Gary Rumor’s Anti-Entropic Continuum

Yesterday while I was waiting to get my dialysis I watched Rick Sanchez on CNN interview a Neo-Nazi. The guy was on the Border in Arizona looking for illegal aliens to shoot I imagine. The guy wearing military looking fatigues and looking very white in the Arizona desert heat was telling the CNN reporter that he was not a Nazi but a National Socialist. The distinction is moot. This National Socialist, a member of the American National Socialist Party advocates the removal of all non white people from the United States. He includes Hispanic people in the non-white category. Tell a Spaniard he is not white and see what kind of a reaction you get.
Sanchez then went on to read the program of the National Socialist Movement Pont 4 of their 25 point program.

“Only members of the nation may be citizens of the state. Only those of pure White blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. Non-citizens may live in America only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens. Accordingly, no Jew or homosexual may be a member of the nation.”

The Nazi being interviewed stated “What is wrong with a white only nation? The Japanese have a homogenous population so why can’t America?”

At that point I could not help but state “what gives them the right to claim America for white people? The only true Americans are Native American Indians”.
The black woman sitting near by who was also watching CNN, the TV was in the lobby at the Dialysis center, stated “We are all immigrants here. That man is crazy.”

Crazy he may be but he was given time on CNN to spout off his nonsense and Sanchez was polite to the guy. Even as he noted that if the Nazis had their way he Sanchez would be deported or have to register as an alien and according to another point on their program he would not be allowed to work in broadcasting or any other English language media.
I noticed that there was no equal time broadcast of the viewpoints of the pro-immigrant or pro-multiracial viewpoint. Perhaps at another time, but I didn’t see it. I have noticed this more and more on the media that there is coverage for Tea Party groups and insignificant things like bubble blowing contests but never any coverage of protests organized by the left. We never see any of the Anti-Israel pro-Palestinian protests, never see any of the labor actions or strikes, never see anti-war protests or even when there were half a million Hispanic and other marchers on May Day in Los Angeles, not a word on the TV media that I saw.
Even the newspapers put leftist oriented actions if they report them at all in the back of their papers. Most news from the left perspective is only heard on a couple of radio stations like the Pacifica network, and on the internet. Even so called leftist broadcast journalists like Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann really only cover the news that is part of the Washington DC government news and the news of the one so called legitimate opposition party the Republicans or Democrats depending on who is in or out of office. Maddow and Olbermann even give time to the Tea Party, if only to bash it, but real leftist views never. She only goes as far to the left as the Nation Magazine which is the liberal democratic journal.
Sanchez brought up one other point by reading from a statement of the Nazis that Arizona would be a good place to recruit members because of the anger over illegal immigrants there. The Nazi he was interviewing had nothing to say only that the term Nazi has been overused and pointed out that even Obama has been called a Nazi.
There are other problems I have with this. Other than the one sided publicity it gives to the Nazis, even if Sanchez is personally disparaging, he is still respectful and most importantly he is not giving the other side a chance to speak. Who watches CNN in the middle of the day? Policy wonks and people who are captive audiences like we were in that lobby get to see CNN. But the average person may not have thought to deeply about this and even if it is framed in a critical manner the guy was given five minutes or more to get his message out. Where is the other side? Radical right messages should be countered with messages from the radical left on a so called balanced medium like CNN which is supposed to be dedicated to the all the news. What we get in America is sanitized and sensational news. We never get serious analysis or connect the dots news. Even programs like 60 minutes spend half their time on puff pieces promoting movie stars or on other irrelevant subjects more geared to selling product and promoting other programming on the network than seriously investigating the issues of the day.
The only serious media are a couple of national newspapers like the New York Times and Washington Post but they are geared to the interests of the policy and business elites. General readers are allowed to participate in watching the debates and discourse among the high and mighty but those discourses are now more and more shunted aside to the specialty media like CSPAN where you can see the raw footage of Congressional hearings and get no analysis at all. What is lacking is the medium for public input into the democratic process. We have plenty of outlets for special interest hobbies, and the internet is a great source of information if you know how to use it. But for civic input and participation, we need stronger and more compelling methods of keeping the citizens involved in civic affairs, and for that to happen we to restructure so that we have real democracy not an oligarchy with pseudo-democratic tendencies.

One good bit of local news. The LA Times did a report on corrupt practices at city hall in Bell, CA. Yesterday at a city council meeting citizens showed up in an uproar and today they got results. Direct action gets results when the media pays attention. All the local news channels were there and it was all over the local news preempting the usual stories about crime and happy talk. Even Attorney General Jerry Brown got in on the action and said there would be an investigation.

This from CNN on line.
“Oscar Hernandez, the mayor of Bell, California, said the City Council accepted the resignations of City Manager Robert Rizzo, Assistant City Manager Angela Spaccia, and Police Chief Randy Adams, who reportedly had a combined salary of more than $1.6 million. He added that the three will not get severance pay.”
The city manager was paying himself $800,000 a year in a working class town of 40,000 with a median household income of less than $30,000 a year. The people spoke up, the media did its job and justice is being served. We need to see more of this kind of work in all areas.