Mexico Will Take Back Texas—Unless You Help VDARE.COM!

Peter Brimelow
December 13, 2005, 9:00 am
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It`s that time of
year again.

It`s Christmas.

Soon it will be
New Year—and the end of fiscal 2005.

It`s the season
for VDARE.COM to run its annual War Against Christmas
Competition, looking for the most outrageous attempt to abolish
Christmas.

And it`s also time
for us to ask for money.

I don`t like doing
this. But my advisors tell us this because I still haven`t
developed the shamelessness necessary to build an institution.

Christmas appeals
are a critical part of the non-profit world, just as Christmas
sales are to commerce. People are in a holly, jolly mood. They
are also thinking, with some corner of their minds, about the
need to pay taxes on 2005 income and capital gains (remember, we
can accept stock – see below).

Donations to
VDARE.COM are tax-deductible. 

And we are indeed
building an institution at VDARE.COM. Of course, we shouldn`t
have had to do it. Established foundations and media mouthpieces
should have addressed the issue of nation-breaking mass
immigration, both legal and illegal.

But they didn`t.
In fact, I founded VDARE.COM—after some testing, the first
public announcement was emailed out on Christmas Eve
1999—because I and others had been extruded from one such media
mouthpiece, and immigration criticism abandoned.

In a way, it`s not
surprising. It`s a common observation in business history (I
daylight as a financial journalist) that corporations don`t
survive “technological discontinuities”—a radical change
in the markets they serve. Instead, new corporations come along.

I sometimes wonder
what American think tanks, magazines, or even political parties
will survive the radical changes looming because of our ongoing
immigration disaster.

I am sure,
however, that VDARE.COM will be ready.

But, in the short
run, it means we have our work cut out for us at VDARE.COM. We
have had to press fifty years of institution-building into just
over five.

Fortunately, the
internet makes miracles possible, and we now have hundreds of
thousands of readers each month. But it takes relentless hard
work—and money to pay our dedicated writers, and the many more
we`d like to run.

In fact, the
Christmas story is a heartening one for us at VDARE.COM. We
posted a story about the War Against Christmas on Christmas Day
1999 (not sure how I managed that, the children were

very small) and began our first War Against Christmas
Competition in 2000.

At that time,
no-one ever mentioned the subject and, in fact, the
Establishment mouthpiece mentioned above dropped discussing it
as soon as I was eliminated. Now, as I look at the emails coming
in, I am simply amazed at how widespread the resistance to the
Khristmaskampf has become—how many individuals are rebelling and
demanding that stores not use the Christophobic “Happy
Holidays” and that Christmas Trees be called, well,
Christmas Trees. Several major media figures have taken up the
cause, and even (wow!) a couple of politicians.

The battle has
hardly been joined. But right now it looks as if the War Against
Christmas could turn into perhaps the most extraordinary
examples of cultural backlash since the anti-Vietnam War
movement bumped Richard Nixon into the “win” column in 1968.

Modesty prevents
me from claiming this was all due to VDARE.COM, although I do
know that our wonderful readers have frequently emailed our
Christmas material to the major media figures etc. in question.
But I do think that we blazed that trail.

I also think that
this is what will happen with the issue of mass immigration.
Exactly as with the War Against Christmas, resistance to the
Washington elite`s “Abolish America” policy is now everywhere
and shows every sign that it is about to break out of the
control of the usual cultural police.

Again, I don`t
claim this is all due to VDARE.COM—or to my own immigration
book, Alien Nation, published ten years ago this year.
But the fact is, we were first, we were right, and we helped the
process along by repeatedly breaking new ground about America`s
ongoing immigration disaster.

These are some
themes that we hope to inject, in our viral marketing way, into
public debate next year:


  • Reporting the
    proportion of new jobs going to immigrants.
    Native-born
    Americans are being crowded out by newcomers undercutting 
    wages and, in effect, stealing health and educational
    benefits for which the Native born pay—as shown by Edwin S.
    Rubenstein`s VDARE.COM American Worker Displacement Index. (Much
    more on this in `06!)


  • Chronicling
    immigrant-imported corruption.
    As in Nicholas Stix` article on the NYPD scandal. (Just the
    beginning!)


  • Naming the
    guilty immigration enthusiasts.
    As in Bryanna Bevens` expose of the Western Growers
    Association. (And many others! Bryanna likes doing this).

  • Naming the
    guilty media mouthpieces.
    As in Joe Guzzardi`s coverage of the Sacramento Bee/ Diana
    Griego Erwin scandal. (The list is endless!)


  • Offering
    solutions.
    As in Steve
    Sailer`s buyout proposal for France`s Muslims

Our Fall
fundraising drive raised $16,000. We hope our Christmas Campaign
will raise well over $30,000. (We`ll need some big donors!) That
will go a considerable way towards stabilizing VDARE.COM after a
turbulent year.

If this works, I
won`t be bothering VDARE.COM readers until, oh, maybe Easter!

(There`s a war
against that too!)

  • We are delighted see donations of any size—$10, 100,
    $1,000, $10,000. But we do feel especially good
    about the larger ones!

  • Special to 2005! President Bush signed the

    Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act, which
    effectively permits an individual to deduct cash
    contributions up to 100 percent of Adjusted Gross
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