First, I endured the jokes on the David Letterman show. His characterization of a redneck Arizona deputy sheriff was kind of funny. But I didn't appreciate his slander of immigration reform patriots.

Then, getting tired of Letterman, I went online, and found that the wackos in San Francisco declared a boycott of Arizona. So perfidious politicians like Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and Congressman Raul Grijalva get what they wanted - an economic flogging of their own state, which is already on the verge of bankruptcy. Great job, guys!

Oh, and Gordon asked the Phoenix City council to sue Arizona, but they voted that idiotic idea down. Still, Gordon now says he will sue Arizona even if he has to pay for it out of pocket. (But we know who will really pay. The Treason Lobby has money. VDARE.COM does not!).

The crazed liberals and hysterical news reportorials were bad enough. But what finally got my goat was an email from a member of my own family-who, after essentially accusing Arizona of being Gestapo HQ, warned me that the police might suspect I'm an illegal alien because of my last name: Sanchez.

Of course-contrary to the wild assertions, which people who don't read VDARE.COM obviously are falling for-the police would only be asking me about my immigration status under SB 1070 if I was already under investigation for an infraction.

But shouldn't the police be at least a little suspicious of I am who I say I am? Consider this--Phoenix is the identity fraud capital of the world--an honor that is won courtesy of the illegal alien and drug smuggling industries. An alert police officer may notice that I look just like any other white guy, whereas a name like "Sanchez" would typically imply darker skin. (I get asked questions about my light skin color all the time and I don't mind telling them it's because my family is of Spanish heritage, not Mexican or Mestizo. It never seizes to amaze me how few people understand the difference--and I wouldn't have the expectation that a cop would know either.)

Lately, you will have noticed that the VDARE.COM home page has featured an emergency appeal for support because of the loss of a major donor, scared off by Political Correctness.  Sometimes the site is closed, so that all you can read is the appeals page.

It's frustrating for all of us VDARE.COM junkies. If you are like me, you habitually come to VDARE.COM to read the latest articles and perhaps to catch up on some of the rich material in the archives-all available for free.

Most of you know me from my VDARE.COM blogs and occasional longer articles. I focus on American worker displacement, especially through offshoring and guest worker visas like H-1B, above all as it has wrecked my own profession of high-tech.

VDARE.COM is a vital resource for educating the public about this issue. You won't find similar writings anywhere else. Most news outlets and political web sites shove H-1B into dark dusty corners-but not VDARE.COM.

Immigration has always been a topic of interest to me. I grew up on the border in the city of El Paso, Texas. As a young kid I used to stand at the bridge over the Rio Grande River so that I could watch the illegals crossing the Mexican-American border. It was almost a spectator sport. I pondered what the invasion meant for the future of my country and wondered if it would ever stop.

Forty years later, I'm pondering the same question.

Like many electrical engineers my age, I had steady work until I neared the age of 40. During the boom times of the 1980s and 1990s, it seemed there was no end in sight for technical careers,

But that feeling of security was a mirage.

One day, while working after-hours on a Friday, I heard some young co-workers telling each other that on Monday they would have to avoid telling any more "Arab" jokes. I knew at that moment that I was to be replaced by an H-1B visa holder. And I was right because Monday was the day I was fired, and my replacement arrived.

I have never been able to find work in my field since then.

Over my years of activism, I told many reporters about my story. Not a single one of them has ever written the story about the Arab H-1B.

Main Stream Media reporters routinely avoid any mention of the cultural and ethnic aspects of immigration.

But things that the MSM considers taboo can be openly discussed on VDARE.COM. That is why your support is essential.

I can't remember when I first started reading VDARE.COM. I probably found it while searching the internet for stories on H-1B, outsourcing, or maybe even immigration.

Most political news sites that employ staff and have budgets are politically liberal. When there is a discussion of H-1B, it is usually in favor of the program. The internet may seem to have limitless choices-but it is slim pickings once you get away from a few large political sites.

The two biggest political sites by a large margin are Huffingtonpost and New Republic [TNR].  I want to spend some time talking about money and how VDARE.COM compares with these other well known websites.

So, just how large is Huffpo compared to VDARE.COM? Well, let's put it this way-while Peter Brimelow pleads for $10 donations, Huffpo received $25 million from just one "investor" in 2008. Huffpo was started by generous donations from the likes of Harry Shearer, John Conyers, Rosie O'Donnell and Roy Sekoff. Huffpo got onto the fast track when well known Democrats such as Obama and the Clintons gave them a boost by writing blogs for them. Until 2008 Huffpo scraped by with $12 million in their piggy bank. Huffpo has been valued at more than $100 million!

In comparison VDARE.COM's total operating budget of less than $500,000 is paltry in comparison. But I would argue that their effectiveness has been roughly equivalent.

People assume the liberals at Huffington Post are pro-labor. And most of their writers are indeed sympathetic towards labor-just not the "Made in the USA" kind. Huffpo is 100% wrong on the immigration issue in general and H-1B in particular.

TNR is a distant second to Huffpo in terms of traffic but it isn't better on immigration issues. WorldNetDaily is probably the largest conservative website.

In order to compare Huffpo, TNR, WND, and VDARE.COM, I went to their websites and searched for "H-1B".

The on-site search engine rendered a meager four results on Huffpo; the top one was "American Brain Drain: Why We Need H1B Visa", by Gary Shapiro, May 4, 2009.

The New Republic only had one main article and 3 blogs; the only article that was somewhat critical of the program: "Temporary Help, Our guest-worker problem", by John B. Judis, June 19, 2000.

Note that TNR's article is over ten years old-which implies a very low level of interest.  Huffpo wasn't much better. Between the two of them, the searches rendered about one full page of results on the H-1B issue.

The WorldNetDaily search didn't return a single result. Perhaps its search engine is buggy-but zero results?

I was so convinced I have read about H-1B at WND that I performed an advanced Google search and was pleasantly surprised to find many articles, like an excellent recent one by Phyllis Schlafly, "We're betraying our own young engineers", April 29, 2009.

OK, you didn't really expect me to come down too hard on WND, did you? If VDARE.COM goes down, WND might be the last bastion of truth left on the internet!

But so far they have ignored me whenever I offered to write something for them! WND would be a poor substitute for VDARE.COM!

I am a big fan of all of those websites and have read many of their articles over the years-but not when I'm trying to learn more about immigration.

VDARE.COM is a different story. A search for "H-1B" yields pages and pages of results. And they are authored by a variety of authors who bring very different perspectives to the problems.

Of course H-1B isn't the only issue related to immigration. There is no doubt where VDARE.COM is on the issue. The New Republic is supposed to be relatively sensible, but that didn't stop it from blasting Arizona for passing SB1070.  The title of the article was bad enough but the article was worse - it's a cheap attack on my state: "Bad Land, Why hysteria has won out in Arizona", by John B. Judis, April 25, 2010.

But VDARE.COM does one thing in common with the web sites I just mentioned -all cost money.  VDARE.COM depends on donations to operate. That money has to come from somewhere-it must come from readers like you!

We absolutely need alternative media like VDARE.COM because outlets for free speech on PC issues are slowly vanishing from the internet. VDARE.COM is neither conservative nor liberal, or even libertarian - it's a forum for all critics of our immigration disaster. It occupies a unique space in what it has named the patriotic immigration reform movement (to distinguish it from the other kind)

Personally, I join whatever political party interests me at the time. During the 2008 election, I was a Democrat and even volunteered to help the Obama campaign during the primary. (It was during that short stint of volunteer work that I realized the error of my ways!)  Before that I was in the Green Party to support Ralph Nader. I will leave it up readers to figure out where I'm at politically now. It doesn't matter to Peter Brimelow, he is interested only in our critiques of immigration policy.

Many of us who contribute to VDARE.COM are amateurs who have never taken much more than English 101 in college. Most likely we came from other backgrounds such as business, engineering, or some type of academia. Peter Brimelow believes our non-journalistic backgrounds inspire original thinking and non-traditional ways of presenting news.

But there's a core group of professionals at VDARE.COM that, in addition to authoring articles, edits and reviews all the material that is submitted to the VDARE.COM website. This core group functions in a similar fashion to a newspaper editorial board. I credit the paid staff for maintaining the consistent high quality of the web site content, unequivocally better than what you find on the majority of web sites or blogs.

VDARE.COM has many resources, but the three most important ones to me are the home page articles, the blog, and the daily letters. It's important to understand the difference between these sections in order to get a clearer understanding of the manpower that goes into maintaining VDARE.COM and why they need donations from the public to operate.

Usually one "Today's Letter" is published per day. Most of the work of selecting letters and perhaps giving a response is done by Joe Guzzardi.

The bulk of my writing appears on the VDARE.COM blogs. At least several blogs are published per day. Usually my blogs are a web version of my "Job Destruction Newsletter", an email service that I've been running for eight years. I also write commentaries about immigration issues in Arizona and elsewhere exclusively for VDARE.COM.

I discovered that my "Job Destruction Newsletter" items got ten times the public exposure when they were posted on VDARE.COM. The loyal following of viewers on VDARE.COM ensures the articles will have high traffic and Google ratings because large numbers of people read and link to their pages. That's why VDARE.COM and I formed an alliance-synergy!

There is a hidden advantage to being a paid writer for VDARE.COM. It allows me to give inside reporting on events that sometimes only journalists can have access to. When I call up a government agency it's not unusual if they ask what newspaper I'm with because they only talk to professional journalists. When I say, "VDARE.COM" that's good enough to get me into the front door. Most of them know about VDARE.COM even if it's because they hate the site!

I have found that paid journalists have access to information that amateurs and ordinary citizens don't. It's a lousy system and I believe there shouldn't be a two-tiered system for public information, but it is what it is. Those who get paid for something get more respect than those who do it for free-it's just human nature.

But we can only get paid if you help VDARE.COM-now.

VDARE.COM blogs are easier to write than the home page articles because authors have more freedom to write on almost any subject and the editorial review is not as stringent. But it's important to note that VDARE.COM blogs are not the sloppily-written free-for-alls that are all too common on the internet. Blogs get at least minimal amounts of editorial review by James Fulford who is a full time staffer at VDARE.COM. Fulford does most of the gritty work of formatting and posting material and providing links for blogs and articles. Most VDARE.COM writers assist Fulford by providing suggested links and by putting in a little extra effort to format their work to VDARE.COM standards. The reason the quality at most websites is inconsistent is because they depend entirely on volunteers. At some point it's necessary to pay somebody to get the work done-because it doesn't just happen by osmosis.

I never appreciated how difficult it is to write until I began to contribute to VDARE.COM.  It's tough work that demands the discipline of a scientific researcher and the artistry of a poet. I feel very fortunate to work with world-class professional journalists like Peter Brimelow because most writers with my credentials (or lack thereof) would not get that opportunity.

Brimelow spent a lot of time as an editor at top magazines so it's to be expected that meeting his standards of excellence is tough. Most of the editorial reviews are done by Brimelow or Joe Guzzardi, another newspaper guy. Both of them are sticklers for fact checking and insist that everything written can be justified by referenced facts. Guzzardi is big on grammar, which is to be expected since he was a high school English teacher (sigh!). Every logical error, no matter how small, will get their attention, so writers must be careful about details and a willingness to adapt and correct errors is paramount. VDARE.COM simply has higher standards than the vast majority of internet news sites.

At VDARE.COM I can write freely about the cultural and racial aspects of H-1B and immigration in general. Other media outlets have suppressed that kind of talk. But controversial social, cultural, ethnic, and demographic changes are occurring in this country. The MSM and the political class ignore nasty realities such as racism, sexism, and ageism that American workers encounter as their companies are taken over by foreigners who don't share our liberal values of fairness in the workplace. These problems are very real and getting worse. And yet VDARE.COM is one of the very few places to read about them.

I enjoy writing for VDARE.COM because I get the satisfaction of knowing that what I write will be read by a huge audience. Another important factor is that Washington wonks, and liberals secretly read VDARE.COM.

And I get that small amount of money that serves as a token of appreciation that my labors are appreciated. Writing for VDARE.COM requires copious amounts of time for researching and editing because they are such sticklers for accuracy and facts. Of course it's truly a labor of love. Nobody is going to make a living by writing for VDARE.COM, but for some of us cash-strapped activists every little bit helps. Knowing there will be a token payment in the mail to reward us for our efforts is an incentive to strive to write our best quality material.

I have personally met with VDARE.COM's creator, Peter Brimelow, and he is a class act. You couldn't ask for somebody more capable of running the VDARE.COM organization.

Brimelow and the VDARE.COM crew do excellent work-but they can only continue if you give your financial support. If you think VDARE.COM is an important asset, and I'm sure you do or you wouldn't have read this far, then please donate generously so that VDARE.COM can continue to bring you fresh material every day.

VDARE.COM is in a state of crisis so allow me to contemplate what that actually means if they don't get the funding needed to be fully functional.

I hope Brimelow will find a way to keep the website online. He will have to cut corners however, and that will diminish VDARE.COM's plentitude of cutting edge material. Perhaps the first thing you will notice is that there will be fewer syndicated columnists like Pat Buchanan, Chuck Baldwin, Paul Craig Roberts, or Michelle Malkin. Maybe there won't be money to fund research by experts like Ed Rubenstein and Steve Sailer.

The next thing you might see is that VDARE.COM won't be able to pay independent writers like myself, Brenda Walker, Allan Wall, Patrick Cleburne, Ellison Lodge, "Washington Watcher"  etc. to write front page articles.

VDARE.COM could cut corners by turning it into an automated blog like millions of others on the internet. But if that happens expect quantity and quality to slip.

I know that many of you complain that the VDARE.COM website needs a facelift. Unfortunately that upgrade has been delayed again because of that major donor breaking its promise to pay for it. Right now, VDARE.COM simply doesn't have the money.

Writers like me won't go away completely because we have a passion for what we do. But without the financial incentive, we may be forced to spend a little less time to make our articles shine as much. It will be a loss to us and to you.

If VDARE.COM is to maintain its quality journalism-if the case for America's workers is to continue to have this essential forum-it's going to need some major help from people like you.

Please give generously. I will be personally grateful. 

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