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US News
1. Stormfront Server Attacked Again
2. Austin residents urged to acknowledge racism
3. Attorney appeals ruling in Long case
4. Confederate Flag Sparks Truck Duel
5. Immigrants stuck in tough situation
6. Cross burned at Nazi protester's home
7. Boston to appeal school quota ruling
World News
8. Swiss aim to fight Net hate speech
9. Russian government to move against political extremism
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Stormfront Server Attacked Again
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as of tonight.
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Austin residents urged to acknowledge racism
Document forged by mayor, religious leaders calls for repentance,
reconciliation
Highlights of the Document - Austin is a divided, generally
segregated community. - There's a lack of progress toward racial
reconciliation. - White Austin residents can no longer deny the
reality of racist laws, institutions, customs and conditioned
reflexes. - Racism is defined as racial prejudice plus power.
- Reconciliation requires recognizing the shameful history and
continued existence of racism. - Reconciliation requires that
the damage done by racism be repaired "as much as possible."
- Diversity must be valued and not remain a basis for discord.
- Spiritual leaders must take the lead. - Spiritual leaders must
hold their constituencies accountable to the goal of racial
reconciliation.
By Kim Sue Lia Perkes
and Laylan Copelin
American-Statesman Staff
Published: Dec. 2, 1998
In a blunt document that urges white people to acknowledge Austin is
plagued by racism, local religious leaders and Mayor Kirk Watson are
calling on the community to "repent and seek forgiveness for racist
beliefs, attitudes and behaviors."
"One of the key contributions to racial tension in Austin today is
the denial by man that racism exists and the refusal on the part of
many in the white community to listen seriously to those who continue
to suffer its effects," says the "Commitment to Racial
Reconciliation,"
a statement that Watson, Council Member Willie Lewis and the religious
leaders have been working on for six months.
Watson said the paper has been signed by about two dozen religious
and civic leaders from a broad spectrum of faiths -- Christian,
Hindu, Islam, Judaism and Unitarian. The document is planned for
release Thursday, the day before the start of a city-sponsored
workshop on conflict resolution.
Austin's reputation is that of a progressive and liberal city that
is home to an eclectic population, but the religious leaders said
one only need look at Interstate 35 to see the city's division. The
freeway divides the predominantly white west from the predominantly
Hispanic and African American east.
"It's a question of facing up to it," said Catholic Bishop John
McCarthy, who signed the document. "When we got open housing and
voting rights and we removed segregation from the law of the land,
I think a lot of white people said, `Well, that takes care of that.'"
It didn't, he said.
The document is so forceful that some white ministers admitted during
a meeting about the document they feared repercussions from their
congregations, McCarthy said. But many signed it anyway, which
religious leaders said shows the level of commitment to the cause.
"In this instance, you had enough white clergy that understood the
insidious evil of racism, and they took a hard position," said the
Rev. Sterling Lands, pastor of Greater Calvary Baptist Church.
"You need to stand for the truth, or you will fail to stand for
anything." Lands was one of 10 framers of the document.
"It's the strength of the document that it has been signed on by a
diverse group of religious leaders, many of whom have theological
disagreements but have come together on this issue," said the Rev.
Joseph Parker Jr. of David Chapel Missionary Baptist.
Roots of the statement
The three-page statement is the result of six monthly meetings --
including an all-day retreat Nov. 2 -- of Watson and a group of
about 30 religious leaders. Its roots, however, go back to Watson's
first days in office in the summer of 1997, when the mayor began
talking about racism with a smaller circle of religious advisers.
The statement comes two days before a seminar on community
reconciliation sponsored by the mayor with the Plowshares Institute,
a nonprofit organization that has taught conflict resolution, among
other things, in places such as South Africa and Los Angeles. The
workshop will involve at least 32 civic, political and religious
leaders Friday and Saturday.
"It would be wrong for me as mayor, as well as a human being, not
to do something about race," Watson said Tuesday. He said he first
turned to spiritual leaders because he considers racial reconciliation
a moral issue that political leaders find hard to address.
Watson's education on racial matters got a difficult test this summer
as the city tried to settle a lawsuit arising from a 1995 incident
between the police and East Austin party-goers on Cedar Avenue.
People called police and reported that an alleged gang member had
crashed the party. The U.S. Justice Department cleared the police
of allegations of brutality in breaking up the party, and a jury
ruled in favor of the city in the first trial. That verdict, however,
was thrown out after a bailiff allegedly used a racial epithet and
improperly advised some jurors.
On the eve of the retrial, Watson and others negotiated a settlement
with the party-goers, mostly African American teen-agers, that called
for scholarships, job training, video cameras for police cars and a
review of police training and internal investigations.
"We need to heal," Watson said at the time. "The judicial system is
adversarial. It's about winners and losers. We can't afford to have
any losers in this."
As a plaintiff's lawyer, Watson always believes he can read enough to
learn about almost any subject and sway a jury to his point of view.
As a politician, he believes he can relate to a broad spectrum of
people. Yet he said his months of frank discussion with a group of
religious leaders of all races has convinced him that race relations
defy easy understanding -- especially if you haven't personally
experienced racism.
"It's very difficult for a white male raised in Texas to lead on this
issue," he said of being raised in a largely white suburb of Fort
Worth in the 1950s and 1960s. "I have to be willing as an elected
official to say, 'I don't know all that needs to be done.' "
Watson is aware of the political pitfalls for even raising race
relations as an issue. He need look no further than President
Clinton's Advisory Board on Race that studied the issue for 15
months. It was criticized for compiling a list of platitudes instead
of spurring groundbreaking discussion of race relations.
"I'm going to accept all criticisms as constructive," Watson said.
Unlike Clinton, however, Watson is letting the religious community
take the first step with its three-page commitment to racial
conciliation. He said the news media and voters would expect
"measurable results" from a governmental initiative.
Instead, the spiritual community is more at ease dealing with
immeasurable concepts of forgiveness and hope. "How do you measure
being a better person?" Watson asked.
Watson's stand praised Religious leaders praised Watson's commitment
to creating a more harmonious city.
"I think it was pretty courageous of the mayor to appeal to a group
of spiritual leaders for a moral imperative," said the Rev. Rick
Randall of Austin Cornerstone Church. "He's risked a lot to embrace
this issue. ... The least we can do as spiritual leaders is give him
that moral imperative that he needs."
While Austin's religious leaders took the first step with their
written commitment to racial reconciliation, Watson said the
Plowshares workshop this weekend is the starting point for taking
the discussion outside the spiritual realm.
Margaret Steinegger-Keyser is one of four trainers coming to Austin
for the workshop. A native of South Africa, she said the Plowshare
Institute was used in her country since the 1980s to teach people
how to resolve disputes peacefully.
She said the workshop teaches skills that can be used to improve
communication and to resolve community conflicts.
"We don't come in and say, `You have a racial problem or a gender
problem,'" she said. "There's no assumption that we have all the
answers."
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Attorney appeals ruling in Long case
[This is the brutal hate crime murder of the North Carolina white
schoolgirl at the hands of three black thugs. You'd never no that
by the way the author hides this important information.]
By BRAD BUCK
Times-News
GRAHAM - The attorney representing the 14-year-old Burlington boy
accused in the slaying of 10-year-old Tiffany Long of Burlington
appealed a judge’s ruling late Wednesday that puts the teen’s case
in adult court.
Kevin Morse of Greensboro said he based his appeal on the
admissability
of Joseph Jones’ statement, made to Burlington police on Oct. 21, in
which Jones implicates himself in Long’s killing. Morse filed the
appeal with the Alamance County Clerk of Court’s office, he said
Wednesday night. If Jones is tried and convicted as an adult, he
faces up to life in prison. He would face a lesser punishment if
convicted as a juvenile.
The defense attorney said he’s appealing District Judge Spencer
Ennis’ finding Monday that probable cause exists that Jones
participated in Long’s death. Specifically, Morse said, he’s
appealing because he doesn’t think Jones’ statement to
Burlington police on Oct. 21 that implicated Jones in the slaying
should have been allowed as evidence at the probable cause
hearing.
For example, when authorities question a person under 14 years
old, a parent, guardian or custodian must be present, under
North Carolina law. Al-Neisa Jones, Jones’ aunt was
present for the police interview, but Morse questions whether she
constitutes a guardian or custodian.
Ennis ruled that Al-Neisa Jones could be considered his guardian
based on a common- sense, dictionary definition of the word.
Morse also said he questions whether Joseph Jones made his
statement freely and voluntarily.
Morse also said he based his appeal on constitutional issues.
Morse’s appeal is expected to be heard by the N.C. Court of
Appeals, but Morse said he has no idea when that will happen.
District Attorney Rob Johnson said Wednesday he expects
Joseph Jones’ case to go to an Alamance County grand jury on
Monday.
Johnson declined to comment further on the Long murder case
Wednesday. Burlington police charged Jones
with first-degree murder, first-degree sex offense and
first-degree kidnapping. Joseph Jones’ uncle, Harold, 16,
and Harold’s girlfriend Dorthia Bynum, 17, both of Burlington,
have been indicted by an Alamance County grand jury on
charges of first-degree murder, first-degree kidnapping and four
counts of first-degree sex offense.
Long was reported missing by her grandmother, Nancy Long, Oct.
16. Searchers found Tiffany Long’s brutally beaten body Oct.
17 behind a vacant house at 614 Lakeside Ave., where the
Joneses used to live.
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Confederate Flag Sparks Truck Duel
LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - A black trucker became enraged when he spotted
a Confederate flag on the bug shield of another truck driver and
tried to force him off the road, police say.
Jeffrey G. Robinson, 31, of Chicago was arrested Wednesday on charges
of misdemeanor intimidation and criminal recklessness with a vehicle.
Jimmy Brogdon of Chattanooga, Tenn., said he was in a line of three
tractor-trailers in the left lane of Interstate 65 when Robinson came
up from behind at high speed, angry that the other truckers were going
only 65.
When Robinson passed Brogdon and saw the Confederate flag bug screen
on the truck's front grille, he became enraged, police said.
Brogdon said Robinson forced him off the road and shoulder to get
him to stop, and when that failed, got in front of him and slowed
down to 35 mph.
Other truckers said Robinson threatened Brogdon over the CB
radio.
``He's wanting all of us white honkies pulled over, and he
threatened to kill all of us,'' Bruce Hampton said.
The duel ended 13 miles later when a state trooper got on the CB
and ordered Robinson to stop.
Brogdon said he is going to replace the Confederate banner with
an American flag. Robinson could not be located for comment.
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Immigrants stuck in tough situation
[Illegal aliens get themselves a promo from the Houston Chronicle]
By THOM MARSHALL
Seems a little like passing out empty canteens to a bunch
of thirsty folks and then telling them they aren't allowed to
go near the water supply.
[Seems a little like xenophile liberals on the Houston Chronicle
staff are having a tough time with allegories when dealing with
ILLEGAL ALIENS.]
The feds are springing some 400 Central American immigrants
from hoosegows in our area, and as many as 3,000 nationwide, and
telling them they aren't allowed to get jobs.
[They wouldn't be there if they weren't ILLEGAL. Does Thom
Marshall understand the term "ILLEGAL"?]
Jobs, of course, is the very reason the immigrants came up here
without any government permission documents in the first place.
There weren't enough jobs back in Honduras or Nicaragua or
Guatemala or El Salvador, and the pay was mostly pretty lousy.
Many who came here planned to send part of their earnings back
home to support their families.
[An inferior Central American society is why they came here
ILLEGALLY. They've ruined their own economies with corruption,
filth, and crime, and they've heard that egalitarian traitors
in America are welcoming them here to help dispossess Americans
of European origin.]
And that was before Hurricane Mitch stormed in, laying waste
to so much, killing so many. Families are in even greater need of
financial assistance from those who came to Texas to find work.
[Things are tough everywhere. Perhaps they have need of egalitarian
liberal journalists down in Central America to 'show them the
light'? As I recall, such journalists weren't appreciated by
their governments and "disappeared". Such is the way of these
"immigrants"
The situation is so critical in Central America that the
governments down there can't handle large numbers of returned
citizens. So our United States government is doing those Central
American governments a favor by putting those deportations on
hold, although some of the Central Americans actually wanted to
be deported, said INS spokeswoman Kristi Barrows.
[Inferior Central American countries are always 'critical'. It
is not the responsibility for the United States Government, nor
of any of its citizens to "do favors" for ILLEGAL ALIEN criminals.]
It's is a `political hot potato'
[Says who? Most European Americans understand the threat to
our way of life by importing trouble from inferior nations,
such as Honduras.]
The official line from the INS is that the immigrants are being
released locally to the custody of kinfolk or nonprofit agencies.
That way they will have a place to stay and something to eat
without working.
[ILLEGALS should be deported. No exceptions.]
"They are not authorized for employment at this time," Kristi
said. But the INS must know they are going to look for jobs,
going to try to earn some money to help out their families, I
said. How does the INS plan to enforce the law? Will immigration
officers be acting on a complaint basis, or what?
[Thom Marshall seems so concerned. Ship them to his place of
dwelling. Or better yet, he needs to do a permanent pilgrimage
to Central America in the name of "diversity".]
Kristi said she could only repeat the official response: "They
are not authorized for employment at this time."
It is a political hot potato. Many U.S. citizens are opposed
to making any accommodations for anyone who comes to This Great
Land without appropriate documents. Others believe it would
be good if Central Americans were allowed to work and send
money back to help with the recovery efforts.
[The above should read, "MOST U.S. citizens are opposed to
making any accommodations for ILLEGAL ALIENS." Thom Marshall
has repeatedly avoided using the appropriate term -- ILLEGAL
ALIENS. Does he have a vested interest in making law breakers
more palatable to his readers, or is he under instructions from
someone? In any case, it is not a "hot potato". "Our" government
has been forcing "diversity" down our throats for well over
thirty years in the name of "humanitarianism". If they followed
the will of the American people since before the 60's,
unassimilable nonwhite immigrants would have continued to be
banned from America.]
Apparently, Washington is playing to both sides by releasing the
Central American immigrants from custody instead of deporting
them, but then saying they are not authorized to work.
[A real American government would protect its citizens, deport
alien intruders, and punish traitorous "journalists" that hide
behind humanitarianism for reasons of political graft. These
ILLEGALS help people like Clinton get elected, and feeds the
menacing federal totalitarian government that we have today.]
Kristi said the 30-county Houston District of the INS has only 67
investigators and 28 deportation officers. They have many duties.
If I were a Central American who wanted to work I wouldn't worry
too much about getting caught.
[Here Thom Marshall gives the green light for ILLEGALS to continue
to break the law, and for unscrupulous employers to continue
hiring these ILLEGAL mestizos in full knowledge of the ILLEGALITY
of the act.]
Of the 400 being released locally, 380 are men and 20 are women.
Some 700 immigrants from other countries remain in custody,
awaiting deportation, Kristi said.
City will monitor program
I called the mayor's office to see if our city of diversity has
some official response to the release of the Central Americans.
"The city will monitor this program and make certain that it is
carried out in a way is fair to the Central Americans, and to all
segments of our community," said Mayor Lee Brown in a faxed
statement.
[Mayor Lee Brown, the liberals darling, and an incompetent fool,
will do everything he can (with the help of the Houston Chronicle)
to cement his power base with a consortium of liberals, nonwhites,
homosexuals, and various freaks and cripples.]
"I have asked Leonel J. Castillo, my education liaison, to serve
as a liaison with the INS and the nonprofit groups which will be
overseeing this program. He is to keep me informed of the impact on
the city, and help support positive responses to the challenges and
opportunities which might develop."
["Challenges and opportunities"? ILLEGAL ALIENS being dumped onto
Houston streets to engage in more criminal activities -- isn't
that what he means?]
The situation is a hot potato for Houston officials, too. The city
provides three sites where immigrants can gather and employers
can come to hire workers. The sites helped to bring some
organization and order to the process and to cut down the number of
complaints about large groups of men that previously gathered in
unsuitable locations.
[If these sites use ILLEGAL ALIENS, then they should be shut down
by INS officials, and the slave masters that run them should be
imprisoned. Getting rid of these slave ports is an excellent way
to reduce divisive diversity in what's left of this city.]
Leonel said his new responsibility is "not going to be an easy
thing." It likely will involve more than the 400 being released
locally. Many getting out of INS lockups in South Texas may also
come to Houston.
And more new arrivals from Central America are expected, said
Mark Zwick of Casa Juan Diego, a nonprofit facility that serves
Spanish-speaking immigrants. He said people now staying at the
Casa have told him of family and friends who currently are making
their way here.
[The road runs both ways. Making America an unattractive place
for these LAW-BREAKERS is essential for America's future.]
Meanwhile, Mark said that two van loads of those INS-released
Central Americans were coming to the Casa on Tuesday, people who
want to work and who need to earn some money.
[We are still waiting for Thom Marshall to accurately describe
these invaders for what they are: ILLEGAL, unassimilable
aliens with an infinite capacity to breed us right out of our
once fair city. Is it the responsibility of U.S. citizens to care
for the scum of the world who have ruined their own nations and
are now coming here?]
Thom Marshall's e-mail address is thom.m...@chron.com
[Good. Let 'im have it!]
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Cross burned at Nazi protester's home
MOSCOW, Idaho, Dec. 3 (UPI) A 29-year-old graduate student who was
arrested while protesting a North Idaho neo-Nazi parade last summer
says she is afraid for her life after her porch was firebombed and a
cross was burned in her yard.
Lori Graves told police that a threatening note was left behind,
warning her to stay away from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the parade
was held.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper reports that the anonymous
note said "You are a disgrace to your race." It reportedly also makes
a disparaging remark about homosexuals and warns "We are watching
you.. . your days are numbered."
"I'm scared to death right now," Graves told the newspaper.
Graves and a companion were among two dozen people arrested at the
Aryan Nations march in July. Both were arrested after refusing to
allow police to search their backpacks.
Graves said she does not think the incident was linked to the indecent
exposure charges she and two other women faced for walking around
Moscow topless last summer. The charges were dismissed on Monday.
"I can't imagine anyone so mad about women walking around topless
that they would firebomb our house," she told the newspaper.
The cross-burning comes the same week that thousands of residents of
Northern Idaho's Bonner County found an anti-semitic newspaper in
their mailboxes.
The newspaper, called The Truth at Last, was bulk mailed from
Marietta, Ga., and was addressed simply to Resident, Sandpoint,
Id. 83864.
The mailing comes on the heels of two other racist bulk mailings to
area residents.
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Boston to appeal school quota ruling
BOSTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) The Boston School Committee has decided to
appeal a federal court ruling that declared its race-sensitive
admissions policy for the elite Boston Latin School and two other
exam schools unconstitutional.
If the U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear the case, it would be the
first public-school affirmative action appeal considered by the
nation's highest court.
Boston School Superintendent Thomas Payzant said today, "The issue is
so important that we must seek the final judgment of the highest
court to give us clear direction."
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled two weeks ago that the
admissions policy for Boston Latin and the other two exam schools
violated the Constitution because it used race to decide who would
be admitted.
Under that policy, half of the students were admitted based on test
scores and half based on race and scores.
The ruling came in the case of a white girl who was denied admission
while minorities who had scored lower on the tests were admitted.
That policy has been scrapped pending a ruling by the Supreme Court,
which could use the Boston case to set a precedent for the rest of the
nation.
Students next fall will be admitted solely on the basis of the test
scores, which is expected to result in few minorities being admitted.
The city defends the quota policy as promoting diversity in the
schools.
The School Committee is expected to argue that promoting diversity
has a genuine educational value, and that past racial discrimination
justifies considering race as part of the admission policy.
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World News
Swiss aim to fight Net hate speech
By Reuters
WASHINGTON--Switzerland is offering to organize an international
conference on how to stop racists from using the Internet to spread
their views.
The head of the Swiss delegation to a conference in Washington on
Holocaust era assets, ambassador Thomas Borer, said that as early
as last year the Swiss police had identified 700 Web sites carrying
racist and anti-Semitic material.
"The need for international cooperation in this field is obvious - It
is a critical task for every nation to contain the spread of hate
propaganda on the Web,'' he said.
The Swiss delegation offered no date or venue. It first wanted to
sound out interest, a Swiss official said.
"Everyone was quite supportive but obviously it takes a little while
to get everything together," said Swiss embassy spokeswoman Keri
Douglas.
Many European countries, including Switzerland, already have
legislation against denying the Holocaust or inciting racial hatred,
regardless of the medium.
This has persuaded some racist groups to move their Internet
operations to the United States, where the First Amendment protects
"hate" speech from prosecution.
The head of the U.S. delegation, Stuart Eizenstat, gave a cautious
welcome to the Swiss invitation. "We appreciate the spirit in which
the Swiss government has made its proposal on Internet racism and
anti-Semitism," he said.
At a news conference later, he called censorship of the Internet for
racism or pornography a "difficult issue."
The Jewish group B'nai B'rith organized a similar conference in
Toronto last year, with participants from around the world.
At a United Nations seminar on the subject in Geneva in November
1997, experts concluded it would be difficult to stamp out racist
Web sites, both for technical reasons and for fear of limiting the
freedom to propagate other messages.
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Russian government to move against political extremism
Agence France-Presse
MOSCOW, Dec 2 (AFP) - The Russian government is to introduce
legislation against political extremism, following anti-semitic
remarks by a communist member of parliament, ITAR-TASS news agency
reported.
Quoting Justice Minister Pavel Krasheninnikov, the agency said the
draft law was approved Tuesday by the presidential commission for the
fight against political extremism.
It defines the term and obliges parties to disavow offending
statements by their members or risk being banned.
The bill will be presented to the Duma, the lower house of parliament,
accompanied by proposals for amending the penal code, the civil code
and other basic texts.
The commission studied in particular recent violent anti-semitic
statements by communist member of parliament Albert Makashov and
the governor of the southern Krasnodar region, Nikolai Kondratenko.
President Boris Yeltsin ordered the government, the secretary of the
national security council and the head of the security services, the
FSB, to take action in response to Makashov's remarks.
The communist party, which has a majority in the Duma, refused to
condemn Makashov explicitly, prompting calls for it to be banned.
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