despite the video.</p>
<p>Still, people seemed surprised when in June, a group of 150 black people &#8212; described by the newspapers as drunken teenagers &#8212; assaulted several people in a Portland park, robbing at least one of them. The newspaper &#8212; and the TV broadcast &#8212; may have shied away from describing the attackers, but the internet site of a local TV station was a little more revealing:</p>
<p>“<a href="http://www.katu.com/news/local/Two-large-scale-fights-reported-at-Laurelhurst-Park-159264645.html?tab=video&amp;c=y" target="_blank">Both fights involved groups of black teenagers</a> randomly attacking people in the park.</p>
<p>The following night, <a href="http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2012/06/15/police-respond-to-weird-assaults-in-laurelhurst-park" target="_blank">a group of 20 to 30 black people,</a> came upon three people on a tennis courts at the same park: “Some of the teens began throwing bottles onto the court and calling out to them. They said the teens then began fighting with them.”</p>
<p>In January of this year, a 14-year old white girl was beat down by three black women while <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/01/trimet_beating_of_14-year-old.html" target="_blank">about a dozen other black people took videos</a>, shouted racial epithets, and encouraged the assault. Four people were arrested, including a mother of two of the assailants.  The mother was convicted of giving police false information while trying to hide her daughters.</p>
<p>Taleeb Starkes describes many examples of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Un-Civil-War-Confronting-African-American/dp/0615748473/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1377794565&amp;sr=8-1" target="_blank">black on white crime in his book: The Uncivil War.</a>  “Portland is one of the most liberal cities in the country,” said Starkes. “They are quite proud of that. But this same liberalism is causing them to ignore, condone and excuse black on white crime and black mob violence. People who commit these horrific acts of violence are one thing. But people who condone them by ignoring them or refusing to tell the truth about them only encourage more them to occur. Those folks are sicker than the criminals.”</p>
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		<title>A Muhammad Cartoon Rioter Repents</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From jihadist to liberty lover. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/change.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-202016" alt="change" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/change.jpg" width="275" height="183" /></a>He was the main instigator of the wave of Danish Muslim mischief that arose in reaction to the 2005 Muhammad cartoons and that resulted in riots, embassy burnings, an international boycott of Danish products, and over a hundred deaths.</p>
<p>Now, he says, he&#8217;s changed his mind – not just about the Muhammad cartoons, but about Islam itself. And about Denmark, too, for which he now professes the deepest affection and gratitude. In an August 22 <a href="http://politiken.dk/debat/kroniken/ECE2054363/som-at-beskue-en-villa-gennem-et-noeglehul/">op-ed</a> for the Danish newspaper <em>Politiken</em>, in a <a href="https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/?ui=2&amp;ik=a929d6cd39&amp;view=att&amp;th=140b5da9384537f8&amp;attid=0.1&amp;disp=vah&amp;realattid=f_hkschvnv0&amp;zw&amp;saduie=AG9B_P9TijVFtqY0LhzHew5Cqtih&amp;sadet=1377535830086&amp;sads=0fJBEZ1cj0Fjw4BZBHeAN3z3v1k">lecture</a> given at the Free Press Society, and in dozens of TV, radio, and print interviews in recent days, Ahmed Akkari has described his ideological journey from passionate jihadist to lover of liberty.</p>
<p>Born in Lebanon in 1978, Akkari was taken by his parents at age six to Denmark, where they were given asylum. His parents picked Denmark, he says, precisely because few immigrants lived there at the time; they figured it was a  place where they could live a peaceful and assimilated life far from the turbulence of 1980s Lebanon.</p>
<p>Akkari attended regular Danish schools, where he learned about critical thinking, objective analysis, the scientific method. But then, at age sixteen, he started hanging around a local mosque and listening to “missionaries” who convinced him that they were “in possession of the truth and nothing but the truth.” Soon he was training to become an imam and learning to despise democracy and freedom of speech.</p>
<p>He found work as a teacher at a Muslim school. And then, in 2005 – the same year he was granted Danish citizenship – the newspaper <em>Jyllands-Posten</em> published the Muhammad cartoons. Akkari quickly became the public face and voice of the Muslim protests, stirring up rage among fellow believers not only in Denmark but around the world.</p>
<p>The cartoon riots peaked in 2006. After they died down, Akkari <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/akkari-jeg-var-ung-og-naiv">withdrew</a> from public life for a while. He had time to think. And he began, he <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/tidligere-imam-fortryder-sin-rolle-i-muhammed-krisen-nu-forstaar-jeg-tegningerne">says</a>, to see the importance of living in a society that makes room for “all lifestyles.”</p>
<p>Later that year, he settled temporarily in Lebanon. When Denmark evacuated Danish citizens from the country after a Hezbollah attack on Israel, Akkari was among them. “Despite the fact that I had done so much damage to Denmark, the country let me in again,” he recalls. “Nobody arrested me at the airport. I was not interrogated and nobody questioned my right to return.” (Mind-blowing, but that&#8217;s an article for another day.) This treatment, he says, made an impression on him, and helped lead him down the road to where he is today.</p>
<p>Then, in 2008, he took a teaching job in Greenland. “In the stillness of the polar nights,” writes Ingrid Carlqvist in <em>Dispatch International</em>, summarizing the story he told at the Free Press Society, “the thoughts came to Akkari. He started reading the world’s most important books.” He read world history and Enlightenment philosophers. “There was so much I didn’t know. I read about the freedom fighters who throughout history have tried to prevent religion from curtailing free thought and I realized that Denmark was in fact the oasis my parents had imagined.”</p>
<p>Indeed, Akkari claims that while in Greenland he “prayed to God never to send any Muslims” there because he “was so tired of corrupt imams spreading their totalitarian ideology that I was convinced they would not only melt the ice cap if they came there, but set it on fire.” Radio host Mads Holger and cultural critic Kasper Støvring, to whom Akkari recounted his Greenland sojourn on the air, <a href="http://www.b.dk/kronikker/akkaris-historie%20">describe</a> his experience as “an existential crisis,” a “wandering in the desert,” a story “of almost biblical dimensions.”</p>
<p>Then, in 2011, during a visit to Lebanon, Akkari read a controversial book by one Hamid Nasr Abu Zeid that criticized Muslim “religious rhetoric.” Because of his book, Zeid had been declared an apostate and forced to divorce his wife. But Akkari liked what he read.</p>
<p>Eventually, after years of ideological doubt during which, he says, he would take “a step forward and then a step back,” Akkari arrived at a decision: he had changed his mind about Islam. And in late July, a reporter for the Danish newspaper <em>BT</em> persuaded him to go public with it. Since doing so, Akkari has been saying and writing the kinds of things that critics of Islam have been saying and writing for years – and that left-wing, cultural-elite commentators in Denmark and everywhere else have been consistently savaging as lies, lies, lies.</p>
<p>What distinguishes Akkari from some of us, however, is that he embraces – indeed, seems to cling to, as if to a life raft – the distinction, which some of us (myself included) find spurious, between “Islam” and “Islamism.” Islamism, he says, “the Quran and Muhammad&#8217;s life as the foundation for rituals, rules, and outlooks.” Islamists “assume that every word in the Koran is the law, and that every source provided by Muhammad is the basis for a law.” Islamists insist, moreover, “that they are in possession of the truth and nothing but the truth.”</p>
<p>To me, this sounds like Islam, pure and simple. If it&#8217;s Islamism, then what, in Akkari&#8217;s view, is Islam? The answer&#8217;s not clear. He does acknowledge that the majority of Muslims are, by his definition, Islamists: Islamist thought, as he puts it, “has infected most ordinary Muslims, who&#8230;can not imagine reading texts in other ways without feeling that they&#8217;re offending against God.” Yet he is – or wants to be seen as – one of that tiny minority of Muslims who assert that their faith, although rooted in a manual of hate and in the life story of a tyrannical, murderous pedophile, can somehow be turned into something entirely different from what it&#8217;s been since its inception.</p>
<p>Differentiating Islam from Islamism is obviously of vital importance to Akkari. Although many Danes, he says, “have interpreted my struggle against Islamism as an attack on Islam,” he insists that they “couldn&#8217;t be farther from the truth.” He makes a point of rejecting well-known Islam critics, such as Pia Kjærsgaard, founder of the Danish People&#8217;s Party, on the grounds that “Islam is not the real problem, but Islamism is.” For while Islamism, he argues, believes in “established truths” and “demands&#8230;a monopoly on the truth,” Islam “can be interpreted in many ways and is therefore compatible with democracy.” Islam, he claims, needs to be “released from the Islamists&#8217; power.” He even envisions an Islam that “accepts&#8230;gays and atheists.” Well, I don&#8217;t get it (if you free Islam from what he calls Islamism, what&#8217;s left?), and I&#8217;m not betting on it, but – assuming he means it – good luck to him.</p>
<p>One highly interesting aspect of Akkari&#8217;s apparent change of heart is this: almost everything he&#8217;s said in the last few weeks has been a powerful rebuke to the left-wing journalists, academics, politicians, and others who took to the barricades on his behalf in 2006. When then Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stood up to Akkari and refused to apologize publicly for the Muhammed cartoons, Fogh&#8217;s political opponents and virtually the entire Danish cultural elite savaged him for offending Muslims. Now Akkari says that Fogh was right. He <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/ahmed-akkari-undskyld-khader-jeg-dummede-mig">confesses</a> that he made a fool of himself in the crisis: “I was <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/akkari-jeg-var-ung-og-naiv%20">young and naïve</a>.” He even says he understands why <em>Jyllands-Posten</em> felt compelled to publish the cartoons. What can the left –  which at the time vilified Fogh and <em>Jyllands-Posten</em> for insulting Islam and praised Akkari as an eloquent voice for the oppressed and offended – say now?</p>
<p>Or consider Akkari&#8217;s flat-out statement that “there is not a single mosque or Muslim organization in Denmark that is not run by Islamists. As soon as you enter the house of the believers, you are met with Islamism whether you want it or not. As soon as you become a devoted Muslim, you are infected by extremism.” This testimony blasts to smithereens the Danish left&#8217;s longtime assurances that organized Islam in Denmark is overwhelmingly “moderate” – peace-loving, freedom-loving, opposed to sharia, and so on.</p>
<p>Akkari has also said that since his “coming out,” he&#8217;s been contacted by ex-Communists and ex-Nazis who identify with his current situation – an implicit admission, on his part, that his own former belief system, which he knows better than anybody, can indeed be likened to Communism and Nazism. Again, any critic of Islam who dares to venture such a comparison is (of course) certain to be called a Nazi himself by the Islamophilic left.</p>
<p>As I&#8217;ve often said, Denmark is by far the least naïve of Scandinavian countries when it comes to Islam. But Akkari argues that it&#8217;s still much too naïve. Islamism, he says, must be actively prevented from “infect[ing] young minds, as happened to me.” He calls for the Danish government to vigorously investigate mosques, Muslim schools, and the hermetically sealed Muslim community organizations. “I know people,” he <a href="http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE2054438/jeg-kender-folk-som-direkte-laerer-deres-boern-at-de-skal-kigge-paa-danskere-som-nogle-svin/%20">warns</a>, “who explicitly teach their children to view Danes as pigs.” To say these things, or <em>any</em> of the things Akkari is now saying, is to be relegated automatically by the Western left to the ranks of far-right Islamophobes. But they can&#8217;t dismiss Akkari so easily.</p>
<p>According to Carlqvist, most of those who attended Akkari&#8217;s talk at the Free Press Society judged him to be the real thing. But she admits that his “metamorphosis is difficult to explain and hard to believe.” She wonders: “Is his conversion sincere or he is he applying <em>taqiyya</em> – the right of Muslims to lie and deceive in the service of Islam?” Nader Khader, who at the time of the cartoon crisis was Denmark&#8217;s integration minister and whom Akkari considered killing, wonders too: he&#8217;s now <a href="http://www.bt.dk/politik/foer-var-de-doedsfjender-khader-og-akkari-sammen-paa-tv%20">appeared</a> on TV with Akkari and accepted his apology, but admits to having some doubts about his sincerity. As for Holger and Støvring, Akkari&#8217;s story of his Greenland epiphany led them both to speculate that he might, in fact, be a secret Christian; but they also recognize he might be up to something, playing some game.</p>
<p>Perhaps it <em>is</em> a game. Or perhaps Akkari&#8217;s talk of Islamism is a self-deception, part of his difficult negotiation of an authentic psychological journey to secularism (or Christianity?) that isn&#8217;t yet over. Or perhaps he&#8217;s already given up entirely on Islam and is only pretending to hang on to it – if only by a thread – in order to be able to claim he&#8217;s not an apostate. (If that&#8217;s the case, it doesn&#8217;t seem to be making much difference: he&#8217;s <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/ahmed-akkari-undskyld-khader-jeg-dummede-mig">now in hiding</a>.) Nor am I sure what to make of the fact that Akkari chose to “come out” in <em>BT</em> and to publish his op-ed in <em>Politiken</em> – both of which took a dhimmi line during the cartoon crisis – rather than in <em>Jyllands-Posten</em>, whose editors were the unquestionable heroes of the hour.</p>
<p>After his talk at the Free Press Society, reports Carlkvist, Akkari “happily accept[ed] the Free Press Society’s mug with the famous drawing of Muhammed with a bomb in his turban.” Akkari has even had coffee with Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who drew that picture (and who, in punishment for it, was almost murdered in his home on New Year&#8217;s Day 2010). Akkari professed afterwards to be “overwhelmed by the way Westergaard accepted me and forgave me.”</p>
<p>According to Carlqvist, a Christian pastor, Søren Krarup, asked Akkari after his Free Press Society lecture “if he understood that Christianity is the reason why Denmark is such a peaceful oasis.” Akkari “gave no clear answer.” Carlqvist&#8217;s reading: Akkari “hopes for a dialogue with Muslims who are still in the grip of the extremists and&#8230;doesn’t want to burn all his bridges.”</p>
<p>Could be. We&#8217;ll see. No, we shouldn&#8217;t hold out too much hope. Anything can happen here. But a truly reformed Akkari could be quite a useful weapon in the war on jihad.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even conservative magazines buy into the lie of what ignited the Swedish riots.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hedstrom20130524132542140.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192948" alt="hedstrom20130524132542140" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/hedstrom20130524132542140-450x321.jpg" width="270" height="193" /></a>Why are leading conservative magazines buying into the lie that the Swedish riots have nothing to do with Islam?</p>
<p>The June 4 issue of <i>National Review </i>contained a <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350017/torching-utopia-tino-sanandaji/page/0/2%20">piece</a> entitled “Torching Utopia” and subtitled “Sweden’s problem is not Islam, it’s multiculturalism.” Its author, Tino Sanandaji, an Iranian Kurd who has lived in Sweden for many years and who studied economics in the U.S., had one principal point to make: that there does exist a “fierce hostility toward Swedish culture” in Sweden, but that it originates not with Muslim immigrants but with Swedish elites. To support this claim, he cited one Swedish politician&#8217;s declaration, some years ago, that “Swedes are jealous of immigrants” because the latter “have a culture, an identity, a history, something that binds you together,” while Swedes have only “Midsummer’s Eve and other lame things.” What Sanandaji chose not to point out was that the politician who made that statement, Mona Sahlin, made it while addressing an audience of Muslims in a mosque; and she didn&#8217;t say that Swedes were jealous of immigrants generally – she said that they were jealous of Muslims, because <i>Islamic </i>culture is wonderful and manifestly superior to Swedish culture.</p>
<p>Yes, Swedish elites hold Swedish culture in contempt. But so do Muslim immigrants – in the same way that they hold the local culture in contempt in <i>every</i> non-Muslim country in which they reside. Yes, the Swedish elites&#8217; contempt for their own culture has made it easier for Muslims to express <i>their </i>contempt – but the Muslims would feel that contempt anyway. And it&#8217;s the palpable contempt of Muslims in Sweden for Swedish culture that has motivated the Swedish elite – in a perverse, pathetic, and increasingly desperate attempt to please and pacify the Muslims among them – to express their own contempt for Swedish society so openly.</p>
<p>Many of Sanandaji&#8217;s points were splendid, as far as they went. “Cultural self-confidence is essential for integration,” he wrote. He complained that there&#8217;s no established “social contract wherein Swedes accept immigrants as one of their own once certain obligations are fulfilled”; that Sweden isn&#8217;t an easy country to integrate into, because “Swedes tend to be reticent, solitary, and reserved,” with “a complex culture, full of subtle rules and opaque codes of conduct”; and that “Swedes are conformist and quite intolerant of deviation from group norms&#8230;.Icy Scandinavia was never a particularly well-chosen testing ground for the multiculturalist experiment.”</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve made each of these points myself about the Scandinavian countries. Yes, they&#8217;re small and insular, almost more like large families than small countries, where a little dissent or diversity traditionally went a long way. And yes, this makes it especially tough to be the kind of immigrant who actually wants to work hard and fit in. And yet, despite these challenges, immigrants to Sweden from East Asian nations, such as China and Vietnam, aren&#8217;t rioting. Neither are Christians from South America and sub-Saharan Africa or Hindus from India. If people from these places don&#8217;t find good jobs in Sweden, they take whatever they can get, and work their butts off and keep their noses clean. And if they can&#8217;t even find a crummy job, they&#8217;ll come up with some other way to get by – they&#8217;ll start a restaurant or some other small business.</p>
<p>Yes, Sanandaji is right in arguing that the current nightmare in Sweden wouldn&#8217;t be happening if not for multiculturalism. But it wouldn&#8217;t be happening, either, if Sweden had chosen, three or four decades ago, to limit its intake of non-Western immigrants to non-Muslims.</p>
<p>On to Johan Norberg&#8217;s “Why Sweden has riots,” <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8927011/why-sweden-has-riots/%20">published</a> in the <i>Spectator, </i>the venerable British Tory weekly, on June 8. Norberg, a well-known historian who, like Sanandaji, is a champion of “liberal” (i.e. non-socialist) economics, started off by explaining just why leftist “explanations” of the Stockholm riots didn&#8217;t hold water. Citing the claim that “youths” had rioted because authorities had closed “the health care centre, the post office, the midwives’ centre and the youth centre,” Norberg pointed out that “there are three youth centres in Husby,” that the neighborhood&#8217;s “old health care centre” had in fact been replaced by a new one, and so on. He argued that “if poverty is the cause of riots, almost every city on the continent should have been burned down before Stockholm’s turn came.” Economic inequality? “My country is the most equal in Europe save for Slovenia.”</p>
<p>What, then, was Norberg&#8217;s explanation for the riots? In a phrase, Sweden&#8217;s “strong employment protection” – for example, laws requiring that “the last person to be hired must be the first person to be sacked” and that “if you employ someone longer than six months, the contract is automatically made permanent.” Thanks to such policies, he argued, “Sweden has the fewest low-wage, entry-level jobs in Europe.” Indeed, for those “with poor education, experience or language skills,” Sweden “is not such a utopia after all.” The result? A generation of young men “with nothing to do and nothing to lose, standing on the outside, looking in, with a sense of worthlessness, humiliation and boredom.”</p>
<p>As with Sanandaji, everything Norberg said was true – as far as it went. Yes, as I&#8217;ve said, Scandinavian countries are rough are on non-Scandinavians (not just non-Westerners or Muslims) wanting to break into the job market. In competing for a good job, a mediocre ethnic Scandinavian will routinely win out over a much more gifted foreigner, whether from Pakistan, China, the U.S., or wherever. The difference – again – is that immigrants from non-Muslim countries who are frustrated by this obvious injustice don&#8217;t start riots; they find some way to make it, just as resourceful and resilient immigrants to Western countries always have. It&#8217;s only the immigrants who&#8217;ve been brought up to believe in jihadist ideology –  and thus in their own innate superiority to their host country&#8217;s natives – who start these riots. But people like Norberg (who, in fact, is so deeply into denial about his country&#8217;s <i>real </i>problems that he actually supports an open-border policy) don&#8217;t want to face up to this obvious truth.</p>
<p>Last but not least, the June 10 issue of the <i>Weekly Standard </i>contained an <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/how-explain-swedish-riots_732055.html?page=2%20">article</a> entitled “How to Explain the Swedish Riots: The standard answers of the left are wrong.”</p>
<p>Despite that subtitle, the author, Paula Neuding – yet another “liberal” Swedish economist – didn&#8217;t start off criticizing left-wing “answers” but, instead, dismissing conservative claims, namely the idea, spread through “the American blogosphere,” that the riots “are related to Islam.” This, she declared flatly, “is not the case.” Her evidence? Well, first of all, “Muslim leaders&#8230;have denounced the violence and urged calm.” Second, the man whose shooting purportedly triggered the riots was Portuguese. And third, the rioters “have not appealed to Islam or otherwise indicated that their violence is religiously motivated,” but instead “cite police brutality and social injustice to justify their actions.”</p>
<p>Never mind the riots began in an overwhelmingly Muslim neighborhood and that participants were heard shouting “Allah akbar.” Yes, Neuding went on to reject the left&#8217;s uncritical acceptance of the “social injustice” line. But she also chose, just as firmly, to dismiss the obvious role of Islam.</p>
<p>How then, did Neuding explain the riots? Well, that&#8217;s where her piece got puzzling. She pointed out, truthfully enough, that Sweden is “among the world’s least racist countries,” that it now has the highest immigration rates of any Western nation, that the average Swede “pays more than half his salary in taxes to fund welfare services” (mostly for immigrants), and that “Sweden has shown its minorities a generosity that is probably unparalleled in the world.”</p>
<p>All true. But what was her point? Simply this: that “the Swedish riots pose a real challenge to the standard progressive theory, which tends to explain social problems with reference to a lack of resources, inadequate public investments, and uneven distribution of wealth. If not even egalitarian Sweden is spared riots and violence, and if the progressive theory is the answer, to what lengths must we go in order to persuade unruly youths to channel their grievances through the democratic process?” In other words, Neuding didn&#8217;t offer any explanation whatsoever as to why the riots happened; all she had to give us was a comprehensive refutation of the left-wing claim that it was all about “social injustice” – and a feeble denial of the centrality of Islam to the whole nightmare.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not surprising that Sanandaji, Norberg, and Neuding would proffer such nonsense by way of “explaining” the Stockholm riots. Despite certain philosophical differences, they&#8217;re all in the business of promoting non-socialist economic ideas in an exceedingly socialist country. When they see something like the tumult in the streets of Stockholm, then, their reflexive response is to blame it on problems with the socialist economy. In short, they&#8217;re so preoccupied with economic systems, economic problems, and economic solutions that cultural phenomena such as the Islamic doctrine of jihad simply have no place on their radar screen. That such people would have such a major blind spot is, I suppose, understandable. Less understandable is why ordinarily sensible journals such as the <i>National Review, Weekly Standard, </i>and <i>Spectator </i>would choose to publish such patently misguided “explanations” of Stockholm&#8217;s recent unpleasantness.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Stockholm-riots-Sweden-008.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192536" alt="Stockholm riots Sweden" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Stockholm-riots-Sweden-008.jpg" width="288" height="191" /></a>The <a href="http://www.thelocal.se/48130/">May 2013 riots</a> in certain immigrant-dominated suburbs of Stockholm raised eyebrows abroad. While I found them disturbing I cannot say that I was totally surprised by them. I’ve consistently <a href="http://fjordman.blogspot.com/2005/05/is-swedish-democracy-collapsing.html">warned agains</a>t such a likely outcome under this pen name for what is now nearly a decade.</p>
<p>The political elites not just in Sweden but also in neighboring Denmark, Finland and Norway watched nervously as the events unfolded. Clearly, major riots by immigrants no longer take place just in slightly more distant Paris or London, but now also in the largest city in the Nordic region. The problems are getting closer.</p>
<p>As usual, the comments from Denmark have tended to be the most sensible ones, with the newspaper <a href="http://jyllands-posten.dk/opinion/leder/ECE5518762/den-svenske-loegn/"><i>Jyllands-Posten</i></a> publishing an editorial about “<a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2013/05/the-swedish-lie/">The Swedish Lie</a>”. The ethnologist Karl-Olov Arnsberg and the journalist Gunnar Sandelin in their book <i>Invandring och mörkläggning</i> (“Immigration and Cover-up”) describe sensitive facts about immigration which are hardly ever mentioned in the mainstream media in Sweden. Swedish mass media are quite possibly the most repressive, censored and totalitarian of any Western country, which is why some dissidents choose to write under pseudonyms such as “Julia Caesar” for websites abroad.</p>
<p>In Norway, the former soldier Aslak Fløgstad Nore is a journalist and author of <a href="http://www.aschehougagency.no/Authors/Aschehoug/Aschehoug-Fiction/Nore-Aslak-A-Norwegian-Spy">spy novels</a> who has for some unknown reason been hailed as a brave intellectual, telling truths others don’t dare to tell. One of his idols is Sweden’s <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/07/01/kultur/litteratur/bok/aslak_nore/krim/22381006/">Jan Guillou</a>, a far-Left activist and writer with pro-Islamic sympathies who, apart from being an author of spy thrillers, was paid multiple times by the KGB for providing them with sensitive information.</p>
<p>In addition to being an editor at Gyldendal, one of the largest publishing houses in Norway, Nore is a regular columnist at <i>VG</i>, the country’s largest national newspaper. On May 26 2013, Nore published a commentary in <a href="http://pluss.vg.no/2013/05/26/1236/1rxWku3"><i>VG</i></a> on the “enigmatic” Swedes after Stockholm had been rocked by a full week of riots on a scale unprecedented in modern Scandinavian history.</p>
<p>What were his views on the causes of these riots? Well, for one thing Nore assured us that they had little to do with Islam, despite the fact that even <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/20/nyheter/husby/stockholm/opptoyer/27267831/">left-wing</a> newspapers show video clips where shouts of “Allahu akbar”! may be heard from residents of these heavily Muslim-dominated suburbs when Swedish police officers are attacked.</p>
<p>Instead, Mr. Nore blamed the obligatory “racism” of the white natives, especially alleged police racism, for partly triggering the riots. Finally, he blamed the “Swedish class society” for these problems. Yes, really. Nore defines himself as a member of the political <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/litteratur/article3287436.ece">Left</a> and is a Social Democrat, but his above-mentioned analysis is straightforward Marxism at its core. His father Kjartan Fløgstad is an established author influenced by Marxist ideology. <a href="http://pluss.vg.no/2013/05/26/1236/1rxWku3">Nore</a> didn’t foresee similar riots coming to Norway, although he admitted that the percentage of immigrants is actually higher in Oslo than it is in Stockholm.</p>
<p>Just to enlighten the ignorant Mr. Nore: Oslo has previously experienced major riots involving Muslim immigrants plus their left-wing extremist allies. I know, because I was there. In the very heart of the country’s capital city on January 8, 2009, a peaceful demonstration in support of Israel gathered in front of the Parliament (Stortinget). This triggered sizeable and very violent counter-demonstrations, broken windows and stone-throwing plus the mandatory shouts of “Allahu akbar!” Eventually, the police had to use large amounts of tear gas at the very doorsteps of the nation’s Parliament to disperse the thugs. Some Muslims afterwards walked around central Oslo looking for people they thought might be Jewish, so they could beat them up.</p>
<p>In the daily <i>Aftenposten</i>, their regular commentator Inger Anne Olsen, who <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Forsvar-for-en-rabiat-muslim-6755030.html">has earlier</a> stated in the same newspaper that hardline Muslims should of course have the right to work to overthrow our society and institute sharia laws, <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kommentarer/Svenske-tilstander-i-norske-gater-7211041.html">believed that</a> Oslo could experience similar riots in the future. She was happy, though, that unlike the police in Sweden (and virtually every other European country apart from Britain), the police in Norway are normally unarmed and therefore appear less threatening and provocative to criminal gangs. Her recommendation for how to avoid future riots was to engage in tough urban planning and build more housing districts.</p>
<p>Oslo is at the moment one of the fastest-growing cities in Europe, largely due to mass immigration. Some migrants come from European countries such as Poland, but a large proportion of them come from dysfunctional and economically backward non-Western nations. The ruling political and media elites take it for granted that this will continue indefinitely and that there is nothing the natives can or should do about it. Wave after wave of non-European immigrants will continue to pour across the weakly-controlled borders. They will not only be allowed to settle temporarily but will normally gain citizenship after a while and then continue fetching spouses and family members from their original homelands.</p>
<p>Oslo is the capital city of a country that straddles the Arctic Circle and gained its full independence in the early twentieth century when it had no colonies, yet Oslo already today contains more ethnic groups than there are member states of the United Nations. Questioning whether this is good or necessary is totally unacceptable in polite society, and could lose you not just your social standing but your job as well. Not only are the natives expected to continue funding their own colonization and ethnic dispossession; they are expected to actively celebrate their national destruction as a great and wonderful thing. This is true all over Western Europe.</p>
<p>Even after the riots in Sweden, few establishment commentators or parties asked whether one should perhaps reduce or – God forbid – stop immigration from the cultures that were largely responsible for these riots. It was taken for granted that immigration should continue as before. A new borderless world is being presented as the inevitable result of the flow of history, virtually beyond human control, just like a classless Communist world was once (falsely) viewed as “inevitable.” The remaining question is how much more money law-abiding white natives should give to these “socially disadvantaged youths” who are causing crime and burning cars or schools.</p>
<p>The political and media elites import Third World peoples en masse. When they start acting like Third World peoples, the ruling elites are always surprised and point fingers at the (rapidly dwindling) white majority population for supposedly causing this with their alleged “racism and social discrimination.” Their solution is nearly always to give more money to those who cause riot and mayhem, paid for by law-abiding citizens.</p>
<p>Libe Rieber-Mohn of the Labour Party, the Deputy Mayor of Oslo, was concerned that riots similar to those in Stockholm could happen at some point in the future in Oslo also due to “<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/27/nyheter/innenriks/politikk/arbeiderpartiet/opptoyer/27378589/">class</a> differences.” No mention of cultural differences, which might have been closer to the truth.</p>
<p>Norway has considerable wealth if the form of oil and natural gas offshore, in the North Sea and elsewhere. Yet several well-researched reports have been published over the years indicating that non-Western immigration is so extremely costly when all aspects are considered that it may take all of Norway’s oil wealth to fund it.</p>
<p>I once confronted John Olav Egeland, a political commentator in the left-wing daily <i>Dagbladet</i>, on Twitter and asked him whether his newspaper would apologize for having falsely claimed for decades that this mass immigration is “good for the economy,” a lie which has cost the country untold billions in unnecessary expenses. His answer was no. His newspaper viciously demonized individuals such as MP Øystein Hedstrøm from the Progress Party when they tried in the 1990s to raise the issue of how much immigration costs.</p>
<p>In a particularly ridiculous essay, the columnist Aslak Nore declared in November 2010 that “smart” immigrants from Pakistan, Turkey and Chechnya will be “<a href="http://aslak.vgb.no/2010/11/28/den-nye-oljen/">the new oil</a>” after Norway’s oil wells run dry. He seemed to imply that there is something wrong with the brains of the natives, since these are inadequate and need to be replaced by non-European ones. Of course, if you look into the taboo subject of genetic intelligence measured in mean IQ, saying that Pakistanis or Turks have “smarter” brains than northern Europeans is utter nonsense.</p>
<p>If that were the case, then why are they incapable of producing innovative economies? Furthermore, you can look at technological achievements, or the fact that a tiny Nordic country like Norway has produced more Nobel Prize winners than the entire Islamic world combined, including large countries such as Pakistan and Turkey.</p>
<p>In the spring of 2013, the business daily<i> Finansavisen </i>in Norway published a series of articles detailing just how costly the ongoing mass immigration is in simple monetary terms. In Denmark, the historian and author Morten Uhrskov Jensen published the 2012 book <a href="http://www.saxo.com/dk/indvandringens-pris_morten-uhrskov-jensen_haeftet_9788771370072"><i>Indvandringens pris</i></a> (“The Price of Immigration”) which shows the exact same pattern. It’s not just about Muslim immigration, although that is an extreme case due to the increased threat of terrorism and other issues, but essentially all mass immigration from backward non-European societies to developed Western countries. We see the same pattern with Mexicans in the USA, for instance. Plainly stated, Third World immigration is followed by Third World problems, rising crime and welfare costs combined with reduced competitiveness.</p>
<p>Aslak Nore thus uses the largest national newspaper in his country to publish utter nonsense without any basis in fact, coupled with Marxist-inspired gibberish about “class structure” and “racism.” It is for this reason that I once called him the Paris Hilton of Norwegian intellectual life. I kind of regret that comment in hindsight, as it’s a little unfair to Paris Hilton. She’s not that stupid.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sweden-Riots.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190957" alt="Sweden Riots" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sweden-Riots-450x273.jpg" width="315" height="191" /></a>Night after night last week, as the tumult in Stockholm not only continued but kept spreading to more and more neighborhoods and then to other Swedish cities, the media in that country, by and large, kept pretending that it was all about things like unemployment and social marginality, all of which were supposedly aggravated by Swedish racism (and, especially, by the insufficiently respectful attitude of police officers toward immigrant “youths”); meanwhile, the foreign media, which, as the disorder persisted, found it increasingly difficult to pretend that all this wasn&#8217;t happening (the <i>New York Times </i>finally ran a four-sentence Reuters item about the bedlam on Thursday), largely echoed the domestic disinformation.</p>
<p>Of all the reports I looked at, the <a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/sweden-riots-expose-ugly-side-nordic-model-142150025.html%20">one</a> that most effectively epitomized the asinine, mendacious approach of the Western media to this latest nightmare was a piece from Reuters that had no fewer than eight names attached to it. I would strongly recommend that you read the whole thing; in fact, I would suggest that it be taught in future history courses as a prime example of the high level of duplicity of which the early twenty-first-century Western media were capable when confronted with raw displays of Islamic power on their own turf. Credited to Niklas Pollard and Philip O&#8217;Connor, with “additional reporting” by Johan Ahlander, Mia Shanley, Patrick Lannin, and Simon Johnson, writing by Alistair Scrutton, and editing by Janet McBride, the Reuters piece was headlined “Sweden riots expose ugly side of” – no, not of “European immigration policies” or “Islam,” of course, but of the “Nordic model.”</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s all the fault of the “Nordic model”: the roots of the Stockholm unrest, Reuters (and virtually every other major Western news organization that deigned to report on the disturbances) would have us believe, lay “in segregation, neglect and poverty,” in years of “fruitless job hunts, police harassment, racial taunts and a feeling of living at the margins.” And so on. Which means, I suppose, that 9/11 revealed the flaws of the American model, and the car-burnings in French suburbs reflect the weaknesses of the Gallic model, and the explosions in Madrid were all about the failings of the Spanish model, and the savage murder of Lee Rigby in London last week&#8230;well, you get the idea.</p>
<p>The dispatch from Reuters suggested that Sweden&#8217;s “lowered taxes” (which are still absurdly high) and “reduced state benefits” (which are still staggeringly bounteous) are responsible for rising economical inequality and segregation, and thus for the pandemonium in the streets. An Ethiopian-born woman interviewed by Reuters maintained that Swedish kids won&#8217;t play with her daughter “because she&#8217;s dark.” (There was no mention, needless to say, of the real problem in an increasing number of Scandinavian schools, namely the systematic harassment, and worse, of ethnic Swedish kids by their immigrant-group classmates.) On late-night trains from downtown Stockholm to the suburbs, the Reuters team told us, you&#8217;ll see “exhausted-looking Arabic or Spanish speaking immigrants returning home from menial jobs”; an “Asian diplomat” lamented that immigrants in the Swedish capital “are mostly selling hotdogs.”</p>
<p>The point of all this being – what, exactly? That it&#8217;s the hard-working holders of low-level jobs who are setting fire to cars and buildings? That it&#8217;s legitimate for a newcomer to Sweden to go on the rampage because he&#8217;s got to work as a hot-dog vendor? Nowhere was there a hint that the extraordinary history of immigrant success in North America, for example, was written by people who worked themselves up from employment of that very sort. Nowhere, moreover, was there a hint that what counts as poverty in Sweden would be considered remarkable affluence in the hellholes most of these punks&#8217; families hail from. Yes, the Reuters gang acknowledged (fleetingly) Sweden&#8217;s generosity to its foreign-born inhabitants, but the implication remained that the free housing and endless handouts somehow just aren&#8217;t enough – that the state should find a way to shield them from every variety of professional frustration and personal disappointment, from a failure to land the ideal job to the unspeakable fate of being tired at the end of a long workday.</p>
<p>The boys and girls of Reuters, while taking obvious pains not to give a remotely negative impression of the Stockholm hoodlums, cited without comment hoodlums who pretty much blamed the police for everything that&#8217;s happened. “In the beginning it was just a bit of fun,” one of the rioters insisted. “But then when I saw the police charging through here with batons, pushing women and children out of the way and swinging their batons, I got so damned angry.” Yes, if the cops had only left them alone to burn a few cars, it would all have been over by now! Plenty of participants in the nocturnal melees – as well as busybody agitators from the mischievous, rabble-rousing group Megafonen – threw around charges that police officers, in addressing the troublemakers, had used insulting language, including racist words.</p>
<p>Those accusations seem dubious, to say the least, given that the Stockholm police, far from treating the city&#8217;s delinquents with the aggression they deserved, seemed determined not to hurt or offend them in the slightest. On Wednesday night, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22636288%20">according</a> to the BBC, they didn&#8217;t make a single arrest – supposedly because their “priority was to disperse mobs and ensure access to fires for the fire brigade,” but really, one strongly suspects, because of Swedish authorities&#8217; manifest terror of doing anything that might open them up to charges of insensitivity, let alone brutality and – heaven forfend – racism. On Saturday night the number of arrests reached 35, but this was still a drop in the bucket (to be followed, one can pretty safely wager, by 35 slaps on the wrist). “Police can put down these riots in five minutes – if the politicians were to allow them,” a Sweden Democrat politician, Kent Ekeroth, <a href="http://rt.com/news/stockholm-violence-outbreak-fires-671/%20">said</a>. Journalist Ingrid Carlqvist agreed: “The police could do so much, [but] have told the public that they mean to do as little as possible.” Though police <a href="http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=83&amp;artikel=5542074%20">suspect</a> that all the mayhem is being planned via social media, with Megafonen playing a lead role, they haven&#8217;t hauled that group&#8217;s leaders in for questioning, but have instead, in good Nordic fashion, tried (so far unsuccessfully) to arrange a “dialogue.”</p>
<p>As it happens, both of the above-quoted comments by Ekeroth and Carlqvist about the straitjacketing of the police appeared at the website of the Russian news organization RT – one of the few major outposts of honesty about the week&#8217;s events. Ekeroth also observed that immigrants to Sweden get “welfare, access to the educational system – up to university level&#8230;access to public transport, libraries, healthcare….And still they feel that they need to riot.” Carlqvist, for her part, called the riots the work of immigrants who “don’t like Sweden” and don&#8217;t “want to integrate,” but who&#8217;ve settled in the country “because they know that Sweden will give them money for nothing.” Alas, when Sweden&#8217;s Parliament <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/--Mine-helter-er-dem-du-utpeker-til-fiender-7209893.html#.UZ6xL9D8LDA ">discussed</a> the strife on Thursday, Jimmie Åkesson of the Sweden Democrats was upbraided by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt himself simply for mentioning the plain fact that the whole megillah was started by immigrants. Some of those immigrants, Reinfeldt thundered back, are actually trying to calm the mob. “These are my heroes!” he declared.</p>
<p>On Friday, <i>Friatider </i><a href="http://www.friatider.se/dn-journalist-darfor-ljuger-vi-om-invandrarkravallerna%20">recounted</a> remarkably frank comments made by Ulrika By of the Swedish newspaper <i>Dagens Nyheter </i>in an interview with Timbro, a libertarian think tank. Admitting (as paraphrased by reporter Maria Lindström) that Swedish journalists “don&#8217;t report on problems in the multicultural suburbs,” By defended this practice, saying that the media <i>shouldn&#8217;t</i> write<i> </i>neutrally about things like the Stockholm riots – or, for that matter, on any other developments that might conceivably be exploited by bigots. “Journalists should strive not to exacerbate xenophobia,” she pronounced, acknowledging that “we opt out of stories and events that can be easily put to xenophobic purposes. We do not quote everything we hear and do not tell about everything we see.” What can one say about someone who&#8217;s so proudly honest about systematically lying?</p>
<p>The most stirring piece I ran across – the one that did by far the best job of saying what needed to be said – was an <a href="http://jyllands-posten.dk/opinion/leder/ECE5518762/den-svenske-loegn/%20">editorial</a> in Saturday&#8217;s <i>Jyllands-Posten. </i>(That&#8217;s the Danish daily, of course, that&#8217;s famous for printing the Muhammed cartoons in 2005 and for standing up to the ensuing turmoil and death threats.) Headlined “The Swedish Lie,” the editorial underscored the fact that the goons in Stockholm aren&#8217;t just “youths” – as the euphemism-loving Swedish media would have it – but Muslim bullies, products of a “Middle Eastern culture of violence,” who are “turning their aggression on other people&#8217;s property and the public order” in what is “clearly a demonstration of power.”</p>
<p>The editors noted that for years, self-congratulatory members of the Swedish elite have contrasted their country favorably with Denmark, which they smeared as racist for its relatively open immigration debate; the self-delusionary implication was always that Sweden – by virtue of its, well, virtue – was immune to the “conflicts, clashes, criminality, welfare fraud, so-called honor killing, innumerable assaults on women, [and] waves of violence” that plagued the rest of Western Europe. But in fact, the “ruthless macho culture” from which these perpetrators spring “knows no national boundaries,” and thrives especially on situations in which it meets with no significant opposition. And it&#8217;s precisely this –  as the editors of <i>Jyllands</i>-<i>Posten</i> sagely, devastatingly, and eloquently pointed out – that makes Sweden, more than other nations, “a paradise for the masked men of violence, who, under the cover of night and the media&#8217;s complaints of police violence, can see their will realized and, house by house, month by month, gang by gang, show who&#8217;s boss, while Sweden sleeps.” It&#8217;s time, the editors urged, for Sweden to wake up.</p>
<p>They&#8217;re right. But don&#8217;t hold your breath. Sweden is sleeping very deeply indeed, and its dreams are far sweeter than the reality to which it refuses to awaken.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[If overseeing the torching of his city doesn't work out, maybe Obama can snap him up for the War on Terror]]></description>
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<p>Looks like the Stockholm police chief&#8217;s response to Muslim violence is the same one as Obama&#8217;s. If overseeing the torching of his city doesn&#8217;t work out, maybe <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/05/fecklessness-swedish-style.php">Obama can snap him up to advise on that</a> &#8220;smart&#8221; and &#8220;sustainable&#8221; strategy for losing the war that he was discussing.</p>
<blockquote><p>Since last Sunday, May 19, rioters have taken to the streets of Stockholm’s suburbs every night, torching cars, schools, stores, office buildings and residential complexes. Yesterday, a police station in Rågsved, a suburb four kilometers south of Stockholm, was attacked and set on fire.</p>
<p>But while the Stockholm riots keep spreading and intensifying, Swedish police have adopted a tactic of non-interference. ”Our ambition is really to do as little as possible,” Stockholm Chief of Police Mats Löfving explained to the Swedish newspaper Expressen on Tuesday.</p>
<p>”We go to the crime scenes, but when we get there we stand and wait,” elaborated Lars Byström, the media relations officer of the Stockholm Police Department. ”If we see a burning car, we let it burn if there is no risk of the fire spreading to other cars or buildings nearby. By doing so we minimize the risk of having rocks thrown at us.”</p></blockquote>
<p>You would think that getting rocks thrown at them and then clubbing and arresting the throwers is their job&#8230; but no. That would be Islamophobic and a contradiction to the Swedish government&#8217;s commitment to diversity and multiculturalism.</p>
<p>But if any Swede so much as looks funny at a mosque&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Gangs of &#8216;Youths&#8217; Overrun Stockholm</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rioting continues to spiral as authorities refuse to name those responsible. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/k-bigpic.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190313" alt="k-bigpic" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/k-bigpic-450x335.jpg" width="270" height="201" /></a>Husby is a neighborhood in western Stockholm which in 2007 had just over 11,000 inhabitants, fully 81.9% of whom were immigrants or the children of immigrants. The other interesting fact in the brief Wikipedia entry on Husby is that the area contains “many runestones&#8230;remnants from when Vikings used to live here.”</p>
<p>There are, alas, few other signs of the area&#8217;s Viking heritage.</p>
<p>The story begins on May 14, when Stockholm police were forced to shoot a man who was wielding a machete at them. He died. The cops were immediately accused of police brutality. A “community group” called Megafonen urged locals to demonstrate “for social justice and again st police violence.”</p>
<p>Last Sunday evening, apparently acting upon this suggestion, Husby erupted in the kind of wide-scale “youth” violence that has plagued suburbs in France and elsewhere for years. A school, a garage, and almost 100 cars were set on fire. And a gang attacked a cop.</p>
<p>On Monday evening, in further accordance with the Gallic precedent, things got even worse. Chaos reigned. Different reports provided different details, some of them sketchy. There were explosions. As of 9:36 PM Monday, Stockholm time, it was being <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/20/nyheter/husby/stockholm/opptoyer/27267831/">reported</a> that police officers were “running for their lives from youth gangs.” Twenty or so masked “youths” threw rocks at police officers and firefighters.  A reporter for the newspaper <i>Expressen </i>narrowly missed being hit by a metal pipe. One report mentioned “youths” <a href="http://www.nt.se/nyheter/?articleid=8567087">stealing</a> fire hoses. When “youths” set fire to a parking garage, police had to evacuate fifty people from a nearby apartment house. Four or five “youths” beat up a cop on a bridge before he managed to flee. As he ran off, a girl could be <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/20/nyheter/husby/stockholm/opptoyer/27267831/">heard</a> laughing and shouting “Allah akbar!”</p>
<p>In Husby, at least three police cars were reported to have been vandalized. Meanwhile reports began to come in of cars on fire in other parts of western Stockholm. “The situation is escalating constantly,”  a police spokesperson said on Monday evening. Late that night, <i>The Local </i><a href="http://www.thelocal.se/48006/20130520/#.UZpRw1N5kfG">reported</a> that over 100 cars had been set on fire in Husby and that a local shopping center had been vandalized, causing injury to three police officers.</p>
<p>Although Megafonen had itself urged its readers to demonstrate against police violence, it “explained” the rioting, in one statement, as an expression of frustration over high unemployment. “There is a great deal of hopelessness and powerlessness among the young people here,” read a comment by the organization, which added that it was important to “understand” the root causes of the rioting “and to find out what we can do” to make things better. In what seemed to be a contradiction, Megafonen spokesperson Rami Al-Kamisi called the rioting a “reaction to police brutality against citizens, our neighbors,” and said: “We understand that people react like this.”</p>
<p>In Norway, Ragnhild Bjørnebekk, who works at the Oslo Police College as a “violence researcher” (in the otherwise stagnant European economy, there&#8217;s a growth field if I ever heard of one) <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/--Lite-typisk-for-Norden-7206535.html#.UZrr5dD8JYp">said </a>that the rioting in Husby is only the latest of several “youth disturbances” in Europe sparked by “suspicions of police violence.” (Yes, you know those trigger-happy Scandinavian police.) Mentioning riots that had taken place in recent years in Greece, Gothenberg, Malmö, Copenhagen, and various French cities, Bjørnebekk attributed them all to anger over police conduct. (“Allah akbar,” of course, is Arabic for “Down with police brutality.”) Still, Bjørnebekk found it important to mention that this kind of rioting is a relatively new phenomenon in northern Europe. “Setting fire to cars and trash containers during riots is typical of countries like France and Greece, but unusual in the Nordic countries,” Bjørnebekk said. (As if differences between Scandinavian and Mediterranean cultures had the slightest thing to do with any of this!)</p>
<p>To be sure, Bjørnebekk was right in suggesting that nightly car-burnings and the like are still not a fixed part of the cultural landscape in the Nordic countries as they are on the outskirts of Paris, Marseilles, and so on. Yes, there are stabbings, rapes, gay-bashings, Jew-bashings, acts of vandalism, and other gang activity aplenty; non-Muslims who live in certain parts of Stockholm, Malmö, Copenhagen, and (increasingly) Oslo are systematically tormented in schools and on the streets by “youths” who seem to grow bolder and more aggressive by the year. And yes, there have been “youth” riots in Scandinavia: on a couple of nights in January 2009, a violent mob of “youths” descended on downtown Oslo and smashed in the front windows of businesses in an area of several square blocks, effectively paralyzing the very heart of the city. The rioting, which was supposedly a response to Israeli actions in Gaza (and which has pretty much been dropped down the memory hole), stretched police resources to the limit. But no, I guess it&#8217;s fair to say, as Bjørnebekk does, that so far regular car-burnings haven&#8217;t been a major element of the Nordic mix.</p>
<p>As is usual, of course, in such cases, Swedish media reports on Monday night were almost uniformly careful to avoid using any word other than “youths” (or some equally innocuous term) to characterize the perpetrators of the violence. Although here and there between the lines it was clear enough what was going on, there was nothing you could really put your finger on until <i>Dagbladet –</i> the Norwegian one, note, not the Swedish one – dared to <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/20/nyheter/husby/stockholm/opptoyer/27267831/">mention</a> that girl shouting “Allah akbar!” By Tuesday morning, the Swedish media, while providing reasonably extensive coverage of the night&#8217;s events, seemed to be making an effort to suggest that it hadn&#8217;t really been all <i>that</i> bad and to emphasize that,  in any event, things had now quieted down. I did a pretty thorough online search of the major Swedish media, but couldn&#8217;t find any report on the rioting that included the word <i>Islam </i>or <i>Muslim </i>or any reference to the girl who shouted “Allah akbar!”</p>
<p>The emphasis was, shall we say, on other matters. One <a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/har-drar-polisen-vapen-mot-husby-ungdomar/">article</a> in <i>Expressen, </i>for example, focused on the fact that a policeman had actually – gasp – dared to draw his weapon during the hubbub. (The paper actually had a video of this horrible act.) The cop put his gun back after being informed that the rioter he was aiming at was only thirteen years old. (Police later <a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10116507">told</a> <i>VG </i>that several of the participants in the evening&#8217;s festivities were as young as twelve.) On Tuesday morning, Megafon <a href="http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/polisen-kallade-oss-luffare-apor-negrer/">held</a> a “well-attended” press conference the obvious intention of which was to turn the criminals into victims and the police into villains. The organization accused the police of deploying “excessive force” against the rioters; one speaker added the charge that cops, during the rampage, had used offensive language to describe immigrant-group members. Another speaker asked: “Who should you call when it&#8217;s the police who attack? I have no idea.” The meme that it had all been the fault of police overreach quickly established itself, with Norway&#8217;s <i>Aftenposten </i><a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/--Politiet-misbruker-makten-sin-7207744.html#.UZv3xND8LWE">stressing</a> laments by Stockholm “youth” that the police are never punished for their abuse of power, while the “youth” are always blamed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, a police officer who has worked for many years in western Stockholm (and who apparently preferred not to be identified) <a href="http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article16806656.ab%20">told</a> <i>Aftonbladet </i>that the rioting, though horrible, amounted to “a typical day on the job.” He added: “People generally have no idea how serious it is, but there have been so many incidents in the past year that I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll end up with a police officer being killed.”</p>
<p>The latest reports, at this writing, confirm that all this is plainly only the beginnning. The early hours of Wednesday morning saw a new round of stories in the Scandinavian papers <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/22/nyheter/utenriks/sverige/opptoyer/27291893/">announcing</a> <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Nye-bilbranner-og-uroligheter-flere-steder-i-Stockholm-7207933.html">that</a> Stockholm was being beset by riots for the third night in a row. Among much else, stones had been thrown at a police station and a school had been set on fire. The rioting, moreover, had spread even further, to several other parts of the city that had been previously unaffected. Brief video <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/05/22/nyheter/utenriks/sverige/opptoyer/27291893/">here</a>. Stay tuned. There will certainly be more developments on this front in the days to come.</p>
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		<title>Shot For Being White</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2012 05:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jamie Glazov]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-year-old Joshua Proutey received a bullet in his head by a gang of four blacks who were targeting white people. Where’s the media frenzy?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/shot-for-being-white/sww/" rel="attachment wp-att-170727"><img class="wp-image-170727 alignleft" title="sww" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/sww-450x336.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="235" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Colin Flaherty, an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in more than 1000 new sites around the world, including the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and others. His story about a black man unjustly convicted of trying to kill his white girlfriend was featured in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and on Court TV and resulted in the release of Kelvin Wiley from state prison. He is a former ghost writer for a Chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights and author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478231645/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1478231645&amp;adid=1YC86HMN1ABH5Q0JAWWY&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2F" target="_blank"><em>White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It</em></a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Colin Flaherty, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about the recent murder of 20-year-old Joshua Proutey, who was shot for being white by a gang of four blacks who were out targeting white people who were “bound to have money&#8221; – as you reported in your story on this for <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/12/10-cell-phone-and-a-bullet-to-head/" target="_blank">WND.com</a>.</p>
<p>Tell us what happened.</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> Four black people in Wilmington, North Carolina needed money for marijuana and traveling. So they set out to get it by robbing white people.  They tried to break into a house, but were seen, so they fled. They stalked a woman through downtown Wilmington, but she escaped. Finally they came upon a 20-year-old college kid named Joshua. They took his money, cell phone and sandwich. Then he asked them to only take his money and not his ID because he explained to them it was hard to replace. Then they shot and killed him. The reason I wrote about this for <a href="http://WND.com" target="_blank">WND.com</a> and for my book, is not that it is special, but because racial violence is increasingly common and most media ignore it.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What do you mean it is not “special”?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> Racial mob violence and lawlessness ignored by the media and downplayed by the police is now so common I could write a story about it every day.</p>
<p>My backlog is enormous. There have been recent examples of black mob violence and lawlessness in Norfolk, Los Angeles, Tacoma, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, New Haven, Gaithersburg, England, Ireland, Canada, Baltimore, Phoenix. We have black mob violence against gays, women, Asians, and on and on and on. These are all in addition to more than 400 cases I have already reported from 80 cities around the country.</p>
<p>Much of it is on YouTube.  Yet no one is connecting the dots. They even refuse to admit the dots exist.</p>
<p>I received this email from a reporter in the Seattle area:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I check the police reports regularly and what you are saying is simply not reality here. I don&#8217;t see &#8220;black on white&#8221; violence. </em></p>
<p><em>I haven&#8217;t been beat up, had my car broken into, etc. Actually, I had my car broken into in Bellevue and Arlington, Wash. in places that are predominately white or Asian and have few blacks. </em></p>
<p><em>So no, I will not run your piece, now or ever. </em></p>
<p><em>Maybe where you live is some completely alternative reality. But other than maybe some isolated incidents, I just don&#8217;t see any pattern or anything. </em></p>
<p><em>Frankly, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s any more black on white violence than any other violence. In Seattle and Portland? </em></p></blockquote>
<p>This is from an area where many accounts of black mob violence are on YouTube &#8212; and in my book.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Where is the media frenzy similar to the one that happened over the Trayvon Martin case? I have been checking Pierce Morgan, Anderson Cooper, Geraldo, MSNBC…to no avail. What gives?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> We know that answer to that, of course: The usual reaction of the press and its liberal allies is silence and denial. Here is what they almost always say &#8212; almost always in the same breathe: One, racial violence is not happening and two, here is why it is happening.  The press is afraid to report an epidemic of black mob violence &#8212; which of course just encourages more of it. You might be surprised at the virulent, hateful emails I get  &#8211; from reporters &#8212; when my readers confront them with the fact they ignore racial violence and lawlessness.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Can you give an example of a virulent, hateful email you got from reporters?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty: </strong>I have an entire chapter on this in White Girl Bleed a Lot. But here are a few:</p>
<p>Tom Parkinson at the NPR affiliate in Orlando, WMFE, replied to one of my readers when she suggested he read <em>White Girl Bleed a Lot</em>: “F&#8211;k You.”</p>
<p>Steve West of WKVT in Vermont has peppered me and several of my readers with nasty emails. The only one I can print is this: “Are you freaking kidding me? I won’t take the time to write the long list of reasons why I’m not interested in your premise. Don’t write me again, please.”</p>
<p>My favorite came from Chicago, an ABC news reader by the name of <a href="http://abclocal.go.com/wls/bio?section=resources/inside_station/newsteam&amp;id=5771892" target="_blank">Ravi Baichwal</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>So blacks are implicated in crime in the summer. </em></p>
<p><em>Not news. Your perspective is not fresh or particularly interesting. </em></p>
<p><em>If you&#8217;re such a great writer and commentator, work to solve problems&#8230; not put this trash out &#8212; and expect someone like me to ape your perspective.</em></p>
<p><em> It isn&#8217;t riots. It&#8217;s disaffected youth for sure but you&#8217;re just race-baiting here and it&#8217;s meaningless. </em></p>
<p><em> I re-read your stuff and looked at your website. </em></p>
<p><em>It was late last night when we were conversing and I wanted to double-check my sense of you and your thesis.</em></p>
<p><em>I was right.  You are an idiot.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>There are dozens like this to my readers and me. This is representative of the attitudes of reporters toward reporting racial mob violence: Disbelief to outright hostility.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So why is this happening?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> The psychiatrists tell us we are only as sick as our secrets. And nothing is more secretive in the media than racial violence and lawlessness. This secrecy is breeding racism and sickness among people black and white all over the country.  And the first step to doing something about it is to stop denying it.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Why the denial? Why don&#8217;t people talk about racial violence and lawlessness more often?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> A lot of people do not know how to talk about race without sounding racist. So when I wrote <em>White Girl Bleed a Lot</em>, I decided I was going to avoid stereotypes, generalizations, and explanations, which get so many people in so much trouble.</p>
<p>But I also wrote the book without apologies. It is amazing how often people who do not like racial violence feel they have to apologize for noticing it.</p>
<p>I wrote the book for the deniers in the media and elsewhere. After reading it, it is impossible to say this problem does not exist because so much of it exists on YouTube.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, I know we know the answer to this, but just to crystallize the truth one more time: How come we haven’t heard from Obama yet? Maybe in a few days he will be making a statement on behalf of Joshua, saying how he could have been his own son? What do you think?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty:</strong> The most dangerous thing liberals do to encourage black mob violence is create a sense of victimization: That somehow people are somehow entitled to commit violence because they are members of an oppressed, protected group. That of course is the actual language of affirmative action: Some people belong to protected minority groups.</p>
<p>In this case, one of the killers from behind bars said he did not like being stereotyped as a tough guy. The fact that even an admitted 17-year old killer from behind bars uses this language of victimization is indicative of how widespread this attitude is.</p>
<p>Many look at black mob violence and other high rates of black crime and explain it away, saying it is not surprising because of 400 years of oppression. So they switch it around: The predator becomes victim. And the victim is predator. I see this all the time, from police, reporters, ministers, community leaders, you name it.  To point this out is to risk being labeled a racist. So many do not.</p>
<p>When the President intervened in the case of Henry &#8220;Skip&#8221; Gates and Harvard (remember the beer summit?) and the Trayvon Martin case, he may have contributed to that feeling of victimization.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton? How come we are not hearing from them about this murder of Joshua? They are against racism aren’t they?</p>
<p><strong>Flaherty: </strong>Many black leaders scorn those who pay attention to this black mob violence &#8212; often directed at white people &#8212; because they say violence and lawlessness has been an every day fact of life in black neighborhoods for a long time. It is only now that it is seeping out of these neighborhoods and into other places that white people are paying attention, they say. Lots of examples of that in the book.  Jackson, Sharpton and others, of course, like to say that black people are not capable of racism. They are the victims of it.</p>
<p><em>But White Girl Bleed a Lot</em> is not about explanations or solutions. The contribution of <em>White Girl Bleed a Lot</em> is to catalogue this epidemic and say: &#8220;This is happening and you cannot deny it any longer.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Thank you Colin Flaherty, we are grateful to you for being a truth teller in this time when truth is suffocated.</p>
<p>We highly encourage all of our readers to get their hands on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478231645/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1478231645&amp;adid=1YC86HMN1ABH5Q0JAWWY&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2F" target="_blank"><em>White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It</em></a>.</p>
<p>And to watch a news report on the Joshua Proutey murder that you will not see in our mainstream media, click here:</p>
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		<title>White Girl Bleed a Lot &#8212; On The Jamie Glazov Show, Tuesday, July 31, 2012, 8-9 pm Pacific</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning writer Colin Flaherty takes your calls about his new book for the full hour.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Race-Riots1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138909" title="Race-Riots" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Race-Riots1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="312" /></a>Join <em>The Jamie Glazov Show</em> that will air on Tuesday, June 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guest is: <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong>, an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in more than 1000 new sites around the world, including the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and others. His story about a black man unjustly convicted of trying to kill his white girlfriend was featured in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and on Court TV and resulted in the release of Kelvin Wiley from state prison. He is a former ghost writer for a Chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights and author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478231645/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1478231645&amp;adid=1YC86HMN1ABH5Q0JAWWY&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2F" target="_blank">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It</a></em>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Award-winning writer Colin Flaherty takes your calls about his new book for the full hour.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Race-Riots1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138909" title="Race-Riots" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Race-Riots1.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="312" /></a>Join <em>The Jamie Glazov Show</em> that will air on Tuesday, June 31, 2012 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. This week&#8217;s guest is: <strong>Colin Flaherty</strong>, an award-winning writer whose work has appeared in more than 1000 new sites around the world, including the <em>New York Times</em>, <em>Washington Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and others. His story about a black man unjustly convicted of trying to kill his white girlfriend was featured in the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> and on Court TV and resulted in the release of Kelvin Wiley from state prison. He is a former ghost writer for a Chairman of the US Commission on Civil Rights and author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1478231645/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1478231645&amp;adid=1YC86HMN1ABH5Q0JAWWY&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2F" target="_blank">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence and How the Media Ignore It</a></em>.</p>
<p>To listen to the program, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/08/01/the-jamie-glazov-show">click here</a>.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 04:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the riots in Europe show what happens when the truth catches up with politicians. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/article-1257243-08AD51EB000005DC-950_634x417.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-133077" title="article-1257243-08AD51EB000005DC-950_634x417" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/article-1257243-08AD51EB000005DC-950_634x417.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a>The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them, and only in the short run. The current outbreaks of riots in Europe show what happens when the truth catches up with both the politicians and the people in the long run.</p>
<p>Among the biggest lies of the welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic is the notion that the government can supply the people with things they want but cannot afford. Since the government gets its resources from the people, if the people as a whole cannot afford something, neither can the government.</p>
<p>There is, of course, the perennial fallacy that the government can simply raise taxes on &#8220;the rich&#8221; and use that additional revenue to pay for things that most people cannot afford. What is amazing is the implicit assumption that &#8220;the rich&#8221; are all such complete fools that they will do nothing to prevent their money from being taxed away. History shows otherwise.</p>
<p>After the Constitution of the United States was amended to permit a federal income tax, in 1916, the number of people reporting taxable incomes of $300,000 a year or more fell from well over a thousand to fewer than three hundred by 1921.</p>
<p>Were the rich all getting poorer? Not at all. They were investing huge sums of money in tax-exempt securities. The amount of money invested in tax-exempt securities was larger than the federal budget, and nearly half as large as the national debt.</p>
<p>This was not unique to the United States or to that era. After the British government raised their income tax on the top income earners in 2010, they discovered that they collected less tax revenue than before. Other countries have had similar experiences. Apparently the rich are not all fools, after all.</p>
<p>In today&#8217;s globalized world economy, the rich can simply invest their money in countries where tax rates are lower.</p>
<p>So, if you cannot rely on &#8220;the rich&#8221; to pick up the slack, what can you rely on? Lies.</p>
<p>Nothing is easier for a politician than promising government benefits that cannot be delivered.</p>
<p>Pensions such as Social Security are perfect for this role. The promises that are made are for money to be paid many years from now — and somebody else will be in power then, left with the job of figuring out what to say and do when the money runs out and the riots start.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of ways of postponing the day of reckoning. The government can refuse to pay what it costs to get things done. Cutting what doctors are paid for treating Medicare patients is one obvious example.</p>
<p>That of course leads some doctors to refuse to take on new Medicare patients. But this process takes time to really make its full impact felt — and elections are held in the short run. This is another growing problem that can be left for someone else to try to cope with in future years.</p>
<p>Increasing amounts of paperwork for doctors in welfare states with government-run medical care, and reduced payments to those doctors, in order to stave off the day of bankruptcy, mean that the medical profession is likely to attract fewer of the brightest young people who have other occupations available to them — paying more money and having fewer hassles. But this too is a long-run problem — and elections are still held in the short run.</p>
<p>Eventually, all these long-run problems can catch up with the wonderful-sounding lies that are the lifeblood of welfare state politics. But there can be a lot of elections between now and eventually — and those who are good at political lies can win a lot of those elections.</p>
<p>As the day of reckoning approaches, there are a number of ways of seeming to overcome the crisis. If the government is running out of money, it can print more money. That does not make the country any richer, but it quietly transfers part of the value of existing money from people&#8217;s savings and income to the government, whose newly printed money is worth just as much as the money that people worked for and saved.</p>
<p>Printing more money means inflation — and inflation is a quiet lie, by which a government can keep its promises on paper, but with money worth much less than when the promises were made.</p>
<p>Is it so surprising voters with unrealistic hopes elect politicians who lie about being able to fulfill those hopes?</p>
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		<title>Chicago Braces for Leftist Violence and Mayhem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 04:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama pals Ayers, Dohrn, orchestrating riots in the Windy City.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012-05-15T224455Z_1_CBRE84E1R7900_RTROPTP_2_USREPORT-US-NATO-PROTESTS-CHICAGO.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132359" title="2012-05-15T224455Z_1_CBRE84E1R7900_RTROPTP_2_USREPORT-US-NATO-PROTESTS-CHICAGO" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/2012-05-15T224455Z_1_CBRE84E1R7900_RTROPTP_2_USREPORT-US-NATO-PROTESTS-CHICAGO.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>The Left’s violent attacks on the yet-to-begin NATO summit in Chicago are already underway as anti-American activists hope to recreate the mayhem that accompanied the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle. Radicals clamoring for “change” have said for months that the actions in Chicago are only the beginning.</p>
<p>During a heart-warming “F*** the Police” protest action Tuesday night in Chicagoland, mask-wearing demonstrators clad in black clothing carried communist and anarchist flags in hopes of winning the hearts and minds of Middle America. One area resident <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/Anti-NATO-Protest-Rampages-Through-Chicago-Neighborhood-Taunts-Police">described</a> the raucous march as “scary.”</p>
<p>Leftists and union goons terrorized entire neighborhoods, creating makeshift barricades, dragging dumpsters into the streets, and upending garbage cans. One anarchist apparently beat up an 80-year-old man.</p>
<p>Management at a downtown housing complex in Chicago is warning residents to flee to safety before Occupy demonstrators switch into full rage-against-the-machine mode. The Library Tower Condominium Association sent out a letter indicating that management “is STRONGLY recommending that all residents find places to stay during the conference from May 18 through May 21.”</p>
<p>When the nations of the G8 and NATO begin meeting this weekend, the Occupy Wall Street movement and its allies plan to press their demands. Occupiers want an economy-killing “Robin Hood Tax” to be imposed on financial transactions, an international agreement to curb carbon emissions, and “a nuclear-free Middle East” (translation: the unilateral nuclear disarmament of Israel), according to <em>Adbusters</em>, Kalle Lasn’s left-wing magazine that helped to lay the groundwork for the Occupy movement. Chicago demonstrators won’t be able to protest the G8 summit unless they’re willing to do a lengthy weekend commute. That conference was supposed to take place alongside the NATO conference in Chicago but was relocated to Camp David in Maryland.</p>
<p>The steadily increasing levels of violence from Occupiers may be related to anarchists’ apparently growing influence in the movement. “Anarchist occupiers are energized and their visceral tactics are attracting members,” according to <em>Adbusters</em>, which <a href="http://www.adbusters.org/blogs/adbusters-blog/black-bloc-anarchist-turn.html">praised</a> the brutal techniques anarchists used during May Day actions. “Now, the power of the Black Bloc is growing within Occupy and pushing the movement in unexpected directions.”</p>
<p>Useful idiot Aaron Hughes, an organizer with Iraq Veterans Against the War, will also play a role in the protests this weekend. He said he intends to lead a cohort of veterans to the NATO summit. Hughes and other misguided souls plan to return –John Kerry-style— the service medals they earned in Iraq.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, President Obama’s favorite labor organization, the Service Employees International Union, is subsidizing demonstrators by providing Washington, D.C. office space worth $4,000 a month to the Occupy Wall Street movement. Interviewed in that space one Occupy activist ill-suited for abstract thought, Johnny Mandracchia, <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/05/10/exclusive_occupier_says_breaking_windows_and_burning_cop_cars_isnt_violence">shared</a> his unusual definition of the word <em>violence</em> with Katie Pavlich of <em>Townhall</em> magazine. It is not violence to smash the windows of a Starbucks coffee shop, said the self-described anarcho-syndicalist, “because Starbucks isn’t a private business – it’s a corporation.” Such acts, including the burning of police cars, are merely examples of vandalism, he said.</p>
<p>While Professor Mandracchia was imparting his novel ideas about law, Obama pals Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were busy helping the anti-American activists who hope to violently disrupt the approaching NATO summit in Chicago.</p>
<p>Ayers and Dohrn are the close personal friends of Obama who launched his political career with a fundraiser in their Chicago living room when he ran for the Illinois state senate. The small-c communist confab for cash took place several years after the conclusion of a lengthy firebombing campaign conducted by the now-married couple’s terrorist group, the Weather Underground. Ayers and Dohrn escaped justice on a legal technicality after law enforcement personnel failed to cross every “t” and dot every “i” in their quest for evidence against the couple.</p>
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