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By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM
Independence Day—or Immigration Day?
For several years, we happy few at
VDARE.COM have amused ourselves on the July 4th
weekend by ridiculing the shameless way in which immigration
enthusiasts try to steal Independence Day and convert it into a
celebration of immigration.
(Why not? They’ve already stolen the
Statue of Liberty. It was originally just a centennial gift from
France to memorialize American liberty—not mass immigration,
which at that point had barely begun.)
The immigration enthusiasts’ efforts
range from repeated Wall
Street Journal’s
editorial page effusions explicitly equating immigration with
Independence Day—they even called annually for an
“Open Borders”
constitutional amendment until public outrage got too much—to
federal bureaucrats’ scheduling mass citizenship swearing-in
ceremonies.
Needless to say, this is quite
contrary to the spirit of the Founding Fathers (remember the
Founding Fathers?) They were judiciously cool about immigration,
which was then very low anyway. The Declaration of Independence,
fiercely anti-multicultural in its defense of
“a free System of English
Laws”, was about, well,
independence from
foreign influence. And the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
says its objective is to
“secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves
and our Posterity”—i.e.
the Founders’ descendants, not the world at large.
But,
of course, American history means nothing to immigration
enthusiasts.
This year, they’ve been at it again
more than ever.
But this year, we’re not poking
gentle fun at them.
The situation is just too grave.
Not just Independence Day, but
America itself, is on the point of being stolen.
That’s why we need your help—now.
Consider these signs:
At VDARE.COM, we predicted that
Sotomayor would be selected over apparently more qualified
liberals. As Steve Sailer pointed out in his VDARE.COM book
America’s Half-Blood
Prince, Barack Obama is fundamentally motivated by race.
But we did not predict, and the
Obama Administration did certainly not predict, the way in which
Sotomayor’s nomination would cause the long-smoldering issue of
Affirmative Action—quotas—to flare up.
The Supreme Court’s just-announced
5-4 Ricci decision
upholding the white New Haven firefighter victims of anti-white
discrimination was catastrophic for Sotomayor and the Obama
Administration. Not merely was she overruled, but even the
dissenting justices disagreed with her attempt to suppress the
firefighters’ litigation. And the closeness of the deciding vote
emphasizes how close America is to having an alien regime of
quotas and anti-white discrimination imposed upon it.
Quotas, particularly the interaction
of quotas and mass immigration of members of the so-called “protected classes”
who are eligible for them, are a Doomsday Machine working to
dispossess the historic American nation.
I’ve been trying to write about this
issue for thirty years, since I was on the U.S. Senate staff. I
say “trying”,, because it been extraordinarily difficult to get editors
(let alone politicians, especially the one I worked for) to
address the issue—even though quotas are fantastically unpopular
with the American public.
The reason: the usual—fear of being
called “racist”.
That’s why I am so thankful to have
VDARE.COM. No-one has published more about the workings of
Affirmative Action than VDARE.COM. We will go on doing so.
But we can only do so with your help.
A final point about Sotomayor that you won’t see anywhere else:
she’s also the perfect Immigration Disaster baby. Although born
in the U.S.—and although her parents were Puerto Ricans,
technically U.S. citizens—she nevertheless identifies, not with
the American majority, but as a
“Latina”, part of the
peculiar anti-national faction that is being assembled inside
the U.S. by activists and liberal bureaucrats and showered with
privileges.
Sotomayor shows that the melting pot
is broken.
But that’s not news to VDARE.COM
readers.
Another sign of the stealing of
America:
Amazingly, the Democrats’ drive to
pass the so-called
“Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act” has proceeded
with almost no coverage or opposition from the conservative,
libertarian media, or immigration reform organizations.
Yet the offenses that this proposed
legislation covers are already criminal. So its only possible
purpose is (1) to make crimes against certain classes of
individuals more serious than crimes against others—a massive
violation of the Founders’ principle of equal protection under
laws; (2) to criminalize speech which can be blamed, in any way,
however implausibly, for inspiring criminal actions, no matter
how unrelated. Even more amazingly, the bill’s proponents have actually admitted their intentions in the one Senate hearing they were compelled reluctantly to hold.
And
“hate” is going to be
a federal crime.
How much clearer could she be?
Why haven’t the conservative/
libertarian/ immigration reform groups spoken up on the
“Hate Crimes” bill?
In a word, fear. The lobbies supporting this bill are just too
powerful and ruthless for even the moderately brave, by Beltway
standards, to dare oppose.
I have never been more proud of
VDARE.COM than for its lonely role in exposing this
“Hate Crime”
legislation and the atrocities it inflict on Americans—as
similar legislation has already caused in other countries that
share America’s legal heritage. So much so that I will ignore
our fundraising advisers’ protest and link to our coverage
here.
Without VDARE.COM, these “Hate Crime” exposes could not have
happened—and they will not happen in future, without your help.
A final sign of the stealing of
America:
Obama held a White House meeting
with amnesty advocates as recently as June 26 and promised them
a bill this year or next. We covered it extensively.
But note—amnesty hasn’t happened
yet. Our Joe Guzzardi has repeatedly predicted it won’t happen.
Maybe he’s right. After the shattering defeats of 2006 and 2007,
the Treason Lobby apparently just doesn’t have the votes.
Of course, they will try to get what
they want by stealth—by loosening enforcement and by
mini-amnesty measures. It’s a very real danger. At VDARE.COM, we
will be watching for it.
And America is still a long way from
positive patriotic immigration reform—cutting legal immigration,
systematically eliminating illegals, an immigration moratorium.
But nevertheless, it looks like
immigration patriots may have won a defensive but epochal
victory—if they can keep up the pressure.
It wasn’t done by elected officials.
It wasn’t even done by Main Stream Media Big Feet. It was done
by individual Americans organizing themselves spontaneously.
That is what stopped amnesty—and it’s what is stalling the “Hate Crimes” Bill
and has even begun to stagger Sotomayor.
It’s what will stop the stealing of
America.
In the amnesty wars, individual Americans were crucially armed
with facts and analysis about America’s immigration disaster. At
a more detailed level than is possible over talk radio—much as
we love it—this can only be done via the internet.
Remember Carlos Sanchez, the
pro-amnesty newspaper editor of the
Waco
Tribune-Herald, who wrote ruefully after amnesty was
defeated
“The opponents of the bill prevailed and they
did so in a grand manner that I had to respect. It was democracy
at its best—and an instructive lesson for anyone interested in
politics. Countless times a day, I received messages from a
variety of groups that had Freedom or American or Liberty as
part of their title.
“The discipline of these groups was a sight to
behold. Someone created a set of talking points that declared
opponents need only focus on one word—amnesty—to denounce
the legislation. And every group that came out against it did
precisely that.” Note that Sanchez was getting “messages” i.e. email—and that he had obviously never heard of the groups he was getting messages from, i.e., they were grass-roots organizations. At VDARE.COM, our role is to create those “talking points”, and the sophisticated arguments behind them, and make them available to patriots. (Our archives are all online—and we don’t charge!) And I’m happy to say we ran an article discussing the critical importance of the word “amnesty” way back in 2004. But this vital work, essential to stopping the stealing of America, can only be done if we can pay our writers.
We post every day at VDARE.COM, an enormous amount of material.
There are just so many targets!
And what we post is prepared to the highest professional
standards—I’ve not been working in the Mainstream Media for 30
years for nothing. And we use hyperlinks, not the least of the
advantages of this wonderful new medium, better than anyone else
on the internet...at least, I think so. They help us document
our case. Readers who are new to the cause of patriotic
immigration reform find our hyperlinks particularly compelling.
But the whole process is very labor-intensive.
Money is our secret weapon at VDARE.COM. Our fixed costs are
very low, we operate entirely virtually. We don’t have to pay
printing and postage (thank goodness!).
What this means:
essentially everything you give goes
to pay writers and editors.
Our writers and editors are not paid as much as I would like.
But they do get something. This ability to pay our writers is
what has distinguished VDARE.COM from a host of excellent but
evanescent blogs which have come and gone.
Writers will often write for love—because they passionately
believe in our cause. But in the long run, they need to be able
to justify the time spent, to their families and to themselves.
At VDARE.COM, we are in this for the long haul. We are building
an institution. We need money to do that. We can only do it with
your help.
To me as a professional journalist, the quantity and quality of
non-professional writing on the immigration issue that comes in
over the e-transom has been a revelation. Many of these writers
have full-time careers in other fields, some are students; I
encourage these to write anonymously because of the very real
reign of terror imposed by the curse of Political Correctness.
Others are struggling, idealistic free-lancers; I shudder for
them. All are patriots deprived of outlets because of the
orthodoxy of the Mainstream Media.
And, as a professional journalist, I am constantly amazed at the
huge immigration-driven stories that are just not covered in the
Main Stream Media—liberal or “conservative”.
I mean, how can they resist? But they do. (See above)
Experienced observers have no doubt that this creeping
totalitarianism reflects the influence of the Southern Poverty
Law Center—as we call it, the $PLC. VDARE.COM had numerous
clashes with the $PLC since it named us a
“hate group” in 2004.
(We named the $PLC a
“Treason Group”—“a shakedown scam that preys on
the elderly, Holocaust-haunted rich”.) We have no
doubt that the $PLC operates a black list to which many MSM
print and electronic media outlets kowtow. Recently, we
published the most sophisticated analysis of its (vast) finances
yet. This will certainly hurt it in the competitive left-wing
fund-raising world, which is what it really cares about.
Threats of the $PLC terrify most conservative, libertarian and
immigration reform groups. (Examples available on request). They
do not terrify VDARE.COM.
All of which means:
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Peter Brimelow
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