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Alexanderʼs Essay August 20, 2009 Vol. 09 No. 33

Media Blackout ers for a "hate crime" -- the alleged gang rape of a
"Equal and exact justice to all men..." --Thomas black woman named Crystal Gail Mangum. Mil-
Jefferson lions of dollars in defense-lawyer fees later, it turns
out that there was no evidence and that Mangum
Editor's Note: PG suggested -- this essay contains was a liar. The real victims were, in fact, the ac-
graphic descriptions of a brutal crime. cused men: David Evans, Reade Seligmann and
Colin Finnerty. (All charges were dropped, but there
In 1775, John Adams wrote, "There is in human has been no apology yet from 88 Duke professors
nature a resentment of injury, and indignation who jumped on the bandwagon, condemning Evans,
against wrong, a love of truth and a veneration of Seligmann and Finnerty in an open letter before the
virtue ... if the people are capable of understanding, first day of their trial.)
seeing and feeling the differences between true and
false, right and wrong, virtue and vice..." Four weeks ago, Barack Hussein Obama interrupted
a live media propaganda confab promoting his ad-
Adams understood that a shared penchant for justice ministration's most critical national initiative (na-
and virtue is essential to liberty, and depends upon tionalizing health care) in order to accuse a white
the ability of people to discern between right and Cambridge, MA, police officer, James Crowley, of
wrong. "acting stupidly" for arresting Obama's black friend,
Henry Gates. That accusation was followed by simi-
Today, it is evident to every astute social scientist lar knee-jerk pronouncements of racism by the
(and most anyone with common sense) that among black governor of Massachusetts and the black
definable American subcultures the capacity for mayor of Cambridge. Under such heavy-handed
distinguishing between right and wrong is severely political and media pressure, all charges against
diminished. Gates were dropped.
The origin of these deteriorating standards for jus- The Gates' story dominated the national media head-
tice and virtue is rooted in the dissolution of the lines for a couple weeks, until it was determined that
family, and the failure of our places of worship and the officer's actions were, in fact, justified. Obama
our schools to instill those values necessary for self- attempted to make amends by tossing back a few
government -- self-government being the foundation beers with the Gates and Crowley in the Rose Gar-
of family-government and that being the foundation den, but BO offered no public apology. (Narcissists
of social responsibility. do not apologize, they just reinterpret the facts.)
U.S. urban centers, and to a lesser extent suburban This week, there is a trial underway which is ra-
and rural areas, are now home to generations of cially charged, but, unless you were reading The
sociopaths who do not value your life, simply be- Patriot back in 2007, chances are you have not
cause they do not value their own. heard of this one since it involves a savage black-
on-white crime, rather than MSM feeding frenzy
Making matters worse, the MSM perpetuates a vir-
accusations of white-on-black crimes.
tual blackout of news regarding select sociopaths,
while trumpeting allegations and speculations of
I am referring to the brutal torture, mutilation and
others. This results in a distorted popular under-
murder of Channon Christian and Christopher New-
standing of the extent of the social degradation som by four black men in Knoxville, Tennessee.
around us.

Three years ago (March 2006), the Leftmedia spent In the event you were not a reader in '07, allow me
a year relentlessly convicting in the court of public to recount this horrendous incident ... because you
opinion three white Duke University lacrosse play- won't see or hear it from any MSM news outlets.
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On 6 January 2007, Channon (age 21) and Christo- of the state. (The modern Democrat implementation
pher (age 23) were out for a Saturday dinner date, of a plantation system.)
after which Channon called her mom to report that
they were on the way to visit friends. But Channon Charged in the torture/murder of Chanon and Chris-
and Christopher never arrived at their friends' house topher were Eric Boyd, Letalvis Cobbins, Lemari-
-- nor returned home. cus Davidson, George Thomas and Vanessa Cole-
man.
The next day, the mutilated and burned remains of
Chris Newsom were found along a railroad track. In April 2008, Boyd was convicted in federal court
Two days later, Channon's mutilated body was re- of being an accessory after the fact, but the MSM
covered from a trash bin. was too busy fawning over the candidacy of Barack
Obama to report that conviction. (Boyd's case is on
Channon and Chris were in Channon's Toyota 4- appeal.)
Runner when they were carjacked. They were taken
to a nearby house, brutally gang-raped, mutilated "One down. Four to go," said Channon's father,
and then murdered. They were subjected to lengthy Gary Christian.
torture in each other's presence.
He and Channon's mother, Deena have been present
Newsom was raped, his genitals were cut off, and at all the proceedings. "We do this for Channon,"
then taken to the railroad tracks where he was shot said Deena. "We've been through the worst. We and
execution-style. The perpetrators soaked his body the Newsoms have lost our children. We can endure
with an accelerant and burned his body. anything."

Christian was kept alive for a while longer, repeat- This week, the trial of a second defendant, Letalvis
edly raped, mutilated, had cleaning solution poured Cobbins, is underway, but it's safe to say that the
down her throat in an attempt to destroy DNA evi- prosecution of this defendant will pass without a
dence, and then stuffed inside a trash can where she satellite news-link truck anywhere in sight.
suffocated to death.
I draw your attention to this case not only to mourn
This appalling attack is more than a case study in the murder of this young couple, but also to call
sociopathic evil. It is a case study about which sto- attention to a despicable political double standard
ries the MSM headlines and which they do not. Yes, which includes the MSM's complicity in advancing
there are some 17,000 murders committed in the that standard.
U.S. each year, but this double murder was clearly
far more barbaric, far more monstrous, than most. In 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, beat a
black man, James Byrd, then chained him to the
Regrettably, there is nothing new about the racial back of a pickup truck and dragged him three miles
aspect of this story, which may explain why it was to his death. Not surprisingly, Byrd's murder re-
not national news. Although blacks represent just 12 ceived national media attention -- as it should.
percent of the U.S. population, black perpetrators
are convicted by a jury of their peers in more than Clearly, hate was a motivating factor in the Jasper
half of all murder and manslaughter cases. Addi- case, but it was also a motivating factor in Knox-
tionally, per-capita black-on-white crime is far more ville, though not a "hate crime" as defined by fed-
prevalent than the inverse. eral law. So, why do white-on-black hate crimes
invariably result in a media feeding frenzy, while
The underlying social factors contributing to such black-on-white hate crimes receive nary a mention?
racially unbalanced crime statistics have been de-
lineated by many conservative black leaders and What about the double standard when it comes to
academicians. However, their solutions -- most no- race-hustling poverty pimps like Jesse Jackson and
tably promoting family unity, faith-based programs, Al Sharpton (who fabricated the Tawana Brawley
better schools and individual responsibility and ac- rape hoax)? The only difference in racists such as
countability, contradict leftist political objectives, Jackson and Sharpton and those in the KKK is that
which seek to maintain black folks' status as wards the latter are not Leftmedia celebs.
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To that end, my colleague Walter Williams posited taxpayers of more than $100 thousand per year per
this query: "What have we heard from the NAACP, convict.
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and others who rushed Martin Luther King, in his "Letter from a Birming-
to judgment and outrage as they condemned whites ham Jail, proclaimed, "Injustice anywhere is a threat
in the cases of the 'Jena 6' and Don Imus when he to justice everywhere."
referred to the Rutgers ladies basketball team as
'nappy-headed ho's'? Where were the national news The MSM blackout of this crime is a grave injus-
media and public officials? You can bet the rent tice.
money that, were the victims black and the perpetra-
tors white, Knoxville would have been inundated To the families and friends of Channon and Christo-
with TV crews, with Jackson, Sharpton and other pher, we share your grief and will continue this vigil
civil rights spokesmen and politicians from both with you until justice is served.
parties condemning racism, possibly blaming it all
on George Bush..." Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!

As for the defendants in this case, Knox County has Mark Alexander
already paid in excess of $350 thousand to prose- Publisher, [Link]
cute and defend these monsters. Based on the eye-
witness account of defendant Vanessa Coleman, the (To submit reader comments visit our Letters to the
question before Cobbins' jury, and those yet to be Editor page.)
empanelled for the other defendants, is not one of
guilt or innocence, but guilty of what charges. (Please pray for our Armed Forces standing in
harm's way around the world, and for their families
Those found guilty will be treated to either life im- -- especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sail-
prisonment, with all entitlements, or life on death ors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who
row for maybe a couple decades -- all at a cost to granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)