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July 29, 2006
We want to thank the readers who
have already helped us in our summer appeal. One
exceptionally generous reader has given $10,000!
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is perhaps our most
distinguished, and perhaps most controversial,
writer. This is the first fundraiser he has ever
agreed to write.
To help VDARE.COM, please scroll to the bottom of
this email. We're very grateful!
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS:
I have known Peter Brimelow since the early 1970s,
when I was a Resident Fellow of the Hoover
Institute, located on the campus of Stanford
University, and he was a British student at the
Graduate School of Business there. I have always
found him to be perceptive, polite, and open-minded,
a person with whom intelligent conversations are
possible, whatever the issue. Years later, I was
delighted to be able to help him gain his US
citizenship.
Over the years of our personal and political
friendship, we have watched the permissible range of
debate shrink. There are now many subjects on the
topic of which there is no room for open minds.
Political correctness, authoritarian impulses, and
the political manipulation of emotions have replaced
spirited debates with propaganda.
Peter was once a senior editor at Forbes and a
contributing editor at National Review. I have been
an associate editor at the Wall Street Journal and
columnist for Business Week.
But today the mainstream media, whether print or TV,
is effectively closed to people deemed to be out of
step with imposed views.
Peter Brimelow saw this coming. However, he also
understood the capability of the internet to deliver
facts, analysis, and opinion cheaper and more
widely, and without the censorship and blacklisting
imposed by the gatekeepers in the mainstream media.
My own standing and effectiveness as a policy
commentator has never been higher. This is due to
the existence of a small group of dissident
websites—one being Peter Brimelow’s VDARE.COM.
Peter has focused VDARE.COM on the immigration issue
and what he calls the "National Question"—whether
the U.S. can survive as a nation-state, the
political expression of a particular people. I
wholeheartedly endorse these objectives and applaud
the compelling facts and analysis that VDARE.COM
delivers because the Mainstream Media will not.
But Peter also hosts writers, such as myself, whose
interests have moved in other directions. Unique
among my internet hosts, VDARE.COM has posted every
one of my columns, no matter how controversial. I
am very grateful for this.
Moreover, VDARE.COM has assembled on its site the
best archive of my writings—an archive that could be
expanded if resources were available.
Resources. That is the key word. The resources of
conservative foundations have been hijacked and
diverted to the support of foreign interventions,
while leaving our borders open. Now, if debate is to
continue in America, readers must provide the
resources to support the new platforms that provide
it.
There are many ways to lose a country. One is to be
overrun by excessive immigration. Too many
immigrants who do not assimilate change the culture
and the language. VDARE.COM is the premier site that
addresses this issue.
If Peter, an immigrant, can give his career to his
adopted country, then the rest of us can provide the
resources necessary to keep debate alive.
Please help him.
With many thanks for your contribution to patriotic
debate.
/S/ Paul Craig Roberts
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is the
author of Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's
Account of Policymaking in Washington; Alienation
and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the
Soviet Economy; and the co-author with Lawrence M.
Stratton of The New Color Line: How Quotas and
Privilege Destroy Democracy and The Tyranny of Good
Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are
Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice.
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