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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: “Regional Equity”—Obama’s Coming War On Whitopias By Jesse Mossman on September 27, 2012 at 10:42pm Paul Kersey recently reported on VDARE.com an emerging trend: for white suburbs to secede from larger urban jurisdictions and so form, in effect, whitopian enclaves. But he did not mention that there are powerful forces on the other side pushing back hard—using a concept called “Regional Equity.” Americans can be forgiven for not being familiar with Regional Equity. I had not heard the term myself until just a few weeks ago, when I caught Stanley Kurtz on the radio talking about his new book: Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. Put Regional Equity into a search engine and the language of the collectivists surfaces: transportation equity, environmental equity, healthcare equity, social justice, smart growth, and especially, sustainable communities. The essence of Regional Equity is the use of centralized political power make things equal over regions—disregarding jurisdictions. President Obama is very much on board with the Regional Equity movement. The White House website says: Furthermore, PolicyLink (a pro-minority think tank run by a woman graduate of Howard University who describes herself as “national leader for social justice and equity”) states: In the past, secession could work—boundaries meant independence from the predatory desires of larger neighbors hungry for the resources and lifestyles of more prosperous suburbs. But now, like a Black Hole whose irresistible gravity swallows nearby stars, central cities, using the doctrine of Regional Equity could suck the cash from prosperous suburban cities, impose onerous laws, and even force them to become more diverse—negating the very reasons for moving to these former enclaves of sanity and safety. Let’s look at how this Regional Equity Doctrine is going to impact ordinary Americans. Before I was married, I lived in Seattle—famously a relatively benign environment compared to the majority minority cities in other states. However, there were several nearby murders, many burglaries, and I witnessed wads of cash handed to a car full of blacks in a parking lot. I wanted a safer environment for my precious wife. I was also concerned about rising taxes. I therefore not only moved out of the city, but crossed the border into a neighboring county—putting yet another jurisdictional boundary between our home and the problems of Seattle. Once that would have been enough. But not if Regional Equity becomes the rule. In my case, I first began to understand the reasons for white flight while attending the University of Michigan. Friends there told me that they had to pick up their son from the local high school every noon and take him home to use the bathroom. This was necessary because blacks occupied the school restrooms and robbed white kids who entered. I also heard complaints about white girls being manhandled on the school buses. The school administration was too liberal and too cowardly to do anything to protect the white students. That is when I realized the truth: whites were not fleeing blacks because of some irrational racism. They weren’t afraid that the color would rub off. They simply wanted their families to live without fear of crime and intimidation. Of course, the Left resents white flight. I recall a college professor lecturing on the immorality of whites fleeing cities and depleting the tax base. (Ironically, the professor herself had fled a grim industrial town in Britain for the sunny skies of New Mexico.) Back then this was just typical kneejerk Leftist collectivism—I never heard a label for it. Urban planners have long had little use for property rights—they just get in the way of their grandiose plans. In college, I had an instructor who had worked on the Chicago 21 Plan. The city government wanted development and certain favored developers wanted to develop land owned by a railroad, but didn’t care to pay the going price. The plan called for the city to “assemble” the land—planner euphemism for “steal”—thus allowing the developers to obtain the land at the price they, not the owner, wanted. I asked the instructor didn’t he think it was wrong to take private land for the use of another private business. He replied that it just depended on which side you were on—an echo (no doubt unconscious) of Lenin’s notorious Who/Whom formulation. Of course, the Supreme Court has since approved exactly this kind of nullification of property rights. Every American who feels secure in having escaped the city should be aware of these new efforts to bring the very people they escaped from to their town. Thus Diana Novak wrote recently of the Chicago suburbs: [Diana Novak, Affordable Housing in Northern Suburbs, Chicago Tonight, April 6, 2011 The whole Regional Equity movement reeks of the very attitude Obama has towards small business: “You didn’t build that.” There is a jealousy of the prosperity achieved in white and Asian suburbs and a denial that that prosperity was earned by hard work and sacrifice. The Regional Equity movement is redistribution of wealth on steroids—it is not just wealth that it seeks to redistribute, but entire life styles. In fact, we have heard the agenda of Regional Equity before—it is the UN Agenda 21, applied locally. As Phyllis Schlafly writes: Schlafly further points out: Schlafly adds that “Agenda 21 wants to herd people into crowded communities with limited housing space and limited parking spaces.” Fundamentally, Agenda 21 and Regional Equity are soft totalitarianism—the subordination of nation-states and local governments to an overarching, Leftist, agenda. No-one can predict just what stand Mitt Romney will take on Regional Equity (as usual). But there is no doubt about the position of Obama. Americans—especially in the whitopian suburbs and exurbs—better be paying attention. Poster Comment: Vote Obama. I think the author's kidding himself about use against Asians. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 1.
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Personally, I think it's great to see the entrepreneurial spirit and fuck you attitude towards government in the black community. Sell them drugs homies. Be sure not to neglect those rich and middle class white kids whose parents want to imprison you. Target the children of politicians, law enforcement, and any other outspoken drug warrior!
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