Dyron L. Hart Pleads Guilty to Posing as a White Supremacist to Send Death Threats by Facebook

Dyron L. Hart, an African American, should be sentenced to the maximum time in prison as allowed by the law for posing as a white supremacist in order to send a death threat across state lines by Facebook.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Hart, 20, pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court to making a threat in November 2008. He admitted creating a name and using a white supremacist’s photo to pose as a white man who planned to kill blacks because Barack Obama had been elected president.

He was originally charged with threatening three black students at Nicholls State, where he had attended one semester. He pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count. He sent the threats from a computer in Poplarville, Mississippi.

The maximum sentence is five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and he will be sentenced November 18. I have a few choice words for this idiot -- five years maximum in prison.

Inventor William Shockley's Wishes to Name City Park in His Honor Stirs Debate due to His Racist Beliefs, Said Blacks Were Inferior

I cannot fathom how officials in Auburn, California, would have the gall to name an area park after a white supremacist and think that would be readily accepted by the residents. The officials are reportedly still debating on the matter. Exactly what's there to debate? Earlier this year, the estate of William Shockley donated 28 acres of prime forested land to Auburn on the condition that it be named "Nobel Laureate William B. Shockley and his wife Emmy L. Shockley Memorial Park." According to the Sacramento Bee, city officials agreed to such conditions before discovering from activists that Shockley, the inventor of the transistor, believed African-Americans are inferior and should be paid not to reproduce. As far as I am concerned, public land should have no strings attached to it, but there might be some legal ramifications to this man's wishes. This man should not be able to set the parameters, especially in light of the fact that he was a known racist. They can keep the land, period.

So, who is William Bradford Shockley? He was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, he co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics. Mr. Shockley's attempts to commercialize a new transistor design in the 1950s and 1960s led to California's "Silicon Valley" becoming a hotbed of electronics innovation. In his later life, Shockley was a professor at Stanford, and he also became a staunch advocate of eugenics. (Wikipedia)

The man was brilliant and I won't take that from him, but his legacy has been greatly overshadowed by his personal beliefs, which are racist and vile. He believed that the higher rate of reproduction among the less intelligent was having a dysgenic effect, and that a drop in average intelligence would ultimately lead to a decline in civilization. Shockley also advocated that the scientific community should seriously investigate questions of heredity, intelligence and demographic trends, and suggest policy changes if he was proven right. Wow. That's pretty disturbing on so many levels.

Although Shockley was concerned about both black and white dysgenic effects, he found the situation among blacks more disastrous. While unskilled whites had 3.7 children on average versus an average of 2.3 children for skilled whites, Shockley found from the 1970 Census Bureau reports that unskilled blacks had 5.4 children versus 1.9 for the skilled blacks. Shockley reasoned that because intelligence (like most traits) is inherited, the black population would, over time, become much less intelligent countering all the gains that had been made by the Civil Rights movement. Shockley's published writings and lectures to scientific organizations on this topic, such as the National Academy of Sciences, were partly based on the research of Arthur Jensen, Cyril Burt and H. J. Eysenck.

Shockley also proposed that individuals with IQs below 100 be paid to undergo voluntary sterilization. He donated sperm to the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank founded by Robert Klark Graham in hopes of spreading humanity's best genes. The bank, called by the media the "Nobel Prize sperm bank," claimed to have three Nobel Prize-winning donors, though Shockley was the only one to publicly acknowledge his donation to the sperm bank. However, Shockley's views about the genetic superiority of whites over blacks brought the Repository for Germinal Choice notable negative publicity and discouraged other Nobel Prize winners from donating sperm. Source: Wikipedia

So, I don't believe this man should have a public park named after him, whether or not his estate donated the land. He risked damaging his reputation as a trailblazer and a brilliant physicist, for some patently racist views. To the residents of Auburn, would you want your children running around in a park named after William Joseph Simmons, the modern founder of the Ku Klux Klan? I scarcely believe so. It is amazing that this story has managed to fly under the radar of the mainstream media, with only the UPI wire picking it up.

Michael Savage, Right Wing Radio Host, Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps and Others, Banned from Entering U.K. for Allegedly Stirring Up Hatred

Right wing radio broadcaster Michael Savage and the pastors of Westboro Baptist Church have been banned from entering the United Kingdom for allegedly stirring-up hatred and fostering extremism, according to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. You will recall that Michael Savage, whose real name is Michael Alan Weiner, was one of those right wing nutjobs, engaging in hate-mongering last week when they said the illegal aliens from Mexico were bringing the swine flu across the border into the United States.

It's actually a little comical that he has been declared "persona non grata" by our allies. He has authored books such as “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder” and was one of 22 foreigners named by Smith as ineligible to visit Britain. She published a list of those banned between October 2008 and March 2009 for “fostering extremism or hatred.

The other nutjob, Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church, which preaches against homosexuals, and fellow church spokeswoman Shirley Phelps-Roper, were also banned for “unacceptable behavior” that might stir up “inter-community violence” in the U.K.

Phelps and Savage find themselves in a crowd of hardline nuts. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government is reportedly government now is banning about five people a month under the current policy, more than double the previous rate. Preachers Abdullah Qadri Al Ahdal, Yunis Al Astal, Safwat Hijazi and Amir Siddique were also banned, the U.K. said. Also on the list were Mike Guzovsky, the leader of a violent group, and the creator of a white supremacist Web site Stormfront, Stephen Donald Black.

“Coming to the U.K. is a privilege, and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life,” Smith said in an e-mail today. “I will not hesitate to name and shame those who foster extremist views. They are not welcome here.” Source: Bloomberg

So, I guess Savage will rant on the radio this morning about his new status. Hah. This is too funny. Let's see how he feels now that the shoe is on the other foot, now that he's no more welcome in England than an illegal immigrant.