Today’s Jena Stack of Stuff September 21, 2007
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(1) A personal observation: There’s an election for Governor in Louisiana in six-and-a-half weeks. Have any of the candidates had any statements or policy positions about the Jena One issue? Has Bobby Jindal, the new dark-skinned darling of the neo-con blogosphere and the Republican Left in general, had anything to say?
(2) The local civil rights rabble is now equivocating the St. Louis Fire Department issue as a Jena-style “injustice.”
Dorothy Rooks, a senior at Hazelwood East, wants to become a lawyer and work on cases such as those of the students charged in Jena.
Sorry, Miss Rooks. Even if they had Perry Mason as a defense lawyer, facts are still facts.
“I am most distressed that black students thought they had to ask permission to go near that tree,” said Lisa King of St. Louis, who has a 15-year-old daughter.
Insert every story you have ever read about white people going into black neighborhoods and being killed or seriously injured for “being in the wrong place” here. Here’s one for starters.
Wil Brewer, 27, who works at the Macy’s department store downtown, said he wanted to “march and speak up, not just watch things on TV about Dr. (Martin Luther) King. With history repeating itself in Jena, now it’s my turn to march for the kids who come after me.”
If Wil Brewer were white, and went to some pro-white function downtown, even on his own time, and publicly identified himself for the media as doing so, he wouldn’t be a Macy’s employee for much longer.
(3) V-Dare and Malkin have more unheralded facts about the case that don’t fit with the MSM and the civil rights industry template of the matter. Add this to what you have already memorized from a Majority Rights Blog post I linked to yesterday from this space, and you’ll have a whole roster of retorts for the PC bromides.
(4) There is a rumor among leftists and thug excuseologists that there was a white-on-black threat with a rifle — see the dialogue between “Nicole” and this blogmeister at STLBlogger.com’s Jena post.
The Zimbabwe Dollar Today September 21, 2007
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Today: 30,708
Yesterday: 30,710
Today’s Immigration Stack of Stuff September 21, 2007
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(1) There are two similar articles in the Post today about the state of Missouri and the city of Valley Park and their respective efforts to crack own on illegal immigration, one from the AP, and one from a Post staff reporter.
And to show you how effective Julie Myers’s ICE is, from the second article:
A Maplewood officer pulled over a truck with a dozen illegal immigrants inside about a year ago, and the department contacted ICE. The official who answered, White said, laughed and responded, “Call back when you have 50.”
(2) Sergio Lopez has been in country illegally for about four years. Also, the nagging question of how he was able to obtain the white Ford Expedition was answered:
Sergio Lopez bought his SUV about 1 1/2 years ago from Guillermo Lopez, another cousin living in the St. Louis area, said Edgar Lopez. It was a part of his “American dream,” his cousin said. He still owed the cousin about $3,000.
How did Guillermo Lopez get the SUV?
A Gun-Grabber Does Not So Easily Change His Spots September 21, 2007
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CBS:
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Thursday that he hopes to “clarify” his views on the right to bear arms when he speaks to the National Rifle Association on Friday.
I can “clarify” it right now. He’s anti-gun, and would be an anti-gun President — he might talk differently in order to get votes, but his administration and bureaucracy would lobby for anti-gun policies, and his Federal law enforcement structure would be similarly abusive of their power in this stead, behind the scenes of the rhetoric for outward consumption. A leopard does not so easily change its spots.
Restoration in Florissant September 21, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in 2nd Amendment & CCW, Abuse of Power, St. Louis Local.comments closed
Anything that makes Bob Lowery look bad can be nothing but good. It looks like the people of Florissant is finally beginning to recognize what a creep and cretin he is — We knew that all long.
For those of you “Friends of Florissant” who are going to collect signatures to have the state audit the city within the city limits of Florissant, be careful: You’re dealing with a two-faced, megalomaniac who once promised that nobody would be allowed to carry concealed guns in his town in spite of state law, even as he prodded his wife to do the same. Don’t be surprised if Lowery sends his goons cops to torture you.
Looks Like 45 Percent September 21, 2007
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One of the reasons that FIRE, essentially the affirmative action junkie black firefighters’ union in St. Louis, thinks that the disputed promotions for Batallion Chief and for Captain should be thrown out is that, if the promotions were made squarely with the tests, that the leadership of the SLFD would be too white, and would not “look like the SLFD,” whose firefighters are 45% black.
Yet, the Chief, Sherman George, is black, so using that logic, we should have a Chief that looks like 55% of the SLFD before we have one that looks like 45%.
Damn the NAACP — Full A La Carte Pricing Ahead September 21, 2007
Posted by Webmaster in Business & Corporate, Civil Rights Movement, Entertainment.comments closed
Federal anti-trust lawyers are suing just about the entire cable industry, in order to force their land on a la carte pricing.
It appears that the lawyers at the Anti-Trust Division of the U.S. Justice Department didn’t consult the lawyers at the Civil Rights Division of the same, because the NAACP opposes a la carte pricing for cable and satellite systems.
