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Sonia Sotomayor, Obama's SCOTUS nominee

By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM

I'm closing the site again tonight. I hate to do it. But our advisers insist it's the only way to make the point:

Without your donations, VDARE.COM cannot survive.

And I really want to open the site tomorrow, because Steve Sailer is going to file his definitive list of Questions That Should (But Probably Won't) Be Asked of Sonia Sotomayor.

It depends on donations.

President Obama's first Supreme Court nominee is scheduled to begin a week of confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday, July 13.

It's clear that no-one inside the Beltway thinks Sotomayor can be stopped. Even worse, and more importantly (at least to me as a journalist—I think railing against the world is an end in itself!), it looks like no-one in Washington intends to use the hearings to make a substantive case against the race-based socialism that she will certainly try to legislate from the bench.

The reason, bluntly: fear.

As AP's Julie Hirschfeld Davis gloated a few days ago:

"Even if they could stall Sotomayor's nomination, though, it's evident that many Republicans don't think it's politically prudent to take on a Hispanic woman, given the GOP's low standing in the polls and its efforts to appeal to women and minorities. Those groups traditionally have shunned the party."

Of course, VDARE.COM has repeatedly demonstrated that, statistically, the GOP doesn't need to worry about outreach to minorities—it needs to worry about inreach to its base.

But we know from experience that facts and analysis matter little in the face of this masochistic myth.

Which is why we have to keep hammering the message home—and why we need your help.

Yesterday, AP's Hirschfeld Davis followed up with this happy account of Beltway demoralization:

"[T]he National Rifle Association raised what it called 'very serious concerns' about Sotomayor based on her stance on weapons rights, yet it stopped short of opposing her, citing its 'respect for the confirmation process.'"

"Respect" for the "confirmation process" that massacred Robert Bork, the most distinguished jurist of his time? By taking this stance, the NRA is just signaling that it is ready to surrender.

VDARE.COM is not ready to surrender. Neither are the American people. Looking at the email I see from ordinary Americans at the grass roots, and comparing it with the fearfulness of Establishment politicians and pundits, I am reminded of the famous description of British soldiers in World War I: "Lions led by donkeys." Maybe the American version is "Eagles led jellyfish".

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At VDARE.COM, we have been fascinated by Sotomayor, the self-proclaimed "perfect Affirmative Action baby".

We predicted that Sotomayor would be selected over apparently more qualified liberals. As Steve Sailer pointed out in his VDARE.COM book America's Half-Blood Prince, Barack Obama is fundamentally motivated by race. 

But we did not predict, and the Obama Administration did certainly not predict, the way in which Sotomayor's nomination would cause the long-smoldering issue of Affirmative Action—quotas—to flare up.

The Supreme Court's just-announced 5-4 Ricci decision upholding the white New Haven firefighter victims of anti-white discrimination was catastrophic for Sotomayor and the Obama Administration. Not merely was she overruled, but even the dissenting justices disagreed with her attempt to suppress the firefighters' litigation. And the closeness of the deciding vote emphasizes how close America is to having an alien regime of quotas and anti-white discrimination imposed upon it.

Quotas, particularly the interaction of quotas and mass immigration of members of the so-called "protected classes" who are eligible for them, are a Doomsday Machine working to dispossess the historic American nation.

I've been trying to write about this issue for thirty years, since I was on the U.S. Senate staff. I say "trying", because it been extraordinarily difficult to get editors (let alone politicians, especially the one I worked for) to address the issue—even though quotas are fantastically unpopular with the American public.

The reason: the usual—fear, of being called "racist" and other nasty names.

That's why I am so thankful to have VDARE.COM. No-one has published more about the workings of Affirmative Action than VDARE.COM. We will go on doing so.

But we can only do so with your help.

A further point: as far as I can make out, VDARE.COM has posted the only serious investigative report on the record of outspoken Sotomayor supporter Robert Morgenthau, the long-time Manhattan District Attorney, for whom she worked 1979-1984. Our Nicholas Stix found a regime of racialized anti-white "justice" under Morgenthau, including an extraordinarily vindictive but little-known drive to undo the results of the 1989 Central Park Jogger trial, an iconic event in New York's crisis years. This was where Sotomayor spent her formative years. Will any Senator ask her about it?

Another point that seems to be unique to us: what does Sotomayor think about Official English? What does it mean that she insists on having her name pronounced, not the way an American would, with the accent on the first syllable and the last two syllables rhyming with "mayor," but as a Spanish-speaker would?

A little thing? Language cases are going to make it to the Supreme Court very soon. Which way do you think Sotomayor will vote?

Yet another point about Sotomayor that you won't see anywhere else: she's also the perfect Immigration Disaster baby. Although born in the U.S.—and although her parents were Puerto Ricans, technically U.S. citizens—she nevertheless identifies, not with the American majority, but as a "Latina", part of the peculiar anti-national faction that is being assembled inside the U.S. by activists and liberal bureaucrats and showered with privileges.

Sotomayor shows that the melting pot is broken.

But that's not news to VDARE.COM readers

 And which way will Sotomayor vote on "hate crimes"? Amazingly, the Democrats' drive to pass the so-called "Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act" has proceeded with almost no coverage or opposition from the conservative, libertarian media, or immigration reform organizations.

Yet the offenses that this proposed legislation covers are already criminal. So its only possible purpose is (1) to make crimes against certain classes of individuals more serious than crimes against others—a massive violation of the Founders' principle of equal protection under laws; (2) to criminalize speech which can be blamed, in any way, however implausibly, for inspiring criminal actions, no matter how unrelated.

Even more amazingly, the bill's proponents have actually admitted their intentions in the one Senate hearing they were compelled reluctantly to hold.

-      Attorney General Eric Holder said that white Christian males by definition could not be victims of "hate crimes"—only groups (blacks, Hispanics, Jews, homosexuals etc.) who had been victimized during what he called "the unfortunate history of our nation".

 

-      California Senator Diane Feinstein directly said: "I come from a state where the immigration debate has—some of it—has been a part of hate…"

And "hate" is going to be a federal crime.

How much clearer could she be?

Why haven't the conservative/ libertarian/ immigration reform groups spoken up on the "Hate Crimes" bill? Again, in a word, fear. The lobbies supporting this bill are just too powerful and ruthless for even the moderately brave, by Beltway standards, to dare oppose.

I have never been more proud of VDARE.COM than for its lonely role in exposing this "Hate Crime" legislation and the atrocities it inflict on Americans—as similar legislation has already caused in other countries that share America's legal heritage.

Without VDARE.COM, these "Hate Crime" exposes could not have happened—and they will not happen in future, without your help.

In the amnesty wars, individual Americans were crucially armed with facts and analysis about America's immigration disaster. At a more detailed level than is possible over talk radio—much as we love it—this can only be done via the internet.

Remember Carlos Sanchez, the pro-amnesty newspaper editor of the Waco Tribune-Herald, 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 Sanchez 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 stealing of America, 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. (See above)

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.

Most conservative, libertarian and immigration reform groups fear the $PLC. (Examples available on request). VDARE.COM does not.

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Peter Brimelow 

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