Linda Carty, the Reprieve lie machine, and the bleeding heart of Clive Stafford Smith

by Alexander Baron

An obscure if somewhat bizarre murder case from the State of Texas is back in the news, and the bleeding heart liberals are banging the drum again, this time for a convicted murderess who is facing execution by lethal injection.

Surprisingly, though Linda Carty is black, her principal supporters haven’t quite played the race card; they have though overplayed their hand with an endless stream of half-truths and bland acceptance of demonstrable lies. Carty’s case has garnered a great deal of unwarranted publicity in the UK and has been endorsed uncritically by the mass media because she is said to be a British citizen, a claim that is true only in a purely technical sense. Her supporters have played a tape of her begging for her life, and a cardboard cut out of her was erected on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square during the recent innovative living artwork exhibition. Those like the current writer who have longer memories, suspicious minds and a reluctance to take the top fifty Google listings at face value, will be less than impressed.

According to an article on Reprieve’s website, to which its director, campaigning lawyer Clive Stafford Smith contributed, it’s all down to her incompetent lawyer, a flawed trial and a frame-up, if not by the authorities then by the actual perpetrators. Carty was convicted of the murder of a young mother who was bound, gagged, and stuffed in the boot of a car (that’s the trunk to US readers). The evidence shows clearly that the death of Joana Rodriguez was not an unfortunate accident – which might just have reduced it to second degree murder or even manslaughter - it was an intentional and cruel act. Unlike her, Carty’s co-defendants – whom she had tricked into the kidnapping – were interested only in stealing drugs and money from the apartment the victim shared with her common law husband and his cousin.

Sally Rowan of Reprieve wrote:

If Texas go ahead with her execution, Linda will die because she had a bad lawyer, and because the British Government was not given the chance to help her at a time when it could have made a difference.

Yes, that bad lawyer again, but why should the State of Texas allow the British Government to dictate to it how it should run its criminal justice system - even if the British Government were so minded?

So what exactly are Carty and her supporters claiming?

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, March 7, 2010 at 06:39 PM in Liberalism & the Left
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Humour and the English Disease

If Majority Rights can be said to have a defining characteristic, then that would have to be the earnestness of its contributors and commentariat. That observation is not intended in a pejorative sense, indeed many blogs with a political orientation share that characteristic. What is somewhat perplexing though is the extent to which (over-)earnestness prevails, given the nationality of its proprietor and a goodly proportion of its readership.

This particular exegesis has been prompted by an exchange in a currently-running marathon thread in which the topic of British humour was briefly introduced. This involved two estimable contributors, neither of whom are English, as far as I aware, who raised cogent points about its psychological interpretation. So, rather than creating an unnecessary diversion I have attempted to provide some minor insight into that question here, and perhaps stimulate some lively debate in the process.

British humour or, more precisely, its English strain, is a peculiar beast, often mystifying to continentals and colonials alike. For the latter, exposure to the genre has consisted in the main of an unleavened diet of Benny Hill and Monty Python, both of which were correctly viewed as being untranslatable yet superficially accessible exemplars of broad slapstick and high pantomime, respectively. Most other offerings along the wide spectrum of English comedy, from the likes of ‘Til Death Us Do Part’ to ‘The Office’, when not confined to cultural ghettos such as PBS and BBC America, have had to be ‘localized’ to render them palatable to a mainstream audience. Some (much?) English humour is neither translatable nor transportable, especially that which is really critical social commentary or touches on awkward sensibilities.

An example of the latter can be seen in the following clip from the hugely popular ‘Spitting Image’ series. Many will be familiar with a similar parody from Monty Python in which Mr. Hilter together with chums Reggie Goering and Heinrich Bimmler are discovered in a Cornish boarding-house planning for a surreptitious invasion of the resort-town of Minehead. But the encounter here between Frau-Führerchen Thatcher and Herr von Wilcox is much darker in tone and typical of the Spitting Image oeuvre, being by design overtly political, borderline libelous and often, as here, merciless to sacred cows. To my knowledge Spitting Image has never found an audience in the US and is still unavailable on home video there.

Sound Advice from Herr von Wilcox

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Posted by Dan Dare on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 03:18 PM in Humour
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True Science is Barbaric

A recent conversation with what might be thought of as an American Brahmin, (which seem to be coming back into vogue) included the following exchange (paraphrased):

Me: The problem with central planning is the problem with all the social sciences—the failure to respect experimentation over argumentation.  That’s why I support greater State autonomy. 

Me: No, I’m saying that the philosophy of science is the proper basis for Polity…

And so forth…

The thing that struck me about this conversation is the attitude of the American Brahmin toward experimentation—as though Polity—or to cast another light on it, Politeness—rendered experimentation somehow less than Civil.

That’s when it struck me that true science is in fact Barbaric and will always be treated thus by ruling elites of any Polity because Polity depends on faith in a set of—usually unstated—hypotheses in human ecology adopted by religious faith as pragmatic enforcement of elite powers.

Posted by James Bowery on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 04:14 PM in Science & Technology
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The New Rome; or, the United States of the World (1853)

There is a presumed history of things that is taught to most, that even the less powerful from amongst the elites believe…and then there is another history of these events, that only a relative few and powerful know.  It is important for those wishing to see not only the preservation of their own people, but the other various peoples of the world as well that make up humanity, to have an excellent grasp of the past so as to see clearly as to what to do in the present.  Hence entries here such as this…

The Revolutions of 1848 are suppressed across Europe and many of the revolutionary leaders and those that took part flee their countries.    Thousands from Germany that took part in the 1848 revolution there are granted refuge in the United States, amongst them one by the name of Theodore Poesche (1824-1899), a student revolutionary from the University at Halle.  Poesche, in cooperation with a person of German ancestry in the US by the name of Charles Goepp, would write a book in 1852 and entitle it The New Rome; or, the United States of the World, which is free and on-line at the linked title, and it would be published in 1853 (seven years before the election of Abraham Lincoln
) by the major US book publisher G P Putnam with its offices located in New York City and London.  This book in its opening pages claims to be a ‘a horoscope’, ‘a map of the future of mankind’, and ‘what must be’. 

The book emphasizes five primary points which are as follows and in this order…

1)  The separation of the United States and the British Empire is intended to be but ‘temporary’ so as to allow the order of things being established in the New World time to experience its ‘realization’...ie the United States needs time to gain strength.  In the future the United States and the British empire will re-unite.  (bottom of pg.87 and top of page 88)

2)  At the time that the US and UK re-unite, thus forming ‘the Anglo-Saxon Empire’, the center of power of the British Empire will move from England to the United States, ‘its real center’, and the US will ‘take the lead’.  (bottom of pg 87 and top of pg 88)

3)  The US and UK (‘the Anglo-Saxon empire’), ‘having received its legitimate organization’, will co-jointly conquer and gain control of Germany, and lay hold an ‘unyielding grasp upon the countries of the Germanic confederation’.  (bottom of pg 95 and bottom of pg105)

4)  Immediately following the conquest of Germany by the US and UK, a struggle will ensue centered upon Europe (in time encompassing the entire globe) between specifically the United States and Russia.  The United States will prevail in this struggle with Russia.  (pgs 105, 107, & 109)

5)  The United States will ultimately acquire ‘the empire of the world’ economically by way of Capitalism.  (the entire book)

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 05:38 PM in History
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Cameron on Griffin and the MultiCult

David Cameron gave a speech sans notes to his party’s Spring Conference today (ie, it was more sincere than usual).  It included a jaw-dropping three-minute passage that makes very satisfying listening for every BNP member.  His theme was “winning it for Britain”.  I won’t write anymore.  Just listen for yourself - in particular for the loudest cheer.

Hat tip to Simon Darby

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 06:57 PM in British Politics
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Absurd assumptions about life’s advantages

Eugenics was universally condemned as being either cruel or pseudoscientific until genetic engineering and the human genome project made positive eugenics increasingly practical. Now many on the Left argue that we must make reproductive technology available to everyone. Others argue that genetic manipulations for the purpose of eugenic enhancement should be forbidden. Sometimes the argument is made that children born with these artificial “enhancements” will be deprived of living an open-ended life, free to choose for themselves what they shall become. 
 
The idea seems to be that in a just society, a well intentioned person would naturally shun any unfair advantage over others. Paula Rothenberg’s White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism, 2008, makes this argument. She writes: “But, let us assume that I am a white person, and after reading the articles in this book I am persuaded that there is such a thing as white privilege and that I benefit from it. Why might I want to rid myself of that privilege rather than continue to enjoy it and pass it along to my children? The answer has to do with simple notions of fairness and justice. Most people would feel little sense of pride or accomplishment in winning a race they started with an unfair advantage or winning a game when the deck was stacked in their favor. The satisfaction of such ‘victories’ is short-lived at best. Once I begin to recognize how much of my success is a consequence of unfair advantage, I cannot help but begin to seek ways to make amends.”

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Posted by Matt Nuenke on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 02:03 PM in White Communities & Micro-Economies
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Was It Real For You?

by The Narrator

“Own a flat screen television? If not you’re missing out. In high definition everything is so clear and real looking …”

A trendy comment today on movies or TV shows is “realistic”. Over and over I hear this adjective applied to various bits of entertainment as an endorsement of it. The special effects are “realistic” or the fight scenes are “realistic” and so on.

I have to wonder, what exactly does it mean to say a movie is realistic? If there are writers, actors, directors, editors, pre-production, post production, sound and visual effects companies involved over the course of generally a year and half, what exactly does “real” mean in regards to packaged entertainment?

One example I’ve heard pointed out is the ubiquitous ‘blue screen’ or back-projections employed in films since the 1920’s, if not before. These were most commonly used in scenes where an actor or actress appears to be driving. Now they are quite obviously in a mock-up of a car in front of a projection of scenery going by. But does this matter?

I’ve read that the reason special effects have improved is that audiences today are more sophisticated than those in past times. However, is the need to be convinced that a space-ship is realistically rendered in CGI as it dog fights with aliens from Beta reticuli on the planet Zorbom really demonstrative of a sophisticated mindset?

It may seem an insignificant question but it gets to the heart of the current mentality of many a citizen of The West and their relationship with media.

And it isn’t just in the realm of goofy sci-fi films. A few years back I was encouraged to see a new James Bond film because, and I quote, “it’s not like the old ones. This one is more grounded and realistic.” I’ve never been much of a James Bond fan but I gave it a shot. And within the first twenty minutes I witnessed a superhuman comic book character running mile after mile without breaking a sweat, men free-climbing buildings like Spiderman, people jumping to the ground from two stories up (from atop cranes) –tuck-roll- then hop up and start running some more. This was capped off by the hero single-handedly defeating an army of heavily armed soldiers and slipping away during a massive explosion that, though wreaking tremendous damage and knocking everyone to the ground (save the hero), did not appear to harm a hair on anyone’s head. Apparently this was “realistic”.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 08:09 AM in Oh Tempora, Oh Mores
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‘A Dark Intrigue…’ The Revolutions of 1848

There is a presumed history of things that is taught to most, that even the less powerful from amongst the elites believe…and then there is another history of these events, that only a relative few and powerful know.  It is important for those wishing to see not only the preservation of their own people, but the other various peoples of the world as well that make up humanity, to have an excellent grasp of the past so as to see clearly as to what to do in the present.  Hence entries here such as this…

Starting in France, in February of 1848, revolutions would sweep much of Europe.    These Revolutions of 1848 would be a major milestone in the construction of the continental super-state then called the United States of Europe and today called the European Union…yet in some places this event is known of well before it takes place.  In London, over a year prior, all eyes are upon British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston, a person of very high rank in a certain international organization, in regards to shocking pronouncements he has made about the near term future of Europe as a whole as published below in the November 26, 1846 edition of The London Spectator, and republished in the United States on January 2, 1847 in Littell’s Living Age.    Even earlier, and reflecting a dysfunctional relationship between the Jewish and a European people, Benjamin Disraeli in his 1844 book Coningsby also seems to speak of these 1848 revolutions.

The most striking occurrence of the week is not an event, but some writing, highly Palmerstonian in its savor. According to this characteristic effusion, all Europe is about to be in commotion. A dark intrigue is seen in every region…You would think there was going to be instant war - in Italy, in Schleswig, in Switzerland, in Poland - everywhere.

February 1848 Revolution in France - Barricade on the rue Soufflot by Horace Vernet

The London Spectator - November 21, 1846

The most striking occurrence of the week is not an event, but some writing, highly Palmerstonian in its savor. According to this characteristic effusion, all Europe is about to be in commotion. A dark intrigue is seen in every region, with France at the bottom of it all. The French government, we are told, has forfeited its position by the Montpensier marriage; must prepare to submit to indignities all round; and is making ready, in its truckling for pardon, to perpetrate a series of international crimes…

...Thus may France procure assent to her attempted ascendency in the penninsula. “It is true, that to combat such a combination, we have Lord Palmerston at the Foreign Office, and Lord Ponsonby at Vienna.” Too true, indeed. It is an extraordinary coincidence, that no sooner does Lord Palmerston return to office, than this universal conspiring reappears. Perhaps there is something really the matter, though not abroad. The suspicion of being the object for universal conspiracy is one trait of madness, and Lord Palmerston exhibits that symptom with renewed intensity, as though the excitements of office were too much for him. But “we” do not rely altogether on ourselves; “we rely more on the alacrity of the French Opposition to denounce these new tendencies of the policy of their government.” Lord Palmerston then reckons on hubbub in Paris as before 1841; more interpellations, more fuss making about shadowy constructive suspicions of intrigue, more diplomatic turmoil, more despatch writing! If a busy attorney, who wished to seem yet busier than he was, established himself in a country town, and set himself to work detecting flaws in the title deeds and leases all round, or presuming and imputing them all round, with a view to the general litigation that would ensue, the restlessness and turmoil excited in the country would be much like the feeling created in Europe, according to these ministerial accounts, just at the time Lord Palmerston returns to business. You would think there was going to be instant war - in Italy, in Schleswig, in Switzerland, in Poland - everywhere.

In the midst of these revolutions, in March of 1848,  The London Times would publish an editorial exhorting Europe to follow the model of the United States as quoted below, italics in original.  Editorials in that paper are significant as they have long been seen as a mouthpiece of official British government thought regarding policy, much as the New York Times is in the US regarding the US government…

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Posted by Alex on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 02:55 PM in History
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Pay-Back for the BNP

by Rod Cameron

New Labour’s decision to put the EHRC dog onto the BNP has cost New Labour dearly. Not only has New Labour disowned its Working Class roots, but also it has handed over on a silver plate the most precious part of its history, its formative years, to the BNP. History of a century and more ago has repeated. The danger inherent to becoming part of the Establishment is to forget your forebears and their struggles, and then you surrender your political soul. I offer you this analogy.

THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT AND THE BRITISH NATIONAL PARTY

The decision by Nick Griffin to change the constitution of the BNP to allow blacks and Asians to join, following pressure from the EHRC, should be received by the BNP with a certain sanguinity. Knowledge of the rise of the British Labour Movement will result in a wry acceptance that this is “par for the course”. Not for the first time social realities are being ignored and Establishmentarian forces are arrayed against the political newcomer.

The Social Reality

Trade unionism and opposition to immigration were preservationist/survivalist reactions to social realities. The Labour Movement was motivated by the need for working-class preservation. The BNP arises from the desire for ethnic self-preservation.

Establishmentarian Reactions

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 06:29 AM in British Politics
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The End of Teleology

by Potential Frolic

Teleology is the attempt to become an image of greatness, or perfection, or fruition.

Previously, we looked at reasons why Palingenesis has negative aspects attaching to its political program, and how these negative aspects mar its positive aspect, which is unification of a people.

In moving from a discussion of Palingenesis to a discussion of Teleology, we’re moving from the social level to the individual level. Palingenesis regulates how social entities relate to each other, using politics and philosophy as means. Teleology regulates the relation of men to themselves, within the confines of their own minds, using images and rationalization as means. It is thus more intimate, and much more interesting.

Teleology precedes palingenesis. This is because the ideological underpinnings of palingenesis were conceived for the purpose of realizing teleological striving. For example, it was the struggle of individuals to reconnect to historical precedents, a connection to which is only possible in imagination, which begot the political manifestation of same. It was the intelligent individual’s realization of his smallness on the historical stage, and his desire to draw to himself more weight and meaning, that forged the rhetorical connections to ancient Germania and Hellas in germans of the 19th century. This can be seen, for example, in the philological posturing of Friedrich Nietzsche, alledging a special connection to ancient Hellas, discovered uniquely by him in his readings. The actual accuracy of his assertions in The Birth of Tragedy - assertions not less sweeping than those he would make in later books - were demolished in a point-by-point critique by Wilamowitz. Not that this detracts from the philosophical content of his writings. It can be seen however, that the appeal to ancient greek authority is important in 19th century literary personality combat. One finds similar idea content in Evola.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 09:27 PM in The Ontology Project
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Just Add the ‘R’ Word

At about the 2:40 point of the above ‘Prisoner’ video just add the ‘R’ word (ie ‘racist’...a contrived term I recommend not accepting) to ‘rebel’, disharmonious’, and ‘reactionary’ and you would have today’s Multi-Culturalists…

Posted by Alex on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 06:12 PM in
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Don’t even use a question mark in Hungary

From yesterday’s The Jerusalem Post:

Hungary passes Holocaust denial bill

BUDAPEST— Hungary’s parliament on Monday approved a bill making Holocaust denial punishable by up to three years in prison, but the measure may be unconstitutional.

Lawmakers passed the bill submitted by Attila Mesterhazy, the prime ministerial candidate of the governing Socialist Party, by 197-1, with 142 abstentions.

Earlier attempts to ban Holocaust denial have been rejected by the courts for infringing on freedom of speech. Efforts to modify the Constitution to ensure the bill’s legality have also failed.

Mesterhazy’s proposal was backed by the Socialists and most of the Alliance of Free Democrats, a former coalition partner. Most members of Fidesz, the main center-right opposition party, and their allies, the Christian Democrats, abstained after Fidesz’s wish to also include the denial of Nazi and Communist crimes in the bill was rejected.

Free Democrat Gabor Horn, who voted in favor of the bill, questioned the timing of the Socialists’ proposal and wondered why a similar effort by his own party a few months ago was not accepted.

“The difference is that six months ago there was no campaign,” Horn said.

... Hate speech and incitement to violence against minorities is already a crime in Hungary, but Monday’s bill adds “denying, questioning or making light of the Holocaust” to the penal code.

In mentioning the forthcoming general election in Hungary the report at least acknowledges that Jobbik is “expected to easily clear the five percent threshold needed to enter parliament.”  So something not to the Jewish taste is afoot there, at least.

Posted by Guessedworker on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 08:01 PM in That Question Again
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Friends of Epic Beard Man 2-20-201

Greetings,

This message is to inform you that I met Thomas Brusco, aka Epic Beard Man yesterday.  There has been a huge outpouring of support for him and I would like to thank everyone for showing your concern for what he had to go through.

As you probably know there are a ton of new websites selling Epic Beard Man merchandise and various websites that claim to be created as his legal defense fund or a place to send him donations.  Tom is not associated with these websites and websites that claim to be made by him and soliciting donations are scams.

The only website that I can confirm has said they will send a portion of the proceeds is iamamotherfucker.com

To send a donation to [EBM] please ONLY send a check to:

Thomas Bruso
1720 MacArthur Blvd.  Unit 507
Oakland, CA 94602-1777

I can tell you that interacting with Tom is quite an experience and on public transportation and walking on the street he loves to talk with his fans.  I would suggest sending him a short note of why you are writing and include a stamped self addressed envelope so that he can send you a note of appreciation in return.  I will mention that thanks to generous donations from his fans he has been able to get the money he needs to attend his mom’s funeral.

A couple people have asked about who I am and I’m a San Francisco activist involved with various community organizing groups that do things like help the homeless and charity fundraisers.  I’m not associated with anyone selling EBM merchandise and like you wanted to show my concern for what he had to go through with this ordeal.

Thanks!
Andrew Yeoman

Posted by Søren Renner on Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 01:06 PM in No particular place to go
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I AM A MOTHERFUCKER

Majority Rights is a site where restraint in dialogue is the rule. MR does not giddily follow every internet “meme” like a gormless schoolgirl addicted to social networking. For these and other reasons we have not yet covered the Epic Beard Man controversy. But dignity and gravitas must sometimes yield to exigency; we can keep silence no more. Andrew Yeoman and the Bay Area National Anarchists are in contact with EBM, who is not facing any criminal charges as a result of the incident, but whose life has been greatly changed by the storm of publicity that broke last week.

http://www.iamamotherfucker.com/

Be a hep cat. Stop talking about “back in the day” and BE THE DAY.

Epic Beard Man—Why It’s the Fastest Public Fight Meme Yet

Posted by Søren Renner on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 10:22 PM in
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Hess and Disraeli on the Subjects of Germany and Race

Commentary of Moses Hess and Benjamin Disraeli on the subjects of Germany and race.  The quotes are somewhat reflectant of the dysfunctional relationship that has long existed between the European and Jewish peoples.

Moses Hess (1812-1875), who brought Engels and Marx to socialism, and was prominent in the early development of what would in time be called Zionism, had much to say regarding Judaism, Race, and Germany, in his mid nineteenth century book Rome and Jerusalem.

Moses Hess

“The pious Jew is above all a Jewish patriot. The “new” Jew, who denies the existence of the Jewish nationality, is not only a deserter in the religious sense, but is also a traitor to his people, his race and even to his family…”

“And yet, on the basis of my long experience, I feel inclined to assert that Germany as a whole, in spite of its collective intellectuality, is in its practical social life far behind the rest of the civilized nations of Europe. The race war must first be fought out and definitely settled before social and humane ideas become part and parcel of the German people…” Moses Hess - 1862

Excerpt From ‘Sixth Letter’ of Hess’s Rome and Jerusalem

You think my judgment in regard to the relation of the Germans to our brethren, as well as of the progressive German Jews to the Jewish people, too severe and dogmatic. You say that there are many noble spirits among the Germans who have banished from their hearts every trace of race prejudice and are permeated with the spirit of justice and humanity. And as for the progressive Jews, you think that many of them have always displayed a fine spirit of self-sacrifice when the honor of their religion or the welfare of their brethren called for -it; and that those noble spirits came principally from the ranks of those who distinguished themselves in the field of science, or commerce, or industry, and thus acquired high positions in society. To these just strictures I willingly subscribe, for I admit that my judgment was too general in its character, and it can only be justified by the fact that it was written under the influence of the Damascus affair. To-day I would hesitate very much before subscribing to it. It cannot enter my mind, at present, to deny the Teutonic race, and especially the German people, whose mental power I esteem so highly, the ability to rise, by means of progress, above race prejudice. The German spirit has other representatives than patriotic Romanticists and philosophic book-dealers. A nation that produced men like Lessing, Herder, Schiller, Hegel, Humboldt and many more champions of humanity, must certainly possess the ability to rise to the heights of spirituality and idealism.

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Posted by Alex on Friday, February 19, 2010 at 02:14 PM in
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Echelon

Just something I noticed about yesterday’s news out of Austin, Texas.  It may be nothing, of course…

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Who needs the BNP?

by Alexander Baron

Earlier this month, the British National Party voted to accept non-white members. This was done, ostensibly, under pressure from the grandly styled Equality And Human Rights Commission, a body that has in the past sought and obtained prosecutions for the publication of racist cartoons and poked its proboscis into every aspect of traditional British life attempting to mould it to the race-mixers’ agenda. The far right has of course been the target of the liberal self-styled ruling élite for decades, and in spite of the left’s vacuous and increasingly tiresome charges of the establishment’s racism, there has been a de facto conspiracy to suppress all (white) racial-nationalist movements and parties in both the media and other circles. The contrived prosecutions and convictions of John Tyndall, Nick Griffin, the gullible but sorely misguided Lady Birdwood, and many others, is proof positive of that. Now though that one albeit fringe party has enjoyed a modicum of success, a new tactic has been devised. Suddenly, it has been discovered that the BNP’s constitution is illegal because it discriminates against non-whites, and the BNP has thrown in the towel without so much as a whimper. But does it matter?

There have been racial-nationalist movements in Britain for a century or more; an organisation called the British National Party was formed by a wholesale fish merchant named Edward Godfrey of Hayes, Middlesex (where I grew up incidentally) during the Second World War, but the BNP as it exists today is a child of the National Front. The Front was founded in 1967 by that greatest of British patriots A.K. Chesterton, who had previously founded the League Of Empire Loyalists. Three years later, he was forced out, the Party soon falling under the control of John Tyndall and Martin Webster. In 1980, Tyndall made a bold decision, resigning from the organisation and forming the New National Front. The basis for this was – he claimed – a homosexual network that was operating inside the organisation. In fact, this “network” consisted principally if not entirely of Martin Webster, whose homosexuality could not have been unknown to Tyndall but had been tolerated by him and other senior members because of his undoubted abilities.

The real reason for the split was that the authoritarian Tyndall wanted more or less total control over what had always been a thoroughly democratic organisation – notwithstanding the oft’ repeated and tiresome “Nazi” epithet. Tyndall’s new party was the most successful of the various NF splinter groups, and shortly changed its name to the British National Party, which it remains today under the leadership of Nick Griffin.

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Posted by Guest Blogger on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 09:08 AM in British Politics
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Just a silly German ditty

by Potential Frolic

There is this silly german song that conveys in its lyrics something which I think is interesting to think about.  In listening to it I’m reminded of attempts by both sides to trap our people, or our Folk, into various boxes they have set up for the purpose.

There’s the left which condemns us to be the passive principle in our own lands, beholden to whatever groups allowed to “act” as such should choose to do with or to us, and holding onto “us” as a kind of historical memory from which one takes unwilling leave as one goes into the future.  There could hardly be a more consistently conveyed message of 90s media, as I recall it, than the idea that we belonged to some sort of inescapable passing away, that our dwindling was inevitably foreseen but impossible to disagree with.  We were relics, waiting to be retired to our final resting spot.  Having pure ancestry was forecast as being something “quaint” in future times.

And in reaction to that, in rejection of that, there is the furious attempt at rediscovery in forms sometimes militarist - the insistence upon our heroism, our glory, our grandeur - sometimes cultural: Shakespeare, Milton, and whatnot.  Sometimes the literary pantheon is brought in as being a source of glory, other times it is left out, as it is in the most hardcore redoubts of germanocentric militarist religion because people clearly perceive that the soul-hardening which occurs in this pursuit of weaponization is antithetical to the demands of flowering literary culture.  One is reminded here of the difficulties felt by Frederick the Great and Heinrich von Kleist in reconciling their “higher faculties” with the subordination and borishness endemic to their culture.

There is a pious belief in military glory which will argue that this circle can be squared, that after enough soul-hardening “glory”, one also achieves heights of poetic splendor unknowable to others. Yet my reading of poetry and literature dissuades me of this personally.  I think Prussian literature is at its best when its tortured philosophers are wracking their brains to understand how best to fulfill their “duty”, as with Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and for anything touching inwardness of another quality one is left with an empty roster.

Anyway, the words are as follows:

Come to the window, come here to me
Do you see over there behind the iron fence
Over there in front of the store
They graved our image into stone.

Come out in the street, come here to me
Everywhere flowers and garlands, half rumpelled up
It appears that they took our monument tonight
and unveiled it without us.

Go fetch the sledge-hammer!

They raised a monument to us
and every sane person knows
how that destroys real love.

I’ll call the worst graffitti artists of this town together
At night we’ll spray slogans on the rubble that remains.

After another refrain, there is a haunting part which reminds me always of the enforced obsolescence which Anglo-Saxons accept as their role in American society, and apparently also in Britain; the slow waiting game, waiting on our own death, which is the only action which is supposedly morally allowable to us:

Do you see the inscription down there, by the shoes?
It says in golden letters, that we should rest in eternal peace.

Go fetch the sledge-hammer!

The band is called, pertinently enough, “We are heroes”!

Posted by Guest Blogger on Monday, February 15, 2010 at 06:41 PM in Popular Culture
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The Collected Sayings of OZKT29B

In which various claims and assertions are collated for further review.

Here is an introductory comment which will lead us into what follows. This was addressed to guessedworker:

In my previous post I listed a series of political positions, in order to describe how my world-view translates to the real business of organising human affairs. You dismiss this as you are primarily interested in ideas - that’s ok, and as you can see I am happy to defend my position both at the practical and fundamental level.

Being practical folk ourselves we are anxious to give OZK a proper opportunity to defend his positions at said levels.

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Posted by Dan Dare on Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 03:38 AM in
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Heidegger and the Nazis, the concrete and the spirit

This essay is a wee bit outside of my usual stamping ground, but it is in the nature of lighting the blue touch-paper - just in case anyone wants to address this subject properly!  I’m going to begin with a quote from Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time, division 2, section 75 (Blackwell translation), published in 1927:

Everyday Dasein has been dispersed into many kinds of things which daily “come to pass”.  The opportunities and circumstances which concern keeps “tactically” awaiting in advance, have “fate” as their out-come.  In terms of that with which inauthentically existing Dasien concerns itself, it first computes its history.  In so doing, it is driven about by its “affairs”.  So if it wants to come to itself, it must first pull itself together from the dispersion and disconnectedness of the very things that have “come to pass”, and because of this, it is only that there at last arises from the horizon of the understanding which belongs to inauthentic historicality, the question of how one is to establish a connectedness of Dasein if one does so in the “Experience” of a subject - Experiences which are “also” present-at-hand.

To my mind, this short passage describes, in Heidegger’s difficult and relentlessly particular terminology, the fractured and scattered state of our ordinary inner life, a scattering effected through the tendency of ordinary waking consciousness to elide into and attach itself to externalities, psychologically speaking.  The nett result is a profound absence which many reading this will recognise in their own experience.  We still ascribe qualities of self-hood to it, of course.  We can never cease doing that.  But it is a self-hood with a history rather than a presence in the moment (though that takes us further towards the metaphysical than Heidegger intended - all Dasein is historical in his formulation).

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Posted by Guessedworker on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 08:54 PM in The Ontology Project
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On Jewish Architecture

This thread was prompted in part by Dasein’s references elsewhere to the new synagogue in Dresden, which apart from being almost pathologically austere is surely a prime example of the style of architecture that Prince Charles characterises as ‘monstrous carbuncles’.

Dresden New Synagogue, with memorial to the old, demolished in 1938

Dasein indicates that it received an EU award for contemporary architecture which gives rise to the question: In which category? Best modern rendition of a Nuclear Shelter, perhaps? What the picture does not show is the juxtaposition of the Judenbunker and the adjacent baroque structures, nor it’s prominent position abutting the incomparable Brühlsche Terrasse above the Elbe. It’s difficult to believe that such a jarring aesthetic contrast could be by any stretch of the imagination unintentional. What is the message that it conveys?

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Posted by Dan Dare on Saturday, February 13, 2010 at 06:24 PM in
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Imperium Europa 5th Anniversary Speech

The sound is imperfect and the speech is largely in the Maltese language, as usual.

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BRD Math: 70 deported Jews > 35,000+ Germans burned alive

At least that’s what Götz Aly, renowned anti-German historian, is teaching.  In a recent editorial he writes:

On the morning of February 13th, the deportation order for the last 70 Jews of Dresden went out.  In so far as they survived the coming night, the firestorm brought them “salvation, as in the ensuing general chaos, he could escape the Gestapo.”  Thus spoke one of the saved, Victor Klempere.  Adolf Eichmann saw it with regret.  At Christmas in 1944 he was in Berlin and in 1961 wrote in his memoires: “Dive bombers are hacking up Germans,” because of the “Anglo-American bombers it stinks in Berlin like burnt flesh and rotting corpses.”  As a result “orderly administrative work was impossible.”  This was thanks to the British air marshal, Sir Arthur Harris.  He ordered the air war against Germany.  A rose on his grave.

Celebrating the mass murder of any other ethnic group in Germany would risk prosecution for Volksverhetzung (racial incitement).

One can celebrate the murder of Germans in an editorial or in public on the anniversary, at the site of the bombing, it makes no legal difference.

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[Alles Gute kommt von oben: All that is good comes from above]

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Posted by Dasein on Friday, February 12, 2010 at 09:52 AM in
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A Special Relationship

Unlike in the 1966 music video above reflecting a revolutionary United States, today the US and UK are in something known as ‘the special relationship’, which has been in effect since about 1900.  Before that, in the 1880’s and 1890’s there was a strong push by elites of both the US and UK to form an outright political union between the United States and the British Empire, as signified by such articles as the one below written by James Bryce of the UK and published in the Atlantic Monthly.    While it was probably seen as a bit dubious in the UK, in the US many sharp questions were raised, amongst them…‘What had the Revolution been fought for?’

Indeed!

They seemed to back off at first, but as elites are wont to do they did it any way, more or less, with the special relationship between the US and UK, a relationship that is only just short of an outright political union.

“Religion, language, interest, affections, may, and I hope will yet, prove a bond of permanent union between the two countries…”
King George III in speech before British Parliament - December 5, 1782

Roosevelt and Churchill - 1943

The Essential Unity of Britain and America

“War between two nations is a deplorable event, whatever the causes and the circumstances.    But as evil sometimes comes out of good, so events which in themselves are unfortunate may become the parents of good.    Thus the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain gave occasion for the display of a feeling in England, not against Spain, but of interest in the United States, which was not only general, but conspicuously spontaneous.    It was the sudden and indisputable evidence of a sentiment we believed to exist, but which had never before been made so manifest.    It was promptly and heartily reciprocated in the United States.    And now many voices have been asking what durable expression can be given to this feeling shared by the two peoples, and to what account, permanently helpful to both, it can be turned.    As Mr. Olney has pointed out, in the thoughtful and weighty article which he contributed to the May number of The Atlantic Monthly (an article whose friendly tone has been cordially appreciated in England), there are some obvious difficulties in the way of a fomal alliance.

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Posted by Alex on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 06:57 PM in
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Sun Tzu and the Battle of the Mind

Over two thousand years ago a brilliant Chinese military stategist examined the more mental aspects of the fight.    Clearly there are some amongst those who are attacking the European peoples, places, and cultures of the world who are using these very same tactics whether they recognize that fact or not.    Fortunately, simply being aware of what these tactics are helps to greatly neutralize their effectiveness when someone attempts to use them on you.

“All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.” Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu quotes

“Appraise war in terms of the fundamental factors. The first of these factors is moral influence.”

“To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

“Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.”

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Posted by Alex on Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 06:14 PM in
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