Posted on 04/03/2024 10:59:38 PM PDT by Angelino97
After spending several years hauling Donald Trump through court in an attempt to puncture his bottom line, New York’s Attorney General Letitia James is now employing the same lawfare tactics against VDARE, an anti-immigration website...
“I launched VDARE.com on Christmas Eve 1999,” wrote Peter Brimelow, VDARE’s founder and editor, on Friday. “So it is perhaps appropriate that, on Good Friday 2024, the anniversary of Christ’s death, I must announce VDARE.com’s crucifixion by New York State’s communist Attorney General Letitia James.”
VDARE has not been charged with any crime, yet has “fought NYAG Letitia James, at a cost of up to $1 million, for nearly three years.” An onslaught of onerous subpoenas marks not a quest for justice but an orchestrated attempt to financially and morally bankrupt those who dare resist the liberal creed.
Letitia James’s electoral platform was built on this promise: she vowed to “shine a bright light into every dark corner of [Donald Trump’s] real estate dealings,” just like she promised to “take tougher legal action on organizations that engage in…online hate speech against protected classes.” Except, James cannot actually take legal action against VDARE for their “hate speech against protected classes” because everything that VDARE writes is protected by the pesky First Amendment.
So she has been digging for a reason, any reason, to bring them both down, desperately searching for anything that could be construed as a misstep...
After years of aimless fishing expeditions, what James has latched onto is VDARE’s real estate dealings, just as she latched onto Trump’s real estate dealings. In 2020, the VDARE foundation bought a castle for $1.4 million in West Virginia to use as a conference space because hotels kept canceling their meetings. (Similarly, VDARE can’t get any bank to enable credit card donations.) They needed a cancel-proof event space.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Ten bucks says that she’ll either be Governor or Senator someday.
You don’t have to like Vdare to be appalled by this end run around the First Amendment
I’ve read Vdare for a long time and remember when they bought the castle for conferences and chose to live on the grounds. It looked dubious.
I know why they wanted a conference center - commercial venues kept canceling on them. But realistically, how does a small foundation maintain a conference center used only a few days a year?
And living on the grounds is too much personal entanglement; it opens them to scrutiny.
None of that justifies an investigation into every email ever received or sent.
As RoosterRedux cogently wrote of the vindictive Fani Willis:
Lacreature fashions herself a “tribal princess” and is an Idi Amin clone in her imperiousness. She has no intention of being restrained by the laws of the U.S.A. or any state, (which she considers are the despised constructs of colonialists and slave owners).........
...........plus her ghetto-nurtured hatred of whites seethes within her evil heart, driving all her actions.
So they are too small to own or live on the property? How will they survive or raise funds?
The castle purchase is a done deal and totally legit. It was just used as a pretext by Leticia James. The goal is to destroy the website.
Just like Trump’s purchase of Mara Lago.
“VDARE registered their non profit in New York - big mistake. Any conservative company or organization needs to get out of New York State now.”
Bingo. Withdraw from the Rotten Apple and reorganize in West Virginia.
“MS-13 could sort this out...”
There are several New York families who could also.
Regardless of anything else, the idea that there are “protected classes” within the laws in the United States of America I find abhorrent.
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