Ojai Searches For Gang Solutions
Police, other panelists reach out to stop violence
By Linda Harmon
Members of the Ojai Valley community who came together last Thursday night for the final Heal the Community meeting were treated to a positive and constructive evening.
The two-hour event highlighted speakers offering positive perspectives and recommendations for continuing to bring the valley together.
“We have to start teaching tolerance,” said Sgt. Joe Evans, Ventura County deputy sheriff, to a loud ovation from the crowd numbering more than 100. “I’ve raised two kids here myself. These kids grew up playing sports together … The divisions are coming from the adults and whether you want to believe it or not you ought to at least think about it. Whatever the solution is going to be, it’s not going to be a police solution, we all have to be on the same page.”
That sentiment was echoed throughout the evening, along with suggestions for better supervision from the community as a whole, rededication to the nonprofit groups already serving youth, and the creation of new mentoring opportunities.
“I hope you leave informed and inspired to volunteer or become active in your neighborhood,” said Dusty Fernandez, a member of Heal the Community, who along with fellow members Cindy Sauceda, Bill Welch and Greg Webster organized the meetings. They plan a future fund-raising event in November for a mentoring program. “Together we can do this. Once you take the first step it gets easier,” said Fernandez.
The audience was addressed by a five-member panel composed of Ventura County Sheriff Capt. Chris Dunn, Evans, Jason Griffith of Segue Career Path Mentors, Barbara Kennedy of the Oak View Park and Resource Center, and Jim Lane, a retired Port Hueneme teacher and mentor. The discussion was moderated by Judy Bysshe, a former teacher and school administrator involved in many area nonprofit organizations.
“In every community this department serves there is gang activity,” said Dunn, in his opening remarks on community safety concerns. “But that doesn’t mean we have to accept it.”
Dunn stated flatly that the department has a “zero tolerance” for gang activity and is closely monitoring all known gang members.
“There was a lot of emotion at the last meeting,” said Dunn. “People yelling out from the audience about ‘running them out of town,’ saying, ‘Why can’t you do more?’ ‘They’re illegals’ — I’d like to remind people that we have to operate within the guidelines set forth in the U.S. and California constitutions. We cannot operate like the Gestapo and run people out of town, nor would we.”
Dunn also explained the definition of a gang.
“The penal code is very specific,” said Dunn. “It is considered to be a gang if three or more individuals acting in consort commit a crime for the betterment of a group.”
Dunn added that during their investigation of the recent Meiners Oaks murder and follow-up investigations of all known valley gang members “only one was an illegal and he was deported.”
Dunn reminded listeners that officers work day in and day out on security issues and their actions may not be noticeable due to their “covert nature.”
The statistics Dunn gave, in fact, point to fewer gang crimes and a higher percentage of arrests.
“In 2007 there were 77 confirmed gang crimes and only 16 arrests,” said Dunn. “In 2008 there were 91 cases and 18 arrests, and for the first five months of 2009 there were only 16 confirmed cases and seven arrests.”
Dunn also told the audience that he has only 40 personnel to cover an area bounded roughly “by the intersection of Shell Road and Highway 33 on the northeast, up 33 past Rose Valley, up 150 northwest to the Santa Barbara County line.”
According to Dunn, with the current budget crisis threatening funding the numbers could change “and not for the better.”
“Gangs are not isolated in one section of the community,” said Dunn. “We have several gangs, in every race and social status in this community.”
Evans, in charge of the City Watch program, agreed, urging citizens to become involved in their community.
“If you see something stand up and say something,” said Evans, who reminded parents that they need to play their part in our community.
Evans then explained his City Watch program, a volunteer-based community alert program overseen by police, and said the program has already proven to reduce several types of crime.
“City Watch is an e-mail-based program begun six to nine months ago with 10 to 15 people,” said Evans. “It has grown to over 8,000 online and has been very successful in the Monte Via housing tract area in reducing vehicle burglaries.”
Evans also said City Watch’s efficient system for citizens to make reports helped reduce speeding on Park Road, and can assist in rumor control in emergency situations.
“Just give us a call at 646-1414,” urged Evans.
Next up was Kennedy who listed all the organizations in the valley, including her own Oak View Park and Resource Center, which already offer services and could use volunteers to increase their level of service to youth. The Oak View Teen Center at 640-9555, the Oak View extension of The Boys and Girls Club of Ventura at 640-9000, Oak View Library at 649-1523, Smart Start Day Care at 649-4333, the Nan Tolbert Nurturing Center at 646-7559, the Art Studio at 649-1605, and the Friends of Oak View Park and Resource Center at 649-9720, all offer services and need volunteers.
“We are doing a lot of things to help youth, but we need you to help also,” said Kennedy. “We need to know what else we can do for you.”
The audience was visibly moved by speakers throughout the evening, especially by the last two.
Lane, who taught for 35 years and also coached youth sports, took the microphone to tell his story of a successful mentoring program he used.
“Teachers may choose to be mentors,” said Lane introducing his topic.
Lane spoke about his “one to one for one” technique, taking one minute a day to talk to one underachieving student on a one-on-one basis. The mentor process involves drawing out the students’ interests and relating to them as a person that matters and not just as a teacher.
In Lane’s words, “letting them know your door is always open.”
He told a story about his own mentor, a social science lecturer and single woman who had successfully raised 13 adopted children.
“She showed me techniques to use when I go to the back of the class, where the guys are just sitting and not working,” said Lane.
Lane said because of his mentor and the methods she gave him he started coming to work early, turning on the light, leaving his door open, playing some current hits, and greeting students with a handshake.
When Lane tested the one-to-one method, it only took him two weeks to reach one of his challenging students. He learned that the freshman student loved football, so he introduced him to the coach and paid for the student’s physical because his parents couldn’t afford it.
“I ran into that coach a few weeks later and asked how he was doing,” said Lane. “The coach said, ‘He loves it. He’s going to end up starting for me.’ And guess what, the next few days the homework assignments started coming in.”
Lane said besides benefitting his relationships with his students, it also helped the relationships between students; the more advanced students were inspired to get involved themselves and help their fellow classmates.
Lane said his goal that evening was to set a date to speak with Nordhoff teachers before school started.
“Mr. Lane, you have a date, Aug. 24,” said Jim Berube, interim superintendent of Ojai Unified, as he rose from the audience.
Berube was also impressed with the Segue Career Path Mentor Program introduced by Griffith, the last panelist who spoke. Griffith’s program is geared to “exposing students to successful adults in accessible careers.”
“Our career guidance program is about helping students craft a vision for themselves,” said Griffith, a Ventura High School coach. “So when they come to a fork in the road and are faced with some of life’s challenging decisions they know what direction they want to take.”
Griffith says that besides helping decrease the dropout rate and exposing at-risk youth to different career paths, the program also can help dispel some of the mystery for the already-college-bound students about what they want to do with their education.
“It is simple to implement,” said Griffith, “and takes very little time and energy of the administration and can give students an idea of all the possibilities out there.”
Griffith then handed out a short form for those interested in volunteering for the program, bringing their career experience into area classrooms.
“It takes only about two hours on campus to reach over a hundred students,” said Griffith. “Your 15-minute commitment in three classes can have profound positive consequences. Segue is an opportunity for you to find out where you can help strengthen your community.”
Berube was so impressed he committed to “working closely with the group.”
The evening was rounded out by short one-sentence descriptions of nine other nonprofit groups represented in the audience. One of those speakers was the mother of a friend of Seth Scarminach, urging all residents to take part in international Peace Day by attending a intergenerational, interfaith demonstration of peace at 1 p.m. Sept. 19 in Libbey Park.
Maybe God’s plan is to let swine flu clean up the gang families. Time will tell!
What a stupid question, thats like someone on the other side asking why did so many , religious hypocritical, child molesting , philanderers, racists , homophobes/ closet gaylords, corrupt polititions and greedy oil magnates support Bush?
Its like you hate Obama, so what? Do you think by asking whacky, baseless questions you are going to bring more into your fold of right wingers? No one who considers themselves right in the middle is going to be swayed by people yelling “you lie” and making stupid statements but carry on and continue to make a fool of yourself all it does is make most of us sure we don’t want to align ourselves with you and the likes of Rush and Glenn.
Why do so many gang members, drug addicts, felons, illegals, communists and sex offenders support Obama?
Obama is great. Everything he is doing is right on. The only ones who dont like him are the people who didn’t vote for him in the first place.
Clinton was a puppet also.
All “candidates” well pre selected presidents are puppets.
Only to give you the illusion that you have a choice.
Obama would have still won, even if none of you Obama zombies voted for him, kind of like FL. and bush II.
All of the czars and lobbyists, bailouts, more war, more domestic spying, more unemployment I guess he is right on track with the nwo’s agenda.
Also this is not sour grapes, my candidate is a Freemason just like all the other candidates are.
All the candidates are on the same side, and its not our side its what they (big gov.) want.
I am not anti-Obama I am anti-nwo/one world government.
I ask you to listen to today’s music, to watch today’s programing and compare it to ten years ago,
its all about giving up hope, sovereignty, individual rights and buying into this group think/its for the greater good crap.
Cat: if that is true then why is berry’s approval rating so early in his term the lowest in American history?
Clinton was so low key (no wars) because he was supplying our enemies with weapons that is why no major conflicts came up in his term.
the bottom line is he sold you on hope and promised you change, and in the history of our country no president has ever won on such vague and undefined terms of how he hopes to better our quality of life and our country.
now its all sacrifice and getting us used to much less than we have ever had in the past.
Obama telling our children (you know the burdens) to write him a letter offering ways they can help him when it is supposed to be the other way around our children should write Obama but it should be : Obama why did you sell us to china?
Obama why is there toxic waste (fluoride) in my water?
Obama why did you give my future to the bankers?
— Source on approval ratings below — http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Overall, 48% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President’s performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.
So there it is 51% of Americans are racists right obamanoids?
Obama is great. He is the best President we have had since Clinton. Sorry your candidate lost. Poor loser.
Obama is a lazy failure. No surprise there. Since when does a “president” wake up at 8.30am? Welcome to obamaville.
Obama is leading us down the new world orders path.
Private bankers run this country by proxy.
This president is a puppet as was the last and the one before that and so on.
Left/right paradigm is all bs and it keeps us distracted from the real events and issues.
Democracy is not freedom it is 51% controlling the other 49% while telling the 49% its all in you’re head.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I personally want Obama and more importantly our country to be restored back to the constitution and
to thrive not fail.
If Obama wants to help our youth why did he bail out the banks and not the schools?
The youth being the future of this country and all.
On 9 11 01 who was talking to the youth, bush?
I wonder what will happen this time?
Sleepless is certifiably nuts.
Sleepless is certifiable!
Schools are keeping lists of parents who “opt out” from the speech and providing their names to the Obama Education Board. This is crazy. Keep your kids home!
THIS IS COMMUNISM. KEEP YOUR KIDS HOME ON TUESDAY!
THE FOLLOWING IS FROM THE WASHINGTON POST:
President Obama’s plan to inspire the nation’s schoolchildren with a video address next week erupted into controversy Wednesday, forcing the White House to pull out its eraser and rewrite a government recommendation that teachers nationwide assign students a paper on how to “help the president.”
Presidential aides acknowledged the White House helped the U.S. Education Department craft the proposal, which immediately was met by fierce criticism from Republicans and conservative organizations who accused Mr. Obama of trying to politicize the education system.
White House aides said the language was an honest misunderstanding in what was supposed to be a inspirational, pro-education message to America’s youths.
Among the activities the government initially suggested for prekindergarten to sixth-grade students: that they “write letters to themselves about what they can do to help the president.” Another task recommended for students immediately after listening to the speech: to engage in a discussion about what “the president wants us to do.”
I can’t believe that any teacher would prevent children from hearing the President of the United States who is only promoting school attendance! How scared some people must be! OUSD has better people than that teaching our children
Send your kids to school and quit worrying about Obama. This is just more theatrics brought to you by Fox news and the right wing crazy tribal guy.
NO GANG INDOCTRINATION FOR GOOD OJAI KIDS!!!!
10,000 sick days on Tuesday!!!
If the OUSD chooses to broadcast Obama’s indoctrination speech, then keep your kids out of school. The OUSD will lose MILLIONS.
DO NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL ON TUESDAY!!!!
How will hispanic and black students treat white kids who choose not to watch this commie crap? It’s not right. White people are being marginalized.
Obama’s going to make white kids feel like they owe something to everyone else, and give them a guilt complex. If you care about your kids, boycott this crap.
Parent,
Blaming the outrage on “blatant racism” is disingenuous and intellectually dishonest. That is a childish tactic to avoid actually discussing the issue – a red button you can press at will to escape an argument because no-one wants to be accused of being a racist.
The outrage here is not that Pres Obama wants to speak to our children, but rather that he is (1) doing it during school time when parents are not present, and (2) that his Dept of Education distributed a list of activities for pupils to write about how they can help the President. As of now, no-one knows the content of his speech.
Basically, the only ones who are knocking Obama are the ones who desparately wanted their other candidate to win the election. They are in the minority so they are as vocal and obnoxious as they can get. If you think about it, after Bush was P. for second term, there was a lot of up in arms for things he did too. I wish people would just get on with their lives already, you aren’t going to overthrow Obama looking for his birth certificate or by falsely calling him a socialist or doing a ‘join whitey’ blog against blacks and hispanics. All that does is alienate people and make you look like an extremist.
Why was there no hue and cry from these people when Bush was in classrooms speaking to and reading to students?? Not even when he continued reading as our country was being attacked? How is it that he gets a free pass on that, but Obama is “indoctrinating” our children? I agree with “Parent”. This is blatant racism and fear-mongering. If this is the best the neocons can do, then is time for them to yield the floor to those who actually care about the lives of the people in this country.
Why would any sane parent deprive their child from hearing the President of the United States speak about the importance of staying in school? There are presidents whom I did not vote for, but if they were speaking to students I would want my children to listen. This is blatant racism and these misguided parents are following the lead of Fox TV “personalities” who are scared to death about having a Black president and scared to death that the Republican Party is crumbling.
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Why are so many kids playing soccer? It’s a game for girls.
Obama now wants to teach all public school kids that gangs are comprised of misunderstood kids. DON’T SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL ON SEPTEMBER 8TH. OBAMA IS BRAINWASHING OUR KIDS.
Oh … I forgot to address the last line of your most recent comment above …
” I don’t know who you are roping in with your tribal schtick but I wouldn’t be surprised if you broke into multiple personalities, you’re that crazy.”
That’s the good ole “If you have an idea I am incapable of understanding or don’t like, you must be mentally ill” schtik.
That “schtik” was used by the Bolshies in the “Soviet Union” to get political opponents out of the way: they were confined to mental hospitals for “disagreeing” with TPTB.
That “schtik” was used by the “US Government” to jail Ezra Pound by confining to a mental institution for saying things TPTB says people should not be allowed to say. Pound, arguably the finest literary mind of the 20th C. gave a series of radio speeches from Rapallo and Rome, during the “2nd WW”. He was addressing American and British soldiers. You can find those speeches here:
http://www.yamaguchy.netfirms.com/7897401/pound_ezra/radioPound.html
I suggest you add Pound’s speeches to the other links I gave you above. I also suggest you listen to Dr. Matthew R. Johnson’s radio shows … he’s the guy that wrote those two linked essays on what a “country” / “nation” / “state” actually mean. You can find and download those shows here:
http://reasonradionetwork.com/?cat=50
I suggest these to you if you’re interested in learning, and not just throwing around slurs and innuendo. I hope the former is the case. One thing I will guarantee: you will be amazed by the quality of thinking these people display.
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All 805, all ojai residents.
http://boards.brownpride.com/showthread.php/list-storescali-46430.html?s=ed9c0cb343f8f21e8f6d73bc4496631c&
Look http://www.myspace.com/shadowosl13
Okay – let’s face it, a spammer has found this blog
Well, well, well …. now we see that “a person” wasn’t really asking questions in his prior posts at all … he wasn’t open to new understandings at all, and is firmly ensconced in the Liberal Modern Propaganda Sphere and intends to ride it come hell or high water … over the cliff with the rest of the lemming herd.
Sorry to hear that “person” … at first I thought I had a real live intellectually honest commenter “on the line” … one who would like to unpack conventional terms and memes and find out what is really inside those tasty-feeling MSM and Public School generated packages of inability to look reality right in the eye and admit that it’s very different than what “they” tell you.
“… undo all the progress we have done toward good race relations in the US” … Don’t make me laugh, “person”. Go down to certain parts of Lost Angeles where the brethren of OSL in Mojado Oaks are ethnically cleansing their neighborhoods of black people, and anyone else who isn’t a “homie”. Yeah, look at that and tell me again about how much “progress” we’ve made! Hey … I don’t believe in “progress” leading over the cliff with lemmings who think a good place to “progress” to is where Whites have to pay the price of making EVERY OTHER tribe feel “at home” in our spaces, while they’re in the process of colonizing and occupying those spaces with the eventual intention of taking them over. If you cannot see that this is the direction things are going, you’re blinder than most.
“… you are only interested in gathering around white people with weak impressionable minds” “Person”, now you’re really cracking me up! Are you a pro-comedian? I have extensive experience with non-White peoples, have lived as a guest in their countries and enjoyed it, and also speak a major Asian language fluently. And I intend to continue enjoying and learning from non-Whites when and where that is possible. Odds are high that I have more experience with non-Whites in their own countries that most of the bliss-ninnies taking a stand against White people standing up for their own interests in their own lands. I try not to mess around with people with weak impressionable minds, much preferring to engage with people of high intelligence and extensive real-world experience. You think you’re “naming” me with your slurs and stigmatizing stereotypes, but in the eyes of those capable of actually THINKING about these topics, you’re telling us way more about yourself than about me.
Wow! “Person” says, ” … we are also free to ignore your backwards view of the World from inside your demented skull.” and thinks he’s being an “intellectual”! Of course you are “free” to ignore anything you wish to ignore. If that is your wish, why did you ask me the questions you asked a few posts ago? Why not just ignore me and not waste my time? Your use of moralistic terms like “backward” and “demented” don’t cast your reasoning abilities in a very good light. Kinda sophomoric, don’t you think? This kind of “argument” has all the sophistication of calling someone a “doo-doo head”. Yeah, you’re lookin’ like a real “winner” … can’t drum up a better argument than the ad hominem kind.
“… I won’t be visiting this blog as long as you continue with your hate.” Ha ha ha. Translated, this means, “You’re making me think, and that’s not “fair” … I’m running home to Mommy Professor and not playing with you until you stop.” You’re getting funnier by the minute “person”! Who needs Comedy Central!
Well “person” … I guess we could continue a serious discussion of these matters if you were willing to act like an adult. Let me know if and when you’re ready to discuss things at that level.
@ /// — the post you made above has some links people should see. La Raza is definitely “in the game” to “take back” SoCal … part of what they call “Aztlan”. As you probably know, there are literally THOUSANDS of examples such as the ones you gave. Only a fool (not you!) would think that “we” have made “progress in race-relations”.
Like I said above: folks who claim to be “anti-racist” are just posing in a moral self-congratulation costume — what they are is Anti-White.
One man will undo all the progress done so far???
Throw down that race card guys quick.
a person: cool trick try to cram nick into a stereo-type like that he said nothing about this being an”all white blog”.
If you guys are true anti-racists and not just anti-white than maybe you should look at these links.
All 805, all ojai residents.
http://boards.brownpride.com/showthread.php/list-storescali-46430.html?s=ed9c0cb343f8f21e8f6d73bc4496631c&
http://www.nclr.org/
Or this one, the way it reads it sounds like a bad movie script.
This happy citizen said:
“SNIPES: BEHIND ENEMY LINES
osl loves thier kids so much they are training them to fallow in thier foot steps.
Look http://www.myspace.com/shadowosl13
“I’ll be looking for OVN threads where appropriate comments can be inserted and those comments will take the position of whats good for members of the White Tribe.” White Tribe Activist. Tribe , you seem to be on a dangerous path that is nothing more than attempting to undo all the progress we have done toward good race relations in the US. This isn’t a ‘whites only blog’ even though your post makes it very clear you are only interested in gathering around white people with weak impressionable minds. I believe in free speach but like smell the racist explains above, we are also free to ignore your backwards view of the World from inside your demented skull. As poster 2 Sept. 8:37 am explains I won’t be visiting this blog as long as you continue with your hate either. I don’t know who you are roping in with your tribal schtick but I wouldn’t be surprised if you broke into multiple personalities, you’re that crazy.
smell the racist:
I don’t see evidence for hate. What I do see is you, being with tunnel vision focused on the subject “racist”.
A classic racist said to me the other day, we are blessed in Ojai with a reasonable large group of cheap labor Mexicans … smiled and drove away in his brand new, luxurious European car.
You can change your name, but it still stinks. I won’t be visiting this blog as long as the cross-burning racist in the white robe and the mask he hides behind is allowed to spread his hate here.
@ “a person” —
I couldn’t wait for your green light … sorry.
You opened your last note with, “Smelly, what makes you think this is a “White” Country?”
Leaving aside the “Smelly” part (LOL), let’s “unpack” your first sentence by asking another question that begs to be asked …
“A person”, what makes you think “This” is a “Country”???
Now, let’s open the two little sub-packages a bit and see what’s inside.
First — “This”: What do you mean by “this”? “America”, the “United States”, “California”, etc. etc. And what “reality” does your choice of the above have? Is “this” a “real thing”? Or is it a mental construct, a thought category, a belief system, or (fill in the blank)?
Words mean things (or not!), and accurate discourse can only move on a solid foundation of meaning (or lack thereof!).
Second — “Country”. No space here to really unpack this one, but I’ll point you to a few places where some smart guys do a good job of unwrapping that little bundle of ambiguity. Ready?
“Nation and State: a study in the manipulation of language” is here: http://www.rusjournal.com/nationalism1.html
“Anarchy, the Ethnos, and the State” is here: http://www.rusjournal.com/state.html
Also read Carl Schmitt’s works on “The Concept of the Political” and some of his other works in English. Not on the net to my knowledge.
In addition to those two sites I linked in a former post, you might browse the writings of Dr. Tom Sunic and Dr. Kevin MacDonald and others over at the Occidental Observer, which is here: http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/
Once you’ve digested that stuff then we can move in the direction of understanding what is meant by “This”, “Country”, and more pointedly … a “White Country”.
Why paraphrase what others have said more eloquently than I can!
Once we’ve dealt with the above, then we can move on to the rest of your questions. Maybe we can even get “colorful”!
See ya’ll later
@ “a person” —
Thanks for the rejoinder, although when you posted it I was still “Smelly” in your mind, and you hadn’t read my more recent post announcing my name change in this space. Details aside … would you like an answer to the questions you asked in your post???
I sense some grittiness in your questions, like you’re trying to put my in one of the mental pigeon-holes you use to sort out the world, the thought-categories you use to make sense of reality. Of course you are! We all do that in one way or another. But I sense that by “naming” me or alluding to possible names, you’re wanting to “close the door” on “what I am” or represent, and not have to think about it too much. To sense you in that manner would be an act of “pigeon-holing” on MY PART wouldn’t it? Yeah, it would …
And that’s why I’m going to say that I ALSO sense an open-ness in your comment … an open-ness to seeing what might be next coming out of the former “Smelly’s” mouth! LOL! Am I right? Well if I am, then I applaud you.
But I won’t “take on” your comments unless that’s what you really want. And I don’t mean “take on” in a negative way: my goal here isn’t to “win” little scuffles rhetorically or otherwise. No, I’d just like to see some intelligent discourse on topics that have been made taboo, topics which shouldn’t be taboo and should be discussed for the benefit of ALL PEOPLE, including, but not limited to, Whites
I sense that, under the invective (politely and honorably done, except for the “Smelly” thing), you really DO want to find out more about what’s happening (even if ya don’t know what that is, Mr. Jones …). Is that true?
Let me know if you’d like to dig in a bit deeper. I’m game.
Re: “Talking more about this …”
If you are seriously interested in learning more about this subject, start by bookmarking and reading the following blogs regularly.
1. http://www.wvwnews.net/
2. http://www.toqonline.com/
There are more, of course, but the two above will get you started. No, they’re not “hate sites” … they’re sites which present news items and thoughtful essays on culture from a White perspective.
Hope you enjoy them!
Hi again, ya’ll …
I’ve got a new name. I used to use “Smell the Neurosis”, but am abandoning it because it’s a bit too sharp and negative. Yeah, sometimes I feel that way about what’s happening to my Tribe and the world in general. But that name sometimes gives the wrong impression, and is also distracting because it’s so easy to make puns with. I love puns, but that’s not why I’m here. So … now it’s White Tribe Activist.
@ Luv-Guns … I think everyone should be prepared to defend themselves, by whatever means necessary. But only legally, and always defensively. I would prefer that the “problem” can be solved by a change of consciousness which would preclude the need to resort to any violent means. Hope you feel that way too.
I’ll be looking for OVN threads where appropriate comments can be inserted, and those comments will take the position of what’s good for members of the White Tribe. Many if not most of the readers of this blog are members, but may not be aware that they are … yes, we Whites are Tribal too … and we have interests.
For way too long we’ve been treated like the “bland wallpaper” which is the background for the “vibrant and colorful diversity” of MSM depictions of other tribes in our homelands both here in the US and in Europe and elsewhere.
We are NOT just the background for others! We have an insanely rich and beautiful culture and history. Our sub-tribes and languages are the most diverse on earth. We do amazing things … and if we are so “bad” and “hateful” … why is everyone trying to come into our spaces and live there? Perhaps THEY are the true “White Supremacists” ???
I think the young White people in Ojai should be encouraged to recognize their membership in the White Tribe. So much of what happens in “public school” has been engineered by people who have a grudge against Whites … and the result is that a lot of LIES are told about us … the result being that young Whites often have a guilty and self-hating attitude about themselves.
This MUST CHANGE!
Young Whites SHOULD be in a gang! But not the bad kind! They need to be encouraged to consciously JOIN their own Tribe. They must be encouraged to stop all the things that damage both themselves and their fellow Tribesmen (and women!). Stop the drugs. Stop the dishonorable behavior. Stop participating in the DEGENERACY which infuses “popular culture”. Stop trying to act like and be like other cultures and races — you’ll never be an African or a Mexican! Start learning what it means to ACT WHITE, and then DO IT! We don’t need to imitate others: we have our own ways, and they’re quite good enough for us!
Look forward to talking more about this with people in this space …
Anonymous:
“Sommer, what word or phrase would you suggest Ted use? Left Wing Nuts, or Leftist or Left Wing Extremists.”
To safe words and stress, here are two diagrams:
Spectrum Chart
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Simplified Spectrum
As you can see, Liberal/Libertarians are political balanced in the middle. To position Liberals on the left wing is simply wrong. Interestingly most people in the US understand a liberal thinking person being a left wing – I believe this is an result of our brain washing and misinforming mainstream media.
Smelly, what makes you think this is a “White” Country? It was only a few hundred years ago that this was a “brown” country, if you will, since you are so inclined to speak of countries in black , white or brown. I’m white and I’ll bite my tongue to call you a racist since I don’t like name calling but to say that if I don’t agree with your message, which I don’t . I don’t agree with your message at all but that dosen’t make me racist against my own race. I’m really not even a liberal. I could vote either side I sit that firmly in the middle. You equate the problems in America right now with being the fault of the other races, that pretty much you know sums you up. I am happy to agree that we need to stop Mexican cartel (maybe controlled legalized marijuana) we need to crack down harder on gangs , all gangs including the white ones. I may not go along 100% with Obama but I like the guy and I know he’s trying and he cares. When he was elected President, part of me rejoiced for all people of color and I noticed that there is pride now thats palpable with African Americans that I meet and I just can’t help but think that this has got to be a really good thing, not just for blacks but for all the good people of the USA. Obama is proof that all kids need to study hard because opportunity is there, for everyone. You could even become the President of the United States! Smell the N., it must be hard to see things the way you do. You know, maybe you will feel better in 4 years when you can put your vote forth for another President. Coming to the little ol Ojai blog and whining isn’t going to make that day come around any faster. Complaining about races mixing, sorry, I just don’t see the problem there. Most people do hook up with people with similar skin color but the ones that find love in a different race, who cares? Love is love. What kind of Country would this be if you weren’t allowed to mix with the other races? What is it exactly that you are proposing?
Smell the Neurosis.. I’m ready, the Second Amendment.
@”a person”: The question posed in my first post is there for you to ponder. I’ve already worked through it. Do you have a problem with the genocide of the diverse White peoples of this world through race mixing?
@”also a taxpayer” — what can I say? If your identity is a function of paying taxes, we may not be speakin’ the same lingo.
@”smell the racist”: damn! that sure is a “funny” name! Where’d ya pick up the idea? As for the “morality” of your supposed “colorblindness” … ponder paragraphs 5 & 6 in my post above. Would those black people be “moral” and “colorblind” like you say you are? Or would they be just plain old CRAZY if they didn’t object to being race-replaced in their own country? I don’t worry about black people in Africa being this stupid. But, per the scintillating intelligence displayed in your post and similar ones, I do have reason to worry about Ojai being that stupid.
How in Hell could anyone call White people “Superior” or “Supremacist” when most of them seem to be too stupid to recognize the reality of RACE and its implications. Makes “White supremacist” kinda oxymoronic!
You folks never cease to entertain. But before you realize it, in a blink of an eye, you too will be feeling less and less “entertained” by what is happening to Ojai and surrounding communities. The police, no matter how earnest and good they are will not be able to “fix” the “gang problem”. They can keep a lid on it for a while … but not “fix” it. Why? The “gang problem” is actually a “Tribe problem”. And no sane Mexican or (fill in the blank) wlll want to give up his Tribal affiliation. A Tribe occupying an place “owned” by others will “play weak” until it senses it can take power away from the “rightful owners”. Are ya ready for that???
I can hear it now, “Constitutions? We don’t got no constitutions! We don’t NEED no stinkin’ constitutions!”
Hi kidz ….
“Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.”
”The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.”
”Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.”
”What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?”
”How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?”
”And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?”
”But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.”
”They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.”
”Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.”
They called me a “Racist”, I moved to a white town in Idaho where you can read the graffiti.
YEAH! CAN YOU SMELLLLLLLLL! THE NEUROSIS!
Thank goodness there are people in the world who aren’t like that guy and don’t see color. Back to the topic at hand, I hope the police can get a handle on the gang problem so that our community is safe again.