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There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world. — Thomas Jefferson

Vol 10 No. 12 December 1999

Republican or Third Party?

American Renaissance

What are the prospects forour people?

by Michael W. Masters

Karl von Clauswitz, the great Ger-man military strategist, oncewrote that “war is nothing more

than the continuation of politics by othermeans.” Perhaps the reverse statementis also true. Politics is war by othermeans–especially in today’s multi-cultural America. Americans of Euro-pean descent–whether they wish to fightor even realize war has been declared–are the enemy in a low-intensity conflictthat many have called the Culture War.It is a multi-front war waged throughpolitics, economics, culture, demograph-ics, and even religion. Each aspect of thewar is important, but of these the realkilling weapon is politics.

Stripped of noble sentiment, politicsis about getting and exercising power.In past ages, predators, disease, famine,natural disasters and armed conflict gov-erned the evolution of human societies.In the modern era, these factors are un-der control as never before. Today it ispower, exercised through politics, thatdictates the fates of peoples and of na-tions. Thanks to the wisdom of our an-cestors, we determine who holds powerthrough elections. But when, as is in-creasingly the case today, political par-ties do not represent our interests, it istime to make sure they do–or to estab-lish new parties that will.

Our failure to treat politics as seriousbusiness has made us the losers in theCulture War. Laws passed by democrati-cally elected politicians have created animmigration policy promising to makewhite Americans a minority in the coun-try their ancestors created. It is fear ofthe liberal media and political reprisalsby bloc-voting minorities that leads Con-gress and state legislatures–all over-

whelmingly white–to pass affirmativeaction laws, and also leads overwhelm-ingly white judicial bodies to declarethese laws constitutional. It is politics

that produces “hate crime” laws thatcriminalize thought and are enforcedmainly against whites.

However, there may be reason forhope. In retrospect, the fragmented andinconclusive 1998 election may haveprovided the first, faint sign that whiteAmericans are waking up. The election

did continue the trend of white politi-cians dodging the real issues and non-whites voting as blocs for their own in-terests. But this time, many whites sim-ply sat out the election, and the partyout of the White House at mid-term lostseats in Congress for the first time sincethe 1930s.

Democrats often won in the Southwith 90 percent or more of the blackvote, and Mexicans helped them oust a

Republican from the California gover-nor’s mansion. That much is consistentwith past trends. But whites, who do notvote as a bloc and are often taken forgranted by both parties, were less will-ing to settle for the lesser of two evils.This message has become the dominanttheme of the 1999 political season, fromNew Hampshire Senator Bob Smith’sdefection from the GOP to Pat Buchan-an’s switch to the Reform Party. It is noaccident that it is whites–and almost nonon-whites–who are going over to thirdparties. Perhaps the most intriguing im-plication of the 1998 election as well asMr. Buchanan’s presidential campaignis that they may be warning signs that aRepublican Party that ignores the raceissue cannot survive in the 21st century.

Peter Brimelow and Ed Rubinsteinmade this prediction in National Reviewa few years ago, in an article analyzingthe political impact of the immigra-tion-fed demographic revolution thatcould reduce whites to a minority by themiddle of the next century. The authorscorrectly pointed out that Republicanelectoral strength is largely based on theloyalty of middle-class whites. Notingthat almost all non-white ethnic groupsvote Democrat–sometimes overwhelm-ingly–they projected that by 2008 a Re-publican Party consisting primarily ofmiddle class whites would no longerhave the numbers to win a presidentialelection.

Dictating the Destiny

If this happens, it will be one of themost profound changes in Americanpolitical history. It raises the prospect ofThird World ethnic groups dictating thedestiny of the nation. Already, becausewhites do not vote their own interests,Third World groups use moral intimi-dation and the implied threat of riots tomake white politicians meet their de-

Patrick Buchanan

Politics is war by othermeans–especially in

today’s multiculturalAmerica.


Letters from ReadersSir – Professor Ellis has it exactly

right in the Nov. issue when he drawsthe parallel between multiculturalismand Marxism. The discouraging part isthat this parallel must be explained atall. Any high school student with evena cursory familiarity with de Tocquevilleshould understand how multiculturalismundermines the very fabric of Americandemocracy.

The problem, of course, is that deTocqueville, along with the other whitemen of that era, are no longer taught.Afro-centric, feminist and homosexualstudies have replaced them. Dogma hasreplaced logic and reason. Political cor-rectness has replaced individualism.Things will not change until the educa-tion system returns to its primary func-tion–education–and this will not happenuntil white, heterosexual men snap outof their lethargy, refuse to be cowed byname-calling, and take back their coun-try.

Jerold Weiner, Blairstown, N.J.

Sir – As one whose experiences withthe Japanese have run somewhat paral-lel to those of Alton Tolbert [“Notes onthe Japanese,” Oct.], I’d like to point outthat his use of the term “white” may beslightly misleading. The word I’ve gen-erally heard used by Japanese under cir-cumstances he cites is gaijin (foreigner),rather than hakujin (white person). I donot believe they feel more bias towards“whites” than towards other non-Japa-nese. The term gaijin–literally “out-sider”–may seem so rude to some Japa-nese that they may attempt to lessen theinferiority they assume we must feel bysubstituting the longer, politer form

gaikokujin (foreign-country person) orthe less emotionally-burdened hakujin.

In conversation, sometimes a Japa-nese would understand me perfectly welluntil he noticed my foreign features, andthen he would stammer or continue hisside of the conversation in broken En-glish. Even if I wrote my query in Japa-nese characters and handed it to the man,he might still continue in broken En-glish. I have never encountered thisproblem with women or children in Ja-pan. Perhaps they feel their lower sociallevel puts them close enough to theforeigner’s that more relaxed communi-cation is possible.

F.M. Burton, Pocatello, Ida.

Sir – I am not a Christian but “Ger-many: Islamic Gangrene” in the Nov.issue made me think of the ultimateirony. After having fought so hard for apost-Christian, deracinated Europe, thewhite, liberal elites who have controlledthe world for the second half of the twen-tieth century may get their reward in theform of an Islamic Republic of Europe.

J. Tanneyhill, Columbia, S.C.

Sir – AR criticizes Al Gore for grov-eling to Hispanic voters but George W.Bush leaves him in the shade. This “con-servative” has started running ads inSpanish in both Iowa and New Hamp-shire. The Hispanic population in thesestates is mercifully low–less than twopercent. So why run ads that may hurthim with white voters? Obviously he issending a message to his amigos in Texasand California that if he is elected presi-dent he will give them what they want.Anyone who thinks Bush, Jr. will doanything about affirmative action, bilin-

gual education, immigration or multicul-turalism is fooling himself.

Peter McCallister, Rochester, N.Y.

Sir – With no elective offices upfor grabs in 1999, the only matter ofimportance on the November ballotin New York City was the referen-dum to change the City Charter, or“constitution.” The proposed changethat got the most publicity was onthe issue of “mayoral succession,”which would be a hot issue if MayorRudolph Giuliani goes to the U.S.Senate in 2000. Almost overlookedwas a section of the proposed revi-sion entitled “Immigrant Affairs.” Itis filled with the usual “multiculturaldiversity” nonsense and warned of“anti-immigrant passions” sweepingthe nation. Declaring New York City“the nation’s preeminent ‘worldcity,’ ” it said immigrants were en-titled to all city services and welfareand, to best ensure that immigrantstake full advantage, “an individual’salienage and citizenship status is ir-relevant under local law.” In otherwords, it doesn’t matter if aliens arehere illegally; they are still entitledto handouts paid for with New York-ers’ tax dollars.

This concept is expanded upon ina section called, “Protecting Confi-dentiality.” To protect alien law-breakers, the City wants to maintaina policy to prohibit “City employ-ees from providing informationabout immigrants to federal authori-ties . . . .” The document goes on tocite recent federal legislation andcourt decisions it regards as “anti-immigrant” and asserts that immi-grants must be able to “avail them-selves of City services without in-creasing their chances of being de-ported.” The Charter also recom-mended the formation of a “languagebank” to provide translators foraliens who deal with City agencies,justifying this by “the crucial rolethat immigrants play in the City’slife.” Since the City Charter takesprecedence over municipal ordi-nances, these provisions slipped intothe referendum would have beenvery hard to change. On November2, New York City voters rejected theCharter revisions 76 percent to 24.

Frank Borzellieri, Queens, N.Y.


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mands. But once these groups are a ma-jority they can simply vote to take what-ever they want–legally.

In this context it is worth pointing outthat not only are there racial differencesin intellectual potential, but there aredifferences in temperament as well. Itwas our ancestors who created democ-racy and representative government. Wefind evidence of this among Europeansin Roman times and even before. Butwhile self-government has worked wellfor European peoples, there is little rea-son to believe it can be extended to mul-tiethnic societies, where the temptationto exploit other groups is always strong.

The Republican Party is in a vice. Thedemographic balance on which it de-pends is transient. Unless immigrationis halted the GOP’s days are numbered–at least as a party that pushes its tradi-tional platform. The GOP therefore hastwo ways to respond. One is to competewith Democrats for non-white votes andthe other is to rally white, middle-classsupport–something Ronald Reaganmanaged to do. To follow the latter path,Republicans must build a broader coali-tion by appealing to the widest possiblerange of white voters.

Unfortunately, the Republicans aredominated by economic and businessinterests. In catering to these interests,they have ceded many low-wage whitesto the Democrats. Republicans supportfree trade, open borders and other eco-nomic nostrums out of commitment toprinciple rather than out of loyalty to thepeople to whom they owe their tenuouscongressional majority. But even worsefor the Republicans, the internationalistelites in media and entertainment, whohave close ties to business, are often as

likely to support the Democratic Partyas the GOP. Any benefits Republicansmay anticipate from big business willdisappear as immigration works itschanges on demographics and votingpatterns.

In order to build a broader consen-sus, Republicans must appeal to the bluecollar workers hit hardest by immigra-tion and cheap imports. Using that base,they should then move to halt and evenreverse immigration. Republicans wouldthen guarantee themselves–and us–astable, long-term future.

Even aside from immigration, theGOP would have broad support if it hadthe courage to attack racial preferences,multiculturalism, women in the military,homosexual “rights,” socialist educationpolicies, teachers’ unions, and any num-ber of inviting leftist targets. Unfortu-nately, the Republicans have chosen tobecome more like Democrats. Much ofthe feel-good rhetoric of George W.Bush, Christine Todd Whitman, JohnWarner and the Republican LeadershipCouncil is pitched to the Democrats’proletariat of non-whites, feminists, ho-mosexuals and other disaffected groups.

Ethnic identity has long played animportant role in voting patterns–exceptfor whites. Results vary, but in recentdecades roughly 90 percent of blacksand 85 percent of Hispanics have votedfor Democrats. If Republicans are to lurethese voters, they must adopt Demo-cratic policies, which will alienatewhites and will not work anyway.

The 1998 election showed the futil-ity of GOP attempts to sound like Demo-crats. Despite the efforts of “kinder, gen-tler” Republicans, blacks voted in over-whelming numbers for the party of do-mestic socialism. Even more or less solid

Republicans lost when they failed tobroaden their appeal to more whites. InAlabama, for example, black Democratslured the “boyz in the ‘hood” to the pollswith free raffle tickets for a car. Whitesfailed to vote as a bloc and as a result,Fob James, a Christian governor whorestored the Confederate Flag andvowed to defend the Ten Command-ments with the National Guard, was re-placed by a man who owes his election–and therefore his loyalty–to blacks.

One of the biggest Republican insani-ties was supporting Puerto Rican state-hood. Puerto Rico is pure trouble for theGOP—it is both black and Hispanic. Itsfour million Spanish-speaking non-white inhabitants have no loyalty toAmerica as a traditional European na-tion. It has twice the U.S. drug addic-tion rate, over twice the murder rate, andfour times the U.S. unemployment rate.It’s average household income is onlyhalf that of Mississippi, our poorest state.The chances of any of its two senatorsand half-dozen congressmen being Re-publicans are essentially zero.

With all the Republican posturing onbehalf of their Caribbean co-linguists,did California’s Mexicans rush to thepolls in support of Newt Gingrich’s

“Hispanic-friendly” GOP? Hardly. Un-like us, Mexicans understand who theyare and what political solidarity means.One of their organizations is called LaRaza, which means, simply, “the race.”Pete Wilson may well be California’slast-ever Republican governor and un-less immigration is stopped, Gray Davismay be the last-ever white governor.

The Republican strategy of stealingvotes from the Democrats will neverwork. Republicans will never out-prom-ise the Democrats without simply be-coming Democrats themselves. The1998 election showed how far we havecome toward the day when non-whitebloc-voting will dictate the future ofAmerica. Even with whites at 70 per-cent of the population, political correct-ness, affirmative action, hate crime laws,cultural dispossession, and anti-whiteviolence go largely unopposed.

The only possibility for the survivalof the Republican Party is to reassemble

California may neverhave another Republican

governor–Gray Davismay be its last white one.


the coalition of middle-class and blue-collar Americans Ronald Reagan ener-gized and for whom Pat Buchananspeaks today. Whether implicitly or ex-plicitly, Republicans must recognize thelegitimacy of race in determining politi-cal loyalty. To date, Republicans are re-luctant to follow this strategy for fear ofmedia smears, but no movement cansucceed if its supporters are afraid ofbeing called names.

Increased Polarization

There was another little-noticed butimportant point about Election 1998 thatpoints towards a different political fu-ture. GOP losers were often moderatesrather than conservatives. These in-cluded New York Senator AlfonseD’Amato, who was replaced by gun-grabbing ultra-liberal Charles Schumer;GOP gubernatorial candidate DanielLungren, whose pro-immigration stancecost the GOP the California governor-ship for the first time in sixteen years;South Carolina Governor David Beas-ley, who issued an executive order in-stituting the Brady Act and who brokehis promise to keep the Confederate flagflying over the South Carolina capitolbuilding; and almost every Republicanin a tight race who was endorsed byChristine Todd Whitman.

According to Arkansas activist RodMartin, a likely GOP House candidatein 2000, “the 1998 numbers are espe-cially instructive when examined in thislight. Conservatives actually gainedmore seats than either the Republicansor Democrats, with fifteen pick-ups inthe House (twelve Republican and threeDemocrat) plus Peter Fitzgerald in theSenate . . . . Supposedly-moderate Re-publican Governors who won big actu-ally had impressive records of state-levelconservatism in every case, from TommyThompson’s school vouchers to . . . MikeHuckabee’s welfare reform successesand background as president of the Ar-kansas Baptist State Convention.”

Meanwhile, Democrats continuedtheir assault on the Founders’ Constitu-tion through issues like the SecondAmendment. Of the 39 new House mem-bers, half are anti-gun Democrats as de-fined by Gun Owners of America. In-terestingly, the three new memberswhom it found to be solidly pro-gun–two Democrats and one Republican–areall from the South. One new HouseDemocrat from Texas did turn out to be

anti-gun. His name is Gonzales, and hisvoting record tells us the effect we canexpect on traditional rights from highlevels of immigration.

But what does it mean when moder-ates lose while conservatives and liber-als win? It may indicate that Americanpolitics are leaving the realm wherecompromise is possible. The middleground is eroding. People are beginningto realize that unless they get off thefence and defend their families, their

heritage, their religion, and their nation,they are going to be overrun by ThirdWorld immigrants and crushed by re-pressive government. What is happen-ing is polarization, a necessary polariza-tion that shocks people out of their apa-thy. Polarization means choices becomegenuinely meaningful.

Where is all this leading? History pro-vides a bleak precedent. In 1858, asAmerica slid inexorably toward war,New York senator William Sewardspoke of an “irrepressible conflict be-tween opposing and enduring forces.”We live in similarly turbulent and di-vided times, and many believe that ir-reconcilable differences are once againdemanding resolution. One can findsimilar words of warning from across thepolitical spectrum, from Pat Buchananon the right; to establishment figuressuch as Harvard political scientist Sam-uel Huntington, Council on ForeignRelations fellow Michael Clough, andAtlantic author Robert Kaplan, to blackcolumnist Carl Rowan on the left.

Mr. Buchanan has often cited the ex-ample of the ethnic strife in the Balkansas a warning against continued immigra-tion. Mr. Kaplan has repeatedly painteda grim picture of the twenty-first cen-tury: world-wide mass migrations, star-vation, anarchy and constant civil war.

Closer to home, Michael Clough, asenior fellow at the CFR, predicts thebreakup of America along ethnic lines.Without giving a timetable, he says thedissolution of the United States is al-ready underway and believes it is irre-

versible. He writes, “America is destinedto become a country of distinct, rela-tively independent regions, each with itsown politico-cultural economies, metro-politan centers, governing elites, andglobal interests.” He points out that inthe face of ethnic fragmentation, “it isless and less possible for nation-ally-minded elites sitting in Washingtonand New York to construct policies” thatcan keep America’s increasingly Bal-kanized population quiet. Mr. Cloughwarns that unless there are autonomousregions governing themselves, “the stagecould be set for a series of economic andcultural civil wars pitting regions of thecountry against each other.” He suggestsit is “naive and dangerous” for elites “tocling to the idea of one nation, one cul-ture.”

Perhaps the most thoughtful analysisis Samuel Huntington’s “The Clash ofCivilizations.” First published as an ar-ticle in the CFR’s flagship publication,Foreign Affairs, and later expanded tobook length, it charts the re-emergenceof cultural, religious and ethnic affini-ties in world affairs after the collapse ofthe Soviet Union. Prof. Huntington of-fers strong evidence that major ethnicand religious groupings of the world’speoples, which he terms civilizations,constitute the new battle ground in thestruggle for human survival and pre-dominance in the post-Cold War world.

Prof. Huntington asserts that religionis the most powerful unifying force inhuman affairs, followed closely by eth-nic identity. Ideological fads, be theyMarxism or democracy, count for noth-ing for most of the world’s peoples. And,says Prof. Huntington, the West’s quaintnotion that it can “export” democracy,human rights, and other Western valuesis a conceit we can ill afford in a worldwhere the West’s power is diminishingrapidly. Prof. Huntington even cites asa warning Jean Raspail’s haunting novel,The Camp of the Saints, which describesthe destruction of the West by ThirdWorld immigration.

I sometimes play a little game in mymind. The game is to guess which of theante-bellum years we live in. I wouldguess it is about 1840, give or take a fewyears. Then, as now, there were thosewho foresaw the potential for conflictinherent in the political climate of thetimes. Predictions of conflict do notmake conflict inevitable, but they dosuggest America is not necessarilystable.

Two wings of the same bird of prey?


Given the presence in the West of tensof millions of non-European peoples, afigure that could grow to hundreds ofmillions in the coming decades, it isdoubtful all differences can be resolved.Despite the sincere wishes of many menand women–including those whoseviews must be counted as conservativeand patriotic–these Third World aliensare simply not assimilable. The impli-cations are inescapable. The West mustact if it is to survive. Given sufficientpolitical will, redress by peaceful means

is still possible. But if history is anyguide, rational means may not be used–just as they were not used in the 1840sand 1850s.

How can we move toward resolution?The answer is to widen the growing fis-sures of polarization beginning to ap-pear. This can be brought about only bypolitical activism, which is at present theonly alternative with any chance of suc-cess. In today’s context, the most effec-tive strategy is probably populism–which Pat Buchanan calls economic na-

tionalism. This is probably the only strat-egy with an appeal broad enough to at-tract a winning combination of support-ers.

If the GOP doesn’t have the stomachfor this, if George Wallace was rightwhen he said “there ain’t a dime’s worthof difference” between Democrats andRepublicans, European-descendedAmericans must build a nationalistmovement through a third party. Admit-tedly, this will be difficult. Most thirdparties are little better than spoilers, like

in the audience for Mr. Buchanan’s an-nouncement and was happy to talk.No, she said, she did not think Mr.Buchanan is a racist or an anti-Semite.“I know something about demon-ization,” she said, “and we have tomove past that.” As a good Reformer,she seems to be concentrating, as sheput it, on “changing how Americadoes politics” rather than on the con-tent of those politics. Her interest isin political reform rather than policies,and she favors term limits, campaignfinance reform, and election-day voterregistration. She sees the purpose ofthe party not as pushing a platform butas “creating an environment in whichdebate is possible,” adding that immi-gration is a subject about which “weneed dialogue.”

Although she has not yet made anendorsement, she spoke favorably ofMr. Buchanan and dismissively ofDonald Trump. “He’s a billionaire,”she said. “Why does he have to joinour party? He could start his ownparty.”

The audience for Mr. Buchanan’sannouncement was screened to keepout trouble-makers but five or six col-lected on the sidewalk. They lookedlike skid row bums, and they wavedsigns reading “Beware Buchanan,Fourth Reich,” “No More Nazism,”and a valentine that read “To Adolphwith Love, Pat.” The leader appearedto be a man named Bob Kunst fromShalom International, which “fightsNazism all over the world.” Hewarned that Mr. Buchanan would“mobilize the hater mentality” and is“so dangerous it’s mind-boggling.”

It is shaping up to be a strange po-litical season. Black lefty LenoraFulani, together with many AR read-ers, is likely to support a candidatewho is “so dangerous it’s mind-bog-gling.”

or what continent their kinfolk camefrom. Let us abandon a sterile and futilepolitics of victims-and-villains, and re-discover what brings us all together asone nation and one people. All of usmust learn the English language. All ofus must come to know our common his-

tory, heritage, and American heroes, sowe can get our great Melting Pot work-ing its magic again. Any man or womanfrom any continent or any country canbe a good American. We know that. Butit takes time to assimilate the thirty mil-lion who have come in the last thirtyyears. And we need time. Indeed, weneed a time-out on legal immigration,to ease the downward pressure on work-ers’ wages and to defeat the forces ofseparatism that threaten us and na-tions all over the world.”

This is not exactly a ringing state-ment, but Mr. Buchanan is the only na-tional contender who wants to stop im-migration, and for that reason alone hewould deserve our support.

Despite Pat Choate’s support, Mr.Buchanan is not a shoo-in for the Re-form Party nomination. New York prop-erty developer Donald Trump may seekthe nomination, and could spend plentyof money trying to get it. The ReformParty itself is a strange assortment, oneof the strangest of which is LenoraFulani, the black, fringe lefty who ranfor president in 1988 and 1992 as can-didate of the New Alliance Party. Shehas amassed a following within the party,and her support would be helpful in win-ning the nomination. Miss Fulani was

On October 25, PatrickBuchanan officially left theRepublican Party and an-

nounced he would seek the ReformParty’s nomination for President.Some 100 reporters and three or fourhundred supporters packed a hotelballroom in northern Virginia, wherePat Choate, Reform vice presidentialcandidate in 1996, introduced Mr.Buchanan as “the newest member ofthe Reform party and the next Presi-dent of the United States.”

To much whooping, applause andchants of “Go, Pat, Go,” Mr. Buchan-an let fly at his usual targets: the NewWorld Order, “cancerous trade defi-cits,” “the money boys,” “beltwayelites,” “the tyranny of judges,” “thatabomination they call Roe v. Wade,”and William Clinton, whom he calledan Elmer Gantry “unfit to be Com-mander in Chief.” He proposed a re-turn to local control, a cut in taxes “totheir lowest level in modern history,”retaliatory tariffs, and he even hintedat withdrawal from the United Na-tions.

Mr. Buchanan was in an unflap-pably good mood: “They call me anisolationist,” he said, adding, “that’sthe nicest thing they call me.” Whenhis microphone stopped working hejoked that the thunderous applause hewas getting had knocked it out.

Race relations and immigration herelegated to a single passage:

“But of all the needs of this nation,none is greater for our peace and hap-piness than racial reconciliation. Thebacksliding toward hyphenated-Americanism must end. Let us abol-ish quotas and set-asides, these un-American devices that reward indi-viduals based on what color they are,

The Buchanan Reformation

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Teddy Roosevelt’s Progressive Party in1912, which allowed Woodrow Wilson,our first New World Order president, towin the election–or as Ross Perot mayhave been in 1992 and 1996, possiblydrawing off enough votes to elect Will-iam Clinton.

However, in extraordinary times,third parties can gain power. In 1860,Republicans combined Whig protection-ism with Unitarian abolitionism to putLincoln in the White House. We mayyet see the GOP fade into oblivion onits own, like the Whigs of yesteryear,but it would be foolish to wait. Time isshort and demographics are changingrapidly. We must give Humpty Dumptya push by supporting third parties.

Unfortunately, none of the partieswith any significant following–Libertar-ian, Reform or Constitution (formerlythe U.S. Taxpayers’ Party)–is ideal.While their stand against government isadmirable, the Libertarian commitmentto personal freedom no matter the con-sequences leads to support for pornog-raphy, legalized drugs, free trade, openborders, and unlimited immigration. TheReform Party may be closest to PatBuchanan’s message of economic na-tionalism. Indeed, some analysts believethat in 1992 and 1996 it attracted asmany Reagan Democrats as it did dis-gusted conservatives. But many ReformParty leaders have little sympathy for theissues that concern Christians and other

social conservatives–moral values, abor-tion, prayer in school, pornography, etc.Its great advantage is that it qualifies for$12 million in federal matching cam-paign funds. On paper, the newly-re-named Constitution Party representssocial conservatives. It is for sound, con-servative fiscal policy and for traditionalmorality. However, it has not attracted

large numbers, particularly from theChristian Right. Also, while generallyopposed to immigration, it avoids theexplicit appeal to ethnic identity that willbe required to build a real nationalistmovement.

Many threads must be woven togetherto create such a movement. These in-clude the middle class, blue collar andethnic whites, Southerners, Christianconservatives, constitutionalists, patri-ots, and even some disaffected Libertar-ians. The key is to bring together asmany of our European-descended cous-ins as possible, for only in numbers canthere be success. A merger of the Re-form Party with the Constitution Partywould be worth working for, particularly

if Pat Buchanan wins the Reform Partypresidential nomination. The resultwould be a strong base for expansion.

We also need grass roots political ac-tivism, with leaders who are willing toconfront the race question directly. If thereal issues can never be talked aboutthere is no possibility they will enter thepolitical process. Perhaps the mostpromising organization in this regard isthe Council of Conservative Citizens.During the Clinton impeachment pro-ceedings, the media tried its usualhatchet job on the C of CC, but to theleft’s surprise and dismay, the C of CCheld its ground, and has grown by leapsand bounds ever since.

One thing is certain: the Culture Warwill not go away. We have no choice butto fight those whose actions–whethertheir motives are malevolent or merelymisguided–would destroy Western Civi-lization and push aside its foundingpeoples. We still have the numbers towin–and to win legitimately within theframework of the Constitution. But wedo not have much time. We must forcepeople away from the middle. We mustpolarize them. Most important, we mustnever let the question of our right to ex-ist as a distinct people be declaredoff-limits. We must make it the centralpolitical question of our time.

Michael W. Masters is chairman ofthe Virginia chapter of the Council ofConservative Citizens.

Jörg Haider’s Steady ClimbAustrian nationalists moveclose to power.

by Michael Walker

The Austrian election results of Oc-tober 3rd were the best ever forJörg Haider’s Freedom Party, put-

ting it second after the leading SocialDemocrats (socialists) and just ahead ofthe People’s Party (conservatives). TheFreedom Party has been rising slowlybut relentlessly since 1986, when Mr.Haider, then an ambitious and unknownpolitician, took it over at the age of 36.If the Freedom Party were a corporationand its votes were stock, Business Weekwould be lauding Mr. Haider as a modelCEO, whose radical measures, and for-ward-looking policies had made his

business a stock market hot tip. Since1986–when Mr. Haider became chair-man of the party and radi-cally altered its policies toinclude a good dose of pa-triotism and support for tra-ditional values and an Aus-trian identity–its share of thevote has risen steadily from9.73 percent to 27.2 percentin the latest election. Overthe same period there hasbeen incessant abuse of Mr.Haider for making positivecomments about some as-pects of National Socialismand of Austrians who votefor a party that is “hostile toforeigners.” Some people willnever forgive a man who praised Hitler’slabor policies, who said that Waffen SS

soldiers were “decent and honorablemen,” and who wants less immigration.

Caught Between Mill-stones

In 1986 Austria was do-minated, as it had been sincethe war, by two parties–theSocial Democrats and thePeople’s Party–which sharedmore than 80 percent of thevote and which much of thetime worked together incoalition. The only party ofany real size never in go-vernment was the FreedomParty, a mishmash of free

marketers, anti-Communists,some old Nazis, and almost anyoneinclined to join Austria’s non-governing

We still have the numbersto win–and to win

legitimately within theframework of

the Constitution.

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party as a matter of principle. Theguiding line of the party was left liberal,and other than offering itself as analternative to the government parties,there was nothing original about theFreedom Party. It was the old story of athird party caught between the mill-stones of an established, two partysystem.

In some ways the rise of Jörg Haiderhas hoist the establishment with its ownpetard. First, there is the matter ofpatriotism. To be patriotically Austrianmeans to be ipso-facto anti-Nazi, forNational Socialism removed Austriafrom the map. There are ferocious lawsin Austria against attempting to recreatea Nazi party (16 years imprisonment),which is partly defined as seeking toreabsorb Austria into Germany. An-schluss is precluded by the Constitution,so the matter is not open to public debate,and it means that anyone proclaiming thevirtues of patriotism is doing what theConstitution and the Allies wanted everygood Austrian burger to do. Thus, themore Mr. Haider trumpeted Austriannationalism the more “establishment” hecould claim to be. To the outsider,Austria seems very much part of Ger-many, culturally and historically, butAustrians are quite sensitive about their“special identity.”

Like Germany, Austria was dividedinto zones and occupied by the Allies.Stalin was prepared to withdraw fromeastern Austria on condition that Austriaadhere to strict neutrality and not joinNATO. Austria was only too glad toavoid the fate of her northern neighbour(Germany was the European hot seatduring the Cold War) and an officialcommitment to neutrality was incor-porated into the Constitution in 1955.The Soviet plundering of EasternAustria in 1945 had destroyed Com-munist credibility for good. The SocialDemocrats were not tempted by Marx-ism and were content to share powerwith the conservative People’s Partyindefinitely.

During the Cold War, Austria wassometimes called the “Yugoslavia of theWest.” Its neutrality and the fact that itwas not a member of NATO made itpossible for Austria to speak out againstIsraeli policies, something Israel has notforgiven nor forgotten. It was theAustrian-Jewish Bundespresident BrunoKreisky who had the reputation of beingthe best friend of Palestine amongWestern leaders. It was also while the

Austrian Kurt Waldheim was GeneralSecretary of the United Nations that theUN condemned Israel for “racism,” andit was the same Kurt Waldheim, activein the German armed forces in theSecond World War, whom the Austrianshad the temerity to elect as Bundes-president despite or even partly becauseof an international campaign orches-trated against him.

The current Social Democrat/Peo-ple’s Party coalition is 13 years old andthe Austrian voter seems weary of it.Certainly weariness has played a con-siderable role in the steady shift to theFreedom Party. The latest resultsindicate no abrupt change, just aconfirmation of a trend that was shock-ing for pundits only because they finallyput the Freedom Party ahead of thePeople’s Party and into second place.

The origins of the Freedom Party liein classical liberalism, and Mr. Haiderhas managed to exploit the traditionalliberal free market loathing of waste. Ev-ery government scandal and report ofmismanagement over the last ten years(and there have not been few) has playedinto his hands. Polls have pointed to dis-gust with waste and scandal as the big-gest single issue favouring the FreedomParty.

In Austria, constant coalition govern-ment made two-party dominance inher-ently weaker than in other countries. Inthe two-party systems in Britain or theUnited States, voters with short memo-ries often believe the opposition of theday would manage more efficiently andwithout scandal. In Austria the only ef-fective opposition is the Freedom Party,since the two other parties have been ingovernment together for the last 13years. The latest vote can be seen as akind of house-cleaning.

No Radical Positions

In contrast to most “extreme right”politicians, Jörg Haider is chary of com-mitting himself to radical positions. Inthe case of European Union, for ex-ample, the Freedom Party is less enthu-siastic about European unity than thetwo other major parties, but in a largelyagricultural country where farming sub-sidies are gratefully received, a stronglyanti-Brussels position will lose morevotes than it will win, and Mr. Haiderknows it. Taking the position that he ispersonally unenthusiastic but will fol-low the wishes of the majority on the

subject, Haider gets the best of bothgroups: the support of anti-Europe vot-ers who have nowhere else to go, andthe conservative but pro-European ru-ral vote.

Haider, being nothing if not a pop-ulist, eschews the racial appeal of partieslike the French Front National or theBritish National Party. The support ofright-wingers from other European

countries is more an embarrassment tohim than a comfort. When Jean-MarieLe Pen of the Front National publiclypraised his recent success, he brushedoff the compliment and denied he wasclose to Mr. Le Pen.

Mr. Haider’s main concerns are wasteof taxpayer money, the abuse of the asy-lum system by scroungers (“pseudo refu-gees”) and the threat to employmentposed by massive immigration. Thisstrikes a chord among free marketers andworking class people who fear for theirjobs. If Mr. Haider was at one time tak-ing votes from the conservatives, recentresults show that it is traditional SocialDemocrat voters who are turning to himnow. The slow growth of his party, bycontrast with the sudden success of theFront National in France a few years ago,has enabled the Freedom Party to bettertest and train its cadres. Particularlyworrying for the establishment partiesmust be a recent survey among first-timevoters who, like young voters every-where, showed little interest in politicsbut among whom eight percent thoughtit “cool” to vote Freedom Party com-pared to one percent for the People’sParty and zero “coolness” for the SocialDemocrats!

Jörg Haider has no scruples aboutenforcing party discipline. In recentyears the Freedom Party was itselfshaken by scandal and dissent. In 1998the Salzburg branch of the party was

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divided and Haider simply dissolved it,just as he did the Tyrol group. That sameyear, a Freedom Party member ofparliament, Peter Rosenstingl, fled toBrazil, leaving behind massive debts forthe Lower Austrian branch of the party,whose coffers he had plundered. Ahostile press played this scandal up forall it was worth and the popularity ofthe Freedom Party began to sink untilMr. Haider’s drastic counter-measuresproved effective: all Freedom Partyoffice holders are now obliged to sign alegal document that opens them toprosecution if it can be shown they donot implement the policies of theFreedom Party. Those who criticised thismeasure were expelled. Mr. Haider hasalso been forthright in driving outanyone who does not appear to realisewho is boss.

Coalition

The country is now in the midst ofcomplex wrangling over how to form agovernment. In the 183-member parlia-ment, the Social Democrats have 65seats, with the Freedom and People’sparties tied at 52 seats each. Any two-way coalition would command a major-ity, and the Freedom Party is willing towork with either of the other parties. TheSocial Democrats, however, have offi-cially refused to form a coalition with“racists.” The People’s Party leader,Wolfgang Schuessel, has ruled out yetanother coalition with the socialists, soit would be logical for him to form agovernment with Mr. Haider.

A prominent German politician andleading contender for chancellor in the2002 elections has urged the People’sParty to do just that. Edmund Stoiber,who is now state premier of Bavaria,

says Austrian conservatives are ex-hausted after 13 years as junior coali-tion partner with the socialists, andshould make common cause with theirnatural allies, the Freedom Party. Mr.Stoiber stuck to his guns in the face ofmuch outrage over this sound advice.The People’s Party has yet to make upits mind, however, and if Austria con-tinues to drift without a government, itcould face new elections next year. Thiswould probably be to the FreedomParty’s advantage, since the voters couldwell punish the other parties for theirdithering unwillingness to get on withthe business of forming a cabinet.

The reaction outside Austria to thegains of the Freedom Party has beenpredictably excessive. Israel’s ForeignMinister David Levy said the entireAustrian government “will be tainted”and that Israel would withdraw itsambassador if the Freedom Party isbrought into a coalition. American Jewstried, unsuccessfully, to have Mr. Haiderbanned from running in the November7th New York City Marathon on thegrounds that he is a Nazi sympathiser(he ran past a few hecklers and was timedat a respectable, under-four-hours). ArielMuzicant, leader of the 12,000-memberAustrian “Jewish community” has saidsome Jews would leave Austria in thecurrent political climate.

All this has happened before. Theelection of Kurt Waldheim proved onlythat Austrians, even left-leaning Austri-ans, become prickly when outsiders tellthem how to vote. Bundespresident Tho-mas Klestil has spoken of an “exagger-ated reaction.” Werner Schneyder, actorand cabaret artist and certainly no friendof Mr. Haider was asked why there wereno protests and demonstrations after theelection. As he explained to the popular

German magazine Focus, “You demon-strate against decisions and plans, notagainst democratic election results.”

Jörg Haider will need some luck tomake much further progress. There area lot of people, beginning with all theexpellees of his own party plotting andgrumbling in the cafes of Vienna andSalzburg, right up to powerful interestsin New York and Tel Aviv by way of theentire rent-a-mob of the far left, forwhom the continued success of JörgHaider has become intolerable, and whowill stop at nothing to ensure that henever becomes Chancellor of the Repub-lic of Austria, his great ambition for thelast 15 years.

The Freedom Party’s election guar-antee was that it would stop the “for-eign infiltration” of Austria. So long assuch talk was confined to Austria it washalf-way tolerated, but now that theparty is close to government, it will beopen season on Mr. Haider. His enemiesknow, however, that if they miscalcu-late they will create a second Waldheimeffect, perhaps even stronger than thefirst. The Israeli ambassador might seehimself honour bound to pack his bagsin earnest.

One option for those who want toneutralise the effect of Mr. Haider’s suc-cess would be to channel him into pro-establishment politics that do not reallyrock the boat, but Mr. Haider does notseem to be a politician who can be eas-ily domesticated. The current reactionto his success suggests that his enemiesknow it. After this election the stakesare much higher–for both sides.

Michael Walker is a free-lancejournalist and teacher living in Ger-many. He edits the yearly magazine, TheScorpion.

Crime in Pennsylvaniaby James P. Lubinskas

Every year the Pennsylvania StatePolice release a report on crimesand arrests from the previous

year. The report for 1998, released inSeptember, confirms that blacks are ar-rested at considerably higher rates thanwhites.

Pennsylvania figures make goodblack/white comparisons because thestate has so few people of other races.

According to the census bureau, the1998 population was 85.9 percent white,9.7 percent black, 2.6 percent Hispanic,1.7 percent Asian, and 0.1 percentAmerican Indian. Hispanic criminals arecategorized as white, while Asians andAmerican Indians are lumped togetherwith blacks in the “non-white” category.This distorts racial comparisons but onlyslightly.

The first graph on the next page com-pares the rates at which blacks and

whites are arrested for 13 differentcrimes. In all cases, the white arrest rateis set to one, which is represented by thedotted line that runs near the bottom ofthe graph. The columns represent blackarrest rates. Columns that are lower thanthe dotted line mean blacks are lesslikely than whites to be arrested for thosecrimes; columns higher than the dottedline mean blacks are more likely. Thenumbers along the vertical axis showhow much more (or less) likely blacks

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are to be arrested. For example, blacksare nearly 19 times more likely thatwhites, per capita, to be arrested for rob-bery. At the other extreme, they are lesslikely than whites to be arrested for vio-lation of liquor laws–only about twothirds as likely.

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for alcohol-related offenses.Nor is there a large differen-tial for vandalism. The black/white multiple picks up rap-idly for non-violent crimeslike arson, burglary, larceny,and drug offenses, but is high-est for violent crimes, particu-larly murder and robbery.These are the same patternsfound in the country as awhole.

Pennsylvania also collects“ethnic intimidation and hatecrime data.” In 1998 there

were 227 race-based hate crimes,of which whites were victims in 102

or 44.9 percent, while blacks were vic-tims in 109 or 48 percent. Asians werevictims of 16 hate crimes. There werealso 25 anti-Hispanic crimes, reportedseparately as ethnic rather than racial of-fenses. As for race of offenders, 39 per-cent were “not reported,” 49 percentwere white, and 12 percent were black.Two Hispanic offenders were listed aswhite.

While blacks are overrepresented asvictims of racial hate crimes (9.7 per-cent of the population but 48 percent ofthe victims) they are also overrepre-

sented as perpetrators (12.1 percent). Infact, blacks are slightly more than twiceas likely as whites to commit hatecrimes. The second graph indicates thismultiple as well as several others. Blacksare approximately four times more likelythan whites to be arrested for propertycrimes and almost ten times more likelyto be arrested for violent crimes. Thesemultiples are, likewise, similar to datafor the nation as a whole.

The Pennsylvania State Police Uni-form Crime Report can be ordered freeof charge by calling (717) 783-5556. Thereport can also be read on-line atwww.psp.state.pa.us.

Galton ReportLondon lefties trample onfree speech.

by Glayde Whitney

On Friday, September 17, 1999, asmall group of disheveled andunruly children was allowed to

shut down a conference sponsored by theGalton Institute on the topic of “Man andSociety in the New Millennium.” Fromthe ignoble events that transpired on thatsunny day, it appears that the currentpeople of once-great Britain do not knowbetter than to reward uncivil behavior.Like parents who give in to temper tan-trums from a child, they are training theiryoungsters toward escalating nastiness.

The venerable British group thatsponsored the conference was organizedin 1907 as the Eugenics Education So-ciety and later shortened its name to theEugenics Society. Finally in 1988, inresponse to unrelenting demonization ofeugenics, the society adopted the more

innocuous name of the Galton Societyin honor of Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911), the founder of eugenics.

The conference was a two-day eventheld at the Zoological Society of Lon-don, on the edge of Regents Park acrossthe street from the London Zoo. The firstday of the admission-by-ticket-onlyevent went off as scheduled and with-out disruption. An audience of 120 orso heard interesting talks from sucheminent professors as J. H. Edwards ofOxford and Fellow of the Royal Soci-ety (“Genetics: Old and New”) and Ri-chard Lynn, Director of the Ulster Insti-tute for Social Research (“Quality ofPopulation: Scenarios for the New Eu-genics”).

Early on the morning of the secondday there were hints of trouble. Beforethe conference began a few scruffy-look-ing young people tried to get in by pre-senting obviously counterfeit tickets.They were turned away and the policecalled to prevent trouble. The police leftas the conference began on schedule

without incident. The first speaker wasProfessor Mike Murphy from the Lon-don School of Economics, who spokeon “Prospects for population size andstructure at the start of the new millen-nium.” Needless to say, unless there aredrastic changes the prospects range fromdismal to terrifying.

I was the next speaker and was calledto the podium. While I was waiting tobe introduced, a group of only about 10of the scruffy youth noted earliermarched into the room and took up aposition near the podium. They thentried to unfurl a long banner across thefront of the lecture hall. The audiencewaited politely while the children firsttwisted and untwisted their banner, thenturned it right-side-up. They calledthemselves “People Against Eugenics,”and their banner read DIVERSITY, NOTEUGENICS. Then began an unruly dia-logue between various members of theaudience and the disrupters.

I left my lecture notes on the podiumand retired to a seat in the second row.

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There was some shouting back and forth,including calls of “Professor Whitney,where is he? Is he here? Where is Pro-fessor Whitney?” I returned to the po-dium to retrieve my notes and once againsat down and proceeded to take photos.

The mob immediately recognized themuch better-known Arthur Jensen, andverbally assaulted him at close range.Walter Kistler of the Foundation for theFuture rose to Prof. Jensen’s defense. Heurged the mob to let the speakers speak.The mob refused, and since its membershad used the word “Nazi” Mr. Kistlersuggested that it was they who were act-ing like Nazis. His attempt to reason withthem became a shouting match.

In the meantime members of theGalton Institute were trying to negoti-ate with the demonstrators. One sugges-tion was that they could have a few min-utes to have their say, after which theycould stay and listen to the scheduledspeakers. Another was that they sched-ule their own conference and a deputa-tion from the institute would attend. Thechildren would have none of it. Nospeech for eugenicists was their stand.

The police returned in some force, butinstead of evicting the trespassers, theydid nothing; perhaps they were thereonly to prevent physical harm. The situ-ation slowly deteriorated into groups ofrestless people wandering around be-tween the lobby and the conferenceroom, waiting and grumbling. Dr. Rob-ert John, head of the International Coun-

cil for Human Ecology and Ethnology,tried to organize resistance. He strodeinto the lobby and called in a very loudvoice for an effort to present the policewith a united demand that the demon-strators be evicted. He also spoke elo-quently about civility and free speech,but nothing came of his efforts.

Eventually there was an announce-ment that the Zoological Society wantedthe premises cleared and closed. Thepolice began politely to escort both at-tendees and mob out of the building. Theprotesters carried the day, shutting downthe conference before I could speak andpreventing Professor Jensen from deliv-ering the keynote Galton Lecture.

Afterwards there was some millingaround in front of the building while acouple of elderly handlers of the scruffychildren passed out a handbill called “Noto Eugenics! Diversity not Discrimina-tion!” It said they were demonstratingbecause “at the meeting are three speak-ers [Richard Lynn, Arthur Jensen, andmyself] who claim that black people aregenetically inferior to white people andalso are genetically programmed to bemore violent and aggressive. It is unac-ceptable that such incitement to racialhatred be permitted.”

If anyone was inciting hatred, it wasthe British press. On the very day of theconference, the Daily Mail ran an inter-view with Prof. Jensen headlined “IsThis Man Truly the World’s Most Loath-some Scientist?” Journalist Mary Rid-

dell couldn’t wait to tell readers what tothink. In her second sentence she wrote:“The Daily Mail does not agree with hisviews on intelligence indeed, we pro-foundly disagree with them.” She thenwent on in the condescending tones ofthe ignorant:

“For three decades, Professor ArthurJensen has lived in the shadow of deathand violence. It is difficult, however, tofeel sorrow for him. . . . ”

“From the White House downwards,the bleak scenarios painted by Jensen–particularly on race–have been reviled.One study was banned shortly after apresidential aide warned that Jensen’swork had no place in the culture of mod-ern America. Liberals have argued thathis work, which ignores the effects ofpoverty and deprivation on intelligence,is misguided and flawed. Learned jour-nals have blacklisted his books as un-suitable for review. . . .”

“One expects the Dr. Strangelove ofsocial science to be a wild-eyed zealot,but Jensen–who is 76–is a smoothlygroomed and mild-mannered man whosetie clip, flannels and gilt-buttoned navyblazer suggest a lifetime of golf clubdinners. . . .”

“There is, in all of Jensen’s argu-ments, a chilliness imposed, one as-sumes, by a statistician’s existence inwhich lives are measured by graph orbell curve rather than by love or nurture.. . .”

“. . . the powers of parental love tomould ambition, aspiration and self-de-termination–whether among blacks orwhites–are woolly, unscientific conceptsthat his cold scientific mind finds im-possible to comprehend.

“Professor Jensen, for all his appar-ent mildness, is one of the most chillingmen I have ever interviewed. It was anenormous relief to step outside andbreathe fresh air once again.”

This sort of thing is, if anything, evenmore common in Britain than in theUnited States. Peregrine Worsthorne isa “conservative” who writes sensibly onmany subjects, but who cannot stomachIQ research. In an Oct. 30, 1994 articlein the Sunday Telegraph called “Raceand IQ: Never Has a Knife Been Put inMore Smoothly,” he writes of intelli-gence studies:

“That these are important questions,and scientifically worthy subjects forresearch, I cannot deny. Nevertheless,they are so distasteful, so certain to givesuch deep offense to so many, that people

Demonstrators harangue Arthur Jensen while Walter Kistler tries to reason with them.


who choose to pursue them–among allthe equally important subjects demand-ing attention–can only be disturbinglyinsensitive. . . .”

“. . . I still feel that the people in-volved in this research are pretty nastypieces of work whom I would not wishto know. And the timing is so particu-larly cruel, smothering black pride for-

ever, just as it is beginning to breathefreely.

“In the old days, theorists of racial su-periority or inferiority positively glori-fied in their insensitivity; made no at-tempt to cushion the cruelties of theirconclusions–sterlization for the inferior.Their American successors are muchmore concerned and sophisticated, more

gentle, caring, and squeamish. ‘It hurtsus more than it hurts you’ is the newmotif. Never has a knife been put in moresmoothly, leaving so little blood on theblade. Crude they are most certainly not:only creepy.”

This is just the kind of encouragementlouts need to shut down academic meet-ings.

O Tempora, O Mores!More Good News FromEurope

In the wake of Jörg Haider’s successin Austria, an anti-immigration party hasscored an upset election victory in Swit-zerland. The Swiss People’s Party orSVP went from fourth to second placein the legislative lower house, with 44seats to the Social Democrats’ 51. It isnow demanding an expanded role in thecoalition government, but the full extentof its bargaining power will not be clearuntil run-off elections for the upperhouse, which have yet to be held. TheSVP campaigned with posters thatshowed a dark-skinned man tearing upa Swiss flag, andcalled for an end toimmigration andliberal asylumlaws. One infive resi-dents is nowa foreigner. The SVP also promised tokeep Switzerland out of the EuropeanUnion. (Michael Shields, Anti-immi-grant Stance Wins Big for Swiss Party,Washington Times, Oct. 25, 1999, p.A18. Michael Shields, Swiss SVP Re-news Call for Extra Cabinet Seat,Reuters, Oct. 25.)

Diversity is Our StrengthA fight between a black and Hispanic

inmate at Fort Grant State Prison in Ari-zona escalated into a two-hour riot when200 Hispanics responded by throwingrocks at 80 blacks. Inmates armed them-selves with long-handled mops andbrooms, while prison guards cleared outfor their own protection. The outnum-bered blacks retreated into the prisonyard security office but the Hispanics setit on fire. Prison guards came back andrescued the blacks but it took Tactical

Support Units from four different pris-ons to quell the riot. Eighty inmates wereinjured, none seriously. The minimum-security jail was expected to be underlock-down indefinitely. (Racial FightSparks Riot at Fort Grant Prison, Ari-zona Star, October 14, 1999.)

On October 21, 200 to 400 Mexicanand Armenian students mixed it up in alunch-time free-for-all at Grant HighSchool that had to be stopped by hel-meted police. There were differing re-ports of the cause. According to oneversion, fighting started when a Hispanicgirl and an Armenian girl attacked eachother in the cafeteria and ended up onthe floor screaming. According to an-other, 20 or so Mexicans crossed the “in-visible line” that divides Mexican andArmenian turf, and were promptly setupon by Armenians. In any case, hun-dreds of students immediately joined thefight, which injured 14 students and twoteachers. A girl was arrested for conceal-ing a knife in her bra and a boy was ar-rested for assault with a deadly weapon–a trash can. Police held about 40 studentsfor questioning after the fight.

There has been long-standing tensionbetween the two groups, and the school’sdean says similar fights have erupted atleast once a year for the past ten years.School officials have tried “conflict reso-lution programs,” “cultural awarenessclasses,” “group mediation,” and “peercounseling,” but nothing seems to work.(Kristina Sauerwein, Ethnic TensionBlamed for Grant High Melee, Los An-geles Times, Oct. 23, 1999. JesseHiestand, Armenians, Latinos Clash atGrant High, L.A. Daily News, Oct. 22,1999.)

On Nov. 2, a school assembly that wassupposed to promote racial understand-ing prompted a brawl between whitesand Hispanics at Skyview High Schoolin Nampa, Idaho. Comments made by

motivational speaker Raina Beaver musthave “touched some nerves,” said prin-cipal Ralph Kern. Mr. Kern had to callthe police after about 20 white and His-panic students started fighting. Race,says Mr. Kern, “is a bigger issue thanthis community is willing to admit.”(Kathleen Mortensen & Lucinda Dolit-tle, Parents Raise Questions OverSkyview Incident, Idaho Statesman,Nov. 4, 1999.)

Language InvasionNew York City is becoming a Span-

ish-speaking city. At 2.2 million, His-panics are the largest minority, and onein five New Yorkers speaks Spanish athome. Half the residents of the Bronxare Hispanic. The relentless influx ofPuerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans, andnow Mexicans has created a huge de-mand for Spanish language instruction.“Thirty years ago, we started trainingpeople to do business in Latin Americaor Spain,” said Richard Huarte, directorof the New York office of Inlingua, alanguage school that specializes in cor-porate accounts. “Now people are learn-ing Spanish to deal with people righthere in New York.” Spanish is now themost popular language in Berlitz classes;last year for the first time it outstrippedEnglish to become the top language.

At Metropolitan Hospital in EastHarlem, doctors started taking Spanishlessons two years ago, after a surveydetermined that 65 percent of the pa-tients prefer to be spoken to in Spanish.The police department is about to offerSpanish courses to any of the 40,000officers who want to learn. Forty per-cent of the city’s school children areHispanic, and administrators are desper-ate for bilingual teachers. In the last twoyears they hired 70 teachers from PuertoRico and 13 from Spain.

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Half of all Catholic churchgoers arenow Hispanic, and in the last five yearsthe New York Archdiocese has broughtin 150 priests and 80 nuns from LatinAmerica and Spain. “We’ve had priestswho suddenly realized one day that theywere preaching to a group of people whodid not understand the sermons,” saysMartín Poblete, permanent adviser to thearchdiocese on Hispanic affairs.

Forward-looking Anglo mothers whodo not, themselves, speak Spanish aremaking sure their children will be pre-pared for the future. “I don’t want mychild to lag behind,” says Linda Hughes,who lives in Brooklyn, and commutesan hour each way to take her 3-year-oldson, Lucas, to Spanish lessons once aweek in Manhattan. (Mirta Ojita, ToTalk Like New York, Sign Up for Span-ish, New York Times, Oct. 18, 1999.)

Protection With TeethSouth Africans have grown so tired

of rampant crime and lax law enforce-ment that citizens have begun to takematters into their own hands. A numberof vigilante groups have sprung up, thebest-known of which is called Mapogoa Mathamaga. The organization, whosename is from a Sotho saying, “When aleopard faces a tiger it becomes a tigeritself,” was established in 1996 by John

Magolego. In a two month period, crimi-nals killed eight people in his impover-ished neighborhood in Northern Prov-ince but the police took little interest.The last straw was the killing of an 80-year-old man who was beaten to deathand his genitals sliced off for use in blackmagic. Mr. Magolego and a group ofenraged citizens found the killer, held atrial, and executed him.

Mapogo, as the group is called, hasnow grown from a local organization of100 members to 90 well-organizedbranches with 35,000 members. It doesnot kill or maim; it dispenses merciless

floggings on the bare buttocks and some-times dangles screaming miscreants overcrocodile pools. “Criminals must feelpain,” explains Mr. Magolego. “Theymust be afraid of punishment. That isthe African style.” It has been a veryeffective style. “These criminals knowthat if they cross us, we will work ontheir buttocks. They come to understandthat we will inflict pain on their bodiesif they do not use their ears.” (WhenJustice Fails, Aida Parker Newsletter(South Africa), July, 1999, p. 7.)

Protection For a FeeSouth Africa has what is probably the

highest rape rate in the world. In 1998there were 115.8 reported rapes per100,000 people (and many unreported)compared with 34.1 rapes per 100,000in the United States. South Africans nowget almost daily accounts of rapes in-cluding “jack-rollings” in which a mobseals off an entire street or building andgang-rapes every woman it can catch.South African men think they are moreor less entitled to a woman’s favors. Asurvey found that 12 percent of teenageboys admitted to having forced them-selves on someone, and half said that agirl who says no really means yes.Thirty-one percent of boys who knew arape victim said she had been asking forit. One in three Johannesburg schoolgirlssaid they had been raped but only one ineight realized it was illegal.

Since about 13 percent of South Af-rican adults are infected with AIDS, theattacks can be a death sentence. Somemen rape women in the hope of spread-ing the disease, and others rape childrenin the belief that sex with a virgin curesit. Cape Town’s Red Cross War Memo-rial Children’s Hospital reports about 10cases of child rape every week; recentlya six-month-old baby was raped to death.Only one in 400 rapes leads to a convic-tion.

There has been something of an anti-rape campaign, which was to include acommercial by actress Charlize Theron.In it, she says:

“People often ask me what the menare like in South Africa. Well, considerthat more women are raped in SouthAfrica than any other country in theworld. That one out of three women willbe raped in their lifetime in South Af-rica . . . . It’s not that easy to say whatmen in South Africa are like, becausethere seem to be so few out there.” The

Advertising Standards Authority bannedthe ad because it discriminated againstmen.

It is into this market that CGU Insur-ance, Ltd. has introduced rape insur-ance–the first offered anywhere in theworld. For about $4 a month, the policywill cover psychological and medicaltreatment, as well as the expensive anti-AIDS drugs not offered by governmenthealth services. (Andrew Maykuth, InRape-Scarred Nation, an Insurance Plan,Philadelphia Inquirer, October 16, 1999,p. A1.)

Americans GrovelThe United States government has

broken ground for a national memorialatoning for the relocation of Japaneseduring the Second World War. The me-morial is located in a prime location inWashington, DC, less than half a milenorth of the Capitol. It will consist of acurving marble wall listing the namesof ten relocation centers and the namesof 800 Japanese-Americans who died incombat during the war. The centerpiecewill be a 14-foot-high bronze statue oftwo cranes struggling to break free fromchains and barbed wire. Cranes are aJapanese symbol of good fortune. At theground-breaking, Senator Daniel Inouyeof Hawaii said, “The story of the Japa-nese Americans is one we must neverforget. Yesterday, the Japanese were thetargets of racism. Tomorrow it couldhappen to another group.” (Eddie Evans,U.S. Breaks Ground on Japanese Ameri-can Memorial, Reuters, Oct. 22, 1999.)

The Japanese were, of course, relo-cated because of nationality, not race.Chinese and Koreans were not relocated.Moreover, the Japanese were not in-terned, as is commonly claimed. Theywere excluded from certain parts of theWestern United States, and the campswere free accommodation provided topeople who did not have any other placeto go. Residents were free to leave themso long as they did not return to the ex-clusion zone.

Slowly the facts are even beginningto emerge about the treatment of otherAmericans during the war. Here are ex-cerpts from a story that appeared recentlyin the San Deigo Union Tribune:

“While the wartime treatment ofpeople of Japanese ancestry has beenwell-documented–they have received apublic apology and a $1.2 billion repa-rations bill was passed in Congress–the


discrimination against Italians in Amer-ica is not widely known.”

“[M]ore than 500,000 Italian-Ameri-cans served in World War II. And600,000 members of their families weresubject to wartime restrictions. Of thoseaffected, 52,000 were living in Califor-nia. Ten thousand were forced into in-ternment camps.”

“Almost 60 years later, many Italian-Americans–including former BostonRed Sox star Dominic DiMaggio–arepushing Congress to order the releaseof classified papers documenting thecampaign against their parents.” (Dong-Phuong Nguyen, ‘It Wasn’t Right,’ SanDiego Union Tribune, Nov. 7, 1999.)

Perhaps some day, the generic presswill discover what happened to German-Americans. (For more information on re-location camps and the treatment of Eu-ropean enemy aliens during the war, see“Unlucky to be White,” AR, Jan. 1999.)

Canadians GrovelCanada has been piously resurrecting

ancient treaties with Indian tribes andalso wreaking havoc on established com-mercial practices. In September, for ex-ample, the Su-preme Court de-cided that on thebasis of a 1760treaty Micmac In-dians have theright to fish in theAtlantic and ineastern Canadaout of season andwithout a license.White fishermen,some of whomhad paid theequivalent ofC$200,000 werefurious. (Canadawas a colony in1760. One won-ders who the parties to the treaty were?)The Micmac also have unlimited rightsto make a living from “gathering,” sothey can also get into the forestry busi-ness without permits or red tape.

A 1997 Supreme Court decision heldthat Indians have priority rights to Ca-nadian natural resources, and must becompensated if anyone else exploitsthem. The government is now negotiat-ing a C$490 million payoff to just oneBritish Columbia tribe, the Nisga. Oneaccounting company has calculated that

the province of British Columbia alonewill end up shelling out C$40 to 50 bil-lion to Indians. There are only 700,000Indians in the whole country, so C$40billion shared among them equally ismore than C$57,000 per Indian.

Apparently it takes a non-white tocomplain about this. Gurmant Grewal,an immigrant from India and a ReformParty MP, says: “No longer will hardwork be the determining factor whetherone can make a living in forestry, fish-ing or mining. Success will be based onrace.” (Randall Palmer, Generous Rul-ings for Canada’s Natives Spur Back-lash, Reuters, Oct. 24, 1999.)

More ProfilingSpanish police have circulated a let-

ter to jewelry store owners warning themof a rash of robberies by South Ameri-cans, advising that “whenever possibledon’t let them into the premises close tomidday or evening closing times.” It alsourges jewelers to notify the police if theylearn of a South American, without a job,who moves into the area. Somethingcalled the Movement Against Intoler-ance immediately flew into a fury andthe opposition Socialist Party demandedan “explanation” from the Interior Min-ister. An unruffled police spokesmanexplained that “out of 100 violent rob-beries in the (jewelry) sector over thepast year, 90 percent have been carriedout by individuals from Colombia andChile.” (AP, Spanish Cops Criticized forLetter, Sept. 11, 1999.)

Indian GiversUntil the 1965 change in immigration

laws, very few Indians from Asia livedin the United States. Now there are 1.4million and they have the highest aver-age household income of any Asiangroup–$60,903–beating out even theJapanese and Chinese. Indians are in-creasingly turning their numbers andwealth into political power. Last sum-mer, when India and Pakistan were skir-mishing in Kashmir, Indian-Americanpressure helped tilt the U.S. governmentagainst the Pakistanis. In 1998, whenPakistan and India both explodednuclear devices, Indians mobilized toexplain to Congress why India needs thebomb.

Indians have discovered that moneytalks, and they have bought access toofficials at all levels. At a single event

in 1996, Indian business executives re-portedly raised $400,000 for PresidentClinton. The Congressional India Cau-cus, founded in 1993, now has 115 mem-bers and has succeeded at least twice thisyear in blocking legislation that wouldhave reduced foreign aid for India. Inmost cases, Indian-Americans workclosely with the Indian embassy to ad-vance national interests. This raises eye-brows among the old-fashioned. “Wedon’t want Indian Americans to be per-ceived as Indian agents,” explains Am-bassador Naresh Chandra. “It’s a deli-cate line.”

According to the Washington Post,Indian-Americans have modeled theirefforts on those of American Jews andhope eventually to rival them in powerand influence. (John Lancaster, Activ-ism Boosts India’s Fortunes, Washing-ton Post, Oct. 9, 1999, p. A1.)

What’s Next?As the country gets more diverse, ac-

tionable forms of discrimination multi-ply. Shazad Khaligh is a Muslim immi-grant from Iran who worked at NASA’sJet Propulsion Laboratory for 11 yearsuntil 1997. For the last three years, hersupervisor was another Muslim by thename of Fred Hadaegh. Miss Khalighnow claims that Mr. Hadaegh thwartedher career, saying that Muslim womendo not need education and should notwork. She says he threatened to fire herand discouraged her from submittingpapers at scientific conferences. MissKhaligh is suing for both sex and reli-gious discrimination. (Cassandra Stern,Case at NASA’s Lab Alleges Anti-Fe-male Bias by Muslim, Washington Post,Aug. 24, 1999, p. A2.)

Ivy League IdiocyCindy Schiller is a student at Colum-

bia University who has several timesdonated her eggs to childless couples.She thinks it’s a nice thing to do and shealso likes the money she earns, but isbothered by the politics of it. “It’s thefact that I’m helping a white suprema-cist system at work,” she says. “Peopleare getting these fair, blue-eyed children,and that does bother me philosophi-cally.” She thinks it would be “reallycool,” to donate to a homosexual couplerather than to upper-middle class whitewomen who are the typical recipients.(Rebecca Mead, Eggs for Sale, New


Yorker, August 9, 1999, quoted in Pro-creation Politics, Washington Times,Aug. 10, 1999, p. A2.)

Going to the DogsDog feces are a serious problem in

Mexico City, where there are two mil-lion pets and one million strays. Theydeposit more than 350 tons of wasteevery day and owners rarely clean upafter their pets. “It dries and then it fliesinto the air. Then I breathe it and youbreath it,” says Laura Elena Herrejon ofthe Pro-Neighbors Movement, which isworking to stop the problem. Particlesof dried waste also contaminate foodserved from numerous outdoor tacostands.

Officials are starting a major cam-paign to enforce laws that require own-ers to collect dog waste. There are flierswarning of the health risks of “fecal-ismo,” and banners in parks reading,“Neighbor! . . . you could be fined up to344 pesos and 50 cents ($35) or jailedfor between six and 12 hours, if you failto pick up your pets’ feces.” (SusanFerriss, Dog Waste Matters in MexicoCity, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Au-gust 7, 1999, p. B2.)

Third World Meets FirstIn the Washington, DC, suburbs His-

panics are considerably more likely thanothers to die in fatal pedestrian accidents.Many come from third-world boondockswith few cars, and cannot cope withAmerican traffic. Many also apparentlywalk around drunk. In Montgomery andPrince George’s, the Maryland countiesbordering the district, Hispanics areeight percent of the population but ac-count for 21 percent of the pedestrianfatalities. In Fairfax, the Virginia county,they are likewise eight percent of thepopulation but account for 23 percentof fatalities. Hispanic victims are alsomore likely than other pedestrians tohave high levels of blood alcohol.

The federal government has decidedto solve the problem. It has a $200,000contract with a DC communicationscompany to produce short video melo-dramas in Spanish that teach trafficsafety. They are full of steamy intrigue,jealousy, and betrayal, just like thetelenovelas to which many Hispanics areaddicted, but the plots turn on trafficaccidents. In one story, for example, thehero is hit and killed on his way to a

cafe for a tryst with his hot, new, blondlove interest. (Sylvia Moreno & AlanSipress, Fatalities Higher for Latino Pe-destrians, Washington Post, Aug. 27,1999, p. A1.)

Telenovelas notwithstanding, the His-panic pedestrian problem is likely to getworse. The Mexican government re-cently concluded that the country is sounpleasant to live in that eight millionMexicans will probably try to go to theUnited States during the next 20 years–as many as are here already. (MassiveMexican Emigration Predicted, Wash-ington Post, Aug. 27, 1999, p. A20.)

Good Wall, Good Neigh-bors

The Czech city of Usti nad Labem hasbuilt a seven-foot-high wall down anentire city block, separating Gypsyapartments fromhomeowners onthe other side ofthe street. TheCzechs had com-plained aboutrats, garbage, andnoise from thea p a r t m e n t s ,which are filledwith 150 Gypsieswho were thrownout of ordinary housing because theyhaven’t paid rent. Gypsies blocked ear-lier attempts to put up the wall, but work-ers returned with police protection andbuilt it in a single night. The usual peoplehave whooped about “racism,” but theUsti city authorities refuse to be intimi-dated.

The Czech government worries aboutthe wall because the Czech Republic isapplying for membership in the Euro-pean Union and hopes to be admitted by2003. The European Commission hassaid the Czechs must improve things fortheir 300,000 gypsies through “effortsto combat discriminatory attitudes.” EUCommission President Romano Prodihas hinted that the wall could be enough,all by itself, to keep the Czech Republicout of the EU. The Prague governmenthas ordered the city to tear down the wallbut so far, Usti is standing by its wall,which the city claims is strictly a localmatter. (Petr Josek, Czechs CompleteSegregation Wall With Police Help,Reuters, Oct. 13, 1999. Jan Lopatka,Czechs Still See 2003 EU Entry, ButWalls Remain, Reuters, Oct. 15, 1999.)

Tainted Yanqui FoodIn October, heavy rains, floods, and

mudslides in Mexico killed 381 peopleand left 200,000 without shelter. Peoplein the Mexican state of Baja California,which was not affected, donated thou-sands of pounds of non-perishable foodto the state’s Civil Protection Office, tobe used for disaster relief. The federalgovernment refused to accept much ofit–cans of soup, bags of noodles, spam–because it was made in the United States.The government had made a point ofdeclining foreign assistance, and re-jected the American food, claiming ithad not gone through proper import pro-cedures. (Sandra Dibble, U.S-MadeDonations to Flood Victims are Refused,San Diego Union Tribune, Oct. 16,1999.)

Just Another LynchingOn October 15th, white police in

Charleston, SC, arrested a black aftershots were fired outside a school danceat North Charleston High School. Sev-eral people in the crowd were heard tosay “Yeah, we’re going to get us a whiteboy.” Early the next morning more thana dozen blacks attacked Troy Knapp, 35,and Gary Thornburg, 34, as they rodebicycles near the school. They beat bothmen–one into a coma–and stole theirbicycles. The violence stopped onlywhen a dog from a nearby house brokehis chain, ran up to the mêlée, and startedsnarling at the attackers.

Police have arrested seven people,including five juveniles, in connectionwith the attack and have charged themwith second-degree lynching, or mobviolence. All the suspects were at thedance the night before, but police insistthat race had nothing to do with the at-tack. (Herb Frazier, Police Charge SevenSuspects in North Charleston Beating,Post and Courier (Charleston), Oct. 19,1999.)

Diversity Unpopular inGreece

Until the early 1990s, there were prac-tically no immigrants in Greece, butthere are now an estimated 650,000illegals. This is too many for 23-year-old Pandelis Kazakos, a security guardat a television station, who has confessedto killing foreigners. On October 19thand 22nd he went on shooting sprees, in


which he killed an Iraqi and a Georgian,and wounded seven other immigrants.In response, the Greek governmenturged citizens to condemn and isolate“racists.” (AP, Greek Man Admits Kill-ing Immigrants, Oct. 22, 1999.)

Night Vision RacistsLeonard Chappell is president of the

Charlotte County, Florida, chapter of theNAACP. On October 18, a white policeofficer clocked him going nearly 20miles per hour over the speed limit andgave him a ticket. Mr. Chappell imme-diately accused the officer and the de-partment of “racial profiling,” and thedepartment duly investigated. Policeauthorities examined video records ofthe stop and found that the white officerhad behaved appropriately in the faceof abuse from Mr. Chappell. As for ra-cial profiling, it was impossible for theofficer to know who was in the car be-fore he stopped it–at 1:30 in the morn-ing. (Chad Binette, Local NAACPLeader Tries to Use Racial Profiling toBeat Speeding Ticket, but Video Tellsthe Tale, Herald Tribune (Sarasota), Oct.27, 1999.)

Actions Speak LouderWilliam Clinton and his wife have

long trumpeted the benefits of “diver-sity,” and “inclusion.” In his second in-augural address, for example, Mr. Clin-ton claimed that “our rich heritage ofracial, religious and political diversitywill be a Godsend in the 21st century.”At a Democratic fund-raiser, Mrs. Clin-ton wanted to know: “Do we wish to livein a society divided by income, race, orreligion or do we attempt to build a com-munity and honor the principle of inclu-sion?” The Clintons seem somehow tohave forgotten these sentiments whenthey chose their new home in Chap-paqua, New York. Their zip code,10514, is 93.69 percent white, 0.72 per-

cent black, and 1.64 percent Hispanic.Perhaps the 5.4 percent who are Asianwill provide them with sufficient diver-sity. The median household income is$110,000, with 56 percent earning morethan $100,000. (Bob McManus, West-chester County, 10514, New York Post,Sept. 9, 1999, p. 27.)

More Wretched RefuseOn October 16, more than 5,000 pro-

testers, including thousands of illegalimmigrants, demonstrated in Washing-ton for amnesty. The vast majority wereHispanics, but organizers boasted theyhad attracted illegals from four conti-nents. Fakhral Alam general secretaryof the Bangladesh Society of New Yorksaid there are about 100,000 illegalBangladeshis in the United States. Re-ferring to the 1986 law that amnestiedthree million illegals, he said, “it’s timefor another amnesty. These people aren’tgoing back anyway. They’re staying.”(Philip Dan, Demonstration Presses forImmigration Rule Change, WashingtonPost, Oct. 17, 1999, p. C5.)

Criminal Heads SouthThe morning of October 24, a white

couple and their three children ages two,three, and seven were asleep in theirhome in Modesto, California. A manthought to have been Pedro Aguirre, aMexican national, entered the house andbludgeoned the man, almost killing himand possibly leaving him brain damaged.He beat the wife nearly to death and thenraped her, while the horrified childrenlooked on. He took the three-year-oldgirl outside the house and raped her, too,whereupon he was seized with nostal-gia for his homeland.

Mexico essentially refuses to extra-dite criminals to the United States. Thegovernment requires much bureaucraticpaper shuffling before it will even ar-rest a suspect wanted for a crime in aforeign country, and it then takes sixmonths to a year before he is tried. ManyMexicans who commit crimes in theUnited States prefer to take their chanceswith lackadaisical Mexican law enforce-ment. (Crystal Carreon, Family Stunnedby Attack, Modesto Bee, Oct. 29, 1999.)

God Save the QueenOn November 5, Australians voted in

a referendum to keep the Queen of En-

gland as head of state rather than becomea republic. In an affirmation of thecountry’s European heritage, Australiansvoted approximately 55 percent to 45percent to remain Her Majesty’s sub-jects. (Rohan Sullivan, Queen Victori-ous in Australian Vote, Washington Post,Nov. 7, 1999, p. A29.)

Race undoubtedly influenced thevote. In the 1950s, 95 percent of Aus-tralians were of British or Irish descent,and until the mid-1970s, a “White Aus-tralia” policy kept the country European.There was never a question of rejecting

the monarchy. Since then there has beena great deal of non-white immigration,mainly from Asia, and before the vote,immigrants were explaining why theywanted to dump the Queen. “The Mon-archy is simply not relevant to modernAustralia,” said Natasha Stott Despoja,who is a Senator and member of the cam-paign for a “Yes” vote. A Jason Yat SenLi complained that “the monarchy nolonger represents Australian values suchas diversity,” and insisted that “any Aus-tralian–from whatever background–should have the opportunity to becomeour head of state.” (David Grossman,Race Plays Its Card in Republic Vote,BBC On-Line, Nov. 3, 1999.) There wasalso much jabber to the effect that a votefor the Queen might be interpreted inAsian countries as insufficient identifi-cation with Asia. If Australia continuesto accept large numbers of Chinese andVietnamese immigrants, subsequent ref-erenda are likely to go the other way.

Although this was scarcely reportedin the media, a proposed preamble to theAustralian constitution was also voteddown. The text was full of multi-cultibumf such as:

“[We are] proud that our nationalunity has been forged by Australiansfrom many ancestries; . . . [we are]honouring Aborigines and Torres StraitIslanders, the nation’s first people, fortheir deep kinship with their lands andfor their ancient and continuing cultureswhich enrich the life of our country; [andwe are] recognising the nation-building

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contribution of generations of immi-grants; . . . .”

Perhaps journalists take this sort ofthing so much for granted they don’tthink it worth reporting. Australianswere not fooled.

Good Germans, AllIn May, Germany finalized a contro-

versial overhaul of its citizenship laws,which makes it much easier for non-Germans to become citizens. Anyoneborn in Germany will automatically bea citizen, and naturalization will be mucheasier for longtime residents. Childrenwill be permitted dual citizenship untilage 23, at which time they must choosea single nationality. The new law takeseffect January 1, and the government ispromoting it with a campaign of bill-boards, brochures, and newspaper ads.Currently there are about 7.3 millionresident aliens–10 percent of the popu-lation–and one million are expected tobecome Germans next year. (GermanyExpects 1M New Citizens, Las VegasSun, October 25, 1999.)

The Abridged RushtonJ. Philippe Rushton has just published

an abridged edition of his brilliant analy-sis of racial differences, Race, Evolution,and Behavior (reviewed in AR, Dec.,1994). The new book is a 100-page,pocket-sized version that explains theessentials of r-K theory and outlines thescientific basis for Prof. Rushton’s viewthat Asians, whites, and blacks differ inways that consistently fit evolutionaryand behavioral patterns. The new ver-sion is written in clear, straightforwardlanguage and includes charts and fig-ures. The abridged edition sells for$5.95, with steep discounts for bulk or-ders. For example, 25 copies would costonly $2.00 each. Transaction Publishers,which brought out both editions of Race,Evolution, and Behavior, is taking or-ders, toll-free, at (888) 999-6778.

Reasons to Emigrate?Inter-American Dialogue, a policy

analysis center whose members includeformer President Jimmy Carter and fiveformer Latin American Presidents, hasissued a grim report on prospects forLatin America. Among its findings:

* Poverty has increased for the sec-ond decade in a row, “leaving most Latin

Americans poorer in 2000 than theywere in 1980.”

* “[A]verage growth will not reach 3percent per year, substantially below the6 percent the World Bank estimates isnecessary to reduce poverty in the re-gion.”

* Judicial systems, legislatures, andpolitical parties remain “weak and dis-credited in many countries and scarcelyfunction in some.”

* “Corruption is widespread.”* “[A] disturbing number of coun-

tries, including Venezuela, Colombia,Ecuador and Jamaica, will have a lowerper capita income in 2000 than they had10 years earlier.” (Gloomy Outlook forLatin America, AP, November 4, 1999.)

Out of IberiaThe traditional theory about the peo-

pling of the Americas is that about13,500 years ago, Asians trotted acrossan ancient land bridge that joined whatare now Siberia and Alaska. They madestone projectiles of a distinctive kindcalled Clovis points. Now two promi-nent archeologists have pointed out theuncanny similarity between Clovis arti-facts and older materials from what iscalled the Solutrean culture, found onthe Iberian peninsula. Dennis Stanfordof the Smithsonian, and independent re-searcher Bruce Bradley point out that thetwo types of projectiles are virtually in-

distinguishable, and that Solutrean findsin Europe date back more than 18,000years. In fact, there are no Clovis fea-tures not found in Solutrean materials.The two men therefore conclude thatEuropeans crossed the Atlantic andsettled North and perhaps even SouthAmerica well before the Asian landbridge was free of ice and passable.

At present there is only speculationabout how Early Europeans could havemade the voyage. Judging from the kindof craft used by primitive peoples in Arc-tic regions, it is not farfetched to sug-gest that Solutreans may have sailed inskin boats. With favorable winds andcurrents they might have managed thevoyage in three weeks. (Joseph Ver-rengia, First Americans from Europe?AP, Nov. 3, 1999.)

The Yahoos Never RestThere was the usual braying about

“racism” when the Senate rejected thenomination of Ronnie White for the U.S.District Court. Mr. White, currently onthe Missouri Supreme Court, is black.Mr. White is also so soft on the deathpenalty that 77 of the 114 Sheriffs inMissouri urged the Senate to reject Mr.White. The National Sheriff’s Associa-tion recommended thumbs down, too.Back in his home state, Mr. White’s hos-tility toward the death penalty is wellknown. In one case a man stalked andslaughtered a sheriff, two sheriff’s depu-ties, and a sheriff’s wife. He got the deathpenalty, but when the case came to thestate supreme court the only judge tooppose carrying out the sentence wasRonnie White. In another case, a manraped and then beat a woman to deathwith a lead pipe, and once again Mr.White was the only judge who wantedto spare him. His reason was that the trialjudge had switched political parties andwas now opposed to affirmative action.That, said Mr. White, meant the judgewas a bigot.

President Clinton claims that non-white and female nominees for judge-ships take longer to confirm than whitemen. That is because the women and mi-norities he appoints are, by choice, left-ies with dubious records. When Mr.Clinton appoints people pleasing to aRepublican-controlled Senate, theybreeze through without regard to raceor sex. (Thomas Jipping, Race OverRecord, Free Congress Commentary,Nov. 3, 1999.)

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