White Supremacist Wants to Take the Bench in LA
by Latoya Peterson
Readers in LA – tomorrow, on June 3, you will have the opportunity to elect a L.A. Superior Court Judge – who wants to see you or your friends deported, even if you are an American citizen.
Reader Ike M. pointed us toward this Angry Asian Man post, which reads:
In the race for Los Angeles Superior Court judge, if you’re not careful, you could be voting for a bona fide racist—a racial separatist who once called for restricting U.S. citizenship to persons “of the European race” and deporting blacks, Asians, Latinos and others who don’t meet his racial criteria. The candidate is Bill Johnson: Stealth election.
Under the name James O. Pace, he wrote the racial exclusion as a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution and a 1985 book supporting it. That’s racist! But wait, there’s more. Under the name Daniel Johnson, he ran a losing race for Congress in Wyoming in 1989 with a Ku Klux Klan organizer as his campaign manager. As William Johnson, he ran losing race for Congress in Arizona in 2006.
And here is what Bill Johnson actually penned in 1990 (as taken from the Metropolitan News Enterprise site):
Johnson, using the pseudonym James O. Pace, published a book in 1985 called “Amendment to the Constitution,” proposing a federal constitutional amendment that would repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments.
The portion of the 14th Amendment that conflicts with Johnson’s plan is the first sentence: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” The two-sentence 15th Amendment provides, chiefly: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
The “Pace Amendment” would add this verbiage:
“No person shall be a citizen of the United States unless he is a non-Hispanic white of the European race, in whom there is no ascertainable trace of Negro blood, nor more than one-eighth Mongolian, Asian, Asia Minor, Middle Eastern, Semitic, Near Eastern, American Indian, Malay or other non-European or non-white blood, provided that Hispanic whites, defined as anyone with an Hispanic ancestor, may be citizens if, in addition to meeting the aforesaid ascertainable trace and percentage tests, they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Only citizens shall have the right and privilege to reside permanently in the United States.”
As Johnson’s plan is summarized by James A. Aho in his 1990 book “The Politics of Righteousness”:
Only bonafide, certified citizens will be permitted permanent residency in the United States. All others shall be compulsorily deported “in a manner economically beneficial to them” to their native lands. Although this will involve tens of millions of American residents, and is to be accomplished in a single year, Pace assures us that deportation will be “fair” and “minimally painless.” Money now “waste” on federal welfare and public education programs can be budgeted for moving allowances and the leasing of mass transportation facilities.
Those who so wish may keep title to their property in absentia, at least temporarily. But failure to comply with repatriation will automatically result in its confiscation. Further enforcement procedures are not specified. On the whole, the author is optimistic that if the carrot of allowances is beguiling enough, bloodshed should be minimal. To this end, precautions will be undertaken to ensure that “the enforcers do not become over-zealous in their duties.”
American Indians, Aleuts, and Hawaiians, although not real citizens, will not face relocation, but will be maintained in “tribal reservations” analogous to the arrangement in South Africa. Those whose age precludes easy relocation and others who can demonstrate extraordinary hardship may apply for provisional privileges to maintain their present domicile. But since such conditions are always subject to abuse, these should be observed only in the “most extreme” cases.
Call your friends in LA.
If you are in LA, vote against the guy pictured at the top of this post.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Celeste wrote:
Okay…someone please exaplin this to me. Why do white supremacists think that this continent is rightfully theirs more so than any of the other non-indigienous peoples who live here? Is there some verse in the bible they’ve twisted to support their cause? What is the rational for deporting native americans? Do they belong on another continent more than they belong here?
Also, it seems that he is especially hating on blacks. Everybody else gets to have a fraction but we get a qualitative “Negro, yes or no” test? That’s just extra, extra racist.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:33 pm ¶
thesciencegirl wrote:
Celeste, “extra, extra racist.” That made me laugh.
As for what these guys think, I couldn’t tell you. They seem to employ revisionist history and a hefty dose of fantasy. I made the mistake of following a link to StormFront after reading about them harassing TheAngryBlackWoman, and I was appalled by what I read there. They basically have the same belief: that the U.S. belongs to European-Americans and the rest of us should go back to where we came from. They don’t really have a convincing solution to the Native American issue.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 12:59 pm ¶
miss girl wrote:
His constant name changes are creepy.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 1:10 pm ¶
Persia wrote:
I believe the ‘fact’ that Native Americans were crushed by the Enlightened White/European Settlers is construed as Divine Proof that ‘America’ belongs to the Europeans.
I think my favorite part was
they are in appearance indistinguishable from Americans whose ancestral home is in the British Isles or Northwestern Europe
Because it’s so easy to tell someone’s race just by looking at them! And if they look white, they’re all right, right?
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 2:36 pm ¶
london wrote:
the fact that he can use a pseudonym to get elected is really effed up… don’t you need to give your ‘government name’ as per the one on your birth certificate? if not – that should be THE next law passed…
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 2:37 pm ¶
Tony wrote:
I crack up at the “back to their native lands” bit.
I’m part African (which part of Africa? Hell if I know) part Scottish, Irish and French.
So which “Homeland” do I get sent too? Do I get to pick one?
That brings me to another point, why is it so many of these white supremacists who love their British Isles seem to know NOTHING of the ancestral culture?
They’re still mostly worshipping the Jewish God.
Even most of the white racists go for “Thor and Odin”.
How about the Fianna, or Cuchulainn?
I could probably name more British Isles true religious lore than this jackass.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 2:38 pm ¶
NancyP wrote:
Aho is the real article – if he says something, it’s properly investigated and sourced.
If they aren’t Christian Identity or other microcult of Christianity, the extreme white supremacists are Odinist. Celtic gods are too girly for them (not true, how about Cernunos, god of f*cking, now there’s a popular god).
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 5:41 pm ¶
jsb16 wrote:
… Because that arrangement in South Africa worked out so well, and everything you need to know about someone you can tell by looking at them, and only brown, nonEuropean types collect welfare. Nevermind those FLDS folks and the welfare money they collect for the children they force their children to bear…
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 6:11 pm ¶
atlasien wrote:
A fair number of white supremacists think that white people actually colonized America first. Then the evil Native Americans invaded and killed the first white settlers. Google “Kennewick Man”. It’s an interesting case, and also ties into the weird, tentative claiming of the Ainu people of Japan as white (they’re not). White supremacists fetishize indigenous authenticity and are desperate to appropriate it.
Posted 02 Jun 2008 at 8:18 pm ¶
Chris wrote:
Wait… what? Weren’t the Irish and Italians considered non-whites before the second wave of immigration?
Well… I guess once all us brown-skinned people are ejected and there are still people on welfare, those with Irish and Italian descent will be the next to be kicked out.
I’m guessing he won’t be happy unless all men who aren’t white, wear glasses, have grey locks and receding hairlines and wear red ties are ejected from his God-given land.
Just remember that the rule of most white supremacists is that your right to live in the United States is inversely proportional to the amount of melanin in your skin.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 7:30 am ¶
DiosaNegra1967 wrote:
Manifest destiny, anyone?
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 8:43 am ¶
Tony wrote:
Chris.
“the rule of most white supremacists is that your right to live in the United States is inversely proportional to the amount of melanin in your skin.”
That cracked me up.
If that were true then white racists would love my mixed self.
I’ve seen white dudes with tans who have darker skintone than me.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 10:17 am ¶
whatever15 wrote:
I’ve read somewhere that he’s half Japanese???
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 10:30 am ¶
Kaonashi wrote:
Diosa:
Are you referring to the “Manifest Destiny” in the Simon R. Green book?
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 12:48 pm ¶
Crogirl wrote:
@ Tony – Well, being that you’re an American citizen and not a citizen of those countries, I guess it’d be a lottery to see who would take you back. Like an auction, you’d go to the highest bidder! LOL! Unless, he plans on taking over some island somewhere (a la Australia) to send all the misfit toys to that don’t have a home. Then they can revolt and start their own country!
And those whites who have darker skin than you would be sitting next to you on the ship according to this dude, for they do not resemble people from the British Isles or Northwestern Europe. Just save me a seat because I’d be on that party boat too being that I’m from Eastern Europe and have darker, Mediterranean skin!
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 3:57 pm ¶
Nicole wrote:
Quote: “American Indians, Aleuts, and Hawaiians, although not real citizens, will not face relocation, but will be maintained in “tribal reservations” analogous to the arrangement in South Africa.”
Oh, thank you Mr. Johnson for not deporting my kanaka maoli ass and instead putting me on a reservation on land that you unjustly stole. WTF?! This is just insane! His views are really archaic and have no place in today’s society and it’s really scary that he’s running for a position that could give him some sort of governmental power that he obviously does NOT need to have.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 4:33 pm ¶
Safiya Outlines wrote:
The thing that troubles me is he looks so normal.
Like if you met him, you wouldn’t know he was a hideous racist until the subject came up and then you’d have to run away while trying not to puke on your shoes.
Posted 03 Jun 2008 at 6:58 pm ¶
InJM wrote:
> Safiya
He looks like a junior/high school teacher. But who said you could judge a book by it’s cover. I don’t live in LA but I hope those who do know who this guy is and what he believes in.
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 1:19 am ¶
Tony wrote:
@ Crogirl: Thanks for that post, I did LOL.
@ Safiya: That’s the annoying thing, most racists don’t look like the redneck stereotype wearing the confederate flag all the time.
It’s mostly made up of relatively normal looking people.
They can very easily be ’stealth racists’.
Hiding their bile until they think they’re in a place where it will be safe to unleash it.
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 10:32 am ¶
chrissy wrote:
He lost, by the way.
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 3:31 pm ¶
S&S wrote:
Thank God!
Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 2:08 pm ¶
Celeste wrote:
Yay!
Posted 05 Jun 2008 at 2:19 pm ¶
Whitney wrote:
“a racial separatist who once called for restricting U.S. citizenship to persons “of the European race” and deporting blacks, Asians, Latinos and others who don’t meet his racial criteria.”
WTF?????
I don’t even have another response other than WTF. Like, is that man heavily using hallucinogenic drugs or something?
Thank God he lost, but I expected him to. Hell would have to freeze over before he would get elected.
Posted 13 Jun 2008 at 2:15 am ¶
Chanita wrote:
I always find it so strange that Europeans liked to colonize left and right, but “foreigners” coming to live in America is somehow wrong. Give me a break.
Posted 27 Jul 2008 at 11:12 pm ¶