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From VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow: "Of all the litigation that VDARE.com has embarked on since we realized that spending money on lawyers was our only alternative to being forced out of the public square (vs. PayPal, New York Times, Facebook, and others I’ve not written about yet), the case I was most confident about was VDARE FOUNDATION vs. City of Colorado Springs.
It stemmed from RINO Mayor John Suthers’ reckless 2017 proclamation that he would not extend city services, aka police protection, to VDARE.com’s proposed conference at the Cheyenne Mountain Lodge, which not surprisingly cancelled shortly afterwards. But there is overwhelming federal case law establishing the principle that local governments must defend the First Amendment rights of even unpopular groups. (Jared Taylor’s American Renaissance had already prevailed in court against the State of Tennessee’s parallel attempt to suppress its annual conference by charging it for police protection.)
Our first lawyer even exuberantly undertook to take our case on contingency—i.e., he expected to be paid out the extensive damages for which federal law provides in such civil rights cases. So I was surprised that Mayor Suthers did not immediately settle, thus arrogantly inflicting significant costs on his taxpayers (and of course us); and later that Magistrate Judge Kathleen M. Tafoya and District Judge Christine M. Arguello concurred in dismissing the case. However, I was absolutely thunderstruck when the U.S. Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld this dismissal 2–1 on August 23, 2021 and also quickly refused our petition for an en banc hearing. (Our appellate brief is here.)
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This forces us to apply for certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court. It will be immensely expensive and logistically demanding for VDARE.com’s very small, and very poor, operation. Fortunately, we will be aided by a powerful and eloquent dissent from the Tenth Circuit’s heroic Judge Harris L. Hartz.
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of the issue at stake here—and not just for VDARE.com. As a noted First Amendment lawyer wrote me privately after the Tenth Circuit decision:
"Essentially, the majority opinion stands for the proposition that the city is free to threaten private entities in order to suppress speech."
Simply put, the majority opinion lays out the legal foundations of the American Gulag being constructed by the Communists who apparently control the Biden Regime. It would mean that local governments can refuse to defend American patriots against attack from Communist mobs. And, as we now know, if patriots defend themselves, they will be indicted by Soros prosecutors (see here, here, here, here, etc.). This is what the late Sam Francis called “anarcho-tyranny.”
This is completely new. No local government in the American South was allowed to refuse to defend Civil Rights anti-segregation demonstrations in the 1960s.My particular fear, for this and other reasons: that FBI Director Chris Wray’s crazy assertion, after an entire summer of unchecked Black Lives Matter /Antifa riots, that “white supremacists” are the real source of “domestic terrorism,” which is already being used to suppress grassroots political dissent against anti-white Critical Race Theory in public schools, has also been propagated throughout the entire legal nomenklatura under the guise of their role as “officers of the court.”
If that’s so, any patriot who can be portrayed as pro-white aka pro-American will automatically be denied justice, regardless of the technical merits of the case.
In effect, we would be looking at a slow-motion institutional Communist coup.
Needless to say, we have no choice but to expend our money and resources in this attempt. For us, and for American patriots who want to protest their country’s destruction through post-1965 immigration policy, this is what the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu called “Death Ground”—we must fight, or we will be totally driven out of the public square.
I’m not going to deny that this is a dark moment—for us and, frankly, for the U.S. Constitution. We will fight—but we need your help. Please give generously—now.
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