Hoodlumism Execution in the Old Jim Crow South, Where Complexion Counted More Than Facts

Hoodlumism Execution in the Old Jim Crow South, Where Complexion Counted More Than Facts
Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read: Who Is ‘Racist‘? by Thomas Sowell
Whatever the ultimate outcome of the case against George Zimmerman for his shooting of Trayvon Martin, what has happened already is enough to turn the stomach of anyone who believes in either truth or justice. An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking – and lack of thinking – that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated. One of the first things presented in the media was a transcript of a conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher. The last line in most of the transcripts shown on TV was that of the police dispatcher telling Zimmerman not to continue following Trayvon Martin. That became the basis of many media criticisms of Zimmerman for continuing to follow him. Only later did I see a transcript of that conversation on the Sean Hannity program that included Zimmerman’s reply to the police dispatcher: “O.K.” That reply removed the only basis for assuming that Zimmerman did in fact continue to follow Trayvon Martin. At this point, neither I nor the people who assumed that he continued to follow the teenager have any basis in fact for believing that he did or didn’t. Why was that reply edited out by so many in the media? Because too many people in the media see their role as filtering and slanting the news to fit their own vision of the world. The issue is not one of being “fair” to “both sides” but, more fundamentally, of being honest with their audience. NBC News carried the editing even further, removing one of the police dispatcher’s questions, to which Zimmerman was responding, in order to feed the vision of Zimmerman as a racist. In the same vein were the repeated references to Zimmerman as a “white Hispanic.” Zimmerman is half-white. So is Barack Obama. But does anyone refer to Obama as a “white African”? All these verbal games grow out of the notion that complexion tells you who is to be blamed and who is not. It is a dangerous game because race is no game. If the tragic history of the old Jim Crow South in this country is not enough to show that, the history of racial and ethnic tragedies is written in blood in countries around the world. Millions have lost their lives because they looked different, talked differently or belonged to a different religion. In the midst of the Florida tragedy, there was a book published with the unwieldy title, No Matter What … They’ll Call This Book Racist. Obviously it was written well before the shooting in Florida, but its message – that there is rampant hypocrisy and irrationality in public discussions of race – could not have been better timed. Author Harry Stein, a self-described “reformed white liberal,” raised by parents who were even further left, exposes the illogic and outright fraudulence that lies behind so much of what is said about race in the media, in politics and in our educational institutions. He asks a very fundamental question: “Why, even after the Duke University rape fiasco, does the media continue to give credence to every charge of racism?” Harry Stein credits Shelby Steele‘s book White Guilt with opening his eyes to one of the sources of many counterproductive things said and done about race today – namely, guilt about what was done to blacks and other minorities in the past. Let us talk sense, like adults. Nothing that is done to George Zimmerman – justly or unjustly – will unlynch a single black man who was tortured and killed in the Jim Crow South for a crime he didn’t commit. Letting hoodlums get away with hoodlumism today does not undo a single injustice of the past. It is not even a favor to the hoodlums, for many of whom hoodlumism is just the first step on a path that leads to the penitentiary, and maybe to the execution chamber. Winston Churchill said, “If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.” He wasn’t talking about racial issues, but what he said applies especially where race is involved. Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His Web site is http://www.tsowell.com. To find out more about Thomas Sowell and read features by other Creators Syndicate columnists and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate web page.

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Neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was released on $150,000 bail from a Florida jail late Sunday night, 12 days after he was arrested for killing 17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
Zimmerman, 28, was let out of the Seminole County Jail just before midnight.
Carrying a brown paper bag and wearing blue jeans and a brown windbreaker, Zimmerman refused to comment as he quickly got into a BMW SUV and was whisked away, flanked by at least three police cars.
It was not immediately clear where Zimmerman was taken.
“Zimmerman posted bond and was fitted with an electronic monitoring device prior to release,” the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
Officials said Zimmerman’s GPS device will be monitored by the sheriff’s office and Seminole County Probation.
On Friday, Judge Kenneth Lester set bail and required Zimmerman to be fitted with an electronic monitoring device as part of his release.
Prosecutors had asked for $1 million.
Lester ordered Zimmerman to have no contact with Martin’s family and prohibited him from possessing firearms or drinking alcohol while awaiting trial on a charge of second-degree murder.
Zimmerman will also be on strict curfew and have to check in with authorities every three days.
During his bail hearing Zimmerman apologized to Trayvon’s parents, who were in the courtroom.
Zimmerman fatally shot Trayvon Feb. 26 during a confrontation in a Sanford gated community. He had reported the teen as looking suspicious to 911 just moments before the shooting.
Invoking Florida’s controversial “stand your ground” law, Zimmerman claims he shot Trayvon in self-defense.

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ZIMMERMAN The asshole who is unable to steal a decent lie to save his life

UNLEASH YUAN AS WORLD SECOND CURRENCY

Here is Some Mindsteroid Must-Read:
The People’s Bank of China, the country’s central bank, said in a statement published on its official website that the floating band in the inter-bank spot foreign exchange market will be enlarged from 0.5 percent to 1 percent effective April 16.
To keep the exchange rate stable, the PBOC has set a daily reference rate for the yuan and it will be allowed to fluctuate only to the daily limit on either side of the reference rate. The trading range was widened to 0.5 percent from 0.3 percent in May 2007.
It also raised the spread between dollar selling and buying prices offered by the foreign exchange-designated banks to their customers to 2 percent of the reference rate, from the current level of 1 percent.
News of this announcement was widely supported by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as it promoted market transparency and economic stability. From CBS Market Watch:
Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, welcomed the move.
“This underlines China’s commitment to rebalance its economy toward domestic consumption and allow market forces to play a greater role in determining the level of the exchange rate,” Lagarde said in a statement.
The scale of the widening is bigger than the 0.7% the market had expected, according to Ting Lu, a China economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in emailed comments.
Earlier this week, China Securities Regulatory Commission increased the quotas for foreign institutional investors from $30 billion to $80 billion. This move highlights a strategic economic shift from an export model to a consumption model. From Bloomberg News:
China, the world’s second-biggest economy, has pledged this year to free up control of the yuan and liberalize interest rates as the government deepens reforms to revive growth and offset slowing exports and a cooling housing market. China needs to rely more on markets and the private sector as its export- oriented model isn’t sustainable, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said in February.
“More action on opening up their markets to outside investment is definitely a positive,” Jeff Papp, a senior analyst in Lisle, Illinois at Oberweis Asset Management Inc., which oversees about $700 million, said in a phone interview. “It’s not a huge amount. They’re taking a small-steps approach to see how markets will react with more participants.”

Esther Pollard: You must steal more Arab Lands and Organs to get DC attention President Shimon Peres President Shimon Peres: Fuck you and Pollard Jonathan Pollard: Don’t bother Mr. President am Fucked in Prison Now

President Shimon Peres Esther Pollard: You must steal more Arab Lands & Organs to get DC attention
President Shimon Peres President Shimon Peres: Fuck you and Pollard
Jonathan Pollard: Don’t bother Mr. President am Fucked in Prison Now
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Israeli politicians continue to call for Pollard’s release
“I pray for Jonathan’s health and hope to see him free soon, and return to his family and his people,” Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya’alon tweets • Prime Minister Netanyahu says he has done much to work for Jonathan Pollard’s release and will continue to do so.
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Vice Prime Minister Moshe (Bogey) Ya’alon on Monday joined the chorus of Israeli leaders calling for the release of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
“After 27 years, the time has come for the president of the United States to give the order to free Jonathan Pollard,” Ya’alon tweeted. “I pray for Jonathan’s health and hope to see him free soon, and return to his family and his people.”
Ya’alon’s comments come one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres also remarked on the Pollard case.
“We are now celebrating the Festival of Freedom,” Netanyahu said. “I think that the time has come to release Jonathan Pollard. He has already been punished. Israel has already expressed its regret over the matter. On humanitarian grounds, he needs to be allowed to finish his life honorably and to be given his personal freedom around the Jewish people’s Festival of Freedom.”
Netanyahu said that he has done much to work for Pollard’s release and would continue to do so. Pollard, who worked as an intelligence analyst, was sentenced to life in 1987 after being convicted of spying for Israel. On average, U.S. citizens caught spying for allies tend to serve less than 10 years in prison, a fact that has prompted politicians in Israel and abroad to call Pollard’s sentence disproportionate and unjust.
Pollard, who suffers from ongoing health problems, complained of sharp pain on Friday and was rushed to a nearby hospital after prison medical officials were unable to ease his discomfort.
Pollard spent Passover Eve at the U.S. Federal Correctional Institution Butner, complaining of great pain. His wife, Esther, has remarked recently that she fears her husband will not survive his 27th year in prison. She has asked that “every Israeli household and every synagogue pray for Jonathan.”
Esther Pollard said on Monday her husband was conscious in the hospital, but receiving infusions because he is unable to eat or drink, Arutz 7 reported.
On Sunday, President Shimon Peres vowed to send a letter to U.S. President Barack Obama asking him to release convicted spy Jonathan Pollard.
Esther Pollard made her own appeal to Obama in March, issuing a public statement that said, “I would like to call on President Obama, from the bottom of my heart: Please listen to the voices of countless U.S. officials and the voice of the people of Israel and its leaders. Please commute Jonathan’s sentence and release him immediately.”
Netanyahu had asked President Bill Clinton to pardon Pollard during the negotiations on the Wye River Memorandum in 1998, and said that Clinton had agreed. The request, however, was overruled by then director of the CIA George Tenet, who was outraged by the prospect of Pollard walking free. Netanyahu also sent a personal request for Pollard’s release to Obama, and other high-ranking officials in the governments of both countries have made similar requests. Even after Pollard’s father, Dr. Morris Pollard, passed away in June 2011, Pollard was not allowed to attend his funeral.
According to Army Radio, Esther met President Shimon Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem on Sunday and urged Peres to do what he can to free her husband. Esther said she did not want to become a widow and that “Jonathan’s strength is waning.” She said her husband “can’t withstand crisis after crisis” and that sending him back to prison after a stay in the hospital will be a “death sentence” for him.
According to a statement by the Office of the President on Monday, Peres told Esther in their meeting, “I am very disturbed and worried by the latest reports on Jonathan’s health. It is my duty as president to be an emissary and use all means at my disposal vis-à-vis the American administration to expedite Jonathan’s release.”
Peres went on to say “I intend to work quickly, taking into account the most serious considerations, and to appeal to President Obama and request that, in light of his severe health situation and after having sat for many long years in an American prison, he positively consider releasing Jonathan Pollard from prison.”
Knesset lobby chairman MK Uri Ariel, who was present at the meeting, gave Peres a letter which he asked the president to deliver to Obama on behalf of 81 MKs. The letter urges Obama to release Pollard.

FRIENDLY GHOST BABY BORN WITHOUT BLOOD

Little Olivia Norton has been hailed a miracle by doctors – after being born with no blood.

Oliva, now six months, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin – the chemical which carries oxygen in red blood cells – that it could not officially be classed as ‘blood’.

She was given less than two hours to live but survived thanks to emergency transfusions which transformed her into a glowing healthy pink colour.

Mother Louise Bearman, 31, a barrister’s clerk, told of her shock at giving birth to a “ghost white” baby whose condition was so rare she will now feature in medical text books.

She said: “Olivia was my first baby, so I didn’t really know what to expect – but I certainly didn’t think she’d be that colour.

“I’ll never forget what the doctors notes said – ‘white and floppy’.

“There were some complications before the birth, which was incredibly scary.

“Then when Olivia came out so white we didn’t know what was going on.

“It was such a relief when the doctors explained what was happening, and it was quite amazing when they put the blood in her and she slowly turned this amazing pink colour.

“She’s such a lovely baby, it means everything having her at home now.”

Louise and her greengrocer partner Paul Norton, 36, of Witham, Essex, first noticed something was wrong when they didn’t feel Olivia kicking for three days.

They went to Broomfield Hospital, in Chelmsford, and when nurses failed to spot any movement after a 15 minute scan doctors ordered an emergency caesarean.

Olivia was born six weeks early at 8.20pm on Saturday September 10, weighing 5lbs 3oz with her heartbeat dipping dangerously low.

Haemoglobin is the protein which gives blood its characteristic red colour and ability to carry oxygen around the body.

When Olivia was born she had haemoglobin levels of just three out of a normal level of 18, which meant the plasma in her blood could not be classified as proper blood.

The newborn was rushed to the hospital’s special care baby unit where she was monitored for two weeks and had her strength and colour restored with two blood transfusions.

Neonatal nurse Sharon Pilgrim, yesterday (Mon) said in 20 years in the job she had never heard of such low haemoglobin levels.

She said: “It was a miracle she survived. She was incredibly pale when born and had difficulties breathing.

“There was no sign of blood loss prior to the caesarean or during the operation.

“It was only when we carried out further tests on Louise that we discovered the baby had lost blood directly into her mum’s blood circulation.”

Louise added: “The hospital staff were amazing and called Olivia the ‘miracle baby’ and said if I hadn’t come in she would not have survived.

“Doctors still don’t know why it happened, it is one of those freak things.

“I want mums to realise how important a baby’s movement is in checking they are healthy. You have to trust your maternal instinct.”