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That crime in America is decreasing is a critical Main Stream Media meme. Many factors are at work. One of them is that official statistics have become, to a significant but undetermined extent, a manufactured illusion.

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, urban crime was momentarily beyond the Establishment’s ability to

Should non-citizens be eligible to vote?

Outlandish!—especially in a presidential election year. (Isn’t epidemic fraud bad enough?) Yet a movement to grant the vote to all immigrants, even illegal immigrants, has been gathering steam for more than two decades. And it looks likely to grow more as America’s immigrant population grows.

Typical of the Treason Lobby, immigrant voting is justified in the language of Americanism—“rights,” “justice,” “democracy,” “no taxation without representation,” “tradition”—to disguise the concept’s underlying radicalism.

Example: American University law professor Jamin "Jamie" Raskin's seminal 1993 article in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, “Legal Aliens, Local Citizens: The Historical, Constitutional and Theoretical Meanings of Alien Suffrage”. Raskin [Email him] argued the idea is simply a restoration of common sense and civic virtue:

Today, with the extraordinary, though still largely unwritten, history of alien suffrage safely hidden from view, the U.S. citizenship voting qualification ropes off the franchise in every American state from participation by non-U.S. citizens. As a marker at the perimeter of the American body politic, the citizenship qualification carries the aura of inevitability that once attached to property, race, and gender qualifications…

[T]he current blanket exclusion of noncitizens from the ballot is neither constitutionally required nor historically normal. Moreover, the disenfranchisement of aliens at the local level is vulnerable to deep theoretical objections since resident aliens—who are governed, taxed and often drafted just like citizens—have a strong democratic claim to being considered members, indeed citizens, of their local communities.

The campaign to give non-citizens voting rights thus far has attained only local success. But, like mass immigration itself, this is a long-range program marked by unrelenting activism.

Consider a pair of defeated ballot measures in November 2010:

• In San Francisco, voters rejected by 55 percent to 45 percent “Proposition D,” an initiative to create a pilot program allowing noncitizen residents of the city, aged 18 and over, and with one or more children attending school in the San Francisco Unified School District, to vote in Board of Education elections.

But this was the second time around. In 2004, local voters turned down, by a mere 51 to 49 percent margin, a similar measure called Proposition F.

And neither measure should have appeared on the ballot.  City Attorney Dennis Herrera issued an opinion that Proposition D conflicted with Article 2, Section 2 of the California constitution, which clearly defines voter eligibility and had been upheld by a state Superior Court in 1996.

• In Portland, ME, voters rejected, by a 51.5 to 48.5 percent margin, “Question 4”, would have gone further and granted to lawful aliens the right to vote in all municipal elections.

Portland might seem like an odd focal point for a campaign to redefine U.S. citizenship. Yet like most of Maine (and for that matter, most of New England), the city’s traditional Yankee Republicanism has decayed into the sentimental “inclusiveness” prized by progressives. (Not unrelated, Maine and New England have experienced a recent immigration explosion from Latin America and Africa, particularly Somalia. Portland, population 65,000, is now home to an estimated 5,000 to 7,500 first-generation immigrants.)

During the campaign, Claude Rwaganje, [Email him] an immigrant from the Republic of the Congo who had lived in Portland for 13 years, put the standard case:

“Noncitizens hold down jobs, pay taxes, own businesses, volunteer in the community and serve in the military, and it’s only fair they be allowed to vote.”[Cities Weigh Letting Noncitizens Vote, Associated Press, October 25, 2010]

But what kept Rwaganje from becoming a citizen? A legal resident alien can apply for U.S. citizenship after only five years.

Note that Portland voters rejected Question 4 only by three percentage points. Note also that the City’s Charter Commission had voted 7-5 that March against putting the issue on the ballot at all. [Immigrant vote goes to referendum, By Dennis Hoey, Portland Press-Herald, August 12, 2010]

And, as in San Francisco, Portland’s measure was in violation of the state constitution and likely would not have survived a court challenge. It’s an indicator of the fanaticism of Question 4’s supporters that they collected enough signatures to override the Commission via petition.

Public officials elsewhere in the U.S. are warming up to noncitizen voting:

• San Francisco City Board of Supervisors President David Chiu was the driving force behind 2010’s Proposition D. The Taiwanese-born Chiu argued that, since about a third of local public school students had immigrant parents or guardians, those adults should be able to vote on who runs the schools.
• New Haven CT Mayor John DeStefano [Email him] announced his support for granting “undocumented” a.k.a. illegal immigrants the right to vote last December: “We’re a place of differences…We’re a place that sees a strength and places a value on welcoming folks from all over.”  He dismissed critics as demagogues trying to scapegoat immigrants. [Conn. mayor seeks to let illegal immigrants vote,  AP, December 20 2011]

DeStefano made a national reputation for himself as an affirmative-action booster (on the losing side) in the 2009 U. S. Supreme Court decision, Ricci v. DeStefano.

A number of U.S. localities already have succeeded in making immigrant voting rights a reality.

• Takoma Park, MD, was first out of the starting gate. In November 1991 local voters

Contemporary American society is celebrity-obsessed, and celebrities are rich, famous and influential. One of those celebrities is Eva Longoria.

Eva Longoria was born in Texas in 1975, of Mexican ancestry. Her first big role was in the soap opera The Young and the Restless (2001-2003). She achieved her biggest acting role as Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012.

Aside from her matchless thespian talent, Miss Longoria is a model who has appeared on the covers of magazines and has been featured in advertising campaigns by L’Oreal, Bebe Sport, Hanes, New York & Co., Magnum Ice Cream, Heineken, Microsoft and London Fog.  She has received numerous accolades, having been listed in the “Most Beautiful People” list by People en Español, as #1 in Maxim’s Hottest Female Stars of 2005 and 2006, #9 in Maxim’s Hot 100 2007 list, #14 on People’s Most Beautiful List of 2011, and in the 2012 People list Most Beautiful at Every Age.

She was a judge on Next Food Network Star and hostess of the 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards.

Eva Longoria has made a lot of money. She was #1 on Forbes magazine’s list of highest-paid TV actresses of 2011, pulling in 13 million dollars last year.

She has her own perfume “EVA by Eva Longoria” and she’s published her own cookbook.

The celebrity marriage/divorce is also a staple of the celebrity lifestyle, and Eva’s been part of two of those: the first with Tyler Christopher of General Hospital (2002-2004); the second with Tony Parker of the San Antonio Spurs (2007 to 2011). The rights to publicize her Paris wedding to Parker had been marketed to OK! magazine.  

On the rebound from her marriage to Tony Parker (get the pun?), she has dated Spanish actress Penelope Cruz’s little brother Eduardo.

So Eva Longoria is a big celebrity, in our celebrity-crazed society. She’s rich, successful, popular and comfortable.

She is also a full-fledged leftist Raza promoter. For several years, she has worked for the activist organization known as the National Council of La Raza. (For more on that outfit, see my article Yes, La Raza Really Does Mean “The Race” – And the Idea Was Invented By A Nazi Sympathizer

Unlike most Americans, Eva Longoria doesn’t want illegal aliens deported. She has agitated for more Spanish translators in hospitals

Of course Eva is for the DREAM Act. And, again unlike most Americans, she opposes Arizona’s SB 1070.

In fact, she teamed up with MALDEF (Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund) to

Paul Kersey is best known as the man behind Stuff Black People Don’t Like, a Dissident Right blog that chronicles the increasingly dysfunctional and violent nature of black America.  But in his new book, Escape from Detroit:The Collapse of America's Black Metropolis , he concentrates on the role of race and demographic change in the fall of the Motor City.

Demography is destiny and that is very evident in Detroit. In 1912, blacks were slightly over one percent of the population.  One hundred years later, blacks are 82 percent of Detroit (and 92 percent of the core city). They have controlled the city government for roughly 40 years. During that time, Detroit went from being the “Paris of the West” and the “Arsenal of Democracy” to a symbol of American failure, ineptitude and decline.

In the 1920s, Detroit was home to the tallest buildings in the world. It was a cosmopolitan city with a thriving arts and cultural scene. Its innovative architecture can still be seen today in empty and dilapidated old buildings such as Michigan Central Station, the Metropolitan Building, Lee Plaza and Broderick Tower.(Right.)

Even into the 1960s, Detroit was a modern, advanced and civilized place. It was even a candidate to host the 1968 Olympics. This hilarious 1965 promotional video [Detroit: City on the Move in the '60s]—narrated by then-mayor Jerome Cavanagh, more on him later—shows Detroit right before the collapse (it “stands at the threshold of a bright new future,” as the video puts it). The comment thread on YouTube suggests it was made in an attempt to halt white flight—blacks were just 26% of the population in the mid-1960s but committed over 65% of the crime.

(Ironically, the New York Times has just linked to a similar  video, apparently because it also features GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s father, George W. Romney, the then-Governor of Michigan. The NYT concluded, typically: “Who knows if the Olympics could have helped Detroit mitigate [the coming] calamities?” Paul Kersey knows! Flashback Friday: Detroit’s Olympic Dream , By Joanne C. Gerstner, May 23, 2012)

Whites were still over 70 percent of Detroit’s population at this point and the city boasted museums, a symphony, parks, beaches, skyscrapers, universities, libraries, highways, good schools and restaurants, businesses, night life, theaters, concerts and numerous cultural festivals. The video shows flocks of white people (with only occasional blacks) going about their daily lives and having fun. Detroit truly was “A City on the Move.” It must be painful for the old white residents of Detroit to view this and remember how great their city used to be.

Today’s Detroit is a much different place. It has lost over 60 percent of its population since 1950. Half of all people in the city are functionally illiterate. It has not one major chain supermarket. All public school students are eligible for the free lunch program. Detroit is home to the largest deserted skyscraper in the world. Billions of gallons of water are lost every year through a neglected, century-old sewer system. The average price of a home in 2009 was just $7,000.

Forbes recently rated Detroit as “The Most Dangerous City in America,” and with

Before Trayvon Martin had even been buried, his parents were seeking to cash in on his death, to the tune of millions of dollars.

They contacted a black lawyer, Benjamin Crump, who had engineered a race hoax in the boot camp death of black juvenile delinquent Martin Lee Anderson and gotten a $7.15 million settlement from the state of Florida. [Trayvon Martin Case Repeats 2006 “Playbook” for Martin Lee Anderson by Dan Riehl and Lee Stranahan, Big Journalism, April 2, 2012.]

Crump’s method is extra-legal but typical of the tactics developed since the 1960s by the trial lawyer-Ralph Nader alliance: he gets his journalistic and political allies (e.g. Al Sharpton) to steamroll the authorities with race hoax demagoguery, forcing them to settle before trial. Thus the hoax, and Crump's limited litigation skills, are never actually tested in court.

Black race hoaxes have become a big, well-organized business. They divert millions and even billions of dollars from Americans to blacks and their non-black allies—in addition to the trillions that have already been seized and directed blackward, via government coercion, from white taxpayers. [See my America’s Debt to Blacks Already Paid in Full, Middle American News, August 2001.]

From 1954 to 1987, the occasional hoaxes, often involving false charges of “police brutality", were typically more about power, and helping black criminals, than money. (For example, Howard Beach.)

The mid-1980s saw the entry of Al Sharpton and “activist attorneys” Alton Maddox and C. Vernon Mason.

Mason helped engineer the first (to my knowledge) Columbia race hoax. On March 22, 1987, during three separate attacks at Columbia University, a mob of seven young black men students and non-students beat up a total of five white Columbia men students.

A group called Concerned Black Students at Columbia [CBSC)], represented by Mason, transformed the black racist attacks into one in which

"a mob of white students had kicked and stomped

 See also: Discoloring The News, by “The Fifth Columnist”

As a local newsman, I have been particularly interested in the Virginian-Pilot’s now-notorious attempt to suppress the story of a black mob’s beating two members of its own staff, Dave Forster and Marjon Rostami.

As I argued here almost exactly three years ago, this sort of thing usually arises from the characteristic culture of the American newsroom. No marching orders to manipulate facts need be given. The newsroom worldview literally inoculates reporters and editors against ideas that might cause them to question the typical Main Stream Media narrative.

But I now must add this proviso: While the leftist worldview  drives  most news coverage in concept, and most reporters and editors do not consciously insert bias into most stories, in some cases, by omission or commission, they flat out lie.

Nothing else explains what occurred, for instance, in NBC’s editing of the audio tapes of George Zimmerman’s call to police the night he shot Trayvon Martin in self defense.

And nothing else explains why the Pilot buried the story.

Thus, for example the Pilot’s Editor, Denis Finley (email him), said in his memo to the staff trying to explain away his behavior:

Based on the facts, this story did not cross the bar to be published because as a general rule, The Pilot doesn't publish stories about simple assaults. ...

We have done our due diligence with the story. We have checked the police reports. I have read them. We have checked to see whether there is an inordinate