Peter debating immigration with the
Future of Freedom Foundation`s Jacob G. Hornberger at the
Heartland Institute`s 24th Anniversary Dinner,
Chicago, October 2,2008
By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM
You don`t give up hope in the Easter
season. The contrast between the dark despair of Good Friday and
the elemental ecstasy of Easter Sunday, so powerfully associated
with the resurgence of spring throughout the Western World, is
simply too resonant.
And, as I have repeatedly said on
VDARE.COM, there are more mundane reasons why I believe
immigration reform patriots should not lose heart.
For one thing (this is an advantage
of age!) I remember how all-conquering the Soviet Union appeared
to be some thirty years ago, after the American defeat in
Vietnam. I remember a senior statesman at a conservative
magazine telling me that he privately believed the Red flag
would soon wave over the world—but that he fought on because a)
you never know; and b)
“there are theological injunctions against despair”!
Within four years, against all odds,
this man`s long-time favored Presidential candidate, Ronald
Reagan, had bounced back and won the White House.
Within fourteen years, wholly
unexpectedly, the Soviet Union collapsed and vanished.
Today, when I tell my children that
we Baby Boomers seriously feared that the Cold War would end in
nuclear conflagration, they look at me puzzled—that is, even
more puzzled than usual.
A similar dramatic reversal of political fortunes can happen again.
I believe that one day, my
children`s own children will look at them with equal puzzlement
when they are told that there was a time when the historic
American nation came to the point of drowning itself with
out-of-control mass immigration.
But only if we act now. Only if we have your help.
For, despite what I`ve just said,
this in fact a really terrible time—for America, for the
patriotic immigration reform movement, and alas, for VDARE.COM.
Two recent events sum it up for me:
- Cecilia Munoz, whom
we`ve been exposing for years, formerly of La Raza and now
Obama`s director of intergovernmental affairs, one of many
fanatical immigration enthusiasts infesting the Administration,
was apparently the source of the
New York Times` April
8 front-page story
Obama to Push
Immigration Bill as One Priority.
Because the New York Times
continues at the top of the Main Stream Media food chain, the
story has been widely trumpeted as a sign that Obama`s
long-predicted amnesty offensive—call it the
“Obamnesty“—had begun.
This is a heavy blow to VDARE.COM. It has undone, at one stroke,
two or three years of progress in diversifying our funding base.
It threatens our ability to pay one of our key writers, for whom
the grant was earmarked.
And the reason our donor friend sadly cited—the stock market
crash—is particularly chilling. It confirms our fears and
naturally makes us apprehensive that more bad news is on the
way…right at the time VDARE.COM is most needed.
Do I think the Obamnesty can be
stopped? Yes.
Do I think the Obamnesty
will be stopped? Maybe…
The Obamnesty will be stopped
only if ordinary Americans stage the kind of extraordinary
grass-roots revolts that stopped amnesty, twice, during the Bush
Administration.
A lot of factors went into those
revolts. Talk radio deservedly gets a lot of the credit.
But another factor was that American
citizens were armed with facts and analysis about America`s
immigration disaster. At a more detailed level than is possible
over the air, this can only be done via the internet.
Remember the pro-amnesty newspaper editor 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 this pro-amnesty editor 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 Obamnesty, 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.
I wrote in our Christmas fund-raising appeal about two such
stories:
The extraordinary unreported fact that
white Americans, i.e. the historic American nation that created
the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution and
won two World Wars, voted heavily against Obama—and that it lost
largely because of demographic shift caused by the federal
government`s post 1965 immigration policy. Unless that policy is
changed, it will be increasingly difficult for the historic
American to control the country it built.
(We feel even more strongly about this
now that our donor has backed out!) The Crash of 2008 was a
“perfect storm”—it needed several elements to come together.
But a key element was the
loosening of mortgage lending standards, imposed on the industry
by a bipartisan consensus of politicians, in order to subsidize/
bribe minorities and immigrants.
We`ve said it bluntly at VDARE.COM: the U.S. has been plunged into
a “Diversity Recession”—driven
by a “Minority Mortgage
Meltdown”. Our Steve Sailer has documented this phenomenon
in several full-length articles. (We hope to publish a book on
this soon—more later!) But at VDARE.COM, we highlighted this
problem way back in March 2004—in Thomas Allen`s eerily
prescient article The
Mortgage Monsters Meet The Immigration Invasion. They Like Each
Other, about the Federal National Mortgage Association (“Fannie
Mae”) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“Freddie Mac”) and their irresponsible pursuit of immigrant, often
illegal alien, clients.
Allen concluded: “We`ve known for some time that
current mass immigration is politically unstable. Now it turns
out that it`s financially unstable as well.”
Remember, that was in 2004!
Let me give some more recent examples of immigrant-driven stories
that the MSM “spikes”—suppresses—and
VDARE.COM follows:
Right now, unemployment is at 7.2%, a fifteen-year high, according
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are projections that
unemployment will continue to rise for as much as another two
years and reach double digits.
Yet nowhere in the MSM, liberal or “conservative”, is there any
systematic monitoring of the impact of immigration on
employment. And, needless to say, government statistics do not
make it easy to follow.
Nevertheless, our Ed Rubenstein has developed a way of tracking
immigration`s impact through our VDARE.COM American Worker
Displacement Index (VDAWDI), which he updates as new data is
released each month. Nest week, we publish a major summary
article by Ed.
Bottom line: immigrants captured more than half of all the jobs
created since the last recession. And they have retained them
during this downturn—whereas employment of native-born Americans
is now down to levels last seen in early 2001.
Ending immigration, and eliminating the 10-20 million illegal alien
presence in the U.S., is the simplest and fastest way to
alleviated American unemployment. Yet the Obama Administration
is going in exactly the opposite direction.
And the MSM—liberal and
“conservative” is saying nothing about it.
At the time of the 2007 Virginia
Tech murder of 21 American students by a Korean immigrant, we at
VDARE.COM were stuck by how very few MSM stories mentioned the
killer`s immigration status—and how many (as in 2000% more)
mentioned the alleged need to impose gun control on Americans.
Moreover, investigation by our Brenda Walker quickly found a
pattern of mass murders by aliens, apparently breaking under the
very real strain of being plunged into a foreign culture. At
that time, Brenda found no less than 23 killers, some 288 dead,
111 wounded.
That number has gone up since then—a
lot. To monitor it, we have established a standing category,
“Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome”, on our blog. Invariably, these
stories are buried in the MSM. Just a few days ago, a Vietnamese
immigrant killed thirteen people in a Binghamton, New York
immigration center. Again, the story was quickly suppressed,
except for a few calls for gun control and a couple of
allegations that the killer was unhinged by American prejudice.
Of course, there are American mass
murders. As VDARE.COM always scrupulously points out (not that
we get any credit for it), mass murder is not a job that
Americans won`t do. But the disproportionate involvement of
immigrants is unmistakable—and unreported, except on VDARE.COM.
As
I wrote recently in
when introducing Brenda Walker`s article on the Binghamton
massacre: “If the killer in the Binghamton immigration center massacre had been a
white American, I have no doubt that much of the VDARE.COM
Editorial Collective would be in police custody right now.”
I`m not joking about this. Similar
soft totalitarianism is now rampant in Canada and Europe—again,
unreported by the MSM, documented on VDARE.COM.
It`s only stopped here by the First
Amendment. But now, with the advent of Obama, even that is under
attack.
Already, Rep.
John Conyers (D.-MI) has introduced a federal
“hate crimes” bill,
apparently intending to sneak it through unnoticed. Recently,
the state of Missouri`s Department of Public Safety issued a
report saying that supporters of Republican congressman Ron
Paul, Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr and
Constitutional Party candidate Rev. Chuck Baldwin—an ordained
Christian minister, whose regular columns VDARE.COM
carries—should be considered linked to “potentially violent”
militias.
That report was
withdrawn after talk radio and internet protest.
But while writing
this appeal, I just learned of a similar federal Department of
Homeland Security report,
“Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic
and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and
Recruitment”, dated April 7 and leaked to KOGO-San Diego radio host
Roger Hedgecock, on whose show I`ve had the honor of appearing.
One sign of “right wing
extremism”, according to the report: concern about
immigration.
It conceded:
“Debates
over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy
generally fall within the realm of protected political speech
under the First Amendment…”
(My emphasis).
Thanks a lot!
My question: what does DHS mean,
“generally”?
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 and libertarian groups. (Examples available on
request). They do not terrify VDARE.COM.
All of which means:
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