Update II: Afrikaner Special Task Force In Action in Africa

Africa, Crime, Military, South-Africa

Afrikaner Special Task Force in action in South Africa, doing what kept the place a civilized society until … recently. Not for the fainthearted.

Update I (November 3): I am somewhat surprised, like Alex, that this unit is allowed to operate in the new South Africa given the unit’s ethnic composition. The ANC is disbanding other Afrikaner-dominated paramilitary units, such as the Commandos.

Note how these (fine) young men revert to speaking Afrikaans when things heat up. Can anyone translate for us?

Update II (November 5): Read JP Strauss’ translation (hereunder) of the exchange before and during the assault. Thanks, Mr. Strauss.

Happy Birthday, Pat Buchanan

America, Conservatism, Foreign Policy, Founding Fathers, History, IMMIGRATION

Tom Piatak writes a great column about a great American (with whom I’ve disagreed, a fact that has nothing to do with the man’s prescience and patriotism): “Pat Buchanan At 70: ‘He Told You So, You F****ing Fools!’” Read it on VDARE.COM, naturally:

“Both Bush and McCain swallowed the neoconservative line whole. Both see the mission of the United States as using its blood and treasure to spread’ ‘global democratic capitalism.’ Both welcome the mass immigration that is radically transforming the United States. … neither views America as a real country at all, but as the embodiment of an abstract political creed—the ‘first universal nation.’

Buchanan long ago warned that allowing neoconservatives to set the agenda would be calamitous for conservatives. His warning was unmistakably vindicated when the Republicans lost Congress in 2006. And if the American electorate rejects Bush and McCain next Tuesday, it will be rejecting neoconservatism, pure and simple.

Of course, Buchanan opposed the Iraq War that has cast its shadow over Bush’s presidency. He foresaw that removing Saddam Hussein would greatly strengthen Tehran and that an occupation of Iraq would be both costly and deadly.

More generally, Buchanan recognized that the end of the Cold War meant that America must begin reexamining its global commitments and pursuing a foreign policy in line with the one recommended by the Founders—and that failure to do so would be costly.”

The complete column on VDARE.COM.

Updated: Insane McCain (Part II)

Constitution, Elections 2008, John McCain, Liberty

Stumpy arms moving rapidly and rigidly up and down, McCain can be heard these day shouting the following mantra in that deranged monotone: “Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight! America is worth fighting for…fight, fight fight…”

What is he fulminating about? Senile git.

I understand those who say they will vote for McCain because he’s somehow more palatable than the radical Obama. But those who’ve begun to see in McCain a man who knows something about the Constitution and the limits of government are worse than Panglossian.

McCain has been among the worse offenders against liberty and the Constitution.

In a sense, McCain is more dishonest than Obama, who has a Constitutional philosophy he does not hide. Obama believes in sundering the Founders’ Constitution by means of the living-constitution doctrine.

McCain, whose idols are Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln, doesn’t believe in the Constitution at all, although he claims to be an original intent or strict constructionist.

I recommend Matt Walsh’s piece “Be Afraid of President McCain,” as it addresses McCain’s philosophy of government. Barry Goldwater’s dislike for McCain is especially telling:

McCain is at his most unintentionally revealing when writing about his Republican predecessor in the Senate, Barry Goldwater. “I really don’t think he liked me much,” he wrote in Worth the Fighting For. “I don’t know why that was.…He was usually cordial, just never as affectionate as I would have liked.”
That it never occurred to McCain why a libertarian Westerner might keep a “national greatness” conservative and D.C.-bred carpetbagger at arm’s length is both touching and deeply worrisome. Does he not understand that there are at least some people in American life who take liberty as seriously as McCain takes his notions of national duty? Judging by a comment he made recently on the Don Imus radio show, the answer seems to be no. Defending campaign finance reform, McCain said, “I would rather have a clean government than one…where ‘First Amendment rights’ are being respected that has become corrupt. If I had my choice I’d rather have a clean government.

Insane McCain (Part I)

Update (November 4): McCain AGAIN today: “fight for America, fight for this country, America is worth fighting for… I choose to fight; fight, fight, fight, fight.”

Definitely “borderline senile.”

Hazelton Fights Federal Frankenstein

Federalism, IMMIGRATION

Heroic Hazelton goes up against the ACLU and Federal occupiers. I gave you my take on the town’s plight in “Aliens in the Own Hometown.” Read it for background. I’ll quote one paragraph:

“Reasonable people can debate the constitutionality of [Mayor Louis] Barletta’s Illegal Immigration Relief Act and other Ordinances; only sophists would depict these as a usurpation of federal authority. What next? Banning the neighborhood watch for busying itself with crime? Doesn’t that overlap with state police activities?”

Here’s an update on the case. Transcripts are courtesy of CNN’s Lou Dobbs:

Hazleton, Pennsylvania, is one town that knows firsthand the impact of illegal immigration and what’s required to fight back. The city’s Illegal Immigration Reform Act was struck down by a federal judge more than a year ago. The case is now before an appellate court. At issue? Hazleton’s right to hold employers and landlords responsible for doing business with illegal aliens. Bill Tucker has our report.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just 200 yards from the birthplace of Liberty, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, lawyers came and judges convened to hear arguments over a town’s limits on governing itself. The courtroom was packed.

The city of Hazleton arguing that its ordinances punishing employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens and landlords who rent to illegal aliens are proper and necessary. Lawyers for the ACLU and other groups contend the local ordinances are unconstitutional.

The city appealed to a federal appeals panel after losing its case in the lower district court. But much has changed since those initial arguments. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the state of Arizona, which has similar statutes and a federal district court ruled that Valley Park, Missouri’s local ordinances modeled after Hazleton’s, are legal.

KRIS KOBACH, ATTORNEY FOR HAZLETON: We urge the 3rd Circuit to remain consistent with what the 9th Circuit did out in California and uphold the abilities of cities and states to take limited steps to encourage the enforcement of federal immigration laws.

TUCKER: The ACLU argued the original court order should be allowed to stand. Otherwise, they argued, there will be a patchwork of immigration laws.

WITOLD WALCZAK, ATTORNEY, ACLU: If the court allows laws like Hazleton to go forward, what you’re going to have is immigrant- friendly and immigrant-hostile enclaves in this country.

TUCKER: He rejects the argument that all Hazleton is trying to do is draft laws that are in compliance with federal law. And he argues that the notion of determining a person’s legal status is more complicated than just knowing if they’re unlawfully present in the country. The mayor of Hazleton stands by his law, which has never been enforced.

MAYOR LOU BARLETTA, HAZLETON, PA: I’ll fight this all the way to the Supreme Court. I believe what we’re doing is right and that we have the right to do this.

TUCKER: He may get that chance.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TUCKER: Now just when that day might be, Lou, we don’t know. According to the lawyers, it could take anywhere from four months to a year before the court issues its ruling. Lou?