People in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
Today I was watching Anderson Cooper’s show AC360 in which he was speaking about the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. As mentioned by many during the program there are many in the US who still believe in white supremacy. The statistics of these groups are alarming. Many think America changed with a African American president well think again. From some of the comments I heard on AC360 people think the US is doomed and it will never be the US they loved as a black man is leading them.
This an article excerpt from AC360.com
Sonia Scherr
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Intelligence Report
“White power!”
Nearly 200 racist skinheads, white-robed Klansmen, and other white supremacists chanted racist slogans as they marched through downtown Montgomery, Ala., on a sunny Saturday in March 1991. As they passed the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Mark Carpenter — the leader of a new hate group called the White Reich — yelled out, “[SPLC co-founder] Morris Dees is a racist Jew and a queer!”
He sounded like a bigot brimming with hatred. But Carpenter had a secret. His true identity was Special Agent Bart McEntire of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. For months, he’d been preparing to go undercover to investigate the skinhead underworld in Birmingham, Ala., which at the time was among the most active and violent in the country. To establish his credentials, McEntire had asked an ATF informant to drop his cover identity’s name in white supremacist circles. He’d scoured newspaper articles for details about unsolved robberies and bombings he could claim to have committed. And he’d arranged for the Lexington County Sheriff’s Department in South Carolina, where he’d begun his law enforcement career, to conjure a record showing that Mark Carpenter had been arrested for illegally possessing explosives.
As we all know it’s happening in Australia too:
Article excerpt from AFP
MELBOURNE (AFP) — Another attack on an Indian student was reported in Australia on Wednesday as authorities step up efforts to stop the assaults, which have turned a police matter into a diplomatic embarrassment.
Police said a 21-year-old Indian student was confronted on Tuesday evening by five men in the car park of a college campus in the suburbs of the southern city of Melbourne, where many of the attacks have taken place.
They demanded money and cigarettes from the man, then attacked him when he refused to comply, with one slashing him across the chest with a weapon believed to be a box cutter, causing minor lacerations.
Police said the attack was not believed to be racially motivated.
But it is the latest in a wave of assaults on Indian students that media in the South Asian country have dubbed “curry bashings”, splashing with headlines such as “Australia, land of racists.”
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd called his counterpart Manmohan Singh last month to assure him about student safety in the country amid reports some Indian parents were fearful of sending their children to the country.
Latest available police figures say 1,447 people of Indian origin were robbed or assaulted in Victoria state in 2007-2008, although students from the country say they have risen since then.
And it’s happening in Europe;
Excerpt from The Guardian
The BNP will inevitably face a series of legal challenges on issues ranging from discrimination and employment law to possible criminal offences, lawyers say, following two candidates’ election to the European parliament.
The party’s constitution, which says membership is “strictly defined within the terms of … ‘indigenous Caucasian’ and defined ethnic groups emanating from that Race” is a breach of the law against discriminating in membership organisations, according to legal experts.
“An unincorporated association like the BNP which has genuine screening for membership cannot unlawfully discriminate,” said Gavin Millar QC, who specialises in election and discrimination law. “There will inevitably now be legal challenges to this.
“It was presumed before that the BNP were so unimportant that it wasn’t worth trying, but now this is a live issue, and the BNP’s constitution must be challenged.”
Possible challenges to the constitution could make use of a Lords ruling which found that political parties could be regarded as “members’ clubs” and therefore fell within discrimination law.
Lawyers also said that as the BNP gets access to the European parliament, with a budget for employing staff and contracting services, it would also be open to employment law, which prohibits direct and indirect discrimination.
“A black or Jewish candidate who applied and didn’t get the job on grounds of their racial or religious background would have a claim in the employment tribunal,” Millar said.
And they have the right to accuse Sri Lanka!
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so what’s your point? that because racism exists in other country’s, that they can’t criticise sri lanka?
western nations aren’t accusing sri lanka of racism, they are concerned about the violation of human rights.
are you implying by this post that the sri lankan government has been acting out of racism?
The violation of human rights the west is talking about is Tamil Genocide (influenced by LTTE supporting Tamil Diaspora) which is totally false as in Sri Lanka it is a terrorism issue and not a racial issue. At every juncture the SL Gov made it clear that it was a war against terrorist and tremendous efforts were made to save Tamil people who were held as human shields by the LTTE. It surprises me to see the countries which are accusing us of human rights having racial problems (which in hindsight is a violation of human rights too). This is why I posted this comparison. Sorry I should have made this clear and thanks for your response.
Good point Admin/One Sri Lanka. I agree with you. Besides talking about Tamil ‘Genocide’, these countries also talk about War Crimes. This coming from countries that illegaly invaded Iraq and subjecting those Iraqis to years and years of suffering. I understand the US/UK too have to fight its war on terror. Rightly so as Al Qiada needs to be crushed like the LTTE, but don’t lecture Sri Lanka on how to fight its war.