24 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in Kevin MacDonald, radio, Socrates at 7:05 pm |
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Tuesday night, 8/25/09. Details: [Here].
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24 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in dispossession & destruction, Kevin MacDonald, Socrates, White identity, White middle class, white nationalism, White race, White solutions at 6:40 pm |
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by Dr. Kevin MacDonald.
“The health care debate continues to rivet the country. By most accounts, the sheer emotional intensity of the protests has forced Democrats to scale back their plans for nationalized health care. And who are these angry protesters? The vast majority of these angry citizens are White people — a topic I wrote about recently, but before the health care debate assumed center stage.”
23 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in double standards, Iran, Israel, Israel - the facts, nukes, Socrates at 2:52 pm |
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When will Israel allow outsiders to inspect its nuclear facilities? Hmmm?
23 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in egalitarianism, jewed culture, Nazi era, Nazis, race, racial differences, Socrates, Tom Sunic at 1:57 pm |
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by Tom Sunic.
“In April 1988, several weeks before I was awarded a PhD degree in political science at the University of California–Santa Barbara, I had a private and casual dinner with a famous author of human ecology, professor emeritus Garrett Hardin. After a beer or two, he told me, if I recall his words well: ‘Look, Tom, I have been lecturing in biology; I can get away with saying things to my students about race that you will never ever be able to in humanities.'”
23 August, 2009
Posted by VNNB in Alex Linder at 8:05 am |
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“He’s sorry, but he thought Newsom’s first name was Hodge.”
KNOXVILLE (WATE) — Against the advice of his attorneys, Letalvis Cobbins testified on his own behalf Saturday saying the rape of Channon Christian he has pleaded guilty to was actually a voluntary act in exchange for his help to escape. Although he said he accepted her offer, he admitted that he never helped her.
The jurors were given the case at 4:50 p.m. They’re taking Sunday off. They’ll begin deliberating at 9:00 a.m. Monday.
Judge Richard Baumgartner read 128 pages of instructions to the jurors when he charged them with the case.
The jurors have 38 counts to consider in this case, including 18 counts of murder. They must reach a verdict on each one.
Cobbins is the first of four suspects to be tried for the carjacking, rapes and murders of Christian and her boyfriend, Christopher Newsom, in 2007.
The other suspects who are charged are: Lemaricus Duvall Davidson (Cobbins’ half brother), George Giovanni Thomas and Vanessa Coleman, who was Cobbins’ girlfriend.
All four defendants could face the death penalty if they’re convicted in their separate trials.
Cobbins claims Christian offered sex in exchange for help
Before Cobbins began, Judge Baumgartner dismissed a motion by his two attorneys to withdraw from representing him.
Also, one juror was replaced by an alternate before testimony started.
Cobbins was previously sworn in during this trial so he took the stand under oath.
He said he and Coleman and Thomas came from Kentucky to celebrate New Year’s 2007 with his brother, Lemaricus Davidson, who he hadn’t seen in years.
Davidson had been in and out of prison for years, Cobbins said.
He testified that Davidson wanted to introduce him to a girl he was going to take him to meet.
Cobbins said Eric Boyd, who’s previously been convicted and sentenced as an accessory in this case, met them to go along.
Cobbins said they were smoking marijuana, which he called blunts. He said the one he was given to smoke was a wet blunt and he thought it tasted funny, but he didn’t know why.
Once they arrived as Washington Ridge Apartments, Cobbins said they spotted Christian and Newsom hugging or kissing. He said that’s when Davidson and Boyd jumped out and carjacked them.
Cobbins said he didn’t know they were going to do this and tried to refuse to be part of it, but Davidson told him to follow them back to Davidson’s house on Chipman Street. That’s where Christian’s body was found three days later.
Eventually, Christian and Newsom were brought back to the Chipman Street house and all four suspects were there. Cobbins said he told Thomas and Coleman they should leave because of what was going on, but that never happened.
Cobbins said Christian and Newsom were brought into the house blindfolded and bound. He said Christian was sitting in the living room and he brought her some water. He also said the wet blunt he smoked was making him feel sick.
He repeatedly said he told Davidson what they were doing was crazy and “ya’ll trippin.”
Cobbins said Davidson called everyone into the living room and told them they were being too quiet and demanded to know what they were doing.
Cobbins said he told Davidson they were going to leave. That’s when he said Davidson pulled a gun without pointing it at anyone and told them he’d shoot them, but not kill them, if they tried to leave.
Cobbins said he decided he had no choice but to stay so he sat down. He and Coleman smoked more pot.
Cobbins said Christian was taken to a bedroom and tied up on the bed. He said he brought her more water and untied some of her bindings so she could drink.
He said Christian asked him what was going on and he said he didn’t know. He said she also asked if he knew where her boyfriend was and he said he didn’t know.
Cobbins said Christian asked him if he could talk Davidson into letting her go. He told her that he would try. He said she told him she’d do anything and even offered oral sex. He accepted her offer and heard noises that concerned him as he ejaculated.
(At this point, Christian’s mother, Deena, restrained her father, Gary.)
Cobbins said he put Christian back like he’d found her and went back into the living room with Coleman.
He said Davidson and Thomas came back into the house for awhile, left about half an hour later, then returned again later.
Cobbins said he noticed dark stains on Davidson’s and Thomas’ shirts after they came back the second time.
Cobbins said Davidson would tell him stories when they were growing up about carjacking people, then taking them to an ATM, making them withdraw money and leaving them tied up. So he said he thought Newsom was tied up somewhere. Saturday night ended.
He said Sunday started with a guy showing up at the house to get drugs from Davidson, but he didn’t stay long.
Then he said Davidson’s girlfriend, Daphne Sutton, came to get her things. He said Davidson had called and told her do to this.
Cobbins said Davidson and Sutton got into an argument. He said later, Davidson gave Coleman some clothes that turned out to be Christian’s.
Cobbins said Davidson brought Christian into the kitchen. She had no clothes on from the waist down.
He said Davidson called everyone into the kitchen, then tried to choke Christian, who fell to the floor.
Cobbins said he asked Davidson again what’s he doing and tells him that he’s “trippin.”
“I didn’t do anything to stop it,” Cobbins said. “I didn’t do anything to stop it.”
Cobbins said Davidson tried to force Coleman to check Christian’s pulse, but she said she didn’t know how to do it, that she wasn’t a nurse.
He said he spoke to Thomas again of trying to leave, but Davidson threatened them.
Cobbins said Davidson tied Christian up in a fetal position, then he broke down in tears for a moment. He said Davidson put Christian in the trash can and made everyone else go into another room.
“After it got daylight,” Cobbins said, Davidson left and the rest of them left the Chipman Street house on foot.
He said they went to the house of Vincent Wernimont, who got drugs from Davidson, told him what happened and they talked about what to do. He said they stayed at the house of a drug addict, then later got a ride back to Kentucky.
Cobbins said he called his mother and told her what happened. She asked him why he didn’t call the police or try to stop it. He told her that he couldn’t and didn’t know what to do.
He said he called his mother and sister again later and learned his and Davidson’s pictures were on the news as wanted in connection to the murders.
Cobbins said they connected to his cousin on a three way call who told him that he’d be implicated in the crimes. His family told him they’d get attorneys and he decided to call the police from a pay phone the next day to tell them what happened.
He said he asked Thomas’ girlfriend, Stacey Lawson, who testified earlier in this trial, to lie and say they came back to Kentucky with her, before New Year’s, but she refused to lie to the police. Lawson also testified that she refused to lie.
Cobbins said they were arrested the next day and when he was questioned, “I didn’t tell the truth. I told parts of the truth.”
He said he lied because what had been done was horrible and “I wanted to distance myself.”
Cobbins said he denied more than once that he had sex with Christian and even after a cigarette break, he still lied about what happened.
“I sit here in front of ya’ll today and admit I lied repeatedly about what happened. You all are probably wondering, why should you believe me now when I lied to the police so many times?”
“I don’t have nothing to lose. My DNA was on that girl. I didn’t have any knowledge of what was going to happen. I didn’t want to be a part of it.”
Cobbins said he’s not asking the jury to disregard what he did because “I’m wrong for that” and “I deserve to be punished.” Then he told the families he’s sorry.
Cobbins’ attorneys didn’t ask him any questions while he was on the stand.
The defense rested its case after Cobbins testified.
Cobbins said he pleaded to rape because “it was wrong”
On cross-examination by Assistant District Attorney Takisha Fitzgerald, Cobbins admitted he didn’t know the victims’ first names. He finally said he guessed Christian’s first name was Channon, but he thought Newsom’s first name was Hodge.
Cobbins told the ADA that Davidson and Boyd were going to introduce him to a girl that night of the carjacking so he lied to Coleman about where they were going.
Cobbins claimed he didn’t know Boyd and didn’t know about his previous criminal record.
He insisted he didn’t know Davidson and Boyd were going to carjack Christian and Newsom until he saw them run to the truck where the couple was hugging or kissing with guns drawn.
He said Christian drove the carjacked vehicle and he couldn’t tell if she and Newsom were crying or looked scared.
Cobbins said, like he did previously, that Davidson told him to follow them back to the Chipman Street house. He claimed not being familiar with the area since he’s not from Knoxville so he didn’t know how to get back on his own.
Fitzgerald asked Cobbins if he recalled telling Detective Norman during questioning that different people were in the carjacked vehicles, including Thomas.
Cobbins said he didn’t recall saying that. Fitzgerald read it to him from the transcript.
Fitzgerald also asked Cobbins if he lied to try to put the blame on his brother. He said he just wanted to give himself a way out of what happened and to put the blame on “someone other than myself.”
Fitzgerald asked Cobbins many questions about the different versions he told investigators during questioning and Cobbins often said, “I can’t recall.”
Cobbins insisted to Fitzgerald that he was never in the carjacked SUV with the victims, despite telling investigators he was during questioning.
Fitzgerald asked Cobbins how it’s rape if Christian consented to oral sex with him. He said it was wrong because she was being held against her will.
The ADA asked why Cobbins didn’t help Christian get away after he promised to. “I tried to convince him (Davidson) to let everybody go,” Cobbins told her.
Fitzgerald pointed out that Davidson was gone from the house at some point and all Cobbins had to do was untie Christian and let her go. She asked why he didn’t do it and he said he was afraid because he knew Davidson was “a live wire.”
The ADA asked Cobbins if he poured bleach into Christian’s mouth to try to get rid of his DNA.
He said he didn’t know anything about bleach being poured into her mouth and didn’t know if it would make DNA deteriorate.
After a break, Cobbins told Fitzgerald he didn’t know Christian had called her father the night of the carjacking so he wasn’t present when the call was made.
He also said that sometimes while he’s in custody, he’s called his father, but didn’t remember if he called him the night of the carjacking. He said his father lived in Knoxville in January 2007.
State’s closing: Cobbins told so many different versions
ADA Fitzgerald talked about the different versions Cobbins told investigators of what happened during his questioning and painted him as a liar.
The state played parts of seven versions Cobbins told on audio tapes.
Fitzgerald said Cobbins told an eighth version on the witness stand Saturday.
“Why blindfold her (Christian)? She knows where she’s at. She drove there,” according to Cobbins, Fitzgerald said.
The ADA said the state believes Newsom was raped in the Chipman Street house because he was bound with bed sheets.
Fitzgerald also said Cobbins could at least admit he tore Christian’s lip from her gum when he had sex with her, but he didn’t. Then she said, “You hurt her, Mr. Cobbins.”
She said the bullets in Newsom’s body and the trash bags on Christian’s body are proof of premeditation.
Fitzgerald said if Cobbins’ account of being in a separate car during the carjacking is true, Christian and Newsom may have thought at first he was a witness who could help them.
“Mr. Cobbins could’ve been a hero that night (of the carjacking,” Fitzgerald said. “He chose not to. And you know why he chose not to, because he’s part of it.”
Fitzgerald said the state didn’t have enough evidence against Boyd to charge him like the other four defendants.
She said criminal responsibility makes Cobbins guilty of murdering Newsom and Christian.
Defense: state hasn’t proven case
Defense attorney Scott Green said Fitzgerald and Assistant District Attorney General Leland Price are two of the best prosecutors in the state, but they haven’t proven their case against Cobbins.
“He’s a liar, a rapist and a coward, but they haven’t proved he’s a killer,” Green said.
He also said the state hasn’t shown that Cobbins knew the carjacking was going to happen until it did.
Green said without Davidson sitting in the courtroom, the temptation is to take it out on Cobbins.
“Not acting like a hero doesn’t make you guilty of first degree murder,” Green said, adding that the state can “guess, assume and suppose” what Cobbins has done, but can’t prove it.
Green also focused on Davidson, saying Christian’s bruised arms and choking, though not to the point of hemorrhaging, were indications he killed her because he did similar things to his girlfriend, Daphne Sutton.
He pointed out Davidson’s prints are on Christian and Newsom’s belongings and said there’s testimony that Davidson gave away Christian’s clothes.
“Find him guilty of what he did. Let another jury come here and put a needle in the arm of the man who’s earned it,” Green said, then held up Davidson’s mug shot, “big brother.”
State makes final points
The state returned for its rebuttal closing with ADA Leland Price, who said looking at all the evidence in this case, Cobbins ignored “red flags” about his brother, Davidson.
“Criminal responsibility says he’s (Cobbins) just as guilty as the others,” Price said. “He’s right there alongside his brother all the way” despite seeing him beat his girlfriend (which Cobbins denied seeing) and point a gun at Lawson at one point.
Price said the defendants were looking for someone to carjack when they drove around Washington Ridge Apartments twice. Cobbins claimed they were trying to remember where the apartment was they were headed to.
Christian and Newsom’s deaths were guaranteed when they were taken back to the Chipman Street house, Price said.
He also pointed out that when Cobbins said he was raping Christian only Coleman was in the house. “He could’ve freed her, but he raped her,” Price said, “He left her there for his brother to have his fun.”
22 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in false flags, false-flag operations, Israel, Israel - the facts, Jewish aggression, Jewish arrogance, Jewish Tyranny, Libya, Lockerbie incident, Socrates at 11:04 am |
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Now that the suspect in that 1988 bombing has been released: did you know that the Lockerbie bombing happened because of Israel? The Jews, using one of their infamous “false-flag operations,” tricked America into believing fake information about Libya, which caused the U.S. to attack it in 1986 – an attack which killed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s daughter. Lockerbie was a response to that U.S. air raid:
22 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in nation-building/nation-wrecking, nation-states, nationalism, race, racial differences, Rushton, Socrates at 9:01 am |
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by Professor J. Philippe Rushton.
“Jerry Z. Muller a professor at Catholic University, (‘Us and Them,’ Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008, and ‘Replies,’ July/August 2008) argued that the power of ethnic nationalism ‘will drive global politics for generations to come’ because it ‘corresponds to some enduring propensities of the human spirit,’ which often manifests in the ‘need for each people to have its own state.’ His essay provided a valuable corrective to the position that ethnic identity is a mere social construction that globalization will steadily eradicate.”
21 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in apartheid, jewed culture, jewish revolutionaries, jewish terrorists & terrorism, Jewish Tyranny, Socrates, South Africa at 12:10 am |
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Not surprising. After all, the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa was not a Black movement but a Jewish one. Note the mention of Slovo:
20 August, 2009
Posted by Socrates in communism, Frankfurt School, Marxism, Max Horkheimer, Socrates at 11:11 pm |
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The ghost of Max Horkheimer says: “Hey, don’t they know that nobody uses a photo of me without giving me a free taco first?”
20 August, 2009
Posted by VNNB in 'hate' crimes at 12:04 pm |
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“It cries like a little girl when caught.”
After the jury came back from a short recess Wednesday morning, Knox County Sheriff’s Office Detective Nevil Norman took the stand. Norman helped to interview Letalvis Cobbins onthe day he was arrested in Lebanon, Kentucky.
Former Knox County Sheriff Tim Hutchison and current Sheriff J.J. Jones were also present for Cobbins’ questioning.
Transcripts of the interrogation were handed out for the jury before the audio was played in the courtroom. The hour long interview gave the jurors some insight into the defendant’s mindset just days after Channon Christian and Chris Newsom were killed.
During the hour long interrogation, Cobbins cried several times claiming he didn’t know what his brother did to the couple.
After the tape was played, and the jury was released for lunch, defense attorney Scott Green moved for a mistrial because he said Cobbins quoted what his brother said. Green said the jury listened to several examples of hearsay and he asked for a mistrial.
Judge Richard Baumgartner denied the request and said when jurors returned he would instruct them to disregard hearsay from Cobbins and investigators played during the taped interrogation.
When court resumed for the afternoon, the state played the second half of Cobbins’ interrogation.
During his interview with investigators, Cobbins said he watched his brother and a bald man named “E” carjack the couple while they were kissing in the parking lot at the Washington Ridge Apartment. “E” has been identified by investigators as Eric Boyd.
Green cross-examined Detective Norman after the second half of the CD was played in the courtroom. The defense asked Norman to identify all the voices involved in the interrogation. Then Green asked, “and the voice we just heard crying like a little girl this morning, that’s Mr. Cobbins right?”
“That was,” Norman replied.
Additional witnesses denied
Shortly before 11 a.m., Judge Baumgartner also denied a request from the prosecution to add two witnesses to its list.
Before the jury came into the courtroom Wednesday morning, the state started the morning off by asking the court to allow them to add the two additional witnesses.
Prosecutor Leland Price asked Judge Baumgartner to let him put Jennifer Allen on the stand to testify that Vanessa Coleman put Cobbins’ silver revolver in the room he was staying in at a Kentucky home. The state says Cobbins was arrested at a Lebanon, Kentucky home on January 11, 2007, and officers searched the house but didn’t find the weapon then. However, Allen would have testified that Coleman came to the house the next day and put the firearm under the bed.
The judge said although the state wants to do what they can to put the words gun and Cobbins in the same sentence, he is not going to allow the testimony.
Judge Baumgartner said there is no proof the gun was used in the crimes, and it is not the gun used to kill Newsom, so he did not see the relevance to the testimony about how the gun was placed under a bed in Natasha Hays’ home.
Attorneys also discussed a comment made by Davidson associate Vinnie Wernimont on the stand Tuesday afternoon.
Wernimont testified that federal investigators granted him immunity in exchange for his testimony. Wernimont says Letalvis Cobbins came to him and implicated his brother Lemaricus Davidson in the crimes against Channon Christian.
This morning, Wernimont’s attorney stated for the record that Wernimont was not offered a deal and that he was just nervous and confused during his testimony on Tuesday.
The state called Wernimont back to the stand on Wednesday to clarify the discrepancy in front of the jury.
The state will continue with its long list of witnesses and mountain of evidence in the double murder case that has gained national attention.Kentucky arrests
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Natasha Hays, also known as Blue, says she remembers Cobbins and Vanessa Coleman coming to her door on January 9, 2007 to ask for a place to say.
The prosecution called Hays to the stand to talk about her friendships with 3 of the 4 defendants accused of killing Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
Hays remembers meeting Cobbins and his co-defendant George Thomas when they worked at Amazon.com.
They renewed their friendship a year later, when Hays and Cobbins ran into each other in Lebanon, Kentucky.
Hays says Vanessa Coleman was Cobbins’ girlfriend and they stayed at her house often.
During direct questioning, Hays told the court that she came to Knoxville with the couple on two occasions and stayed with Cobbins’ brother Lemaricus Davidson and his girlfriend in December 2006.
However, Hays had no idea what happened the weekend of January 6 that brought her friends back to Kentucky. She explained that Cobbins told her that it didn’t work out and that his brother had thrown them out.
Thomas also stayed at the Hays’ home on Shuck Avenue in Lebanon. She remembered his request to use her computer, but he told her he wanted to contact family.
Investigators later found that someone in the house used the computer to access Knoxville news stations websites using the internet.
Hays remembered getting a phone call on January 11. She said the voice on the other line demanded she come outside. That’s when Hays says officers grabbed her and took her across the street before taking Coleman, Cobbins and Thomas into custody.
Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent Bernard Waggoner also took the stand to talk about the Kentucky arrests.
Waggoner was in charge of keeping an eye on Coleman and Thomas at the Lebanon Police Station. However, he described one occasion where he had interaction with Cobbins.
The ATF agent testified that he escorted Cobbins outside to smoke a cigarette. They didn’t speak much, but the suspect was wearing a knit cap that sparked a conversation between the two.
Waggoner told the court that he asked Cobbins about the cap. He said Cobbins said his brother gave it to him and he didn’t want it anymore. He took it off and tried to throw it away. But instead the ATF agent grabbed it and checked it into evidence.
During cross examination, defense attorney Scott Green asked Agent Waggoner about Cobbins’ demeanor during his arrest. Waggoner admitted Cobbins cooperated with law enforcement and came out of Hays’ house before surrendering.
However, Waggoner told the court that officers had to go into the house to get Thomas. The agent said Thomas was looking at them through some blinds in from an upstairs window. Officers went inside the house and talked Thomas into surrendering.
Victims’ families offer insight
Wednesday morning, Hugh and Mary Newsom shared memories about their son with 10 News.
The couple remembers their son going on a hunting trip with his employers. During the trip, one of the hunting dogs was hit by a car and killed. One of the men threw the dog in the ditch. That act upset Chris Newsom. He began to argue with the man explaining that the dog needed to be buried and should not be discarded like that.
Hugh Newsom said “that’s the kind of son we lost.”
Mary Newsom said she is trying to keep her composure but facing her son’s accused killer is tearing her up inside. She said Cobbins stares at her in the courtroom and she stares back, unafraid.
The Christian family is also dealing with a wide range of emotions to include anger.
Gary Christian is not happy with the court’s decision to only allow immediate family to wear their buttons honoring Channon Christian and Chris Newsom.
Friends and in-laws are not allowed to wear the buttons.
Gary Christian told 10 News he stares at Cobbins in court, but Cobbins will not even look in his direction.
After court recessed for lunch, Joan Berry left the courtroom in tears. Berry traveled from Atlanta to offer her support to the victims’ families.
In 2004, Johnia Berry was stabbed to death after a break-in at her Knoxville apartment.
Berry’s accused killer Taylor Olsen killed himself before he could be tried for the murder.
Background
In Session TV (formerly known as Court TV) is covering the trial. However, critics of the national media say the case has been ignored because the race of the defendants and the victims.
23-year-old Chris Newsom had gone to the Washington Ridge Apartments to pick up his 21-year-old girlfriend Channon Christian.
While friends waited for the couple to arrive to a birthday party on Saturday January 6, 2006, the couple disappeared.
Investigators believe the couple was carjacked at Washington Ridge Apartments. On Tuesday, Ethel Lynn Freeman told the court that defendant Lemaricus Davidson was supposed to bring money to her Washington Ridge Apartment that Saturday night, but he never showed up.
Newsom’s badly burned body was found next to some train tracks near Chipman Street on Sunday. Christian’s body was found stuffed in a trash can yards away, 2 days later.
Letalvis Cobbins is on trial for the couple’s murders. He is the first of four defendants to be tried for the crimes.
In the first 2 days of trial, the state has called 25 witnesses, and expects to spend the rest of the week proving its case against Cobbins.
However, testimony so far has focused more on Cobbins’ brother and co-defendant Lemaricus Davidson.
On Tuesday, witnesses testified that Davidson was a hot-tempered drug dealer who served prison time at the West Tennessee State Penitentiary.