BRITISH PEECEE ACADEMIA TO FACE AXE
On top of left-wing dismay at St Andrew’s University having divisively reached a 12.6% pay settlement (over 3 years) acceptable to the majority of its own local union members, British academics faced stern action from American Jews’ mighty Anti-Defamation League if they went along their largest national union’s condemnation of academic contacts with Israel (condemnation which had been issued despite some 15,000 signed protests from ADL members).
Britain’s higher-educational loons also had to face an ‘improved offer’ from the university employers’ (aka Government) of a measly 0.5%, bringing the offer to 13.1% -- an increase proving satisfactory to university porters and cleaners and thus embarrassing for academic lefties to refuse, but not accepted by academics’ union leaders.
Students were also split, with some at Preston University threatening legal action against mark-withholding academics (Lancashire Evening Post, 31 v). Total confusion and lasting bitterness seemed real possibilities for the sorry ‘academic’ brigades that had spent their previous twenty years giving in to PeeCee, feminazism (Arthur Koestler’s money was retained by the LUniversity of Edinburgh despite that feckless body declining to renew the professorial appointment that was the whole point of Koestler’s will) and any other disablism which they could think of.
Confusion seemed likely to be exacerbated by the merger of British academics’ two main unions, AUT and NATFHE, on June 1st, into a university and college lecturers’s union, UCU – for higher-quality academics would be unlikely to accept the ministrations of a body so palpably dominated by the Dave Sparts of jumped-up polytechnics (like Preston, where the over-the-top Daves had evidently triggered the first serious student opposition).
Around 300,000 students across the UK faced disruption as long as the industrial dispute remained unresolved – and NATFHE said it was prepared to fight on till Christmas and was already bringing out its 1,900 members in Northern Ireland on full one-day-per-week strike. The obvious resolution was the break-up and privatization of one of the UK’s last remaining nationalized industries, leading to recognition that universities differ vastly in quality and should correspondingly differ in fees for students and remuneration for staff – consummations devoutly unwished by the luniversities’ peecee egalitarians.
Monday, May 29, 2006
REALITY AND IMPORTANCE OF RACE RECOGNIZED
A fine summary, review and discussion of Race, by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele, was provided in American Renaissance by Thomas Jackson and correspondents (19 v). The book’s authors especially stress that there was plenty of recognition of race (e.g. by Muslims, Hindus, Chinese and Bushmen) – and specially of Black hypersexuality and irresponsibility -- long before White intellectuals installed race as a key variable around 1900; that small DNA differences (sometimes thought to diminish the importance of race) are in fact perfectly important – like the 2% difference that distinguishes man from the apes; and that ethnically homogeneous societies are markedly more peaceful.
PEECEE BIRDS COME HOME TO ROOST
The problem’s of Britain’s peecee and Pakistani-staffed Home Office continued to multiply (Sunday Telegraph, 28 v, p. 4). It turned out that the HO’s way of dealing with foreign jailbirds eligible (or even court-ordered) for deportation had been to write to them to see if they had an excuse to stay in the UK, to lose the replies (in some 1,000 cases), and then to release the men anyway.
HO rules about its own security staff were flouted by its own officials, requiring private firms to be brought in to take over HO security. One wee madam, a junior manager, Prathiba Metha, had clocked up 100,000 pounds in five years of payments to her to stay on “gardening leave” while her accusations of ‘racism’ against the Department were investigated. New supreme ex-Marxist Dr (from one of Britain’s worst universities, Stirling, where a student once threw a beer can at the Queen), having announced he would “f******* well work 18 hours a day to sort this out,” promptly departed for a 4-day holiday in France with his Brazilian film-maker wife.
Top Daily Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer (27 v), openly questioned what had long seemed obvious, that the Civil Service had surely for the previous generation increasingly mounted a programme of affirmative action, discriminating obscenely against the Oxbridge applicants who once made up 70% of the mandarinate. And where better to pursue anti-White ‘positive discrimination’ than at the Home Office? – There, it could easily be suggested that employing lots ill-qualified and semi-literate Third World immigrants might help the Department with its expanding life-mission of coping with Britain’s swelling hordes of barbarians while taking the pressure on the Civil Service off the lofty Departments of the Treasury and the Foreign Office which did not wish to lower their tone.
(The ‘culture’ of the Home Office was well exemplified as a probation officer – an American who had immigrated with his English wife -- was sacked for undue zeal in attempting to monitor, restrain and bring wayward probationers back to justice (Daily Telegraph, 29 v).)
AFRICA’S PROBLEMS PARTIALLY ADMITTED
In further apology for the backwardness of Africa, anti-IQ geographers Shaun Miller and Jared Diamond (UCLA) added to their favoured excuses of ‘poor maize productivity,’ ‘machinery breakdown’ and ‘overly attractive mineral resources’ a new one: that the omnipresence of malaria had deterred European settlers (Nature, 26 v)….
[Added note from John Ray: Malaria was once prevalent in Italy too -- including the time of the Roman Empire!]
AUT’s CLAMOUR vs FRANK ELLIS DENOUNCED
After the Association of University Teachers, at its annual conference, heard a stream of foul-mouthed complaints against “fascist bastard” Professor Frank Ellis (LUniversity of Leeds) (see earlier), two letters appeared defending academic freedom in Times Higher (26 v) – from Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Patron, Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards (CAFAS) [albeit a body packed with notorious Marxites who had evidently moved to hijack the term ‘academic freedom’ largely for their own purposes], and Bruce Jackson.
HUMAN RIGHTS DISOWNED
As Rev. Bliar and Dave Chameleon at last scuttled to cast doubt on the wisdom of Britain’s having granted ‘human rights’ on British soil to most of the world’s population (without even insisting that the insurgents should first have made an effort to bring liberal democracy and capitalism to their own benighted countries) (Daily Telegraph, 29 v), it remained to be seen whether they (and their good pal Rev. Dubya Bush of the Church of the Latter Day Morons) would get round to executing terrorists and their genetic relatives in direct proportion to the numbers of the terrorists’ victims: such genes-realist insistence on family responsibility for terror would do much to increase family surveillance of possible terrorists and fit well with transferring more freedom to families (e.g. in matters of health, education, and welfare insurance) in line with the pro-family stance increasingly mentioned (albeit sporadically and incoherently) by these post-modern, image-addicted, spin-doctored politicians. {As liberals have to find a convincing alternative to the rapid growth national-socialist-Islam, a formula combining freedom and morality will be required. How about FAMILIES for FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY?}
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A fine summary, review and discussion of Race, by Vincent Sarich and Frank Miele, was provided in American Renaissance by Thomas Jackson and correspondents (19 v). The book’s authors especially stress that there was plenty of recognition of race (e.g. by Muslims, Hindus, Chinese and Bushmen) – and specially of Black hypersexuality and irresponsibility -- long before White intellectuals installed race as a key variable around 1900; that small DNA differences (sometimes thought to diminish the importance of race) are in fact perfectly important – like the 2% difference that distinguishes man from the apes; and that ethnically homogeneous societies are markedly more peaceful.
PEECEE BIRDS COME HOME TO ROOST
The problem’s of Britain’s peecee and Pakistani-staffed Home Office continued to multiply (Sunday Telegraph, 28 v, p. 4). It turned out that the HO’s way of dealing with foreign jailbirds eligible (or even court-ordered) for deportation had been to write to them to see if they had an excuse to stay in the UK, to lose the replies (in some 1,000 cases), and then to release the men anyway.
HO rules about its own security staff were flouted by its own officials, requiring private firms to be brought in to take over HO security. One wee madam, a junior manager, Prathiba Metha, had clocked up 100,000 pounds in five years of payments to her to stay on “gardening leave” while her accusations of ‘racism’ against the Department were investigated. New supreme ex-Marxist Dr (from one of Britain’s worst universities, Stirling, where a student once threw a beer can at the Queen), having announced he would “f******* well work 18 hours a day to sort this out,” promptly departed for a 4-day holiday in France with his Brazilian film-maker wife.
Top Daily Telegraph columnist Simon Heffer (27 v), openly questioned what had long seemed obvious, that the Civil Service had surely for the previous generation increasingly mounted a programme of affirmative action, discriminating obscenely against the Oxbridge applicants who once made up 70% of the mandarinate. And where better to pursue anti-White ‘positive discrimination’ than at the Home Office? – There, it could easily be suggested that employing lots ill-qualified and semi-literate Third World immigrants might help the Department with its expanding life-mission of coping with Britain’s swelling hordes of barbarians while taking the pressure on the Civil Service off the lofty Departments of the Treasury and the Foreign Office which did not wish to lower their tone.
(The ‘culture’ of the Home Office was well exemplified as a probation officer – an American who had immigrated with his English wife -- was sacked for undue zeal in attempting to monitor, restrain and bring wayward probationers back to justice (Daily Telegraph, 29 v).)
AFRICA’S PROBLEMS PARTIALLY ADMITTED
In further apology for the backwardness of Africa, anti-IQ geographers Shaun Miller and Jared Diamond (UCLA) added to their favoured excuses of ‘poor maize productivity,’ ‘machinery breakdown’ and ‘overly attractive mineral resources’ a new one: that the omnipresence of malaria had deterred European settlers (Nature, 26 v)….
[Added note from John Ray: Malaria was once prevalent in Italy too -- including the time of the Roman Empire!]
AUT’s CLAMOUR vs FRANK ELLIS DENOUNCED
After the Association of University Teachers, at its annual conference, heard a stream of foul-mouthed complaints against “fascist bastard” Professor Frank Ellis (LUniversity of Leeds) (see earlier), two letters appeared defending academic freedom in Times Higher (26 v) – from Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Patron, Council for Academic Freedom and Academic Standards (CAFAS) [albeit a body packed with notorious Marxites who had evidently moved to hijack the term ‘academic freedom’ largely for their own purposes], and Bruce Jackson.
HUMAN RIGHTS DISOWNED
As Rev. Bliar and Dave Chameleon at last scuttled to cast doubt on the wisdom of Britain’s having granted ‘human rights’ on British soil to most of the world’s population (without even insisting that the insurgents should first have made an effort to bring liberal democracy and capitalism to their own benighted countries) (Daily Telegraph, 29 v), it remained to be seen whether they (and their good pal Rev. Dubya Bush of the Church of the Latter Day Morons) would get round to executing terrorists and their genetic relatives in direct proportion to the numbers of the terrorists’ victims: such genes-realist insistence on family responsibility for terror would do much to increase family surveillance of possible terrorists and fit well with transferring more freedom to families (e.g. in matters of health, education, and welfare insurance) in line with the pro-family stance increasingly mentioned (albeit sporadically and incoherently) by these post-modern, image-addicted, spin-doctored politicians. {As liberals have to find a convincing alternative to the rapid growth national-socialist-Islam, a formula combining freedom and morality will be required. How about FAMILIES for FREEDOM and RESPONSIBILITY?}
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Friday, May 26, 2006
LONDON SCHOOL MARTYRS REMEMBERED "
"..we have deliberate suppression of dissent. Arthur Jensen, Hans Eysenck, J. Philippe Rushton, Chris Brand, Michael Levin, and Glayde Whitney have all been vilified for their racial views." - Eirannsownblog, v 2006).
GENE FOR IQ DISCOVERED
Researchers at Harvard and Boston revealed they had stumbled across a gene for `general cognitive ability' (the peecee euphemism for the g factor) (Money Control, 5 v). They discovered that the dysbindin-1 gene (DTNBP1), which they previously demonstrated to be associated with schizophrenia, might also be linked to general cognitive ability. The study was published in the May 15 print issue of Human Molecular Genetics but seemed to be suppressed by mainstream media - except for CBS (3 v), which said one of the researchers estimated the gene accounted for a not inconsiderable 3% of human IQ variation. (That low IQ is important in accounting for severe schizophrenia, requiring chronic hospitalization, was explained in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).)
RACE REALISM STRIKES BACK
The top genetics reporter for the New York Times, Nicholas Wade, came out with a book, Before the Dawn, that was hailed by Steve Sailer as being as non-peecee as one could get about human race differences while still being allowed to write for NYTwits (VDare, 7 v)
BLACK LOONS NOW RUN BRITAIN -- OFFICIAL
The full horror of `Britain's' peecee Home Office was revealed as a `Chief Immigration Officer' in London was taped demanding sex from an asylum seeker - both, of course, were Bleck (Sun, 22 v, photo provided). (This same `Home Office' releases foreign rapists and robbers despite court orders to deport them, loses thousands of passports, loses 4 `prisoners' every day, actually employs illegal immigrants as cleaners and wrongly declares 2,700 British job applicants to have criminal records. Sceptics had thought the place was run by Pakis; but it turned out it was increasingly run by actual Blecks (mean IQ 75-80) in order to bump up `affirmatively' the percentage of ethnic minorities in the `Civil Service.') New boss ex-Marxist and ex-alcoholic Glaswegian `Dr' (from Stirling LUni) John Reid claimed to identify a problem of `culture' at the Home Office. But did he know the precise nature of the problem? - The employment of low-IQ staff who were terrified of doing anything politically incorrect, such as showing enthusiasm about detaining or deporting Bleck robbers and rapists.
RACE REALIST BACKS STRIKE
Demonstrating his emancipation from all crude left-right stereotypes, scientific racist Professor Geoffrey Sampson of the University of Sussex published in the Daily Torygraph (22 v) his support for the strike action against students by some U.K. academics - a strike that would, if maintained, hopefully bring the luniversities to their knees and result in their privatization and the ending of their peecee tyranny.
NEOSLAVERY CONDEMNED
A succinct analysis and critique of Western politicians obliging employers by importing desperate, illegal, dependent, bulliable `labour', i.e. modern slaves (with fewer rights than slaves of old), was provided in VDare by Peter Gadiel (16 v).
CRB REMEMBERED
As an LSE academic came under fire from his authorities for remarking on the internet that his high-prestige School's undergraduates were largely taught by Ph.D. students (and also complaining that the LSE employed few foreigners), the Guardian kindly recalled that Edinburgh University had first set the pace by firing me in 1996/7 (at incredible cost to itself) for my race-realism and anti-paedohysteria on the net (4 v).
TOP PHILOSOPHER TOYS WITH EUGENICS
The Washington Post (27 iv) allowed philosopher Michael Ruse (himself probably `gay,' and thus a safe pair of hands for the timorous Post) to contemplate the idea that a woman of IQ 71 who had had eight out-of-wedlock children might just possibly, arguably and debatably, within reason and morality, have been told ooops advised ooops counselled to perhaps just possibly (avert your gaze now if full of peecee shit) get herself sterilized. What a brave queer, ooops philosopher! Perhaps, with such `leadership,' realism would just possibly catch on before it was too late among the West's ludicrous IQ-denying Whiteys?
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"..we have deliberate suppression of dissent. Arthur Jensen, Hans Eysenck, J. Philippe Rushton, Chris Brand, Michael Levin, and Glayde Whitney have all been vilified for their racial views." - Eirannsownblog, v 2006).
GENE FOR IQ DISCOVERED
Researchers at Harvard and Boston revealed they had stumbled across a gene for `general cognitive ability' (the peecee euphemism for the g factor) (Money Control, 5 v). They discovered that the dysbindin-1 gene (DTNBP1), which they previously demonstrated to be associated with schizophrenia, might also be linked to general cognitive ability. The study was published in the May 15 print issue of Human Molecular Genetics but seemed to be suppressed by mainstream media - except for CBS (3 v), which said one of the researchers estimated the gene accounted for a not inconsiderable 3% of human IQ variation. (That low IQ is important in accounting for severe schizophrenia, requiring chronic hospitalization, was explained in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).)
RACE REALISM STRIKES BACK
The top genetics reporter for the New York Times, Nicholas Wade, came out with a book, Before the Dawn, that was hailed by Steve Sailer as being as non-peecee as one could get about human race differences while still being allowed to write for NYTwits (VDare, 7 v)
BLACK LOONS NOW RUN BRITAIN -- OFFICIAL
The full horror of `Britain's' peecee Home Office was revealed as a `Chief Immigration Officer' in London was taped demanding sex from an asylum seeker - both, of course, were Bleck (Sun, 22 v, photo provided). (This same `Home Office' releases foreign rapists and robbers despite court orders to deport them, loses thousands of passports, loses 4 `prisoners' every day, actually employs illegal immigrants as cleaners and wrongly declares 2,700 British job applicants to have criminal records. Sceptics had thought the place was run by Pakis; but it turned out it was increasingly run by actual Blecks (mean IQ 75-80) in order to bump up `affirmatively' the percentage of ethnic minorities in the `Civil Service.') New boss ex-Marxist and ex-alcoholic Glaswegian `Dr' (from Stirling LUni) John Reid claimed to identify a problem of `culture' at the Home Office. But did he know the precise nature of the problem? - The employment of low-IQ staff who were terrified of doing anything politically incorrect, such as showing enthusiasm about detaining or deporting Bleck robbers and rapists.
RACE REALIST BACKS STRIKE
Demonstrating his emancipation from all crude left-right stereotypes, scientific racist Professor Geoffrey Sampson of the University of Sussex published in the Daily Torygraph (22 v) his support for the strike action against students by some U.K. academics - a strike that would, if maintained, hopefully bring the luniversities to their knees and result in their privatization and the ending of their peecee tyranny.
NEOSLAVERY CONDEMNED
A succinct analysis and critique of Western politicians obliging employers by importing desperate, illegal, dependent, bulliable `labour', i.e. modern slaves (with fewer rights than slaves of old), was provided in VDare by Peter Gadiel (16 v).
CRB REMEMBERED
As an LSE academic came under fire from his authorities for remarking on the internet that his high-prestige School's undergraduates were largely taught by Ph.D. students (and also complaining that the LSE employed few foreigners), the Guardian kindly recalled that Edinburgh University had first set the pace by firing me in 1996/7 (at incredible cost to itself) for my race-realism and anti-paedohysteria on the net (4 v).
TOP PHILOSOPHER TOYS WITH EUGENICS
The Washington Post (27 iv) allowed philosopher Michael Ruse (himself probably `gay,' and thus a safe pair of hands for the timorous Post) to contemplate the idea that a woman of IQ 71 who had had eight out-of-wedlock children might just possibly, arguably and debatably, within reason and morality, have been told ooops advised ooops counselled to perhaps just possibly (avert your gaze now if full of peecee shit) get herself sterilized. What a brave queer, ooops philosopher! Perhaps, with such `leadership,' realism would just possibly catch on before it was too late among the West's ludicrous IQ-denying Whiteys?
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Friday, May 19, 2006
GENETICS OF CRIME: A DEMONSTRATION
As maniac Irishman John McGrady, 48, was given a whole-life jail sentence after pulling adolescent girls from London streets, raping them, cutting them up with a hacksaw and disposing of them in multiple bin bags, it emerged that his two brothers had been caged as serial killers working for the IRA (Sun, 17 v).
EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENTIATION VINDICATED
Providing testimony to all that IQ psychologists have said over the years, Britain's National Union of Teachers (a body replete with egalitarians of every stripe) announced that its love affair with `integrating' low-IQ children into normal schooling was over (Times, 17 v, `Mainstream schools can't manage special needs pupils, say teachers', Leader: `The rush to close special needs schools should be suspended') and that integration - in which both the dull and the bright typically suffer alike -- could even be deemed `abusive."
Since the batty dysgenic `philosopher' Baroness Warnock came up with `special needs' in the 1980's as a replacement for mental subnormality, 19% of Britain's schoolkids had come to be classified as cases of `special needs', their `integration' probably meaning that over 50% of kids were suffering daily for the ideas of the barmy baroness.
Similar sentiments were aired by Times columnist Ross Clark (17 v) who (though himself the father of a mentally handicapped child) concluded: "beyond the age of about 7, when serious academic education begins, it is nonsense to pretend that you can teach a child with an IQ of 50 alongside one with an IQ of 120. Good special schools, like good grammar schools, have been sacrificed to fulfil a misplaced egalitarian philosophy - to the detriment of all children."
ABORIGINES LIVE DOWN TO EXPECTATIONS FROM THEIR IQ
In an embarrassing leak from Government records, Australian aborigines (estimated by Professor Richard Lynn to have a mean IQ of 62) were found to be raping their own and others' young children with impunity and to be beating their wives at a rate 45 times that which obtained among Australian Whites (themselves no hardcore devotees of feminism) (Times, 17 v). Oz Minister for Indigenous Affairs finally admitted to newsies that there was "rampant indigenous violence" among abos.
NEW LOW FOR BRITISH 'ACADEMICS'
Revealing the impoverishment of intellectual debate in peecee Britain, the Times Higher (28 iv, p. 13) allowed its regular contributor Alan Ryan (Warden of New College, Oxford - up the back alley from the Queen's College) to opine: "[Frank Ellis's] views on race and IQ - let alone on the importance of IQ in determining life chances and a good deal else - are pretty much tosh." Yet, if IQ is unimportant, how come that nine books largely devoted to it have appeared in the past ten years (four by Richard Lynn, two by Art Jensen, one by Nick Mackintosh, one by Ian Deary and one by me), plus a major summary article on race and IQ by Philippe Rushton and Jensen?
IQ DIFFERENTIATION NEEDED
Two thirds of gifted children reported having been bullied at school in new research from 11 states of the USA (Washington Post, 17 v); however, bullying was thought by team leader Professor Sylvia Rimm to be significantly reduced when children were grouped together - the policy advocated in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).
(Meantime, the Cinciannati Enquirer (16 v) reported fresh evidence that boys are over-represented in both tails of the IQ distribution - as claimed for almost a century by psychologists of the London School.)
PAEDOHYSTERIA CONFRONTED
After the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers revealed that, in fifteen years, only 88 of 2,210 alleged cases of physical or sexual abuse had resulted in convictions, ">The Times called for accused schoolteachers to be granted the same anonymity as their accusers (19 v). {However, any such anonymity would be swiftly undermined by local gossips and malice-mongers. How much better for the criminal law to return to prosecuting only tangible physical injury, damage or loss.}
CHINESE IQ RISE FROM FIGHTING IODINE DEFICIENCY
The Chinese Government's Ministry of Health claimed an IQ rise of some 4 points in children from the increased use of iodized salt in the provinces since 1996 (People's Daily, 16 v).
{China confirmed its fitness for world competition in the 21st century by this revelation that it was perhaps the only country in the world to be conducting large-scale monitoring of IQ - as recommended in my 1987 chapter for Arthur Jensen: Consensus and Controversy, where I complained that Western countries spent more time attending to children's teeth than to children's intelligence.}
GENE FOR IQ DISCOVERED
Researchers at Harvard and Boston revealed they had stumbled across a gene for `general cognitive ability' (the peecee euphemism for the g factor) (Money Control, 5 v). They discovered that the dysbindin-1 gene (DTNBP1), which they previously demonstrated to be associated with schizophrenia, might also be linked to general cognitive ability. The study was published in the May 15 print issue of Human Molecular Genetics but seemed to be suppressed by mainstream media - except for CBS (3 v), which said one of the researchers estimated the gene accounted for a not inconsiderable 3% of human IQ variation. See also here.
(That low IQ is important in accounting for severe schizophrenia, requiring chronic hospitalization, was explained in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).)
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As maniac Irishman John McGrady, 48, was given a whole-life jail sentence after pulling adolescent girls from London streets, raping them, cutting them up with a hacksaw and disposing of them in multiple bin bags, it emerged that his two brothers had been caged as serial killers working for the IRA (Sun, 17 v).
EDUCATIONAL DIFFERENTIATION VINDICATED
Providing testimony to all that IQ psychologists have said over the years, Britain's National Union of Teachers (a body replete with egalitarians of every stripe) announced that its love affair with `integrating' low-IQ children into normal schooling was over (Times, 17 v, `Mainstream schools can't manage special needs pupils, say teachers', Leader: `The rush to close special needs schools should be suspended') and that integration - in which both the dull and the bright typically suffer alike -- could even be deemed `abusive."
Since the batty dysgenic `philosopher' Baroness Warnock came up with `special needs' in the 1980's as a replacement for mental subnormality, 19% of Britain's schoolkids had come to be classified as cases of `special needs', their `integration' probably meaning that over 50% of kids were suffering daily for the ideas of the barmy baroness.
Similar sentiments were aired by Times columnist Ross Clark (17 v) who (though himself the father of a mentally handicapped child) concluded: "beyond the age of about 7, when serious academic education begins, it is nonsense to pretend that you can teach a child with an IQ of 50 alongside one with an IQ of 120. Good special schools, like good grammar schools, have been sacrificed to fulfil a misplaced egalitarian philosophy - to the detriment of all children."
ABORIGINES LIVE DOWN TO EXPECTATIONS FROM THEIR IQ
In an embarrassing leak from Government records, Australian aborigines (estimated by Professor Richard Lynn to have a mean IQ of 62) were found to be raping their own and others' young children with impunity and to be beating their wives at a rate 45 times that which obtained among Australian Whites (themselves no hardcore devotees of feminism) (Times, 17 v). Oz Minister for Indigenous Affairs finally admitted to newsies that there was "rampant indigenous violence" among abos.
NEW LOW FOR BRITISH 'ACADEMICS'
Revealing the impoverishment of intellectual debate in peecee Britain, the Times Higher (28 iv, p. 13) allowed its regular contributor Alan Ryan (Warden of New College, Oxford - up the back alley from the Queen's College) to opine: "[Frank Ellis's] views on race and IQ - let alone on the importance of IQ in determining life chances and a good deal else - are pretty much tosh." Yet, if IQ is unimportant, how come that nine books largely devoted to it have appeared in the past ten years (four by Richard Lynn, two by Art Jensen, one by Nick Mackintosh, one by Ian Deary and one by me), plus a major summary article on race and IQ by Philippe Rushton and Jensen?
IQ DIFFERENTIATION NEEDED
Two thirds of gifted children reported having been bullied at school in new research from 11 states of the USA (Washington Post, 17 v); however, bullying was thought by team leader Professor Sylvia Rimm to be significantly reduced when children were grouped together - the policy advocated in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).
(Meantime, the Cinciannati Enquirer (16 v) reported fresh evidence that boys are over-represented in both tails of the IQ distribution - as claimed for almost a century by psychologists of the London School.)
PAEDOHYSTERIA CONFRONTED
After the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers revealed that, in fifteen years, only 88 of 2,210 alleged cases of physical or sexual abuse had resulted in convictions, ">The Times called for accused schoolteachers to be granted the same anonymity as their accusers (19 v). {However, any such anonymity would be swiftly undermined by local gossips and malice-mongers. How much better for the criminal law to return to prosecuting only tangible physical injury, damage or loss.}
CHINESE IQ RISE FROM FIGHTING IODINE DEFICIENCY
The Chinese Government's Ministry of Health claimed an IQ rise of some 4 points in children from the increased use of iodized salt in the provinces since 1996 (People's Daily, 16 v).
{China confirmed its fitness for world competition in the 21st century by this revelation that it was perhaps the only country in the world to be conducting large-scale monitoring of IQ - as recommended in my 1987 chapter for Arthur Jensen: Consensus and Controversy, where I complained that Western countries spent more time attending to children's teeth than to children's intelligence.}
GENE FOR IQ DISCOVERED
Researchers at Harvard and Boston revealed they had stumbled across a gene for `general cognitive ability' (the peecee euphemism for the g factor) (Money Control, 5 v). They discovered that the dysbindin-1 gene (DTNBP1), which they previously demonstrated to be associated with schizophrenia, might also be linked to general cognitive ability. The study was published in the May 15 print issue of Human Molecular Genetics but seemed to be suppressed by mainstream media - except for CBS (3 v), which said one of the researchers estimated the gene accounted for a not inconsiderable 3% of human IQ variation. See also here.
(That low IQ is important in accounting for severe schizophrenia, requiring chronic hospitalization, was explained in Chapter 4 of The g Factor (1996/2000).)
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
7/7 COVER-UP BLASTED
As the British 'Government' (unable to stop thousands of foreign criminals from leaving prisons and roaming British streets) blamed the July 2005 Muslim terror bombing in London (killing 52 and injuring 700) on 'lack of police resources,' even the Guardian newspaper declined to buy in to the yarn, saying: "A significant part of the failure on 7/7 stemmed from a perception that "home-grown" suicide bombings were relatively unlikely in Europe (not surprisingly this assessment has now been revised). But this stemmed in turn from an inability to recognise the speed of radicalisation that was taking place in some parts of British Islam, partly because of the British government's support for the Iraq war. The evidence of such radicalisation was so obvious by 2005 that it is hard not to conclude that the security failure was both negligent and inexcusable."
The truth is that the police could find plenty of time to hound motorists, druggies, paedofumblers, downloaders, date 'rapists', playground 'racists', foxhunters, anti-war protesters, Frank Ellis, Phill Edwards and BNP leader Nick Griffin; yet they allow violent crime (chiefly Bleck) to rise (even declining to disarm hostage takers) and couldn't be bothered to keep tabs on the London Muslibombers even though they knew these Britain-based Arabs were linked to Bin Liner and one had taken a holiday to Pakistan for terror training. Evidently Britain's 'security' services still preferred to concentrate on finding grannies with knitting needles and nail clippers at airports rather than on following and shooting Britain's enemies in the declared 'war on terror.'
Three of the four London bombers had Arab surnames (Khan, Tanweer, Hussain); and the fourth, Jermaine Taylor, had been born in Jamaica (to a mother of 19 years old who was promptly dumped by the father. The Daily Telegraph denounced police failure to investigate those of the youths they had been advised were Islamofanatics and its columnist Con Coughlin wrote a fine piece titled 'MI5 must pay for scandalous error' (12 v).
(Indifference of politicians and police to protecting ordinary Britons from violence was similarly shown in the multi-million-pound extension of six years of 'human rights' to (i) animal activists engaged in blackmail, death threats and digging up dead grannies so as to distress families keeping guinea pigs and (ii) nine Afghani hijackers for whom Britain had provided sanctuary and support even while 5,000 British troops were actually in Afghanistan helping maintain order.)
DRUGGIES SHOULD STAY CHILDLESS - MSP
A senior Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament, Duncan McNeil, bravely called for contraceptives to be put in methadone given to druggie Scottish females ('caring', mainly at taxpayers' expense for 50,000 youngsters). He was promptly denounced by all the usual suspects (Daily Record, 12 v) but supported by Glasgow University drugs expert Professor Neil McKeganey (Glasgow Herald, 12 v) (for more on McKeganey and supporters, see this Diary/Blog, iii 2004).
NEW HERO OF RACE REALISM
Material from American Renaissance achieved unprecedent publicity as a South Carolina radio station and the much-followed Drudge Report aired the views of Latin teacher Winston McCuen to the effect that Whites had higher average IQ than Blacks and that slavery had been OK for West African Blacks taken to America, not least since they had never known any other social system (Am.Ren.,12 v).
BRITAIN'S SOCIAL WELFARISM MEETS ITS FINAL COME-UPPANCE
The BBC revealed that Ugandans had been smuggling Black girls into the UK and forcibly impregnating them so they could claim council flats (Am.Ren., 9 v). Subsequently, the girls were driven by their fellow Blecks into prostitution and the flats rented out as brothels. So, finally, the left had managed to lure UK taxpayers to fund quite directly the dysgenic take-over of the country that would require all the 'special needs' teachers and 'community relations' artistes which it would supply (at cost to the taxpayer and on the condition they stuck to PeeCee-Labourism).
'HUMAN RIGHTS' FARCE LAMBASTED
Faced with pressure from the Sun, the Times (Leo McKinstry, 11 v), the Daily Mail (12 v), the Yorkshire Post (11 v) and the Daily Mirror (12 v) over murders by released foreign criminals, unpoliced Muslibombers and unable-to-be-deported Afghani hijackers (these latter costing the UK £10M during their six-year stay); with unusually right-ish opposition from Blue-Green leader David Chameleon; and with fine leaders in the Telegraph and Scotsman (13 v), Rev. Bliar and his obese and wallpaper-enhanced legal cronies, had little alternative but to deplore being caught out. In the latest bit of spin and image-making and frankly un-thought-out lying, they promised to change Labour's granting 'human rights' to all and sundry (except Britain's Whites, now readily arrestable for 'racist' 'hate speech') and permitting unelected (and liberal-left) judges (another result of Labour's 'long march through the institutions') the option to put such individual 'rights' ahead of group rights and national security.
{Such criticisms were especially surprising since Labour' s Human Rights Act of 1998 had quickly become deeply entrenched in judicial operations and a great source of funds for Britain's burgeoning numbers of largely taxpayer-funded 'human rights lawyers' such as Mrs Cherie Blair. Western Oriental Gentleman Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group 'Liberty' promptly jumped up and down and registered an objection to the criticisms with the receptive journalists of the BBC.}
WHITE RULE VINDICATED
Nigerians provided a graphic demonstration of the advantages of the British Empire as 200 died (blown up) when thieves tried to siphon oil from a pipeline. Further south, Blacks continued to destroy utterly what little was left of the once tranquil and productive rural haven of Rhodesia (Am.Ren., 4 v). All reminiscent of the adage: 'Give an African a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will eat the bait.'
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As the British 'Government' (unable to stop thousands of foreign criminals from leaving prisons and roaming British streets) blamed the July 2005 Muslim terror bombing in London (killing 52 and injuring 700) on 'lack of police resources,' even the Guardian newspaper declined to buy in to the yarn, saying: "A significant part of the failure on 7/7 stemmed from a perception that "home-grown" suicide bombings were relatively unlikely in Europe (not surprisingly this assessment has now been revised). But this stemmed in turn from an inability to recognise the speed of radicalisation that was taking place in some parts of British Islam, partly because of the British government's support for the Iraq war. The evidence of such radicalisation was so obvious by 2005 that it is hard not to conclude that the security failure was both negligent and inexcusable."
The truth is that the police could find plenty of time to hound motorists, druggies, paedofumblers, downloaders, date 'rapists', playground 'racists', foxhunters, anti-war protesters, Frank Ellis, Phill Edwards and BNP leader Nick Griffin; yet they allow violent crime (chiefly Bleck) to rise (even declining to disarm hostage takers) and couldn't be bothered to keep tabs on the London Muslibombers even though they knew these Britain-based Arabs were linked to Bin Liner and one had taken a holiday to Pakistan for terror training. Evidently Britain's 'security' services still preferred to concentrate on finding grannies with knitting needles and nail clippers at airports rather than on following and shooting Britain's enemies in the declared 'war on terror.'
Three of the four London bombers had Arab surnames (Khan, Tanweer, Hussain); and the fourth, Jermaine Taylor, had been born in Jamaica (to a mother of 19 years old who was promptly dumped by the father. The Daily Telegraph denounced police failure to investigate those of the youths they had been advised were Islamofanatics and its columnist Con Coughlin wrote a fine piece titled 'MI5 must pay for scandalous error' (12 v).
(Indifference of politicians and police to protecting ordinary Britons from violence was similarly shown in the multi-million-pound extension of six years of 'human rights' to (i) animal activists engaged in blackmail, death threats and digging up dead grannies so as to distress families keeping guinea pigs and (ii) nine Afghani hijackers for whom Britain had provided sanctuary and support even while 5,000 British troops were actually in Afghanistan helping maintain order.)
DRUGGIES SHOULD STAY CHILDLESS - MSP
A senior Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament, Duncan McNeil, bravely called for contraceptives to be put in methadone given to druggie Scottish females ('caring', mainly at taxpayers' expense for 50,000 youngsters). He was promptly denounced by all the usual suspects (Daily Record, 12 v) but supported by Glasgow University drugs expert Professor Neil McKeganey (Glasgow Herald, 12 v) (for more on McKeganey and supporters, see this Diary/Blog, iii 2004).
NEW HERO OF RACE REALISM
Material from American Renaissance achieved unprecedent publicity as a South Carolina radio station and the much-followed Drudge Report aired the views of Latin teacher Winston McCuen to the effect that Whites had higher average IQ than Blacks and that slavery had been OK for West African Blacks taken to America, not least since they had never known any other social system (Am.Ren.,12 v).
BRITAIN'S SOCIAL WELFARISM MEETS ITS FINAL COME-UPPANCE
The BBC revealed that Ugandans had been smuggling Black girls into the UK and forcibly impregnating them so they could claim council flats (Am.Ren., 9 v). Subsequently, the girls were driven by their fellow Blecks into prostitution and the flats rented out as brothels. So, finally, the left had managed to lure UK taxpayers to fund quite directly the dysgenic take-over of the country that would require all the 'special needs' teachers and 'community relations' artistes which it would supply (at cost to the taxpayer and on the condition they stuck to PeeCee-Labourism).
'HUMAN RIGHTS' FARCE LAMBASTED
Faced with pressure from the Sun, the Times (Leo McKinstry, 11 v), the Daily Mail (12 v), the Yorkshire Post (11 v) and the Daily Mirror (12 v) over murders by released foreign criminals, unpoliced Muslibombers and unable-to-be-deported Afghani hijackers (these latter costing the UK £10M during their six-year stay); with unusually right-ish opposition from Blue-Green leader David Chameleon; and with fine leaders in the Telegraph and Scotsman (13 v), Rev. Bliar and his obese and wallpaper-enhanced legal cronies, had little alternative but to deplore being caught out. In the latest bit of spin and image-making and frankly un-thought-out lying, they promised to change Labour's granting 'human rights' to all and sundry (except Britain's Whites, now readily arrestable for 'racist' 'hate speech') and permitting unelected (and liberal-left) judges (another result of Labour's 'long march through the institutions') the option to put such individual 'rights' ahead of group rights and national security.
{Such criticisms were especially surprising since Labour' s Human Rights Act of 1998 had quickly become deeply entrenched in judicial operations and a great source of funds for Britain's burgeoning numbers of largely taxpayer-funded 'human rights lawyers' such as Mrs Cherie Blair. Western Oriental Gentleman Shami Chakrabarti, director of campaign group 'Liberty' promptly jumped up and down and registered an objection to the criticisms with the receptive journalists of the BBC.}
WHITE RULE VINDICATED
Nigerians provided a graphic demonstration of the advantages of the British Empire as 200 died (blown up) when thieves tried to siphon oil from a pipeline. Further south, Blacks continued to destroy utterly what little was left of the once tranquil and productive rural haven of Rhodesia (Am.Ren., 4 v). All reminiscent of the adage: 'Give an African a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him to fish and he will eat the bait.'
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Friday, May 12, 2006
The left: Can't read or Won't read?
The unwillingness of the left to read anything is the most striking feature of the last decade of 'anti-racist' endeavour. In May, 1996, (as an Oxford man, prison psychologist and long-standing academic), I thought I'd be OK since favourable reviews of 'The g Factor' had appeared in Nature and New Scientist.
Six months later I knew differently. In the past ten years I have not come across a single leftie (nor many others!) who have any serious knowledge of the book. The left has dished out the same treatment to the 2002 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations.' Even 'The Bell Curve' is mentioned only to damn it, not to discuss its arguments or (at the time) spanking new evidence -- see here.
But such is the way of the world. When Constantine established Christianity as the religion of the Empire (allowing him to raid the temples of all the other much richer religions) he thought the Christians worshipped the Sun (as he did) because their holy day was Sunday.
Likewise, today, the (mainly) leftish followers of Darwin don't know that his magnum opus was (partly) about race (the term actually being included in the book's full title). And rightists don't admit that Adam Smith was pretty much a social democrat.
Soon after I was sacked from E.LU., the Scottish National Portrait Gallery had an exhibition in which my chief opponent, the LUniversity Principal (today Lord Stewart Sutherland of Houndstooth), proclaimed the LUniversity's love of freedom and of David Hume (to whom one of its grim tower blocks is devoted) -- little recalling that howling religious mobs successfully prevented Hume from ever getting a chair at Edinburgh (or any other Scottish luniversity).
The Lysenko story says it all: ideology and politics trump truth every time -- See here. Galileo had to wait almost 400 years for an apology from the Church. And Ramsay Macdonald and the gweat Woy Jenkins will surely wait longer for forgiveness from the Labour Party.
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The unwillingness of the left to read anything is the most striking feature of the last decade of 'anti-racist' endeavour. In May, 1996, (as an Oxford man, prison psychologist and long-standing academic), I thought I'd be OK since favourable reviews of 'The g Factor' had appeared in Nature and New Scientist.
Six months later I knew differently. In the past ten years I have not come across a single leftie (nor many others!) who have any serious knowledge of the book. The left has dished out the same treatment to the 2002 'IQ and the Wealth of Nations.' Even 'The Bell Curve' is mentioned only to damn it, not to discuss its arguments or (at the time) spanking new evidence -- see here.
But such is the way of the world. When Constantine established Christianity as the religion of the Empire (allowing him to raid the temples of all the other much richer religions) he thought the Christians worshipped the Sun (as he did) because their holy day was Sunday.
Likewise, today, the (mainly) leftish followers of Darwin don't know that his magnum opus was (partly) about race (the term actually being included in the book's full title). And rightists don't admit that Adam Smith was pretty much a social democrat.
Soon after I was sacked from E.LU., the Scottish National Portrait Gallery had an exhibition in which my chief opponent, the LUniversity Principal (today Lord Stewart Sutherland of Houndstooth), proclaimed the LUniversity's love of freedom and of David Hume (to whom one of its grim tower blocks is devoted) -- little recalling that howling religious mobs successfully prevented Hume from ever getting a chair at Edinburgh (or any other Scottish luniversity).
The Lysenko story says it all: ideology and politics trump truth every time -- See here. Galileo had to wait almost 400 years for an apology from the Church. And Ramsay Macdonald and the gweat Woy Jenkins will surely wait longer for forgiveness from the Labour Party.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006
SEX DIFFERENCE IN MANLINESS
Nothing daunted by the experience of Harvard President Larry Summers last year, Harvard's Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield came out with a book, Manliness (Yale Univ. Press), saying among other things that men were more intrinsically `confident in the face of risk', i.e. manly, and more suited to leadership (Harvard Gazette, 10 iv; Weekly Standard, 10 iv). (Greater male tough-mindedness and independence/assertiveness were summarized in Chapter 1 of The g Factor, 1996/2000.)
McDOUGALL RESURGENT
I am glad to say I have discovered the mighty William McDougall's intellectual autobiography on the net here. It should be of great value to sympathizers with outspeaking hereditarianism, democratic elitism and national liberalism - expanding as it does beyond my own summary of McD's intellectual life (See here).
IGNORACIST HEADS STUCK IN SAND
A sorry letter appeared in The Australian (26 iv) rehearsing in summary ancient arguments that the Black-White IQ gap might just be environmental - but failing to address modern evidence that it is directly linked to brain size, skin lightness and genetic variation (in `microcephalin haplogroup D') and that it has entirely resisted all the post-1945 endeavours of environmentalists to reduce it. In Britain, other ignoracists got a rude shock as a survey by `equality adviser' Jane Lane found toddlers of three-years-old to be racially discriminatory in their patterns of association and friendship with other children: such frightful `racism' affected White, Black and `Asian' children equally - but ignoracists interpreted the shocking finding as somehow reflecting "historic prejudices" and proposed to deal with it by enforcing race mixing and anti-racist propaganda on infants.. (Sunday Telegraph, 7 v, p. 1).
"TRUTHTELLERS" BRAND AND ELLIS
Leeds LUniversity's suspended Frank Ellis and I were mentioned in despatches at `Guardian Unlimited', 9 v (thanks to Robin Clarke, Birmingham) (though another correspondent insisted we were "racists", not "truthtellers"). (I also got a mention at `Blogger News Network,' 11 iv.)
LEFTIES GLIMPSE LIGHT
Top Grauniad columnist Jonathan Freedland came round belatedly to the view that British politicians' cardinal failure had been to avoid offering people CHOICE (as per McDougall NewsLetters, this blog etc.) in matters of education, health and welfare provision (10 v) - though Freedland did not make the corresponding recognition that the nation, too, should make choices as to what kind of citizenry it wanted to encourage to breed.
BIRDS COME HOME TO ROOST FOR BLIAR
(Continued)
A Downing Street aide told the Sunday Herald (30 iv), "You couldn't f****** make it up." The business culminated in Labour coming third in local council elections in England & Wales (getting only 26% of votes cast, compared to 40% for the Conservatives and 27% for the Liberal Democrats) and in Rev. Bliar sacking the arrogant Charles Clarke from the Home Office (which, it turned out, had simply giving up hope of deporting foreign criminals in view of the Labour Government's granting of `human rights' to them and much of the rest of the people of planet earth), demoting `Two Shags' (who lost all administrative responsibility and just remained in the Cabinet as a figurehead for Old Labour) and rejigging half of his Cabinet (`rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic,' as the media were quick to say). {The fact that Bliar survived was due to the failure of Chancellor `Grumpy' Gordon Brown to resign and put the boot in, believing that Bliar would eventually hand over power to him gracefully - an unlikely outcome as civil war broke out within the Labour Party.}
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Nothing daunted by the experience of Harvard President Larry Summers last year, Harvard's Professor of Government, Harvey C. Mansfield came out with a book, Manliness (Yale Univ. Press), saying among other things that men were more intrinsically `confident in the face of risk', i.e. manly, and more suited to leadership (Harvard Gazette, 10 iv; Weekly Standard, 10 iv). (Greater male tough-mindedness and independence/assertiveness were summarized in Chapter 1 of The g Factor, 1996/2000.)
McDOUGALL RESURGENT
I am glad to say I have discovered the mighty William McDougall's intellectual autobiography on the net here. It should be of great value to sympathizers with outspeaking hereditarianism, democratic elitism and national liberalism - expanding as it does beyond my own summary of McD's intellectual life (See here).
IGNORACIST HEADS STUCK IN SAND
A sorry letter appeared in The Australian (26 iv) rehearsing in summary ancient arguments that the Black-White IQ gap might just be environmental - but failing to address modern evidence that it is directly linked to brain size, skin lightness and genetic variation (in `microcephalin haplogroup D') and that it has entirely resisted all the post-1945 endeavours of environmentalists to reduce it. In Britain, other ignoracists got a rude shock as a survey by `equality adviser' Jane Lane found toddlers of three-years-old to be racially discriminatory in their patterns of association and friendship with other children: such frightful `racism' affected White, Black and `Asian' children equally - but ignoracists interpreted the shocking finding as somehow reflecting "historic prejudices" and proposed to deal with it by enforcing race mixing and anti-racist propaganda on infants.. (Sunday Telegraph, 7 v, p. 1).
"TRUTHTELLERS" BRAND AND ELLIS
Leeds LUniversity's suspended Frank Ellis and I were mentioned in despatches at `Guardian Unlimited', 9 v (thanks to Robin Clarke, Birmingham) (though another correspondent insisted we were "racists", not "truthtellers"). (I also got a mention at `Blogger News Network,' 11 iv.)
LEFTIES GLIMPSE LIGHT
Top Grauniad columnist Jonathan Freedland came round belatedly to the view that British politicians' cardinal failure had been to avoid offering people CHOICE (as per McDougall NewsLetters, this blog etc.) in matters of education, health and welfare provision (10 v) - though Freedland did not make the corresponding recognition that the nation, too, should make choices as to what kind of citizenry it wanted to encourage to breed.
BIRDS COME HOME TO ROOST FOR BLIAR
(Continued)
A Downing Street aide told the Sunday Herald (30 iv), "You couldn't f****** make it up." The business culminated in Labour coming third in local council elections in England & Wales (getting only 26% of votes cast, compared to 40% for the Conservatives and 27% for the Liberal Democrats) and in Rev. Bliar sacking the arrogant Charles Clarke from the Home Office (which, it turned out, had simply giving up hope of deporting foreign criminals in view of the Labour Government's granting of `human rights' to them and much of the rest of the people of planet earth), demoting `Two Shags' (who lost all administrative responsibility and just remained in the Cabinet as a figurehead for Old Labour) and rejigging half of his Cabinet (`rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic,' as the media were quick to say). {The fact that Bliar survived was due to the failure of Chancellor `Grumpy' Gordon Brown to resign and put the boot in, believing that Bliar would eventually hand over power to him gracefully - an unlikely outcome as civil war broke out within the Labour Party.}
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Sunday, April 30, 2006
BIRDS COME HOME TO ROOST FOR BLIAR
In surely the last days of Rev. Bliar’s Fuehrer ooops NuLabour Bunker, it transpired that the National Health Service’s nursing staff – once thought of as ‘angels’ by a public heedless of where socialism would lead -- had been well and truly taken over by obese lesbians wanting nothing more than to screech at prim Health Minister Miss Hewitt (who had run out of money to spend on them); that the Home Office had been comprehensively taken over by anti-racist Blecks and Peks wanting chiefly to maintain their peecee reputations by avoiding talk of deportation and instead releasing foreign criminals (half of them Bleck) on to an unsuspecting British public; and that the illiterate, foul-mouthed and pie-gobbling ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ ‘Two Jags’ John Prescott had been taken over by a sexually casual bespectacled civil servant, Tracey Temple, 44 – and taken to the cleaners in that Tracey won £250,000 from the Mail on Sunday while ‘Two Shags’ Prezza had to stay in hiding consoling his “devastated” Liz Taylor-lookalike wife of the previous 44 years and threatening to complain to the Press Commission about Tracey’s allegations that the two- (or possibly four-) year affair had been conducted in government time and in government offices and limousines (with one bonk taking place just minutes after Prezza and Tracey had attended a service at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the UK’s Iraq War victims).
In surely the last days of Rev. Bliar’s Fuehrer ooops NuLabour Bunker, it transpired that the National Health Service’s nursing staff – once thought of as ‘angels’ by a public heedless of where socialism would lead -- had been well and truly taken over by obese lesbians wanting nothing more than to screech at prim Health Minister Miss Hewitt (who had run out of money to spend on them); that the Home Office had been comprehensively taken over by anti-racist Blecks and Peks wanting chiefly to maintain their peecee reputations by avoiding talk of deportation and instead releasing foreign criminals (half of them Bleck) on to an unsuspecting British public; and that the illiterate, foul-mouthed and pie-gobbling ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ ‘Two Jags’ John Prescott had been taken over by a sexually casual bespectacled civil servant, Tracey Temple, 44 – and taken to the cleaners in that Tracey won £250,000 from the Mail on Sunday while ‘Two Shags’ Prezza had to stay in hiding consoling his “devastated” Liz Taylor-lookalike wife of the previous 44 years and threatening to complain to the Press Commission about Tracey’s allegations that the two- (or possibly four-) year affair had been conducted in government time and in government offices and limousines (with one bonk taking place just minutes after Prezza and Tracey had attended a service at Westminster Abbey to commemorate the UK’s Iraq War victims).
Friday, April 28, 2006
PROF BLASTS MUSLIMS
After Muslim students protested at Michigan State University against Western publication of mild motoons suggesting some linkage between Islam and suicide bombing, one 55-year-old professor was brave enough to react, as follows (Via US columnist Michelle Malkin)
Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.
I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavain girls and women (called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris, France.
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, agressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."
If you do not like the values of the West -- see the 1st Amendment -- you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially,
Indrek S. Wichman,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Uproar duly followed and, though MSU professed to stand by Professor Wichman on ‘free speech’ grounds, it counselled him that any further pronouncements from him “could constitute the creation of a hostile environment, and that could ... form the basis of a complaint.” A firm defence of the professor appeared in News by Us, 26 iv.
After Muslim students protested at Michigan State University against Western publication of mild motoons suggesting some linkage between Islam and suicide bombing, one 55-year-old professor was brave enough to react, as follows (Via US columnist Michelle Malkin)
Dear Moslem Association:
As a professor of Mechanical Engineering here at MSU I intend to protest your protest.
I am offended not by cartoons, but by more mundane things like beheadings of civilians, cowardly attacks on public buildings, suicide murders, murders of Catholic priests (the latest in Turkey!), burnings of Christian churches, the continued persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt, the imposition of Sharia law on non-Muslims, the rapes of Scandinavain girls and women (called "whores" in your culture), the murder of film directors in Holland, and the rioting and looting in Paris, France.
This is what offends me, a soft-spoken person and academic, and many, many, many of my colleagues. I counsel you dissatisfied, agressive, brutal, and uncivilized slave-trading Moslems to be very aware of this as you proceed with your infantile "protests."
If you do not like the values of the West -- see the 1st Amendment -- you are free to leave. I hope for God's sake that most of you choose that option.
Please return to your ancestral homelands and build them up yourselves instead of troubling Americans.
Cordially,
Indrek S. Wichman,
Professor of Mechanical Engineering.
Uproar duly followed and, though MSU professed to stand by Professor Wichman on ‘free speech’ grounds, it counselled him that any further pronouncements from him “could constitute the creation of a hostile environment, and that could ... form the basis of a complaint.” A firm defence of the professor appeared in News by Us, 26 iv.
Monday, April 24, 2006
LABOUR MINISTER ADMITS BNP ATTRACTIVE TO VOTERS
Britain's Employment Minister and key Blair ally, LSE-educated Margaret Hodge, herself an immigrant to Britain at age 5, shocked Britain by admitting that eight in ten of her White Labour-voting constituents in Barking, East London, were thinking of voting for the BNP because Labour had let them down by supplying council houses and health and welfare services preferentially to immigrants and asylum seekers. Mother of four and MP since 1994, Mrs Hodge said (as rightists had been saying for a decade) that Britain's "political class" had been "often frightened of engaging in the very difficult issues of race"; and she said Labour voters no longer felt ashamed about switching to the BNP.
She was promptly supported by research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finding that one Londoner in four and one English voter in six "might" vote BNP. Phill Edwards, the BNP Press Officer, said the Rowntree report highlighted a sense of "powerlessness and frustration" among communities in Britain which was leading to an increase in support for his party. Dagenham Labour MP. Mr Jon Cruddas, a former adviser to Tony Blair, warned that the BNP was "on the verge of a major political breakthrough" (ITV, 17 iv).
The wretched `Conservative' Party led by "compassionate" Dave Chameleon at first declined to comment (Times, 17 iv); but Dave himself was finally moved to declare the BNP was the opposite of all he stood for (Sun, 18 iv). Some thought a degree of scepticism was called for as Labour had a track record of talking up the threat of the BNP before elections to try to get its core vote out. A rise in both `Islamophobia' and anti-semitism was reported among British children by the National Union of Teachers (17 iv).
In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote. BNP policies for the approaching local council elections in England included: traditional school meals, teachers allowed to smack, separate teaching of children having poor English, widespread closure of teacher training colleges (teachers to be trained by ex-teachers having 30 years experience), compulsory competitive sports restored in schools, no dumping of asylum seekers in White areas, low taxes, no affirmative action {i.e. affirmative racism} (24dash.com, 15 iv).
The BBC responded to the BNP media breakthrough by bringing on a propagandist from the sinister `anti-racist, anti-fascist' Searchlight group; and the Times (18 iv) made sure to grovel to the left by paying the Observer's David Aaronovitch (whose father had been a Communist leader) for a column denouncing the people of Barking for their low educational attainments, Thatcherism and high pregnancy rates (as if there was any point in schoolwork and self-discipline under Rev. Bliar's depraved, tyrannous and dumbed-down neosocialism).
Phil Woolas, NuLabour's Local Government Minister, said later that no politician should underestimate the BNP threat (Daily Telegraph, 18 iv). The Glasgow Herald's political correspondent, Iain McWhirter, predicted that the English local elections threatened to be "a bloodbath for Labour" at the hands of the BNP (19 iv). (But on 24 iv an ICM national telephone poll for the Grauniad newspaper showed BNP support at only 2%, and the Liberals, on 24%, the chief beneficiaries of Labour's recent problems of tyranny, sleaze and incompetence.)
RACE REALISTS ARRESTED
(Update)
Not content with making endless legal trouble for BNP leader Nick Griffin and his colleague Mark Collett (both so far cleared by a judge on all charges tried), Humberside police arrested top British `anti-Semites / male chauvinists / race realists' etc., etc., Luke O'Farrell and Simon Sheppard (18 iv), seeing fit to handcuff them and detain them for five hours in crude cells with a seatless lavatory and with only a copy of the Blairite tabloid Sun newspaper for company. Such work, meeting people with ideas, was evidently (along with flights to Thailand to monitor paedophiles and their girlfriends) proving more attractive to Britain's mightily paid and uniformed `graduate' peecee sleuths than apprehending burglars or getting cut in on drug deals..
As these arrests took place several British firemen were suspended after a supervisor had removed a Union Jack symbol from a vehicle because he found it `smacked of the BNP.' Young Tory MP Philip Davies (Shipley) declared that "political correctness has got completely out of hand and many people feel they can no longer have their say on important issues and that has led them to vote for unwelcome parties like the BNP"; but Commons Leader Geoff Hoon rejected the claims and Labour MPs demanded Davies be disciplined by the `Conservatives.' In Essex, an Indian gentleman of 58, Kiron Mittra, a retired postman, said he would be supporting the BNP because he wanted to fly the Union Jack and `did not believe in political correctness.'
KEY LABOURITE BACKS WHITES
Respected Labour thinker Frank Field MP came out with much sympathy for Whites who found local Council houses allocated not according to their contributions in taxes and length of queueing but according to the `needs' of Black, Pakistani and single-parent-mothers which shot these undesirables promptly into the nicer flats that Councils had on offer (21 iv).
KEY "TIMES" WRITER BACKS CIVILIZATION
Getting near to supporting human intelligence, the ex-Communist columnist of the Times (who saw the light some ten years ago) wrote a fine piece deploring the windy ethics and lack of positive principles of Britain's `leading' parties (21 iv). Mick Hulme's essay appeared just hours after top UK politicians had disgraced themselves on BBC 1's flagship TV programme `Question Time' by failing to raise a decent cheer from the Cambridge audience for *any* of their miserable evasions of Britain's racial problems with its unduly large numbers of low-IQ and psychotic immigrants from Jamaica and Pakistan.
BNP CLEARED OF EXTREMISM
In the Daily Telegraph (21 iv), Lord Tebbitt wrote that he could not find anything in the BNP's 2005 electoral manifesto that could justify the party being called `right-wing' or `racist.' The same day saw the BNP rise to 7% support in a national YouGov poll, whereas the `Conservatives' fell by 3% to 33% -- and was only sustained that high by the 10% increase in support it had enjoyed from Britain's homosexuals since Dave Chameleon's `leadership' had begun. By 23 iv, a Sunday Mirror poll showed 45.5% support for the BNP in the north-east London area of Barking and Dagenham, as compared to only 36% for Labour. The party was condemned as `hate-filled,' "completely unacceptable" and `not worthy of a single vote' by `Conservative' Dave Chameleon, allowing its Press Officer, Phill Edwards, to retort that the BNP was `based on fact, not hate,' and had clearly become `Britain's only opposition party' (23 iv).
BLACK RAPISM DEMONSTRATED
America's National Crime Victimization Survey for 2003 found rape to be overwhelmingly intra-racial. In particular, Black female rape victims reported their attackers were White in less than 0.5% of cases. By contrast, Black-on-White rape was relatively frequent, with 15.5 of White female rape victims reporting that their assailants were Black (American Renaissance, 19 iv). Thus Black-on-White rape rate is at least 31 times what would be expected from the White-on-Black rate - another tribute to the joys of cultural diversity.. (For details of spectacular Black rapism in London - unreported in the British press - see American Renaissance, 18 iv).
MULTICULTURALISM CONDEMNED BY TOP IMMIGRANT
Senior BBC newsman George Alagiah, himself a Tamil from Ceylon who came to Britain at age 11, complained that recent immigrants had done too little to integrate - a complaint echoing that of Black Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips in 2005 (BBC, 23 iv ) (see previous Diary/Blog, ii 2005).
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Britain's Employment Minister and key Blair ally, LSE-educated Margaret Hodge, herself an immigrant to Britain at age 5, shocked Britain by admitting that eight in ten of her White Labour-voting constituents in Barking, East London, were thinking of voting for the BNP because Labour had let them down by supplying council houses and health and welfare services preferentially to immigrants and asylum seekers. Mother of four and MP since 1994, Mrs Hodge said (as rightists had been saying for a decade) that Britain's "political class" had been "often frightened of engaging in the very difficult issues of race"; and she said Labour voters no longer felt ashamed about switching to the BNP.
She was promptly supported by research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finding that one Londoner in four and one English voter in six "might" vote BNP. Phill Edwards, the BNP Press Officer, said the Rowntree report highlighted a sense of "powerlessness and frustration" among communities in Britain which was leading to an increase in support for his party. Dagenham Labour MP. Mr Jon Cruddas, a former adviser to Tony Blair, warned that the BNP was "on the verge of a major political breakthrough" (ITV, 17 iv).
The wretched `Conservative' Party led by "compassionate" Dave Chameleon at first declined to comment (Times, 17 iv); but Dave himself was finally moved to declare the BNP was the opposite of all he stood for (Sun, 18 iv). Some thought a degree of scepticism was called for as Labour had a track record of talking up the threat of the BNP before elections to try to get its core vote out. A rise in both `Islamophobia' and anti-semitism was reported among British children by the National Union of Teachers (17 iv).
In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote. BNP policies for the approaching local council elections in England included: traditional school meals, teachers allowed to smack, separate teaching of children having poor English, widespread closure of teacher training colleges (teachers to be trained by ex-teachers having 30 years experience), compulsory competitive sports restored in schools, no dumping of asylum seekers in White areas, low taxes, no affirmative action {i.e. affirmative racism} (24dash.com, 15 iv).
The BBC responded to the BNP media breakthrough by bringing on a propagandist from the sinister `anti-racist, anti-fascist' Searchlight group; and the Times (18 iv) made sure to grovel to the left by paying the Observer's David Aaronovitch (whose father had been a Communist leader) for a column denouncing the people of Barking for their low educational attainments, Thatcherism and high pregnancy rates (as if there was any point in schoolwork and self-discipline under Rev. Bliar's depraved, tyrannous and dumbed-down neosocialism).
Phil Woolas, NuLabour's Local Government Minister, said later that no politician should underestimate the BNP threat (Daily Telegraph, 18 iv). The Glasgow Herald's political correspondent, Iain McWhirter, predicted that the English local elections threatened to be "a bloodbath for Labour" at the hands of the BNP (19 iv). (But on 24 iv an ICM national telephone poll for the Grauniad newspaper showed BNP support at only 2%, and the Liberals, on 24%, the chief beneficiaries of Labour's recent problems of tyranny, sleaze and incompetence.)
RACE REALISTS ARRESTED
(Update)
Not content with making endless legal trouble for BNP leader Nick Griffin and his colleague Mark Collett (both so far cleared by a judge on all charges tried), Humberside police arrested top British `anti-Semites / male chauvinists / race realists' etc., etc., Luke O'Farrell and Simon Sheppard (18 iv), seeing fit to handcuff them and detain them for five hours in crude cells with a seatless lavatory and with only a copy of the Blairite tabloid Sun newspaper for company. Such work, meeting people with ideas, was evidently (along with flights to Thailand to monitor paedophiles and their girlfriends) proving more attractive to Britain's mightily paid and uniformed `graduate' peecee sleuths than apprehending burglars or getting cut in on drug deals..
As these arrests took place several British firemen were suspended after a supervisor had removed a Union Jack symbol from a vehicle because he found it `smacked of the BNP.' Young Tory MP Philip Davies (Shipley) declared that "political correctness has got completely out of hand and many people feel they can no longer have their say on important issues and that has led them to vote for unwelcome parties like the BNP"; but Commons Leader Geoff Hoon rejected the claims and Labour MPs demanded Davies be disciplined by the `Conservatives.' In Essex, an Indian gentleman of 58, Kiron Mittra, a retired postman, said he would be supporting the BNP because he wanted to fly the Union Jack and `did not believe in political correctness.'
KEY LABOURITE BACKS WHITES
Respected Labour thinker Frank Field MP came out with much sympathy for Whites who found local Council houses allocated not according to their contributions in taxes and length of queueing but according to the `needs' of Black, Pakistani and single-parent-mothers which shot these undesirables promptly into the nicer flats that Councils had on offer (21 iv).
KEY "TIMES" WRITER BACKS CIVILIZATION
Getting near to supporting human intelligence, the ex-Communist columnist of the Times (who saw the light some ten years ago) wrote a fine piece deploring the windy ethics and lack of positive principles of Britain's `leading' parties (21 iv). Mick Hulme's essay appeared just hours after top UK politicians had disgraced themselves on BBC 1's flagship TV programme `Question Time' by failing to raise a decent cheer from the Cambridge audience for *any* of their miserable evasions of Britain's racial problems with its unduly large numbers of low-IQ and psychotic immigrants from Jamaica and Pakistan.
BNP CLEARED OF EXTREMISM
In the Daily Telegraph (21 iv), Lord Tebbitt wrote that he could not find anything in the BNP's 2005 electoral manifesto that could justify the party being called `right-wing' or `racist.' The same day saw the BNP rise to 7% support in a national YouGov poll, whereas the `Conservatives' fell by 3% to 33% -- and was only sustained that high by the 10% increase in support it had enjoyed from Britain's homosexuals since Dave Chameleon's `leadership' had begun. By 23 iv, a Sunday Mirror poll showed 45.5% support for the BNP in the north-east London area of Barking and Dagenham, as compared to only 36% for Labour. The party was condemned as `hate-filled,' "completely unacceptable" and `not worthy of a single vote' by `Conservative' Dave Chameleon, allowing its Press Officer, Phill Edwards, to retort that the BNP was `based on fact, not hate,' and had clearly become `Britain's only opposition party' (23 iv).
BLACK RAPISM DEMONSTRATED
America's National Crime Victimization Survey for 2003 found rape to be overwhelmingly intra-racial. In particular, Black female rape victims reported their attackers were White in less than 0.5% of cases. By contrast, Black-on-White rape was relatively frequent, with 15.5 of White female rape victims reporting that their assailants were Black (American Renaissance, 19 iv). Thus Black-on-White rape rate is at least 31 times what would be expected from the White-on-Black rate - another tribute to the joys of cultural diversity.. (For details of spectacular Black rapism in London - unreported in the British press - see American Renaissance, 18 iv).
MULTICULTURALISM CONDEMNED BY TOP IMMIGRANT
Senior BBC newsman George Alagiah, himself a Tamil from Ceylon who came to Britain at age 11, complained that recent immigrants had done too little to integrate - a complaint echoing that of Black Commission for Racial Equality boss Trevor Phillips in 2005 (BBC, 23 iv ) (see previous Diary/Blog, ii 2005).
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006
RACE REALISTS ARRESTED
Not content with making endless legal trouble for BNP leader Nick Griffin and colleague Mark Collett (both so far cleared by a judge on all charges tried), British police arrested top British ‘anti-Semites / chauvinists / race realists’ etc., etc., Luke O’Farrell and Simon Sheppard (18 iv), seeing fit to handcuff them and detain them for five hours in crude cells without a lavatory seat and with only a copy of the tabloid Blairite Sun newspaper for company. Such work, meeting people with ideas, was evidently proving more attractive to Britain’s uniformed graduate peecee sleuths than apprehending burglars or getting cut in on drug deals….
Not content with making endless legal trouble for BNP leader Nick Griffin and colleague Mark Collett (both so far cleared by a judge on all charges tried), British police arrested top British ‘anti-Semites / chauvinists / race realists’ etc., etc., Luke O’Farrell and Simon Sheppard (18 iv), seeing fit to handcuff them and detain them for five hours in crude cells without a lavatory seat and with only a copy of the tabloid Blairite Sun newspaper for company. Such work, meeting people with ideas, was evidently proving more attractive to Britain’s uniformed graduate peecee sleuths than apprehending burglars or getting cut in on drug deals….
LONDON SCHOOL LEADER BACKS CHOICE
In a cracking new book called "In Our Hands", American economist/psychologist Charles Murray came round to the view long advocated in this Diary/Blog and in The McDougall NewsLetter that government social spending should largely be via annual grants to adults which they would then spend on their own health and welfare as they pleased. His plan did not have the feature of my own that spending should be via families; instead, keeping it simple, he exempted education costs and indeed exempted children altogether. For more (yes, you, David Cameron!) see National Review Online, 27 iii.
FREEDOM - A PREFACE FOR AN ESSAY
As academics Andrew Fraser and Frank Ellis face criminal prosecution, as well as sacking from their universities, for rehearsing summarily some of the more controversial propositions of the London School (though not those that said girls needed equal education or that retardates should not be executed - these arguments, controversial enough as they once were in the past, being entirely accepted by today's left), I want to try to address the main argument AF and FE are up against. Simply, the left's PR people will say (whatever may be the more archetypal hostilities of paid-up lefties):
`Look here, freedom has to be balanced by responsibility. Didn't right-wingers themselves often say that in the past and leave laws against blasphemy on the statute books for handling the more outrageous cases of insults to Christianity (last used in the 1980's to prosecute a suggestion that Jesus was homosexual - resulting in a fine)? Well, likewise today, freedom has to be balanced by at least a superficial respect for the multicultural West in which the vast majority of us are trying to live peaceably (and where employers (including many middle class households) enjoy cheap immigrant labour and leftist parties get most of the new underclass votes). Can't you see a compromise is necessary? And that it's even easy given the historic good nature and sense of British people, and their realization (from our successful propaganda) that they are all mongrels anyhow (and very successful mongrels)? (Not unknown in the doggie world, where pure-bred animals are often pretty temperamental and suitable chiefly to specialized tasks.) By contrast with other peoples, some of them more rigid and authoritarian, Brits have been capable of empire and, with our mixture of political correctness and free-enterprise capitalism, and with the help of Hispanic-immigrant lover President George Dubya Bush, we are arguably doing it again - calling it `globablization'! So why not accept there has to be a balance? - A balance which Chris Brand probably violated (earning him the sack, albeit with compensation and the best of the argument) and which Andrew Fraser and Frank Ellis (both far-right and without any specialist expertise in psychology) have definitely declined by advertising their views not, as Brand did, in a book published by an academic house (Wiley) but in letters to local newspapers. There can surely be no right to unqualified and unfettered free speech, just as there is no right to shout `Fire!' in a crowded room.'
It seems to me this argument deserves a proper answer. So here goes - but I very much welcome corrections.
There are some eight key freedoms which Britain might be said to have nurtured over the last thousand years by means of the following acknowledged rights:
1. Right to life
2. Right to property
3. Right to liberty
4. Right to one's own thoughts and opinions
5. Right to association
6. Right to speech and publication
7. Right to expert free speech (especially in a state-funded university)
8. Right to speech by tenured intellectuals (in state-funded universities) about any subject of their choice
I will in this way try to address the questions of freedom - suggesting in each case that the `balanced' answer has never been a vague compromise but always a quite specific (and intelligently formulated and public) contract.
1. The right to life comes unequivocally from the Bible, but it was expressly tempered by law in quite specific ways, notably in the case of murder (when guilt was found by a court of law). Many qualifications surround murder (and other crimes), forbidding execution or life-sentencing of the insane, the retarded or those who killed in self-defence; but such qualifications are quite specific and do not involve `balancing' a person's right to life against his responsibilities to others. There is no such halfway house, or any set of halfway houses.
2. The right to property (if lawfully acquired) was established under Magna Carta, which importantly meant that properties were secure. - Even a man who became a banished traitor still owned his property in England and could pass it on to his family. Property ownership may seem surrounded by many obligations, such as to pay taxes, maintain the property safely, refrain from intimidating neighbours by noise or fire etc; but in fact these obligations are levied on tenants just as much as owners. Ownership itself is qualified only by the right of the state to make compulsory purchase at market prices - and even this qualification is of recent origin and often contested and subject to complaint.
3. The right to liberty, hard-won over centuries, essentially meant that a man could not be imprisoned for any length of time except by due legal process, including jury trial by his peers. Specific corollaries included habeas corpus and the right of access of pre-trial prisoners to legal advice, visitors, non-prison food and drink etc. Specific qualifications occur when a judge is persuaded that the accused would pose a significant threat of escape or harm to witnesses if bailed. There is no `balancing' of a person's liberty with his `responsibility to others' except in that he must stay within the criminal law and pay for any tangible damage he is proven (with >50% probability) to have done to others. Constraints on liberty are thus quite specific, not a matter for ongoing `sensitivity,' worry and calculation.
4. The right to thought was a gracious gift to England of Elizabeth I who (though her minions doubtless tortured hundreds of apparent traitors --faced as she was by the animosity of the whole of Europe, orchestrated by the Pope and his leading ally, Spain) famously declared "I will not make windows into men's souls" - thus sparing England from the Thirty Years War that devastated Germany. Protection of thought is today chiefly served by rights to privacy (especially, from state snooping by mail and phone taps) which incidentally serve to hinder collection of evidence about a person's morality, political plans, sexual liaisons and business deals. Only important reasons of state allow efforts to compel divulgence of a person's thinking - and these require affirmation by senior government personnel and, in the West generally, do not presently allow torture. It is because of strong protection of thought and opinion that Times Higher (the mouthpiece of British academia), having turned from saying Leeds University `would have to put up with Frank Ellis' (17 iii 2006) to calling for his sacking as `a menace to multiculturalism and danger to campus diversity' (leader, 31 iii 2006), admitted that even if academics could be told not to discuss race on pain of sacking, they would still need to be allowed their own "private views."
5. The right to association is an ongoing problem in Europe and America, but normally it is dealt with by asking locally administered police (perhaps advised by a magistrate) `Do you think you can cope with the proposed demo without serious disorder?' Since association borders closely on action, sometimes violent action, the state's powers are large - quite often thought too large by would-be demonstrators; and, as well as being able to prohibit, move and control whole marches and demonstrations, the British state gives itself the right to control individuals, notably prohibiting known football hooligans from attending particular matches or from travelling abroad at certain times. Universities probably believe that they, too, have some rights to prevent academics attending certain meetings - though Frank Ellis was able to circumvent Leeds' ban on him attending an American Renaissance conference by arguing that he attended only in his own time. However, there is no `balancing' of the right of associate. One can either associate with certain others or not; and a university would probably need some special argument to show that it was acting as an employer to protect its image and thus commercial interests. The fettering of association is thus quite specific and has not so far involved saying to academics `Keep your attendance at certain conferences to a minimum, and keep quiet about your visits, so that you recognize your responsibilities and don't upset students of colour / leftist agitators / student union bossyboots etc.' Restrictions on freedom of association in the West today, whether by the state or employers, are essentially limited to cases where there is a serious likelihood of damage to persons, property or commercial interests - even if the methods of determining such likelihood are dangerously vague and lie all too clearly in the hands of the authorities.
6. The right to speech is problematic in Europe, especially in the past generation, with the apparently rising wish prosecute Holocaust-denial, and then following on quickly to condemn `remarks' about the handicapped, Welsh, Blacks, Islamofascists etc. But, in America, free speech is legally enshrined - you can't be subject to criminal process simply for what you say. The real problem is that you can pay big civil costs if you harm someone else's business. And you lose your job in the left-dominated establishment tout court if you let the words `nigger' or `coon' pass your lips. The power to proceed against individuals for their speech has thus been largely placed in the hands of corporations - an essentially `fascist' arrangement, i.e. involving a conspiracy between government and businessmen (who regard political correctness, multi-ethnic hirings and outright affirmative racism as at worse merely new forms of taxation and at best opportunities to control and replace ageing and unpopular staff). In this case, then, it looks alarmingly as if individuals do indeed have to continuously balance their wish to speak against their responsibilities not to upset others or harm or even threaten commercial interests. Clearly this is grossly vague, subjective and unsatisfactory (though Britain provides immunity from libel actions for speeches made in Parliament). What is needed is not an ever-growing minding of tongues but a precise clarification of what is not allowed, e.g. intentional and realistic threats of physical or financial damage. For even shouting `Fire' in a cinema is surely not criminal or even immoral unless it is actually intended to cause panic and resulting injury. Certainly to go down the road of protecting people's psychological sensitivites and comfort zones can only end in no public criticism at all of others and their ideas being possible, yielding the ban on denigrating Islam which the British Labour Government currently wants (but is frustrated by the House of Lords) and even an informal ban on the Scots criticizing the English which few can surely want (but nevertheless police investigated the famous TV presenter Anne Robinson after she joked on air that she `didn't know what the Welsh are for'). The main point is that criticism (the quickest route to human improvement) will become impossible; but a most practical corollary is that the leftists who back this tyranny will soon destroy themselves - for the political career of any opponent can easily be ended by the slightest accusation of racism, sexism, homophobia, paedophilia etc., so the left itself can itself sometimes be upbraided, and anyhow it has now come under close scrutiny and challenge in American universities for its leftist propaganda and intimidation of students.
7. Expert speech has long been protected de facto in that, after Galileo and Darwin, newsies wised up to the idea that science was fun and that scientists usually got the better of divines and politicians. Helpful factors were that Oxbridge colleges were very rich and could easily maintain the privacy of their staff; and that dons were unmarried but with a home for life in college and so in strong financial positions as individuals. Sadly, as the West lost its zip, the post-1945 increasingly state-funded universities became increasingly undistinguished from ordinary firms - not least in their increasingly sharp interest in making money; and mainly leftist but certainly filth- and underclass-soliciting hacks, as they invaded the media, could and did select their own `experts' such as the elderly obese Marxite Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould, making `anti-racism' the religion that would allow them their daily parade in their papers of low-IQ `tits `n' bums.' More particularly, truly expert views were being cast before swine not just in lecture halls but in publications available worldwide on the internet for a few keystrokes. Manifestly, academics have reacted to their new situation by `acknowledging their responsibilities' not to upset the Zeitgeist - so much so that, apart from the efforts of the London School, the only defence of AF or FE carried in the past year was one by philosopher A. F. Grayling who merely asserted (via Times Higher) FE's right not to be jailed, not his right to keep his job (`Liberty and responsibility,' 7 iv). This cowardly self-imposed balancing act can only lead on to a similar chilling of the atmosphere for debates on many subjects other than race - notably feminism, homosexuality, abortion, evolution, eugenics and Islam. What is needed is instead a clear and simple stipulation of any cases in which British academics will not be granted free speech having absolute priority over a university's pious and commercial concerns - e.g. for junior staff in non-Russell Group universities, or for academics' communications with the popular press.
8. In some of the criticism of AF and FE, it has been complained that they removed themselves from the umbrella of academic freedom by speaking on subjects `not within their expertise' (they were not psychologists). However, modern state-funded universities involve a fast-changing kaleidoscope of subjects and positive encouragement of interdisciplinary overlaps (so as to appear fresh and new to students}; and subjects like race and sex are of such wide human interest that it would seem impossible to keep them out of the interest of all but, say, astronomers and electrical engineers. AF and FE themselves exemplify the point in that AF is a public lawyer who has every right to concern himself with immigration to Australia - most of it Black or Lebanese in recent years; and FE is a historian of Communism who has very properly pointed out and published the origins of the West's current `political correctness' in the stipulations of Lenin in the 1920s (designed to avoid public criticism of the `minorities' that Lenin wished to keep within the USSR). Another proposal could be to restrict the right to expert free speech to publications in academic journals. But, like university departments, faculties, units and schools, journals too are changing all the time and there are thousands where articles touching on race would sit well (if it were not for universal hysterical denial of race as a topic); and, more seriously, it would seem absurd to cut academics off even more than they are already from the taxpayers that fund them; and the BBC could doubtless argue not to be deprived of its many academic broadcasters who make it in part a virtual university in its own right (able to phone around the globe to solicit opinions - a privilege not allowed to UK academics). Doubtless many academics at present are indeed wary of talking to the media, knowing the pitfalls of entrapment, but such trepidatory balancing is surely an unfortunately vague substitute for what should actually be an intelligent set of specific solutions. Some universities do in fact ban their academics from contacting the media in any way which identifies their university unless they have the permission of their head-of-department - such an authoritarian policy would have saved AF from trouble at Macquarie. It is a way of introducing senior personnel into the process of academic expression, but at least it is a transparently clear restriction and has the advantage of guaranteeing that senior staff will stand by a junior's publication after it takes place. Of course, a better alternative is for universities to say `We took a lot of trouble to select this guy. He is highly qualified and publishes. We back him.'
Plainly, there is in any particular one of the above matters a broad contrast between whether a person favours the existing morality or freedom from it. Indeed, in the psychology of attitudes there is historically a broad contrast between tender-minded conservatism (religiosity / moralism) and tough-minded radicalism (libertarianism / capitalism) (See here). However, intelligence is a quite separate psychological dimension; and society and its institutions exist precisely to provide intelligent solutions such that we can have both freedom and responsibility in a sensible and sustainable fashion. Properly and historically speaking, law is a bastion of freedom, not an opposing force with which some balancing compromise must be achieved. (Even religion can claim to be liberating - as Jesus thought he was freeing people from the more antiquated and obsessional aspects of Judaism while maintaining a new, simplified moral code.)
Anyhow, it seems it can be argued that eight great freedoms that Britons and much of the West have come to enjoy over the past thousand years have not existed and do not need to exist in endless shoddy compromise with vaguely defined responsibilities not to upset others. Today the world is admittedly a far more inter-connected place; and the possibilities of people taking umbrage at others' speech are legion - and worked up daily by the far left as they tirelessly exploit their only 20th-century coup, to have made the world forget that they were pacifists or fellow-travellers with Hitler in the 1930s and were only saved from ignominy by Stalin's conversion to the thorough-going nationalism that allowed him to fight back from Stalingrad. But the idea of qualifying freedom with vague `responsibility' rather than with articulate, specific, examined and examinable law should be a disgrace for anyone considering himself of the left. Yes, today's new Blairite/Brownite left in Britain are the new conservatives, struggling to preserve a mighty and expanding socialist legislature and peecee religion which are even now bringing the universities to their knees - begging especially for government cash, so far have they come from their historic mission of training priests and seeking the truth in faith. But the answer to peecee champions of `freedom with responsibility' lies in intelligent and specific solutions, not in the blanket compromises and frank capitulations endlessly demanded of (and, sadly, all too often achieved from) today's academics.
CHRIS TAME
A fine defence of freedom versus socialist nannying and bullying, a propos the sad death at 56 of British Libertarian leader Chris Tame, was provided by Danny Kruger in Daily Telegraph, 10 iv 2006, `Liberty is a subject they won't teach in Brown's nurseries.'
PAEDOPHILIA REALISM?
The UK Government announced that its Health Service workers [the largest body of employed people in Europe] would not be expected to report to the police even cases of under-13 girls having sex - so long as the girls had sex "consensually" [a term never admitted by paedohysterics] and had sought proper contraceptive protection from a Government whose chief determination was to breed out Whites and introduce low-IQ foreign immigrants so as to maintain the Labour vote. Instead, National Health Service staff would have to report youthful sexual naughtinesses to an in-house officer who him/herself would shoulder the burden of deciding which girls to punish (whether those who went with semi-daft age peers or those who had linked up with responsible 20- or 40-year-olds who were thus `paedophiles').
SEX BRAIN DIFFERENCE AS WOMEN TAMED
A novel explanation of women's smaller brains came from a Russian fox breeder who had selected foxes for tameness over 35 generations, beginning in 1959: as the successive generations of foxes got tamer, their ears became more droopy and their brains became smaller (Times, 3 iv, `Why is a woman's brain smaller than a man's? Maybe because she's a fox.'). The possibility is that the animals were essentially being selected not for lower general intelligence but for what in humans is called `field dependence', involving lower wilfulness, disagreeability and self-sufficiency; field independence, which essentially involves the narrow attention and non-distractibility required in animals which are hunters, is thought to be subserved by the brain's frontal lobes (see Chapter 1, The g Factor, 1996/2000, pp. 45-6). On average, domestic dog, cat, sheep and pig brains weigh 25 per cent less than those of wild animals.
In the West, the last periods of large-scale social dominance by human females are alleged to have been in Greece and South America of pre-civilization times (pre-500 B.C.); civilization is often thought to be essentially patriarchal, binding men to support their offspring via tangible assurances of their paternity such as female compliance, accessibility and immobility (achieved earlier in China by foot-binding). Sticky-out ears, more often seen in males (though worried about more by females), have often been associated with eccentricity, argumentativeness and initiative - as for example in Salvador Dali, Prince Charles and the legendarily critical and sarcastic British female TV news commentator Kirsty Wark..
GERMAN TEACHERS GIVE UP ON MUSLIMS
Central Berlin teachers splendidly wrote to their bureaucratic masters that they were "desperate" about the 80% Muslim schools in which they worked, where most pupils carried knives and the White German kids had to speak `pidgin German' to be able to pass with peers (Sunday Torygraph, 9 iv). The teachers wanted to have the schools closed (though no doubt also to keep their own jobs in the apparat of multicultural lies). Apparently, the new fat dwarf frump pseudo-female German Reichskanzlerine Angela Merkel was horrified, fearing that the problems of the streets of 100%-delusional France (which, without any constraints of genetics or language, had invited 7 million Muslim immigrants to bugger it up) would soon arrive in Germany. Most of Germany's 3.3 million Muslim immigrant population were of Turkish or Lebanese origin.
ECONOMISTS CAN'T PREDICT WEALTH OR GROWTH
Economists were lambasted in Foreign Policy (iii/iv) for the failure of their purely rationality-based science to predict anything interesting, like wealth or growth. - But still critic Moises Naim did not get round to mentioning how Richard Lynn had arguably established IQ as the leading variable when making economic predictions for countries (see my review at Amazon Books).
`CONSERVATIVES' DRIVEN BY ANTI-RACIST MEDIA
Having failed to take a stand as the racists they always were, and having astonishingly chosen to criticize UKIP members as "closet racists," Conservatives found themselves running before the wind after one of their local election candidates in Manchester, a 59-year-old woman, explained on Channel 4 TV that it would be pointless to run a Black candidate in a working-class constituency.
As media hell broke loose at this (surely correct) observation, which supposedly showed a failure of the Conservatives to `modernize,' the candidate grovelled and said she had not meant what she had said and her leader in London, Dave Chameleon, told hysterical newsies that she was "in the wrong party."
UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said: "This is Cameron's boomerang. He tried to throw a stick at us and it has come back to hit him very hard." The next day brought insider testimony as to the `sexism' of the Conservatives: their 47-year-old female parliamentary candidate for the Calder Valley constituency, near Halifax, Mrs Sue Catling, finally stood down blaming local "sexists" who had three times tried to deselect her after they had learned of her affair with local party chairman Barrie Henderson 54 - an affair which finally had to be admitted as Henderson was given 80 hours community service by a court for throwing a wineglass at Mrs Catling (cutting a finger) after she had failed to give him a firm answer as to whether the affair would continue (he had left his wife for her).
EUGENICS RETURNS
As pundits digested the work of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn, showing that Whites and Asians had enjoyed relatively evolutionary recent increases in brain size (see this Diary/Blog, November 2005), the idea began to appeal that some humans could do with "genetic reprogramming" (Wired News, 10 iv 2006). - Naturally, no specific cases were mentioned..
FROGS WANT TO JAIL CRITIC OF ISLAM
Though suffering the ravages of cancer, the once-beautiful and long distinguished Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was sent for trial in France in June (Los Angeles Weekly, 15 iii). Fallaci maintains that, as far back as 1972, Palestinian terror leader George Habash told her the Arab goal: to wage war "against Europe and America" and to ensure that henceforth "there would be no peace for the West." The Arabs, he informed her, would "advance step by step. Millimeter by millimeter. Year after year. Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn, patient. This is our strategy. A strategy that we shall expand throughout the whole planet." So hysterical were French authorities on learning such claims and seeing Fallaci's condemnation of the lack of freedom and female rights under Islam that they decided to prosecute even though a trial would be bound to multiply Fallaci's sales of her new book, The Force of Reason -- which had already sold 800,000 copies in Italy alone and was in the top hundred books at Amazon.
DECISION TIME FOR AMERICA
America's all-too-likely end hove into view on TV screens as more than a million immigrants demonstrated in favour of more immigration, both legal and illegal (American Renaissance, 11 iv).
`BIOLOGIST BACKS PLATO'
My 2002 review for the Nature-stable journal Heredity of The Intelligent Genome became available on the net here.
BLACK MALARKEY EXPOSED
Weeks after two Black girls (strippers) accused three White lacrosse team players of beating, choking raping and sodomizing them after a party performance at Duke University, DNA testing proved negative (American Renaissance, 12 iv) - but, as so often (e.g. Tawana Brawley ) the hoax had been readily believed by a chorus of White liberals and media folk, with the luniversity president closing down the lacrosse team's matches for the season.
LEFTIES REACH FOR GENES
Eager to spare the life of Islamofascist terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui, American leftists sat on their hands as Moussaoui's defence team argued what today's leftists normally hold impossible, that Moussaoui had a "genetic predisposition to mental illness." (Moussaoui himself, however, lambasted his lawyers and said that calling him crazy "would not work.")
`AFRICA NO PLACE FOR ART' - KENYA CURATOR
In a rare admission of African incompetence, the African art and craft works "stolen" by the West were admitted to be in the best hands by top Kenyan curator Kiprop Lagat (Daily Telegraph, 13 iv).
GENES FOR OBESITY FOUND
Known by scientists of the 1980s to be substantially genetic (see my Psycho-engineering, FIND fat, weight, obese), human obesity was traced by a Boston University team to a predisposing region of DNA located near a gene called INSIG2 (insulin-induced-gene 2) involved with fat metabolism (Science, 13 iv; Daily Telegraph, 14 iv). The obesity-inducing variant is found in 10% of people around the world.
YAGS CASTRATE EACH OTHER
New light was shed on `gay' life as it was revealed that three homosexuals in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, aged 49-61, would go on trial for castrating at least six apparently eager victims and videotaping the results (Daily Telegraph, 14 iv).
ISLAMONUT KILLS SISTER
More light was shed on Islamolunacy as a 23-year-old `German' Turk was jailed for shooting his sister three times in the head at a bus stop, killing her (Daily Telegraph, 14 iv). Her offence had been to decline an arranged marriage.
LABOUR MINISTER ADMITS BNP ATTRACTIVE TO VOTERS
Britain's Employment Minister and key Blair ally, LSE-educated Margaret Hodge, herself an immigrant to Britain at age 5, shocked Britain by admitting that eight in ten of her White Labour-voting constituents in Barking, East London, were thinking of voting for the BNP because Labour had let them down by supplying council houses and health and welfare services preferentially to immigrants and asylum seekers.
Mother of four and MP since 1994, Mrs Hodge said (as rightists had been saying for a decade) that Britain's "political class" had been "often frightened of engaging in the very difficult issues of race"; and she said Labour voters no longer felt ashamed about switching to the BNP. She was promptly supported by research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finding that one Londoner in four and one Brit in six "might" vote BNP.
Phill Edwards, the BNP Press Officer, said the Rowntree report highlighted a sense of "powerlessness and frustration" among communities in Britain which was leading to an increase in support for his party. Dagenham Labour MP. Mr Jon Cruddas, a former adviser to Tony Blair, warned that the BNP was "on the verge of a major political breakthrough" (ITV, 17 iv).
The wretched `Conservative' Party led by "compassionate" Dave Chameleon declined to comment (Times, 17 iv). But some thought a degree of scepticism was called for as Labour had a track record of talking up the threat of the BNP before elections to try to get its core vote out.
A rise in both `Islamophobia' and anti-semitism was reported among British children by the National Union of Teachers (17 iv). In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote. BNP policies for the approaching local council elections in England included: traditional school meals, teachers allowed to smack, separate teaching of children having poor English, widespread closure of teacher training colleges (teachers to be trained by ex-teachers having 30 years experience), compulsory competitive sports restored in schools, no dumping of asylum seekers in White areas, low taxes, no affirmative action {i.e. affirmative racism} (24dash.com, 15 iv).
The BBC responded to the BNP media breakthrough by bringing on a propagandist from the hysterical `anti-racist, anti-fascist' Searchlight group; and the Times (18 iv) made sure to grovel to the left by paying the Observer's David Aaronovitch (whose father had been a Communist leader) for a column denouncing the people of Barking for their low educational attainments, Thatcherism and high pregnancy rates (as if there was any point in schoolwork and self-discipline under Rev. Bliar's depraved, tyrannous and dumbed-down neosocialism). Phil Woolas, NuLabour's Local Government Minister, said later that no politician should underestimate the BNP threat (Daily Telegraph, 18 iv).
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In a cracking new book called "In Our Hands", American economist/psychologist Charles Murray came round to the view long advocated in this Diary/Blog and in The McDougall NewsLetter that government social spending should largely be via annual grants to adults which they would then spend on their own health and welfare as they pleased. His plan did not have the feature of my own that spending should be via families; instead, keeping it simple, he exempted education costs and indeed exempted children altogether. For more (yes, you, David Cameron!) see National Review Online, 27 iii.
FREEDOM - A PREFACE FOR AN ESSAY
As academics Andrew Fraser and Frank Ellis face criminal prosecution, as well as sacking from their universities, for rehearsing summarily some of the more controversial propositions of the London School (though not those that said girls needed equal education or that retardates should not be executed - these arguments, controversial enough as they once were in the past, being entirely accepted by today's left), I want to try to address the main argument AF and FE are up against. Simply, the left's PR people will say (whatever may be the more archetypal hostilities of paid-up lefties):
`Look here, freedom has to be balanced by responsibility. Didn't right-wingers themselves often say that in the past and leave laws against blasphemy on the statute books for handling the more outrageous cases of insults to Christianity (last used in the 1980's to prosecute a suggestion that Jesus was homosexual - resulting in a fine)? Well, likewise today, freedom has to be balanced by at least a superficial respect for the multicultural West in which the vast majority of us are trying to live peaceably (and where employers (including many middle class households) enjoy cheap immigrant labour and leftist parties get most of the new underclass votes). Can't you see a compromise is necessary? And that it's even easy given the historic good nature and sense of British people, and their realization (from our successful propaganda) that they are all mongrels anyhow (and very successful mongrels)? (Not unknown in the doggie world, where pure-bred animals are often pretty temperamental and suitable chiefly to specialized tasks.) By contrast with other peoples, some of them more rigid and authoritarian, Brits have been capable of empire and, with our mixture of political correctness and free-enterprise capitalism, and with the help of Hispanic-immigrant lover President George Dubya Bush, we are arguably doing it again - calling it `globablization'! So why not accept there has to be a balance? - A balance which Chris Brand probably violated (earning him the sack, albeit with compensation and the best of the argument) and which Andrew Fraser and Frank Ellis (both far-right and without any specialist expertise in psychology) have definitely declined by advertising their views not, as Brand did, in a book published by an academic house (Wiley) but in letters to local newspapers. There can surely be no right to unqualified and unfettered free speech, just as there is no right to shout `Fire!' in a crowded room.'
It seems to me this argument deserves a proper answer. So here goes - but I very much welcome corrections.
There are some eight key freedoms which Britain might be said to have nurtured over the last thousand years by means of the following acknowledged rights:
1. Right to life
2. Right to property
3. Right to liberty
4. Right to one's own thoughts and opinions
5. Right to association
6. Right to speech and publication
7. Right to expert free speech (especially in a state-funded university)
8. Right to speech by tenured intellectuals (in state-funded universities) about any subject of their choice
I will in this way try to address the questions of freedom - suggesting in each case that the `balanced' answer has never been a vague compromise but always a quite specific (and intelligently formulated and public) contract.
1. The right to life comes unequivocally from the Bible, but it was expressly tempered by law in quite specific ways, notably in the case of murder (when guilt was found by a court of law). Many qualifications surround murder (and other crimes), forbidding execution or life-sentencing of the insane, the retarded or those who killed in self-defence; but such qualifications are quite specific and do not involve `balancing' a person's right to life against his responsibilities to others. There is no such halfway house, or any set of halfway houses.
2. The right to property (if lawfully acquired) was established under Magna Carta, which importantly meant that properties were secure. - Even a man who became a banished traitor still owned his property in England and could pass it on to his family. Property ownership may seem surrounded by many obligations, such as to pay taxes, maintain the property safely, refrain from intimidating neighbours by noise or fire etc; but in fact these obligations are levied on tenants just as much as owners. Ownership itself is qualified only by the right of the state to make compulsory purchase at market prices - and even this qualification is of recent origin and often contested and subject to complaint.
3. The right to liberty, hard-won over centuries, essentially meant that a man could not be imprisoned for any length of time except by due legal process, including jury trial by his peers. Specific corollaries included habeas corpus and the right of access of pre-trial prisoners to legal advice, visitors, non-prison food and drink etc. Specific qualifications occur when a judge is persuaded that the accused would pose a significant threat of escape or harm to witnesses if bailed. There is no `balancing' of a person's liberty with his `responsibility to others' except in that he must stay within the criminal law and pay for any tangible damage he is proven (with >50% probability) to have done to others. Constraints on liberty are thus quite specific, not a matter for ongoing `sensitivity,' worry and calculation.
4. The right to thought was a gracious gift to England of Elizabeth I who (though her minions doubtless tortured hundreds of apparent traitors --faced as she was by the animosity of the whole of Europe, orchestrated by the Pope and his leading ally, Spain) famously declared "I will not make windows into men's souls" - thus sparing England from the Thirty Years War that devastated Germany. Protection of thought is today chiefly served by rights to privacy (especially, from state snooping by mail and phone taps) which incidentally serve to hinder collection of evidence about a person's morality, political plans, sexual liaisons and business deals. Only important reasons of state allow efforts to compel divulgence of a person's thinking - and these require affirmation by senior government personnel and, in the West generally, do not presently allow torture. It is because of strong protection of thought and opinion that Times Higher (the mouthpiece of British academia), having turned from saying Leeds University `would have to put up with Frank Ellis' (17 iii 2006) to calling for his sacking as `a menace to multiculturalism and danger to campus diversity' (leader, 31 iii 2006), admitted that even if academics could be told not to discuss race on pain of sacking, they would still need to be allowed their own "private views."
5. The right to association is an ongoing problem in Europe and America, but normally it is dealt with by asking locally administered police (perhaps advised by a magistrate) `Do you think you can cope with the proposed demo without serious disorder?' Since association borders closely on action, sometimes violent action, the state's powers are large - quite often thought too large by would-be demonstrators; and, as well as being able to prohibit, move and control whole marches and demonstrations, the British state gives itself the right to control individuals, notably prohibiting known football hooligans from attending particular matches or from travelling abroad at certain times. Universities probably believe that they, too, have some rights to prevent academics attending certain meetings - though Frank Ellis was able to circumvent Leeds' ban on him attending an American Renaissance conference by arguing that he attended only in his own time. However, there is no `balancing' of the right of associate. One can either associate with certain others or not; and a university would probably need some special argument to show that it was acting as an employer to protect its image and thus commercial interests. The fettering of association is thus quite specific and has not so far involved saying to academics `Keep your attendance at certain conferences to a minimum, and keep quiet about your visits, so that you recognize your responsibilities and don't upset students of colour / leftist agitators / student union bossyboots etc.' Restrictions on freedom of association in the West today, whether by the state or employers, are essentially limited to cases where there is a serious likelihood of damage to persons, property or commercial interests - even if the methods of determining such likelihood are dangerously vague and lie all too clearly in the hands of the authorities.
6. The right to speech is problematic in Europe, especially in the past generation, with the apparently rising wish prosecute Holocaust-denial, and then following on quickly to condemn `remarks' about the handicapped, Welsh, Blacks, Islamofascists etc. But, in America, free speech is legally enshrined - you can't be subject to criminal process simply for what you say. The real problem is that you can pay big civil costs if you harm someone else's business. And you lose your job in the left-dominated establishment tout court if you let the words `nigger' or `coon' pass your lips. The power to proceed against individuals for their speech has thus been largely placed in the hands of corporations - an essentially `fascist' arrangement, i.e. involving a conspiracy between government and businessmen (who regard political correctness, multi-ethnic hirings and outright affirmative racism as at worse merely new forms of taxation and at best opportunities to control and replace ageing and unpopular staff). In this case, then, it looks alarmingly as if individuals do indeed have to continuously balance their wish to speak against their responsibilities not to upset others or harm or even threaten commercial interests. Clearly this is grossly vague, subjective and unsatisfactory (though Britain provides immunity from libel actions for speeches made in Parliament). What is needed is not an ever-growing minding of tongues but a precise clarification of what is not allowed, e.g. intentional and realistic threats of physical or financial damage. For even shouting `Fire' in a cinema is surely not criminal or even immoral unless it is actually intended to cause panic and resulting injury. Certainly to go down the road of protecting people's psychological sensitivites and comfort zones can only end in no public criticism at all of others and their ideas being possible, yielding the ban on denigrating Islam which the British Labour Government currently wants (but is frustrated by the House of Lords) and even an informal ban on the Scots criticizing the English which few can surely want (but nevertheless police investigated the famous TV presenter Anne Robinson after she joked on air that she `didn't know what the Welsh are for'). The main point is that criticism (the quickest route to human improvement) will become impossible; but a most practical corollary is that the leftists who back this tyranny will soon destroy themselves - for the political career of any opponent can easily be ended by the slightest accusation of racism, sexism, homophobia, paedophilia etc., so the left itself can itself sometimes be upbraided, and anyhow it has now come under close scrutiny and challenge in American universities for its leftist propaganda and intimidation of students.
7. Expert speech has long been protected de facto in that, after Galileo and Darwin, newsies wised up to the idea that science was fun and that scientists usually got the better of divines and politicians. Helpful factors were that Oxbridge colleges were very rich and could easily maintain the privacy of their staff; and that dons were unmarried but with a home for life in college and so in strong financial positions as individuals. Sadly, as the West lost its zip, the post-1945 increasingly state-funded universities became increasingly undistinguished from ordinary firms - not least in their increasingly sharp interest in making money; and mainly leftist but certainly filth- and underclass-soliciting hacks, as they invaded the media, could and did select their own `experts' such as the elderly obese Marxite Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould, making `anti-racism' the religion that would allow them their daily parade in their papers of low-IQ `tits `n' bums.' More particularly, truly expert views were being cast before swine not just in lecture halls but in publications available worldwide on the internet for a few keystrokes. Manifestly, academics have reacted to their new situation by `acknowledging their responsibilities' not to upset the Zeitgeist - so much so that, apart from the efforts of the London School, the only defence of AF or FE carried in the past year was one by philosopher A. F. Grayling who merely asserted (via Times Higher) FE's right not to be jailed, not his right to keep his job (`Liberty and responsibility,' 7 iv). This cowardly self-imposed balancing act can only lead on to a similar chilling of the atmosphere for debates on many subjects other than race - notably feminism, homosexuality, abortion, evolution, eugenics and Islam. What is needed is instead a clear and simple stipulation of any cases in which British academics will not be granted free speech having absolute priority over a university's pious and commercial concerns - e.g. for junior staff in non-Russell Group universities, or for academics' communications with the popular press.
8. In some of the criticism of AF and FE, it has been complained that they removed themselves from the umbrella of academic freedom by speaking on subjects `not within their expertise' (they were not psychologists). However, modern state-funded universities involve a fast-changing kaleidoscope of subjects and positive encouragement of interdisciplinary overlaps (so as to appear fresh and new to students}; and subjects like race and sex are of such wide human interest that it would seem impossible to keep them out of the interest of all but, say, astronomers and electrical engineers. AF and FE themselves exemplify the point in that AF is a public lawyer who has every right to concern himself with immigration to Australia - most of it Black or Lebanese in recent years; and FE is a historian of Communism who has very properly pointed out and published the origins of the West's current `political correctness' in the stipulations of Lenin in the 1920s (designed to avoid public criticism of the `minorities' that Lenin wished to keep within the USSR). Another proposal could be to restrict the right to expert free speech to publications in academic journals. But, like university departments, faculties, units and schools, journals too are changing all the time and there are thousands where articles touching on race would sit well (if it were not for universal hysterical denial of race as a topic); and, more seriously, it would seem absurd to cut academics off even more than they are already from the taxpayers that fund them; and the BBC could doubtless argue not to be deprived of its many academic broadcasters who make it in part a virtual university in its own right (able to phone around the globe to solicit opinions - a privilege not allowed to UK academics). Doubtless many academics at present are indeed wary of talking to the media, knowing the pitfalls of entrapment, but such trepidatory balancing is surely an unfortunately vague substitute for what should actually be an intelligent set of specific solutions. Some universities do in fact ban their academics from contacting the media in any way which identifies their university unless they have the permission of their head-of-department - such an authoritarian policy would have saved AF from trouble at Macquarie. It is a way of introducing senior personnel into the process of academic expression, but at least it is a transparently clear restriction and has the advantage of guaranteeing that senior staff will stand by a junior's publication after it takes place. Of course, a better alternative is for universities to say `We took a lot of trouble to select this guy. He is highly qualified and publishes. We back him.'
Plainly, there is in any particular one of the above matters a broad contrast between whether a person favours the existing morality or freedom from it. Indeed, in the psychology of attitudes there is historically a broad contrast between tender-minded conservatism (religiosity / moralism) and tough-minded radicalism (libertarianism / capitalism) (See here). However, intelligence is a quite separate psychological dimension; and society and its institutions exist precisely to provide intelligent solutions such that we can have both freedom and responsibility in a sensible and sustainable fashion. Properly and historically speaking, law is a bastion of freedom, not an opposing force with which some balancing compromise must be achieved. (Even religion can claim to be liberating - as Jesus thought he was freeing people from the more antiquated and obsessional aspects of Judaism while maintaining a new, simplified moral code.)
Anyhow, it seems it can be argued that eight great freedoms that Britons and much of the West have come to enjoy over the past thousand years have not existed and do not need to exist in endless shoddy compromise with vaguely defined responsibilities not to upset others. Today the world is admittedly a far more inter-connected place; and the possibilities of people taking umbrage at others' speech are legion - and worked up daily by the far left as they tirelessly exploit their only 20th-century coup, to have made the world forget that they were pacifists or fellow-travellers with Hitler in the 1930s and were only saved from ignominy by Stalin's conversion to the thorough-going nationalism that allowed him to fight back from Stalingrad. But the idea of qualifying freedom with vague `responsibility' rather than with articulate, specific, examined and examinable law should be a disgrace for anyone considering himself of the left. Yes, today's new Blairite/Brownite left in Britain are the new conservatives, struggling to preserve a mighty and expanding socialist legislature and peecee religion which are even now bringing the universities to their knees - begging especially for government cash, so far have they come from their historic mission of training priests and seeking the truth in faith. But the answer to peecee champions of `freedom with responsibility' lies in intelligent and specific solutions, not in the blanket compromises and frank capitulations endlessly demanded of (and, sadly, all too often achieved from) today's academics.
CHRIS TAME
A fine defence of freedom versus socialist nannying and bullying, a propos the sad death at 56 of British Libertarian leader Chris Tame, was provided by Danny Kruger in Daily Telegraph, 10 iv 2006, `Liberty is a subject they won't teach in Brown's nurseries.'
PAEDOPHILIA REALISM?
The UK Government announced that its Health Service workers [the largest body of employed people in Europe] would not be expected to report to the police even cases of under-13 girls having sex - so long as the girls had sex "consensually" [a term never admitted by paedohysterics] and had sought proper contraceptive protection from a Government whose chief determination was to breed out Whites and introduce low-IQ foreign immigrants so as to maintain the Labour vote. Instead, National Health Service staff would have to report youthful sexual naughtinesses to an in-house officer who him/herself would shoulder the burden of deciding which girls to punish (whether those who went with semi-daft age peers or those who had linked up with responsible 20- or 40-year-olds who were thus `paedophiles').
SEX BRAIN DIFFERENCE AS WOMEN TAMED
A novel explanation of women's smaller brains came from a Russian fox breeder who had selected foxes for tameness over 35 generations, beginning in 1959: as the successive generations of foxes got tamer, their ears became more droopy and their brains became smaller (Times, 3 iv, `Why is a woman's brain smaller than a man's? Maybe because she's a fox.'). The possibility is that the animals were essentially being selected not for lower general intelligence but for what in humans is called `field dependence', involving lower wilfulness, disagreeability and self-sufficiency; field independence, which essentially involves the narrow attention and non-distractibility required in animals which are hunters, is thought to be subserved by the brain's frontal lobes (see Chapter 1, The g Factor, 1996/2000, pp. 45-6). On average, domestic dog, cat, sheep and pig brains weigh 25 per cent less than those of wild animals.
In the West, the last periods of large-scale social dominance by human females are alleged to have been in Greece and South America of pre-civilization times (pre-500 B.C.); civilization is often thought to be essentially patriarchal, binding men to support their offspring via tangible assurances of their paternity such as female compliance, accessibility and immobility (achieved earlier in China by foot-binding). Sticky-out ears, more often seen in males (though worried about more by females), have often been associated with eccentricity, argumentativeness and initiative - as for example in Salvador Dali, Prince Charles and the legendarily critical and sarcastic British female TV news commentator Kirsty Wark..
GERMAN TEACHERS GIVE UP ON MUSLIMS
Central Berlin teachers splendidly wrote to their bureaucratic masters that they were "desperate" about the 80% Muslim schools in which they worked, where most pupils carried knives and the White German kids had to speak `pidgin German' to be able to pass with peers (Sunday Torygraph, 9 iv). The teachers wanted to have the schools closed (though no doubt also to keep their own jobs in the apparat of multicultural lies). Apparently, the new fat dwarf frump pseudo-female German Reichskanzlerine Angela Merkel was horrified, fearing that the problems of the streets of 100%-delusional France (which, without any constraints of genetics or language, had invited 7 million Muslim immigrants to bugger it up) would soon arrive in Germany. Most of Germany's 3.3 million Muslim immigrant population were of Turkish or Lebanese origin.
ECONOMISTS CAN'T PREDICT WEALTH OR GROWTH
Economists were lambasted in Foreign Policy (iii/iv) for the failure of their purely rationality-based science to predict anything interesting, like wealth or growth. - But still critic Moises Naim did not get round to mentioning how Richard Lynn had arguably established IQ as the leading variable when making economic predictions for countries (see my review at Amazon Books).
`CONSERVATIVES' DRIVEN BY ANTI-RACIST MEDIA
Having failed to take a stand as the racists they always were, and having astonishingly chosen to criticize UKIP members as "closet racists," Conservatives found themselves running before the wind after one of their local election candidates in Manchester, a 59-year-old woman, explained on Channel 4 TV that it would be pointless to run a Black candidate in a working-class constituency.
As media hell broke loose at this (surely correct) observation, which supposedly showed a failure of the Conservatives to `modernize,' the candidate grovelled and said she had not meant what she had said and her leader in London, Dave Chameleon, told hysterical newsies that she was "in the wrong party."
UKIP MEP Nigel Farage said: "This is Cameron's boomerang. He tried to throw a stick at us and it has come back to hit him very hard." The next day brought insider testimony as to the `sexism' of the Conservatives: their 47-year-old female parliamentary candidate for the Calder Valley constituency, near Halifax, Mrs Sue Catling, finally stood down blaming local "sexists" who had three times tried to deselect her after they had learned of her affair with local party chairman Barrie Henderson 54 - an affair which finally had to be admitted as Henderson was given 80 hours community service by a court for throwing a wineglass at Mrs Catling (cutting a finger) after she had failed to give him a firm answer as to whether the affair would continue (he had left his wife for her).
EUGENICS RETURNS
As pundits digested the work of Chicago geneticist Bruce Lahn, showing that Whites and Asians had enjoyed relatively evolutionary recent increases in brain size (see this Diary/Blog, November 2005), the idea began to appeal that some humans could do with "genetic reprogramming" (Wired News, 10 iv 2006). - Naturally, no specific cases were mentioned..
FROGS WANT TO JAIL CRITIC OF ISLAM
Though suffering the ravages of cancer, the once-beautiful and long distinguished Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci was sent for trial in France in June (Los Angeles Weekly, 15 iii). Fallaci maintains that, as far back as 1972, Palestinian terror leader George Habash told her the Arab goal: to wage war "against Europe and America" and to ensure that henceforth "there would be no peace for the West." The Arabs, he informed her, would "advance step by step. Millimeter by millimeter. Year after year. Decade after decade. Determined, stubborn, patient. This is our strategy. A strategy that we shall expand throughout the whole planet." So hysterical were French authorities on learning such claims and seeing Fallaci's condemnation of the lack of freedom and female rights under Islam that they decided to prosecute even though a trial would be bound to multiply Fallaci's sales of her new book, The Force of Reason -- which had already sold 800,000 copies in Italy alone and was in the top hundred books at Amazon.
DECISION TIME FOR AMERICA
America's all-too-likely end hove into view on TV screens as more than a million immigrants demonstrated in favour of more immigration, both legal and illegal (American Renaissance, 11 iv).
`BIOLOGIST BACKS PLATO'
My 2002 review for the Nature-stable journal Heredity of The Intelligent Genome became available on the net here.
BLACK MALARKEY EXPOSED
Weeks after two Black girls (strippers) accused three White lacrosse team players of beating, choking raping and sodomizing them after a party performance at Duke University, DNA testing proved negative (American Renaissance, 12 iv) - but, as so often (e.g. Tawana Brawley ) the hoax had been readily believed by a chorus of White liberals and media folk, with the luniversity president closing down the lacrosse team's matches for the season.
LEFTIES REACH FOR GENES
Eager to spare the life of Islamofascist terrorist Zacharias Moussaoui, American leftists sat on their hands as Moussaoui's defence team argued what today's leftists normally hold impossible, that Moussaoui had a "genetic predisposition to mental illness." (Moussaoui himself, however, lambasted his lawyers and said that calling him crazy "would not work.")
`AFRICA NO PLACE FOR ART' - KENYA CURATOR
In a rare admission of African incompetence, the African art and craft works "stolen" by the West were admitted to be in the best hands by top Kenyan curator Kiprop Lagat (Daily Telegraph, 13 iv).
GENES FOR OBESITY FOUND
Known by scientists of the 1980s to be substantially genetic (see my Psycho-engineering, FIND fat, weight, obese), human obesity was traced by a Boston University team to a predisposing region of DNA located near a gene called INSIG2 (insulin-induced-gene 2) involved with fat metabolism (Science, 13 iv; Daily Telegraph, 14 iv). The obesity-inducing variant is found in 10% of people around the world.
YAGS CASTRATE EACH OTHER
New light was shed on `gay' life as it was revealed that three homosexuals in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, aged 49-61, would go on trial for castrating at least six apparently eager victims and videotaping the results (Daily Telegraph, 14 iv).
ISLAMONUT KILLS SISTER
More light was shed on Islamolunacy as a 23-year-old `German' Turk was jailed for shooting his sister three times in the head at a bus stop, killing her (Daily Telegraph, 14 iv). Her offence had been to decline an arranged marriage.
LABOUR MINISTER ADMITS BNP ATTRACTIVE TO VOTERS
Britain's Employment Minister and key Blair ally, LSE-educated Margaret Hodge, herself an immigrant to Britain at age 5, shocked Britain by admitting that eight in ten of her White Labour-voting constituents in Barking, East London, were thinking of voting for the BNP because Labour had let them down by supplying council houses and health and welfare services preferentially to immigrants and asylum seekers.
Mother of four and MP since 1994, Mrs Hodge said (as rightists had been saying for a decade) that Britain's "political class" had been "often frightened of engaging in the very difficult issues of race"; and she said Labour voters no longer felt ashamed about switching to the BNP. She was promptly supported by research from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation finding that one Londoner in four and one Brit in six "might" vote BNP.
Phill Edwards, the BNP Press Officer, said the Rowntree report highlighted a sense of "powerlessness and frustration" among communities in Britain which was leading to an increase in support for his party. Dagenham Labour MP. Mr Jon Cruddas, a former adviser to Tony Blair, warned that the BNP was "on the verge of a major political breakthrough" (ITV, 17 iv).
The wretched `Conservative' Party led by "compassionate" Dave Chameleon declined to comment (Times, 17 iv). But some thought a degree of scepticism was called for as Labour had a track record of talking up the threat of the BNP before elections to try to get its core vote out.
A rise in both `Islamophobia' and anti-semitism was reported among British children by the National Union of Teachers (17 iv). In the last European Parliament elections, the BNP won 4.9 percent of the vote. BNP policies for the approaching local council elections in England included: traditional school meals, teachers allowed to smack, separate teaching of children having poor English, widespread closure of teacher training colleges (teachers to be trained by ex-teachers having 30 years experience), compulsory competitive sports restored in schools, no dumping of asylum seekers in White areas, low taxes, no affirmative action {i.e. affirmative racism} (24dash.com, 15 iv).
The BBC responded to the BNP media breakthrough by bringing on a propagandist from the hysterical `anti-racist, anti-fascist' Searchlight group; and the Times (18 iv) made sure to grovel to the left by paying the Observer's David Aaronovitch (whose father had been a Communist leader) for a column denouncing the people of Barking for their low educational attainments, Thatcherism and high pregnancy rates (as if there was any point in schoolwork and self-discipline under Rev. Bliar's depraved, tyrannous and dumbed-down neosocialism). Phil Woolas, NuLabour's Local Government Minister, said later that no politician should underestimate the BNP threat (Daily Telegraph, 18 iv).
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Saturday, April 15, 2006
To The Editor, The Dover Express
Dear Sir,
Just to urge you to desist from your hounding of drama tutor Miss Emma Chamberlain for her membership of the British National Party. It took more than three hundred years (1558-1870) to establish freedom of opinion, speech and affiliation in England. If you persist in trying to make people unemployable for their beliefs, you will soon enough find the tables turned on you -- as is already happening in the USA where left-wing domination of the universities is now being ever more closely monitored and challenged.
I am yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (Edinburgh)
Dear Sir,
Just to urge you to desist from your hounding of drama tutor Miss Emma Chamberlain for her membership of the British National Party. It took more than three hundred years (1558-1870) to establish freedom of opinion, speech and affiliation in England. If you persist in trying to make people unemployable for their beliefs, you will soon enough find the tables turned on you -- as is already happening in the USA where left-wing domination of the universities is now being ever more closely monitored and challenged.
I am yours sincerely, -- Chris Brand (Edinburgh)
Friday, April 14, 2006
BACKING ARRIVES FOR BELEAGUERED ACADEMIC RACE-REALISTS
Support from eight London Schoolers for LUniversity of Macquarie's Andrew Fraser was published in The Australian: Higher Education; and American Renaissance re-summarized the case of Frank Ellis vs the LUniversity of Leeds and gave the opportunity to sign a petition (along with 200 who had already done so) (11 iv). Times Higher (14 iv) published the following letter (along with two that were critical of London School views and liberty to express them).
Further support for Fraser (and his comrade in arms against the hysterical left, historian Keith Windschuttle, author of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History) came in the Sydney Morning Herald (Michael Duffy, 15 iv, `Racism phobia can muzzle the truth') in an article which concluded:
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Support from eight London Schoolers for LUniversity of Macquarie's Andrew Fraser was published in The Australian: Higher Education; and American Renaissance re-summarized the case of Frank Ellis vs the LUniversity of Leeds and gave the opportunity to sign a petition (along with 200 who had already done so) (11 iv). Times Higher (14 iv) published the following letter (along with two that were critical of London School views and liberty to express them).
"A. C. Grayling's commendable application of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty to the suspension and threatened sacking of Leeds University's Frank Ellis is marred by his assertion that Ellis is wrong about his facts.
In 1995, the Board of Scientific Affairs of the American Psychological Association published a report on the book The Bell Curve. The APA concluded that black-white racial difference in IQ of some 15 points in the US (and larger in sub-Saharan Africa) was real and not attributable to bias.
There is further consensus that East Asians have the highest average IQ, so such work hardly suggests a white supremacist agenda; and even mainly hereditarian scholars such as Richard Lynn attribute black people's problems in Africa largely to malnutrition.
We would do no service to blind people by denying that they lack vision and slandering critics of such denial as "blindist bigots". If we are to help disadvantaged people of other groups, we have to start by being honest about the basic facts of their problems. If universities are not about telling the truth, then they should stop filching the taxpayers' money on false pretences.
Robin Clarke
Further support for Fraser (and his comrade in arms against the hysterical left, historian Keith Windschuttle, author of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History) came in the Sydney Morning Herald (Michael Duffy, 15 iv, `Racism phobia can muzzle the truth') in an article which concluded:
"I don't know if what Fraser says is true, yet its truth surely affects whether it is racist. But none of his critics seem to care. Macquarie University made no effort to argue the facts with him, nor did Deakin University. A statement by Fraser's union speaks of racism, not the facts. In its letter to Fraser, the human rights commission doesn't raise the issue of truth: what matters is that someone was offended. We need less moralising, more facts.
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Thursday, April 06, 2006
RACE REALIST PROFESSOR BATTLES ON
In Sydney, Andrew Fraser continued to refuse to apologize for his reservations about Black immigration to Australia and went ahead with plans to publish a book on the problems of immigration into Australia – no longer much opposed in this by his own University, apparently, though threatened by governmental human rights busybodies (Australian, 5 iv; Seven, 4 iv; Sydney Morning Herald, 4 iv). Forthcoming in his support was a letter from the eight academic race realists who had a letter in Britain’s Sunday Times (2 iv) (though sadly deemed a tad too immoderate by the leftish New Zealand professor of political science and psychometrician James Flynn). In America, the illiberalism of modern Europe with regard to speech that gives discomfort or offence was summarized and deplored by the American Enterprise Institute (3 iv) – but they hadn’t got round to noticing the use of modern criminal law against Frank Ellis in Leeds and Andrew Fraser in Sydney.
FEMINAZISM REFUTED
A fine blast at feminasties for preferring Nietzsche to Aristotle, and for not going along with female nature, was mounted (years after everyone knew all this, but hardly anybody did anything about it – except at the LUniversity of Edinburgh) by Harvey C. Mansfield – see review by Christina Hoff Sommers
{Once more, the incoherence of today's semi- and half-hearted and largely paralytic armchair pseudo-realists was exposed: there must by last spring have been a million Westerners who had come to agree with Steven Pinker’s 2002, The Blank Slate, with its excellent chapter on psychological sex differences, yet they lifted not a conspicuous academic finger to help save President Larry Summers at Harvard (after he mentioned to a private meeting that there just might be some genetic factors involved in making men better at maths). And, like Pinker himself, they preferred hysterical denial about the truth of scientific racism, so would not do anything to help the beleaguered Andrew Fraser or Frank Ellis.}
PROF. SCORES re IQ IN TABLOID
"Times" Race realist Richard Lynn zoomed to score in the Thunderer with a neat letter (5 iv) pointing out to a critic that IQs are not standardized around 100 in each individual country (and thus can vary between countries – from South Korea’s 109 to Zimbabwe’s 61); that IQ is indeed linked to attainment, income and much else; and that head size is linked to IQ (as observed by Galton, comparing Cambridge wranglers with passmen).
{The summary reference to head size, which correlates only some .25 with IQ, led on to a jest the next day from Dr Len Hill of Sheffield that apparently one might as well abandon psychological tests and school exams and just assess children by their hat sizes (6 iv) –- licensing a rejoinder that this might indeed be a reasonable idea for females since neuroscientist Sandra Witelson recently showed that verbal IQ correlates .60 with post-mortem brain size (see Diary/Blog for December 2005) (though sadly the ventricles prevent strong correlations between brain size and head size, as the phrenologists had painfully to learn).}
TORIES VERSUS UKIP
Britain’s ‘Conservatives’ (by 2006 rejecting Mrs Thatcher as well as English nationalism) and its ‘United Kingdom Independence Party’ (whose members weirdly drew their salaries chiefly from Brussels), instead of interesting themselves in the last flickers of academic freedom in the country, prepared for full-scale war, with each accusing the other of ‘covert racism,’ having learned from the left that this was the ultimate modern sin – though both had publicly distanced themselves from racism for years, as also from any coherent view of racial differences, of controlling immigration and of how to persuade/force unintegrated (unemployed, unmarried, uncommunicative, unpatriotic) immigrants to leave. (Hostilities broke out while ‘Conservative’ leader Dave Chameleon was actually visiting Leeds. After taking legal advice, UKIP demanded an apology from Chameleon and was supported in this by the Daily Telegraph (5 iv) and by Tory M.P. Bob Spink who said the Tories were just as ‘racist’ as UKIP – however, see here for UKIP’s promising links to racism. All told, the two parties, which had already weakened each other’s electoral success, seemed likely to produce a final battlefield strewn with corpses of hysterical racism-deniers. In particular DC’s denunciation of UKIP members as “loonies and fruitcakes” meant he had lost his option on an electoral pact with UKIP in the future, thus finally dooming Britain to another decade of ever-more-tyrannous New Labour rule.) A UK Black ‘leader’ withdrew his services from a ‘diversity’ conference at the LUniversity of Leeds, trying to goad that body to proceed more quickly to a trial and sacking of Dr Frank Ellis (‘Black UK Online,’ 4 iv). A jokey tabloid-Times article by resident clever-clever columnist Daniel Finkelstein, even drawing a little on Galton, offered – if one thought about it – a modicum of support for FE being allowed to have his own views and perhaps even the right to express them, forsooth…. (Times, 5 iv) (when will Britain’s failed neosocialist-backing elite of the past ten years have the decency to put a pistol to its collective head?).
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In Sydney, Andrew Fraser continued to refuse to apologize for his reservations about Black immigration to Australia and went ahead with plans to publish a book on the problems of immigration into Australia – no longer much opposed in this by his own University, apparently, though threatened by governmental human rights busybodies (Australian, 5 iv; Seven, 4 iv; Sydney Morning Herald, 4 iv). Forthcoming in his support was a letter from the eight academic race realists who had a letter in Britain’s Sunday Times (2 iv) (though sadly deemed a tad too immoderate by the leftish New Zealand professor of political science and psychometrician James Flynn). In America, the illiberalism of modern Europe with regard to speech that gives discomfort or offence was summarized and deplored by the American Enterprise Institute (3 iv) – but they hadn’t got round to noticing the use of modern criminal law against Frank Ellis in Leeds and Andrew Fraser in Sydney.
FEMINAZISM REFUTED
A fine blast at feminasties for preferring Nietzsche to Aristotle, and for not going along with female nature, was mounted (years after everyone knew all this, but hardly anybody did anything about it – except at the LUniversity of Edinburgh) by Harvey C. Mansfield – see review by Christina Hoff Sommers
{Once more, the incoherence of today's semi- and half-hearted and largely paralytic armchair pseudo-realists was exposed: there must by last spring have been a million Westerners who had come to agree with Steven Pinker’s 2002, The Blank Slate, with its excellent chapter on psychological sex differences, yet they lifted not a conspicuous academic finger to help save President Larry Summers at Harvard (after he mentioned to a private meeting that there just might be some genetic factors involved in making men better at maths). And, like Pinker himself, they preferred hysterical denial about the truth of scientific racism, so would not do anything to help the beleaguered Andrew Fraser or Frank Ellis.}
PROF. SCORES re IQ IN TABLOID
"Times" Race realist Richard Lynn zoomed to score in the Thunderer with a neat letter (5 iv) pointing out to a critic that IQs are not standardized around 100 in each individual country (and thus can vary between countries – from South Korea’s 109 to Zimbabwe’s 61); that IQ is indeed linked to attainment, income and much else; and that head size is linked to IQ (as observed by Galton, comparing Cambridge wranglers with passmen).
{The summary reference to head size, which correlates only some .25 with IQ, led on to a jest the next day from Dr Len Hill of Sheffield that apparently one might as well abandon psychological tests and school exams and just assess children by their hat sizes (6 iv) –- licensing a rejoinder that this might indeed be a reasonable idea for females since neuroscientist Sandra Witelson recently showed that verbal IQ correlates .60 with post-mortem brain size (see Diary/Blog for December 2005) (though sadly the ventricles prevent strong correlations between brain size and head size, as the phrenologists had painfully to learn).}
TORIES VERSUS UKIP
Britain’s ‘Conservatives’ (by 2006 rejecting Mrs Thatcher as well as English nationalism) and its ‘United Kingdom Independence Party’ (whose members weirdly drew their salaries chiefly from Brussels), instead of interesting themselves in the last flickers of academic freedom in the country, prepared for full-scale war, with each accusing the other of ‘covert racism,’ having learned from the left that this was the ultimate modern sin – though both had publicly distanced themselves from racism for years, as also from any coherent view of racial differences, of controlling immigration and of how to persuade/force unintegrated (unemployed, unmarried, uncommunicative, unpatriotic) immigrants to leave. (Hostilities broke out while ‘Conservative’ leader Dave Chameleon was actually visiting Leeds. After taking legal advice, UKIP demanded an apology from Chameleon and was supported in this by the Daily Telegraph (5 iv) and by Tory M.P. Bob Spink who said the Tories were just as ‘racist’ as UKIP – however, see here for UKIP’s promising links to racism. All told, the two parties, which had already weakened each other’s electoral success, seemed likely to produce a final battlefield strewn with corpses of hysterical racism-deniers. In particular DC’s denunciation of UKIP members as “loonies and fruitcakes” meant he had lost his option on an electoral pact with UKIP in the future, thus finally dooming Britain to another decade of ever-more-tyrannous New Labour rule.) A UK Black ‘leader’ withdrew his services from a ‘diversity’ conference at the LUniversity of Leeds, trying to goad that body to proceed more quickly to a trial and sacking of Dr Frank Ellis (‘Black UK Online,’ 4 iv). A jokey tabloid-Times article by resident clever-clever columnist Daniel Finkelstein, even drawing a little on Galton, offered – if one thought about it – a modicum of support for FE being allowed to have his own views and perhaps even the right to express them, forsooth…. (Times, 5 iv) (when will Britain’s failed neosocialist-backing elite of the past ten years have the decency to put a pistol to its collective head?).
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Some history.
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
DOC. DALRYMPLE PUTS THE BOOT IN
A fine comparison of the French and British economies arrived from ‘Doctor Theodore Dalrymple’, saying Britain would soon, like riotous France (where youf want jobs for life – which private employers will never grant to Maghrebians), need a secret police force to handle the countless young people misled by socialism. The Doc’s predictions came just a few days before, in the U.K., Rev Bliar’s ‘Government’ made exactly that announcement – of a British FBI with early-retired paratroopers licensed to do plainclothes snooping and plea-bargaining around the country to pursue the ‘war on drugs’ which successive governments had waged to precisely no effect for 40 years, so much do the young need a respite in their evenings from socialist delusions that the unemployed are mainly ‘disabled,’ that hospitals can be run by doctors and nurses who don’t speak English, that retardates and dyslexics are suitable for university education and will one day repay the fees the socialists have charged them, and that Blacks are saintly victims of ‘social injustice’ (Times, ‘The striking idiocy of youth,’ 30 iii).
A fine comparison of the French and British economies arrived from ‘Doctor Theodore Dalrymple’, saying Britain would soon, like riotous France (where youf want jobs for life – which private employers will never grant to Maghrebians), need a secret police force to handle the countless young people misled by socialism. The Doc’s predictions came just a few days before, in the U.K., Rev Bliar’s ‘Government’ made exactly that announcement – of a British FBI with early-retired paratroopers licensed to do plainclothes snooping and plea-bargaining around the country to pursue the ‘war on drugs’ which successive governments had waged to precisely no effect for 40 years, so much do the young need a respite in their evenings from socialist delusions that the unemployed are mainly ‘disabled,’ that hospitals can be run by doctors and nurses who don’t speak English, that retardates and dyslexics are suitable for university education and will one day repay the fees the socialists have charged them, and that Blacks are saintly victims of ‘social injustice’ (Times, ‘The striking idiocy of youth,’ 30 iii).
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
ELLIS UPDATE
A fine defence of race-and-IQ outspeaker Frank Ellis and denunciation of Britain’s crumbling ‘liberal’-left was provided by the British National Party’s Joe Priestley (3 iv); and Professor Robert Segal (Theory of Religion, University of Lancaster) agreed with those of us academic race realists who had written to the Sunday Times that Leeds LUniversity’s action against FE was a clear violation of the principle of academic freedom which British universities are legally bound to uphold (Guardian Education, 4 iv). (At the same time, in the Guardian, Black journalist and 'anti-Fascist' Gary Younge wrote an article superficially sympathetic to free speech -- but actually mentioning only attempts in America to muzzle left-wingers, critics of Israel and teachers of Darwinism....(4 iv).)
A fine defence of race-and-IQ outspeaker Frank Ellis and denunciation of Britain’s crumbling ‘liberal’-left was provided by the British National Party’s Joe Priestley (3 iv); and Professor Robert Segal (Theory of Religion, University of Lancaster) agreed with those of us academic race realists who had written to the Sunday Times that Leeds LUniversity’s action against FE was a clear violation of the principle of academic freedom which British universities are legally bound to uphold (Guardian Education, 4 iv). (At the same time, in the Guardian, Black journalist and 'anti-Fascist' Gary Younge wrote an article superficially sympathetic to free speech -- but actually mentioning only attempts in America to muzzle left-wingers, critics of Israel and teachers of Darwinism....(4 iv).)
Sunday, April 02, 2006
CHINESE CONFORMITY ADMITTED BY HAN SCHOLAR
A senior Han sociologist became the first Chinese intellectual to agree with the thesis of top British historian Lord Hugh Thomas, Richard Lynn [himself a recent convert] and myself (see my 1990 review as referenced in previous Diaries/Blogs, mid-March, 2006) that the Chinese have relatively high group-mindedness and conformity (low-w, as per Chapters 1 and 4 of The g Factor) and are best analogized as (intelligent) `sheep' rather than as `wolves' (Spiegel Online, 21 iii). The Chinese sociologist’s anonymously published book had sold 4 million copies, a volume second only to that for the Thoughts of Chairman Mao, so succinct did the Chinese themselves find this analysis of Chinese psychology. (Hugh Thomas' percipient analysis was based on the Chinese being a rice-growing rather than a wheat-growing people: in rice-growing, water comes from the sides so you need co-operative neighbours to clear their drains; by contrast, wheat-growers of Europe depend mainly on the heavens, not on co-operation from neighbours; indeed a lazy/drunken/out-of-action neigbour is quite an advantage, in that my price at market for my wheat goes up.)
"SUNDAY TIMES" PUBLISHES (A CURTAILED) LETTER FROM RACE REALISTS, DEFENDING FRANK ELLIS (LUNIVERSITY OF LEEDS)
IN CLEAR violation of the tradition of academic freedom, the vice-chancellor of Leeds University has suspended Dr Frank Ellis and instituted disciplinary proceedings against him for presenting the research, published in peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly books which demonstrates that blacks have, on average, lower IQ scores and poorer academic achievement than do whites (Profile, last week). Much solid research also makes it more likely than not that there is a genetic contribution to this (and other) group IQ differences. Dr Ellis, then, has done no more than restate what has been said for half century by a number of eminent psychologists and anthropologists at leading universities.
These include the late John Baker (Oxford), Hans Eysenck (London), Philip Vernon (London), Richard Herrnstein (Harvard), and Henry Garrett (Columbia). A number of behavioural scientists, including ourselves, have reached the same conclusion. Others have put much of this on the record. Many more agree but have been reluctant to put this on the record for fear of the kind of intimidation that Dr Ellis is receiving from the University of Leeds.
There is an important and legitimate debate going on on intelligence and genetics, as there is on climate change and foreign policy. It is a sad day when British universities muzzle their academic staff and threaten them with dismissal for taking part in one of these controversies.
Professor Richard Lynn
University of Ulster
Professor Philippe Rushton
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Professor Arthur Jensen
University of California
Dr Charles Murray
American Enterprise Institute
Washington
Christopher Brand
University of Edinburgh
(1970-97)
Professor Helmuth Nyborg
Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Linda Gottfredson
University of Delaware
Professor (Retired) Donald Templer
Alliant International University (1978-2005), Fresno, California
However, the newspaper delayed an article about IQ on which it had been working - perhaps because I told them of the sensational turn-around about IQ in Nature - which had carried an article from Bethesda (outlined here recently) together with an unprecedented three favourable comments (from the Editor, in the News section, and in the News & Views section).
Interviewed by Funday Times Education Correspondent Geraldine Hackett, I had confirmed that I did indeed believe the well-known racial differences in IQ were substantially genetic and were likewise believed to be deep-seated by successful African businessmen and politicians, who unfailingly declined to invest in their fellow Blacks and instead got their money (from mineral exploitation and corruption) out of Africa to Switzerland as fast as they could.
Asked about sacking procedures for academics like Frank Ellis and me, I had explained that, in 1996-7, Edinburgh LUniversity had had a long (15-month) struggle to get me out (finally having to use my urging clemency and common sense in the case of the nocturnally arrested and jailed US Nobel Laureate Carleton Gajdusek, 60+, to claim I had `put at risk the LUniversity's reputation') but that the unadvertized and undiscussed 2000 Amendment to Britain's Race Relations Act probably made it quite easy to get rid of academics for the slightest remarks of a race-realist nature.
I had also explained to the Education Correspondent that the title of my book, "The g Factor", did not refer to `the genetic factor' but to `the general intelligence factor' as conceived by London School psychologists since the days of Charles Spearman c. 1904.. Apparently, some or all of the above `revelations' for ST newsies led to a re-think and postponement of their planned article for a week while they stroked their beards.
A senior Han sociologist became the first Chinese intellectual to agree with the thesis of top British historian Lord Hugh Thomas, Richard Lynn [himself a recent convert] and myself (see my 1990 review as referenced in previous Diaries/Blogs, mid-March, 2006) that the Chinese have relatively high group-mindedness and conformity (low-w, as per Chapters 1 and 4 of The g Factor) and are best analogized as (intelligent) `sheep' rather than as `wolves' (Spiegel Online, 21 iii). The Chinese sociologist’s anonymously published book had sold 4 million copies, a volume second only to that for the Thoughts of Chairman Mao, so succinct did the Chinese themselves find this analysis of Chinese psychology. (Hugh Thomas' percipient analysis was based on the Chinese being a rice-growing rather than a wheat-growing people: in rice-growing, water comes from the sides so you need co-operative neighbours to clear their drains; by contrast, wheat-growers of Europe depend mainly on the heavens, not on co-operation from neighbours; indeed a lazy/drunken/out-of-action neigbour is quite an advantage, in that my price at market for my wheat goes up.)
"SUNDAY TIMES" PUBLISHES (A CURTAILED) LETTER FROM RACE REALISTS, DEFENDING FRANK ELLIS (LUNIVERSITY OF LEEDS)
Racial IQ research
IN CLEAR violation of the tradition of academic freedom, the vice-chancellor of Leeds University has suspended Dr Frank Ellis and instituted disciplinary proceedings against him for presenting the research, published in peer-reviewed academic journals and scholarly books which demonstrates that blacks have, on average, lower IQ scores and poorer academic achievement than do whites (Profile, last week). Much solid research also makes it more likely than not that there is a genetic contribution to this (and other) group IQ differences. Dr Ellis, then, has done no more than restate what has been said for half century by a number of eminent psychologists and anthropologists at leading universities.
These include the late John Baker (Oxford), Hans Eysenck (London), Philip Vernon (London), Richard Herrnstein (Harvard), and Henry Garrett (Columbia). A number of behavioural scientists, including ourselves, have reached the same conclusion. Others have put much of this on the record. Many more agree but have been reluctant to put this on the record for fear of the kind of intimidation that Dr Ellis is receiving from the University of Leeds.
There is an important and legitimate debate going on on intelligence and genetics, as there is on climate change and foreign policy. It is a sad day when British universities muzzle their academic staff and threaten them with dismissal for taking part in one of these controversies.
Professor Richard Lynn
University of Ulster
Professor Philippe Rushton
University of Western Ontario
Canada
Professor Arthur Jensen
University of California
Dr Charles Murray
American Enterprise Institute
Washington
Christopher Brand
University of Edinburgh
(1970-97)
Professor Helmuth Nyborg
Aarhus University, Denmark
Professor Linda Gottfredson
University of Delaware
Professor (Retired) Donald Templer
Alliant International University (1978-2005), Fresno, California
However, the newspaper delayed an article about IQ on which it had been working - perhaps because I told them of the sensational turn-around about IQ in Nature - which had carried an article from Bethesda (outlined here recently) together with an unprecedented three favourable comments (from the Editor, in the News section, and in the News & Views section).
Interviewed by Funday Times Education Correspondent Geraldine Hackett, I had confirmed that I did indeed believe the well-known racial differences in IQ were substantially genetic and were likewise believed to be deep-seated by successful African businessmen and politicians, who unfailingly declined to invest in their fellow Blacks and instead got their money (from mineral exploitation and corruption) out of Africa to Switzerland as fast as they could.
Asked about sacking procedures for academics like Frank Ellis and me, I had explained that, in 1996-7, Edinburgh LUniversity had had a long (15-month) struggle to get me out (finally having to use my urging clemency and common sense in the case of the nocturnally arrested and jailed US Nobel Laureate Carleton Gajdusek, 60+, to claim I had `put at risk the LUniversity's reputation') but that the unadvertized and undiscussed 2000 Amendment to Britain's Race Relations Act probably made it quite easy to get rid of academics for the slightest remarks of a race-realist nature.
I had also explained to the Education Correspondent that the title of my book, "The g Factor", did not refer to `the genetic factor' but to `the general intelligence factor' as conceived by London School psychologists since the days of Charles Spearman c. 1904.. Apparently, some or all of the above `revelations' for ST newsies led to a re-think and postponement of their planned article for a week while they stroked their beards.
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