TEST
This is a test. This is only a test to see if Pyra has decided to re-enable Thoughtcrime. Booga booga booga.
Saturday, July 20, 2002
Wednesday, July 17, 2002
R.I.P. WHITESPEAK: December 1999 - July 2002
It is ironic that I am compelled to publish this obituary for a Yahoo Group pulled offline by liberal and Zionist censorship on a second weblog, since the original Thoughtcrime web site seems to have been disabled from publishing. An interesting twist on censorship; the blog is still there, I just can't update it.
The Whitespeak E-Group appears to have been taken off line by Yahoo; it no longer appears in "My Groups." As moderator I was given no warning and no explanation by Yahoo. The group is simply gone.
Whitespeak was the longest-running Aryan racial e-group, having been established in December of 1999. It was originally intended to provide a sane and moderated substitute for the madness of Usenet, although for a long time it had not really been used for very much except the typical rite-wing habit of re-posting endless news clippings and articles moaning about how bad things are, "Oh, look what they're doing to us now, boo hoo hoo..."
What's ironic is that Whitespeak wasn't really all that racist, due to the large numbers of establishment media articles that were re-posted. The "n" word was used much less frequently than you might imagine. It was certainly no more racist than it had been for the past two years or so. I suspect this act of censorship has a great deal to do with the extensive criticism of Israel whichwas being posted on the group in recent months. It is possible that Northwest Net will follow Whitespeak down the Memory Hole at any moment. In that event, we will have to use alternate means of Internet communication.You might want to check the website http://hacovington.blogspot.com on a regular basis, at least until that gets pulled down as well for its politically incorrect content.
This is a clear warning. I have been predicting a major attempt to drive us off the Internet for some time and the loss of Whitespeak may well be the beginning. It is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for me to have your MAILING ADDRESS for my Covington reprints and postal bulletins, because in a very short time we may not be able to communicate except in the "old fashioned way", by paper and envelope and stamp.
Send that mailing address to haroldcovington@hotmail.com
88!
HAC
It is ironic that I am compelled to publish this obituary for a Yahoo Group pulled offline by liberal and Zionist censorship on a second weblog, since the original Thoughtcrime web site seems to have been disabled from publishing. An interesting twist on censorship; the blog is still there, I just can't update it.
The Whitespeak E-Group appears to have been taken off line by Yahoo; it no longer appears in "My Groups." As moderator I was given no warning and no explanation by Yahoo. The group is simply gone.
Whitespeak was the longest-running Aryan racial e-group, having been established in December of 1999. It was originally intended to provide a sane and moderated substitute for the madness of Usenet, although for a long time it had not really been used for very much except the typical rite-wing habit of re-posting endless news clippings and articles moaning about how bad things are, "Oh, look what they're doing to us now, boo hoo hoo..."
What's ironic is that Whitespeak wasn't really all that racist, due to the large numbers of establishment media articles that were re-posted. The "n" word was used much less frequently than you might imagine. It was certainly no more racist than it had been for the past two years or so. I suspect this act of censorship has a great deal to do with the extensive criticism of Israel whichwas being posted on the group in recent months. It is possible that Northwest Net will follow Whitespeak down the Memory Hole at any moment. In that event, we will have to use alternate means of Internet communication.You might want to check the website http://hacovington.blogspot.com on a regular basis, at least until that gets pulled down as well for its politically incorrect content.
This is a clear warning. I have been predicting a major attempt to drive us off the Internet for some time and the loss of Whitespeak may well be the beginning. It is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY for me to have your MAILING ADDRESS for my Covington reprints and postal bulletins, because in a very short time we may not be able to communicate except in the "old fashioned way", by paper and envelope and stamp.
Send that mailing address to haroldcovington@hotmail.com
88!
HAC
WHY THE APATHY?
by Dr. Brent Nelson
The America that European Americans founded and sustained for over two hundred years will---given no change in current trends---be swept into oblivion in another generation. Given the same trends for two generations, America will find itself closer to Third World status than to the European way of life. Already, in the last decade of the twentieth century, this oncoming doom of European America has become glaringly apparent in many different areas of the country.
Despite a growing awareness of a coming national demise, the masses of European Americans seem to be unconcerned. We are often told that "things must get much worse before people wake up." Yet all the evidence is that people are awake, but preoccupied with other interests. Their unconcern about the decline of European America is so deep-seated, so pervasive, that it obviously arises from something more than a lack of knowledge.
Why the apathy?
To attempt to answer this question, which must be done before we can hope to formulate a strategy to dispel the apathy, we must take an unflinching look at certain fundamental changes which have taken place in the lives of the average European American during the past hundred years. Looking at this reality will not be a pleasant experience, but looking away from it and denying it can only lead to a final defeat.
The American Dream once included not simply a vision of a life of reasonable comfort, but also a life of maximum freedom. European Americans sought economic independence for themselves even before they won political independence for their nation. Against royal decrees, they moved into the lands west of the coastal colonies, seeking to carve out from the wilderness a life for themselves. At least half the colonists knew servitude as indentured servants and wanted no more of it. The land was before them, seemingly limitless. In the following decades, they were joined by millions of immigrants from Europe, who were also fleeing serfdom in the Old World. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the overwhelming majority of Americans were self-employed as farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen. No matter how poor their standards of consumption might have been or how backbreaking their work might have been, it was theirs, theirs alone, not dependent on the dictates of a "master" (as in eighteenth century England) or a "boss" (as in early industrial America) or a "supervisor" (as in today's post-industrial America.)
Today, of course, 90 percent of European Americans (leaving out their dependents and those who are retired) know no such freedom because they are simply someone else's employee. The loss of freedom has been gradual and insidious, but it has been all the more real and is now almost beyond the memories of all living today. The new serfdom is an internalized sense of servility which arises from the unending need of every employee to obey the will of a supervisor if he or she is to keep their job. The employee's habituation to acting only upon the instructions of a supervisor develops within him or her a passivity which is all the stronger for its being almost subconscious. The resulting apathy about public affairs among most of the working people of America suggests that Jefferson may have known something when he warned that "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Employees are inhibited not only in the exercise of their rights as citizens, but also often find themselves hamstrung when they attempt to adhere to any principles at all. Engineers, for example, are as much professionals as are doctors and lawyers, but because they depend upon employment they find that their loyalty is claimed by the employer rather than by their profession. Teachers know that "academic freedom" begins only when they are safely retired. One poignant example of this sabotage of all personal principles is familiar to everyone: parents teach their children to tell the truth, always, then a day comes when the father, going to an interview in search of a better job, "calls in sick" to his place of employment. He is forced to lie like any truant schoolboy, or else lose his job.
Today most European Americans belong to a great middle mass---caught between a ruling elite and what is often called an "underclass". The most important fact for this middle American is that he or she is dependent on employment paying a wage or a salary. He or she holds a job which is dependent on factors beyond the employee's control. The factors can be as immediate as a supervisor's whim or as distant (and irresistable) as "market forces" that economists talk about the way people once talked about Providence or fate.
Alienated from their work, which is work in a place they do not own and under the direction of others, these middle Americans jealously guard their "free time" as if time spent in productive activity were time spent in slavery. The average man, who resents the time he spends working under the supervision of someone else, is almost ferociously determined to spend his "free time" in play, much the way a child, weary of adult tutelage, runs amuck on the playground as soon as the school lets out. Practically all time not spent on the job is expended in recreation, in personal concerns. It is as if being deprived of the most important kind of private property---the property which enables a man to earn his own livelihood with his own possessions in self-respect and dignity---makes the proletarianized American all the more determined to privatize the small sphere of his life that does belong to him.
Most civic activity arises from the ranks of the upper middle class and upper class European American. The upper middle class, which comprises the self-employed (mostly independent professionals and small business owners) generates many political and civic leaders, and cannot be said to be apathetic in the commonly accepted sense of the term. Although less than 10 per cent of the population, this group produces the overwhelming majority of civic leaders on a local and state level.
While not apathetic, the European American upper middle class has rather narrow interests. For these successful people, political interests are largely limited to concerns about taxes and government regulation of their businesses. The doom of European America means little to them. Usually living far from the areas which feel the impact of the Third World underclass, the upper middle class entrepeneur is only anxious to ignore any issue having racial overtones.
Increasingly, the upper middle class American is not of European origin. This is even more true of the small but very powerful upper class or ruling elite, the one percent of the population which owns most of the means of production and distribution. Moreover, the ruling elite, whether or not it is of European origin, greatly fears civil disorder. Threats of disorder from the Third World underclass generally result in compromise, if not total capitulation. Any evidence of militancy on the part of European Americans generates an extreme overreaction from the ruling elite. The elite will mobilize literally thousands of police and military to subdue a mere half-dozen supposed "White supremacists" in Idaho or Montana or Arizona.
It is likely that most members of the ruling elite recognize the real meaning behind Multicultural America as well as its formal meaning. The real meaning of Multicultural America is that (1) it is a makeshift to sustain liberal democracy by maintaining inter-ethnic peace, and (2) a means of enhancing profit margins by flooding the labor market with cheap immigrant and female labor. The resulting brake on wages and salaries is probably essential to the survival of not simply single industries, but of the profit system as a whole.
It is also likely that the ruling elite recognizes that the apathy of the European American middle mass is simply a mask for a much deeper layer of alienation or estrangement from the system. Beneath this alienation lurks, or so the elite fears, a seething mix of fear and anger. Conflict management and control---both among the visibly distinct racial groups and within the mass mind of the European American working class---is essential to the continued existence of the system. Could racial conflict be the primer to set off a critical mass of working class alienation? The elite does not wish to learn the answer to this question.
European American change agents can come from all strata of the population. Exceptional individuals at the outset, it is their task to increase their ranks until they grow into a movement while simultaneously stripping away the layering of mass apathy through the building of a sense of community among European Americans. No opinion will be offered here as to the chances for their success, for the American situation is one which is historically unique. Whatever may come of it, there has never been any nation comparable with the synthetic composite nation that is America.
"This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, IMPERIUM
by Dr. Brent Nelson
The America that European Americans founded and sustained for over two hundred years will---given no change in current trends---be swept into oblivion in another generation. Given the same trends for two generations, America will find itself closer to Third World status than to the European way of life. Already, in the last decade of the twentieth century, this oncoming doom of European America has become glaringly apparent in many different areas of the country.
Despite a growing awareness of a coming national demise, the masses of European Americans seem to be unconcerned. We are often told that "things must get much worse before people wake up." Yet all the evidence is that people are awake, but preoccupied with other interests. Their unconcern about the decline of European America is so deep-seated, so pervasive, that it obviously arises from something more than a lack of knowledge.
Why the apathy?
To attempt to answer this question, which must be done before we can hope to formulate a strategy to dispel the apathy, we must take an unflinching look at certain fundamental changes which have taken place in the lives of the average European American during the past hundred years. Looking at this reality will not be a pleasant experience, but looking away from it and denying it can only lead to a final defeat.
The American Dream once included not simply a vision of a life of reasonable comfort, but also a life of maximum freedom. European Americans sought economic independence for themselves even before they won political independence for their nation. Against royal decrees, they moved into the lands west of the coastal colonies, seeking to carve out from the wilderness a life for themselves. At least half the colonists knew servitude as indentured servants and wanted no more of it. The land was before them, seemingly limitless. In the following decades, they were joined by millions of immigrants from Europe, who were also fleeing serfdom in the Old World. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the overwhelming majority of Americans were self-employed as farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen. No matter how poor their standards of consumption might have been or how backbreaking their work might have been, it was theirs, theirs alone, not dependent on the dictates of a "master" (as in eighteenth century England) or a "boss" (as in early industrial America) or a "supervisor" (as in today's post-industrial America.)
Today, of course, 90 percent of European Americans (leaving out their dependents and those who are retired) know no such freedom because they are simply someone else's employee. The loss of freedom has been gradual and insidious, but it has been all the more real and is now almost beyond the memories of all living today. The new serfdom is an internalized sense of servility which arises from the unending need of every employee to obey the will of a supervisor if he or she is to keep their job. The employee's habituation to acting only upon the instructions of a supervisor develops within him or her a passivity which is all the stronger for its being almost subconscious. The resulting apathy about public affairs among most of the working people of America suggests that Jefferson may have known something when he warned that "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Employees are inhibited not only in the exercise of their rights as citizens, but also often find themselves hamstrung when they attempt to adhere to any principles at all. Engineers, for example, are as much professionals as are doctors and lawyers, but because they depend upon employment they find that their loyalty is claimed by the employer rather than by their profession. Teachers know that "academic freedom" begins only when they are safely retired. One poignant example of this sabotage of all personal principles is familiar to everyone: parents teach their children to tell the truth, always, then a day comes when the father, going to an interview in search of a better job, "calls in sick" to his place of employment. He is forced to lie like any truant schoolboy, or else lose his job.
Today most European Americans belong to a great middle mass---caught between a ruling elite and what is often called an "underclass". The most important fact for this middle American is that he or she is dependent on employment paying a wage or a salary. He or she holds a job which is dependent on factors beyond the employee's control. The factors can be as immediate as a supervisor's whim or as distant (and irresistable) as "market forces" that economists talk about the way people once talked about Providence or fate.
Alienated from their work, which is work in a place they do not own and under the direction of others, these middle Americans jealously guard their "free time" as if time spent in productive activity were time spent in slavery. The average man, who resents the time he spends working under the supervision of someone else, is almost ferociously determined to spend his "free time" in play, much the way a child, weary of adult tutelage, runs amuck on the playground as soon as the school lets out. Practically all time not spent on the job is expended in recreation, in personal concerns. It is as if being deprived of the most important kind of private property---the property which enables a man to earn his own livelihood with his own possessions in self-respect and dignity---makes the proletarianized American all the more determined to privatize the small sphere of his life that does belong to him.
Most civic activity arises from the ranks of the upper middle class and upper class European American. The upper middle class, which comprises the self-employed (mostly independent professionals and small business owners) generates many political and civic leaders, and cannot be said to be apathetic in the commonly accepted sense of the term. Although less than 10 per cent of the population, this group produces the overwhelming majority of civic leaders on a local and state level.
While not apathetic, the European American upper middle class has rather narrow interests. For these successful people, political interests are largely limited to concerns about taxes and government regulation of their businesses. The doom of European America means little to them. Usually living far from the areas which feel the impact of the Third World underclass, the upper middle class entrepeneur is only anxious to ignore any issue having racial overtones.
Increasingly, the upper middle class American is not of European origin. This is even more true of the small but very powerful upper class or ruling elite, the one percent of the population which owns most of the means of production and distribution. Moreover, the ruling elite, whether or not it is of European origin, greatly fears civil disorder. Threats of disorder from the Third World underclass generally result in compromise, if not total capitulation. Any evidence of militancy on the part of European Americans generates an extreme overreaction from the ruling elite. The elite will mobilize literally thousands of police and military to subdue a mere half-dozen supposed "White supremacists" in Idaho or Montana or Arizona.
It is likely that most members of the ruling elite recognize the real meaning behind Multicultural America as well as its formal meaning. The real meaning of Multicultural America is that (1) it is a makeshift to sustain liberal democracy by maintaining inter-ethnic peace, and (2) a means of enhancing profit margins by flooding the labor market with cheap immigrant and female labor. The resulting brake on wages and salaries is probably essential to the survival of not simply single industries, but of the profit system as a whole.
It is also likely that the ruling elite recognizes that the apathy of the European American middle mass is simply a mask for a much deeper layer of alienation or estrangement from the system. Beneath this alienation lurks, or so the elite fears, a seething mix of fear and anger. Conflict management and control---both among the visibly distinct racial groups and within the mass mind of the European American working class---is essential to the continued existence of the system. Could racial conflict be the primer to set off a critical mass of working class alienation? The elite does not wish to learn the answer to this question.
European American change agents can come from all strata of the population. Exceptional individuals at the outset, it is their task to increase their ranks until they grow into a movement while simultaneously stripping away the layering of mass apathy through the building of a sense of community among European Americans. No opinion will be offered here as to the chances for their success, for the American situation is one which is historically unique. Whatever may come of it, there has never been any nation comparable with the synthetic composite nation that is America.
"This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, IMPERIUM
Saturday, July 13, 2002
WHY THE APATHY?
by Dr. Brent Nelson
The America that European Americans founded and sustained for over two hundred years will---given no change in current trends---be swept into oblivion in another generation. Given the same trends for two generations, America will find itself closer to Third World status than to the European way of life. Already, in the last decade of the twentieth century, this oncoming doom of European America has become glaringly apparent in many different areas of the country.
Despite a growing awareness of a coming national demise, the masses of European Americans seem to be unconcerned. We are often told that "things must get much worse before people wake up." Yet all the evidence is that people are awake, but preoccupied with other interests. Their unconcern about the decline of European America is so deep-seated, so pervasive, that it obviously arises from something more than a lack of knowledge.
Why the apathy?
To attempt to answer this question, which must be done before we can hope to formulate a strategy to dispel the apathy, we must take an unflinching look at certain fundamental changes which have taken place in the lives of the average European American during the past hundred years. Looking at this reality will not be a pleasant experience, but looking away from it and denying it can only lead to a final defeat.
The American Dream once included not simply a vision of a life of reasonable comfort, but also a life of maximum freedom. European Americans sought economic independence for themselves even before they won political independence for their nation. Against royal decrees, they moved into the lands west of the coastal colonies, seeking to carve out from the wilderness a life for themselves. At least half the colonists knew servitude as indentured servants and wanted no more of it. The land was before them, seemingly limitless. In the following decades, they were joined by millions of immigrants from Europe, who were also fleeing serfdom in the Old World. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the overwhelming majority of Americans were self-employed as farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen. No matter how poor their standards of consumption might have been or how backbreaking their work might have been, it was theirs, theirs alone, not dependent on the dictates of a "master" (as in eighteenth century England) or a "boss" (as in early industrial America) or a "supervisor" (as in today's post-industrial America.)
Today, of course, 90 percent of European Americans (leaving out their dependents and those who are retired) know no such freedom because they are simply someone else's employee. The loss of freedom has been gradual and insidious, but it has been all the more real and is now almost beyond the memories of all living today. The new serfdom is an internalized sense of servility which arises from the unending need of every employee to obey the will of a supervisor if he or she is to keep their job. The employee's habituation to acting only upon the instructions of a supervisor develops within him or her a passivity which is all the stronger for its being almost subconscious. The resulting apathy about public affairs among most of the working people of America suggests that Jefferson may have known something when he warned that "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Employees are inhibited not only in the exercise of their rights as citizens, but also often find themselves hamstrung when they attempt to adhere to any principles at all. Engineers, for example, are as much professionals as are doctors and lawyers, but because they depend upon employment they find that their loyalty is claimed by the employer rather than by their profession. Teachers know that "academic freedom" begins only when they are safely retired. One poignant example of this sabotage of all personal principles is familiar to everyone: parents teach their children to tell the truth, always, then a day comes when the father, going to an interview in search of a better job, "calls in sick" to his place of employment. He is forced to lie like any truant schoolboy, or else lose his job.
Today most European Americans belong to a great middle mass---caught between a ruling elite and what is often called an "underclass". The most important fact for this middle American is that he or she is dependent on employment paying a wage or a salary. He or she holds a job which is dependent on factors beyond the employee's control. The factors can be as immediate as a supervisor's whim or as distant (and irresistable) as "market forces" that economists talk about the way people once talked about Providence or fate.
Alienated from their work, which is work in a place they do not own and under the direction of others, these middle Americans jealously guard their "free time" as if time spent in productive activity were time spent in slavery. The average man, who resents the time he spends working under the supervision of someone else, is almost ferociously determined to spend his "free time" in play, much the way a child, weary of adult tutelage, runs amuck on the playground as soon as the school lets out. Practically all time not spent on the job is expended in recreation, in personal concerns. It is as if being deprived of the most important kind of private property---the property which enables a man to earn his own livelihood with his own possessions in self-respect and dignity---makes the proletarianized American all the more determined to privatize the small sphere of his life that does belong to him.
Most civic activity arises from the ranks of the upper middle class and upper class European American. The upper middle class, which comprises the self-employed (mostly independent professionals and small business owners) generates many political and civic leaders, and cannot be said to be apathetic in the commonly accepted sense of the term. Although less than 10 per cent of the population, this group produces the overwhelming majority of civic leaders on a local and state level.
While not apathetic, the European American upper middle class has rather narrow interests. For these successful people, political interests are largely limited to concerns about taxes and government regulation of their businesses. The doom of European America means little to them. Usually living far from the areas which feel the impact of the Third World underclass, the upper middle class entrepeneur is only anxious to ignore any issue having racial overtones.
Increasingly, the upper middle class American is not of European origin. This is even more true of the small but very powerful upper class or ruling elite, the one percent of the population which owns most of the means of production and distribution. Moreover, the ruling elite, whether or not it is of European origin, greatly fears civil disorder. Threats of disorder from the Third World underclass generally result in compromise, if not total capitulation. Any evidence of militancy on the part of European Americans generates an extreme overreaction from the ruling elite. The elite will mobilize literally thousands of police and military to subdue a mere half-dozen supposed "White supremacists" in Idaho or Montana or Arizona.
It is likely that most members of the ruling elite recognize the real meaning behind Multicultural America as well as its formal meaning. The real meaning of Multicultural America is that (1) it is a makeshift to sustain liberal democracy by maintaining inter-ethnic peace, and (2) a means of enhancing profit margins by flooding the labor market with cheap immigrant and female labor. The resulting brake on wages and salaries is probably essential to the survival of not simply single industries, but of the profit system as a whole.
It is also likely that the ruling elite recognizes that the apathy of the European American middle mass is simply a mask for a much deeper layer of alienation or estrangement from the system. Beneath this alienation lurks, or so the elite fears, a seething mix of fear and anger. Conflict management and control---both among the visibly distinct racial groups and within the mass mind of the European American working class---is essential to the continued existence of the system. Could racial conflict be the primer to set off a critical mass of working class alienation? The elite does not wish to learn the answer to this question.
European American change agents can come from all strata of the population. Exceptional individuals at the outset, it is their task to increase their ranks until they grow into a movement while simultaneously stripping away the layering of mass apathy through the building of a sense of community among European Americans. No opinion will be offered here as to the chances for their success, for the American situation is one which is historically unique. Whatever may come of it, there has never been any nation comparable with the synthetic composite nation that is America.
"This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, IMPERIUM
by Dr. Brent Nelson
The America that European Americans founded and sustained for over two hundred years will---given no change in current trends---be swept into oblivion in another generation. Given the same trends for two generations, America will find itself closer to Third World status than to the European way of life. Already, in the last decade of the twentieth century, this oncoming doom of European America has become glaringly apparent in many different areas of the country.
Despite a growing awareness of a coming national demise, the masses of European Americans seem to be unconcerned. We are often told that "things must get much worse before people wake up." Yet all the evidence is that people are awake, but preoccupied with other interests. Their unconcern about the decline of European America is so deep-seated, so pervasive, that it obviously arises from something more than a lack of knowledge.
Why the apathy?
To attempt to answer this question, which must be done before we can hope to formulate a strategy to dispel the apathy, we must take an unflinching look at certain fundamental changes which have taken place in the lives of the average European American during the past hundred years. Looking at this reality will not be a pleasant experience, but looking away from it and denying it can only lead to a final defeat.
The American Dream once included not simply a vision of a life of reasonable comfort, but also a life of maximum freedom. European Americans sought economic independence for themselves even before they won political independence for their nation. Against royal decrees, they moved into the lands west of the coastal colonies, seeking to carve out from the wilderness a life for themselves. At least half the colonists knew servitude as indentured servants and wanted no more of it. The land was before them, seemingly limitless. In the following decades, they were joined by millions of immigrants from Europe, who were also fleeing serfdom in the Old World. By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the overwhelming majority of Americans were self-employed as farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen. No matter how poor their standards of consumption might have been or how backbreaking their work might have been, it was theirs, theirs alone, not dependent on the dictates of a "master" (as in eighteenth century England) or a "boss" (as in early industrial America) or a "supervisor" (as in today's post-industrial America.)
Today, of course, 90 percent of European Americans (leaving out their dependents and those who are retired) know no such freedom because they are simply someone else's employee. The loss of freedom has been gradual and insidious, but it has been all the more real and is now almost beyond the memories of all living today. The new serfdom is an internalized sense of servility which arises from the unending need of every employee to obey the will of a supervisor if he or she is to keep their job. The employee's habituation to acting only upon the instructions of a supervisor develops within him or her a passivity which is all the stronger for its being almost subconscious. The resulting apathy about public affairs among most of the working people of America suggests that Jefferson may have known something when he warned that "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
Employees are inhibited not only in the exercise of their rights as citizens, but also often find themselves hamstrung when they attempt to adhere to any principles at all. Engineers, for example, are as much professionals as are doctors and lawyers, but because they depend upon employment they find that their loyalty is claimed by the employer rather than by their profession. Teachers know that "academic freedom" begins only when they are safely retired. One poignant example of this sabotage of all personal principles is familiar to everyone: parents teach their children to tell the truth, always, then a day comes when the father, going to an interview in search of a better job, "calls in sick" to his place of employment. He is forced to lie like any truant schoolboy, or else lose his job.
Today most European Americans belong to a great middle mass---caught between a ruling elite and what is often called an "underclass". The most important fact for this middle American is that he or she is dependent on employment paying a wage or a salary. He or she holds a job which is dependent on factors beyond the employee's control. The factors can be as immediate as a supervisor's whim or as distant (and irresistable) as "market forces" that economists talk about the way people once talked about Providence or fate.
Alienated from their work, which is work in a place they do not own and under the direction of others, these middle Americans jealously guard their "free time" as if time spent in productive activity were time spent in slavery. The average man, who resents the time he spends working under the supervision of someone else, is almost ferociously determined to spend his "free time" in play, much the way a child, weary of adult tutelage, runs amuck on the playground as soon as the school lets out. Practically all time not spent on the job is expended in recreation, in personal concerns. It is as if being deprived of the most important kind of private property---the property which enables a man to earn his own livelihood with his own possessions in self-respect and dignity---makes the proletarianized American all the more determined to privatize the small sphere of his life that does belong to him.
Most civic activity arises from the ranks of the upper middle class and upper class European American. The upper middle class, which comprises the self-employed (mostly independent professionals and small business owners) generates many political and civic leaders, and cannot be said to be apathetic in the commonly accepted sense of the term. Although less than 10 per cent of the population, this group produces the overwhelming majority of civic leaders on a local and state level.
While not apathetic, the European American upper middle class has rather narrow interests. For these successful people, political interests are largely limited to concerns about taxes and government regulation of their businesses. The doom of European America means little to them. Usually living far from the areas which feel the impact of the Third World underclass, the upper middle class entrepeneur is only anxious to ignore any issue having racial overtones.
Increasingly, the upper middle class American is not of European origin. This is even more true of the small but very powerful upper class or ruling elite, the one percent of the population which owns most of the means of production and distribution. Moreover, the ruling elite, whether or not it is of European origin, greatly fears civil disorder. Threats of disorder from the Third World underclass generally result in compromise, if not total capitulation. Any evidence of militancy on the part of European Americans generates an extreme overreaction from the ruling elite. The elite will mobilize literally thousands of police and military to subdue a mere half-dozen supposed "White supremacists" in Idaho or Montana or Arizona.
It is likely that most members of the ruling elite recognize the real meaning behind Multicultural America as well as its formal meaning. The real meaning of Multicultural America is that (1) it is a makeshift to sustain liberal democracy by maintaining inter-ethnic peace, and (2) a means of enhancing profit margins by flooding the labor market with cheap immigrant and female labor. The resulting brake on wages and salaries is probably essential to the survival of not simply single industries, but of the profit system as a whole.
It is also likely that the ruling elite recognizes that the apathy of the European American middle mass is simply a mask for a much deeper layer of alienation or estrangement from the system. Beneath this alienation lurks, or so the elite fears, a seething mix of fear and anger. Conflict management and control---both among the visibly distinct racial groups and within the mass mind of the European American working class---is essential to the continued existence of the system. Could racial conflict be the primer to set off a critical mass of working class alienation? The elite does not wish to learn the answer to this question.
European American change agents can come from all strata of the population. Exceptional individuals at the outset, it is their task to increase their ranks until they grow into a movement while simultaneously stripping away the layering of mass apathy through the building of a sense of community among European Americans. No opinion will be offered here as to the chances for their success, for the American situation is one which is historically unique. Whatever may come of it, there has never been any nation comparable with the synthetic composite nation that is America.
"This destiny does not tire, nor can it be broken, and its mantle of strength descends upon those in its service." - Francis Parker Yockey, IMPERIUM
Monday, July 08, 2002
POLITICAL CHILL IN THE GREAT WHITE NORTH
How Canada has lost it freedoms and how Americans might lose theirs.
by Brian Winn. (Citizens Informer, March-April 2002)
An orgy of political correctness has seized our northern neighbour. Immigration reformers and even advocates of freedom of speech are being fired by fanatical boards of education. In one of the most notorious cases, a Canadian teacher has been fired, after 24-year career, for organizing a free speech conference and attending the funeral of a U.S. patriot.
In 1997, Paul Fromm, a Toronto area English instructor, was fired for organizing a free speech conference.
A labour arbitration board upheld the firing in a 2-1 decision, released March 8.
Fromm, who is a member of the national advisors of the Council of Conservative citizens and has spoken at several CofCC meetings, including one last June in Asheville, North Carolina, was fired for organizing the March, 1996 Second Canadian Free speech Conference in Vancouver.
The Arbitration Board concluded that the Peel Board was justified in firing Fromm because "he publicly spoke in favour of known racists' right to make racist comments." They judged: "These acts were a breach of the school board's multiculturalism policy."
Among the speakers at the Free Speech Conference was lawyer Douglas Christie, who had defended a number of Canada's thought crimes victims, including revisionist publisher, Ernst Zundel.
Another speaker was columnist Doug Collins, who was dragged before a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal for a column that called Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List "swindlers list". He decried excessive Jewish influence in Hollywood. At his hearing, truth was ruled to be no defence. Collins was a British World War II hero with 11 escapes from POW camps to his credit. Collins was one of Canada's leading immigration reformers, having written the wake-up call, his book Immigration: The Destruction of English Canada.
In Fromm's case, the second reason for his firing was his attendance at a November, 1994 Memorial Symposium held in Urbana, Illinois, for the late Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, distinguished classicist and patriotic author.
Attending this memorial, said the Arbitration Board, showed that Fromm "continued to publicly consort with known racists".
A videotape of the memorial had been obtained by David Lethbridge, a teacher at Okanagan College, and a candidate for the Canadian Communist Party. He passed the video tape on to the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, which pressured the Peel Board to fire Fromm.
The Arbitration Board also blamed Fromm for associating with Atlanta lawyer, Sam Dickson, a respected patriot who organized the Revilo Oliver memorial. Dickson, a member of the C of CC Board of Directors, is accused of being "a well-known virulent racist" by Alan Dutton, a professional government grant chaser, and anti-racist, whom the Peel Board hired to spy on Fromm's political meetings and activities.
Since 1982, Canada has had a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that supposedly guarantees freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and freedom of belief. But while these guarantees may sound very much like those of the U.S. First Amendment, they are subject to a weasel clause. Instead of affirming absolute protections, they are subject to "such reasonable limits as are generally accepted in a free and democratic society." Judges have used this escape clause to so restrict these rights that, in some cases, even truth is no defence.
Populist activists in our northern neighbour face a number of legal perils. Importing books or tapes from abroad brings one to the attention of Canada's customs censors. The censors regularly seize material that they suspect of promoting "hate" against a list of privileged groups - race, religion, ethnic origin. Even a book by a President of the Untied States - a collection of comments by President Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt on Race, Riots, Reds and Crime has been banned. Section 319 of the Criminal code of Canada makes the wilful promotion of "hate" against privileged minorities a crime.
Truth is a defence. However, an evangelical Christian minister was convicted several years ago for putting out pamphlets denouncing Islam as a religion of violence. The defence of sincerely held religious belief was not accepted. Even more worrisome to activists are federal and provincial human rights codes that impose civil penalties for writings that are "likely to expose to hatred or contempt" an even longer list of privileged groups, including homosexuals and lesbians.
Before such human rights tribunals, truth is no defence. Only the feelings of the aggrieved minority count: As part of Bill C-36, legislation touted as part of the war on terrorism, the Canadian government gave the censorship lobby the gag order they had long sought over the Internet. The law turned over control of the Internet to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Websites that are likely to expose privileged groups to "hatred" or "contempt" can face cease and desist orders and fines of up to $40,000. Truth is no defence.
Fromm, one of Canada's leading immigration reformers and free speech advocates, had been the target of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith since 1991. The Jewish lobby grups objected to Fromm's opposition to Canada's open door immigration policy which has flooded the country with Third World immigrants and reduced Whites to minority in Toronto, where they had been a 99% majority 40 years ago.
The Jewish lobby groups also bristled at Fromm's defence of freedom of speech and his fundraising for some of their other victims; such as, New Brunswick teacher, Malcolm Ross, fired for writing books and booklets about his Christian beliefs.
Spokesmen for the Jewish organizations were ecstatic at the Fromm decision. "This has raised the bar for teachers," cheered Bernie Farber, of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
"This is a tragedy for the teaching profession," said Fromm. "In Canada, it's best to check your brains at the door. Teachers will know that, if they have any politically incorrect thoughts, they just better shut up. This decision makes a farce of the freedom of speech and freedom of association protections of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms".
How Canada has lost it freedoms and how Americans might lose theirs.
by Brian Winn. (Citizens Informer, March-April 2002)
An orgy of political correctness has seized our northern neighbour. Immigration reformers and even advocates of freedom of speech are being fired by fanatical boards of education. In one of the most notorious cases, a Canadian teacher has been fired, after 24-year career, for organizing a free speech conference and attending the funeral of a U.S. patriot.
In 1997, Paul Fromm, a Toronto area English instructor, was fired for organizing a free speech conference.
A labour arbitration board upheld the firing in a 2-1 decision, released March 8.
Fromm, who is a member of the national advisors of the Council of Conservative citizens and has spoken at several CofCC meetings, including one last June in Asheville, North Carolina, was fired for organizing the March, 1996 Second Canadian Free speech Conference in Vancouver.
The Arbitration Board concluded that the Peel Board was justified in firing Fromm because "he publicly spoke in favour of known racists' right to make racist comments." They judged: "These acts were a breach of the school board's multiculturalism policy."
Among the speakers at the Free Speech Conference was lawyer Douglas Christie, who had defended a number of Canada's thought crimes victims, including revisionist publisher, Ernst Zundel.
Another speaker was columnist Doug Collins, who was dragged before a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal for a column that called Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List "swindlers list". He decried excessive Jewish influence in Hollywood. At his hearing, truth was ruled to be no defence. Collins was a British World War II hero with 11 escapes from POW camps to his credit. Collins was one of Canada's leading immigration reformers, having written the wake-up call, his book Immigration: The Destruction of English Canada.
In Fromm's case, the second reason for his firing was his attendance at a November, 1994 Memorial Symposium held in Urbana, Illinois, for the late Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, distinguished classicist and patriotic author.
Attending this memorial, said the Arbitration Board, showed that Fromm "continued to publicly consort with known racists".
A videotape of the memorial had been obtained by David Lethbridge, a teacher at Okanagan College, and a candidate for the Canadian Communist Party. He passed the video tape on to the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, which pressured the Peel Board to fire Fromm.
The Arbitration Board also blamed Fromm for associating with Atlanta lawyer, Sam Dickson, a respected patriot who organized the Revilo Oliver memorial. Dickson, a member of the C of CC Board of Directors, is accused of being "a well-known virulent racist" by Alan Dutton, a professional government grant chaser, and anti-racist, whom the Peel Board hired to spy on Fromm's political meetings and activities.
Since 1982, Canada has had a Charter of Rights and Freedoms that supposedly guarantees freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and freedom of belief. But while these guarantees may sound very much like those of the U.S. First Amendment, they are subject to a weasel clause. Instead of affirming absolute protections, they are subject to "such reasonable limits as are generally accepted in a free and democratic society." Judges have used this escape clause to so restrict these rights that, in some cases, even truth is no defence.
Populist activists in our northern neighbour face a number of legal perils. Importing books or tapes from abroad brings one to the attention of Canada's customs censors. The censors regularly seize material that they suspect of promoting "hate" against a list of privileged groups - race, religion, ethnic origin. Even a book by a President of the Untied States - a collection of comments by President Theodore Roosevelt - Theodore Roosevelt on Race, Riots, Reds and Crime has been banned. Section 319 of the Criminal code of Canada makes the wilful promotion of "hate" against privileged minorities a crime.
Truth is a defence. However, an evangelical Christian minister was convicted several years ago for putting out pamphlets denouncing Islam as a religion of violence. The defence of sincerely held religious belief was not accepted. Even more worrisome to activists are federal and provincial human rights codes that impose civil penalties for writings that are "likely to expose to hatred or contempt" an even longer list of privileged groups, including homosexuals and lesbians.
Before such human rights tribunals, truth is no defence. Only the feelings of the aggrieved minority count: As part of Bill C-36, legislation touted as part of the war on terrorism, the Canadian government gave the censorship lobby the gag order they had long sought over the Internet. The law turned over control of the Internet to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. Websites that are likely to expose privileged groups to "hatred" or "contempt" can face cease and desist orders and fines of up to $40,000. Truth is no defence.
Fromm, one of Canada's leading immigration reformers and free speech advocates, had been the target of the Canadian Jewish Congress and B'nai Brith since 1991. The Jewish lobby grups objected to Fromm's opposition to Canada's open door immigration policy which has flooded the country with Third World immigrants and reduced Whites to minority in Toronto, where they had been a 99% majority 40 years ago.
The Jewish lobby groups also bristled at Fromm's defence of freedom of speech and his fundraising for some of their other victims; such as, New Brunswick teacher, Malcolm Ross, fired for writing books and booklets about his Christian beliefs.
Spokesmen for the Jewish organizations were ecstatic at the Fromm decision. "This has raised the bar for teachers," cheered Bernie Farber, of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
"This is a tragedy for the teaching profession," said Fromm. "In Canada, it's best to check your brains at the door. Teachers will know that, if they have any politically incorrect thoughts, they just better shut up. This decision makes a farce of the freedom of speech and freedom of association protections of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms".
Tuesday, July 02, 2002
NO JUSTICE FOR THE POLITICALLY INCORRECT
No Justice for the Politically-Incorrect
by Edgar J. Steele
July 2, 2002
Below is the text of a press release I sent out following a court hearing this morning which ends the long ordeal of the Christines in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Brian and Ruth have agreed to "plead out" to a single charge each of criminal mistreatment. This doesn't mean they "did it." On the contrary. They have agreed to this for three reasons:
1. To prevent any of their children being brought back to take the stand and testify against them as the Douglas County prosecutor had little Lydia do in the kidnapping trial we went through in May. When she gets older, the psychological trauma of realizing that it was her testimony that sent her parents to prison will be substantial. Even in the face of a system that has repeatedly brutalized them, the Christines have once again demonstrated what we have known all along: they are good parents.
2. Because, by preagreement, all the time the judge assessed will be "served" concurrent with the time they received in Douglas County. This means that the time sentenced is irrelevant. That they each have another felony on their record is also of little consequence, in face of what has already been done to them.
3. After their experience with the Douglas County jury, the Christines rightfully did not trust either judge or jury to treat them properly this time, either. Can't say I blame them.
Yet another example of what has become a mantra for me: the politically-incorrect cannot get justice in America today.
Are you home schooling? Are you Christian? Are you vegetarian? Are you politically conservative (no, not the neocon kind)? Do you ever spank your children? Are you barely scraping by, financially? If you have young, white children and can answer yes to one or more of the above, you are seriously at risk from the child protective services agency in your state. Right and wrong has nothing to do with it.
I got a call last Saturday afternoon as I working in my study at home from the neighbor of a friend who lives just over the border in Washington State.
Seems "someone" had phoned in an "anonymous" tip to the authorities about his children (he has four, aged 2 through 7). Fortunately, nobody was home when CPS came calling in the company of a sheriff's deputy. They left cards.
This fellow had heard of what could happen and was terrified. Seems he had a bit of a dispute going with a neighbor. Do the math.
Since no court had yet acquired jurisdiction over any member of his family (that typically comes once they trump up something with which to charge the parents), I was able to tell him the following: Put your children and as many of your important possessions as you can into your station wagon and leave the state before nightfall. Never come back. Have a friend pack and send the rest or have a yard sale. Hire a real estate agent to sell your house for you. Call in Monday morning and quit your job. Start a new life elsewhere.
Extreme? Not at all. Houses, friends and jobs are easy to find. Children are irreplaceable. Once you are in the "system," you stand a very real chance of ending up like Brian and Ruth Christine. Staying out of the system is, by far, the best solution.
Once CPS comes calling, the only way to ensure you stay out of the system is to get out...right then. Usually, CPS will come by at least once before seeking any court orders. That will be your one chance to stay out of the system, by doing just what I told the hapless fellow above to do.
Once you are in the system (which can happen on the first visit, if you let them in the door), the only way out is to play by the rules. That was where Brian and Ruth went wrong.
If you are home when they come, nevernevernevernevernever let them in the door without a warrant signed by a magistrate. Make them show it to you. Never talk to them. These cases are usually constructed out of the parents' own statements. Make them stand on the porch. Show them the kid through the window to demonstrate he or she is ok. Tell them to get a warrant before they come back again. Same drill, even if a cop is standing next to them. Do not believe anything they tell you - they must have a warrant to enter your home. When they leave, take no more than two hours to pack and get out. You must leave the state altogether and forever.
Once you are served with a warrant or you or any child is taken into custody, you are in the system (because you ignored the basic rule of getting out) and your only real hope is to get a lawyer well acquainted with CPS and the child-custody courts.
Remember these basic rules and you will be able to keep your children in an increasingly hostile and tyrannical America.
Please note that the Christine kidnapping trial will be televised by CourtTV, starting July 15 ( see press release, below, for details). They tend to broadcast these as though taking place right then, but without all the boring stuff. I (and others, I expect) will be providing some live commentary as the production goes along.
Please go to www.pclu.org and order one or more Christine trial T-shirts. We have 90 of them left, in sizes from small to extra large. We have reduced the price to $18 each, including shipping, in hopes that will clear them out. All proceeds go to defraying the cost of the pending appeal in Brian and Ruth's case.
-ed
CHRISTINE PLEA AGREEMENT
Press Release - Immediate - 9:00 a.m., July 2, 2002
Contact: Edgar J. Steele, Attorney at Law
tel: (208) 265-4153 fax: (208) 265-5329
102 S. Fourth Ave., Suite C
Sandpoint, Idaho 83860
email: steele@plainlawtalk.com (best contact method)
GRANTS PASS, OREGON - By telephone hearing this morning before George Neufeld, Judge of the Josephine County Circuit Court, Brian and Ruth Christine entered into a plea agreement on the original charges which led to their three oldest daughters being taken into custody by the State of Oregon. The Christines were speaking from the Oregon Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon.
Brian and Ruth Christine each pled to one count of Criminal Mistreatment I. Brian pled to an additional charge of Attempt to Elude, arising from an unrelated traffic stop by local authorities.
Each of the Christines received a 13-month sentence from Judge Neufeld, to run concurrent with the sentences received at a trial in Douglas County for their having taken their children at gunpoint from state officials in 2001 and left the state. A $605 fine was also imposed upon each of them. Brian Christine received an additional 30 days, also to run concurrent, on the charge of Eluding, with a fine of $105.
During the hearing, Edgar J. Steele, attorney for the Christines, stressed that the Christines were agreeing to the plea arrangement for two reasons only: First, and foremost, to spare any of their children having to endure any further hearings or trials; and, second, because it had been agreed that all time imposed would run concurrent with their present sentence.
Steele noted that the Christines were very disturbed by the State's having brought their oldest daughter, Lydia, age 6, to testify against them in the Douglas County trial. "Later on, Lydia will be scarred psychologically when she realizes that her testimony was instrumental in convicting her own parents. At all costs, we wish to prevent any recurrence of that spectacle or further damage to any of the Christine girls," said Steele.
After the hearing, Steele said, "Here they are, in prison, their kids taken away from them, and still their only concern is for their children's well being. You have to ask yourself what went on in this case, where the parents were acused of abusing their children because they were all skinny, unlike the normal American fat kid, yet the state passes them from one foster home to the next, then forces them to testify against their own parents, despite being much too young to appreciate what they are doing, in a gross disregard for the best interests of these kids."
The Christine girls were taken originally following an anonymous phone call to Grants Pass authorities stating that one of the children look emaciated. In fact, that child was just recovering from an extended bout with the flu. All the Christines were vegetarians, thus on the slim side, to begin with. The three girls were eventually adopted out to Ruth Christine's parents.
The Christines at first resisted the State's machinations when their children were taken, then relented and began to cooperate after six months saw no progress in regaining custody. Told by the State that it was no use and that it would seek to adopt them out anyway, the Christines were adjudged following a two-week trial in May of having taken their children from Oregon SCF officials at gunpoint.
"That's why Brian and Ruth will spend the next 12-1/2 and 7-1/2 years, respectively, of their lives in prison - for rescuing their own children from a rogue Oregon state agency," Steele commented directly following this morning's sentencing hearing.
Steele previously had been instrumental in keeping the couple's newest baby, Abbey Rose Christine, from being adopted out by Oregon along with their three oldest daughters, by appearing in a Montana court and persuading the judge to give the baby over to Brian's mother in a guardianship. Teri Christine lives in Indiana and has also been named guardian by an Indiana court of the couple's fifth daughter, Olivia.
"Oregon's SCF (the child services agency) was apoplectic after that decision in Montana," said Steele, "and vowed a scorched earth campaign against Brian and Ruth regarding their three oldest daughters, who had been returned to SCF when they were arrested in Montana while fleeing." That, together with the promise of a reasonable plea deal and the assurance that the three girls would be given to Ruth's parents for adoption, was what led the Christines to sign over their parental rights. "That so-called reasonable plea deal never did materialize, which is what led to the trial," said Steele.
Immediately upon Steele's reentry into the case, Oregon cut off all funding for public defenders, investigators and expert witnesses, without giving a reason. Steele is serving pro bono, meaning without pay.
Following their convictions of Robbery, Custodial Interference and Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle, Steele filed an appeal on the Robbery conviction. "That was the main conviction, on a so-called Measure-11 charge, which dictates a minimum prison sentence of 7-1/2 years. The Unauthorized Use was plenty and all that really applied," said Steele. "Brian used the state vehicle to drive his children the 2.1 miles to where his own car was parked, then left it with the keys in the ignition and the contents undisturbed. For that, both the Christines get 7-1/2 years for Robbery. That is outrageous and why this case is the poster child for why Measure 11 should be rescinded."
The two-week Christine kidnapping/robbery trial which took place in May of this year was videotaped at the request of all major networks. Court TV, seen on most cable and satellite services, has announced that the trial will be broadcast in its entirety on July 15 through 18, 9am to 5:30 pm.
Donations may be directed care of the Christines' attorney, Edgar Steele, to defray actual costs of the pending appeal.
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- Morpheus
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No Justice for the Politically-Incorrect
by Edgar J. Steele
July 2, 2002
Below is the text of a press release I sent out following a court hearing this morning which ends the long ordeal of the Christines in Grants Pass, Oregon.
Brian and Ruth have agreed to "plead out" to a single charge each of criminal mistreatment. This doesn't mean they "did it." On the contrary. They have agreed to this for three reasons:
1. To prevent any of their children being brought back to take the stand and testify against them as the Douglas County prosecutor had little Lydia do in the kidnapping trial we went through in May. When she gets older, the psychological trauma of realizing that it was her testimony that sent her parents to prison will be substantial. Even in the face of a system that has repeatedly brutalized them, the Christines have once again demonstrated what we have known all along: they are good parents.
2. Because, by preagreement, all the time the judge assessed will be "served" concurrent with the time they received in Douglas County. This means that the time sentenced is irrelevant. That they each have another felony on their record is also of little consequence, in face of what has already been done to them.
3. After their experience with the Douglas County jury, the Christines rightfully did not trust either judge or jury to treat them properly this time, either. Can't say I blame them.
Yet another example of what has become a mantra for me: the politically-incorrect cannot get justice in America today.
Are you home schooling? Are you Christian? Are you vegetarian? Are you politically conservative (no, not the neocon kind)? Do you ever spank your children? Are you barely scraping by, financially? If you have young, white children and can answer yes to one or more of the above, you are seriously at risk from the child protective services agency in your state. Right and wrong has nothing to do with it.
I got a call last Saturday afternoon as I working in my study at home from the neighbor of a friend who lives just over the border in Washington State.
Seems "someone" had phoned in an "anonymous" tip to the authorities about his children (he has four, aged 2 through 7). Fortunately, nobody was home when CPS came calling in the company of a sheriff's deputy. They left cards.
This fellow had heard of what could happen and was terrified. Seems he had a bit of a dispute going with a neighbor. Do the math.
Since no court had yet acquired jurisdiction over any member of his family (that typically comes once they trump up something with which to charge the parents), I was able to tell him the following: Put your children and as many of your important possessions as you can into your station wagon and leave the state before nightfall. Never come back. Have a friend pack and send the rest or have a yard sale. Hire a real estate agent to sell your house for you. Call in Monday morning and quit your job. Start a new life elsewhere.
Extreme? Not at all. Houses, friends and jobs are easy to find. Children are irreplaceable. Once you are in the "system," you stand a very real chance of ending up like Brian and Ruth Christine. Staying out of the system is, by far, the best solution.
Once CPS comes calling, the only way to ensure you stay out of the system is to get out...right then. Usually, CPS will come by at least once before seeking any court orders. That will be your one chance to stay out of the system, by doing just what I told the hapless fellow above to do.
Once you are in the system (which can happen on the first visit, if you let them in the door), the only way out is to play by the rules. That was where Brian and Ruth went wrong.
If you are home when they come, nevernevernevernevernever let them in the door without a warrant signed by a magistrate. Make them show it to you. Never talk to them. These cases are usually constructed out of the parents' own statements. Make them stand on the porch. Show them the kid through the window to demonstrate he or she is ok. Tell them to get a warrant before they come back again. Same drill, even if a cop is standing next to them. Do not believe anything they tell you - they must have a warrant to enter your home. When they leave, take no more than two hours to pack and get out. You must leave the state altogether and forever.
Once you are served with a warrant or you or any child is taken into custody, you are in the system (because you ignored the basic rule of getting out) and your only real hope is to get a lawyer well acquainted with CPS and the child-custody courts.
Remember these basic rules and you will be able to keep your children in an increasingly hostile and tyrannical America.
Please note that the Christine kidnapping trial will be televised by CourtTV, starting July 15 ( see press release, below, for details). They tend to broadcast these as though taking place right then, but without all the boring stuff. I (and others, I expect) will be providing some live commentary as the production goes along.
Please go to www.pclu.org and order one or more Christine trial T-shirts. We have 90 of them left, in sizes from small to extra large. We have reduced the price to $18 each, including shipping, in hopes that will clear them out. All proceeds go to defraying the cost of the pending appeal in Brian and Ruth's case.
-ed
CHRISTINE PLEA AGREEMENT
Press Release - Immediate - 9:00 a.m., July 2, 2002
Contact: Edgar J. Steele, Attorney at Law
tel: (208) 265-4153 fax: (208) 265-5329
102 S. Fourth Ave., Suite C
Sandpoint, Idaho 83860
email: steele@plainlawtalk.com (best contact method)
GRANTS PASS, OREGON - By telephone hearing this morning before George Neufeld, Judge of the Josephine County Circuit Court, Brian and Ruth Christine entered into a plea agreement on the original charges which led to their three oldest daughters being taken into custody by the State of Oregon. The Christines were speaking from the Oregon Correctional Facility in Wilsonville, Oregon.
Brian and Ruth Christine each pled to one count of Criminal Mistreatment I. Brian pled to an additional charge of Attempt to Elude, arising from an unrelated traffic stop by local authorities.
Each of the Christines received a 13-month sentence from Judge Neufeld, to run concurrent with the sentences received at a trial in Douglas County for their having taken their children at gunpoint from state officials in 2001 and left the state. A $605 fine was also imposed upon each of them. Brian Christine received an additional 30 days, also to run concurrent, on the charge of Eluding, with a fine of $105.
During the hearing, Edgar J. Steele, attorney for the Christines, stressed that the Christines were agreeing to the plea arrangement for two reasons only: First, and foremost, to spare any of their children having to endure any further hearings or trials; and, second, because it had been agreed that all time imposed would run concurrent with their present sentence.
Steele noted that the Christines were very disturbed by the State's having brought their oldest daughter, Lydia, age 6, to testify against them in the Douglas County trial. "Later on, Lydia will be scarred psychologically when she realizes that her testimony was instrumental in convicting her own parents. At all costs, we wish to prevent any recurrence of that spectacle or further damage to any of the Christine girls," said Steele.
After the hearing, Steele said, "Here they are, in prison, their kids taken away from them, and still their only concern is for their children's well being. You have to ask yourself what went on in this case, where the parents were acused of abusing their children because they were all skinny, unlike the normal American fat kid, yet the state passes them from one foster home to the next, then forces them to testify against their own parents, despite being much too young to appreciate what they are doing, in a gross disregard for the best interests of these kids."
The Christine girls were taken originally following an anonymous phone call to Grants Pass authorities stating that one of the children look emaciated. In fact, that child was just recovering from an extended bout with the flu. All the Christines were vegetarians, thus on the slim side, to begin with. The three girls were eventually adopted out to Ruth Christine's parents.
The Christines at first resisted the State's machinations when their children were taken, then relented and began to cooperate after six months saw no progress in regaining custody. Told by the State that it was no use and that it would seek to adopt them out anyway, the Christines were adjudged following a two-week trial in May of having taken their children from Oregon SCF officials at gunpoint.
"That's why Brian and Ruth will spend the next 12-1/2 and 7-1/2 years, respectively, of their lives in prison - for rescuing their own children from a rogue Oregon state agency," Steele commented directly following this morning's sentencing hearing.
Steele previously had been instrumental in keeping the couple's newest baby, Abbey Rose Christine, from being adopted out by Oregon along with their three oldest daughters, by appearing in a Montana court and persuading the judge to give the baby over to Brian's mother in a guardianship. Teri Christine lives in Indiana and has also been named guardian by an Indiana court of the couple's fifth daughter, Olivia.
"Oregon's SCF (the child services agency) was apoplectic after that decision in Montana," said Steele, "and vowed a scorched earth campaign against Brian and Ruth regarding their three oldest daughters, who had been returned to SCF when they were arrested in Montana while fleeing." That, together with the promise of a reasonable plea deal and the assurance that the three girls would be given to Ruth's parents for adoption, was what led the Christines to sign over their parental rights. "That so-called reasonable plea deal never did materialize, which is what led to the trial," said Steele.
Immediately upon Steele's reentry into the case, Oregon cut off all funding for public defenders, investigators and expert witnesses, without giving a reason. Steele is serving pro bono, meaning without pay.
Following their convictions of Robbery, Custodial Interference and Unauthorized Use of a Vehicle, Steele filed an appeal on the Robbery conviction. "That was the main conviction, on a so-called Measure-11 charge, which dictates a minimum prison sentence of 7-1/2 years. The Unauthorized Use was plenty and all that really applied," said Steele. "Brian used the state vehicle to drive his children the 2.1 miles to where his own car was parked, then left it with the keys in the ignition and the contents undisturbed. For that, both the Christines get 7-1/2 years for Robbery. That is outrageous and why this case is the poster child for why Measure 11 should be rescinded."
The two-week Christine kidnapping/robbery trial which took place in May of this year was videotaped at the request of all major networks. Court TV, seen on most cable and satellite services, has announced that the trial will be broadcast in its entirety on July 15 through 18, 9am to 5:30 pm.
Donations may be directed care of the Christines' attorney, Edgar Steele, to defray actual costs of the pending appeal.
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- Morpheus
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Monday, July 01, 2002
A CALL TO ACTION
Do you people see what is happening? OUR land is overrun with parasitic invaders, and we do nothing. The highest court in the land says that "One nation, under God" is unconstitutional, and we complain about it at our lunch breaks. Your tax dollars pay for Haitian, Mexican, Serbain, Indian, Israeli, Asian, and Arab people to come here and exploit this country, and we get online and cry.
In the early 1900's, this country was a blossoming world. We said "give us your tired, your poor, ect". Millions of immigrants came to this country and, with little or no government aid, made lives for themselves. They loved America, they cried at the sight of lady liberty. I know, my grandfather was one of them, from Ireland. My great-grandmother from Germany. That was then.
This is now, and we have our own damn tired and poor and hungry. The invitation has expired. Today's immigrants do not love America, they wish to exploit it. And we sit idlely by and watch. We watch the Mexicans jump the border. We watch the Haitians wait for the postman to bring them their free money, OUR TAX MONEY. We watch hard working Americans struggle, and we watch the government care more about the starving little kids in Africa and the idiots that kill each other in Bosnia.
It is time, fellow Americans, to do something. We all have a voice, and in numbers we have a strong, loud voice. If we make enough noise, someone has to respond. There are those who feel that white pride is racist, but ignore them. We allow blacks, Mexicans, and who ever the hell else to have there pride. We televise the black and Latino awards. We have black month and minority organizations. They can do what they do without being labled a racist. We should as well.
If hatemongers like Louis Farachan (or however he spells it) can organize a million man march, we should at least be able to organize a proud, white, unified voice.
This is not a call to violence or a racist plea, it is a call to action, it is an issue of PRIDE.
Please, email me @ Homme_de_fer_1916@y... We need to organize our voice.
It is time to make some noise!!!
[No, actually it is time we created our own country. The present power structure simply ignores "noise". But at least this comrade does have one basic idea right...that the problem must be SOLVED, not just STATED. - HAC]
Do you people see what is happening? OUR land is overrun with parasitic invaders, and we do nothing. The highest court in the land says that "One nation, under God" is unconstitutional, and we complain about it at our lunch breaks. Your tax dollars pay for Haitian, Mexican, Serbain, Indian, Israeli, Asian, and Arab people to come here and exploit this country, and we get online and cry.
In the early 1900's, this country was a blossoming world. We said "give us your tired, your poor, ect". Millions of immigrants came to this country and, with little or no government aid, made lives for themselves. They loved America, they cried at the sight of lady liberty. I know, my grandfather was one of them, from Ireland. My great-grandmother from Germany. That was then.
This is now, and we have our own damn tired and poor and hungry. The invitation has expired. Today's immigrants do not love America, they wish to exploit it. And we sit idlely by and watch. We watch the Mexicans jump the border. We watch the Haitians wait for the postman to bring them their free money, OUR TAX MONEY. We watch hard working Americans struggle, and we watch the government care more about the starving little kids in Africa and the idiots that kill each other in Bosnia.
It is time, fellow Americans, to do something. We all have a voice, and in numbers we have a strong, loud voice. If we make enough noise, someone has to respond. There are those who feel that white pride is racist, but ignore them. We allow blacks, Mexicans, and who ever the hell else to have there pride. We televise the black and Latino awards. We have black month and minority organizations. They can do what they do without being labled a racist. We should as well.
If hatemongers like Louis Farachan (or however he spells it) can organize a million man march, we should at least be able to organize a proud, white, unified voice.
This is not a call to violence or a racist plea, it is a call to action, it is an issue of PRIDE.
Please, email me @ Homme_de_fer_1916@y... We need to organize our voice.
It is time to make some noise!!!
[No, actually it is time we created our own country. The present power structure simply ignores "noise". But at least this comrade does have one basic idea right...that the problem must be SOLVED, not just STATED. - HAC]
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