George Alan Kelly is a 75-year-old rancher who lived for more than a decade on a 170-acre property in Kino Springs, Arizona, which is just over a mile from the southern border. On January 13, 2023, Kelly sent a text message to his son, telling him that he had spotted “33 drug runners” on the property.
The message itself was nothing out of the ordinary. For years, Kelly had made similar complaints about illegal migrants trespassing at his ranch on their way into the United States. Sometimes, Kelly told his family members, these migrants were armed. But on this particular occasion, Kelly made an unusual request. He asked his son if he could drive up and help defend the property. His son replied, “Nope. Be careful.” Kelly’s next text: “Careful is not an option. It is either fight or run, and I’m too old to run. Mom is locked and loaded also.”
Seventeen days later, yet another group of illegal migrants trespassed onto Kelly’s ranch. This time it was at least three people, probably more. Kelly told authorities that he was frightened because he had heard gunfire earlier in the day from a larger group of migrants. So, to warn this new group of migrants away, Kelly fired a series of warning shots with his rifle. One of those shots, authorities allege, killed a 48-year-old illegal alien from Mexico. This illegal alien had been arrested and deported several times from the United States, but he was able to keep coming back to this country because the White House decided not to enforce immigration law.
This week, George Alan Kelly rejected a plea deal offered by prosecutors. They wanted him to plead guilty to negligent homicide and serve eight years in prison. But he told them no. So Kelly’s trial for murder will take place in a couple of months.
Whatever you think of George Alan Kelly or his case — and personally I think the man shouldn’t spend one single second in jail for defending his property from invasion — there’s no denying that the Biden administration deliberately created the circumstances that led to the shooting. This is an elderly man with no criminal history, who was trying to protect his wife from criminals the Biden administration repeatedly encouraged to trespass on his property. No one disputes that.
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Unsurprisingly, though, when he delivered a speech in South Carolina yesterday on the topic of systemic injustice in the United States, Joe Biden did not mention George Alan Kelly. In fact, as far as I can tell, Joe Biden has never mentioned Kelly a single time. Instead, Biden devoted his entire speech to what he calls the greatest threat facing this country: something called “white supremacy.” This white supremacy, Biden argued, is a far greater danger to the United States than the wide-open southern border, which allows foreign criminals to terrorize American citizens and invade their property. To that end, Biden spoke extensively about a mass shooting that took place in that church nearly a decade ago, in 2015. Watch:
President Biden condemns white supremacy while speaking at the site of the 2015 racist massacre at a Charleston church:
“White supremacy … it is a poison. Throughout our history, it's ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America — not today, tomorrow, or ever.” pic.twitter.com/XD69bUTIBp
— The Recount (@therecount) January 8, 2024
White supremacy is a poison, Biden says. It’s tearing the fabric of this country apart. And to prove that point — to prove how pervasive and all-encompassing white supremacy is — Biden began talking about a mass shooting that occurred in 2015. There have been a lot of shootings and homicides since then. Well over 100,000 homicides in the nine years since that shooting. A hugely disproportionate number of those victims have been black. But Biden isn’t interested in talking about that, because, of course, a hugely disproportionate number of the people killing those black people are also black. So instead we go back to 2015, to make the point about white supremacy.
Biden is also of course not interested in talking about all the mass shootings that have been committed by trans-identifying mass shooters since 2015. There have been several of those. And Biden certainly isn’t talking about the killer who mowed down five people last year in Texas, including a nine-year-old boy. Yes, the killer had been deported four times before once again entering the U.S. illegally. But that’s not the point, Biden says. He doesn’t want you thinking about the preventable, systemic failures of his administration. Instead, he wants you to focus on the one mass shooting he pretends to care about, so he can demonize men who look like George Alan Kelly.
At this point you have to ask — does anyone actually buy this anymore? It’s not 2020. Most people seem to have come down from the hysteria they experienced after George Floyd’s overdose death. Many people seem to have had some time to come to their senses. So does this still work? If I were to list the top 5,000 problems facing the United States in 2024, white supremacy wouldn’t get close to making the list. Does anyone seriously think otherwise at this point?
You’re not supposed to linger on what Biden said, of course. You’re supposed to get outraged about a church shooting from a decade ago, and conclude that white people are a big problem. Joe Biden’s handlers are going for emotion, not reason. But it’s important to dwell on this for a little bit, just to underscore how totally and completely dishonest Biden’s position is. Even if you use the Left’s data and pretend it’s all accurate, there’s still no conceivable argument that “white supremacy” is a significant threat in this country, or that any of our major problems can be traced back to it.
Consider a report from Left-wing ADL, which is effectively an arm of the Democratic Party, from last year. The report states that: “All the extremist-related murders in 2022 were committed by right-wing extremists.” And of those murders, the ADL reports, 80% were committed by white supremacists.
Well, that sounds pretty bad. Reuters certainly thought so. They wrote up a whole report with this headline: “White supremacists behind over 80% of extremism-related U.S. murders in 2022.” It’s all very scary, until you do what the ADL doesn’t want you to do, which is to look at the data for more than five seconds.
For one thing, in all of 2022, there were a total of just 25 extremist-related murders that the ADL identified. That’s for the entire country of 330 million people. We’re talking about 25 murders here. For comparison, far more people are struck by lightning every year in the United States. Has anyone ever said that lightning strikes are the greatest threat facing Americans? It’s absurd. Here’s maybe a better comparison to put 25 into context. The city of Chicago does 25 murders in two weeks. That’s one city, in the span of a half of a month. But 25 alleged “extremist related murders” in the entire country, in the entire year, is a crisis.
So with that context in mind, let’s look at the ADL’s language. They say that, “60% of the murders came from just two incidents—deadly shooting sprees in Buffalo, New York, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.” So for the most part we’re talking about a grand total of two incidents. And one of those mass shootings — the shooting in Colorado — was committed by a self-described non-binary individual whose lawyer demanded that the court respect his preferred pronouns. This is someone the ADL has coded as a “right-wing domestic extremist.” That’s because the ADL’s methodology has determined that, by definition, if someone commits a mass shooting, they are automatically a right-wing extremist.
That’s the way it works with this kind of data. It’s not designed to withstand any kind of scrutiny. The point is to convince Americans that there’s an epidemic of white nationalists committing mass shootings, and to demonize the political enemies of the Biden administration, in order to lay the groundwork for their imprisonment or worse. That’s why they’re lying about “right-wing extremism.” It’s why they’re going after George Alan Kelly.
It’s also why the Biden campaign just posted this graphic on social media, which explicitly compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler:
This is not a coincidence pic.twitter.com/oaSDcb0yzs
— Biden-Harris HQ (@BidenHQ) December 20, 2023
They list a bunch of Trump quotes and try to link them with Hitler quotes as clumsily as possible. In fact, they aren’t even full quotes. They are vaguely paraphrasing Trump, and Hitler, and then expecting us to be mind-blown by how closely the two align. The funny thing is that they say Trump is like Hitler because Trump has declared that forces within our country are worse and more dangerous than enemies outside of the country. But that’s exactly the sort of thing that the Biden administration says all the time. They are constantly warning that “domestic extremists” are a greater threat than foreign terrorists. That was the point of the speech Biden just gave yesterday. The only difference is that Trump generally identifies powerful people and institutions — like the media — as his enemies. Biden, on the other hand, goes after conservative voters. His bogeyman is “MAGA Republicans,” which means the tens of millions of American citizens who support Trump.
That’s the level of political discourse we’ve achieved in this country. It’s not subtle or intelligent or clever in any way. This is a campaign to dehumanize anyone who would vote against the Biden administration, so that they can be imprisoned or worse. And it’s been going on for quite some time.
This week, The Washington Free Beacon reported that the Biden administration has once again begun distributing federal funds on the basis of race. You might remember that, all the way back in the beginning of the Biden administration, they tried to allocate farm aid based on the skin color of the farmers. The administration was going to make loan forgiveness payments to so-called “minority farmers,” to the tune of $4 billion. A federal judge had to put a stop to that. But now they’re doing essentially the same thing again.
According to the Free Beacon, there are hundreds of millions of dollars allocated in two pieces of federal legislation —the Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The point of legislation, Biden said, was to “create new well-paying jobs” for workers who “helped build this country.” The idea is to provide financial support to industries that are going to be phased out as the Biden administration plunges headlong into its suicidal plan to shut down the nation’s coal industry by 2035. But if you read the fine print, as the Free Beacon did, you’ll find that White House bureaucrats have been insisting that only “majority minority” areas receive federal funding under this legislation. And they’ve rigged various bureaucratic rules to make that a reality. Majority white areas — like Gillette, Wyoming — are getting shut out of these grants entirely, even though they’re mining towns that would qualify for the money in every other respect. Too bad, they have the wrong skin color up in Gillette, so no money for them.
Again, this is part of an easily observable pattern. Everywhere you look, the administration is doing what it can to demonize and humiliate Americans because of their race.
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As just one more part of that effort, Joe Biden’s National Park Service recently proposed removing the William Penn statue from a park in Philadelphia. William Penn is the founder of the state of Pennsylvania, and Biden wanted his memorial gone, because he’s white. This comes just a few weeks after the Biden administration ordered a century-old memorial to postwar reconciliation to be torn down in Arlington National Cemetery. In the case of the Penn statue, they wanted to replace it with something honoring Native Americans. Why? Because William Penn did great things. He founded the colony that became Pennsylvania. He was imprisoned in the Tower of London, without hesitation, for his faith, multiple times. He believed in religious freedom. And of course, he was white. Those were his sins, so they tried to take him down, just like the statues of Columbus and Teddy Roosevelt.
But late yesterday, in a development we haven’t seen in many similar cases, the Biden administration suddenly backed off. People noticed how deranged this plan was, and they spoke up about it. And within just a few hours, the White House caved. The Penn statue can stay for now, they conceded. All it took was some social media backlash and complaints from a few politicians, and they folded. But the important fact is that they tried to do it in the first place.
They may have backed away from their demolition plans for the William Penn statue, but they are not backing away from the underlying agenda. As we head closer to the election, you can expect to hear a lot more demonizing of white people, and many more warnings about the phantom dangers of white supremacy. Warnings that should be greeted with the same shrugs and eye rolls and confused head scratches that Biden would get if he said the greatest threat facing our country is a big evil dragon, who lives in a lair up in the mountains somewhere. He might as well be saying that.
After all, we have to worry about white supremacy in this country about as much as we have to worry about evil dragons. But this is all that the Powers That Be have. It’s what they rely on. They need you scared, and angry, and resentful, and confused. That’s the only way they win.