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Brian Nichols: PC Kills … Again Brian Nichols wasn’t fighting injustice; he was fighting justice!

March 16, 2005 by Nicholas Stix

It wasn’t a tragedy. We’re already hearing about what a “tragedy” Brian Nichols’ “alleged” murders of four people and brutal beating of several others were. Bull. According to the ancient Greek definition, tragedy is what happens when a great man’s strength turns into his own worst enemy and undoes him, e.g., pride. A more modern definition is of a terrible incident that was no one’s fault, and could not have been avoided. Say, a driver following the traffic laws loses control of his vehicle, and kills a pedestrian crossing the street.

When people use the term “tragedy” to describe a heinous act, they often seek to diminish its moral significance, as per the second definition. Thus, ever since 911, anti-American lefties have described the terrorist attacks of that day as “the tragedy of 911.”

There is nothing tragic about what Brian Nichols “allegedly” did from Friday morning through early Saturday. If anything, the way he “allegedly” carried out his deeds suggests a diabolical criminal mastermind out of a novel, who painstakingly planned out his escape and his initial murders. And yet, we can lay four corpses and several brutalized though living victims at the feet of incompetence that was the product of feminism and racism. For had the district attorney’s and sheriff’s office shown any professionalism, as opposed to being guided by feminist and racist practices, Brian Nichols would never have been in the Fulton County Superior Court last Friday.

To get a preliminary look at the role of the politically correct mentality at work in the Nichols case, let’s contrast the depiction of the case as it unfolded, between CNN and Fox News Channel.

Media Follies

On Saturday, I bounced back and forth between CNN and Fox News’ coverage of the case. On CNN in the early afternoon, the on-air personalities were concerned as to how Nichols could have “snapped.” They emphasized that he came from a “good” (read: middle-class) family, had a good job at UPS, was intelligent (he had supposedly taught himself a high level of computer savvy and how to play a musical instrument), and polite. CNN’s personalities also spoke only of Nichols’ having been guarded by “one deputy,” taking pains to avoid the issue of the deputy’s sex.

At Fox News Channel, a very different profile emerged, of a man who had been involved in crime his entire adult life. Nichols was a linebacker at Kutztown State University, but was caught stealing, arrested, and expelled. He had been arrested several times over the years. Rather than saying Nichols had a “good job,” the Fox hosts mentioned that he had bounced from job to job. And Fox News’ personalities did repeatedly ask how a woman could have been charged with guarding a tall, powerfully built man charged with violent crimes.

Eventually, the Fox News personalities also got around to the “how did he snap?” nonsense.

Fox reporter Geraldo Rivera saw a strong parallel to the DC Sniper case in how a shooter terrorized an area, but that was frivolous. In the DC Sniper case, no one knew the identities of the shooters, and when Montgomery County Police Chief Dr. Charles Moose was able to determine through a telephone conversation with the killers that they were black, he withheld that information from law enforcement and the public alike, misleading everyone into thinking that the killers were white. And so, while everyone looked for the wrong people, more victims were murdered. In the Nichols case, law enforcement did the opposite: They broadcast the best information they had. The problem was that Nichols was so smart that he misled law enforcement into thinking that he was driving Don O’Briant’s green Honda Accord. (Nichols carjacked the Accord, then parked it on another level of the same parking garage, walked across the street and boarded a MARDA subway train to a shopping center.

But if CNN was guilty of politically correct coverage of the Nichols case, they were pikers, compared to alleged reporter Beth Warren of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, who embodies what I call the banality of bias.

In an article in which Warren listed one example after another of Nichols’ racism, she concluded that his crimes were not racially motivated. Right. Just like with Colin Ferguson, the Long Island Railroad mass murderer.

“Brian G. Nichols considered himself a ‘soldier on a mission’ the day he terrorized a courthouse and a city with a gun, according to a law enforcement official who witnessed Nichols' first statement to authorities.

“The official said Nichols, who was being tried in a rape case when Friday's deadly shooting spree occurred, considered himself a wrongly accused man in a legal system unfair to African-Americans….

“In an interview with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the official said Nichols described how he had been stewing in jail while awaiting retrial on charges that he held his ex-girlfriend hostage and sexually assaulted her. The first jury couldn't agree and the judge declared a mistrial.

“Nichols said he was angry that many of the inmates around him were also black and he wondered how many were innocent.

"‘He called it systematic slavery,’ the law enforcement official said.

[We’re talking about a man who knew he was guilty as hell, and no reason to believe that the other inmates were any less guilty!]

“Nichols didn't feel he was mistreated by deputies at the jail or courthouse, the official said. But he also didn't care that the deputies he would soon hurt were black. His anger was focused more on the legal system than race. And the main target was Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes, who was preparing to resume hearing Nichols' rape trial.”

But Warren admits that Nichols said that “the attack [on Judge Barnes] wasn't personal. In fact, he told authorities he thought Barnes had been fair to him during court proceedings.”

Warren hears ‘race, race, race,’ but concludes, ‘not race.’ Why, if Nichols felt that Judge Barnes had been fair to him, would he kill him anyway? Because the judge was a white authority figure. Why would he kill the white court reporter, but none of the blacks in the room with her? Because she was white.

As for Nichols’ claim that criminal justice is a case of “systematic slavery” against black men, in reality, the city is closer to paradise for the city’s predominantly black felons. In recent years, tens of thousands of crimes have gone unprosecuted due to “lost” 911 calls, “disappeared” crimes by police, and prosecutorial incompetence by DA Paul Howard. In a telephone interview, white former Fulton County ADA Denise A. Sorino, who worked in Howard’s office for three years, and is part of the movement to have him recalled, told me that in 1999, she and her colleagues were working on thousands of cases going back as far as 1994, all of which were dropped, and many of which had never even reached the indictment stage.

“There are over 80 ADAs, and each one of them has over 100 cases to plea and arraign…. This is a guess, but 90 percent of these indictments, each of these defendants had more than one page of priors, and it was incredible that half of these people were still walking out on the street.”

Why the backlog? When Howard was elected DA in 1996, most of the DA’s staff consisted of experienced, white attorneys. According to Sorino, Howard fired most of the whites, and replaced them with blacks who were inexperienced, and often incompetent.

The Magic Word

Note Brian Nichols’ claim that one of his white carjacking and assault victims, AJC reporter Don O’Briant, called him a racial epithet. As O’Briant said in his defense, “Nichols pistol-whipped him because he refused orders to get in the trunk.

“‘The only other thing I said besides “No” is “Please.” When someone has a gun pointed at you, the last thing you're going to do is taunt them. All I was trying to do was get away.’”

Don O’Briant is a white reporter at a politically correct newspaper dominated by racist black staffers, in a majority-black city ruled by apartheid. He is more likely to sprout wings and fly, than to have called a large black man pointing a gun at him a racial slur. Then why did Nichols make such a claim?

In New York, where I have lived for nineteen-and-a-half years, such phony claims by black racists have long been an everyday occurrence. Black racists call whites racial epithets, harass them, and assault them. Then, if a white victim should complain or call the police or even if a witness should call the police and corroborate the white victim’s story, the perpetrator says that the white called him a racial epithet. That phony charge then functions as the black’s get-out-of-jail free card. Never mind that everyone in New York knows that whites virtually never call blacks racial epithets.

I have only witnessed a white calling a black a racial epithet twice, and recall hearing whites use a racial epithet to describe blacks in private only three times. All five times involved the “n” word. During the same period, I have heard the “n” word uttered in public approximately one million times -- at least 95% by blacks, and perhaps 5% by Puerto Ricans.

The first white who publicly called a black the “n” word was a teenage drug dealer in Far Rockaway, one of America’s most racist, violent slums. That was around 1995 or ‘96. Interestingly, no blacks in the neighborhood who heard the white thug shouting the term down the block at a black competitor from outside the neighborhood, accused the white of racism or assaulted him.

The second case was in 1998, and involved a wheelchair-bound, septuagenarian patient in the nearby nursing home, Rockaway Care, where I was moonlighting as a certified nurse aide. The elderly patient only used the epithet after his powerfully built, fit, approximately 30-year-old black roommate had terrorized and assaulted him for three days. When I asked the black supervising nurse (though the patients were predominantly white, the staff was almost entirely black) what she was going to protect the old white man, she muttered that he had used the n-word, so he was getting his due. (In New York, just about any time a black racially assaults a white, black witnesses will say that the white “deserved” it, even when they don’t claim that the white said a racial epithet.)

(I wanted to call the authorities, but knew it would cost me my job, and hated myself for my cowardice. Later that night, when just before leaving his room the thug turned the volume all the way up on his radio, I went and turned it off. When he returned and complained that that someone had turned off the noise, I told him I had done it, and called him a “punk.” He complained to the aforementioned supervising nurse, “He can’t speak that way to me!” (The thug, who apparently had a middle-class background, was very well-spoken. I suspect that he was a criminal who had evaded justice by playing a court-appointed psychiatrist for a fool.) At that point, the nurse separated the two men, giving the old white man a tiny room to himself.)

The first time I encountered the he-called-me-the-n-word-defense was in 1993. On a Manhattan subway platform at 1:30 a.m., a black girl me a racial epithet (the “n”-word! I told her, “I think you need to look in a mirror”). Once I was surrounded by about ten black and Hispanic young men who came to help her, she stabbed me with a scissors. I didn’t even call the police; an unknown witness did, who according to the lieutenant or captain in charge of the crime scene, corroborated my story. (The first “uniform” to arrive at the scene was a young black officer who, the moment he saw that a white man was the victim, gave me a look of pure disgust.)

And yet, when I was interviewed, weeks later, by a white assistant DA named Kunkel, Kunkel denied that I was a crime victim at all. Kunkel ignored the witness report and the police photograph of the bloody defensive wound on my hand. Instead, he acted as if the girl’s incredible charge that I had called her the “n” word were gospel, and insinuated that I was a racist who went around getting innocent young blacks arrested. “Because of you, two black girls spent a night in jail!” (The attacker was accompanied by a girlfriend.)

Before I shouted, “Be a man, and say what you mean!” to Kunkel and stormed out of his office, I did get one honest answer out of him. He admitted that he never took the subway at night. He lived out of taxicabs – you know, the kind driven by non-whites who avoid picking up black men. For members of New York’s upper-middle classes, people who take the subway at night are “losers.” Under the pretext of putting a “racist” in his place, Kunkel was actually waging class war on me.

During the mid-90s, a spate of such phony claims by racist New York blacks actually made it to the SMSM (socialist mainstream media). In each case, the white “racist” in question was supposed to have called blacks the “n” word not in a white racial redoubt, but in a black-dominated environment.

The institutionalized understanding in New York at the time (and since) was that all a black racist had to do was claim a white had called him a racial epithet, in order to get the law, morality, and common sense suspended.

While New York is 25% black and already a bastion of black apartheid, Atlanta is much worse. According to the 2000 census, Atlanta is 62% black and 34% white, and as white conservative commentator Dick Williams put it in his genteel way on the March 14 O’Reilly Report on the Fox News Channel, “[Public life in Atlanta] is mostly concerned with things African-American – you’ve gotta have an African-American police chief,” an African-American this and African-American that.

Williams also noted that while “the jury is out” on Atlanta police Chief Richard Pennington, “The police department’s been in chaos” for years.

Also appearing on the show, Michael Smith, of the black conservative group Project 21, concurred with Williams’ appraisal.

Placing Blame

Already on Saturday, “experts” began blaming the Atlanta PD for not finding the green Accord sooner and for not catching Nichols sooner, saying police were “too reactive, and not pro-active enough.” Given the rank incompetence of the Fulton County Sheriff’s and District Attorney’s offices, and Nichols’ combination of brilliance and ruthlessness, I don’t see how someone can talk that way. Nichols did everything but eat his victims’ livers.

It turns out that Chief Richard Pennington’s men did screw up, though not at all in the sense of the slogans being bandied about. If anything they were overly aggressive.

As attendants at the parking garage told AJC reporters Bill torpy and Stacy Shelton, they did call police when Nichols showed up at the parking garage. A police motorcycle and two squad cars showed up immediately, but the officers ignored the attendants’ pleas (and Policework 101), in refusing to leave anyone guarding the street level, and the three vehicles speeded up the ramps. And so, Brian Nichols was able to walk down the stairs to freedom.

The havoc that a highly intelligent, cunning, ultraviolent prisoner can wreak once he has escaped is why it’s so important for everyone at each point along the line to do his job. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or Superman in order to catch a bad guy again, if you don’t let him get away in the first place. But it does help to have an IQ above that of a ditchdigger.

When Richard Pennington took over the Atlanta PD in 2002, he formed a non-profit organization which had the department’s 911 calls for 2002 audited. (Pennington had made his name as New Orleans police chief, where he reportedly reformed what had been the nation’s most corrupt force. Pennington determined that the reports from 22,000 911 calls had been lost during that year alone. Atlanta only has 416,000 residents.

The Atlanta PD’s problems run deep, and largely have to do with hiring incompetents based solely on the color of their skin. Somehow, I don’t see those calling for reform confronting the department’s real problems.

Shoot the Sheriff

Conversely, Fulton County Sheriff Myron Freeman, Deputy Hall’s boss, ought to be recalled by voters post haste. At the Saturday afternoon press conference following Nichols’ arrest, Sheriff Freeman said “My first priority was the families … my second priority was getting Mr. Nichols back in jail.” That was designed to show his compassion, but if Sheriff Freeman hadn’t been so incompetent, he wouldn’t have had to console the victims’ families. The sheriff’s lack of urgency regarding catching a heinous criminal, is unfortunately typical of an entire city, in which police officials have long seen their job as not fighting, but covering up crime, so as to help the tourist trade, and in an opinion survey of Atlantans, much to Chief Pennington’s chagrin, “only 27 percent saw crime as the city's No. 1 problem.” Meanwhile, Atlanta vies for the dubious distinction of being known as the nation’s most violent city. I think racial solidarity is the reason so many Atlantans claim to be relatively unconcerned about crime.

Sheriff Freeman kept emphasizing that he had only been on the job for two months. Well, that’s two months too long. At first, I thought that perhaps the sheriff was in shock or exhausted. After hearing him a while, however, I realized he’s simply a dim bulb. If Brian Nichols had the sense to figure out the holes in courthouse security, but Sheriff Freeman didn’t, maybe the authorities need to switch the two men. Put Freeman in jail and charge him with murder, etc., and make Nichols sheriff. If that sounds insane, it’s no crazier than a world in which a Myron Freeman can be responsible for court security.

DA Paul Howard should also be recalled, along with Sheriff Freeman. Indeed, there is already a movement afoot to recall Howard, who was first elected in 1996. The DA’s office botched the first Nichols prosecution, leading to the retrial. Although Nichols was found to be in the possession of ten pounds of marijuana and two assault weapons when he was arrested, he was tried for rape, sodomy, and kidnapping. The jury never heard about the weapons and the drugs, and Howard’s incompetent, lazy ADAs provided them with little corroborating evidence, even though they had access to massive amounts of evidence. As a result, the jury almost acquitted Nichols, deadlocking with eight jurors out of twelve voting to acquit. As Barry Hazen noted, the state put on a “much more muscular” presentation in the retrial: “In the second trial, there was a lot more evidence that was corroborated,”

which is why Nichols knew he was going down.

Thus, Brian Nichols wasn’t fighting injustice; he was fighting justice!

Nichols: Breaks with Criminal Stereotypes

I am convinced that while not all of Nichols’ plans worked out, he nonetheless put a great deal of planning into his crimes. The safest thing for him to do, in terms of escaping the court house, would have been to flee immediately, once he had disarmed Deputy Hall, after perhaps handcuffing and gagging her. That way, using his method of rapid, serial carjacking, he might well have made it out of the state on Friday. Instead, he made a point of GOING to Judge Barnes’ chambers, and proceeding to murder the judge and Julie Ann Brandau. Sgt. Teasly’s killing was clearly not planned; the sergeant just got in Nichols’ way. The sergeant was “collateral damage.”

When criminals seek to escape from the police, they tend to think with their feet, and not their heads, which is one reason why they usually get caught so quickly. Often, the panic starts before the crime is even completed. How many times do you hear, in what journalistic boilerplate calls “botched robberies,” of a mugger who panics and kills his intended victim, running off without even getting the latter’s money or valuables? Some of those cases were surely racial murders, in which robbery was a secondary or non-existent goal, and the “botched robbery” cliché is a journalistic diversion tactic to avoid reporting the truth, but many were cases of criminals who simply lost their heads. As a rule, violent crime has never attracted a particularly high-class sort of individual. In contrast, Barry Hazen described Nichols as “very analytic” and a “very quick learner.”

However, many procedures broke down, providing Nichols with one opportunity after another.

The office of District Attorney Paul Howard provided no serious additional security, despite a request from presiding Judge Rowland Barnes for additional “beef,” after Nichols was caught with home-made “shank” weapons in his shoes last Thursday. (Barnes was more concerned with the dangers posed to Nichols’ defense attorney Barry Hazen, rather than his own protection.) I n a telephone interview, Former Fulton County Assistant DA Denise A. Sorino told me that the only reason Nichols was in that changing room, was because DA Roberts’ office had so thoroughly botched the first trial. Sorino’s judgment of Nichols’ first trial was implicitly supported by Nichols’ attorney, Barry Hazen.

Sheriff Myron Freeman had entrusted a 5’1” female deputy with guarding a former college linebacker whose body was “solid muscle,” who was charged with violent felonies, and who was facing a possible life sentence.

The person entrusted with monitoring the changing room via closed circuit TV was criminally negligent. He was absent or off doing God knows what, while Deputy Hall was getting beaten half to death on camera, and when Nichols was running out of the court building.

Sheriff Freeman, DA Howard, and Chief Pennington might just as well have given Nichols a law enforcement escort out of the city.

Next column: The Deadly Marriage of Feminism and Racism.

Nicholas Stix

Jack Cassidy

2005-03-19 17:46 | User Profile

This is the future of every major American city, and it will be combined with the mass of muds from the third-world also making their way into the major cities. Within minutes from the Pentagon, in Arlington, VA (Glebe Rd.), you see nothing but Central Americans with a mix of East Africans. I always think to myself, all those high-ranking Pentagon brass could not walk through here after dark, that these muds couldn't give a damn about whether you were an Army general or navy commander they'd just as quickly shoot you in the head and steal your wallet. You can actually see the Pentagon from this third-world mess, yet all the white boys over there are too busy thinking they're somehow helping or saving America by spending 1/5 of a trillion dollars and thousands of lives to make life better elsewhere.

Bardamu

2005-03-19 18:17 | User Profile

But it's good for real estate values.