Peter Brimelow (And Friends) Say: Last Day For 2007 Deductible Giving! Please Help VDARE.COM NOW!!!!

Monday, December 31, is the last day you can give tax-deductibly to VDARE.COM in fiscal 2007.

We need the money. So it’s nerve-racking.

But one of the heartening things about running these appeals is that we get wonderful supportive comments from readers.

And some offer helpful advice.

One reader says I should post a running tally of how much money has come in.

Good idea. And I will do this next time. But it’s embarrassing, because donations can be slow—and somewhat misleading, because the larger donations tend to be checks that snail in late.

Right now, since I started this appeal after Thanksgiving, we’ve got about $20,000 via PayPal. Some of that is earmarked for our Steve Sailer project. (Steve and his family need to eat, and National Review is too chicken touch him anymore, so that’s good).

But what we desperately need are a few large donations—especially from those of you with capital gains, which we can shelter. (See below).

We do have one commitment from a generous reader this year for $10,000. But it’s not arrived yet.

We’ll be checking the mailbox very carefully in the New Year!

This year, as last year, I’ve posted spontaneous helpful appeals for VDARE.COM donations written and posted to his blog the very talented New York journalist Nicholas Stix.

They’re better than anything I could do.

Still, the internet is a wonderful thing. Here’s another suggested pitch for VDARE.COM written by a reader, Jake Jacobsen of Blogs For Borders:

Merry Christmas!  Here is my contribution to the VDARE.COM fund drive this year...

Support VDARE.COM: Building The Network!

According to the elites who own the largest megaphones in this country if you support sensible immigration reform—e.g. stopping illegal immigration, stopping the legal importation of cheap labor and reducing legal immigration to traditional levels—you are part of a "small, noisy minority."

Oddly, though, polling shows this minority to encompass something on the order of 60-90% of the American people. So in this context “minority” must have some other, perhaps secret meaning!

But the reality is that politicians, the media and opinion shapers of all stripes do treat us as if we were indeed that "small, noisy minority."

Presidential candidates like Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo and Duncan Hunter are treated as though they were beyond the pale. With a few notable exceptions, realistic talk about immigration reform is treated as verboten amongst the major news networks, newspapers. Even talk radio tends to tread lightly on this emotional subject.

So what are sensible immigration restrictionists to do?

There does exist an alternative media hidden away in the lesser-travelled nooks and crannies of the internet.  A string of blogs and websites that span this country from coast to coast. And each one performs a valuable service.  Some go to events and report what actually happened as opposed to the misreporting that is so endemic from our "watchdog media."  Some scour news reports making the connections the professional media can't be bothered to make.  Some expose the connections undergirding our elites' insane boosterism for all things illegal immigrant.

And at the head of this chain, like a diadem, is a little site known as VDARE.COM.  This is a place where some very good writers, using no more than a keyboard and courage, dismantle the demented lies of the Open Borders crowd…often knowing that, in doing so, they will never be welcomed into more lucrative jobs in our corporate shill media.

VDARE.COM also takes on many of the PC shibboleths that stymie the modern West.  Race, multi-culturalism, and the threat posed by Islam are just a few of the issues they help bring into our national conversation.

It's easy to say you support the cause of sensible immigration reform. But without making a tangible contribution you are like the person who complains their favorite restaurant closed without ever providing tangible support by the simple expedient of, you know, eating there!

An organic network is growing up to replace a biased media that tries so insidiously to open our borders and undermine this nation’s sovereignty.

One day, your grandchildren will ask you: what you did to make a difference in the battle for America?

What will you tell them?

Donate to VDARE.COM here. 

And if you have the means, please pick five other blogs you appreciate and make a small donation to them for all the hard work they do—mostly for free.

The conventional fundraising wisdom is that I should have suppressed Jake’s links to his other favorite sites. But I’m not going to do that. Good luck to them and to all of us. We need it!

Please give generously. And many thanks.

Peter Brimelow