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The Mob in Mobile

By Quin Hillyer on 4.25.12 @ 6:10AM

The roosting of the Trayvon Martin chickens.

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But they aren’t responsible for the brutal beating of Matthew Owens. Twenty or more individual attackers are responsible. But Lord Almighty, if Sharpton and Holder and their ilk aren’t at least more obviously culpable indirectly for fomenting racial hatred than anything Sarah Palin said was responsible for the Giffords shooting, then Alice’s rabbit hole has taken over all of reality.

A real leader with Sharpton’s profile would travel to Mobile, denounce the Owens beating, announce that this is not how self-respecting members of any race should act, and call for swift and sure punishment for the attackers whether their motives were racial or “just” hateful and vicious without regard to skin color at all. Matthew Owens is a seriously injured man, not a seriously injured white man. And his attackers are criminal individuals who should be punished regardless of their skin color — and made an example of the wages of mob violence, which cannot and must not be allowed to use race or even racial insults as pretext for outright thuggery.

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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.

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Jamie| 4.25.12 @ 6:25AM

This is precisely what I figured. The black kids were not doing what they should have been doing, Matthew Owens confronted them, they got adults in the situation, and the adults acted like thugs.

There is no way this is not a hate crime.

Skeevix | 4.25.12 @ 6:37AM

Chickens coming home to roost...Blacks are conducting a race war and white folks can't see it.

Kitty | 4.25.12 @ 6:46AM

http://www.whitegirlbleedalot.com/

Race Riots are Back: White Girl Bleed a Lot
A New book from Washington Post-award winning reporter Colin Flaherty
Race riots are back.
Along with widespread racial crime and violence.
In hundreds of episodes in more than 50 cities since 2010, groups of black people are roaming the streets of America -- assaulting, intimidating, stalking, threatening, vandalizing, stealing, shooting, stabbing, even raping and killing.
They go by different names: Flash mobs, flash robs, or as one social worker put it: Kids just "blowing off steam."
But local media and public officials are silent.

Von Mises Jr| 4.25.12 @ 8:03AM

I'm sure MLK is turning in his grave. Obama, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson have not only set back 50 years of progress, they may have turned our cities into a reverse Antebellum South.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 10:38AM

What do ya know? My post was taken down. I guess Hillyar's idea of FREE SPEECH, is different than mine.

He seems to be a Punk*ss, as well as Ugly.

Doctor Right| 4.25.12 @ 11:19AM

Your post was taken down because you're an offensive, obnoxious jerk.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 4:38PM

The truth is sometimes obnoxious.

That doesn't make it any less the TRUTH.

Even a DUMB*SS, like yourself, should realize that.

But, of course, you don't.

Obviously, some Dumb*sses, are dumber than others.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:57AM

Yes, as well as a hateful little bastard apparently. Sad, since his comments are as he says the truth mostly. He needs to do away with the Clintonian snarkiness in order to be more effective!!!!!

mafya | 4.28.12 @ 1:07AM

great yes!

Doctor Right| 4.25.12 @ 11:51AM

Additionally, your right to Free Speech does not extend to a private message board on a privately owned website.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 1:50PM

There does need to be some regulation to deal with the trolls and overboard hostile comments that try to hijack the message board. TLP has crossed the line from righteous indignation against Obama to outright hostility and vulgarity to anyone who dares say he could tone it down a bit and make the slightest attempt at civility. It states explicitly what the rules for comments are and if violated, they will be deleted.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:40PM

As opposed to your Stupidity, which seems to be okay, on this site.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 4:11PM

Way to prove my point about your lack of civility. I actually read alot of what you have said and think you make good points but you have gone overboard lately and it is getting tiring day after day.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 4:27PM

Do you SEE what's going on in this Country?

Did you NOTICE who this America Hating President just had in his home? He had the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD over for Tea, and $1.5 BILLION large. What do you think they're gonna do with that money?

Unemployment Numbers, Gas Prices, Home Prices, The Number of Americans in Poverty, the War on the Private Sector, the War on Companies that can make us Energy Independent. The War on people who have made something of their lives. The Illegal Gun Running Operation that gave THOUSANDS Of High Powered Automatic Weapons to the Mexican Drug Cartels, that has MURDERED over 1,000 Innocent Mexican Men, Women, and Children, in an effort to push new Gun Control Laws in this Country.

We have more Americans on FOOD STAMPS than ever, Racist Black Mobs running wild, in Sanford Florida, and an announcement that The War on Terror is over, because we're now going to work on Creating Small Businesses with the Terrorist Organization - The Muslim Brotherhood.

STFU.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 4:47PM

Obama sucks and is a radical socialist, I don't need you to tell me that. Like I said, I agree with most of what you say but you have a rather nasty disposition to be honest. I am not one to lecture about "civility" but being angry all the time is no way to go about life. You are not going to win any converts over with your approach but you will make your personal interactions rather unpleasant.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 8:02PM

Who says I'm looking for "converts"? I'm speaking my mind.

And I'm doing it by THEIR rules.

And if that's too much for you?

Maybe you should try and get Alan's phone number.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 8:36PM

Speak your mind but your mind is of a very angry person who tolerates no difference of opinion. Do you really think it was Quin who deleted your comment? Pretty sure he has better things to do then to care what you write everyday.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 8:42PM

Maybe he doesn't since he says later he did delete it but I think his reasons are valid and it is his right.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:52AM

Great to-the-point comments above, but apparently you are to 'looking for converts' when you exclaim things like DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND etc!!!!!

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 12:00PM

The American Spectator ''''''owns''''' this site......you do not! If you object, go elsewhere or fund-pay for your own site, and then blog on same!!!!!!!!!!

Anthony| 4.25.12 @ 10:55AM

Quite right Von, the heirs to MLK have turned his noble quest into a farce of racial reparations, something for nothing.
They have destroyed the black family structure and have addicted their fellow blacks to a steady diet of government subsistence and base poverty.
Unfortunately for Dr. King, forces within his own constituancy were pushing him into more radical and confrontational politics.
We can remember the more noble aspects of Dr. King and lament the frauds who have followed in his footsteps.

Von Mises Jr| 4.25.12 @ 2:28PM

Anthony, my friend. We need to stop this not just because it is destroying the inner-city black families; but it is destroying middle class families of all colors and ethnicities.
But I am not for a minute disagreeing that the great MLK would be ashamed. Not dismissing, but adding to your welcomed comment.

Seek| 4.25.12 @ 4:20PM

Martin Luther King was anything but a conservative. We court this delusion at our own peril.

Von Mises Jr| 4.25.12 @ 4:54PM

MLK was nonviolent. Obama, Holder, Unsharpton and Shakedown jackson are thugs.

PolishKnight| 4.26.12 @ 9:52AM

MLK had others do his dirty work for him and only cared about civil rights when they suited his race and marxist interests.

His horrid statue on the washington mall is an appropriate legacy.

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 5:23PM

You got that one right.

Surly Curmudgen| 4.29.12 @ 8:33AM

Obama, Holder, Sharpton and Jackson could/should be charged with being complicit in aggravated assault.

bill philips | 4.25.12 @ 3:10PM

Great article Mr. Hillyer. I also enjoyed Kitty's post about the book White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of race riots to America and how the media ignore them. I heard the author on a national talk show a few weeks ago talk about how racial violence is more widespread than people know. So I read the book. it is. Hope he gets a pulitzer.

(Hope i spelled that right.)

whitegirlbleedalot.com -- its all there.

more please.

Kelly| 4.25.12 @ 9:22AM

I couldn't have said it better myself...thanks for speaking up...when I do it I get called a racist.

Lorispop| 4.25.12 @ 9:46AM

I cannot find a flaw in your statements. It is no wonder that smart successful black people are not trying to raise the rest up. Thanks to LBJ there is nothing left to salvage of black society and culture.
Obama MUST lose, but we all must be prepared for the blood riots that will ensue. Unfortunatly, it is difficult in Obama's economy to move to higher ground- I'm a year out of work with nothing left but good credit, so I guess my thousand rounds of 9mm will be all I have when it comes. Pray for us in the cities.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:42PM

Well, I hope you memorized it, because Frog Face took it down.

JT| 4.25.12 @ 9:51AM

When the Leftist trolls get out of bed around noon.

Lorispop| 4.25.12 @ 9:49AM

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 8:53AM

They see it; they just haven't quite decided what to do about it yet.

Kelly| 4.25.12 @ 9:28AM

Oh they see it....they cant do anything about it because THEY will be charged with a racial hate crime....if they report it...it gets swept under the rug....

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 9:54AM

Just remember the "town bully" case in Missouri. I think the guy's name was Ken McElroy. Shot to death in broad daylight surrounded by a sizeable group of people. Nobody saw a thing.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 1:03PM

Not that they both couldn't have the same name, but my recollection was Ken McElroy was the Texas murderous sex offender paroled to rape and murder again.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 1:06PM

Ken McElroy, Skidmore, Missouri, d. 1981.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 2:21PM

I just googled it and you are correct regarding the bully being Ken McElroy. I still have to verify if the recidivist rapist/ murderer from Texas was also so named.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 5:13PM

The Texan who was the rapist murderer finally executed was Ken McDuff. My mistake.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.26.12 @ 9:39AM

Just a mistake. No biggie. I make 'em all the time.

KyMouse| 4.25.12 @ 4:17PM

"In Broad Daylight," 1991, is the movie based on that case. Brian Dennehy played the bad guy (called Len Rowan) who finally gets what's coming to him. Cloris Leachman is in it, too.

Petronius| 4.25.12 @ 11:15AM

No. They know we don't dare defend ourselves because liberals control the courts. It's been open season on "whitey" for over 50 years now. And The boys in the hood love it.

Vern Crisler| 4.25.12 @ 11:06AM

Why all these constant attacks on Newt from conservatives? Here is what Newt said when asked about his campaign several years ago: "Slightly more moving our way. I think that the mother killing the two children in South Carolina vividly reminds every American how sick the society is getting and how much we need to change things."

Newt's solution to how to turn things around? "The only way you get change is to vote Republican. That's the message for the last three days."

How did Quin get "left-wing moral depravity and corruption of cultural norms" out of this?

Newt's comments were typical law-and-order type statements that have been part of conservatism since at least the 1960s. Where did Newt accuse the Left of causing Smith to kill her children?

Come on Quin. Enough with the anti-Newt jabs in an attempt to be "fair and balanced."

richard ryan| 4.25.12 @ 12:34PM

Agree 100%. I'm also growing weary of idiots like Bill O'Reilly who always feel it is necessary to preface comments about the left with "there are just as many far right loons who are just as bad..."
That's not true. Conservatives generally are good people, they are correct in their arguments, and if left alone would make this nation great again.

Dec| 4.25.12 @ 1:34PM

O'Reilly has been particularly bad the last few nights. I think those idiotic liberal screechers he invites on may have infected him with a case of political correctness.

KennesawJack| 4.25.12 @ 3:17PM

I agree. There is no proportionality here. That is especially true if you consider the huge disparity in percentages of the population represented by the two races. O'Reilly, how many white flash mobs have you heard of lately?

Claypoole| 4.26.12 @ 12:58PM

Yes, there are white flash mobs. They're the dangerous lunatics who suddenly begin singing "The Hallelujah Chorus" in malls at Christmastime.

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 5:26PM

Black flash mobs, it must be said, are no more "Leftist" than they are "Rightist." What they are is black. It is race, not ideology, that defines this disgusting predatory behavior. Mobs such as these are products not of 50 years of welfare-state liberalism, but 250,000 years of evolution. They're in the wrong country.

crossworked| 4.25.12 @ 7:16PM

A question for all. Where is the news coverage for a Kansas City white junior high student dowsed with gasoline running home and set fire by black youths yelling racial epitaphs . This happenned 7 weeks ago.

further where is the alternative to the sharptons, and jacksons from within the black community? they have been effectively told to shut up and to tow the line. The new slaveowners are black elites and they hinder any young voice from their own community.

Jacobite| 4.26.12 @ 2:35PM

In 100% contrast to any black victim's story, a local KC Lib talk-show host regularly accuses the kid of confabulating the whole thing. This dipstick would doubtless claim O.J. was innocent too. At least it's providing locals with a clear answer to that old question: whose side are you on, anyhow? Not yours, whitey.

Jacobite| 4.26.12 @ 2:28PM

Uh, correction. These people are not acting like thugs -- they are thugs. They are thugs; their kids will soon be thugs. Getting the picture? Query: can a simple factual statement be bigotted? No, but it can be labelled 'bigotted' if the alternative of acknowledging the truth would require action that hearers are too cowardly to contemplate. Sorry, but Eric Holder is 100% correct in his statement about white people and race.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 4.25.12 @ 6:30AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8LZGQ4MkvQ
Upon hearing the news President Obama stated, "Owens looks like a trouble making white kid I used to know. He would definitely not be my son. This time I feel I would be on solid ground for stating the police are smart, not stupid, for not arresting those black citizens, who could be members of my family, for beating up a white man, who would not have been welcomed in my former church. I have directed Eric Holder to do a Black Panther step back in this situation and not take any action. No, in this case the universe is unfolding as it should."

Jamie| 4.25.12 @ 6:41AM

By the way, I just want to thank Mr. Hillyer for his work. No one else is really covering this story. You're the only one that seems truly outraged about this. Please, keep up the work, and keep pressuring the local authorities, the media, and others to do what is right.

Thanks so much.

Jamie| 4.25.12 @ 6:41AM

Thanks so much.

cali| 4.25.12 @ 7:12AM

I want to join you in thanking Mr. Hillyer of this balanced reporting!

The silence of Holder is deafening; Sharpton's not so much-it's expected.
It is sad that we have to face an issue of racism, fueled by the usual race hustlers.
This silence almost appears as an approval and, it only worsen the situation. I wish we could have an open and, honest discussion on race; although attempting such usually ends in finger pointing or accusations.
The good thing is, not all black americans don't take part in this type of vengence as it did in this case.
Whether police find those responsible, make an arrest depends at a minimum on decency; police lately shirk the duty to call it hate crime not to inflame this situation even more. There is also the 'don't snitch' issue within the black community; while many want to do the right thing - the 'don't snitch' code does not allow them to do the right thing so as to not be labeled 'traitor'. It's unfortunate.

Living in the Bay Area in California is very different; things like that is rare or non-existant; races are so inter mingled; marriages are the 'normal' and, there is no tension, not even now after the Trayvon/Zimmermann issue.

Laura| 4.25.12 @ 5:06PM

Cali,
Unfortunately, SF bay area is not immune, here is a link to a commentary I wrote in 2003 for the local ultra- liberal Berkeley paper. In the years following my personal experience I was contacted by dozens of victims and have provided leadership in the schools and community to define/respond to these crimes. We cannot afford to deny these crimes any longer, they are having a deeply corrosive impact on youth development and social norms. This in not a partisan matter.
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.....URA-MENARD

Davey| 4.25.12 @ 6:49AM

If I had a son, he would look like Matthew Owens .

Vox pop| 4.25.12 @ 7:08AM

Sharpton wants a race war. He may very well get one, and not like it when he does.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 9:51AM

Target Number One: Al Sharpton. This won't be like the time when he called some guy a "faggot" on a TV stage, and made a phony invitation to the guy to have a fist fight, where things were better controlled.

R. Freedom| 4.25.12 @ 10:45AM

There are no races, just different identifications among humans. For Christians, we all descended from Adam & Eve. And for science minded folks, Spencer Wells, renowned geneticist, has determined we all evolved from common parents.

http://www.vanityfair.com/cult.....phic200707

So, the only physical differences between us are due to genetic mutations and the values certain cultures placed on them.

What divides us is what I call tribalism, where people tend to adopt common identification & values for various reasons like physical traits, beliefs, places of origin, etc. It could be a gang, team, city, state, religion, ethnic grouping, political party, or nation.

All we have to do to solve the divides between us is to change our thinking. All the people in the beat down mob had to do was think, "Matt Owens is one of us."

KyMouse| 4.25.12 @ 12:59PM

"And He has made all nations of men of one blood..." -- Acts 17:26

.45 Caliber Hollowpoint| 4.26.12 @ 12:24PM

I tend to disagree, what was needed here is a few semi-automatic weapons and the will to use them. It is well established that deadly force can be used to prevent the death or serious bodily harm of anohter, and the people in the mob would have run like the cowards they are if an onlooker had manned up and opened fire. An added bonus would be the fact that those who would not or could not run away would not only never cause another affray or commit another act of mayhem, but the state would be saved the cost of prosecuting them and then caring for them while they are in jail for assault and attempted manslaughter.

oldfart| 4.25.12 @ 7:10AM

Hey folks - to quote the racist lefties - "You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing."

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 8:52AM

"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." -Subterranean Homesick Blues by Bob Dylan

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 1:07PM

It should be said that the radicals twisted Bob Dylan's lyrics for their own purposes that he wanted nothing to do with. It is interesting to see how they turned on him and called him a traitor when he didn't take the role of leftist radical folkie they wanted him to be. Maybe the greatest moment in rock history is when the folkies in the crowd are calling him Judas and he turns to his band and tells them to play it f'ing loud, you got to love that.

oldfart| 4.25.12 @ 1:55PM

Exactly what I was talking about. the SDS (Students for a Dumb Society) took over the line for their own agenda. But that line applies as much today as it did 50 years ago - the wind does change direction.

Darin| 4.25.12 @ 7:18AM

Anger and hate feed upon each other until they achieve utter destruction. It doesn't help matters that we have a President and Attornery General on the sidelines cheering it on.

Deborah D| 4.25.12 @ 7:54AM

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."...and, isn't that the purpose?

Gary B| 4.25.12 @ 8:22AM

Yes, it is. And, Deborah, how eloquent you are.

idalily| 4.25.12 @ 2:29PM

Deborah D: perfectly stated. Thank you.

KennesawJack| 4.25.12 @ 3:19PM

Deborah, that's cutting to the core. Well done.

crossworked| 4.25.12 @ 6:58PM

Division of the electorate is the main strategy for the Marxist left. "1 in the playbook.

martin j smith| 4.25.12 @ 7:24AM

This is my take:
The Martin-Zimmerman Case cannot ever be tried fairly anywhere in the country.This mob violence in a "tense" city alone is not the issue. The issue is the Obama administration use of race for political purposes. I blame first and foremost Obama and then Holder and then their race baiting acolytes.

Harry the Horrible| 4.25.12 @ 8:32AM

Sure he can. You underestimate Americans.
Present the evidence and I will make my decision accordingly, regardless what the idiot media or race pimps say and do - even if the city is burning down. There are plenty of others like me.

Of course that attitude would probably get me a "peremptory strike."

GW| 4.25.12 @ 12:41PM

But few like you are White. This is the problem. Put blacks on the jury, and Zimmerman fries.

GW| 4.25.12 @ 12:42PM

But few like you *aren't* white.

Harry the Horrible| 4.25.12 @ 4:29PM

Put just one of me on a jury, and he won't be convicted unless the evidence proves his guilt beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Indy| 4.25.12 @ 7:31AM

There is likely more violence to come, Eric Holder remains silent on Matthew Owens and others who have "acted" in Travyon's name as does our President. Is this the hope and change people voted for? Groups are out in the open talking about the prospects for more violence, not good. Media, where are you?

http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....arpton-is/

http://www.theblaze.com/storie.....lling-mfs/

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 9:06AM

. . . and Jewish grandmothers "can" commit carjackings. Where have white people marauded through a state fair, neighborhood, or city streets, beating, robbing, and vandalizing? Where?

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 9:46AM

They haven't because they're better socialized. But with enough provocation...

RCV| 4.25.12 @ 11:29AM

Renfield: I'm afraid you don't read much American history, do you?

Drunken Sailor| 4.25.12 @ 12:51PM

So because whites did the same in the 60's it ok for blacks to do so now? You're a lawyer, what kind of logic is that?

It was wrong then and it should be even more wrong now seeing how we have supposedly come so far in our race relations. Well, we were until 2008 anyway.

RCV| 4.25.12 @ 6:01PM

Of course it's wrong. It was wrong then and wrong now. I was simply correcting the absurd comment that white mobs have never done such things.

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 9:53PM

Obviously whites have rioted at some points in the past. I remember the 1968 Democratic Convention.

So how many of the hundreds of "flash" riots over the past few years have involved whites (except as victims)?

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 1:13PM

RCV cannot face the reality of what Obama is, a divider and agitator who wants our society at each others throat to further his radical agenda. He cynically sold himself as a uniter and healer of racial past wounds in 2008 when in fact he is the opposite. Hence Trayvon Martin would look like his son and his putting a clear racist like Eric Holder in charge of law enforcement not to mention going to a racist anti-American "Church" for 20 years. Sorry RCV but that is the truth as much as you deny it and want to believe otherwise.

Drunken Sailor| 4.25.12 @ 5:01PM

I think he just can't think straight today after hearing that even the liberal Supreme Court judges are sounding like they side with Arizona's Immigration Law. Must be painful to see a ideology wither before your very eyes.

Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 4.25.12 @ 5:20PM

I don't bother with silly trivial racist liberal progressive democrat socialist marxist tyrannical temporary ideological setbacks on ruining the liberties and quality of life of entire races, much less bother with silly trivial judicial activist liberal progressive socialist marxist tyrannical temporary ideological setbacks on ruining the liberties and quality of life of an entire nation just happening to be the best the world has ever known, on the sensible significant liberal progressive democrat socialist marxist tyrannical continuing ideological success of ensuring another on average 3,836 'legal' abortions happened again today, the same as every day since early 1973, so I win, again, so take that, all you abhorrible sanctimonious hypocritical constitutional equality under the law conservative tea party delusional lunatic losers, matters.

RCV| 4.25.12 @ 6:05PM

The Justices on the Court will evaluate the Arizona law's constituionality and make a good faith determination as to its validity. And the Republic will survive just fine no matter which they rule.

franke| 4.25.12 @ 8:39PM

Nonsense. The lefties on the court will continue to vote to ignore the constitution so as to continue to make over this once great nation into a land that votes Democrat - non-white, dependents, uneducated, and dependent on government.

Look it up.

Reprobate Charlatan Vomitus| 4.26.12 @ 5:21PM

I don't bother with silly trivial judicial emanations of penumbras of good faith determinations of constitutional validity, as it pertains to the survival, whether evaluated since 1973 of 55 million from among the Republic and the Creator, or just today of 3,836 from among the Republic and the Creator, created equal and endowed by their Creator with life, brutally slaughtered, no matter how just fine the court rules nonsensically matters.

Claypoole| 4.26.12 @ 1:18PM

Wasn't it Ben Stein who said that when whites riot, they move?

Observer| 4.25.12 @ 9:18AM

Rush Limbaugh during the 2008 campaign debunked the left's notion that electing a tool of of George Soros and the Frankfurt cultural marxists (Obama) would accomplish the contrary of healing the racial divide.
Columbia Universityhas for 80 years fostered cultural marxism. It is Obama & Holder's default ideology. Divide a nation into an endless number of self-perecived victim groups and set them at each others throats fueled by inter-group violence and planned economic chaos are the tools long touted by cultural marxidts to usher in the far left's delusionary utopia.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 1:18PM

All very true. Andrew Brietbart's book has a very interesting section about the Frankfurt Marxists and how they infiltrated our academic institutions. I highly recommend everyone to read (or listen to like I did) his book.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:23PM

Many of the intellectuals who escaped Nazi Germany to come to America and Great Britain spread logical positivism. Logical postitivism has been a net degrader of our cultural life in the West.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 4:51PM

Should have let all the intellectuals go to Canada and just take the smart engineers and physicists instead.
Those Frankfurt intellectuals were certainly a miserable lot and spread their disease of logical positivism to the detriment of our society like you stated.

Tomper| 4.25.12 @ 7:59AM

The mayor and police will do whatever is necessary to make this go away.

Kelly| 4.25.12 @ 9:26AM

His sister has given us an update....the police asked her and her family to tone her outrage down and urged her to inform her supporters to do it also...they want this to be kept quiet so they can sweep it under the rug....There will never be any justice for Matthew Owens...

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 8:51AM

"White boy?" "This is justice for Trayvon?" Sounds like -gasp!- a hate crime.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 8:54AM

Oh, by the way, if it was justice for Trayvon, it's now time to let George Zimmerman go free without charges, right?

Naaah...

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 9:08AM

I'm afraid it's going to be one h311 of a summer in the cities of this nation.

slhancock1948| 4.25.12 @ 9:23AM

So, has the word gone out from the AG that no arrests or charges will be made against any blacks beating up/killing someone of another race, even if concrete proof that the incident was racially motivated? This is pure lawlessness. This is setting up a mood for someone to take matters into their own hands and then the chaos to begin. This is a setup, hoping to trap a fed-up gun owner, then Obama make an executive order demanding guns be confiscated or registered , etc. We need prayer for our country in the worst way. Who is listening?

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 9:47AM

It's his side of the debate over race that Americans are too cowardly to engage in. His side: the government refuses to hold black people accountable for their crimes. The peoples' side of the debate: as yet not clearly stated, but much inchoate rage.

kurtmudgeon| 4.25.12 @ 9:26AM

Chalk up a win for the media who turned the issue into a race war. Way to go NBC, NY Times and all you other responsible journalists.

JacintoKid| 4.25.12 @ 9:33AM

These incidents are increasing and soon may be out of control. The only positive I see so far developing out of obamas race war is the fact that white folks are coming out of their collective slumber and starting to realize that the white guilt they've been programmed to accept is bull***t. Race hustler sharpton and his ilk might not like the result of what they started.

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:14AM

Ah, yes. The good old law of unintended consequences.

Outraged| 4.25.12 @ 9:34AM

Hey Mr. Hillyer, since you obviously couldn't speak to ALL the neighbors, let give you a hand with the one's you didn't have a chance to get to:

Some neighbors said they have witnessed belligerence from Owens in the past, and police reports show that he has gotten into scrapes before with others — both black and white.

“He probably did as much to instigate this as anybody,” said Marsha Skipper, who lives next door.

Still, the neighbor said he has had issues with Owens, as well. He said he has called the police 4 times for what he described as “anger management” issues but declined to elaborate.

Another neighbor, who also asked to remain anonymous, said the black children have been “100 percent respectful” to him.

The neighbor, who is white, said Owens struck him one time and routinely uses obscenities in front of children.

“Matthew has a lot of problems,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for this to happen because that’s what he does. He’s pushed a number of people.”

http://blog.al.com/live/2012/0.....ng_of.html

Calvin| 4.25.12 @ 9:52AM

Let me get this straight. If my neighbor irritates me, 20 of my closest friends and I can go up onto his porch and near beat him to death. Mr. Outrage, you are irritating me. Where do you live?

dc| 4.25.12 @ 10:22AM

Mr Outrage lives in a dreamy world of his own making, which doesn't exist, and never has. I hear Rodney King has spoken up on this, Mr "Can't We All Just Get Along?" Answer, more gruesomely obvious by the day, is NO. We can't. So any non-black who isn't stocking up on guns and ammunition, and preparing for a civil war (the flashpoint of which likely will be some "racial" incident) is a negligent fool. If Mr Owens had been armed properly, the animal mob that beat him would have scattered like cockroaches upon the first shot fired. Don't leave your house in a "mixed" (meaning, some blacks) neighborhood without packing a CC piece that you are confident in using. And teach your kids and wife to shoot straight, consistent trigger pulls, and no mercy.
It's our kids or theirs who will suffer, and I prefer to make it theirs. Pretty simple--prepare or die, or a best, get beaten to a pulp.

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 5:28PM

I, too, prefer the Clint Eastwood/Charles Bronson approach.

JP| 4.25.12 @ 10:19AM

Ah yes, a blogpost as proof. What will we do without blogs?

The Bruce| 4.25.12 @ 8:49PM

I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be making meat helmets.

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:17AM

Patterned on "Lady" GaGa's designs?

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 2:31PM

Actually, Outraged, I believe Mr. Hillyer's article states the following:

"But the composite picture from white witnesses about what happened last Saturday night leaves almost no doubt that racial animus played the major role in the vicious beating. Their account, perhaps one-sided but told quietly and with obvious sincerity, follows."

Having proffered that what he is recounting is a biased account, he goes on about Mr. Owens:

“Yes, Mr. Owens apparently had run-ins with black neighbors before. There was another incident where he was reportedly hit in the head (once) with a stick.”

“Owens, who is no shrinking violet, has a criminal record that includes arrests for domestic assault and driving under the influence.”

For the want of a better expression, I don't see Owens being whitewashed here. Are you aware of anything that he has done that merits being dragged from his home by 20 people and being beaten into critical condition?

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:45PM

Don't waste your time. Hillyar's another RINO that would rather GET ALONG, than dare speak the TRUTH.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:47AM

OK, Clunt......them theres RINOS AND CINOS! Who/what do you alternatively hold up as an expample of a publican/writer that TELLS THE/YOUR TRUTH [Ron Paul's newletters perhaps]??????

Sara Love | 4.25.12 @ 9:41AM

TLP, I'm curious. Where are you from? I've lived in Alabama for 63 years, and I know of no one who would spew such vicious tripe as you have in these comments. There are racists of all stripes all over the country.

By the way, Mr. Hillyer, I have but one objection to your otherwise excellent piece: Mobile is as Deep South as any city you could name. Perhaps the reason they weathered desegregation more peacefully is because it came to them after the eye-opening tragedies of Birmingham. And also because the public schools of Mobile and Montgomery remained essentially segregated afterwards. Whites who could afford it sent their children to private schools or abandoned the inner cities.

I live in a suburb south of Birmingham. We have very diverse ethnicities in our community and schools, some of the best in the state. The principal of my granddaughter's elementary school is an excellent educator and a fine and ethical black man. The best possible example for boys of all races. My neighbor and friend is a hard-working, honest black man. I have other black friends. My grandson played soccer on a team with boys and girls of African, Asian, East Indian descent, as well as one or two blue-eyed blondes.

If you are searching for a southern state that really isn't southern, try the peninsula of Florida.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 10:35AM

I live in Realville, where people don't run and HIDE FROM THE TRUTH.

It sounds "Hateful" because I HATE what these people are doing to my Country.

I see nothing to apologize for.

If you do?

That's your problem.

Doctor Right| 4.25.12 @ 10:57AM

Realville.

That's east of Dumbtown, or Route 321 (otherwise known as "The Blowhard Expressway"). Take Exit 12, just past "A-hole Boulevard", and go right at the end of the ramp on Jerk-Off Lane towards Dementoville.

DO NOT take the rt-hand fork at the light on Angry White Guy Road; that road is Insight Avenue, and it will take you in the complete opposite direction from Realville, where Timmy lives...

Pelleas| 4.25.12 @ 11:43AM

BRAVO, DR...!!!--rotflmao!

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:47PM

Wow. It seems that you've acquired a FAN, in the IDIOT, Pelleas.

Why am I not surprised?

REFEREE| 4.25.12 @ 9:19PM

Point Doctor Right.

Doctor Right 1 TLP 0

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:26PM

You're lucky to live in Realville. Myself, despite the fact that I live in a community that has a national reputation for its conservative politics and religion, live in Girly World. It seems inescapable.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 4:30PM

My Condolences.

REFEREE| 4.25.12 @ 9:20PM

Point TLP.

Tied Doctor Right 1 TLP 1

TLP| 4.26.12 @ 6:07AM

You really need a girlfriend, or something.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:43AM

You might try reaseaching your subject before issuing blanket accusations ignorantly. Hillyer has previously written [and lived] for THE MOBILE REGISTER [Mobile, Alabama] and the TIMES PICYUNE [New Orleans, Louisiana].....perhaps you have heard of these places and newpapers???????

Calvin| 4.25.12 @ 9:47AM

http://atlanta.cbslocal.com/20.....-suspects/

Here is another story of a Scottish woman (the Scots have amazing diversity) mowing down a black man. It is time to take action. She should have sacrificed herself for the liberal vision of racial justice. She should have understood that after four hundred years of oppression he had to stand up for himself (really neither one of them looks that old but that is how the story goes). Instead she shot someone which was so violent. William Tucker will soon come out with an article saying that people should call the police in such situations. It is all so messy, really. I am glad I don't live in a neighborhood like that, you know where crazy Scottish woman are illegally discharging weapons all the time. This smells of vigilantism. Thank goodness Mr. White Boy Owens did the decent thing and let himself be beat and didn't do the foolish thing of defending himself. Mr. Tucker would have had a hard time sleeping if he had done such a thing. See how it works when it is done right, the police arrived to take statements and wonder whether they had a hate crime on their hands. If it is not a hate crime they can't be bothered to investigate a mere assault when there are important crimes to go after.

Jim Chester| 4.25.12 @ 9:50AM

" While nobody could honestly claim that racism doesn't exist around here and that it isn't obnoxious where it does, this is a coastal rather than "Deep South" city,..."

Curious observation. From that side-snide, are we to presume you believe the long entrenched racial problems in "Deep North" cities such as Philidelphia, Chicago, Detroit, NYC, Boston, etc, etc, have been the result of white migrants fleeing north to escape the influx of Mexicans? Or are they not far enough away from salt water for that to matter?

Innerlecshul Libbrul Regards,

Jim C.

Quin| 4.25.12 @ 10:27AM

Actually, no. Of course racism exists in northern cities, too. But note my use of the word "historically" in my paragraph: The point is that, unlike in Birmingham or Montgomery or Selma or Little Rock, there is little history of mass racial violence here. That is an irrefutable statement, not a moral judgment.

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 10:58AM

Are you kidding? The last lynching in Birmingham was before World War I, and it was of a white physician who had publicly murdered his wife.

Lynchings after WWI have occurred in Nebraska, Indiana, Minnesota, Illinois, and other northern states.

Mass racial violence? Check out those violent racist "flash" mobs of the past few years. All in northern cities. None in the south.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:50PM

He's an Idiot.

He wants to pussyfoot around, as the Marxist Muslim goes after US, With Both Barrels.

Pathetic.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:36AM

Are you Clint/Teflon93/TAH etc? You're erroneous use of capitalization is either the same as, or identical to his usage of same. If not him, I'd be careful who I emulate and be cognitive of Forrest's words!!!!!!!!

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:27PM

Well, but then there WAS the dynamite bombing of the black church in Birmingham that killed three or four little black girls.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 4:32PM

Yeah, 50 Years ago.

What's your point?

RCV| 4.25.12 @ 6:11PM

There have been outright racist killings of blacks as recently as this past month. You only have to follow the Southern Poverty Law Center's monthly newsletter to realize how very common this remains.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 8:11PM

And, how many BLACK KIDS, have been killed, in the same amount of time, by other BLACKS, and nobody gives a sh*t?

HOW MANY?!

All American American| 4.25.12 @ 10:39PM

SPLC's monthly newsletter doesn't cover that---its not politically relevant.

TLP| 4.26.12 @ 6:09AM

Exactly.

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:23AM

And SPLC doesn't have any agenda, much less a politically motivated one? You might as well cite Mother Jones or the Nation, if that's your level of "impartiality".

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 9:52AM

Five years ago, I was umpiring a men's softball game in New Jersey. Sudden screams from across the street called attention to a black male teenager dragging a black female teenager into the street by the hair, striking her repeatedly in the face. Some players from one of the teams ran over and broke up the beating, as somebody called the police.

None of the players (all white) did anything but pull the male off the female and stand between them. Nobody roughed up the male or even touched him, except to keep him away from the girl.

When the police arrived, the girl would not speak, so the officers—refusing to make an arrest despite dozens of witnesses willing to give information—drove the girl home and told the male to leave the area.

Fifteen minutes later, I noticed a middle-aged black woman standing near the backstop. A dozen or so black adults gathered beyond the outfield fence. The woman soon raised her arm and then brought it down quickly, which turned out to be signal for about 20 black teens to race onto the field from different directions and attack the team that had broken up the fight, in particular, one player who had pulled the male off the female.

That team was mostly older guys, and they tried to calm things down, but their opponents were younger and tougher and tore into the black kids.

I was pleased to see the attack at least somewhat thwarted, and when the police arrived, the blacks scattered into the rabbit warrens of that once-decent neighborhood.

Even with all the witnesses (and some minor injuries), the police refused to make any arrests or even investigate the matter. The league rescheduled to another field the remaining games of the team that had been targeted.

The next night, my partner was a black umpire who lives in that area. He told me that the kid had gone home and reported that he was walking past the ball field when a bunch of white guys jumped him and beat him.

dc| 4.25.12 @ 10:28AM

Shocking... a black thug lying to incite anti-white racial violence? Too bad NJ doesn't have a concealed carry law. Some of the hit mob would be six feet under by now, though the successful shooters likely would have had to defend murder charges (though that's true anywhere in the Northeast). That kind of mob-inciting crap won't fly in most parts of the South or Mountain West (especially the latter). People there are armed to the teeth and well-trained, non-hesitant shooters. Prepare or risk your or your family's life.

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 10:42AM

"Too bad NJ doesn't have a concealed carry law."

True. NJ is one of the worst states when it comes to respect for the Second Amendment (along with Hawaii, Maryland, and Illinois). That's one reason I moved to Alabama a few years ago (besides cutting my property tax bill by 93%). In fact, I was in Mobile earlier this month, and I find this story of the beating almost unbelievable. In Dixie, I haven't encountered a remotely hostile black person yet.

Not so in the many years I lived in the northeast, though. People pick on the south, but there's far more racial animosity in New Jersey and New York than down here.

Doctor Right| 4.25.12 @ 11:38AM

I have lived all of my life on the east coast, and most of it in the northeast (Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Jersey). I was also fortunate enough to spend two years in the GREAT state of South Carolina.

I will say, categorically, that the places with the most racial tension, violence, and strife are in the northeast. Not surprisingly, these are largely blue states controlled by Democrats. Taxes are high, welfare and "entitlements" are continuous, crime is rampant (in the cities), and voters are speaking with their feet by relocating elsewhere.

That wasn't the case in South Carolina. Now bear in mind that the Confederate flag still flies from the South Carolina Statehouse in downtown Columbia (just below the state flag), so the conventional wisdom (aided by the idiots in the media) is that South Carolina MUST be a hot-bed of racism.

WRONG.

Regarding race relations, South Carolina was the best, most tranquil place I've ever lived. The racial tensions I experienced as a young undergrad at UMass in the 1980's - a university that likes to toot it's multicultural horn - were nonexistent at the University of South Carolina.

Black and white students lived together, cheered on the Gamecocks football team together, and partied together at "Five-Points", where all the bars and clubs are in Columbia. Sure, there were black student organizations and fraternities, but so what? The tension didn't exist.

I've heard people who live in other southern states say similar things. My wife is a native Texan, and she agrees. But when I try telling this to a native of the northeast, they practically refuse to accept this as even a possibility.

I've heard it theorized that race relations in the South are perhaps better because the south was forced to endure culture-shock starting in 1865, and has had more time to acclimate.

While there may be a kernel of truth there, I think it's more likely due to two other reasons in particular:

1. The influence of religion, particularly Christianity, is stronger in the south, and religion has played a uniting role, especially since 1965 and the Civil Rights Act. Belief in Christ transcends racial animosity.

2. The northern elites have always been NIMBY on matters of race. Even in the days of abolitionism, many in the north never would have predicted (or welcomed) the mass influx of southern blacks to northern cities after the Civil War, and in the first part of the 20th century.

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 2:12PM

Great post, Doctor. When my wife told her friends in New York City that we were moving to Alabama, they castigated her for somehow betraying her values and going to live in the land of racists and racism. How could she live in that horrible state? And so on. Apparently these "sophisticated" New Yorkers naively bought the media stereotype of the south, complete with pot-bellied sheriffs with their big cigars and Barney Fife deputies, and rusty pickups full of rednecks with their cans of beer.

I think you're right about Christianity and NIMBYs. Another important factor that facilitated desegregation was that blacks and whites knew each other in the south, but not so much in the north.

Personally, I like living in a culture in which younger people (of all races) call older people (of all races) "ma'am" and "sir," and where you simply do not hear foul language, particularly in public settings. But I'm old-fashioned, I guess.

Herb| 4.25.12 @ 3:13PM

Reading nice things about South Carolina used to be as rare as snow in June. I love my adopted state where people of all races end conversations with "have a blessed day!", and I wouldn't trade the Palmetto State for the world. Thank you for your kind words.

Just one update, the Confederate flag was removed from the State House dome in 2000, and now flies next to the Confederate Soldier monument facing Gervais street. For what it's worth the NAACP imposed a boycott on this state over the flag and moving it failed to satisfy them as they kept changing the rules. It's fun to watch when Jesse & Al and other black notables make elaborate arrangements to stay over in private homes rather than patronize local hotels. Must respect the boycott, after all.

Seek| 4.25.12 @ 4:22PM

Say what? Black Christian ministers are some of the worst race-baiters imaginable. And their numbers go well beyond Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.

PJ| 4.25.12 @ 10:38AM

I bet your story occurred on the outskirts of Newark!

I could also tell a story about my white male friends almost getting beaten by the locals in Bed Sty only because they were walking on the streets to get to a party.

Interesting that everyone has these types of stories to tell but they never get published because we are too busy working for a living, supporting our families & don't have time to think or react to every racial injustice that takes place in this world.

Renfield| 4.25.12 @ 10:47AM

"I bet your story occurred on the outskirts of Newark!"

Certainly a good guess, but it was the outskirts of little old one-public-high-school Trenton. But Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Irvington, Trenton . . . they're all once-thriving cities that are now absolute hell-holes, thanks to government do-goodism.

not fooled| 4.25.12 @ 5:20PM

"Newark, Jersey City, Camden, Irvington, Trenton . . . they're all once-thriving cities that are now absolute hell-holes...."

And your governor goes to rock concerts.

Oh, he's on the job, that man, he is.

Ed| 4.25.12 @ 1:21PM

So, the 90% rotten apples are giving the 10% a bad name.

R. Freedom| 4.25.12 @ 10:04AM

A forty person mob and not one person among them was a responsible, law abiding citizen? Not one sane voice among them? How deplorable. I'd certainly move out of that neighborhood if I could.

Anthony| 4.25.12 @ 10:23AM

What planet do you live on Quin?
Do you honestly expect the likes of Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton, two of the most dispicable human beings that inhabit the earth, to do the right thing?
This is how the Left operates. This is how they tear societies apart, for their own personal glory and political advantages.
The left are imploding, everything they profess to believe in is being exposed as a fraud and and lie. The Zimmerman case is not about facts, didn't you get the memo from the Duke Lacrosse case?As the reprehensible pseudo reporter, D hack, Joe Klein has told us, the new media standard is facts are not relevant, only the left's perception of how things in America stand.
As Klein famously said after Duke Lacrosse, "the facts were wrong, the scenerio was correct". This is the Dan Rather school of journalism on steriods. Zimmerman fits only the initial concept that the left need in order to operate, a "white" (white hispanic) on black crime. The facts are irrelevant, the left then skip the rest of the book and go immediately to the conclusion, that this was a crime of racism.
This is America today. Juxtapose this article with the article on voter fraud perpetuated by Obozo, Holder, and the entire D party apparatus, and what's coming this summer and fall will not be a pretty sight.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 3:53PM

He's a Punk*ss Idiot, who's probably never worked a hard day in his life.

He's not the answer.

He's part of the problem!

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:32AM

''''He''''''.......WHO? There are numerous individuals referenced in the above!

All American American| 4.25.12 @ 10:41AM

How come its important to know Owens' criminal history but not Trayvon's???

Anyway this is what happens when White folks have been cowed into accepting that they are all racist scum responsible for slavery and the ills of black society. White people will watch as 20+ blacks beat their White neighbor to near death.

Hopefully the good that comes out of this is waking up a majority of White folks to finally say "enough is enough!" I can see it around me, its already slowly happening.

White people, as a retired member of the military I implore you to heed the old soldier's credo: pray for peace, prepare for war.

JRR| 4.25.12 @ 10:44AM

No justice is to come from fallible human beings who bend 'justice' to prevailing political and racial tirades. Let God judge them - let's see how well Florida and Alabama weather this year's hurricanes, storms, and tornados as made by the finger of God. I pray they have a sincere change of heart and learn mercy, not sacrifice is what God expects of them, and in turn He will have mercy on them.

Louis Jenkins| 4.25.12 @ 10:46AM

I believe there have been at least 11 reported cases of "hate crimes" perpetrated against whites since Martin was shot. That's reported crimes, most falling into the murder or felonious assault catagory. And Mobile police have told the sister of the crime mentioned above to be mum about it? That is the problem. Ignore the situtation and it will go away. Once enough people have become victims we will ask that it stop. Otherwise?

The following accounts comes from an active website:

An 18 year-old black man murdered a white man in a public park, then shot a young white mother in the back while she walked her baby, reports Fox Detroit.
Three blacks kidnapped a 52 year old white woman, stole her car, raped and beat and sodomized her for hours. She escaped when they stopped for gas, reports KMOV St. Louis.
A 28 year old Spring, Texas white mother was shot seven times by a black nurse who kidnapped her newborn baby. Despite her injuries she tried to stop the kidnap car but was knocked to the ground and later died, reportsDaily Mail.
At least seven white people were brutally beaten by mobs of blacks in Grand Rapids, MI... The local media has refused to report the attacks and the authorities aren't placing any serious charges, reports the Washington Examiner.
A white tourist was beaten, robbed and stripped naked on a Baltimore street while other blacks laugh and videotape the assault, reports Huffington Post.

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 8:14PM

You're wasting your time. Quinn Hillyar isn't interested in the TRUTH.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:28AM

No, you're incorrect....he is so interested in the truth. If not so he would not be editorializing on this matter. The MSM are your culprits, not conservative writers/publications like Quin!!!!!!!

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 6:15PM

Blacks are the culprits. White liberal TV reporters may perform an enabling role, but the villains are black, and they act as they do in the name of their blackness.

Race, in other words, isn't incidental to these vicious attacks; it is central. Bay at "liberals" (read: white liberals) all you want, but we need to deal with the main issue: a sick, seething will to power unique to African-Americans.

Richard good| 4.25.12 @ 10:56AM

Note the comment about the white person in a suit and his concerns. This image and concern had been created by the black community to the point one will assume some type of confrontation when with a black person. This is sad because there are more blacks, many that I have known, I would like as my neighbor. The community itself must correct itself. More money does not change attitudes of an individual. Until the community as a whole gets it act together, they will have a harder time improving their position in society. Others have come to this country and done well. I feel that the black community is held in modern slavery with welfare programs.

Danram| 4.25.12 @ 11:00AM

I'm sure that we can all expect to see Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on TV any minute now expressing their outrage and their righteous indignation over the racially-motivated lynching of a defenseless white man by a mob of black people. Surely a march through the neighborhood to show solidarity with the victim and his family will be taking place soon.

*** crickets chirping ***

worsham abbott| 4.25.12 @ 11:01AM

Too bad this gentleman wasn't armed like Mr. Zimmerman. This is what would have happened to Mr. Zimmerman had he not surprised his would be assailant with his evil firearm. I say " If the head is split then you must acquit" .

Arch| 4.25.12 @ 11:07AM

The Trayvon and Owens incidents are music to the ears of Ruger stockholders, and those of Colt, Browning, etc…. Barack Obama my soon be overtaken by Al Sharpton as "Gun Salesman of the Year," to the detriment of the anti-gun lobby.

Couple of questions: First, suppose George Zimmerman had been unarmed. Would he be in ICU? Second, what if Matthew Owens had been armed? What would he be in ICU? I would rather be Zimmerman than Owens.

The point to take away is that the police cannot protect the public. Their job is to investigate crimes, identify and apprehend criminals. The justice system may take them off the streets, but you'll still be dead or injured or otherwise harmed.

The person responsible for your self defense is you. Guns are simple machines. They are neither good nor evil. Get one; learn to use it and keep it within reach at all times.

The actions of this mob were uncharacteristic of Americans of any race, which is why we can neither tolerate nor excuse them. Owens told some kids not to play basketball in the street. If my son complained that someone had told him not to play in the street, my reaction would not be to pick up a paint can and attack my neighbor.

I live on a 20 MPH street at the foot of a steep hill. When I'm outside walking my dogs or cutting my grass, I tell speeders (usually kids) to slow down. Never has a parent come on my property with hostile intent, armed with a can of paint, a chair leg or a set of brass knuckles. Their reaction, like most of us, would be to take away the keys and bring him down to apologize.

Where I live, everyone is polite, respectful and heavily armed.

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:31AM

What do you have against Sig-Sauer?

PatrickHenry| 4.25.12 @ 12:36PM

Thanks Sharpton. Thanks Jessie. And thanks Odumbo for giving these two thugs cred.

PatrickHenry| 4.25.12 @ 12:43PM

@worsham abbott; I wish I had a tee shirt factory. On second thought, they would beat the crap out of me if I wore it and of course nobody would face charges. The leftist judge would probably say, naw, it's not a free speech issue, you incited your own viscous mugging.

GW| 4.25.12 @ 12:49PM

So *no* arrests have been made, despite white witnesses who saw around 20 animals attack one guy who--at most--was guilty of being a bad neighbor.

I hope people (especially white conservatives) begin to realize just *why* Jim Crow laws existed. It wasn't because white Southerners have an inate irrational hatred for blacks, but that Jim Crows helped protect decency and civilization in areas which had white/black division. This beating would never have happened had the blacks feared for their lives because a white mob twenty times as numerous would have hunted them down following the beating.

David| 4.25.12 @ 12:57PM

I am getting a shot-gun and pistol.

As to Trayvon, recall that school personnel found women's jewelry in his locker that was turned in to the police. Why has the jewelry not been traced to its rightful owners by the police.

My speculation: The police already have traced it and it was determined that jewlery came from homes in the same neighborhood (where his father's girlfriend lives and where he was shot) and that he was up to no good on the night he was shot.

It is a cover up.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 1:20PM

I have asked that question and not yet received an answer.

Have the number of burglaries in the gated community increased, decreased or stayed the same since the February shooting?

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 1:32PM

Having spent a lot of time in Asia, I have seen a few Asian mobs. I also have seen the St. Patrick's Day Parade fall on the actual holiday in my majority black city, and seen the mildly disorderly throng of melanin-inhibited alcohol-impaired celebrants displace for a while the generally darker hued residents as occupants of the streets.

I think the temptation for mindless mob activity lurks below the surface in most people, regardless of race or ethnicity. Where individuals have learned to control their baser impulses, there is less of this activity, and where they have not, there is more, generally along with a whole host of additional pathological behaviors.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 2:45PM

The problem is the acceptance in the black community that they don't have to be responsible for themselves and controlling their baser instincts. You are quite correct to state those baser instincts lie within us all regardless of race but civilized society demands that we regulate our behavior or we are taken out of civilized society. Also the Judeo-Christian morality of treating others as we would want ourselves to be treated. There is very little of civilized society in our inner cities today because there is no expectation for them to act civilized and they are given handouts simply for existing. We can thank the liberals "Great Society" for this terrible outcome and complete breakdown of the family unit in the black community.

Oldefarte| 4.25.12 @ 2:14PM

Quin, you know how much I have historically enjoy and admire your editorials, but I am going to respectfully and partially disagree with you on this issue. You're absolutely correct that it's not any one of these race hustling non-ministers' fault for what other individuals do [although they are guilty of riot instigation no doubt]. Who are guilty and responsible are the perpertrators of this asinine incident, and they all are IRRATIONAL ANIMALS [not humans]. If they had a historical gripe/beef with the victim, then RATIONAL HUMAN BEINGS should have exercised their grievences within the law by legal means. Have they not heard of what are commonly referred to as THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ATTORNEYS/LAWYERS? Are they that GD stupid [apparently so] and completely devoid of any rational intelligence? Are they ANIMALS [yes] not deserving of respect from the family of human beings? If the victim has previously and unlawfully harrassed them, then the police should have been contacted whereupon an arrest and legal conviction would have rightfully followed. The old west was famous for shoot-um-up cowboys with gunfights and fist brawling, but that was a long time ago. We now have laws and police authority that are in place to handle disputes between individuals. That said, anyone be they black, white, yellow, brown, red or whatever color of skin that in mob fashion replaces the police function is an brainless, dumbars animal who should be arrested, legally tried within the law and convicted if proven guilty. I'm sick and tired of this crapola constantly about racism, gentrification. disenfranchisement, discrimination etc which is BS within current times. There exists to handle such incidences the legal mechanism within this nation, and if same does not fulfill its public obligation as such, then they should be likewise prosecuted and convicted. At the Catholic university that i graduated from years ago, it was ingrained in me numerous times the principle of FOR EVERY RIGHT, THERE IS AN EQUAL AND CORRESPONDING REPSONSIBILITY [ie, if one has the right to public education, then they have a responsibility to obtain an education from same]. These rioting animals had their rights to the law, but they ignored same and did not act responsibly in rioting and taking the law into their own hands. Again, if the legal and political authorites do not adequately and thoroughly arrest and prosecute these animals for this crime against the victim, they should be forced to resign from office and/or defeated at their next election by the public at large!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TLP| 4.25.12 @ 8:18PM

BULLSH*T. It's all of their faults, and that POS - HOLDER - will NEVER go after HIS PEOPLE.

Get it through your head.

Oldefarte| 4.26.12 @ 11:24AM

Everyone with a half ounce of common sense KNOWS THAT! If I command or tell YOU to go rob a bank and then you do so, whose faults is it? Are you therefore innocent of guilt because you DUMBARSINGLY followed my orders to rob the bank? Is not perhaps Nancy Reagan's etc words applicable here, in that you should JUST SAY NO? Jackson, Sharpton etc are race-baiting community organizing hustlers[as is the POTUS] but if everyone ignored their messaging intelligently or common sensically, would not these morons simply be SPITTING IN THE WIND VERBALLY SPEAKING? An individual with normal intelligence receives trillions of information messages 24-7, some good, some bad, some usful, some garbage, etc. Their brain works as a computer that filters out the former and deletes the latter. These rioting animals should have reasoned that Jackson's/Sharpton's etc messages were as you say '''''BS'''''' and therefore not actied upon same, but they did not do so. Why, because they are stupid animals without the mental power of reasoning!!!!!!!!!

Nathan | 4.25.12 @ 2:28PM

Yes Quinn you are absolutely correct in your assessment. The problem is that this IS an actual valid hate crime - that is NOT being reported by civil rights leaders; whereas Trayvon Martin is NOT a racial issue yet is being pursued as one by racist civil rights leaders.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 2:51PM

Nathan;

Since we hold so many divergent views on many issues, it seems unusual that we might share some thoughts in common on this.

Following the Thomas Sowell article yesterday, I posted to the effect that the encounter between Martin and Zimmerman may not have a racial component in what transpired, and that it was injected by others after the fact by racist opportunists such as Sharpton, who apparently felt that Martin’s right to be shot to death only by a member of his own race or ethnicity was violated.

As Mr. Hilyer points out here, there is some evidence that this beating of Mr. Owens was not only based on the hatred of Mr. Owens personally as a troublesome neighbor, but that somehow his whiteness was also the basis of his being beaten black and blue. The absence of a response from the likes of Sharpton and Holder for the potential role they play in inciting this behavior speaks volumes.

Scontrone| 4.25.12 @ 3:02PM

The press and the law enforcement authorities are making a huge mistake by ignoring increasingly violent black on white crime. They don't want to rock the boat, but in the process the white community is increasingly of the belief that they are on their own. Gun sales are way up, and along with it a willingness in blogs such as this to warn of (and seemingly welcome) armed retaliation. If Holder and other law enforcement agencies won't address black hate crimes, be assured that the white community will do so in a very violent way. If that happens we will have a race war that will set us back a century. I fear we are much closer to that than we may think.

Bill X| 4.25.12 @ 3:22PM

It's an unfortunate fact that, on average, blacks hate whites 10 times as much as whites hate blacks. That's why blacks see racism everywhere.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:29PM

Somebody pointed out that there are about 2 black people for every 10 white people. So if 10 white people make one racial slur each toward black people, the black people hear 10 slurs. If both black people make racial slurs toward white, the 10 white people hear only 2 racial slurs. So black people can never catch up on the slurs.

The only answer is for no one to make any slurs at all. Then the ratio is 0:0.

Nick| 4.25.12 @ 7:26PM

"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:

http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403

You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!

Mikio| 4.25.12 @ 3:33PM

Where is the hypocrite, Diane Sawyer, and the "I've lost my mind in the past 3 years" Chris Matthews going to hide if NYC starts to "burn" this summer?

Conservative Bob| 4.25.12 @ 3:45PM

I posted this earlier on the Update Hillyer posted.

Keep your anger and response individual.

I have been watching this rising phenomenon for a while and have a strong sense that it is being orchestrated for a political purpose.

I think race is being used as a tool for O’s re-election, minimally to keep the base fired up although I suspect much worse.

Some of the racial comments I have read are frightening in their overstatement. This president and his minions are seeking to divide us along racial lines, along economic lines etc. Don’t get caught up in it.

If someone regardless of color attacks me or my family I will direct my response in a very controlled manner to their center of mass. Whether they attack me because of my color, political persuasion, age, or just because they want to take what is mine, my response will be the same, 230 grains at 852 fps. I am and always have been responsible for my own safety and the safety of my family. I am armed and proficient in the use of a wide variety of weapons. I do not and will not look for trouble; I actively seek to avoid places where I might encounter trouble. If however it seeks me out or worse yet my family my response will be immediate, brutal and fatal, without concern for race creed sexual orientation or national origin. It also will be exclusively focused on the individual or individuals actually attacking, not their neighbor or their uncles or their brother or sister or cousins.
As a believer in individual liberty I also am a believer in individual responsibility, socialists subscribe to the theory or group rights and group guilt.

Do not allow yourself to be manipulated by people seeking to control us by dividing us.
One last point.
No one ‘wants’ a race war, some may think they do but they are fanaticizing without any connection to what that reality would look like. Recall the tribal genocide that erupted in Uganda when Clinton was in office. Do you want to expose your children or grandchildren to that kind of madness? Direct your ire not at some group of ‘others’ but at the politicians and media hacks that think fomenting this kind of insanity is somehow beneficial to their political aspirations.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:16PM

232 gr. at 852 fps. You like that ACP round, don't you? Me too.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:17PM

Not so concealable, but it makes up the difference in stopping power. I also like that big hole that faces the attacker.

Conservative Bob| 4.25.12 @ 4:54PM

I carry a Taurus Millennium Pro 145. Not too heavy, great sights and 10 rounds in a double stack. It conceals well. Not sure why but felt recoil is less than my 1911, may be the wide palm swell of the double stack.

Not Special Ops Bill| 4.25.12 @ 4:17PM

I WILL miss those really good slide guitar blues singers, though.

Slacker| 4.25.12 @ 4:11PM

Uh-oh. I can’t help but notice that numerous comments have been scrubbed today. Rather funny which ones get to stay and which ones must go. Somebody at TAS must be channeling Rich Lowry.

Louis Jenkins| 4.25.12 @ 5:00PM

Yes, there has been several erased from this thread.. Someone is concerned about what has been said.

Remember that Obama has a stake in this. He deliberately said that he could have had a son, etc. He's got cards in this game, and we should realize that he wants to maintain his home base votes.

Slacker| 4.25.12 @ 6:57PM

Well, now we know a subject that stings egos at The Spectator. At least this has been clarifying.

The Spectator has cards in the game too. Sooner or later they will need to double down, shut up, or eat crow.

WhiteBikerTrash| 4.25.12 @ 4:45PM

What is the difference between the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panthers?
None, They are both in da hood.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 5:35PM

About a year ago, you made the below insightful post that I copied. I think there might be value in the current set of events to post it here again:

WhiteBikerTrash| 5.17.11 @ 1:04PM

The Democratic Plantation

The Democratic Party seems to have a lock on the non Caucasian vote, and knowledge of history would preclude this strange relationship.

First historical note is that the Democratic Party was started by slaveholders to perpetuate slavery, and this thread continues through the Democratic Party to this day.

Blacks "are inferior to the whites in the endowments of both of body and mind."
--Thomas Jefferson, 1787
Co-founder of the Democratic Party (along with Andrew Jackson)
President, 1801-09

If blacks were given the right to vote, that would "place every splay-footed, bandy-shanked, hump-backed, thick-lipped, flat-nosed, woolly-headed, ebon-colored Negro in the country upon an equality with the poor white man."
--Rep. Andrew Johnson, (D., Tenn.), 1844

The Democrats were running the plantation since before this country was formed and before the Democrats became a political party
The control of the subservient has been, and is their goal.

I know, that sounds a little harsh, but in retrospect it seems to make the most sense. Their fights against emancipation, including voters rights to blacks, women, Hispanics, and Orientals Then of course how can we forget the Muscle of the Democratic Party in the teens, twenties , and thirties, The Klu Klux Klan!!

For the modern version see the SEIU. If you have a hard time believing this just look up the term “Klan Bake” and wonder why this was not in your 5th grade history book.

Who have been the most obvious racist Presidents?

1. Woodrow Wilson

Wilson’s two-volume book, “A History of the American People”, was so racially biased that D.W. Griffith quoted the sitting president’s writings in his 1915 silent film, The Birth of a Nation, “The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self preservation… until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” Not only did Wilson proudly stand by those words, but he also had a private showing of the movie at the White House. After seeing The Birth of a Nation, Wilson said “It is like writing history with lightning, my only regret is that it is all so true.”

A new incarnation of the KKK is directly attributed to the great success of Griffith’s film. The Klan soared in popularity thanks in part to support stemming from the highest office in the land.

Woodrow Wilson took advantage of his presidency to help correct many of what he considered to be the wrongs of the Reconstruction. Wilson believed white southerners to be the only real citizens and feared what might arise from a south “ruled by an ignorant and inferior race.”

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
From the time FDR took office in 1933, he absolutely refused to desegregate the government. His predecessor, Woodrow Wilson, brought Jim Crow to Washington. Wilson instituted separate facilities -- like drinking fountains and restrooms -- for blacks. He moved black employees into their own buildings or, if that wasn't possible, had partitions set up around them. The Republican platform of June 24, 1940 called for integration of the armed forces, but for the balance of his time in office, FDR refused to order it. FDR refused to even endorse a federal anti-lynch law!

And, let's not forget how FDR threw 110,000 loyal Japanese-Americans into concentration camps, seized their properties and turned their property and possessions over to whites.

3. Lyndon Baines Johnson
Johnson voted with his fellow Southern Democrats in Congress, against civil rights measures such as banning lynching, and eliminating poll taxes.

“President Truman's civil rights program is a farce and a sham--an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty. I am opposed to that program. I have voted against the so-called poll tax repeal bill. . .. I have voted against the so-called anti-lynching bill." - Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1948

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the filibuster and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be Reconstruction all over again." - Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D., Texas), 1957

Johnson was merely an unprincipled politician who later out of political expediency used the civil rights issue when he realized the worth of the "Black Vote". However he claimed to be an idealist who dreamed of making America a "Great Society". It was Johnson who put the presidential signature to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Are these not the things heroes are made of?

Note, all of these men represented the Democratic Party.

Did you know that according to the Democratic Party’s own history, Barrack Obama is not the first “Black” President? Warren G. Harding was proclaimed and advertized as 1/8 “Black”. Oh by the way, Warren was a Republican and the Democrats were trying to derail his election. They felt they “must put that black man in his place!”

Wow, talk about Political Expedience!!

So, they lost the slaves on the plantations, but they never lost the slave owner attitude.
Now they knew that the days of holding people against their wills were over, so how could they repopulate the plantation?

The Democrats knew they were going to have to reform the plantation, and the slave attitude, so they chose to use the Federal Government to do it!

On the plantation of old how did the slave owner keep the slaves enslaved? He kept the slave dependent on the master, for food clothing and lodging. This worked best if the slave was born into slavery, because they knew no other life or living options. To keep them uninformed about options reading was actually illegal for a slave, and to teach one to read? To the Progressive Democrat of that time, Sin!!

Another control method of many was the destruction, or not allowing forming, of the nuclear family. Slaves were not allowed to marry, nor create any form of family relationship; therefore the slave’s allegiance could only be to the master!

On the Democratic plantation of today they have done the same thing, it’s called “The Great Society”.

Now many have said “Here is proof of L.B.J.’s transformation” but remember what he said?

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference”
How does that fit into their narrative? Ummm, he changed his mind? Or how about he gave “them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference”

And while on this new plantation they were picking new votes for their Democratic Masters!
There is a thread that runs throughout the history of the Democratic Party to this day!

How Ironic the only defense the party of slaveholders has to the people whose beliefs freed the slaves in the first round is “RACIST” and the slaves trapped on the Democratic Plantation agree out of fear of losing their sustenance, Their spot in the Masters heart, and the Plantation!

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 6:27PM

Another example of "conservative" thought, a la Jonah Goldberg, in action, with the usual cherry-picked facts. For what seems to be the one-hundredth time, "Democrat" and "liberal" did NOT necessarily mean the same thing in the South, and usually meant the opposite. EVERYONE in the pre-1970s South, whether anti-Klan or pro-Klan, was a Democrat. Party membership came almost with the birth certificate back then. The Klan, moreover, was a secret society; it didn't operate as a Democratic Party think tank. Secrecy meant an ability to intimidate. The Klan also was distinctly Southern Protestant, almost as anti-Catholic as anti-black.

The real issue, ever so cleverly camouflaged by fake conservatives crying "liberal racism" (forget it, guys, you'll never out-Left the Left) is that the Democrats have evolved into the anti-white party: the party of affirmative action, ghetto lottery lawsuits, an expanding pro-black welfare state (at white expense), and shakedowns for slavery "reparations." Everything else is irrelevant. Nobody gives a rat's arse about the "revelation" that future Sen. Robert Byrd some 70 years ago was a Klansman.

Forget about attracting the black vote. The Republican Party needs to attract the voting bloc that dares not speak its name: the white vote.

SetOurChildrenFree | 4.25.12 @ 5:02PM

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson certainly have blood on their hands, but I blame the national media even more. They salivated over this story from the beginning because it fit their idea that America is a racist country. They may be correct if they're talking about themselves and the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and Eric Holder.

C. S. P. Schofield| 4.25.12 @ 5:47PM

America IS a Racist country, just like all the other countries that have a wide enough view of the world to embrace a philosophy less divisive than tribalism. And the biggest source of Racism in this country is the Democrat Party, which has stood for treating people differently according to their race since before the Civil War.

Seek| 4.27.12 @ 2:09PM

See my above post.

BarocheDique | 4.25.12 @ 7:04PM

I disagree with you Mr. Hilyer; Fat Al and Jesse are most certainly responsible for this assault along with Holder and also Obama for not doing anything to lessen the volitility of the atmosphere created by his AG. The words speak clearly for themselves -"THIS IS JUSTICE FOR TRAYVONN"- I suppose that it is 'possible' that members of the group just joined in for the hell of it, just as its 'possible' the Sun might not rise in the East tomorrow, but it is highly unlikely. You should not start a story and then try to back down at the end. Stick to your guns....its the only way for us all to stand up against this mob mentality and install some common decency back into our society. Otherwise, I enjoy your articles ;)

Quin| 4.25.12 @ 7:27PM

A note on deletions: Usually I don't do this, but I myself am the one who has been deleting some of the comments. The criteria are simple: if there are profanities that I see, I will delete the comment. If there are racist statements made (as in making negative blanket statements about all black people, rather than a more specific point), I will delete it. If there is something that seems to go beyond a pledge to protect oneself, and instead a comment actually seems to aggressively encourage violence, I will delete it. Period. That's simple: profanity, racism, and violence are forbidden here. So are other abuses if I see them, but those are the obvious ones. This is a civilized site.

crossworked| 4.25.12 @ 8:18PM

I believe hate is an aspect of fear. I like this site for the for the most part because of merit on the part of the writers . Honest debate is at the center of freedom. My special point is that your readers are true to the point and that obvious plants poison the debate. When we dwell to much on the past we see not the stone in front of us.

Todd S| 4.25.12 @ 8:49PM

Frankly TLP's act is getting old like he is trying to outdo himself every day and heaven forbid if you mention he could tone it down a bit. Like you stated, blanket statements against all black people should not be tolerated. The black community has major issues for sure but there are plenty of decent good African Americans who don't deserve to be lumped in as criminals and racists.

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 5:32PM

Some call it "bigotry" to make generalized statements based on race. In the spirit of Richard Weaver, I call it "a conclusion."

RCV| 4.25.12 @ 10:52PM

Thanks, Quinn for trying to maintain some civility in these discussions.

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 11:33PM

One of the inherent difficulties with that approach is when a post is removed, the subsequent responses that criticize, amplify or merely comment upon what was written become difficult to follow.

As an example, around 1:32 p.m. today, I responded to an assertion by jstwndrng that (in essence) only blacks had riots. Once his original post and subsequent response are removed, my post loses some of its context, and it might appear that I'm trying to broaden the racial discord by dragging in Asians.

I suppose it is the price we pay for the mostly free exchange of ideas.

crossworked| 4.25.12 @ 7:42PM

Why in the world do we not see in the media the hundreds of thousands of productive(happy) interracial marriages in the US. Also look to the "bad" occupying Israel nation and you will be astounded at the number of women and men who have married outside the media attention. They my friends keep the peace. They share holidays,birthdays,graduations with their "media designed enemies ". Hate kills

Division only makes those who promulgate it more powerful.

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 6:29PM

Hundreds of thousands of happy interracial marriages? I barely can think of 10.

LIBERALPARASITES| 4.25.12 @ 8:32PM

Liberals have become the modern day -KKK- by using -Mob Rule- and -Mob Justice-....

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:45AM

Liberals were the ORIGINAL KKK, as well.

suibne| 4.25.12 @ 9:31PM

fifty years of the politics of resentment and faux victimization. African Americans have sold their children into perdition. Never before have so many had so much opportunity and failed so miserable. CONGRATS!
suibne

Janis| 4.25.12 @ 10:20PM

Down here in Miami students that walked out of school in protest of the killing ran into stores ramsacked them and ran out. One was quoted on news saying it was right because of the killng and they did not feel bad about it.
They are using this as an excuse to break the law...

albert constantine jr.| 4.25.12 @ 11:34PM

Once Zimmerman was arrested, I wonder if they felt the obligation to return to the store and pay, or if they are waiting for the conviction prior to making restitution.

POST American| 4.25.12 @ 11:39PM

--Capstone contrived CON-flict
serving as a neat screen during
these final stage of the CFR---RED
China handover and takedown op.

NO MORE, NO LESS.

This whole '90's Show' is even looking
positively quaint as, so we understand,
MILLIONS upon MILLIONS of muslims
have been quietly settled into out midwest
just since Obama's term began.

"---ISLAM is to provide the neccessary
religious component to bring in the
EUGENICS NWO. Across Europe and
America expect MASS conversions
within the next 5 to 10 years. Remember,
historically, ISLAM attacked the west
FIRST."

DO CHECK OUT that latest Jay Weidner
interview on RED Ice Radio (yahoo videos).
-----It --IS--revelatory!

If the prediction sounds preposterous,
consider, our Rockefeller-rotten church
establishment has become a front op
for sodomy, extermination of the unborn
and the Gates EUGENICS program.
This is no longer even a matter of debate!

The disaffected average Joe could, with time
and soft programming via audio visual cues
through our media (--esp CNN) would
start feeling the appeal of a religion which
is unafraid to declare itself and its doctrines,
such as they are.

Weidner even surprisaed us with his
revelations of the very, very deep links
between Luciferian 'MAY-SIN-re' rituals
and ISLAM.

---CAIN using ISHMAEL as an instrument
to mark (ID--all) and takedown the Abels?
-------------OF COURSE!

----------The ID--all---calm U.N. wealth-------------

-------------------------------OF COURSE!

Porch Masons ---TAKE HEED! --and wake up!

---------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012----------------

Tim the Enchanter| 4.27.12 @ 11:47AM

Huh?

Marc Jeric| 4.26.12 @ 1:36AM

There is the case these days of a young black male killed by a neighborhood watch guard in a gated community in Florida. The TV and newspapers show the black fellow by a photograph when the victim was a 12-year old youngster; the watchman is a half-Hispanic whom the papers call a white man. The victim in reality was a 17-year old hooded “gangsta” casing the joint for any empty houses; he is 6’-3” tall fellow walking at night in a strange gated neighborhood, where he gained access by jumping the fence. When challenged by the guard he attacked him and beat him to the ground, and then proceeded to break his nose and left him there all bloodied, according to a witness. The watchman called 911 to ask for police help, and then got his gun and killed “the young man” who was trying to walk away while the police was taking their time in arriving there. All TV’s and newspapers are in racial panic, accusing the police there of racial bigotry; all the usual racebaiters are there to organize protests – Sharpton, Jackson, Farakhan; the Black Panthers issued a reward of $10,000 to whomever would kill the guard. Black churches are in mourning with vigils for the “young victim” of racism. The Attorney General Holder promises a federal hate crime prosecution unless the local authorities act expeditiously. President Obama expressed his condolences to the family of “the young boy who could have well been his own son” if he had one. Well – “the young boy” shown in that old photograph by all TV’s and in newspapers is in reality is a huge hooded gangster with a history of school suspensions for vandalism, jewelry theft, and drug dealing. He was dealt with rather mildly – because he was black! Any white hoodlum would have been sent to a correction facility. The young criminal left him there on the ground and tried to walk away, but the guard got his gun and shot him dead. A grand jury will take up the case in a couple of weeks. The local police chief, a white man, left his place in favor of a black officer while the case is going through the legal paces.

LIBERALPARASITES| 4.26.12 @ 3:14PM

This is the result of 50 years of liberalism and 20 Trillion dollars of taxpayers money on social programs. We now have -Mob Rule- and -Mob Justice- condoned by -Liberals-...

Seek| 4.26.12 @ 5:34PM

You mean blacks weren't like this at all before the Great Society?

POST American| 4.27.12 @ 2:03AM

---------------------BOTTOM LINE---------------------

'Ordo ob 'their' K--OZ' op by
33rd degreee 'MAY--SINs'
Sharpton and 'Jack's ON'.

No more, no less.

Meanwhile, 'Homeland SICK-CURE-'It'-he'
last month purchases some 450 MILLION
rounds of hollow point ammo.

"---They are preparing for a 7 year
war against the American people."
-ALEX JONES
(yesterday)

BTW --we hear O.J.s on board to
help DHS root out 'the REAL terrorists'.

----------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012---------------

And RETRO-active IMPEACHMNENT
of our past 4 CFR--RED China sellout
front op administrations.

That would be Bush Sr -Clinton ---Bush Jr
and the current 'BAR--Rockefeller' H. Obama.

STOP being SAPS ----and get beyond
IT--dom by getting IT ---itself!

We are in the 11th hour of the
CFR--RED China handover, takedown,
TREASON, OCCUPATION and
FINAL EUGENICS OP.

There can be NO doubt.

wawoo| 4.27.12 @ 3:54PM

Somehow I do not believe that as there was a lynching of a young black man in Mobile in 1981 or 1982 that integration went smoothly in Mobile and there were no incidents. Racism does swing both ways, I certainly will acknowledge that, but do not promulgate the Polly Anna nonsense that Mobile was where the dominant white class welcomed Alabamians of color into full social and political equuilvalence. It still is not so.

kerry| 4.30.12 @ 8:30AM

This is why I laugh when I hear the radio ad telling me I should lie around people of different colors, it strikes me as funny because they don't want to live around anymore than I want to live around them.

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FLASHBACK TO: 1995

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