Peter Brimelow
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Every new reader that VDARE.COM gets—every time readers use our email-a-friend feature to introduce our articles to other like-minded Americans—every time a readers mentions our work on a Main Stream Media comment thread—above all every time somebody donates (tax-deductibly!) to the VDARE Foundation—the patriotic immigration reform network, the fabric of the American nation, strengthens and deepens.
2009 has been a very difficult year in the economy. I particularly want to commiserate with the increasingly significant number of VDARE.COM donors who have written to say they have lost their jobs, due to outsourcing, immigration and what we at VDARE.COM have identified (you won’t get this in the Establishment Media) as the “Diversity Recession”—driven by the “Minority Mortgage Meltdown”.
Our fight is truly your fight. That’s why we have been campaigning for an immigration moratorium to counter the unemployment crisis, an obvious answer something none of the Washington elite’s showy “jobs summits” mentioned—as we loudly pointed out.
I didn’t want to be running a foundation, or even editing. I’d rather write.
But I created VDARE.COM—we put out our first mass email on Christmas Eve 1999—to meet an imperative need. There was at that time simply nowhere else to publish facts and analysis exposing this American disaster.
We’ve come a long way since then. We’ve even shamed some of the Establishment media into covering immigration, albeit in a half-hearted way.
We’ve seen stories we’ve broken appear on Mainstream Media outlets like Fox, CNN, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, plus of course nominally “conservative” journals like National Review and City Journal.
And the movement for patriotic immigration reform has come a long way too. It has now developed a number of different institutions, often internet-based, that focus on different but mutually supporting areas—litigation, lobbying, scholarship, education, border security etc.
At VDARE.COM we support them all and link to them all when legally possible for a charity (even when they are too cowardly to link back to us!). Our object is to be a forum, and an honest broker, for the patriotic immigration reform movement.
Only a perennial shortage of resources prevents us from doing this on a larger scale.
I believe that VDARE.COM plays a particularly vital role even among all these patriotic immigration reform groups. We operate at the high end of the intellectual food chain. Our articles are carefully researched and written. They break news and introduce new concepts. They are of the highest professional quality and could appear anywhere in the Mainstream Media—except for the epidemic curse of Political Correctness.
And except for epidemic media cowardice.
We exist to take risks and push the envelope in a way that most professional (i.e. housetrained) journalists and columnists will not.
Our theory is that, when an idea has been sufficiently ventilated and tested, it will filter down to the more cautious, to the less imaginative and to the mass-media popularizers.
Of course, we don’t get any credit for this—as some of you are kind enough to note, beginning when the immigration issue was getting nation-wide publicity because of President Bush’s illegal alien amnesty drive in 2006 and 2007. (He didn’t get it!—because the patriotic immigration reform movement is now highly organized, thanks in good measure to VDARE.COM’s leadership role.)
But I don’t think we should care about credit. Our purpose is to change the debate—and to keep the pressure on until it become easier for politicians to be with us rather than against us. Continue to FULL ARTICLE.
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