VDARE.com: DID YOU FORGET??!!—VDARE.COM NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

By Peter Brimelow on February 11, 2008

"...The indispensable Website, VDARE.COM..." - Patrick J. Buchanan

"the  internet's leading anti-immigration web journal…" Max Blumenthal

DID YOU FORGET??!!—VDARE.COM NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

By Peter Brimelow, Editor, VDARE.COM

(more obvious signs of decay, stress and worry airbrushed out)

Well, that didn't work.

Last night, for just one night, I didn't renew my appeal for funds.

Instantly, contributions dried up.

I don't like to nag.

But this is serious.

Let me pause to say: all of us at VDARE.COM are profoundly grateful to our donors—especially to those of you who give without being asked.

And above all we are grateful to those of you who have chosen to give monthly, using the feature we set up last year.  (Click here for details.)

Even small amounts add up. It's the sort of affirmation that keeps writers writing. And the slowly-gathering flow of dependable income is becoming critical to our planning.

So thank you, from the bottom of our hearts. You know who you are!

I am disturbed that contributions dried up today. But it happens. People are distracted at this time of year. And there are so many worthy causes.

We saw the same pattern in 2006. And, eventually, readers rallied round—including some last-minute large donors, bless them.

But it's worrying. The great bulk of our online donations come in the last month of the year.

This year, the economy is tanking—in large part because of the subprime mortgage scandal large caused by irresponsible lending to immigrants, long documented here at VDARE.COM.

It's a particular problem for us, because our large donations are often in stock, reflecting capital gains.

With the stock market down, we can't hope for much of that this year. (But if you have capital gains, you could help us more at no cost by avoiding capital gains tax! Email donate@vdare.com for details)

The movement for patriotic immigration reform has come a long way. 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 won't 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.

Our annual War Against Christmas competition, about to start, tells the whole story in a nutshell.

As I relate every year, the War Against Christmas (in the form of a leaked memo from the Clinton Administration's HUD) was almost the first thing that VDARE.COM covered when it went live in 1999. Our annual competitions now provide the best compendium of anti-Christmas atrocities on the web.

It's fun, but it's also serious: the people who want to abolish Christmas also want to abolish America.

In 2005, the War Against Christmas went mainstream. Several organizations, and famous television personalities, took up the cause. It was great! And it definitely got the Christophobes worried.

In 2006, however, we observed a different pattern. As our blogger Patrick Cleburne showed, the Mainstream Media suddenly began to parrot with eerie unanimity the line that there was no War Against Christmas. According to one count in December 2006, there were 106 major newspaper articles denying the War Against Christmas articles and only 18 acknowledging it—a five to one ratio of War Against Christmas denial.

By 2007, the Mainstream Media was quite obviously simply suppressing news of new anti-Christmas atrocities.

And now in 2008, VDARE.COM is the object of a major attack by a fashionable leftist webzine, confirming that we are the real origin of the War Against Christmas counter-attack and that it was only later taken up by the television talking heads. (You can see the details by entering the site via the link below the donate link at the foot of this page).

Quite right, of course. That's what we mean by being at the high end of the intellectual food chain.

It worked with the War Against Christmas. And it is working in the struggle for patriotic immigration reform.

But it can only work with your help. We need it desperately.

We have two special Thank You gifts this year.

A few days ago, the VDARE Foundation published its first book: America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's "Story Of Race And Inheritance", by Steve Sailer.

You can buy it, and we've also made it available as a free pdf download. Over 5100 copies have been downloaded in just over a month. For details, click here.

We will send a free copy of America's Half-Blood Prince for every donation of $200.

(Remember to include your address if you donate via PayPal!)

This year also, The Social Contract magazine published a special issue devoted entirely to material that originally appeared on VDARE.COM

Our second Thank You gift:

We will send a free copy of this Social Contract special issue for every donation of $100.

If you send $250, we will include both America's Half-Blood Prince and The Social Contract special issue. (Again, remember to include your address if you donate by PayPal!).

Also: Christmas is coming!!

Don't forget when you're buying gifts through Amazon.com to go in through a VDARE.COM link—for example here —and we get a commission at no cost to you! And also don't forget that you can now buy VDARE.COM merchandise on our VDARE.COM online shop .

Please help us now. I, and all of us at VDARE.COM, and I believe future generations of Americans, will be profoundly grateful.

 

Peter Brimelow 

You can donate (tax-deductibly!) by check (click to get form for easier mailing) or credit card—and you can do it monthly if you prefer. ALSO: you can now fax your credit card info! Donations are tax-deductible.
We are delighted see donations of any size—$10, 100, $1,000, $10,000. But we do feel especially good about the larger ones!
If you DON'T want to receive a copy of America's Half-Blood Prince with your donation of $200, please email office@vdare.com.
If you DON'T want to receive a copy of the special VDARE.COM issue of The Social Contract with your donation of $100.00, please email office@vdare.com.
If you DON'T want to receive both  America's Half-Blood Prince and the special VDARE.COM issue of The Social Contract with your donation of $250, please email office@vdare.com.
Also available: the 2007 special VDARE.COM issue of The Social Contract with a donation of $50.00. Please email office@vdare.com specifying that you would like this gift and giving us the mailing address you would like it sent to. Also available: 3 copies for a $75 donation or 5 for $100
And don't forget - you can give stock! You could help us more at no cost by avoiding capital gains tax! (Email donate@vdare.com for details)

NOTE: VDARE.COM is no longer associated with the Center For American Unity, which plans to focus on litigation. We are grateful for their past help and wish them well in future. Our sponsor is now the VDARE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity.

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