Mass
Shootings and Political Misuse of Them Have
Unintended Consequences
By Paul
Craig Roberts
August
07, 2019 "Information
Clearing House"
- The unintended consequences of mass shootings
and the attempts to use these shootings for
various agendas can be far worse than the
shootings themselves and ultimately endanger far
more people.
I was
listening to NPR this morning prior to President
Trump’s 10 AM EST address on the shootings.
NPR set Trump up for blame.
Trump opposes illegal immigration and
spoke of the 20,000 person caravan as “an
invasion.”
And so forth.
And it wasn’t just NPR.
As USA reported, while joining in the
blame trump orchestration, “Media outlets around
the country, and around the world, decried his
[Trump’s] role in inspiring a shooter who gunned
down 20 people.” US Rep. Veronica Escobar (D,TX)
said:
“All of this has happened because
Hispanic people have been dehumanized. They have
been dehumanized by the president, by his
enablers, by other politicians.”
Rep.
Escobar did not explain why and how a country’s
defense of its borders constitutes
dehumanization of those that the law requires to
be kept out.
Is the President of the United States,
who is sworn to enforce the laws and
Constitution of the US, supposed to violate the
law?
If the American people want open borders, they
should inform their representatives and get a
law passed that abolishes border controls.
If Hispanics are dehumanized by being
kept out, so are Russians, Chinese, North
Koreans, Iranians, and Venezuelans, all people
declared to be national security threats to the
US which employs a massive armed force to be
sure these threats don’t invade us. Just imagine
how we dehumanized the Japanese and Germans
during World War II by keeping them from
invading us.
The El
Paso shooter is said to be inspired by Trump.
But the Dayton shooter a few hours later
is said to be a left-socialist satanist and
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren supporter
who uses Antifa language.
The Dayton shooter doesn’t say anything
about immigrants or white supremacy.
He wants to “kill every fascist.”
So
who inspired the Dayton shooter?
Sanders? Warren?
Antifa?
What
explains the widely varying sources of blame for
mass shootings?
We have had every kind of
explanation—dislike of homosexuals, childhood
mistreatment, unexplained (Las Vegas), Muslim
terrorists, job firings, and now Hispanic hatred
and hatred of fascists.
Notice that it is the El Paso shooting,
not the Dayton shooting a few hours later, that
the presstitutes and Democrats are hyping.
Why?
It better fits their agenda.
We are
unlikely to discover the real causes as long as
shootings are used to advance agendas.
What is important is not the facts but
the advancement of agendas.
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Whereas
the Dayton shooter wants to kill fascists, which
presumably includes white supremacists, the El
Paso shooter is portrayed as a white supremacist
who hates Hispanics.
Even President Trump has bought into this
characterization of the shooter.
However, the El Paso shooter’s manifesto
doesn’t support this characterization of his
motives. He is concerned that the core
population of his country is being marginalized
and dispossessed by several developments
including automation and illegal immigrants and
their demands.
It so happens that the current illegal
immigrants are from south of the border, but he
doesn’t hate them because they are Hispanic.
If they were coming from Asia, or Africa
or a different planet, he would see it as the
same problem. To the shooter, it is not a
problem of hate but of fact. There are more
people than there are jobs.
He
addresses the issue that his actions will be
blasted “as the sole result of racism and hatred
of other countries.”
He blames this response on American
hypocrites, largely white people, who “support
imperialistic wars that have caused the loss of
tens of thousands of American lives and untold
numbers of civilian lives. The argument that
mass murder is okay when it is state sanctioned
is absurd. Our government has killed a whole lot
more people for a whole lot less.”
One of
the El Paso shooter’s concerns with immigration
is that “continued immigration will make one of
the biggest issues of our time, automation, so
much worse. Some sources say that in under two
decades, half of American jobs will be lost to
it. . . . So it makes no sense to keep on
letting millions of illegal or legal immigrants
flood into the United States.”
This logical conclusion together with
betrayal by America’s white leaders and the
damage done to Americans by the corporations are
the political and economic reasons he gives for
his attack. “My motives for this attack are not
at all personal.”
In other words, the attack does not stem
from his hatred of Hispanic immigrants but from
the adverse consequences for American citizens
of mass immigration from wherever.
He also
writes in his manifesto that “the idea of
deporting or murdering all non-white Americans
is horrific.
Many have been here at least as long as
the whites, and have done as much to build
our country.”
As for
being inspired by Trump to murder immigrants,
the El Paso shooter writes: “My ideology has not
changed for several years. My opinions on
automation, immigration, and the rest predate
Trump and his campaign for president. I [am]
putting this here because some people will blame
the President or certain presidential candidates
for the attack. This is not the case. I know
that the media will probably call me a white
supremacist anyway and blame Trump’s rhetoric.
The media is infamous for fake news Their
reaction to this attack will likely just confirm
that.” Truer words were never spoken.
The
fact that the El Paso shooter’s manifesto does
not support the storyline of the media is the
reason the media refuses to publish the
manifesto and why the Drudge Report was
denounced for posting the manifesto.
The shooter’s manifesto contradicts the
controlled explanation of the event.
Let’s
consider some of the consequences of the
misreporting of the shooting as an act of white
supremacist racial hatred.
Trump, being poorly advised as he has
been about everything, has bought into the story
that this was an act of vile racial hatred.
This will not sit well with his electoral
base.
Working class whites have been
experiencing creeping demonization,
marginalization, and dispossession for decades.
They have watched their jobs be shipped out to
Mexico and Asia. They are very much aware
that accusations of white supremacy are used to
prevent their protest of their marginalization.
They have lost their jobs, their benefits, and
their unions that stood up to their corporate
employers, and some have lost their
neighborhoods and institutions.
White male schools and institutions are
impermissible. The Boy Scouts have been gender
integrated, but female and black “separatism”
are permitted.
All of
this reverse discrimination stems from the
subversion by the EEOC of the 1964 Civil Rights
Act.
The purpose of the legislation was to add law to
the 14th Amendment that prohibits discrimination
in law on the basis of race. The 14th Amendment
means that the same legal standards have to be
applied regardless of race. The equality is
“under the law.” The 1964 Civil Rights act
extended this requirement of equal treatment to
employment, public accommodation and restaurants
and educational institutions. The law states
that admission and employment cannot be refused
on racial grounds. It was an effort to open
society wider to black advancement on the basis
of merit.
The
1964 Civil Rights Act explicitly prohibited
racial quotas.
The prohibition is written into the Act.
The legislation also defines discrimination as
an intentional act, rather than mere
statistical disparities.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was stood on
its head by one man—Alfred W. Blumrosen, who as
compliance chief became the de facto head of the
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Blumrosen betting correctly that the federal
courts would defer to the regulatory authority (Blumrosen)
administering the law, cast aside the statutory
language of the Civil Rights Act and imposed
racial quotas based on statistical disparities.
Distracted by the Vietnam war, neither
Congress nor the executive took steps to rescue
the law from this one man’s regulatory rewrite.
Because
of the illegal ways in which the Civil Rights
Act was implemented and its subsequent
application to women, many white males could not
get hired, promoted, or accepted into
universities because of statistical imbalances.
Thus began the undermining of the
positions of white males as husbands, fathers,
and leaders in society.
The
complete story of the 1964 Civil Rights Act is
told by Roberts & Stratton in The New Color
Line, 1995. Our book was praised by the
New York Times, Washington Post, and Wall
Street Journal.
Today, 24 years later, the book could not
be published.
History has been falsified and rewritten,
and truth is not welcomed as it is inconsistent
with the agenda.
Blumrosen is Jewish.
As this fact became known, theories that
Jews were working to breakup “goy” society
gained adherents.
Today Jews are blamed for Cultural
Marxism which is said to be responsible for the
weakening of American institutions.
They are blamed for Identity Politics
that is used to disunite the American people.
The changing attitude toward Jews is
reflected in the haste with which Jewish money
and influence are attacking the First Amendment
in order to prohibit even factual statements
about Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians and
to brand as “anti-semitism” factual statements
about Jewish influence in entertainment, media,
education, election outcomes, and Congress.
This is
audacious, and as it succeeds it creates more
hatred of Jews.
As Voltaire wrote,” To find out who rules
over you, simply find out who you are not
allowed to criticize.”
Certainly it is not the “white
supremacist” who cannot be criticized.
The
place in society of the white male, long
undermined by reverse discrimination, and now
aggravated by jobs offshoring, automation, and
heavy legal and illegal third world immigration
and work visas, has produced valid concerns
among white men that, if expressed, cause them
to be branded hate-filled white supremacists.
White
people, especially straight white males who have
to pretend to be homosexuals so that their
feminist bosses don’t fire them, are called
every name in the book and threatened with
castration and violence.
Their history and historical monuments
are destroyed, and none of the “minorities” and
feminists spewing the hatred are ever called
“black supremacists,” “feminist supremacists,”
“Hispanic supremacists” and charged with “hate
speech” and “hate crimes,” or forced to
apologize, or fired.
When a
Hispanic at Texas State University wrote in the
student newspaper that white DNA is “an
abomination,” he wasn’t denounced for hate
speech and called a Hispanic supremacist and
suspended.
Feminist Georgetown University professor
Christine Fair was not accused of hate speech or
being a feminist supremacist or forced to resign
when she tweeted, “Look at this chorus of
entitled white men (Senate Judiciary Committee)
justifying a serial rapist’s (Kavanaugh)
arrogated entitlement. All of them deserve
miserable deaths while feminists laugh as they
take their last gasps. Bonus: we castrate their
corpses and feed them to swine.” But when UMass
football coach Mark Whipple disputed a call that
cost his team a win by saying “we had a chance
and they rape us,” he was denounced by his
university and had to grovel and beg forgiveness
for offending feminists by misusing the word
“rape,” a word that can only be used as
feminists specify. Only a woman can experience
rape, not a football team.
Can you imagine a football coach almost
losing his job over this?
The
assault on whiteness is now part of official
educational policy. In New York City the head of
the education department, Richard Carranza, a
Hispanic, is conducting a campaign against
“toxic white supremacy culture.” His training
program for teachers identifies objectivity,
individualism, belief in meritocracy, and
Protestant work ethic as manifestations of white
supremacy that have to be rooted out of the
education system. Carranza says these white
values constitute a deep-rooted bigotry.
Carranza dismisses whites, who object to his
portrayal of their values as racial biases, as
defensive of white supremacy culture. To get rid
of whiteness, Carranza has fired numerous white
education department officials.
The New
York Post has exposed Carranza’a racist policy—
https://nypost.com/2019/05/19/carranzas-lunatic-war-on-toxic-whiteness/
— but the New York Times supports the anti-white
racist policy. The mayor who appointed him,
Democrat Bill de Blasio, has kept Carranza in
charge of New York schools despite his racist
policy.
The
white core population, despite its almost fatal
insouciance, is gradually concluding that many
forces are at work to stamp it out. Unrestrained
immigration is only one of them.
The
unintended consequences of demonizing the white
population—all except those guilt-ridden white
liberals living on multi-million dollar trust
funds who join in the demonization of white
people—are many and far reaching. For example,
why would any white male with a brain join the
military of a country that has abandoned his
interest and is operating against him?
Why would he join a military of a country
that the Democratic Party prevents from
defending its own borders?
Why would he join a military and be sent
to kill Arabs in the Middle East and blacks in
North Africa when he is taught to feel guilt for
his racial hatred of “racial minorities?”
Doesn’t
a country collapse when its core population is
demonized and dispossessed?
When
agendas advance themselves by using lies to
suppress truth, how can rational decisions be
made?
When
emotions displace reason, the result is
conflict.
Mass
shootings are new in our history and are
becoming more prevalent.
These shootings seem to be leading to the
repeal of the Second Amendment.
Indeed, I am certain that the US Supreme
Court justices are being lobbied by “progressive
forces” as I write to change their ruling in
order to save lives.
As the shootings advance gun control,
many gun owners believe that the shootings are
orchestrated by the deep state in order to
disarm the population and thereby prevent any
resistance to the tyranny of the rising police
state, which as John Whitehead has made clear is
in plain view.
In
other words, trust, an important cement in any
society, is everywhere being erased.
When
trust is erased, things fall apart.
When
things fall apart, mass violence is the
consequence.
Note
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The
manifesto above was sourced from
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2019/08/05/the-el-paso-shooters-manifesto/ -
as published by
https://drudgereport.com/flashtx.htm
and reposted here
with comments by ICH editor.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/52053.htm
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