July 16, 2006

VDARE.COM Editor Peter Brimelow writes:

As you read this, I will be on a week's vacation with Hannah Claire and Alexander [see picture: http://www.vdare.com/images/peterandkids.jpg ] in the Rocky Mountains, cut off by their special request-in fact, demand-from internet and telephone.

In the two and a half years since their mother died, it's been a blessing to my family that I've been able to work from home on VDARE.COM through the miracle of the internet. Just as, through the miracle of the internet, we can see that patriotic resistance to America's abolition by immigration policy is beginning to assemble itself in defiance of the political Establishment, liberal and "conservative".

But the downside, from Hannah Claire and Alexander's point of view: getting VDARE.COM up to its current gratifying speed has been an immense amount of work. We post every day, and our articles are of top professional quality-they are articles that should be appearing in the Mainstream Media but never will, because the threatening consequences of immigration is a taboo subject there.

It's a tremendous amount of work, too, for the wonderful VDARE.COM team I've assembled-working out of their homes on a shoestring, quite probably sacrificing any chance of a career in Establishment journalism, but able to beat the best the MSM has to offer and make a difference to the future of their country.

However, we cannot continue to do it without your help.

I care a lot about the America that Hannah Claire and Alexander will be living in, God willing, in 2050. I won't be here, of course. But I still care. Any parent or grandparent will understand.

This is what I see:

On May 25, despite heroic resistance from some patriotic Senators, the U.S. Senate passed S.2611-which should properly be called the Kennedy-Bush Amnesty/ Immigration Acceleration bill, since it is fundamentally a Democratic measure, supported by only a minority of Senate Republicans, made possible solely by the fanatical support of the Bush White House. Among many other awful things, including amnesty, this disgusting special-interest feeding frenzy will AT LEAST DOUBLE LEGAL IMMIGRATION from its current unprecedented highs. It is a further, giant step towards abolishing America. It is quite plainly treason.

HOW CAN THEY DO THIS TO OUR CHILDREN?

Unprecedented grass-roots patriotic resistance, in which I am happy to say we at VDARE.COM played a part, has stalled this legislation-for now.

But the fact must be faced that Kennedy-Bush, or some poisonous part of it, may well pass the House and become law. The moral of recent immigration legislation history is that Washington's insiders have ways of making elected officials talk-and vote.

Judging from VDARE.COM's huge email traffic, the controversy over the Senate's sell-out has for the first time alerted many ordinary Americans to what is being done to their country and to their children's future. They have fought hard to prevent it. They may very well be shocked and dismayed if it goes through.

But, as a scarred veteran of the struggle for patriotic immigration reform, I am not. It has been obvious for some time that this will be a long and terrible war.

And, amid the lies and hysteria that invariably accompany any immigration-enthusiast assault on America, there is clear evidence that immigration reform patriots are making progress-and that they will continue to make progress, until ultimately they and their cause prevail.

After a trauma like a stroke, the human brain is galvanized to rewire itself around the damaged area. Exactly the same process has been underway among immigration reform patriots. As we've said before on VDARE.COM, it took thirty years for Americans to cut off the last (1880-1920) Great Wave of immigration. By that measure, however unlikely it may now appear, in two or three election cycles the next cut-off will be here.

The immigration issue has been gathering over American politics like an immense thundercloud.  At first, you get lightning flashes-noble individuals who run as token protest candidates, like our columnist Joe Guzzardi in the 2003 California gubernatorial race. Then you get thunder-contested primaries. Then you get isolated raindrops -captured nominations. Then, you get flurries of raindrops-election victories. Then the storm breaks-the movement comes to power.

It takes time. But you get to recognize the signs.

And it will take money. And this is where I have to turn to you for help.

At VDARE.COM, we exist to provide journalism on these problems because the MSM won't. In case anyone has forgotten, the problems include: crime; disease; destroyed schools; destroyed neighborhoods; congestion; racial friction; linguistic displacement; wage depression; welfare costs; political displacement; and, last but of course not least, the abolition of America.

Our writers are paid very little. But they do need something. The ability to pay our writers is what has distinguished VDARE.COM from a host of excellent but evanescent blogs which have come and gone. We are in it for the long haul.

In every sense. A few weeks ago, I asked a congressional aide what would happen if some version of Kennedy-Bush passes.  He reacted with horror. "It would be the end of America," he said. "I'd have to emigrate."

It's that serious.

Of course, Kennedy-Bush would indeed eventually be the end of America as a nation-state-the political expression of a particular people. But, to paraphrase Winston Churchill's speech at a not dissimilar moment of peril in British history, although America should have fought on the beaches, I am confident that, should the worst happen, America will fight in the hills.

VDARE.COM will be there to help-if you help us.

Please give whatever you can. I will be most grateful. And if we can afford more editing help, Hannah Claire and Alexander will be grateful to you for letting me spend more time with them too.
 
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