The Great Warpath
This summer it has been a softer, modern version of living in a cabin on the Great Warpath circa 1740 near Albany or Montreal (in this regard, take a look at Eliot Cohen’s new book Conquered into Liberty on the origins of the American way of war), readying oneself for the next break-in — so our inland “California Corridor” has become from Bakersfield to Sacramento.
More specifically, I have been on the lookout around my farm for a predatory, nearly new, grey/silver Toyota truck that drives in and then speeds out — always a day or so before the nocturnal theft. He’s clever, this caser — and audacious too, like a wily Sherman tank prowling through the hedgerows. (Why, if poor, is he not home growing a tomato garden or scouring the roadside for the ubiquitous tossed aluminum cans and plastic bottles?)
On three separate occasions from June to August, I have had copper wire stripped out of pumps, the barn ransacked, and the two locks pried off the shop and various things stolen. (Why did they steal buckets of 1900 antique bolts and square nails and leave alone a drill press and grinder? Ease of recycling? Ignorance?)
When Metal Grows Legs
One of the stranger things in the California Corridor is to periodically walk around a barnyard and notice: “Hmm, that set of rusted furrowers is gone? Hmmm, what happened to those sections of 2-inch pipe? Hmmm, didn’t I have an old compressor next to the shed? Have I got dementia, or wasn’t there once upon a time three metal ladders leaning against the shop?” It is as if they became animate, grew legs, and quietly walked off in the sunset.
Hippo Regius
Twice I ran into the barnyard to see the truck, with its two gangbanger youths, peel off in clouds of dust. (And, yes, as a CSU ex-professor, I know the party line: the dominant culture neglects/exploits/oppresses/fill in the blanks the “other” to such a degree that he sometimes must lash out, or, on occasion, to find validation, might just do something illegal like steal buckets of antique nails, or illogical, like in poverty buying a new truck, and thus so disturbs/finally wins the attention of those with privilege and their self-constructed norms. Been there and heard that for thirty years).
The Toyota is always around when theft occurs, and always speeding off when anyone spots it. Rural California is also like North Africa circa 420 AD: the few family farms left are mostly fenced or walled, the dogs large, the owners armed — trying to survive against organized Vandal attacks. All we need are mosaics in the courtyard portraying happier times as a testament to future archeologists. Maybe a “Cave Canem!” on the doorstep.
I know of no neighboring farm that has not been broken into or fought/scared off such intruders. (The urban counterpart in our town are a few municipal workers stealing their own city manhole covers; two ex-policemen, like rogue legionaries, now up on felony charges; or Gothic-like gangs, prying off all the bronze dedicatory plaques from the hallowed buildings. Perhaps they are similar to the bullet-hungry occupying Ottomans in 16th-century Greece, destroying classical temples and shrines to find and melt down the lead seals over metal block clamps — on the theory that someone 2,000 years earlier knew a lot more about making lead than did they, or maybe impoverished Greeks around 1850 finishing up the destruction of antiquity by fracting and melting down the scattered marble blocks for lime whitewash.)
Then and Now
So it is that in 1935 poor people scraped and saved to cast a bronze plaque for their Depression-era new city hall, and in 2011 rather more affluent people ripped it off to melt it down for a layaway payment on some chrome rims or another round of meth.
Civilization ends when the pampered beneficiaries of the hard work of the now dead have the luxury of ignoring how hard it was — and is — to build shelter from the elements, to erect public buildings from scrub, to grow food and sprout farms from sage. Our contemporary criminals are protected from the elemental struggle and so have the indulgence to gnaw away at civilization’s veneer — and we, in our conspiratorial silence about them, likewise forgot that to keep still about the destruction of the work of others is to be complicit in it.
Jaws on Wheels
Seven days ago, I left to teach here at Hillsdale for my month vacation. My son, back home on the farm — he often rushes out armed when trucks come into the driveway at night — called. He mentioned in passing that the Toyota was back, Jaws-like circling around the farm in short bursts of speed to see if anyone was there. (The modus operandi in the rural California hinterlands is to drive into a farm, check if anyone comes out, if so, either peel out or even stay put to “inquire” about a “rental” or “work.” If no one comes out, then break a window, grab a TV or computer and speed off. Also: Please do not suggest, “call the sheriff”; I have and even “filled out a report” over the phone, no less. Enough said. And yes, I probably should sell the 140-year-old farm and move away, but also probably won’t. Why leave and give in to barbarism? There are still far more good than lawless people in the valley.)
So VP Biden looks at Republicans and Tea Party supporters (not a party and no tea is served) and sees, what else, barbarians at his gate. Barbarians no less. Likewise Schumer sees hostage-takers and terrorists in that same locale.
But Victor and his neighbors have real barbarians at their gates with the full weight of the bloated state government of California fully behind them. To risk combat with the barbarians to protect ones property and ones self is also to risk combat with the law, if one should win, lose, or draw the first fight.
Not a pretty picture. I’m very glad I ended up in the Panhandle of Florida. We have real barbarians here too, but they are on their own. The law here doesn’t treat them as an endangered species.
Eerily reminiscent of A Clockwork Orange. Let’s hope that in the Valley, this goes no further than Anthony Burgess’ fiction.
The violation of private property, and outright theft and vandalism, and the lack of law enforcement is a serious problem.
How explicit does it need to get to reverse the disconnect and distorted perspectives of the D.C. pontificators and puffers. When will the noise stop and “the people” choose leaders that are for real!!?
Funny, you thought “Clockwork Orange” because of the roaming gangs and I thought “Mr. Majestyk” because of the farming aspect.
I also had the 1971 Straw Dogs by Sam Peckinpah with Dustin Hoffman and Susan George. The Doctor wins, but it ain’t pretty.
Sorry for your losses Doc. What you are living through and desribe in great depth is nothing less than the mechanism for creating Democratic voters. Promise more , tolerate more, give more, foster a sense of victimization and entitlement. We are witnesing the perfect president for furthering this socialist pathology. Move before they kill you – then blame you for it.
Dear Dr. Hanson – Sadly your situation is mirrored all across the U.S. in rural, suburban and urban environments. We seem to to be drifting into a slow-motion version of Jean Raspail’s dystopian (but increasingly prophetic) novel “The Camp of the Saints” where Western civilization ends not with a bang but with an apologetic and impotent whimper.
I have worked in our local criminal justice system for many years, both in law enforcement and as a lawyer. I too am familiar with the characters you describe – The sullen face, the resentful eyes and the inability to imagine anything in life other than the latest prestige gadget, fake macho strutting and satisfaction of the carnal pleasures of the moment. Everything that we associate with the basics of civilization (honesty, compassion for others, the ability to plan ahead, etc.) is alien to them. If they think of them at all it is only with unqualified contempt.
“The Camp of the Saints” has been condemned by those on the left as a purely racist tract. Naturally they miss the point. Raspail was asking (in 1972 no less) a very fundamental and complex question. How can a society that prides itself, above all else, on it’s tolerance survive when overrun by other cultures that do not value tolerance at all? In your neck fo the woods we are seeing the answer – A slow remorseless descent into a quasi-barbarism that is applauded as some sort of “authenticity” by those (in Sacramento and SF for example) who aren’t forced to deal with it.
“And yes, I probably should sell the 140-year-old farm and move away, but also probably won’t. Why leave and give in to barbarism? There are still far more good than lawless people in the valley.”….That was a wonderful line and quite true. I have a bad feeling however that you and the other good people in the valley are increasingly on your own.
It isn’t merely that you are on your own; that situation would be tolerable. The problem is that you are being taxed to pay for a government that not only subsidizes your enemies, but protects them from any attempts on your part to defend yourself and your property.
Being on your own is not the problem…
Being held ACCOUNTABLE by a government that refuses to accept the notion they have abandoned you to the savages, is.
My home situation is similar, though more urban, with Section 8 drug addicts and prostitutes moved into an “upper middleclass” neighborhood. The local police force is of course more concerned with the “perception” outsiders have of this lovely historic enclave of Pre-revolutionary architecture in a liberal college town.
They literally wince at the notion of enforcing the law against the (extremly few) non-whites passed out on the sidewalk in of “presigious” suburbia. It just happens to be MY lawn they are sprawled out on.
I have no fear for my own safety, or that of my (comtetently armed) wife and children….
What we fear the most is, the accusations and administrative nightmares (legal fees, jail time) should we ever protect ourselves.
The State is by far a greater threat
Does your sprinkler system work…?
We are Reconquering the Southwest…and you gringos can’t stop us. Our population is rapidly growing, and the gringo population is aging and declining. We are over 50 million and united. You are down to 63.7% and extremely divided…and will be a minority by 2041. We are already a majority of the population under 18 in Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico and Arizona… and are rapidly taking over Nevada, Colorado, and Florida.
We are young and vigorous. You gringos are old and tired. We are the future. Your time has passed. We have defeated you without firing a shot. It is too late for you gringos to stop us from taking over the country. Gringos are down to only 53.5% of the population under 18…and a minority of births since 2010. You gringos will soon be a minority, and lose control of your own destiny. We will control who gets elected President. We will DOMINATE Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico and Arizona…and will be the swing voters in the swing states — Nevada, Colorado, and Florida. Whoever doesn’t do La Raza’s bidding will be thrown out of office.
We have Reconquered the Southwest from you gringos without firing a shot. Don’t you see that we have defeated you? You have no leaders, no hope, no future. You gringos will soon pay the price for your sins against us. The 21st century will undo and reverse the 19th century. La Reconquista is almost complete. It is only a matter of time. We are nearly there. In a few years it will all be over for you gringos.
Do you understand that we are CONQUERING this country right now right in front of your eyes, in broad daylight, without a shot being fired? Do you understand that we are CONQUERING America right now…and that your leaders are like the American Indian chiefs who sold their tribes out for bottles of Kickapoo Joy Juice and some repeating rifles…
We have already RECONQUERED the entire Southwest — Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico, and Arizona. We will soon have control of Nevada, Colorado, Florida, and Utah. After that, we will proceed to invade, conquer, and colonize the entire country. We are repopulating the country. We will eventually drive all you gringos out of the country, to Canada, back to Europe, to Mars, whatever, just get the hell out of this country because we’re taking over, and we don’t want you racist gringos here. We will drive you gringos out of here as sure as I’m standing here.
We have CONQUERED you without firing a shot. La Raza is 50 million strong…and by 2050 we will be 135 million concentrated in the Southwest that borders Mexico. La Reconquista is almost comnplete. We are taking back the Southwest, the land that you gringos stole from us in the 19th century. Demographics Is Destiny. We are repopulating the country. It is all over for you gringos. By 2041 you gringos will be a minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. By 2050 we will be 135 million strong, about 30% of the population, an overwhelming majority in the Southwest — and an even greater percentage of children. We will soon be an outright majority.
The Gringo’s world is ending… Not with a bang but a whimper.
The Gringo is going gentle into that good night… Don’t rage against the dying of the Gringo’s light.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Good Lord! Why do you feel the need to keep appending this tiresome boilerplate to all of Professor Hanson’s articles? We get the message already! If you are serious then try answering this question – After you have CONQUERED the U.S. then what sort of civilization will you put in it’s place? What will be the relationship of the CONQUERORS to their citizens? How will the roads be maintained, and the sewers repaired and the power plants kept running?
Be patient you piece of white trash. You will find out soon enough when the time is right…
We will also cut off your gringos Medicare and Social Security…
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Mexicans are short in stature, inbred and low i.q., in other words, you Mexicans are NOT sexy or intelligent by any stretch of the imagination. You little spazzes with your runt complex and your refusal to assimilate are the reason that California is turning into a sludge-pit of DOOM.
Good luck trying to remake America into another Mexican cesspool, dipsh*t. You can take your effing “La Raza” and shove it up your fugly, chola, one-brown-eyed bucket of caca del toro.
would that be before or after your daily siesta
You know – You’re a riot! It’s like exchanging e-mails with a really dumb racist version of Dr. Evil. You should end your rants with “BWAHHH-HA-HA-HA- HA!” – Sort of like a really over-the-top Bond villain from the 1960′s. Remember – Presentation is everything.
when you talk about yourself and fellow latinos and the reconquista …do you mean you are giving the land to the aboriginals or stealing it for the Spaniards again?
the problem with your racism is it is a mockery of what you call justice.. you are as duplicitous as the muslims who’s butts you wiped in Andalusia until the rest of Europe pushed back starting in Vienna.
like the medicare and social security you get in mexico.. . your are easily the dumbest calabasa out there
if you clowns did take over there would only be lead given out freely by the government …and it would be flying round like it is in the paradise you call you mexico
What happens when you get rid of the last gringo? Who will be left to pay your bills?…the Chinese?
Por La Raza mucho 7.62X51′s. Fuera de La Raza satisfacción.
Like every other parasite, when your host runs out of resources, then YOU will cease to exist.
Wow, I’m shocked! For once the troll actually responded to someone! But anyways, you still evaded the question with your semi-cryptic threat. To be honest with you, I’m tired of seeing your garbage littering Dr. Hanson’s page.
Unlike the “weak gringos” you’re thinking of, I would have no qualms shooting first and asking questions later. I have served in this nation’s military, and I recognize that a threat is a threat no matter how you try to dress it up.
Oh, and I do not fear the law’s reprisal. I would much rather annihilate every last one of you Mexican supremacists living off of MY TAXES and spend the rest of my days in prison. People like you have snapped my “tolerance” bone. Either respect this country and follow its laws, or don’t be surprised if you’re shot down where you stand.
Enjoy.
We will also cut off your gringos Medicare and Social Security…
Nah, they’ll blow up on their own. As will your welfare, food stamps, and Section 8 housing.
What do you plan to do then?
So tell me, beaner, after us gringos leave and take all our money with us, what are you going to do? When there is no more work and money in California than there is in Mexico what will you do? There’ll be nothing to steal because your beaner buddies don’t have anything either. And even if you do rip something off from your beaner buddies who will be left to buy it?
Mexico’s pretty inhospitable isn’t it? No work there. No money there. No way to feed your family there. What happens when you’ve made California be just like Mexico? (Think really hard, beaner. I know that’s tough but you can do it.)
The replies to La Raza the Bonehead are hilarious, but Rubicon provided the epilogue. Outstanding!
Dr. Hanson, I have a small farm in CA and I was losing equipment and tools, until I put up a cyclone fence and installed a pack of Catahoulas and Pitbulls. The theft has stopped; actually, no one ever comes to visit. Truthfully, you would need to be on crack cocaine to come on this farm. My dogs are only the first line of defense, if you somehow survive the lion and bear hunters that average 80 pounds, you then must contend with me.
But Dr. Hanson it is not the petty theft that is destroying America. It is the theft of America’s wealth by the kleptocracy in Washington. You have a secure paycheck, but those of us who have businesses or rely on a job in a deteriorating economy see our wealth dissipating daily. It is theft on a grand scale. A never ending theft that has as little thought for the future as our moron from La Raza. The thieves are our politicians who continually sell us out, either through villainy or incompetence: either way the result is the same, our standard of living is slowly eroding, while they feather their own nests.
You should be so lucky to only be losing a few thousand dollars to the Reconquistador Knot heads; the real theft isn’t so obvious, until you lose your jobs to an overseas corporate move to avoid EPA Regulations or your business slips further and further into red ink. That is the subversion of America, we should be so lucky to only endure the larceny of a few degenerates. They are stupid, although they have the cunning of street punks: our politicians have law degrees and the cunning of real gangsters.
Skookum,
You wrote You should be so lucky to only be losing a few thousand dollars to the Reconquistador Knot heads; which I presume refers to the square headed nails and stuff, but after reading that some 45 billion is sent to Mexico every year I wondered about how many gringos have taken notice and if that’s only for the short back and sides to their gardens or is some wealth for the country produced?
45 Billion leaving the economy each year and all California has in return are trolls like La Raza.
Cynic, it seems like a lot of money, but Obama gives our enemies that much.
Phoenix is a good example. Because the city is run by Dems and the public service unions, its budget was well in the red. To make up some of the shortfall, it was proposed the city cut services like public parks and pools, and shorten library hours. Anything but reduce their bloated workforce or impose wage freezes.
They also passed a 2% food sales tax, even though there was a lot of resistance; voters had eliminated the food sales tax more than 20 years ago. Nevertheless, in the interest of fiscal sobriety the tax was passed, with a sundown clause. The $30-40 million annual revenue it would generate wouldn’t erase the deficit, but it would be a start.
The final chapter to this saga is that a few weeks after the tax was on the books, the City gave “performance raises” to nearly all of its union employees. Cost of the payout? $35 million.
Wildhorse or as we said up cayuses and broomtails. The phoenix story i a shocker, but why are we surprised. Despite our efforts to make Obama look like an incompetent fool, he was perfectly willing to do the job for us. There is no way we could have accomplished nearly as much as he did.
The Phoenix politicians as obviously as corrupt and immoral as the Chicago Slew that produced our Thuggist In Chief and his Kleptocracy. They steal your wealth and reward those who participate in semi-legal larceny. The Chicago Way is where we are heading, unless we kick and scream as they drag us into that darkened room of Obama and his Thugocracy.
Keep the faith there Wildhorse.
Actually it is apparent that ‘La Raza’ is not what he claims. No Mexican uneducated enough to spout this stuff would use phases like “go gentle into the night”. When he did not rise to being called ‘beaner’ I knew he was a fraud just like the whole of Liberal ideology.
In reality ‘La Raza’ is probably some 60-year-old professor at some obscure insignificant college. After a hard day of dealing with a new generation of students who are starting to challenge the ideology that is a part of his very soul, he goes home to his Che Guevara shrine, thumbs through his dog-eared copy of Rules For Radicals, and cries over missing his chance to be a part of Fidel’s Revolution.
Rubicon, you seem to know this prof fairly well. I doubt that he can start a leaf blower; unless, it is electric.
I know many legal and ill-legal aliens from Mexico, because of working in the horse world and being involved in agriculture. They vary just as much as we do.
Parents must pay for education in Mexico; unfortunately, if a man is faced with putting food on the table or paying to send Miguel to second grade, he will be buying frijoles and tortillas.
One of my amigos in the horse world asked me in all seriousness why the Gringos call them Beaners.
I treat them with respect; consequently, I am treated as semi-royalty by most of them.
I thought about the question and answered carefully, “it is because of the frijoles.”
He answered, “frijoles, what frijoles?”
“The ones you eat.”
“Don’t Gringos eat frijoles?”
“Yes we do, but in English, the word “beans” makes Gringos want to laugh.”
At this point in the conversation he looked at me like he might need to call the guys in the white coats with the butterfly nets.
Why does beans make Gringos want to laugh.
Because beans make you fart.
Again i got the look of disbelief. “Senour Skook, I think the Gringo is kind of funny.”
I tried to explain that it was a term of affection, but to the illegal trying to understand the complicated Gringo from across a vast ocean of cultural differences, lumping beans, farts, and terms of endearment was a little difficult to comprehend or believe.
The Anthropologist would have a logical explanation for the conversation and explain it away as technical differences in culture and my inability to relate; even though, I have hundreds if not thousands of Hispanic friends. They know me much better than I know them.
I don’t chalk it up to an educational difference; no not at all, since like the illegal, I missed out on education because of being raised on a remote ranch. I attended university, but that was difficult for me. So we both lack the cultural influence of elementary and secondary education.
Despite the inability of these guys to read, when they cross the border; I have seen them lear English, learn to read, and cypher. I watched one spend all his money on flying lessons and become a pilot. In other words, they are as intelligent as us and it is a mistake to assume otherwise.
I was once humbled intellectually by a horse. Thus when I hear people complain that horses are stupid, I feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck; for we are only to willing to judge others by the European assessment of intelligence, but if we were to take the horse IQ test, we would find out how much we are lacking in the brain pan.
For example, I was hunting in a large old burn in Northern British Columbia with a saddle horse and two pack horses. I had been lost for several days, but that is hardly a concern, because you will eventually come to a river or creek or mountain that you recognize, for each tributary is distinct and has a taste peculiar to itself. The burn was probably 30 years old and several hundred square miles. The Poplar trees were thirty feet high and provided a canopy that prevented grass from growing underneath because of the shade.
It was getting dark and there was no water or feed for the horses. I was feeling terrible. It is my job to provide water for my hard working horses. It is too dangerous to travel at night in unfamiliar country, because of the possibility of eviscerating a horse or losing an eye on a snag. The horses need a minimum of 5 gallons a day to keep their gut in good shape, so I was being a bast@rd.
Suddenly my big saddle horse mare turned hard to the right. This was a shock, since these horses are trained to the point of being able to play checkers in camp. We passed a tree and there was my personal blaze (a carved mark on a tree that us bush apes use to mark trails, it is like a brand on cattle in that it is a distinct mark). My blaze was a four inch square made with the ax by my leg at eye level on this particular horse five years earlier. She led us into an old camp with the squaw legs for the wall tent leaning against an old spruce tree, grass up to my knees for the horses and a nice trout stream with a Dolly Varden that reached from my elbow to the tips of my fingers. Oh what a great night we spent in camp that night. Just me and three horses and a big Grizzly the next day. But the question is, who showed the intelligence that night? Horses don’t read sign. They have a sense of smell that puts hunting dogs to shame, but that wasn’t an issue. It was the organic GPS chip and that memory my saddle horse, Dallas used that night to bring us to a great camp and a good hunt, not me. That night, my horses must have figured I was losing my grip on reality. Yes, we must be careful not to underestimate those around us, even the horses.
Rubicon, it is me Skook making the rant as anonymous. These computers are still a mystery to me, I keep looking for the pull rope and the choke every time I get ready to fire it up.
So, the response to idiotic bigotry is idiotic bigotry?
Sigh.
So, how do you plan to accomplish this reconquista, Senor Dipwad? One stolen water tank at a time?? Because in spite of your vast numbers, youth and vigor, I can’t think of anything of consequence you actually run. Let’s face it, if you guys were any good at running things, you would have made something of our neighbor to the south from whence you fled. You know, the vacation paradise with its beautiful landscapes, lovely colonial cities, wonderful ancient ruins and miles and miles of fabulous coastline. The country embarrassingly rich in natural resources that can’t seem to make it out of the third world even though it shares a border with the number one member of the first. The shithole otherwise known as Mexico. Why don’t you go back and reconquist that.
“We have CONQUERED you . . . ”
For my part, having lived through the disintegration of the racist and bankrupt American society, I can only view with great welcome and joy the arrival of the more humane, more efficient, more democratic Mexican system of government. Please, hurry!
(C’mon, man, you’re embarrassing to read. You ain’t no hispanic. You’re some puerile little lefty looking to make fun of someone smarter, richer, and far more valuable to humanity than you. Meaning, of course, me, and the other readers of Dr. Hanson’s thoughts. (I wouldn’t even know how to begin trying to compare you to Dr. Hanson himself without using the phrase “scrape you off of my shoe as I go inside” at least a few times.))
“We have CONQUERED you . . . ”
For my part, having lived through the disintegration of the racist and bankrupt American society, I can only view with great welcome and joy the arrival of the more humane, more efficient, more democratic Mexican system of government. Please, hurry!
(C’mon, man, you’re embarrassing to read. You ain’t no hispanic. You’re some puerile little lefty looking to make fun of someone smarter, richer, and far more valuable to humanity than you. Meaning, of course, me, and the other readers of Dr. Hanson’s thoughts. (I wouldn’t even know how to begin trying to compare you to Dr. Hanson himself without using the phrase “scrape you off of my shoe as I go inside” at least a few times.))
this is the second time you printed a similar post. You need to be banned from the site.
I say again as I did to your last cursing: Who is “we”? The “Raza”?
Which race? The Pueblos and Apaches and Commanches were here first, you Spanish dodo…The Spanish “raza” stole it from them, and the dirty little secret of the “non racist” countries of Latin America is that if you are pure “raza” it means you are of Spanish blood, so you run the place, but if you are mainly of Native American blood, you have no chance of getting out of poverty…unless you immigrate to the US.
Yes, you’re so smart and brave, taking on lone farmers and their families and generally making a mess leaving it for someone else to clean up.
What kind of civilization are you producing, La Raza?
And if you do take over, you’ll still have to deal with America, dope. You know, foreign relations. And then you won’t have the US Army and National Guard to help you because you’ve taken over.
Good luck with that.
Disgusting person.
Yur statistics are bogus. They are linear projections wich ignore the dynamics of reality. Most of your “army” would not follow you, and would likely shoot you dead if you pissed them off enough.
Also, the REAL number of “Anglos” is around 70%.
Make your point once and stop. The mindless repetition indicates you have trouble communicating,rendering your post tiresome and somewhat douchey.
To #4 Mr. Raza . . .
You are obviously a half-educated English major pretending to be a tough guy. Love that Dylan Thomas reference. Oddly enough, in my area all the razas speak perfect English,so who is conquering who?
We are conquering you right under your gringo noses. If you can’t see it happening you’re delusional. We are invading, conquering, and colonizing the country. We are repopulating the country. We are driving you out of neighborhoods, cities, states, and the entire Southwest. Eventually we will drive you out of the country altogether. You will be forced to escape to Canada, or Europe, or Mars… You gringos has been defeated by your superiors, La Raza. When we have the numbers we will deal with you… Time is on our side. You racist gringos are aging, shrinking and dying. You gringo imperialists will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The gringo is toast, burnt toast. Bye bye gringo. You are finished. Gringo America is no more. We have taken over the country. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
When you have turned the US into a pile of excrement like Mexico is now, who will you blame for all your troubles then?
I agree. A troll, and probably not Mexican American, but someone who took high school Spanish. If he was South American, he’d know that the day of the “Raza” is to celebrate the Spanish part of culture, that the Spanish invaders conquered the locals, not the celebration of the culture of the metziso or Native tribes.
Tough reading. Whether a professor in a small remote college or a high school spanish student, hasn’t this idot yet learned that you don’t say you gringos has?
To “La Raza”:
Please advise when you plan to arrive so that I can be ready to greet you.
I left Mexico 57 years ago and haven’t been back in ten. Don’t want to return.
When you do come, please bring Carmen. I want to “meat” her.
And you, well, te lo voy a meter en tu culito.
Ciao baby
Hey la raza,once the economic and social collapse start,you and your racist malignant brethren are done.When the cops are no longer on the beat to protect you bottom feeders(they’ll be home protecting their own families)it’s open season on you mexi-shits.The prospect of prison for killing you parasites is the only thing keeping you alive,once that is gone…..
Too bad La Raza’s dream is only from the crack he gets his high off of. I know many people of central, south, and “hispanic” origin, and what is funny is that they are pretty damn conservative. That is either they are core independents or republicans. Very traditional, family oriented, which shows that the Western Civilization’s Judeo-Christian philosophies have propagated to the entire American Continent.
The mindset that southern US will become some sort of Mexico north is a complete joke: a crack-induced high. La Raza probably is living with his mother, living in her basement, using her computer to write his stupid screeds when he is not Bogarting her lotion and Kleenex watching his favorite porn site on her nickel or maybe more like Social Security check.
La Raza: the success of the Left to impress yet another easily manipulated fool to mindlessly go about their talking points in a limited life expanding manner. Your time is the time that is short. There is a new wave, a conservative wave of all colors and creeds of tax payers who are sick of paying for your brain-washing.
Remember, we are the ones controlling the purse strings now. You are just going to have to get off your lazy derrier and start small in life. Here are two words, in English: our soon to be official language, that you seem to write so eliquently…”ma’am, would you prefer paper or plastic”.
That is probably all you will ever amount to because you spend too much of your time on mindless dribble.
Stay classey La Raza!
La Raza is a troll, not Hispanic, someone fed up with illegal aliens.
Stop getting your chains yanked by this guy.
Yeah, sounds like a moby to me.
“Reality Cannot Be Reinvented”
You are baiting many philosophers, who should stay the heck out of economics if we’re to survive.
I see the same erosion in Faith and God. Where once we worked and prayed for God and our fellow citizens, now we are in neo pagan times.
Two words – Stop Spikes at the gate similiar to to what’s depoloyed at military instillations. They have to be ativated and lowered to be passed without ripping out tires. Have a sign in English and Spanish announcing the fact at the gate or driveway entrance. Also mention randomly deployed Claymores, hidden proximity fused RPG sites and signs in German announcing “Actung! Minen”. And, last but not least 12 gauge double barreled pump over the hearth.
Yo, surfed… ref: “12 gauge double-barreled pump”
We grok the concept but there ain’t no such animal. You musta got yer firearms training from the NY Times.
“Double barreled pump 12 ga…”
Let’s have the “Sons of Guns” invent it! I sure as heck would buy one! Double goodness!
A twelve-gauge double-barreled pump?
That would indeed be a cool weapon, but it would have to be so heavy it would take Rambo to lift it, and it would have to eject straight up (which could be a problem.)
Technology has triumphed, here is a double barreled 12 ga pump (with extended hagazine tubes no less)
http://www.keltecweapons.com/news/preview-kel-tec-shotgun-ksg/
That gun only has a double-barrelled magazine; it doesn’t have two firing chambers capable of firing simultaneously.
Also, if you were firing simlutaneously two rounds of e.g. a Federal F131RS rifled slug, then your shoulder would be asked to absorb
3109 + 3109 = 6218 foot-lbs of energy
Which ain’t exactly chicken feed…
http://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/slug.aspx?id=134
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at the La Raza tripe that keeps getting thrown up on the comments here. It’s such an object lesson in everything you’ve described, Dr. Hanson.
Every time I drive through the central valley I think of you, and I wonder how you and the other farmers still making a go of it manage to hang on in a climate that is so overtly hostile. I hate the idea of selling a farm that’s part of one’s heritage, but it sounds like nothing short of violence will protect it from the scavengers. I suppose if you put a few rounds of buckshot into the back gate of one of those trucks, the local law might care about that.
We are invading, conquering, and colonizing the country. We are repopulating the country. We are driving you out of neighborhoods, cities, states, and the entire Southwest. Eventually we will drive you out of the country altogether. You will be forced to escape to Canada, or Europe, or Mars… You gringos has been defeated by your superiors, La Raza. When we have the numbers we will deal with you… Time is on our side. You racist gringos are aging, shrinking and dying. You gringo imperialists will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The gringo is toast, burnt toast. Bye bye gringo. You are finished. Gringo America is no more. We have taken over the country. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Cut and paste, cut and paste the same old inane nonsense over and over again. *yawn* Nobody bothers to read past your name anyway. Be gone before someone drops a house on you.
Thank you, La! I love to end the day with a good laugh.
(Gee, there used to be a guy named Reza at Jihadwatch who said exactly the same kind of things. He was hilarious, too.)
What you you going to do then, Beaner?
Hey Bozo the Cholo I live in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood in a southwestern city . Bring it on puta, if I don’t take you out some of my brown skinned brothers will, you little sniveling maricon.
#8 surfed256 : Semi-auto 12 gauge, long magazine, 00buck.
Dr.Hanson, do you have any machinery that can dig deep holes? A backhoe? It could come in handy.
Up in Wisconsin they say “Use the three ‘s’s” which stands for “Shoot, Shovel and Shut Up!” Kill them, bury them and their truck, keep any cash but nothing else.
And let us not forget; It only takes 3′ of concrete to defeat a cadaver dog.
There is an old saying “Six feet of earth make us all the same size.” 3″ of concrete does much the same. It solves many problems. In any case there are far too many bodies buried to figure out what happened to each.
On another note, game cameras have gotten inexpensive and can film license plates, windshields, barn doors etc. The law might be interested in watching some of the movies.
Game camera’s, IP camera’s, sounds great in principle but not much good. Police agencies would most likely file the data away.
My suggestion would be to have Ruben Navarette and Hilda Solis take on shifts as day and night watchmen.
This would solve the problem because based upon everything I read or hear them say, all Hispanic crime and gangbanging disappears and becomes non-existent at the mere mention of it in their presence.
This miracle of the loafers and very fishy…is something to behold. Navarrette and Solis can transform a criminal enterprise into a an innocent family of hard working food producers and land wizards, without so much as a magic wand or a sprinkling of fairy dust.
All criminal activities evaporate into the thin air and rose petals appear on your path right before your very eyes.
I don’t know how long the magic lasts, however. Or if, like Orkin…you need a monthly treatment. Maybe Ruben and Hilda have a company called Hisporkin, it does not appear on a Google search yet.
I would suggest the alternative and tell them that you are indeed hiring. When the authorities find out that they were not here legally, YOU will be arrested and the state will take over your farm. Then it’s their problem and you get three squares a day and free medical treatment, can sue the state for mental cruelty and retire off the profits. If you can’t beat em, join em. There are no other options in California. Crime or gaming the system.
Unless of course you want to go into politics. Then you can do both at the same time.
Perfect counter, CF.
My sides are hurting.
I’d opt for a monthly treatment, btw.
– or some other agribusiness winemaker might buy the raisin farm, Victor. Until then, use the profits of one of your bestsellers to raise a perimeter fence, buy a guard dog or two and stop brandishing your weapon and start discharging it in the air. Is that a crime in Fresno County? If law enforcement can’t or won’t help you now, then don’t think they will take the time and effort to prosecute unless they only pick on WASPS for easy cases.
Professor Hanson, I think your eloquent writing can be summed up in three words.
We.Are.Doomed.
Yes, you gringos are doomed. We are coming to conquer you. You don’t stand a chance.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
If La Raza wants to start a war, la raza will be piled into mass graves. Americans have more guns than the Chinese Army; if it’s a war you want, it’s a massacre you’ll get.
“Americans have more guns than the Chinese Army; if it’s a war you want, it’s a massacre you’ll get.”
This.
Vete a dormir la mona o te Quemo los huevos.
La Raza:
And what, exactly, do you plan to do when all the gringos are gone and you’ve made this country the same sh*t hole as the one you’ve come from? After all, you haven’t a clue as to produce the things you covet and steal.
We will deal with you appropriately when the time comes…
We will also cut off your gringos Medicare and Social Security…
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Too Funny! More proof these parasites will never be able to survive without a host.
Come and try me.
@La Raza:
Chinga tu madre, cabrone. Lambe nalga para me ano.
Watch your mouth you redneck trailer-trash hillbilly…
We are invading, conquering, and colonizing the country. We are repopulating the country. We are driving you out of neighborhoods, cities, states, and the entire Southwest. Eventually we will drive you out of the country altogether. You will be forced to escape to Canada, or Europe, or Mars… You gringos has been defeated by your superiors, La Raza. When we have the numbers we will deal with you… Time is on our side. You racist gringos are aging, shrinking and dying. You gringo imperialists will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The gringo is toast, burnt toast. Bye bye gringo. You are finished. Gringo America is no more. We have taken over the country. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Well, at least we know that no matter how badly the Democrats lose in the next election, they have a fall back position.
You white racist Republicans time is nearly up. Very soon you will be irrelevant. You will be a permanent minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. You gringos will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Molon labe.
“We have conquered you.”
You have to admit that Meskins have conquered the hotel cleaning and landscaping arenas.
That’s cool. We can always use more menial servants.
Texas took the good part of mexico and left the shitty parts for the beaners
Dearest The Race, You are correct, we will some day be dust. Once that happens, what country will “your people” break into for a better life? Where will “your people” go for work? “Your people” are completely incapable of producing wealth, prosperity or even potable water; where will you go? Who will take care of you? And, who will there be left to blame for all your self-induced problems? The Race, how will you and “your people” survive without stealing from the gringos?
Really? If you had conquered, you wouldn’t be writing on a gringo website in English. silly boy.
As I was driving home this week worrying about all the crap going on in
Washington and at how my country was falling apart, I saw a yard sign that
said:
NEED
HELP?
CALL JESUS
555-3787
Desperate, I called.
An hour later, a Mexican showed up with a
lawnmower.
Now that there is funny.
This guy must have been the last fart that saved itself right out of Che Guevara´s butt just before he landed underneath the green, green grass of home.
Or was it maybe Pancho Villa´s last one?
Vete a tomar por el culo, baboso.
Hey, don’t be knocking La Raza’s mom and the valuable services she provides.
Meskin hookers can suck the dimples off a golf ball, and their rates are extremely reasonable.
@La Raza:
Soplar me flauta, bougarone! Usted uno bruto estupido feyo. Usted hijo la granputa.
The clock is running out on you gringos. Your time is over. We are the future. You will wind up in the dustbin of history. You gringos are hopeless.
If anyone’s going to be deported it’s going to be you! Go back to Simi Valley, you skunks! Go back to Woodland Hills! Go back to Boston! Go back to the Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You’re old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you, leave like beaten rats.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Como canta el culo mio en el radio.
Go back to Spain. The land belongs to the Navajo
Me cago en tus Muertos
Something more sinister than stealing a few pounds of copper is happening in our nation and around the world. I can only guess but I think there is something awry with the collective conscienceness of we humans.
No longer are the unions disguising their distaste/hate for business and the order of law. Longshoremen in Washington State answered the call to arms by Jimmy Hoffa’s speech – ‘take the son’s of bitches out’ – this is just the start of that new chapter. I’m sure there is more to be heard from these thugs all round the nation as next years elections approach and it dawns on these Neanderthals that Obama may actually lose (gasp!). High paying jobs are on the line – no matter that these jobs are kept at the threat of a paralyzing strike. And if that doesn’t work there’s always the threat of violence – always there but no longer as veiled – these folk are spoiling for a fight as they see their hammer-lock on a nation slipping away.
Flash mobs of youths (mostly black – for now but I predict that will change) assemble and attack citizens doing something so devious (how dare they) as attending a fair. The national news seems to be in a stupor and unable or unwilling to cover said ‘news’ since they can’t believe its black youth (gasp!) doing the attacking.
People around the world are chaffing against the harness of totalitarian rule. Especially disturbing is the vacuum of power in countries such as Egypt where the muslim brotherhood may well end up the victors. The velvet harness of Mubarak may well have been sloughed off for the iron fist of the islamic nutjobs of the MB.
Syria? Whats going to happen there? Who really is behind the riots? The MB again?
How will Israel fare? Even in Israel people are chaffing against the government – with hands out. Asking for more from the ‘giverment’ as I like to call it. After all its what the government can give them – not caring that the government’s first order of business is to defend the nation. These kooks want less defense spending and more giverment handouts. What is going on in Israel? Can they survive for long with attitudes such as that?
In our own country (USA) it seems the rule of law applies more to the ‘ruled’ and less to the ruling class as seen by the fact that a tax cheating SOB like Timmy can get away with something I’d be in jail over. So what that he cheated on his taxes? We need him! Do we really? Van Jones. An avowed commie heading up the ‘green jobs’ revolution? How could this happen? I can only wonder how much money Jones absconded with. He looks fit and trim – and rich too.
As we collectively turn our heads away from these questions I get the feeling there are many who are hoping the law – voters – victims – all turn their heads from these activities. There are just too many things that can be gotten away with these days – just as long as someone is looking the other way.
Lets quit turning our heads and ask the tough questions.
Professor, your analogies to the late Roman Empire are beginning to sound surreal. Nevertheless, history might provide you with a solution. It sounds like you could use some foederati to keep the barbarians at bay. Buy yourself a mobile home, put it on your property, and offer free rent in exchange for security.
1. La Raza is a provocateur and is best ignored.
2. Why no big dogs on the farm, professor?
“La Raza” is a droning repetitive attention whore without an original thought in its brain, but that’s beside the point.
Regarding the dogs: It would be worth a try perhaps, but I would bet that any dogs capable of defending property would be “accidentally” poisoned or shot by the vandals. They’re not going to let dogs get between them and their plunder.
While I suspect Dr. Hanson has a reasonably unsentimental view of animals, I’m pretty sure he doesn’t want to find out what happens when someone kills his dog.
Also, and a serious dog person, to train a dog to the point where it is a good alarm and protection requires a deep commitment in time, energy and affection. It’s hard to figure out where Dr. Hanson would find the time for it.
Dogs are truly amazing. It’s impossible to advocate enough for people to have them, train them, and work with them in every possible circumstance.
A farm dog is a working dog. It’s not a pet, doesn’t want to be a pet. It wants food, water and respect. Think of Buck taking pride in and responsibility for Judge Miller’s place in “Call of the Wild.”
Most dogs in central California were likely bred for ranch work, or descend from working dogs. Some obedience training will be in order, but protecting property and patrolling territory is instinctual. Two shepherd-mixes, saved from death at the squalid local pound, are all you need.
And yes, petty thieves can be brutal and cruel, but you’ve already saved that dog from certain death. You’ve given him a second chance, you’ve given his existence value and meaning. That canine is willing to trade his life for the safety of his pack, it’s written in his DNA. It’s a bargain that a hardworking farm dog will happily make.
“Hmm, that set of rusted furrowers is gone? Hmmm, what happened to those sections of 2-inch pipe? Hmmm, didn’t I have an old compressor next to the shed? Have I got dementia, or wasn’t there once upon a time three metal ladders leaning against the shop?” It is as if they became animate, grew legs, and quietly walked off in the sunset.”
From what I’ve read, it’s even worse for Jewish farmers and ranchers in the Israeli countryside. Arabs and Bedouin will frequently break in to steal livestock (especially around Muslim festivals) or machinery. In one famous case, the intruder poisoned the rancher’s dog, and was subsequently shot by the rancher defending his family. (The rancher, in true PC fashion, was then arrested, but eventually acquitted.) In some areas they’re wont to set fires, as if to say, “We’ll destroy this land rather than have you benefit from it.” In others they’ll simply squat and claim, “This is ours.”
It is a pity that California is no longer part of the American West, and instead is either Alta California or as you say Mauretania Caesarensis. Here where I live in what is still nominally part of the what was considered to be America, our responses would be different. Our law enforcement still enforces. Regardless of race or protected class status. In the event that such was not possible, accidents can happen. Sometimes accidents can put a stray rifle round through a radiator or engine block from an unknown source.
But since you live in a country with no rule of law, or rather a perverted rule of law that punishes the productive and law abiding for the benefit of the barbarian; such is not for you.
#8 surfed256
The stop sticks are a good idea, however there will probably be retaliation. The mine warnings, etc. would be viewed as a provocative measure by law enforcement; and probably be counterproductive.
#9 RandomThoughts
I suppose if you put a few rounds of buckshot into the back gate of one of those trucks, the local law might care about that.
#11 talchess
On another note, game cameras have gotten inexpensive and can film license plates, windshields, barn doors etc. The law might be interested in watching some of the movies.
From what I understand, California law enforcement would in fact really care about the “hate crime” of firing at an oppressed minority. They would not give an obese rodent’s gluts about any such film. Going after a real criminal has a risk factor involved. Ignoring a law abiding citizen has no downside at all in California.
#19 ~Paules
Foederati may not be the best solution. I seem to remember that Alaric and Arminius were foederati, and that did not work out at all well. And there is the matter that if an employee of the Professor harms or offends one of the protected criminal class, they will be sure to invoke the doctrine of vicarious liability to sue or charge him.
Professor, you may have indeed deliberately chosen your death ground; and that is a decision that must be honored and accepted. It is not exactly Horatius’ declaration, but it is the land and home of your ancestors.
I would but comment that in the absence of the law; the sole choices are individual force, or collective force, to protect the lawful. With the perverted government and law enforcement you have, such is not possible for you and your neighbors. The only recourse is the same as those North African farmers. Flight to somewhere where the rule of law still exists in some attenuated form. If it may influence your decision, I would like to also say that your wisdom and your words are important to the defenses being organized elsewhere. And their absence will be missed.
Subotai Bahadur
…collective force, to protect the lawful. Subotai Bahadur, that had occurred to me as well; if only the farmers could band together to deal with this menace. Given that the law is clearly on the side of the predators and not the victims, as you say, any cooperative protective action would be undoubtedly considered a hate crime and racist.
California is indeed a sorry mess of a state in more way than one. Were it not for the beauty of our geography and climate, we’d have little of which to boast.
Anything worth having will eventually have to be defended. Surrendering to the barbarians only encourages their assymetrical reality. A poor sheriff is no law at all. A normally good sheriff would have trail cameras and patrols in an area of complaint. Your neighborhood watch sounds punk, and that is an invitation. Self-determination is on the other side of the nanny-state. Get your own survelliance gear and don’t advertise it. The barbarians have always been at the gate.
Also unmentioned is the fact that it’s both expensive and bothersome to prosecute less-than-major criminals. My neighbour’s house was saved from break-in at the last minute – the police were quite open that they would do their minimal documentation and that was that, and that if they had do much more on cases like this they would be overwhelmed.
Ps don’t engage La Raza, please, it’s a waste of electrons and our collective time
Aw. But it’s so much fun poking his bubble of self importance. It’s amusing how someone naming themselves “La Raza” can accuse others of being racists.
Actually, the answer to the theft problem is simple if you just think outside the box a bit. You’re trying to fight the battle using the wrong set of rules.
“To catch a wild dog, first you must tether a goat”
They want to steal? Fine, give then something to steal. Prepare is specially for them…
“Ps don’t engage La Raza”
I don’t want to marry the guy…just make of fun of him.
Hassling whitebread lefties who are pretending to be honest-to-God Meskins amuses me for some reason.
In our rural midwestern county we had a rash of break-ins involving the theft of tools. The sheriff held a meeting in order to address the problem. He gave the following advice. “Do not take the law into your own hands and shoot someone. But if you do make sure it is in self defense and drag them into your home, if necessary, before calling us.” Also, at that meeting he expressed his opposition to the electric chair. He said he would like to see it replaced with a bench.
We have a very low crime rate in our county. Excellent farm country VDH. Consider moving here.
In a neighboring community there were a bunch of sign posts stolen I assume not for the sign, but for the value of the metal post. There were also several bike racks stolen.
Where’s Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson, Death Wish) when you need him? I cannot imagine that you do not know some people. Neither do I believe you are so deluded as to think that today’s “Justice” system is not an oxymoron. Nor do I think that you are prepared to be fatalistic about these outrages. Beyond that I do not want to know – just be careful and be discreet when you buy the lime and dig the pit.
I was thinking of another Charlie Bronson picture, MISTER MAJESTYK, based on a solid Elmore Leonard novel.
Bronson plays a stubborn watermelon farmer, obsessed with getting in his meager crop, even if it requires a shotgun.
It’s thriller, but the novel and film deal pretty frankly with the frustrations of being a small-time farmer. To quote the brilliant book jacket, “Killerman Majestyk” just wants to do his thing, but other people keep messing with his melons…
*Also, on a literary note, Hanson’s bit about “…the Toyota was back, Jaws-like circling around the farm in short bursts of speed…” was haunting and well-written.
If you have a dirt road dig a deep hole and put an orange cone in front of it when you are home driving in and out. When you go away for a few days remove the cone and cover it with thin particle board then sprinkle sand over it for disguise. When the truck comes up the drive way to scout your farm he is going to get a big surprise
La Raza, when you refernce the dustbin of history were you endeavoring to quote Ronald Reagan or the earlier Lev Davidovich Trotsky?
just wondering.
If you don’t want to get ripped off, do what I do.
1.) Live out in the boonies.
2.) Live way off the main road.
3.) Own little or nothing of value.
Works for me. I never even bother to lock my doors.
So, you’re commenting from the library?
*Joke, not anything else*
In every one of our government programs there is an assumption that there will be more people to help us in our retirement than there turned out to be. The population in the US is barely above break-even growth rates. This is the real reason that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are bankrupting this country.
In Europe, the overall population is actually declining. In countries like Greece, it is falling through the floor. Meanwhile there are social pressures from many other countries in other parts of the world that would like to take our place, but they insist on bringing their traditions with them.
In and of itself, these traditions aren’t a bad thing, as long as they are willing to adjust them to fit the morals and goals our society was built upon.
This is why Islam is dangerous in Europe. Most have no intention of assimilating and becoming European citizens. This is why La Raza is raises so much ire among the people who post here.
The truth is that our children will no longer be among the majority. We need to ensure that even if this is the case, that they do adopt the principles and heritage that built this country. Without them, this country will devolve in to exactly the kind of place that VDH is sadly bemoaning.
There are two things you can do to improve the quality of our lives:
1. Have more than two children.
2. Delay retirement, or seek a second career.
Millions of people on government aid are depending upon you…
There was a time when my sister sat at the top of a criminal enterprise here in my town. Thank God she cleaned up after a stint in prison. I know the kind of people you describe. The stop sticks with warning signs might to it. The key to the strategy is that these people exist beyond the law. If they come roaring onto your property ‘looking to buy scrap’ and shred their tires. They will not call the police. There are excellent odds that they have records and warrants.
I don’t think you could pull off the second part. No offense Doc but you don’t look intimidating. You’re dress and mannerism mark you as an intellectual. Hyena’s don’t care how smart you are, only the size of your teeth mater. After shredding their tires you shuffle out with a shotgun and tell them you have been ripped off several times in the past couple of years and you intend to shoot the next one you catch, then bury the bodies out back. Then you tell them to get the hell out and not come back.
Once gone you call the police to tell them you’ve seen a truck with 4 flats racing down the road.
With the scum I’ve met, endured and survived, if I had your property and problems I would just plug them and bury them out back. The hardest part is getting rid of their truck afterwards.
“The hardest part is getting rid of their truck afterwards.”
Hell – thats the easy part. Push it to the main road and spray paint “FREE” on it. All evidence will be gone in hours.
The silver Toyota trollers are free to spend their days prowling and committing crimes is because of a sturdy support system in place, courtesy of taxpayers, it seems to me.
The (unmarried) mothers of gangbanger’s illegitimate children are often complicit in that they provide what these men would otherwise have to spend time being gainfully employed for; food, shelter, a monthly check.
Yup, life is good when ‘yew can rut and strut while Uncle Sam han’s the mun’ to yer hun’ so ya’all can have fun.
Oh…you mean these aren’t the “bastards” eleoquent Mr. Hoffa was referring to?
Well Victor, now you know why all those little hill towns in Tuscany have walls around them. And the folks who lived there took their tools home with them every night.
One of the most distressing aspects of this is the attitude of law enforcement. They know these guys; they know their fences. They choose to remain on the sidelines while no doubt issuing grave warnings about the consequences of taking the law into one’s own hands. What exactly are they good for anymore?
they are waiting for doc hanson to defend his property and can then prosecute him for the abundant civil liberty infractions (here in california there are bound to be tons) inflicted on the crooks, i mean, victims
It is not surrendering to the barbarians to leave CA. Rather, by staying in CA and funding the system that enables them, you are enabling them as well.
It would be one thing if this was an actual war against barbarians, but right now, the only reason the barbs exist is because the local government is corrupt enough to continue funding them. Take that money away, and they die.
I suspect – sadly and with a shudder, but no actual remorse – that some day, the situation will get to the point of a Committee of Vigilance.
When law enforcement is forced to abdicate to a politicized – and quite mad – position of impotence, there is a limit to what working people will put up with.
It won’t be the white, hispanic, asian and black middle class – for the information of those looking for a racial component – but the families of the working poor who have had more than enough.
Dr. Hanson is putting up with far, far too much. He – and the working families (intact, church-going, who work in their yards on the weekends) get the worst of what our intellectual class excuses. They will not always back down, turn their eyes aside, and be “good” about it.
Ask yourself “What would Taliban do to eliminate unwanted traffic and restore peace and harmony? After all, soon there will be no difference between California and Afganistan.
One word:
Caltrops.
hey, is it possible to install one of those tire shredder thingys that rental cars and parking lots use so people only travel one-way? I would want to damage that truck somehow so it’s inoperable (as long as it’s not a danger to the family). Set these suckers up somehow. I’d chip in on a fundraiser for you to raise money just to catch these low-life thieves. Seriously, I would!
“…destroy government and want to start over from scratch.”
The idea keeps sounding better and better.
In my childhood, we heated with wood. Someone kept stealing our split logs from behind the garage.
So we split one special, scraped out room for five M-80′s, and put it together with finishing nails and glue.
There was a bunch of no-account drunk guys living in a trailer a half-mile or so away, and one night their stove blew up with a godawful boom. Took out the entire trailer wall against which the stove sat, along with part of the roof.
They left town. Our wood thefts stopped.
Seems to me that “scrap” metal could be wired to the hot side of a 120v outlet circuit and laid back down with no circuit drain until someone grabs it . . .
You can also mix a batch of cayenne pepper and flour and water that looks just like rust, and then paint it heavily all over various high-mass (and thus valuable to scrappers) pieces of metal. They grab it and throw it in the truck and take off, but then eventually they touch their face around their eyes . . .
See, if you want to fight these scum, you do have to give up some small part of “perfect honor.” But “perfect honor”, when it serves the scum in the world, is really something other than honor.
Seems to me that “scrap” metal could be wired to the hot side of a 120v outlet circuit and laid back down with no circuit drain until someone grabs it.
bobby b, I love the way you think. Is that bad of me?
Wow, bobby b! The firewood booby trap was hysterical. I live in a rural area and years ago a neighbor kept finding trespassers fishing in his pond. One day he spotted two fishing with a styrofoam cooler between them. This neighbor shot the cooler and those guys never came back again.
I’ve heard of one property owner who invited the K9 police to use his property to exercise and train their dogs. So far it has kept theft down on his place.
When I read this article it made me envision a future comparable to Mad Max. I would like to read “Camp of the Saints” that Chambers recommended. I’m beginning to think like he does that we’ll go out with a whimper instead of a bang.
During a rash of robberies along their road, my parents took to practicing skeet shooting.
Never got robbed.
Trouble is that in CA, even the booby trapping would likely get you prosecuted if the perps complained or were injured enough to show up at a hospital. We recently inheritied some property, also in the valley in the same general area as VDH’s farm, and I can’t get rid of it quickly enough. Seriously, we’re one cut above giving it away because CA simply isn’t fit for human habitation. There aren’t lines, there are mobs. I went to the NASCAR race at Infineon back in June. Now other than the rowdies in the infield, and even they are pretty much harmless, the crowd at a NASCAR race is about the nicest people you’ll ever be around, at least around in a large group. Not so in CA; complete disorder trying to get into the parking area. Bunch of CA stoners trying to act like traffic control but everybody just ignored them. It was pretty much like having a boat out on a holiday weekend; the only rule of the road is the rule of gross tonnage. Whoever had the biggest vehicle or was most agressive went first. Nobody knew where anything was and people were generally “closed up” and many outright rude. I’ve been to races all over the Country and never seen anything like it. Half the signs and long stretches of guardrail are missing on I-5 south of Sacramento. The striping and maintenance are simply awful. Whenever I think Alaska has bad roads, I just recall CA, and in Alaska we have an excuse – winter.
Anyway, CA is just one natural disaster or missed welfare check away from an explosion and I don’t want to be there for it. I was looking at my guns the other day and the only one I have that would be legal in CA is an old Remington Nylon 66 that was my wife’s when she was a little girl. I’m reasonable confident that I could handle a zombie attack, but I know CA well enough that if I violated those zombie’s “rights” there’d be cops with automatic weapons at my door just hoping I’d give them an excuse. Ya’ll can have the place and I just hope we all don’t wind up bailing it out or paying to fix it after the zombies tear it up – again.
I was feeling the disgust of everyone else at the lowlife thieves, but then I got to feeling their pain a little bit. I’m thinking the price of gas has probably risen to over $4.00 a gallon in Dr. Hanson’s little bit of Paradise, too, and if these yahoo’s are driving a big heavy pickup truck as befits their manly status, can you imagine how much money they’re having to spend riding around all day, going from lonely long distance farm to lonely long distance farm, with the occasional jackrabbit pedal to the metal to get away from an indignant citizen?
THe other thing I always like to think to myself when faced with this sort of situation is to project myself down the timeline in five or ten years, when I’ll be making more money, owning more stuff, and healthy because of my nice middle-class insurance benefits. And THEY will undoubtedly be dead or in jail. And in this particular case walking around on foot before they get that way, because their truck was repossessed because they couldn’t afford to move it because gas was too expensive.
God moves in mysterious ways.
Interesting that a remake of Straw Dogs will be out shortly. Civilizational collapse and the human response to barbarian invasions. Rome went one way, Constantinople another. The new world empires Aztec and Inca collapsed in the face of a handful of willful well armed barbarians despite vast resources. The state can look mighty but disintegrate with hardly a fight once it has lost its vital essence and belief in its values.
In our own case we molest our own women and children, the sick and the elderly, as well as the hale and hearty because of one idiot wearing flaming panties. Could you imagine our grandfathers doing that? Mine was married when Victoria was still Queen.
When you believe in nothing then nothing is what you will be left with by those who believe in anything. Who would slay Grendel today without first reading her Miranda rights to her, getting her a lawyer, and pointing out that her unacceptable behavior was really just a natural response to the abuses she suffered at the hands of her victims and that they ought to be on trial too.
Dr. Hanson and I, unfortunately, are miles apart on this one. I also live in the country on some land, but not in California, a state that’s gone crazy; run by some of the most corrupt politicians this side of the Mississippi.
My suggestion: Post appropriate signs, hire guards, put the law on prior written notice what’s going on.
Unfortunately, lawbreakers have taken a sigh from Holder and Obama. If you’re a poor liberal, you won’t be prosecuted.
The date is September 12, 2011. Instead, start thinking of it as September 12, 1836. And whenever you take a trip long or short, don’t forget to pack.
Rachel;
That’s one of the greatest posts I’ve ever read from you. Brava!
Productive workers are the new helots – working for our lazy but brutal Spartans
La Raza is probably a former dope smuggling wetback that flunked outta college & is now working in the Jerry Brown administration. It will be nice to get a read prez who has the cajones to kick out all of the illegal aliens, built a Berlin Wall around Mexico & shoot to kill any people entering illegally.
Re: the thieves, dead mean tell no tails…
You are delusional. We are the majority. You are the minority. If anyone is going to get deported it’s you.
La Raza is my gay lover. He is a professor of xicano studies at Fresno State who has to butch it up for the mecha kids.
After sundown he dresses up up like an Aztec Princess and recites Aztec Poetry to me in Nahuatl. Then we eat a few grasshoppers and go to bed.
He grew up in Clovis and used to get picked on by the tough kids. This resulted in severe emotional damage and now he cries out for attention.
His parents hate him because he is gay and will not carry on the family name.
LMFAO
Jeebus.
Isn’t it obvious that “La Raza” is a bitter ‘raisin picker’.
DUH?
LOL!
Haha!!! The joke is on you gringos.
We are conquering you right under your gringo noses. If you can’t see it happening you’re delusional. We are invading, conquering, and colonizing the country. We are repopulating the country. We are driving you out of neighborhoods, cities, states, and the entire Southwest. Eventually we will drive you out of the country altogether. You will be forced to escape to Canada, or Europe, or Mars… You gringos has been defeated by your superiors, La Raza. When we have the numbers we will deal with you… Time is on our side. You racist gringos are aging, shrinking and dying. You gringo imperialists will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The gringo is toast, burnt toast. Bye bye gringo. You are finished. Gringo America is no more. We have taken over the country. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
You white racist Republicans time is nearly up. Very soon you will be irrelevant. You will be a permanent minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. You gringos will wind up in the dustbin of history. We have defeated you. We have conquered you. The history of the gringo is coming to an end. Adios gringos.
We will deal with you appropriately when the time comes…
We will also cut off your gringos Medicare and Social Security…
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
La Raza, you’re not even entertaining by accident any longer, puta.
You should be ashamed of your conduct. If you treat this country like your personal toilet, you condemn this country to BE A TOILET.
Your misguided brain needs a reset button.
Man… wonder what would happen if his copy & paste function broke…
Instead of coming out of the farm house when the thieves show up to case your property, stay inside and wait for them to break in. Then, shoot them in the head. This will put an end to the problem.
I love the way you think, Dave M.
I think the idea of lying in wait and picking off the scum with a night sight capable pistol is idyllic.
I’m admittedly a girlie girl but I love the idea of killing some cockroaches ‘stealth mode’.
What? Don’t look at me that way. I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way… *wink*
I also agree. Then, put their cars as a scrap metal with a sign “help yourself”
I see the look of determination of the reconquistador in the eyes of every Mexican running a leaf blower.
I see the look of determination of the reconquistador in the eyes of every Mexican running a leaf blower.
Now there’s a quotable line if I’ve ever read one.
It is pretty obvious that like any other predator species (lawyers included) we need to have a cull or an open season. Expect it will come down to that, particularly if the central government changes and the various bills like SB1070 are allowed to be enforced. I doubt that the Californians will continue to support an ever increasing illegal population when they can no longer suck the rest of us dry to fund them.
1. “The dustbin of history?” This is a reference than can only have been made by an older crusty wornout liberal who is yanking everyone’s chain. Or a demented right-winger who is trying to cause trouble. The “raza” comments are a stain on the tough, honest and good people of Hispanic descent who work the farms of California, the ones with calloused hands and children they admonish to do well in school and who are valued employees/supervisors and ultimately owners. They are the ones who will produce the next VDH.
2. The best, most efficient and most effective way of dealing with those who abuse the system is to stop the flow of money from the government to idle hands. Why, oh why, do we hand over money to healthy young people who are capable of taking care of themselves? It’s naive to believe they have no resources and cannot cope. They cope just fine as they take advantage of the system. Aided and encouraged by legions of government workers, offices and programs, they get what they want, and more. They cope better than you or I could. My friend is 67, got fired and had to apply for unemployment for the first time in his life. It took a long time for him to figure out how the system works. Countless people who seem to know the process advised him to take the “payments” (not “benefits”) and work under the table (He is duly reporting any income, and his unemployment “payments” are reduced as required). It’s amazing how many people are familiar with the system and know exactly how to milk it. I just received a color advertising card in the mail advising that people on 16 public assistance government programs are entitled to free cell phones on the Federal Lifeline Program (“Government Assisted Cellular Service –Free Cellular Phone — 250 Monthly Minutes — Enrollment Is Simple! Just Call…).
I wonder if the gents in the silver Toyota truck have applied yet?
“They are the ones who will produce the next VDH.”
Not with an average IQ of 80.
This comment appears to have been made by a hubcap.
I think VDH probably understands the people to whom I refer. Those fields don’t tend themselves. People who work hard all day planning, growing and harvesting crops aren’t the ones trolling around looking for stuff to steal. Those who supervise and work on the farms have incomes, homes, bills and taxes to pay and have a future. There may be an inordinate number of people on the dole in that area, but it is our lawmakers who dole out the dole. Instead of looking for ways to decrease the handouts, the lawmakers create more and more government programs to encourage people to sign up and to become more dependent.
You specified the likelihood of replacing VDH with an illegal alien, while presumably well aware of his scholarly attainments. What you, and Porkulus, apparently do not understand is that the source populations from which the replacements are coming have average IQ’s 20-25 points below those of this country’s original European settlers. Go to the link provided below and compare the listed average IQ’s of Germany and Scotland with those of Mexico and Guatemala. There may be several reasons for the latter countries being failures, but it is impossible to deny, scanning the list on the link, that poverty is correlated with lower IQ. Hard work is not enough to generate wealth and a tranquil society. Illegal immigration is loading the USA with a new and permanent underclass that will continue to spin off vast numbers of gangbanging thieves.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_of_Nations
ridgerunner:
Not to worry. President Rick Perry to be has a plan that he drew up after coming to the conclusion that the borders cannot be secured and it’s not possible to build a wall to seal the border between Texas and Mexico. His plan will make it possible for the law breakers to obtain college degrees which in turn will lead them to become productive citizens, capable of, and willing to speak english. All at the expense of hard working tax payers of course.
When that’s accomplished he will redirect more of your tax dollars to building schools, hospitals and other facilities in Afghanistan and other paradises such as Mexico, all around the world.
Then President Perry will innoculate all the little girls in the world against STD’s that might lead to Cervical Cancer. Don’t worry that he does it under the table after circumventing the pesky legislators. And remember, if you think he can be boutht for $5,000.00 he will be offended.
President Perry has now reached his maturity and realizes that his efforts to help elect Al Gore might have been misplaced.
And then of course he will turn your payments from social security over to a benevolent Governor of the state in which you reside.
Now doesn’t that sound like a plan and a man for America?
IQ is a thing that most people don’t understand.
Northern European average intelligence people are assigned an IQ number of 100. Some are smarter, some are dimmer, but the one in the middle is 100. The huge majority of normal people of European heritage have IQ between 90 and 110. Why 100? Because you have to start somewhere and Northern Europeans have been interested in measuring intelligence for a few centuries.
A White kid of 17 with an IQ of <80 is retarded/brain-damaged/defective. It's going to be tough to get him to be productive because of the internal pathways that are broken, but with enough training, lots become useful at repetitive useful productive tasks. As Grandma used to say "…and he's potty trained!" .
An African Black (all-African genetic stock) of median intelligence has an IQ of 70. But, he is not broken in any way. He can be trained pretty effectively (much more easily than the 80 IQ damaged White boy) and has a normal memory. Don't expect intellectual discussion, technical innovation, or philosophy; but right and wrong, property, notions of fairness, love, loyalty, are all within his grasp.
American Blacks have an average IQ of about 85. Huh? Curiously half-way between African Blacks and European Whites, because they are mostly a genetically-blended people made up of European and African ancestors. Some got really lucky and have Thomas Jefferson as an ancestor.
Individuals can be of any intelligence, regardless of race. But, the chance of being much more or less intelligent than the median gets smaller as it diverges from the mean. For example, being 30 IQ points points smarter than average is not common, but you will meet one or two in your freshman year at Jr. College among the other 19 year olds in your classes. Being 50+ points above average is very rare, meaning that this is a strange genius, a freak of nature, and you will know it after a little while associating with them. More detail on this statistical occurrence can be found in
The Bell Curve"
What this means to a society is that regular people set the standard for knowledge and behavior. Smart people can provide innovation. Dim people tend to do the work that is undesirable. The advantage on the bottom is that they are more prone to be satisfied with basics that are offered (full belly, shelter, family, orderly life), while high-IQ people may never be satisfied with much more wealth and achievement.
A lower-IQ people may be led to great success by a small higher-IQ elite. Rhodesia and South Africa had great success by any objective measure (food exports, GNP, calories per person, maternal death rate, longevity, etc.) during the period of White/post-colonial rule, especially when compared to the current rule by Mugabe and the ANC respectively. These countries are an interesting study.
East Asians like the Han Chinese have an IQ average of about 104. Yep, average IQ higher than Northern Europeans. I expect that the increasing freedom of hundreds of millions of urban Chinese to do what they want will be a wealth-generation machine like none other ever seen on the Earth.
What about really smart minorities in Northern Europe like Ashkanaizi Jews? Some eugenics researchers have postulated that their sub-culture in-breeds based on academic IQ, which has added about 10-15 IQ points to the average since the Roman Empire fell. This has come at a great cost to individuals who might have inherited a number of awful genetic diseases that follow the high-IQ tendency, but has resulted in an average Traditional Jewish culture with many-many very intelligent and innovative individuals. +30 IQ over an average of 115 is an astounding 145!
Central and South America are, by any objective measure, ruled by the highest IQ and most forward-thinking people present: descendants of Europeans. If significant populations of Chinese or Japanese sprout in S. America, I expect them to become part of the ruling classes. The rulers of Mexico are obviously whiter and taller than average, and are getting whiter and taller as the elite rich import smart Swedish blonde wives (until all native Swedes are replaced by dark low-IQ Muslims and Mexican billionaires must find more tall high-IQ aggressive blondes in Wisconsin or Minnesota).
I tend to agree that there needs to be a certain amount of intelligence available to the "managerial class" to elevate a civilization to a 20th century Western Civilization norm. This native capability can be dispersed among the population, or held into an elite, but it must exist, or the the civilization will not be able to innovate or even continue at the level handed to it by the disposed-of previous-elite.
I wish that Marxist low-IQ people starve to death before clubbing the last farmers to death to scrap out copper irrigation systems.
What do these “IQ” test’s measure? I suspect a very narrow range of information specific to the needs of industrialized western culture. Not an accurate measure of how well a person puts food on the table but whatever means necessary.
Considering that malnutrition is widespread in the countries with low average IQ, your argument is self-refuting. Liberals emote. Conservatives reason. Your comment is a great example of the former.
Doc, look up the meaning of the word “anarcho-tyranny.” That’s what you are experiencing. However, as time goes by and the money gets less, there will be more anarchy and less tyranny. If you don’t leave there, you had better reconcile yourself to killing the vandals and hiding the bodies because that’s the only way YOU’RE going to survive. These bastards won’t stop; they’re going to have to BE STOPPED. If you have women out there with you you’d better be very careful and make sure they both carry a gun and know how to use it well.
If the law won’t protect you you have no choice but to run or to protect yourself.
We are CONQUERING you. La Reconquista is almost complete. We are the majority. You are the minority. Adios gringos. Adios White America. We are the future. You are old and tired. Get to the back of the bus. We will deal with you appropriately when the time comes. You don’t stand a chance.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Dude you need to lay off the jenkem. Get help.
PJM has GOT to get an ignore button!
We will ignore you. You are a small powerless minority. A minority that is aging, shrinking and dying. You are irrelevant.
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Dr. Hanson;
You have ample evidence right here from La Raza, that THEY are targeting you. What they have posted here, is all the evidence you need to bury them where they stand, on your property. They have documented their threats here, for all to see.
They want war, give it to them.
They are foolish enough to threaten a professor of ancient war?
It would be like lambs to the slaughter.
Man; What fun!
Hahaha… You aging gringos don’t stand a chance against us. We are young and vigorous. You are old and tired. We are the future. You are dinosaurs. We will deal with you appropriately when the time comes…
We will also cut off your gringos Medicare and Social Security…
Por La Raza todo. Fuera de La Raza nada.
Pobrecito!
Te quieero mucho mi Princessa Azteca. Besitos para ti!!!! Te veo esta noche.
Hey La Rata being a buttboy at a bathhouse in the Castro District doesn’t make you young and vigorous. It makes you a sorry little maricon.
Me traigas unas huevos calientitos a la casa esta noche mi amor. Culos fuertoes me hacen loco.
Youth and exuberance are no match for old age and treachery.
Can we please just ignore the chain pulling troll? It’s not like he’s a serious commenter.
Ya’know, people who feel like “LaRaza” writes, usually don’t give it such stridency…they sit, confused, overwhelmed, and silent. Real revolutionaries are more sneaky as to their intentions, waiting for assured victory before casting off all restraint and pulling off the masks. Consider America’s universities for an example…they all pretty much by now have nailed their leftist flags to the mast.
I think “LaRaza” is a retired white grandfather, staring in wide-eyed astonishment at a world turned upside down, terrified for his family and is riding through an internet neighborhood…waving a lantern, yelling the equivalent of “The British are coming!” or in this case, “The illegals are here!”
Good luck with that…no, really.
Naw. He’s an over-the-hill, white, former-hippy college professor who thinks he’s proving his prostate still works by “standing up to the fascists”.
First name’s probably “Dana”.
I have no advice. Just, please, find a way to keep yourself save and alive. You have become dear to my family through your writings and teaching videos. I am very grateful that you are the professor that inspires my young sons to learn and take to heart Greek, Roman, and Biblical history.
I don’t know what ranchers go through. There are two ranches within blocks of my house. I will say, they have sturdy fences, big dogs, and those odd things you drive over, where you have to announce yourself, or push a button, or something- the gratings?- and one has a mechanical gate. They are in the city limits, here, near suburbs, but I think they were out in the country 30 years ago. The boundary markers look just fine- it isn’t marring a pastoral beauty, I don’t think. The dogs look beautiful, loping along the fence line, lit behind by the green grass and trees. I don’t know if you have the money to fortress up, but if you do, it doesn’t look bad to the law- abiding neighbors. It looks well-run.
And, I’m with you on the perplexing hash welfare makes of financial sense. My husband is in financial services- he’s really good at his job, which is watching after the hard-earned wealth of small business people. We’ve been hit by the financial meltdown. We live next to a rental house. The previous tenant is the only person I know who has taken her children to DisneyLand. She would send food over to our house. She was on welfare, with a state- paid nanny, state paid diapers, state paid family counselling services, state paid vacation. My poor husband would come home and be near tears with frustration and shame that she was living so large, while he was working his tail off to keep us afloat- 96% of the people in his position have been laid off.
After living like this, and seeing it up close, I don’t think ” Oh, there’s a safety net for me, if I need it.” I think ” When will some politician take up Reagan’s bit about Cadillac Welfare Queens?” I can’t be the only one thinking this is crazy. I am grateful that my neighbor was generous with her benefits- my kids ate better from her leftovers than what I could cook on our earned salary- roast chicken vs lentils and rice- we sit on the couch she just gave us b/c she didn’t like the color- but I do say, it’s crazy. A high- school dropout with three different kids by three different daddies giving stuff to a family headed by a guy with advanced degrees, in a complex, highly information intense job? Nuts. Nuts. Nuts.
I have neighbors like that too — not so egregious a situation, but similar. It is agonizing. But the welfare recipients would not be able to wallow in taxpayer largesse if the laws were changed. If there’s free stuff, it’s guaranteed that people will take advantage. We must elect people who will take a stand and stop buying into the pity stories. Also, our elected representatives must provide actual data so people can see the whole picture (how much money a newly arrived grandma from a foreign land is entitled to receive, as an example, compared to an average Social Security payment to a citizen who has worked here all his or her life). Your neighbor, aided by our misguided “assistance,” is incapable of rising to her best level of development; that’s the saddest part. Challenges make us better. And if we didn’t actually PAY women to have more babies, they would wise up pretty fast, maybe they would even get the sperm donors to support their own offspring. What a concept.
What difference is the story Dr. Hanson tells than the countless number of sub prime loaners who kept pulling equity out of one house, then another, and another to live on during the Bubble? Going on ocean cruises or European jaunts with the sales proceeds and then when the music stopped they took out a reverse mortgage.
When that all ran dry and they finally faced foreclosure they gutted the last house of all the plumbing and lighting fixtures, water heaters, and even rolled up the new sod lawn and re-sold it all in a yard sale leaving only a shell for a house that instantly became an attractive nuisance for delinquent youth when abandoned and had to be ordered condemned and demolished by the local authorities to control crime in posh La Quinta, California?
Then running out of all options they applied for SSI and food stamps and ended up living in a shared condo in an upscale neighborhood in Southern California? I know such a person. How many more like him are there – the urban vandal equivalent of Dr. Hanson’s rural scavengers? And oh yah, they owned a brand new SUV originally purchased from flipping houses during the Bubble.
I just ended up helping an 82-year old widow move from an affluent community in Southern California to an equally affluent area in San Antonio, Texas. She wants to get out of California before things deteriorate even further. She took a $250K below market bid on her upscale mini-mansion home but made up for it by picking up a luxury home double the size for less than half the price of her California home.
When I was helping this lady look for homes in San Antonio I noticed a sign online that said: “WELCOME TO TEXAS: 1. Remember why you left home. 2. We don’t do that here.” Link to sign:
http://americandigest.org/sidelines/2011/09/the_graying_of.html#comments
Why do you assume the thieves spent lots of money for their new pickup trucks? I’ll bet they were acquired through credit fraud or outright theft.
I have lived in Guadalajara where they build homes with high surrounding walls topped with broken glass and sometimes have mean dogs living on the roof. And this was in the late 60s. Nobody knows the mexicans better than the mexicans. I don’t blame the descent mexicans for trying to find a better life in the USA. Mexico is a sh–hole of corruption. The scum (LaRaza) take their character with them where ever they go. The same could be said of the Californian politicians these days. Don’t try to tough it out VDH. Get out of there with your life and before you end up in jail for trying to defend yourself. You don’t owe California anything. They are a lost cause. Don’t let your ego turn you into a sap – a dead sap at that. Perhaps all illegals should be deported to mexican prisons or to Iraq funded by the USA . Much more cost effective than the US prison system. I’d contribute.
Dear Dr. Hanson,
Please stay in your farm. Please keep informing us as you have throughout your career. We must all remember that there are more good people in the valley than not.
I know that Dr. Hanson has spent a lifetime in education, and can’t help but recognize ignorance and an insidious pattern of self destructive human nature, but, there is still providence. Good people must re-evaluate from whence this goodness came from in establishing this country. The main difference between the American Revolution and the French, was that America’s subsequent Constitution was based on the belief in God, and inalienable rights conferred by Him. The “Left” ideology has consistently eroded not only the Ten Commandments, but has tried to make the Seven Deadly Sins, insignificant, if not a doctrine to be followed. Are we not exposed to a consistent cry of envy and covetousness? Good people’s principals are based in centuries old traditions, and to have a functioning, reasoning, society must adhere to those. Freedom by its nature allows corruption to filter in, but it must be strong enough in its constitution to dissipate those effects. I’m afraid we have been overrun by corrupting influence, in the name of tolerance, and so have not properly identified our problems or reasonably debated them. We must educate ourselves and bring an informed opinion to the table. Sniping is not an argument.
Very interesting and scary information being posted by VDH. LaRaza might be a troll, but simply put he is right. The illegal mexicans are being supported by the tax dollars of those that work while the hispanic population increases and white america dies off. Tell me how that is not a recipe for disaster. Say what you want, but the USA is a unique special place built and maintained by workers and intellectual achievers who are generally anglo saxon. When its a black, muslim, or hispanic majority in a country, that country is generally more corrupt and failing then even our corrupt country. Yes the elite can be rich in any country, but the average person lives in squalor. We dont because we still outproduce the world. As these parasites all come here because they think that they can be leeches in america since their behavior wont be tolerated in their homeland(or there in fact is nothing to steal from your lazy uneducated neighbor and the government does not give handouts), they will bleed us dry until there is nothing left. They dont care if the USA turns in to north mexico. The weather is better and atleast they got to live off us for awhile before their mexican lifestyle returns. Our smart people will leave the country before they will fight the invaders because they know their own governement will put them in jail for standing up to criminals who try to steal like they do from VDH and others.
Of course the solution is to arm ourselves, kill the slime that steps foot on our property and destroy the evidence. Its all good talk, but most people dont have the courage to do so until their family members are threatened. Those that do will likely make a mistake and be put in prison for murder. Imagine the media attention when white farmer kills illegals who were lost or looking for work(no they dont steal or take from us they are such wonderful people) only to be killed and a piece of evidence tying the farmer to the murder is located by the NAACP or LaRaza retained investigators.Under the radar mexicans stealing copper wire and tools to supplement their welfare is not enough for people to take violent retaliation because they still go home to their house, cars, big screen tv even after their farm is broken in to. Only when that stuff is lost and we live like they do because they took all their stuff, will the threat of violent retaliation be real. By that time whites will be minorities, most of the smart ones will have left the country, and the USA is just another place where life is like it is in 2011 Mexico. Poor people will kill and steal because they have nothing to risk. Until the gap is totally eliminated, we will bitch but the mexicans will be stealing from us directly on our property and through welfare which our liberal elite want to keep in place so they can stay in power and send their kids to private schools and live in gated communities far away from the slime they claim to advocate for in their policies.
There is no good answer people. Our country has pissed on its Constitution to elect a black muslim usurper and we continue to pass laws that eliminate the middle class. At some point, we will revert to the wild west or africa where people just kill each other and take what they want with little to no fear of ramifications or financial loss.
The marxist playbook is in full effect right here in the USA.
Dr. Hanson’s situation reminds me of the stories my father used to tell about growing up on a small farm in southern Maine during the depression. Every now and again, a convoy of cars would pull up to the house. The doors would fly open and packs of children would jump out and scatter throughout the property. Women would get out of the cars and knock on the door bearing crafts for sale. They were gypsies (as far my father and his family knew) and the women would try to occupy the homeowners while the children would pillage the property stealing whatever they could. As soon as the cars pulled up, however, his grandfather would tell him to get the shotguns and they would drive (i.e., shoot) the invaders off the property. He never did tell me if anyone was killed, but I did not get the impression that it would have been a problem if someone were. They had a much better sense on how thin the line is between civilization and barbarism. God help us.
Dr. Hanson;
Looks like you need another comprehensive security evaluation.
A pack of about 6 Doberman Pinschers would be fun to watch; Make great pets, too.
A couple of points:
1. LaRaza’s an idiot, who is trying to fire up those of us who enjoy reading Dr. Hanson works. LaRaza is successful every time someone here response in an overtly racial manner because it makes us all look bad. While I’m a conservative my concerns are political and ethical not racial.
2. America, to me at least, is an idea open to anyone that is willing to work for and to defend its principles.
3. Also “maintained by workers and intellectual achievers who are generally Anglo – Saxon” ignores not just the contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Indians, Inuit, Asians, Armenians and South Pacific Islanders but also the Irish, German, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Scottish, Scandinavian, Slavic and Jewish, etc. none of whom consider themselves Anglo – Saxon.
“LaRaza is successful every time someone here response in an overtly racial manner because it makes us all look bad.”
I agree with the rest of what you’re saying…but, that’s baloney.
You call me gringo, I call you wetback.
Insult for insult, and fair is fair.
You don’t like those rules, then don’t start with ethnic insults.
I obviously disagree; I read Hanson’s blog, papers and books because of his no holds barred, logic and reasoning. I read the comments for additional intellectual perspective and occasional amusement. While I don’t deny the fairness of tit for tat name calling, it lowers the quality of the discourse both of Hanson’s blog and the comments overall. Moreover, it provides ammunition to those who want to characterize VDH and his adherents as ignorant, white, religious bigots instead of stalwarts of the principles of western civilization. It further denigrates this intellectual discourse to just another ad hominem attack – the very type the critics of VDH prefer to engage in instead of addressing the logic of his arguments. Hence the old maxim, “Never argue with a fool, he’ll take you down to his level and beat you with experience.” Apply this to LaRaza.
La Raza,
Stay in school, graduate, get a good job, a wife, a couple of kids, mellow out. Paz.
Two words:
Game cameras.
Prof. Hansen, you will have the initiative on the truck if, rather than trying to catch him/it/them in the act you can position your-self/caltrops/whatever in his escape route. Instead of pursuing the truck, it will be coming to you. Because that bit of behavior of his is absolutely dependable; you spot him, he takes off. If it’s possible to catch him just over the top of a hill, where he cannot see the trap til hi is in it, so much the better. What the chasing dog does when the bus is caught I leave to you. Alternately, taking the fight to his turf might be a possibility. As the plumber’s aphorism says, “Oil flows downhill.”
Dr.Hanson
I have enjoyed you books through the years. This post really hit a nerve with many peopl,me included. I hate to think what it is like to has a farm passed down through generation subjected to such pillage. Here when I was able to provide the sherrif with evidnce the criminals were sent to jail.They do like it when you can identify a crook by name and describe the crime in suficient detail to put the criminal away for awhile. The neighbors enjoy it to for some reason?
I do understand why so many honest people have left you state for Missouri or anywhere else in the USA.
A solution. It will not be pretty.
I lived in Fresno, CA for a couple of years in the mid 90′s. I’m sorry to say this posting accurately describes the lawlessness that exists in that area. My memories of my time there include sporadic nightly gunfire, circling police helicopters, and my neighbor’s car on blocks after a group of thieves stole all four tires off of it. To say the least, I don’t miss being there.
I’m also sad to say that Dr. Hanson describes to a T the most common perpetrator of these crimes. I’m sure some of his left-wing critics will quickly trot out the “r” word since they can’t handle the truth.
“(Thieves and gangbangers create a climate of general fear; they ruin the sense of tranquility, and they betray 150 years of collective labor of the now dead to create civilization from near nothing. Shame on them. Americans should not need to have armored rural mail boxes.)”
Dr. Hanson:
We will have the opportunity in 2012 to vote for Rick Perry. Then we can see the nationalization of his Texas Plan. The spoilers and religious bigots have apparently stopped the opportunity for Mitt Romney to start straightening this mess we find ourselves out.
God help we the blind and otherwise helpless. The criminal conspiracy rolls on and we the sheeple seem to want it that way.
Offer them some lead and copper …
But it isn’t just in the Central Valley of California, for what VDH describes is happening all over the state. Here in Hayward, gloriously centered between Oakland and San Jose (God help us…), it’s the same story. My back fence faces a major boulevard and it gets tagged by Azteca gangsters all the time. The city’s graffiti busters can’t keep up with it, so my solution has been to tag back on my own fence.
I merely strap a spray-paint can to a Home Depot yardstick, and depress the nozzle with a strip of duct tape and then reach over the fence and obliterate their Azteca filth with my own initials under the cover of darkness from my own backyard so I don’t get arrested. But it is my property, my damned fence, and at least I pay my mortgage despite being underwater because Wells Fargo, the B of A, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Bill Clinton and George Bush II gave multiple house-flipping loans to millions illegals no less. ‘Eff ‘em.
I am certain the well-paid police and all the well-paid softie “gang task forces” spend time and money trying to determine who the MGC gang is. Well ‘eff them too. I also refuse to call them “graffiti artists” when all they do is plaster their excrement across the fruits of somebody else’s hard work. It’s a shame the AIDS virus singled out the gays because I can of other groups that were more deserving of obliteration. I hate all of these people and all of the above mentioned.
But it isn’t just in the Central Valley of California, for what VDH describes is happening all over the state. Here in Hayward, gloriously centered between Oakland and San Jose (God help us…), it’s the same story. My back fence faces a major boulevard and it gets tagged by Azteca gangsters all the time. The city’s graffiti busters can’t keep up with it, so my solution has been to tag back on my own fence.
I merely strap a spray-paint can to a Home Depot yardstick, and depress the nozzle with a strip of duct tape and then reach over the fence and obliterate their Azteca filth with my own initials under the cover of darkness from my own backyard so I don’t get arrested. But it is my property, my damned fence, and at least I pay my mortgage despite being underwater because Wells Fargo, the B of A, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and Bill Clinton and George Bush II gave multiple house-flipping loans to millions illegals no less. ‘Eff ‘em.
I am certain the well-paid police and all the well-paid softie “gang task forces” spend time and money trying to determine who the MGC gang is. Well ‘eff them too. I also refuse to call them “graffiti artists” when all they do is plaster their excrement across the fruits of somebody else’s hard work. It’s a shame the AIDS virus singled out the gays because I can think of other groups that were more deserving of obliteration. I hate all of these people and all of the above mentioned.
There is a simple solution to the Toyota problem, it comes in either 7.62 or 5.56 mm sizes.
I have been convinced by the eloquence of “La Raza”. We are doomed.
In the timeless words of Kent Brockman, “I for one welcome our new insect overlords”.
Therefore, I wish to join in your crusade to drive the white man out of California. The fact that I am, technically, white should be no impediment.
Henceforth, I shall be known as Sancho Panza. There are, by the way, some windmills in Tehachapi upon which we can practice our jousting skills. I will accept tribute from the conquered race in the form of section 8 housing and food stamps.
Familiarize yourself with the old farmer rancher phrase, “S, S, S.” That’s the only solution.
Victor, you’re not alone. I live in downtown Baltimore and woke up a couple of weeks ago to find a “tag” (that’s graffiti) on my building alongside the fire escape. Its two stories up and virtually impossible to get to. Two days later I get a threatening letter from the city saying they will fine me if I don’t get the graffiti off.
Well, unlike you, I’m bugging out. I’m putting together some friends (who are fed up as well) and going to New Hampshire where the libertarians are trying to get clear from all this with the Free State Project. We intend to build a town made of stone arranged in a way that it presents walls all around facing out. Picture an old European town, arranged to optimize a sense of protection and, inso doing, present a return to beauty that architecture used to provide. Call it post-apocalypse architecture.
And from there we intend to hold on to life like grim death.
I only wish that the vast number of conservatives would see the writing on the wall and do like we libertarians. We could negotiate at least half the country, get rid of the dead wood, maintain our culture, and live in peace. Not to mention have the satisfaction of seeing the liberal world degenerate into a living hell.
Give people enough rope and they’ll hang themselves. Another beautiful, purely libertarian thought.
I prefer to give them chain.
One would suppose that Dr. Hanson knows what General Thomas Jackson’s response was when he was asked, regarding the looting of Fredericksburg by Federal troops, “What shall we do about these people?”
VDH keenly and correctly observes. Obama is only the expression of a changed society characterized by delusional causes, bizarre schemes, and corrupt political institutions. Yet, unlike Europe, a good sized chunk of the population finally perceives this and pushes back. Its expressions, such as the Tea Party, attract the white blood cells of the vested and threatened establishment.
How it resolves, we cannot perceive. There seems a narrow chance to reverse the downward spiral: a necessary but not sufficent event is a strong mandate for reform in 2012.
Re: “We are Reconquering the Southwest…and you gringos can’t stop us. Our population is rapidly growing, and the gringo population is aging and declining. We are over 50 million and united. You are down to 63.7% and extremely divided…and will be a minority by 2041. We are already a majority of the population under 18 in Alta California, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico and Arizona… and are rapidly taking over Nevada, Colorado, and Florida…”
La Raza, what you say may in fact be true, but be careful what you wish for, because grafting California et al. onto Mexico isn’t going to recreate the prosperity and freedom the “Golden State” once enjoyed…. these regions will simply become more corrupt, dirty, run-down slums and sharecropping farms of the kind you already have so many of in Mexico. You see, the hated Americans you are busy displacing knew how to make the desert bloom and build a modern world… but a bunch of poor Chicanos on welfare won’t build anything, except maybe an eyesore.
A tipping point will be reached, sooner or later, and there will be war with Mexico over her invasion of the American southwest. That’s a conflict Mexico can’t win. Again, be careful of that for which you wish.
Re: “maintained by workers and intellectual achievers who are generally Anglo – Saxon” ignores not just the contributions of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, Indians, Inuit, Asians, Armenians and South Pacific Islanders but also the Irish, German, Italian, French, Polish, Russian, Greek, Scottish, Scandinavian, Slavic and Jewish, etc. none of whom consider themselves Anglo – Saxon.” DC, the above post misses the point. Everyone you mention has contributed to America, without question. Everyone is so quick to take offense nowadays. Perhaps the point the original author was trying to make is that our nation was founded on a specific set of values and traditions, which came largely from NW Europe. The founders held specific values derived largely from classical Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian civlization, the Scottish Enlightenment, and a select few other sources. The signers of the Declaration of Independence were – with one exception – Protestant males. Charles Carroll of Maryland was the only Catholic of whom I am aware. In sum, anyone can become an American, but the values, traditions and loyalties that define our nation are real, and have real origins. If we lose them, we cease to be America anymore, and become something else.
To Georgiaboy61 not to be snarky but did you fully read both mine and Jeremy’s post? Jeremy gives a decidedly racial response to LaRaza’s race baiting posts. You seem to agree with my second point “America, to me at least, is an idea open to anyone that is willing to work for and to defend its principles.” So exactly where is the thin skin? There are many sites for name calling and intolerance; I don’t want this site to become one of them. Moreover I’m curious why attempt to correct and respond to me instead of Jeremy?
Way too much attention paid to Raza. Raza apparently hits a nerve but in no way representative of any particular group. Can anyone verify the statistic that only 5% of the illegal population in the USA are engaged in agricultural based employment? The other 95% must be employed in work that would best be performed by those who live off the sweat of the rest of us. VDH is getting at something that many of us sense but aren’t able to articulate. Something that fuels the Teaparty angst. It’s not Obama or Bush, they didn’t create the problems in this society, rather they are the product of it.
We aren’t much different from the rest of the animal kingdom. Keep enticing the bear with tasty garbage, he’ll knock your house down when you stop feeding him. The historical perspectives of past cultures are most interesting and the frightening part is the vastly greater population in this day and age so highly dependent on government largess, Walmart and cheap energy.
In the wilds of Northern British Columbia, we trappers used a 333 Connibear for boar beaver and wolverine. The wolverine is abnormally smart, so there should be no problem in catching a thief. I would suggest making a wooden tunnel a little ledger than the Connibear. Instead of using scent and bait, use a set of sockets or wrenches visible through a small window like opening, but it must leave only one way to get the “Prize” and that is through the short wooden tunnel. The thief will figure he has found the mother lode, until he arches in to grab the bait. Bam the huge coil springs let loose with their kinetic energy and the the tool steel jaws clamp down on the thief’s arm as you hear a primal scream. There will be no escape, if you set up the trap correctly according to diagrams, he won’t even be able to chew off his arm. Actually, the trap will probably need to be surgically removed.
It’s a good idea to remove the tools before the authorities arrive and put a live chicken in the tube. Tell them you were trying to catch a raccoon that has been raiding the hen house. No one likes a chicken thief. You can say it looks like he wanted a chicken that he wasn’t prepared to write a check for; try to be clever, the Police often enjoy a good laugh.
I could teach you how to set snares, but those are lethal and would just be asking for trouble from the authorities.
Trapping can be an enjoyable vocation and can pay off handsomely. Happy Trapping!
Mr. Hanson,
Please tell me you own a gun and are willing to defend your property. It’s going to come to that in this country. In Texas, someone would have been shot already.
There is every reason to believe it is going to get worse in Mexico and that the government will not do any thing to protect us.
Be prepared!
Staying and suffering the death of a thousand cuts is not terribly intelligent – you’ll just watch your stuff disappear impotently.
But if you really want to live in hell….
i’ll miss your great essays.
Cut your losses and find a better place to live. I’m thinking most any other state – you know the ones to avoid. I recommend the southeast. We have many small vinyards about the area, and not so many problems.
A nice flock? of geese are very protective, and make wonderful ‘watchdogs’. From what I’ve read, they are fearless. I would imagine they would be harder for a ‘guest’ to shoot, being a flock, and a little difficult to poison without a bit of preparation. Adulterated hamburger is easy to prepare and toss over a fence, not so much bread crumbs or grain. Plus, you have fresh eggs if desired.
tomw
This story is being repeated in England. The price of scrap metal brings out the brigands.
Dumb question: Fresno County claims the existence of an “Agricultural Crimes Task Force” with, apparently, ten full-time detectives:
http://www.agcrime.net/fresno_county.htm
Have you put any of this in front of them? I’d be interested in hearing what they do all day.
Sadly after Glenn Reynolds posting a link to Digital Scouting Cameras and the comments about evidence gathering came in I thought of you.
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/127974/
“UPDATE: Reader Peter Grout emails: “These cameras can also be called ‘Digital Evidence Collectors’. If you live in a rural/semi-rural area, put one of these pointing on to the road to your house. Burglars don’t look for them, and even if you can’t get enough resolution for the license plate, you can at least get make/model/color for a BOLO.”
How about spike strips? Of course, that might generate *more* problems, since now the meth-head is stranded on your property….guess it’s back to the drawing board…
V.D.H. hits it out of the park. BTW – the trucks are paid for in someone else’s name, as the welfare drones may catch on during the WIC, food stamp, section 8, education, car repair etc. filings if the value is over $1,700.00.
Hey “La Raza”- been to LA lately? All the nice colorful vegetation and landscaping along the freeways from the 60′s & 70′s is now brown tumble weed wastelands along chunked out concrete & crap asphalt patches. Yup- you have won your SoCal prize sure enough.
The looter is taking what he can sell for scrap so he can get his next hit of meth.
Perhaps you should donate a small amount of copper and lead to his efforts?
“35. boogeyman
I don’t think you could pull off the second part. No offense Doc but you don’t look intimidating. You’re dress and mannerism mark you as an intellectual.”
I don’t know. I’ve met VDH. He’s got some tough bark on his hide.
“Hey, mister, I’m only looking for scrap metal to buy.”
A couple of shotgun blasts at his truck, and everybody wins.
Mexcrements? Not a chance. Bring it on cholo !
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