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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 4^th 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:

Barack Obama's nomination of self-proclaimed "perfect Affirmative Action baby" Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court

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:

The Democrats' Stealth Drive To Pass a Federal "Hate Crimes" Bill

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.

Attorney General Eric Holder said that white Christian males by definition could not be victims of "hate crimes"-only groups (blacks, Hispanics, Jews, homosexuals etc.) who had been victimized during what he called "the unfortunate history of our nation".

California Senator Diane Feinstein directly said: "I come from a state where the immigration debate has-some of it-has been a part of hate..."

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:

Amnesty for illegals, what we at VDARE.COM call the "Obamnesty", is still alive.

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:

Please help us now!

Peter Brimelow