Hello, I'm Peter Brimelow.
Someone I know just lost his daughter.
She was exactly the same
age as my son Alexander.
We have pictures of
them together as babies.
Obviously losing VDARE.com
is nothing compared to that.
But it still hurts.
In a couple of days, the
VDARE website will be suspended.
We're not sure how long
the archives will remain up.
Or if they will remain up, although our
social media will still be accessible.
My role here as Editor of VDARE.com for
the last 25 years has been destroyed.
So I'm going to resign and I'll also be
resigning from the VDARE Foundation.
My wife Lydia will remain for the present
as president of the VDARE Foundation.
She'll be in charge of winding things
down and of course paying lawyers.
One bright spot is that the Berkeley
Springs Castle, which is
where I'm filming this,
is a separate foundation, a
West Virginia based foundation.
So that will continue.
There will continue to be
Dissident conferences here.
And also a number of normie functions,
for example weddings,
if any of you want to get married and
defy the Great Replacement.
VDARE.com was a highly successful
operation, particularly
after Lydia solved the problem
of us having our conferences Cancelled by
hotels, which she did by buying this
Berkeley Springs Castle right here.
But VDARE has been murdered by the
New York State Attorney
General Letitia James.
She's not charged us with anything.
It's important to note she simply
battered us to death with an enormous,
ongoing, intrusive "investigation."
The liberal law professor Jonathan Turley
recently described New
York State under Letitia James
as the "Land That Law Forgot."
That's because of her unprecedented,
unscrupulous, unprincipled
attacks against the NRA,
the National Rifle Association, and of
course notoriously against Donald Trump.
And of course against VDARE.com.
The VDARE Foundation has been registered
in New York State, alas, since 1999.
We did that at a time when nobody had
ever heard of lawfare
or of Letitia James.
We estimate that we spent a million
dollars in compliance costs,
as well as scores, maybe hundreds of
hours, of sheer work put
into assembling documents
and dealing with this subpoena.
All work that we can't spend on advancing
the cause of
patriotic immigration reform.
She's obviously aiming
at suppressing our speech,
but we've been totally unable to get any
relief from the New York courts,
no defense or whatever, of
our First Amendment rights.
I want to add, though, that there are
three other interlocking issues
which are also driving us to suspension.
The first one is the
extraordinary wave of Cancellation
that we've experienced increasingly over
the last several years.
It extends even to personal matters, like
our long-time financial advisor,
who's been with us 15 or 16 years, was
forced to drop us recently.
People don't understand
what is actually going on here.
How this so-called Social Credit system
like the Chinese have
is being used to suppress patriots.
Lydia's going to post a very long
discussion of it, shortly,
which is, frankly, I
think a historical document,
because nobody's reporting this stuff.
If we had time and resources, we could
continue to face down this Cancellation,
even though it's getting
increasingly difficult.
But we don't have the time,
and we don't have the money.
The second interlocking problem I
mentioned is somewhat similar,
and that's our abrupt
inability to accept online payments.
It hit us in the middle of
our year-end appeal in December,
and that's when we
raise most of our money.
Now, in the past, when we've had credit
card payment systems go down on us,
we assume, for example, with PayPal,
we assume that it's the credit card
processor that's at fault.
But subsequently, and this year, we've
been working with GabPay,
who would not do that to us.
It turns out that the
problem is the banks.
Even when the payment processor wants to
work with us, the banks won't.
And in fact, we don't think
it is the banks in the end.
We think it's the federal regulators.
Federal regulators are bringing pressure
on banks to suppress unwelcome speech,
just as they're bringing pressure on them
to stop gun sales and so on.
Again, this is something
that's going to require legislation
to suppress this Viewpoint Discrimination
and to allow freedom of
speech to return to America.
So I urge President Trump and Vice
President Vance to get onto this.
End Viewpoint Discrimination with
federal legislation.
And the third interlocking
problem is the weirdest of all.
We've been subject to
extraordinary cyberattacks.
We can't figure out where they're coming
from, but they're extremely agile.
They were the things that knocked out our
ability to accept e-checks.
Our techies are baffled.
They say there's
obviously somebody behind it,
there's a human intelligence
behind it, probably using AI.
But nevertheless,
somebody's working away on this.
Of course, in a sane world, we would go
and complain to the FBI about it.
But they're probably doing it.
Obviously, we don't want to get involved
with the FBI at all.
There is still
litigation in federal court.
Quite how we got involved
with litigation in federal court
and state court simultaneously is a long
and extremely depressing story.
But there we are.
Otherwise, we're just
waiting for Letitia James.
We've handed over all these documents
she says she wants at enormous expense.
What is she going to do?
We've done nothing wrong.
But maybe she will
prosecute the Foundation anyway.
Maybe she'll prosecute Lydia and
myself personally anyway.
We just don't know.
And what about me?
Well, of course, I'm deeply sad.
And not really for me.
The end of VDARE is like the collapse
of a small civilization.
There's a surprising number of people
who have been working with me for a long
time, in some cases,
20 years, who are
dependent on VDARE, who are never
going to find work in
the mainstream media.
I feel very bad for them.
I feel, in some ways, even
worse about the generation,
this new generation of
young immigration patriots
that suddenly sprung up, who I was
hoping to integrate into the operation
and ultimately to hand over to them,
a functioning and
well-funded organization.
I guess that's not going to happen now.
The irony is that the issue of
immigration patriotism
has never been hotter.
Opinion polls are out of control in favor
of immigration restriction.
In fact, even deportation, which the
Political Class doesn't even
want to think about, it's
very popular among ordinary
grassroots Americans.
I'd like to think that
VDARE.com has played
a part in that development.
But of course, I'd much rather continue
to participate in urging it forward.
And personally, well, I'm looking
at a very large VDARE.com-shaped hole.
I've worked on
VDARE.com essentially every day
for 25 years.
That's a third of my life.
I don't know what I'm going to do next.
And even if I did, I'm not sure what
I could say about it in the
current legal environment.
I guess I won't have any
excuse not to take my daughters
on the 4-H camping trip.
So I want to thank all of you who've
been with us for so long.
And we hope to see you on the other side.