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Letitia James’s Offensive Against VDARE is Harrowing for Free Speech
The American Conservative ^ | April 3, 2024 | Christopher Brunet

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arrestletitiajames; berkeleycastle; dissent; freespeech; internet; lawfare; lowhangingfruit; racism; samueltaylorcottage; vdare; vdarebannedonfr
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Trying to bankrupt a conservative website through lawfare. Don't have to convict them of any crime. Just pursue the investigation until V-Dare runs out of money.
1 posted on 04/03/2024 10:59:38 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Lucrezia James, the vile racist pig.


2 posted on 04/03/2024 11:06:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Angelino97

MS-13 could sort this out...


3 posted on 04/03/2024 11:07:18 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: Angelino97

4 posted on 04/03/2024 11:08:19 PM PDT by kiryandil (what Ukrainian electrical grid doink?)
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To: kiryandil

voting is fraud in action....


5 posted on 04/03/2024 11:09:48 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Angelino97

Offices in West Virginia, james in ny? GFY if all I would say.


6 posted on 04/03/2024 11:22:42 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: Angelino97

Letitia is obviously a child of affirmative action. Had she been born with even average intelligence, she would realise that the ‘migrants’ are being brought here to do the jobs that people of her ilk are incapable of doing.


7 posted on 04/03/2024 11:59:37 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Angelino97

VDARE registered their non profit in New York - big mistake. Any conservative company or organization needs to get out of New York State now.


8 posted on 04/04/2024 12:06:31 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.q)
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To: Angelino97

$1.4 million buys a “castle”? I nice home in most parts of the country but....”castle”?


9 posted on 04/04/2024 12:16:06 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Offices in West Virginia, james in ny? GFY if all I would say.

I think V-Dare is incorporated in NY, hence NY's claim to jurisdiction.

In retrospect, not a wise move. But V-Dare incorporated several decades ago, back when even NY recognized the rule of law.

10 posted on 04/04/2024 1:11:28 AM PDT by Angelino97
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$1.4 million buys a “castle”? I nice home in most parts of the country but....”castle”?

More like a house that resembles a castle. Probably stone face, not actual stone walls.


11 posted on 04/04/2024 1:14:48 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

we need to shine a bright light into her dark corner and send her for a loop like fani


12 posted on 04/04/2024 2:11:31 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Viking2002

Local homies ping.


13 posted on 04/04/2024 2:33:26 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: FLT-bird

Local to me, and it’s just stunning.

The former owner had a pack of Dobermans running around in it and put gargoyles on the parapets.

/give’em hell VDARE!


14 posted on 04/04/2024 2:39:35 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

Greatly loved local fixture and only the few whiny libs in BS have an issue

Everyone else is perfectly happy with the owners.


15 posted on 04/04/2024 2:43:21 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

Look up the interior and prepare to be stunned.

It is indeed stone and absolutely opulent.


16 posted on 04/04/2024 2:45:14 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

Sorry for the endless url but you have to see it

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sca_esv=5b98a6ebe0c52b0a&sca_upv=1&hl=en-us&sxsrf=ACQVn09RnjRlFKt1JzrM-UUIfXbNRqfU-g:1712224087491&q=berkeley+springs+castle+interior&uds=AMwkrPs-LU3B1Kau9M4iKV-eDhGq76-o0Hnkt6KXX-CG5r7TPHLr1E6plUO07OGcfb474IsZD4ru75Sm88PdnTcJ-jB3BB0vJsE_b6ghXkT_OglGrgSts2g__uH2b4QmOl3uBE8LSPP6TQgb0D_EsZ2HbxcWSnVJMiwGGsw-Fc2Xiqix45UCFz91YqDjSzXyOS3FF6_5XpwnlhoIl66JZ54aW_volAUT11oSp_kgTw6OyesSEU6lTzl75pddOhbBcyd4SZtUAZT8EEQtMHp22IZHCHgP2wdxQeqJRBrUZMMUSqpGdcOJEZBFeOHTEGq0EufaaMaKaj5RTnv7dltcCgIjDDLWRUMxAA-D8cLJl6g2enZVwA_d4oY&udm=2&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi6xIrko6iFAxX3M1kFHZlnDTMQxKsJegQIDxAB&ictx=0&biw=814&bih=344&dpr=3


17 posted on 04/04/2024 2:51:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

Redfin sale photos

Pure stone and glory.

https://www.redfin.com/WV/Berkeley-Springs/282-Buckys-Ln-25411/home/15956490


18 posted on 04/04/2024 3:00:12 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

At one time a group of “ parapsychologists” owned it.

The Dobe dude rented it out for weddings, parties and B&B.

I have known it my whole life and remember when it was a weed covered ruin.


19 posted on 04/04/2024 3:09:25 AM PDT by Salamander (Please visit my profile page help save my beloved dog's life. https://www.givesendgo.com/G2FUF.)
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To: Angelino97

Pretty. I like it.


20 posted on 04/04/2024 3:38:47 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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