by robertdreed » Sun Oct 30, 2005 5:25 pm
A few points, thumperton-<br><br>1) The Amish llive lives that separate them from others in the rural areas and towns where they're found as communites, but they make no demands on the wider society to accomodate them- except for a few changes in the traffic laws to accomodate their horse-drawn buggys. They don't demand "religious cleansing", for instance, in order to guarantee Amish people a 100% "pure" territory in whcih to dwell. Neither do they demand that the government support their schools. <br><br>2) You act as if there was some difficulty in a person or local community of people being "white separatist." I don't see any particular impediments to groups forming white separatist communities, as long as the group in question isn't demanding anything more than the Amish. But I also don't hear you making your demands explicit. That's why I'm asking these questions, so I can get a better idea of what you have in mind.<br><br>3) In a practical sense, I can think of a lot of places near to where I live where such "white separatism" is an accomplished fact- the upper-middle class-to-wealthy gated housing tracts in the hills along Route 50 between Folsom and Placerville, for instance, like Cameron Park and El Dorado Hills. John Doolittle country, overwhelmingly Republican. Those are examples of places with populations ranging between 95-100% white. Personally, a place like that isn't for me. The conformity and uniformity index is much too high for me to feel welcome. But I don't notice any pressure to "force integration" on those places. Granted, if a black person, a Japanese, or a Latino has enough money, they can buy a home there. However, I think the attitudes of most minorities are similar to mine, in terms of regarding a monocultural place like that as its own punishment. The folks who live there can have it- and they do. Most of them are rich (except for, arguably, a few of the long-time homesteaders, and the senior citizens living in retirement trailer home tracts.) However, there's only so much of our water supply that they deserve, because it's a wastrel lifestyle that's unsustainable and unsupportable for any but a limited population. The developers don't get to have a high Auburn Dam so they can turn the Sierra foothills into suburbia. It's already a smogbelt and a firetrap environment, and the steams can only stand so much eroison from having ground cover cut away and hundreds of miles of pavement. <br><br>3) But even if you're a lower-income working person, no one is stopping you from confining your informal communities to others of your own ethnicity. you're being accurate in pointing out that all sorts of ethnicities do the same thing. But I have this feeling that you aren't satisfied with simply having that option available, and that instead you want it to be a uniform cultural practice of everyone who shares your ethnic heritage. Well, where I live, most of us reject Balkanization. <br><br>4) the more I think about it, the more I'm bewildered. What is your complaint, exactly? Don't beat around the bush, lay it out there. What don't you have now in terms of options that you feel that you require? <br><br>thumperton, you're from the UK, aren't you? Because you sound as if you have no idea how the Amish actually live, for instance. <br><br>You bring up the Randy Weaver case. I think that was a terrific injustice, and there are some really ominous aspects to that case. (Read Gerry Spence's book <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>From Freedom To Slavery</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, if you aren't up on the details. Spence was Weaver's attorney. ) Be that as it may, Randy Weaver was not the target of an FBI raid simply because he chose to live in the hills of Idaho with his family. The FBI agents were serving a warrant on him, after having entrapped him (in my opinion) into illegally modifying a shotgun. <br><br>Weaver was not part of any "community" at all, as far as I know. He was a homesteader, and he lived in remote countryside. If the FBI raided everyone in the USA who opted for that lifestyle, they would have to arrest millions of people. You don't sound as if you're up on even the most basic details of the case, incidentally. It wasn't Randy Weaver who was killed, it was his wife. <br><br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=robertdreed>robertdreed</A> at: 10/30/05 2:42 pm<br></i>