vdare--2020-11-24--This Day In VDARE.com History, 2008: The Winchester Atrocity: Down The MSM Memory Hole While Cops Cl

This Day In VDARE.com History, 2008: The Winchester Atrocity: Down The MSM Memory Hole While Cops Claim It's Not A "Racial Crime"

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2008 .
All four rapists and murderers were convicted , one sentenced to life without parole , three sentenced to death .
This took five years .
None of the three who were sentenced to death have actually been executed .
Wikipedia , as of today , still contains a statement denying any racial motivation in the attack .
It is now 40 days since the tortured corpses of Marine Sgt .
Jan Pawel Pietrzak , a Polish immigrant , and his African-American bride of two months , Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sexual penetration with a foreign object '' were found in their new home in the small , Riverside County town of Winchester , CA .
I have dubbed this crime `` The Winchester Atrocity '' .
Although on the November 7 Good Morning America , Chris Cuomo said `` there 's more reporting to be done , to find out what 's really behind this , '' ABC News has ( as I predicted on November 11 , 2008 ) dropped the matter .
And , with the exception of a November 12 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a brief story about the accused 's not guilty plea , American media silence has reigned regarding the case since November 10 .
As journalists write the lies that are the first draft of `` history , '' they are guided by the lofty moral principle that some lives are more equal than others .
Thus have the MainStream Media [ MSM ] sent the Winchester Atrocity down the memory hole .
Apologists for the MSM tirelessly repeat the cliché about cable TV 's introduction of a `` 24-hour news cycle '' .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ never criticize socialist CNN . )
The 24-hour news cycle has managed to run its endless loops of the same-old , same-old , including stories condemning `` racist '' European figures for responding to the selection of `` Obama , '' as if they , and not we had a First Amendment , and blanket coverage of a single drunken white-on-immigrant killing in Long Island .
But no further mention of the Pietrzaks .
On November 11 , Veteran 's Day , Pietrzak 's mother , Henryka Pietrzak-Varga , wrote a letter , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
She sent the original to a Polish newspaper , Dziennik Wschodni , and an English translation to the Daily News .
The Polish story and the Daily News story discussing it ran on the same day .
In this age of anarcho-tyranny , Americans must often get their news of non-PC American incidents from foreign sources .
A letter about black racism ( or most anything else ) addressed to George W. Bush would just be a waste of time .
And there is the symbolism of writing of the murder of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ where they 'd planned to raise their family , to a man born of such a union .
Who said Poles are n't smart .
`` Death at war at the hands of an enemy is , for a soldier , a patriotic honor .
`` That fact alone enables his family to come to grips with the loss .
The death of a soldier in his country and at the hands of his own soldiers ... is a source of endless suffering for his family… .
`` Their lives were taken in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wife was raped in a bestial way , most likely as my son looked on helplessly… .
`` If it was a robbery , why did n't they come when nobody was home instead of in the dead of night - armed to the teeth ?
`` Why did this happen ?
What motivated them ?
What was it about my son and daughter-in-law that inspired such hatred and loathing ?
... `` [ Mrs. Pietrzak 's parents ] need to know why she , as a soldier 's wife , was killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Jan Pawel Pietrzak and daughter-in-law [ sic ] writes Obama for help , By Corky Siemaszko , November 12th 2008 , 3:47 PM , Daily News . ]
The questions are , of course , rhetorical .
Mrs. Pietrzak-Varga obviously knows full well why her son and daughter-in-law were murdered , and , like Mrs. Pietrzak 's mother , has rejected the official story .
What she is saying is : `` Attention must be paid . ''
The Riverside County prosecutor 's office continues to claim the motive was robbery .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lie to that story , which even ABC 's Chris Cuomo scoffed .
Only one news story , however , has explicitly addressed what others have tiptoed around gingerly , or suppressed altogether .
`` Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak 's father said he 's heard talk that the Marines - all of whom are black - visited pain on his gorgeous 26-year-old daughter because she was black and Pietrzak was white .
But he 's not ready to accept that horrible possibility .
`` ' I have no thought on any of that until the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ finally figure out why that happened , ' said Roy Jenkins . ''
[ 'Nobody deserves death like this , ' says DA in torture , slay of Marine , wife , By Nancy Dillon and Corky Siemaszko , November 10th , 2008 , 5:07 PM , Daily News . ]
If Mr. Jenkins waits on the authorities for a straight answer , he will wait in vain .
Riverside County cops rushed to toe the PC line : '' The brutal murders of Brooklyn-raised Marine Sgt .
Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact that he was white and she was black , a top cop said Thursday .
`` 'There 's nothing to suggest what happened was a racial crime , ' Investigator Josh Button of the Riverside County Sheriff 's Central Homicide unit said .
[ Email them ] ' I 've seen that reported , but it 's just people looking at the case from the outside and making up their own minds… . '
[ Brutal slay of Marine and his wife was not racially motivated , says cop , by Nancy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Daily News , November 14 , 2008 ] When the U.S. Marine Corps used to say that it was looking for `` a few good men , '' somehow I do n't think it had these four in mind : John and Miller served directly under Sgt .
Pietrzak .
All four men confessed to elements of the crime , blaming certain acts ( e.g.
, the rapes ) on their accomplices , while denying their own culpability for them .
At least three of the suspects sound like gangbangers or wannabes .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ but applicants with white supremacist ties are automatically screened out of the recruiting process .
Only white groups count as `` hate groups '' .
Pvt .
Kesuan Sykes , who admitted to cutting off the wife 's clothes , goes by the nickname , `` Psycho '' .
Lance Cpl .
Tyrone Miller , who allegedly forced his way in the home by sticking a shotgun in Pietrzak 's face , calls himself `` Cripgeneral '' on his Myspace page , and is being investigated for possible ties to the Crips gang @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , of Baltimore , named as the shooter by the three other suspects , had placed the photo caption , `` Chillin waitin 4 da killin , '' on his Myspace page .
John is `` an admitted collector of knives and swords '' , who also wrote that in his spare time , `` shooting s— '' and `` blowin s— up '' are a great `` stress reliever . ''
According to friends of Pvt .
Kevin Cox , he is a follower .
Reminiscent of the Knoxville Horror , rumors @ @ @ @ @ @ @ found $ 50,000 in wedding and re-enlistment bonus money in the house ; the murders were supposedly the result of a drug deal gone bad ; racial slurs were supposedly found written on the house 's walls .
Posters at newspaper Web sites complain of pervasive censorship against people explicitly voicing their suspicions that the murders were racially motivated .
The most despicable rumor of all was floated in a major newspaper .
Alleged reporters Angela Montefinise and Brad Hamilton wrote in `` Killer Marine 's Revenge Motive '' , in the November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a close friend '' of alleged shooter Emrys John , whose anonymity Montefinise and Hamilton protected , claimed that although John got along fine with Pietrzak , Tyrone Miller had `` complained of being mistreated by '' Pietrzak : `` John told me the sergeant was getting on Miller for the little things , and I guess they got sick of it .
I feel they just went over there to scare them , not to kill . ''
Well , in that case let 's give them all honorable discharges and a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the report , clearly the `` friend '' fancies that her phony story is both credible and mitigates the killers ' guilt .
It is a common practice by journalists to go easy on their sources .
But there is no moral or professional obligation to do so .
My hunch is that reporters typically do it because they agree with their sources .
If someone claiming to be a source is peddling a story that is moronic and/or has presuppositions that support pure evil , a responsible journalist has no business reporting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the course of exposing it and its purveyor 's dishonesty and/or vileness .
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning , 1985 study of Boston 's insane , federally-imposed experiment with forced busing for racial integration , Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas , then a New York Times reporter with impeccable liberal bona fides , provided four different explanations for why black Boston boys and young men engaged in crime : Money , their own racism , peer pressure and thrill-seeking .
But were any Timesman to write with such honesty today , he would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Riverside County DA 's Office to check out the rumors .
But at press time , spokesman Michael Jeandron had yet to respond to my message .
At message boards , some black posters showered contempt on the victims and those who condemned the killings .
But other black posters , such as the one below , insisted that the killings were racially motivated , and deserving of honest reporting and the ultimate punishment .
`` I was sickened to hear of the murder of Sgt Pietrzak and his wife Quiana , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I did n't know either of them personally , but when I heard the news about their murder I took it very much to heart nonetheless ... and most of my weekend was spent in tears and in outrage .
Why ?
Because I am a former woman Marine , a black woman who was married to a white man , another Marine , while on active duty ... and I remember all too well how back then there were a number of people who tried to made our lives a hell on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ couple !
`` What I find incredulous is how the media , officials and even ordinary citizens are attempting to play down the true and obvious reason why Sgt .
Pietrzak and Quiana lost their lives on October 15 .
So many people are in so much denial regarding this case .
I do n't believe for a nanosecond that this crime against the Pietrzaks was financially motivated .
If money were the only motive , then why commit a sexual assault ?
why attempt to set the house on fire ?
Why @ @ @ @ @ @ @ `` marines '' are supposedly protecting us against ?
`` Everything about this case points to a racially motivated hate crime which is fueled by sexual jealousy !
It is as much of a hate crime as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till and in 1998 to Matthew Shepherd… .
`` All who truly love America and personal freedoms and civil right can not allow others to sweep the facts under the rug .
Silence and denial equal complicity ... and the reluctance of the powers that be to tell the TRUTH @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it what it is ... A HATE CRIME ... will ensure that justice will not be served on behalf of the Pietrzaks , and that they will become yet another anonymous and forgotten statistic .
`` As far as I 'm concerned , those four MAGGOTS who committed this act of barbarism have lost the right to refer to themselves as Marines .
They WILL be punished ... if not in this world , then for sure in the Next ! ''
[ Marine Sgt Jan Pawel Pietrzak , Wife Quiana , Tortured @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Posted by Janet Shan , November 7 , 2008 , blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com ] I often write about racially-prejudiced black American women and bad immigrants who find sanctuary for their crimes .
Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak was a righteous black American woman and Jan Pawel Pietrzak one of the good immigrants .
No sanctuary for them .
Nicholas Stix [ email him ] lives in New York City , which he views from the perspective of its public transport system , experienced in his career as an educator .
His weekly column appears at Men 's News @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He has also written for Middle American News , the New York Daily News , New York Post , Newsday , Chronicles , Ideas on Liberty and the Weekly Standard .
He maintains two blogs : A Different Drummer and Nicholas Stix , Uncensored .

Originally published here on VDARE.com on this day in 2008. All four rapists and murderers were convicted, one sentenced to life without parole, three sentenced to death. This took five years. None of the three who were sentenced to death have actually been executed. Wikipedia, as of today, still contains a statement denying any racial motivation in the attack.
It is now 40 days since the tortured corpses of Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak, a Polish immigrant, and his African-American bride of two months, Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak, who was gang-raped and tortured via "sexual penetration with a foreign object" were found in their new home in the small, Riverside County town of Winchester, CA. I have dubbed this crime "The Winchester Atrocity".
Although on the November 7 Good Morning America, Chris Cuomo said "there's more reporting to be done, to find out what's really behind this," ABC News has (as I predicted on November 11, 2008) dropped the matter. And, with the exception of a November 12 New York Daily News story, and a brief story about the accused's not guilty plea, American media silence has reigned regarding the case since November 10.
As journalists write the lies that are the first draft of "history," they are guided by the lofty moral principle that some lives are more equal than others. Thus have the MainStream Media [MSM] sent the Winchester Atrocity down the memory hole.
Apologists for the MSM tirelessly repeat the cliché about cable TV's introduction of a "24-hour news cycle". (They mean Fox News; they never criticize socialist CNN.) The 24-hour news cycle has managed to run its endless loops of the same-old, same-old, including stories condemning "racist" European figures for responding to the selection of "Obama," as if they, and not we had a First Amendment, and blanket coverage of a single drunken white-on-immigrant killing in Long Island. But no further mention of the Pietrzaks.
On November 11, Veteran's Day, Pietrzak's mother, Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, wrote a letter, in Polish, addressed to the President-elect. She sent the original to a Polish newspaper, Dziennik Wschodni, and an English translation to the Daily News. The Polish story and the Daily News story discussing it ran on the same day.
In this age of anarcho-tyranny, Americans must often get their news of non-PC American incidents from foreign sources. A letter about black racism (or most anything else) addressed to George W. Bush would just be a waste of time. And there is the symbolism of writing of the murder of an interracial couple, in the home where they'd planned to raise their family, to a man born of such a union. Who said Poles aren't smart.
Henryka Pietrzak-Varga, the mother of murdered marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak wrote:
"Dear President-elect Barack Obama, they killed my son….
"Death at war at the hands of an enemy is, for a soldier, a patriotic honor.
"That fact alone enables his family to come to grips with the loss. The death of a soldier in his country and at the hands of his own soldiers ... is a source of endless suffering for his family….
"Their lives were taken in a bestial way. My son's wife was raped in a bestial way, most likely as my son looked on helplessly….
"If it was a robbery, why didn't they come when nobody was home instead of in the dead of night - armed to the teeth?
"Why did this happen? What motivated them? What was it about my son and daughter-in-law that inspired such hatred and loathing?...
"[Mrs. Pietrzak's parents] need to know why she, as a soldier's wife, was killed."[Mother of murdered marine Jan Pawel Pietrzak and daughter-in-law [sic] writes Obama for help, By Corky Siemaszko, November 12th 2008, 3:47 PM, Daily News.]
The questions are, of course, rhetorical. Mrs. Pietrzak-Varga obviously knows full well why her son and daughter-in-law were murdered, and, like Mrs. Pietrzak's mother, has rejected the official story. What she is saying is: "Attention must be paid."
The Riverside County prosecutor's office continues to claim the motive was robbery. But DA Rod Pacheco has himself given the lie to that story, which even ABC's Chris Cuomo scoffed.
Only one news story, however, has explicitly addressed what others have tiptoed around gingerly, or suppressed altogether.
"Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak's father said he's heard talk that the Marines - all of whom are black - visited pain on his gorgeous 26-year-old daughter because she was black and Pietrzak was white. But he's not ready to accept that horrible possibility.
"'I have no thought on any of that until the whole thing comes out, until they finally figure out why that happened,' said Roy Jenkins." ['Nobody deserves death like this,' says DA in torture, slay of Marine, wife, By Nancy Dillon and Corky Siemaszko, November 10th, 2008, 5:07 PM, Daily News.]
If Mr. Jenkins waits on the authorities for a straight answer, he will wait in vain. Riverside County cops rushed to toe the PC line:
"The brutal murders of Brooklyn-raised Marine Sgt. Jan Pawel Pietrzak and his wife had nothing to do with the fact that he was white and she was black, a top cop said Thursday.
"'There's nothing to suggest what happened was a racial crime,' Investigator Josh Button of the Riverside County Sheriff's Central Homicide unit said. [Email them]'I've seen that reported, but it's just people looking at the case from the outside and making up their own minds….' [Brutal slay of Marine and his wife was not racially motivated, says cop, by Nancy Dillon and Corky Siemaszko, New York Daily News, November 14, 2008]
When the U.S. Marine Corps used to say that it was looking for "a few good men," somehow I don't think it had these four in mind:
From left, Kevin Darnell Cox, 20 (IL, TN); Emrys Justin John, 18 (Baltimore); Tyrone Miller, 20 (NC); and Kesaun K. Sykes, 21 (CA).
John and Miller served directly under Sgt. Pietrzak. All four men confessed to elements of the crime, blaming certain acts (e.g., the rapes) on their accomplices, while denying their own culpability for them. At least three of the suspects sound like gangbangers or wannabes. Black and Hispanic gang-bangers are welcome, but applicants with white supremacist ties are automatically screened out of the recruiting process. Only white groups count as "hate groups".
Pvt. Kesuan Sykes, who admitted to cutting off the wife's clothes, goes by the nickname, "Psycho". Lance Cpl. Tyrone Miller, who allegedly forced his way in the home by sticking a shotgun in Pietrzak's face, calls himself "Cripgeneral" on his Myspace page, and is being investigated for possible ties to the Crips gang. Pvt. Emrys John, 18, of Baltimore, named as the shooter by the three other suspects, had placed the photo caption, "Chillin waitin 4 da killin," on his Myspace page. John is "an admitted collector of knives and swords", who also wrote that in his spare time, "shooting s—" and "blowin s— up" are a great "stress reliever." According to friends of Pvt. Kevin Cox, he is a follower.
Reminiscent of the Knoxville Horror, rumors abound on the Web. Police supposedly found $50,000 in wedding and re-enlistment bonus money in the house; the murders were supposedly the result of a drug deal gone bad; racial slurs were supposedly found written on the house's walls.
Posters at newspaper Web sites complain of pervasive censorship against people explicitly voicing their suspicions that the murders were racially motivated.
The most despicable rumor of all was floated in a major newspaper. Alleged reporters Angela Montefinise and Brad Hamilton wrote in "Killer Marine's Revenge Motive", in the November 9 New York Post, that "a close friend" of alleged shooter Emrys John, whose anonymity Montefinise and Hamilton protected, claimed that although John got along fine with Pietrzak, Tyrone Miller had "complained of being mistreated by" Pietrzak: "John told me the sergeant was getting on Miller for the little things, and I guess they got sick of it. I feel they just went over there to scare them, not to kill."
Well, in that case let's give them all honorable discharges and a tickertape parade!
In the context of the report, clearly the "friend" fancies that her phony story is both credible and mitigates the killers' guilt.
It is a common practice by journalists to go easy on their sources. But there is no moral or professional obligation to do so. My hunch is that reporters typically do it because they agree with their sources. If someone claiming to be a source is peddling a story that is moronic and/or has presuppositions that support pure evil, a responsible journalist has no business reporting it, or may only mention it in the course of exposing it and its purveyor's dishonesty and/or vileness.
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning, 1985 study of Boston's insane, federally-imposed experiment with forced busing for racial integration, Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas, then a New York Times reporter with impeccable liberal bona fides, provided four different explanations for why black Boston boys and young men engaged in crime: Money, their own racism, peer pressure and thrill-seeking. But were any Timesman to write with such honesty today, he would quickly become an ex-Timesman.
I called the Riverside County DA's Office to check out the rumors. But at press time, spokesman Michael Jeandron had yet to respond to my message.
At message boards, some black posters showered contempt on the victims and those who condemned the killings. But other black posters, such as the one below, insisted that the killings were racially motivated, and deserving of honest reporting and the ultimate punishment.
Sabrina November 10, 2008 12:51 PM
"I was sickened to hear of the murder of Sgt Pietrzak and his wife Quiana, two wonderful young people…. No, I didn't know either of them personally, but when I heard the news about their murder I took it very much to heart nonetheless...and most of my weekend was spent in tears and in outrage. Why? Because I am a former woman Marine, a black woman who was married to a white man, another Marine, while on active duty...and I remember all too well how back then there were a number of people who tried to made our lives a hell on earth simply because we were an interracial couple!
"What I find incredulous is how the media, officials and even ordinary citizens are attempting to play down the true and obvious reason why Sgt. Pietrzak and Quiana lost their lives on October 15. So many people are in so much denial regarding this case. I don't believe for a nanosecond that this crime against the Pietrzaks was financially motivated. If money were the only motive, then why commit a sexual assault? why attempt to set the house on fire? Why are they behaving like the terrorist these "marines" are supposedly protecting us against?
"Everything about this case points to a racially motivated hate crime which is fueled by sexual jealousy! It is as much of a hate crime as what happened in 1955 to Emmett Till and in 1998 to Matthew Shepherd….
"All who truly love America and personal freedoms and civil right cannot allow others to sweep the facts under the rug. Silence and denial equal complicity...and the reluctance of the powers that be to tell the TRUTH about this tragic case, and call it what it is...A HATE CRIME... will ensure that justice will not be served on behalf of the Pietrzaks, and that they will become yet another anonymous and forgotten statistic.
"As far as I'm concerned, those four MAGGOTS who committed this act of barbarism have lost the right to refer to themselves as Marines. They WILL be punished...if not in this world, then for sure in the Next!" [Marine Sgt Jan Pawel Pietrzak, Wife Quiana, Tortured and Murdered by Four Black Marines, Posted by Janet Shan, November 7, 2008, blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com]
I often write about racially-prejudiced black American women and bad immigrants who find sanctuary for their crimes. Quiana Jenkins-Pietrzak was a righteous black American woman and Jan Pawel Pietrzak one of the good immigrants.
No sanctuary for them.
Nicholas Stix [email him] lives in New York City, which he views from the perspective of its public transport system, experienced in his career as an educator. His weekly column appears at Men's News Daily and many other Web sites. He has also written for Middle American News, the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, Chronicles, Ideas on Liberty and the Weekly Standard. He maintains two blogs: A Different Drummer and Nicholas Stix, Uncensored.


vdare--2020-11-24--A Melancholy Anniversary: The White Ship Disaster, November 25, 1120

I 'm sure all our American readers know that last weekend saw the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims ' landing at Plymouth , as we have traditionally celebrated it—the precise date seems not to be known .
For English people tomorrow , November 25th 2020 , is a much more melancholy anniversary .
It is 900 years on from the greatest tragedy to befall their nation 's monarchy : the White Ship disaster .
As well as breaking the heart of King Henry I , the sinking of the White Ship was a tragedy for the English nation , as @ @ @ @ @ @ @ civil war described by novelist Ken Follett in The Pillars of the Earth .
On the upside , the disaster generated at least three fine 19th-century poems .
The best-known but much the longest ( 279 lines ) of the three is Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's 1881 `` The White Ship . ''
It 's in The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse—of which , if you do n't own a copy , you really should .
Shorter ( 32 lines ) but more expressive is Mrs. Heman 's 1830 poem `` He Never @ @ @ @ @ @ @ side of the Atlantic came `` Ballad of a Ship '' ( 1891 ) by Edwin Arlington Robinson , Teddy Roosevelt 's favorite poet .
This is shorter yet , only 28 lines , but beautifully crafted , ringing with measured assonance ( `` wild white bird '' ) and alliteration ( `` bones of the brave '' ) .
Nine hundred years , and still painful to read about .

I'm sure all our American readers know that last weekend saw the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth, as we have traditionally celebrated it—the precise date seems not to be known.
For English people tomorrow, November 25th 2020, is a much more melancholy anniversary. It is 900 years on from the greatest tragedy to befall their nation's monarchy: the White Ship disaster. As well as breaking the heart of King Henry I, the sinking of the White Ship was a tragedy for the English nation, as it led indirectly to the bloody 18-year civil war described by novelist Ken Follett in The Pillars of the Earth.
On the upside, the disaster generated at least three fine 19th-century poems. The best-known but much the longest (279 lines) of the three is Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 1881 "The White Ship." It's in The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse—of which, if you don't own a copy, you really should.
Shorter (32 lines) but more expressive is Mrs. Heman's 1830 poem "He Never Smiled Again."
Then from this side of the Atlantic came "Ballad of a Ship" (1891) by Edwin Arlington Robinson, Teddy Roosevelt's favorite poet. This is shorter yet, only 28 lines, but beautifully crafted, ringing with measured assonance ("wild white bird") and alliteration ("bones of the brave").
Nine hundred years, and still painful to read about.


vdare--2020-11-24--Michelle Malkin: COVIDGATE (Part Two): Clinical Trials and Crusader Bias

Participants in Pfizer and Moderna 's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials ca n't stop blabbing .
The media is overflowing with testimonials explaining `` Why I Volunteered '' or `` What It Was Like To Participate In The Clinical Trial For Moderna 's COVID-19 Vaccine . ''
Loudmouth liberal writer Molly Jong-Fast [ Tweet her ] publicly begged for beatification : `` Call Me the Joan of Arc of Coronavirus Vaccine Trials , '' Jong-Fast 's ode to herself in The New York Times implored .
A striking number of advocacy journalists milked their status as clinical trial enrollees , including @ @ @ @ @ @ @ affiliate anchor Dawn Baker , USA Today writers Jackie Hajdenberg and Lindy Washburn , BBC science journalist Richard Fisher , Reuters writer Steve Stecklow and John Yang of the `` PBS Newshour . ''
They describe their experiences in emotional terms— '' empowering , '' `` making history '' and `` a miracle for genetic medicine . ''
Most did not bother to hide their pro-Big Pharma perspectives .
Given their breaches of journalistic neutrality , it 's hard to imagine they were able to contain themselves at the lab , either .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ universal immunization .
Jong-Fast wrote that a doctor involved in her trial divulged to her that `` people had so few symptoms that they thought they were in the placebo arm of the study . ''
The flood of public comments from these zealous media cheerleaders and other clinical trial volunteers who 've posted online raises alarming questions about the integrity of the clinical trial process .
Pfizer and Moderna 's phase III clinical trials are randomized and placebo-controlled , meaning each person has an equal chance of receiving the vaccine or a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be `` double-blind , '' meaning that neither the volunteers nor the clinical trial investigators knew which group received which shots ( although the administrators of the shots know who 's getting what ) .
Blinding prevents patients ' beliefs about the treatment from influencing the outcome of the study and also prevents investigators from inadvertently revealing clues about which treatment the subjects are receiving .
But scores of comments on Twitter and Facebook from trial volunteers have exposed a phenomenon I call `` crusader bias '' that should trouble any adherent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ submitting all of my findings to the FDA this week as public comments in advance of the Dec. 10 hearing on the Pfizer COVID vaccine .
Dozens of self-identified Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine volunteers joined a private Facebook group originally dedicated to discussing Moderna investments this year to dish about their experiences .
I obtained screenshots that showed volunteers discussing antibody test results they got on their own from commercial labs while the trials are still ongoing .
They are trading information on how to get antibody tests , sharing their symptoms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their trials and enroll in new ones if they suspect they did n't get the vaccine .
Among the clinical trial volunteers ' gossipy disclosures , many of which threaten the integrity of the blinding procedure in the still-ongoing trials : • One woman , K.C.
, told the Facebook group that her shot during the Pfizer vaccine trial `` was covered in a bunch of tape , but the part I could see was dark . ''
A man , T.R.
, responded by posting a picture of his vial , partially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ visible .
`` They made me turn my head , but I got a peek , '' K.C .
told T.R .
• Another volunteer , J.D.T.
, said that `` someone working at study site '' told him `` the placebo and the vaccine are different colors . ''
• Two participants discussed being able to guess if they got the vaccine based on whether the administrator rushed into the room to inject volunteers .
`` The vaccine has to remain at a certain temp so once ready , it has to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of questions , '' one advised the other .
• K.D.
, a woman identifying herself as a pathologist who works `` at a private lab '' told her fellow volunteers that she tested `` negative right before the first dose '' during a Moderna clinical trial and negative `` two weeks after first dose . ''
She shared information on how to get antibody rapid testing done and offered to do them at her lab in Little Rock .
• When one volunteer expressed her concern that antibody testing was `` kind @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the rules of the study , '' another argued `` My trial site said go for it .
There is nothing in the legal documentation that says you can not . ''
• `` Screw it , '' said another volunteer who initially worried about jeopardizing his clinical trial 's scientific integrity .
`` I 'm jumping on board and taking an antibody test . ''
On Twitter , Icahn School of Medicine microbiology professor and clinical trial volunteer Benjamin tenOever boasted that he had `` two adverse-free shots and 'sky high ' @ @ @ @ @ @ @ He said he paid for the antibody test from a commercial lab facility , presumably not part of the still-ongoing clinical trial .
He gloated : `` The future is bright .
Thank you @ Pfizer . ''
Swedish infectious disease physician and European medicines regulator Rebecca Chandler responded bluntly : '' This is ethically concerning . ''
Indeed .
The science on COVID-19 testing and vaccine trials is not `` settled . ''
It 's unsettling in the extreme .
Michelle Malkin [ Email her ] is the author of Invasion : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores .
Click here for Peter Brimelow ’ s review .
Click here for Michelle Malkin 's website .
Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged : Exposing Liberals Gone Wild , Culture of Corruption : Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats , Crooks & Cronies , , Who Built That : Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs , and Sold Out : How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America 's Best & Brightest Workers .
Malkin is author of the book @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Who 's Funding America 's Destruction , '' available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover .
To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists , visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com .
COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM

Earlier: Michelle Malkin: COVIDGATE—The Corruption of Clinical Trials (Part One)
Participants in Pfizer and Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials can't stop blabbing. The media is overflowing with testimonials explaining "Why I Volunteered" or "What It Was Like To Participate In The Clinical Trial For Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine." Loudmouth liberal writer Molly Jong-Fast [Tweet her] publicly begged for beatification: "Call Me the Joan of Arc of Coronavirus Vaccine Trials," Jong-Fast's ode to herself in The New York Times implored.
A striking number of advocacy journalists milked their status as clinical trial enrollees, including Washington Post staffer Walter Isaacson, CNN affiliate anchor Dawn Baker, USA Today writers Jackie Hajdenberg and Lindy Washburn, BBC science journalist Richard Fisher, Reuters writer Steve Stecklow and John Yang of the "PBS Newshour." They describe their experiences in emotional terms—"empowering," "making history" and "a miracle for genetic medicine." Most did not bother to hide their pro-Big Pharma perspectives.
Given their breaches of journalistic neutrality, it's hard to imagine they were able to contain themselves at the lab, either. They downplayed vaccine side effects and promoted universal immunization. Jong-Fast wrote that a doctor involved in her trial divulged to her that "people had so few symptoms that they thought they were in the placebo arm of the study."
The flood of public comments from these zealous media cheerleaders and other clinical trial volunteers who've posted online raises alarming questions about the integrity of the clinical trial process. Pfizer and Moderna's phase III clinical trials are randomized and placebo-controlled, meaning each person has an equal chance of receiving the vaccine or a placebo. The studies are also supposed to be "double-blind," meaning that neither the volunteers nor the clinical trial investigators knew which group received which shots (although the administrators of the shots know who's getting what).
Blinding prevents patients' beliefs about the treatment from influencing the outcome of the study and also prevents investigators from inadvertently revealing clues about which treatment the subjects are receiving. But scores of comments on Twitter and Facebook from trial volunteers have exposed a phenomenon I call "crusader bias" that should trouble any adherent of good science. I will be submitting all of my findings to the FDA this week as public comments in advance of the Dec. 10 hearing on the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
Dozens of self-identified Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine volunteers joined a private Facebook group originally dedicated to discussing Moderna investments this year to dish about their experiences. I obtained screenshots that showed volunteers discussing antibody test results they got on their own from commercial labs while the trials are still ongoing. They are trading information on how to get antibody tests, sharing their symptoms and plotting how to drop out of their trials and enroll in new ones if they suspect they didn't get the vaccine.
Among the clinical trial volunteers' gossipy disclosures, many of which threaten the integrity of the blinding procedure in the still-ongoing trials:
One woman, K.C., told the Facebook group that her shot during the Pfizer vaccine trial "was covered in a bunch of tape, but the part I could see was dark." A man, T.R., responded by posting a picture of his vial, partially covered in tape with a dark liquid visible. "They made me turn my head, but I got a peek," K.C. told T.R.
Another volunteer, J.D.T., said that "someone working at study site" told him "the placebo and the vaccine are different colors."
Two participants discussed being able to guess if they got the vaccine based on whether the administrator rushed into the room to inject volunteers. "The vaccine has to remain at a certain temp so once ready, it has to go. Pays to ask a lot of questions," one advised the other.
K.D., a woman identifying herself as a pathologist who works "at a private lab" told her fellow volunteers that she tested "negative right before the first dose" during a Moderna clinical trial and negative "two weeks after first dose." She shared information on how to get antibody rapid testing done and offered to do them at her lab in Little Rock.
When one volunteer expressed her concern that antibody testing was "kind of 'cheating'" and "against the rules of the study," another argued "My trial site said go for it. There is nothing in the legal documentation that says you cannot."
"Screw it," said another volunteer who initially worried about jeopardizing his clinical trial's scientific integrity. "I'm jumping on board and taking an antibody test."
On Twitter, Icahn School of Medicine microbiology professor and clinical trial volunteer Benjamin tenOever boasted that he had "two adverse-free shots and 'sky high' antibody levels after four weeks." He said he paid for the antibody test from a commercial lab facility, presumably not part of the still-ongoing clinical trial. He gloated: "The future is bright. Thank you @Pfizer." Swedish infectious disease physician and European medicines regulator Rebecca Chandler responded bluntly:
"This is ethically concerning."
Indeed. The science on COVID-19 testing and vaccine trials is not "settled." It's unsettling in the extreme.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Michelle Malkin [Email her] is the author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website. Michelle Malkin is also the author of Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild, Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies, ,Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs, and Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America's Best & Brightest Workers.
Malkin is author of the book, "Open Borders, Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction," available directly from VDARE.com in hardcover. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2019 CREATORS.COM


vdare--2020-11-23--The VDARE.com Year-End Appeal Kicks Off #GivingTuesday Dec 1

Twenty years of vigorous defense of the Historic American Nation and just beginning 20 years ago , when VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow launched this site , he named it after Virginia Dare , the first English child born in the New World , in 1587 .
Peter recognized that Virginia Dare ’ s story , once a fixture of every American ’ s grade school education , had fallen out of fashion , edged out by the multicultural agenda .
Today , another story from America ’ s heritage that VDARE.com is determined to keep in fashion is particularly relevant @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the Mayflower Compact—signed November 21 , 1620 .
The Mayflower Pilgrims ’ suffering and sacrifice are critical elements of their story , but it is their dissent in the face of powerful persecution , their survival against the odds– indeed the fact that they flourished and did so with orderly , voluntary self-government—that inspires patriotic Americans today .
The Pilgrims had enormous impact on the world .
Among their estimated 35 million descendants are a dozen Presidents including both Adamses , both Roosevelts and both Bushes , along with many other notables @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Monroe , Amelia Earhart , Astronaut Alan Shepard , Warren Buffett and Winston Churchill .
The Mayflower Compact , signed before they got off the ship at Plymouth Rock , was the first exercise in voluntary self-government from and by the consent of the governed , in the English-speaking world , not to mention the New World , and it inspired the Framers of the Constitution .
In 1802 , President John Quincy Adams said that it was “ the only instance in human history of that positive , original , social compact.
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiment .
Rather , it was a group of Englishmen doing things in the ways that had become ingrained in their culture over a thousand years of development ( even before Magna Carta ) .
The United States of America is not an experiment .
Rather , the Constitution which formed the nation was an expression of the same culture that shaped the Mayflower Compact and the government that grew from it .
Without the Mayflower Pilgrims and their courage to dissent it is fair to say , the Historic American Nation would @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 400 years later , we Americans must again choose self-government , as shaped by that same heritage .
We must rediscover what it means to choose America First policies domestically and abroad .
We must choose again , as the Pilgrims did , to join together not just to survive , but also to flourish and grow in the context of the nation and culture that have provided freedom and plenty on a historically unimaginable scale to those who have embraced it , and provided it generously to millions more around the world @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and support that American cultural reawakening .
It is only website dedicated solely to patriotic immigration reform and the National Question .
VDARE.com is the voice of the Historic American Nation .
We publish multiple posts a day covering US immigration policy and a broad spectrum of related Politically Incorrect topics .
VDARE.com has also striven to bring patriots together in conferences to discuss the urgent ideas of our time and to develop personal bonds .
However , Cancel Culture in the form of Antifa harassment caused ten hotels in a row over @ @ @ @ @ @ @ us and refuse our business after planning had already begun .
To defy the Cancelers ( dare we call them Haters ? )
and to free and amplify patriotic voices in America , VDARE took the bold step of purchasing our own venue .
In Spring of 2020 , Berkeley Springs Castle in Berkeley Springs , West Virginia became a new center for the defense of the Historic American Nation .
Renovations are underway .
By summer of 2021 VDARE will throw the gates open and welcome our many readers and supporters to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in our own , un-cancelable , secure and private space .
The Berkeley Springs Castle is now the cornerstone of an enduring institution dedicated to the defense and advancement of America—not an “ idea ” or “ experiment , ” but a nation resting on our inherited culture , our people and our home .
One of the great political challenges of our time is the vacuum where America First institutions and leaders should be .
President Trump accomplished many positive things on immigration during these past few years , but few of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ there is no enduring legislated check on mass immigration .
Escalating unofficial but effective censorship via “ cancel culture ” and digital “ de-platforming ” strangles grassroots communications and blights patriotic efforts .
In this new regime of political terror , outspoken patriots know they expose their reputations and livelihoods to smear campaigns and mob action .
VDARE.com freely accepts that risk and more .
We take the fight back to those who would destroy America .
We are led by individuals with real names and faces .
We move forward in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ risks for righteous dissent .
We defend and advance the cause of our home our culture and our people—no matter what the costs .
For 20 years , VDARE has stood strong for patriotic immigration reform , and the Historic American Nation .
We are only getting started .
From the December 1st until the end of the year , VDARE.com will run our most important annual fundraiser .
Our goal is $ 200,000 .
Here ’ s a glimpse of what you can expect in the coming weeks : • December 1 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Springs Castle : Join Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire fireside as they take your questions and toast to the season during this annual event , streamed live here on VDARE.com .
As a special unveiling , since the pandemic has prevented our plans to gather and celebrate in person , we will also be giving a walking tour of the castle itself !
• 1620 Society : In honor of the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact , we are proud to announce the newly formed 1620 Society .
VDARE.com ’ s work @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of generous donors who share our commitment to the Historic American Nation , and I hope you consider joining in .
Stay tuned for exciting membership details to be announced soon .
• Mayflower testimonials : Throughout the month of December we will feature letters from our readers who are inspired by America ’ s Mayflower forebears—whether as descendants or as people who have embraced traditional American culture and made it their own .
If you have a message you ’ d like to share about what the Pilgrims mean to you , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
• Matching funds : On Giving Tuesday ( Dec 1 ) and other times during the fundraising drive , you ’ ll see that generous supporters have come forward with matching pledges to multiply the value of your gift .
I hope you ’ ll help us meet these goals as they arise !
• Book Specials : Stay tuned for Black Friday sales and raffle prizes for donors looking for that special book to round out the collection !
• VDARE20 Finale : Christmas Eve will close out our year-long celebration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as we delve into the archives a final time and hear from some of our wonderful friends—including some that may surprise you !
This has been a year of overwhelming obstacles—from the pandemic to the election , from violence in the street and destruction in our cities to censorship in the media , political persecution becomes more and more common .
Yet despite the challenges , VDARE.com has remained constant .
Our writers and staff have worked harder than ever to inform the fight America American .
Our movement grows as patriotic immigration @ @ @ @ @ @ @ message .
At the Berkeley Springs Castle , we now have a safe space to bring the best people together , incubate the best ideas and develop the strategies that preserve America as the founders intended , “ for ourselves and our posterity.
” Despite what the leftists want you to believe , the Historic American Nation did not start with African slaves , or Ellis Island immigrants .
The Historic American Nation started with Virginia Dare , and later Jamestown and then the Pilgrims .
And it hasn ’ t stopped yet @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue to defend it—with your help .
See you at the castle December 1st—and thank you so much for your support !

Twenty years of vigorous defense of the Historic American Nation and just beginning
20 years ago, when VDARE.com Editor Peter Brimelow launched this site, he named it after Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the New World, in 1587.
Peter recognized that Virginia Dare’s story, once a fixture of every American’s grade school education, had fallen out of fashion, edged out by the multicultural agenda.
Today, another story from America’s heritage that VDARE.com is determined to keep in fashion is particularly relevant: This year marked the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact—signed November 21, 1620.
The Mayflower Pilgrims’ suffering and sacrifice are critical elements of their story, but it is their dissent in the face of powerful persecution, their survival against the odds– indeed the fact that they flourished and did so with orderly, voluntary self-government—that inspires patriotic Americans today.
The Pilgrims had enormous impact on the world. Among their estimated 35 million descendants are a dozen Presidents including both Adamses, both Roosevelts and both Bushes, along with many other notables as diverse as Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Amelia Earhart, Astronaut Alan Shepard, Warren Buffett and Winston Churchill.
The Mayflower Compact, signed before they got off the ship at Plymouth Rock, was the first exercise in voluntary self-government from and by the consent of the governed, in the English-speaking world, not to mention the New World, and it inspired the Framers of the Constitution. In 1802, President John Quincy Adams said that it was “the only instance in human history of that positive, original, social compact.”
The Mayflower Compact was not an experiment. Rather, it was a group of Englishmen doing things in the ways that had become ingrained in their culture over a thousand years of development (even before Magna Carta). The United States of America is not an experiment. Rather, the Constitution which formed the nation was an expression of the same culture that shaped the Mayflower Compact and the government that grew from it.
Without the Mayflower Pilgrims and their courage to dissent it is fair to say, the Historic American Nation would be unrecognizable—perhaps even non-existent.
Now, 400 years later, we Americans must again choose self-government, as shaped by that same heritage. We must rediscover what it means to choose America First policies domestically and abroad. We must choose again, as the Pilgrims did, to join together not just to survive, but also to flourish and grow in the context of the nation and culture that have provided freedom and plenty on a historically unimaginable scale to those who have embraced it, and provided it generously to millions more around the world.
VDARE.com exists to guide, promote and support that American cultural reawakening. It is only website dedicated solely to patriotic immigration reform and the National Question. VDARE.com is the voice of the Historic American Nation. We publish multiple posts a day covering US immigration policy and a broad spectrum of related Politically Incorrect topics.
VDARE.com has also striven to bring patriots together in conferences to discuss the urgent ideas of our time and to develop personal bonds. However, Cancel Culture in the form of Antifa harassment caused ten hotels in a row over a three-year period to terminate contracts with us and refuse our business after planning had already begun.
To defy the Cancelers (dare we call them Haters?) and to free and amplify patriotic voices in America, VDARE took the bold step of purchasing our own venue. In Spring of 2020, Berkeley Springs Castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia became a new center for the defense of the Historic American Nation. Renovations are underway. By summer of 2021 VDARE will throw the gates open and welcome our many readers and supporters to parties, dinners, meeting and conferences in our own, un-cancelable, secure and private space.
The Berkeley Springs Castle is now the cornerstone of an enduring institution dedicated to the defense and advancement of America—not an “idea” or “experiment,” but a nation resting on our inherited culture, our people and our home.
One of the great political challenges of our time is the vacuum where America First institutions and leaders should be. President Trump accomplished many positive things on immigration during these past few years, but few of them are permanent. Above all, there is no enduring legislated check on mass immigration. Escalating unofficial but effective censorship via “cancel culture” and digital “de-platforming” strangles grassroots communications and blights patriotic efforts. In this new regime of political terror, outspoken patriots know they expose their reputations and livelihoods to smear campaigns and mob action.
VDARE.com freely accepts that risk and more. We take the fight back to those who would destroy America. We are led by individuals with real names and faces. We move forward in the spirit of the Pilgrims who took great risks for righteous dissent. We defend and advance the cause of our home our culture and our people—no matter what the costs. For 20 years, VDARE has stood strong for patriotic immigration reform, and the Historic American Nation. We are only getting started.
From the December 1st until the end of the year, VDARE.com will run our most important annual fundraiser. Our goal is $200,000.
Here’s a glimpse of what you can expect in the coming weeks:
December 1: Giving Tuesday Livestream from the Berkeley Springs Castle: Join Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire fireside as they take your questions and toast to the season during this annual event, streamed live here on VDARE.com. As a special unveiling, since the pandemic has prevented our plans to gather and celebrate in person, we will also be giving a walking tour of the castle itself!
Join Peter Brimelow and John Derbyshire fireside as they take your questions and toast to the season during this annual event, streamed live here on VDARE.com. As a special unveiling, since the pandemic has prevented our plans to gather and celebrate in person, we will also be giving a walking tour of the castle itself! 1620 Society : In honor of the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact, we are proud to announce the newly formed 1620 Society. VDARE.com’s work can only be accomplished with the support of generous donors who share our commitment to the Historic American Nation, and I hope you consider joining in. Stay tuned for exciting membership details to be announced soon.
: In honor of the 400th Anniversary of the Mayflower Compact, we are proud to announce the newly formed 1620 Society. VDARE.com’s work can only be accomplished with the support of generous donors who share our commitment to the Historic American Nation, and I hope you consider joining in. Stay tuned for exciting membership details to be announced soon. Mayflower testimonials : Throughout the month of December we will feature letters from our readers who are inspired by America’s Mayflower forebears—whether as descendants or as people who have embraced traditional American culture and made it their own. If you have a message you’d like to share about what the Pilgrims mean to you, please send it to rose@vdare.com.
: Throughout the month of December we will feature letters from our readers who are inspired by America’s Mayflower forebears—whether as descendants or as people who have embraced traditional American culture and made it their own. If you have a message you’d like to share about what the Pilgrims mean to you, please send it to rose@vdare.com. Matching funds : On Giving Tuesday (Dec 1) and other times during the fundraising drive, you’ll see that generous supporters have come forward with matching pledges to multiply the value of your gift. I hope you’ll help us meet these goals as they arise!
: On Giving Tuesday (Dec 1) and other times during the fundraising drive, you’ll see that generous supporters have come forward with matching pledges to multiply the value of your gift. I hope you’ll help us meet these goals as they arise! Book Specials : Stay tuned for Black Friday sales and raffle prizes for donors looking for that special book to round out the collection!
: Stay tuned for Black Friday sales and raffle prizes for donors looking for that special book to round out the collection! VDARE20 Finale: Christmas Eve will close out our year-long celebration of VDARE.com’s 20th Join us as we delve into the archives a final time and hear from some of our wonderful friends—including some that may surprise you!
This has been a year of overwhelming obstacles—from the pandemic to the election, from violence in the street and destruction in our cities to censorship in the media, political persecution becomes more and more common.
Yet despite the challenges, VDARE.com has remained constant. Our writers and staff have worked harder than ever to inform the fight America American.
Our movement grows as patriotic immigration reformers all over the country discover our message. At the Berkeley Springs Castle, we now have a safe space to bring the best people together, incubate the best ideas and develop the strategies that preserve America as the founders intended, “for ourselves and our posterity.”
Despite what the leftists want you to believe, the Historic American Nation did not start with African slaves, or Ellis Island immigrants. The Historic American Nation started with Virginia Dare, and later Jamestown and then the Pilgrims.
And it hasn’t stopped yet. At VDARE.com, we’ll continue to defend it—with your help.
See you at the castle December 1st—and thank you so much for your support!
Lydia Brimelow
VDARE.com Publisher


vdare--2020-11-23--Patrick J. Buchanan: What Will Trump Leave In Biden's Foreign Policy Inbox?

Dismissing President Donald Trump 's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided , Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team .
Right now , it looks Democratic establishment all the way .
Antony Blinken , a longtime foreign policy aide , is Biden 's choice for secretary of state .
Jake Sullivan , one of Hillary Clinton 's closest aides , is said to be his choice for national security adviser .
Biden 's urgency in naming his foreign policy team is understandable .
For if his election is confirmed by the Electoral College , then he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a lineup of foreign policy crises .
First is Afghanistan .
While a Beltway battle has erupted over the wisdom of Trump 's decision to cut in half , to 2,500 , the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by Jan. 15 , no one denies the risk this entails for the besieged pro-American government in Kabul .
Ex-Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan Ryan Crocker summed it up Friday before the House Armed Services Committee : `` The worst thing we can do is what we are doing .
... Basically telling the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Let 's dress this up as best we can . '
'' America `` is waving the white flag '' of surrender , said Crocker .
Saturday , a barrage of rockets slammed into the Green Zone of Kabul where many embassies are located , killing eight and wounding two dozen .
The Islamic State claimed responsibility .
As President Biden is not going to send fresh regiments of U.S. troops back to Afghanistan , he could , in his first year , face a collapse of the Kabul regime and a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ expelled from power 19 years ago for hosting the al-Qaida terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 .
Biden could , in his first days in office , preside over the first U.S. defeat in a major war since Vietnam .
A second situation confronting the new president is China .
For the China of 2021 is not the China with which Barack Obama and Biden had to deal .
The China of today revels in its Communist ideology .
It openly crushes democratic dissent in Hong Kong and defends `` reeducation camps '' for Muslim @ @ @ @ @ @ @ naval forces and missile threats to assert and to defend its claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea , to Taiwan , and to the Senkaku Islands that Japan controls and claims .
U.S. planes and ships flying close to Chinese territorial claims are intercepted and treated as hostile .
This is not a China that is going to back down before American power .
If the U.S. imposes sanctions on Beijing , then Beijing will reciprocate with sanctions on the U.S. And if the U.S. decides to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be surprised if China reciprocates in kind .
President Biden , it is said , will find a way to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump rudely exited .
And how will this sit with Israel ?
Sunday , at a memorial service for Founding Father David Ben-Gurion , Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu sent a message , clearly for Biden : `` We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons .
...
There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ now-regular Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian-backed militias in Syria , Iraq and Lebanon ?
What would Biden do if Iran responded with attacks on Israel ?
This is not an academic question .
Sunday , the Israelis launched new attacks on Iranian-backed militia in Syria , and Trump has said that if an Iranian hand is found behind an attack that kills an American , then the U.S. will retaliate against Iran .
While his foreign policy advisers argued successfully against a Trump proposal for a preemptive strike on Iran 's nuclear @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on Iranian-backed militia in Syria could produce retaliation , and a sudden larger and wider war .
Worst-case scenario : Iran responds to an Israeli attack ; Americans are killed ; Trump retaliates ; and Biden inherits a war with Iran he must fight or seek to end .
Then , there are the human rights backsliders that are U.S. partners and allies—Turkey , Egypt , Saudi Arabia .
How does Biden deal with the party 's progressives who demand he sanction such partner-nations—without risking the loss of these countries ' cooperation on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with regard to Afghanistan is also true of Syria and Iraq .
How do we extract our military from these endless conflicts without losing any leverage we have , and with it losing our influence over the composition and character of the regime and its direction ?
`` America First '' has an answer to these questions : If there are no vital U.S. interests imperiled , keep U.S. troops out .
And ashcan the utopian nonsense of trying to plant democracy in the sandy soil of a Middle East that has shown @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The interventionalists got us into the sandbox .
Let 's see if they can get us out .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority .
His latest book , published May , 2018 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Dismissing President Donald Trump's claim that the 2020 election remains undecided, Joe Biden has begun to name his national security team.
Right now, it looks Democratic establishment all the way.
Antony Blinken, a longtime foreign policy aide, is Biden's choice for secretary of state. Jake Sullivan, one of Hillary Clinton's closest aides, is said to be his choice for national security adviser.
Biden's urgency in naming his foreign policy team is understandable.
For if his election is confirmed by the Electoral College, then he will find himself on Jan. 20 with a lineup of foreign policy crises.
First is Afghanistan. While a Beltway battle has erupted over the wisdom of Trump's decision to cut in half, to 2,500, the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan by Jan. 15, no one denies the risk this entails for the besieged pro-American government in Kabul.
Ex-Ambassador to Afghanistan and Pakistan Ryan Crocker summed it up Friday before the House Armed Services Committee: "The worst thing we can do is what we are doing. ... Basically telling the Taliban, 'You win. We lose. Let's dress this up as best we can.'"
America "is waving the white flag" of surrender, said Crocker.
Saturday, a barrage of rockets slammed into the Green Zone of Kabul where many embassies are located, killing eight and wounding two dozen. The Islamic State claimed responsibility.
As President Biden is not going to send fresh regiments of U.S. troops back to Afghanistan, he could, in his first year, face a collapse of the Kabul regime and a triumph of the Taliban, whom we expelled from power 19 years ago for hosting the al-Qaida terrorists who perpetrated 9/11.
Biden could, in his first days in office, preside over the first U.S. defeat in a major war since Vietnam.
A second situation confronting the new president is China. For the China of 2021 is not the China with which Barack Obama and Biden had to deal. The China of today revels in its Communist ideology.
It openly crushes democratic dissent in Hong Kong and defends "reeducation camps" for Muslim Uighurs in Xinjiang, uses air and naval forces and missile threats to assert and to defend its claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, to Taiwan, and to the Senkaku Islands that Japan controls and claims.
U.S. planes and ships flying close to Chinese territorial claims are intercepted and treated as hostile.
This is not a China that is going to back down before American power. If the U.S. imposes sanctions on Beijing, then Beijing will reciprocate with sanctions on the U.S. And if the U.S. decides to use force, the U.S. should not be surprised if China reciprocates in kind.
President Biden, it is said, will find a way to rejoin the Iran nuclear deal from which Trump rudely exited.
And how will this sit with Israel?
Sunday, at a memorial service for Founding Father David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu sent a message, clearly for Biden: "We must stick to an uncompromising policy to ensure that Iran does not develop nuclear weapons. ... There must be no return to the previous nuclear agreement."
How will Biden deal with the now-regular Israeli attacks on Iran and Iranian-backed militias in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon? What would Biden do if Iran responded with attacks on Israel?
This is not an academic question. Sunday, the Israelis launched new attacks on Iranian-backed militia in Syria, and Trump has said that if an Iranian hand is found behind an attack that kills an American, then the U.S. will retaliate against Iran.
While his foreign policy advisers argued successfully against a Trump proposal for a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear enrichment plant at Natanz, Israeli strikes on Iranian-backed militia in Syria could produce retaliation, and a sudden larger and wider war.
Worst-case scenario: Iran responds to an Israeli attack; Americans are killed; Trump retaliates; and Biden inherits a war with Iran he must fight or seek to end.
Then, there are the human rights backsliders that are U.S. partners and allies—Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia. How does Biden deal with the party's progressives who demand he sanction such partner-nations—without risking the loss of these countries' cooperation on our policy agenda?
And the question with regard to Afghanistan is also true of Syria and Iraq. How do we extract our military from these endless conflicts without losing any leverage we have, and with it losing our influence over the composition and character of the regime and its direction?
"America First" has an answer to these questions:
If there are no vital U.S. interests imperiled, keep U.S. troops out. And ashcan the utopian nonsense of trying to plant democracy in the sandy soil of a Middle East that has shown itself unreceptive to that particular crop.
The interventionalists got us into the sandbox. Let's see if they can get us out.
COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-11-26--Radio Derb Transcript Up For November 20:  Bailing On Tucker, Will China Eat Our Lunch?, And Defund

Radio Derb Transcript Up For November 20:  Bailing On Tucker, Will China Eat Our Lunch?, And Defund The Universities, Etc.

The Radio Derb transcript is up for November 20 .
Go here to read or listen .
00m48s Bailing on @ @ @ @ @ n't have hurt . )
14m22s Forgive us our debts .
( Better yet , @ @ @ @ @ . )
19m47s Will China eat our lunch ?
( Report on a Zoom call @ @ @ @ @ pushy .
( Five Eyes , Quad , and BRICS . )
35m27s Are Asians @ @ @ @ @ but they 're Ice People . )
40m24s Coup in Peru .
( Not much @ @ @

The Radio Derb transcript is up for November 20. Go here to read or listen.
Playlist
00m48s Bailing on Tucker. (It wouldn't have hurt.)
14m22s Forgive us our debts. (Better yet, make the colleges eat 'em.)
19m47s Will China eat our lunch? (Report on a Zoom call.)
24m27s ChiComs get pushy. (Five Eyes, Quad, and BRICS.)
33m03s Deplatforming Treehouse. (No, not mine.)
34m15s Biden's economic plan. (Hire race grifters.)
35m27s Are Asians white? (No, but they're Ice People.)
37m09s Destroying the Boy Scouts. (A lawyers' ramp.)
39m22s A handy device. (Lonely in Japan.)
40m24s Coup in Peru. (Not much news.)
40m37s Signoff. (With a British tenor.)


vdare--2020-11-25--Patrick J. Buchanan: A Historic Presidency

Earlier , by Peter Brimelow : A Long Farewell To Donald Trump , Immigration Patriot .
And Thanks .
In the first two decades of the century , President-elect Joe Biden 's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan , Iraq , Libya , Syria and Yemen .
He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist .
This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed .
What establishment Democrats like Biden and Blinken helped to do in previous administrations , they will likely now @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sea change in national thinking ?
Donald Trump .
Much that was said and believed before he came down the escalator in 2015 is no longer said or believed by the majority of Americans .
And no institution has been more altered than the Republican Party .
George H. W. Bush 's vision of a `` New World Order , '' launched at the after-party of his Gulf War victory , died with his presidency .
George W. Bush 's crusade for global democracy to `` end tyranny in our world '' has @ @ @ @ @ @ @ speak for the party on foreign policy , trade or immigration .
NATO will never be the same again after Trump rudely demanded that freeloading nations pay their fair share of the collective defense or the Americans would pack up and come home from Europe .
Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis may call for the ash-canning of the phrase `` America First . ''
He will fail .
For , as both national motto and national policy , the slogan has put down roots in American soil because it comports with the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the establishment believes , in the clash between nationalism and globalism , globalism has lost America .
Moreover , the world is going this way .
Does not Xi Jinping put his own country first as he claims for China all the waters and islands for hundreds of miles into the East and South China seas ?
Does not Vladimir Putin put his own country first as he seeks to bring back under Moscow 's wing the former republics of the Russian federation ?
Does not President Erdogan put Turkey first as he @ @ @ @ @ @ @ country 's interests in Libya , Syria , Cyprus , the South Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean in clashes with Greece ?
What does Bibi Netanyahu put first , if not his own country , Israel ?
If country and nation are not first in the hearts and minds of Americans , what should replace them ?
Some nonexistent New World Order ?
The U.N. ?
NATO ?
A multilateral caucus of global institutions ?
Under Trump , economic nationalism has displaced free trade globalism as the trade policy of the party and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Bill Clinton on NAFTA , supported a new transnational World Trade Organization , invited China to join the club , and accorded Beijing most-favored-nation trade status is now silent .
Tariffs to force open foreign markets and punish predator-traders who take advantage of American workers have replaced the free trade fundamentalism that had been dogma since Dwight Eisenhower 's days .
Nor is the Republican Party likely to return to free trade , as long as `` China First '' is the undeclared policy pursued by the nation that has now displaced us @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The George Bush-John McCain Republican Party was for amnesty for illegals and open borders for new migrants .
Today 's GOP supports the deportation of illegals and the 30-foot Trump Wall on the Mexican border .
Not only is Trumpism triumphant in the GOP 's ideological battles , but its victory was validated in 2020 .
While Trump may have narrowly lost states that gave him an electoral majority in 2016 , he grew the GOP presidential vote by 10 million , held the Senate and added GOP votes in the House @ @ @ @ @ @ @ defeated President .
Trump did not establish the new relationship with Russia he had promised , nor did he end the forever wars of the Middle East .
Yet , the U.S. is closer today to the exit ramps from Afghanistan , Iraq , Syria and Yemen .
Can anyone believe that Bush Republicans or the `` Never-Trumpers '' are the future of the party when one considers the massive and visceral reaction of millions of Trump voters even to the idea of conceding his defeat in this election ?
After the dust @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 's achievements will begin to be recognized .
He cut tax rates and federal regulations and produced in his fourth year the lowest unemployment rate ever among Black Americans , women and racial and ethnic minorities .
He remade the Supreme Court , producing a 6-3 constitutionalist majority no predecessor was able to achieve .
He crushed ISIS in Syria and eliminated the caliphate there .
He pulled us out of the Paris climate accord , the Iranian nuclear deal and the World Health Organization .
His Operation Warp Speed initiative helped produce @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a century within less than a year .
And he brought the Dow back up to 30,000 .
A not unimpressive record , though our media elite will never concede it .
Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers ; his books State of Emergency : The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America , and Suicide of a Superpower : Will America Survive to 2025 ?
are available from Amazon.com .
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “ The Greatest Comeback : How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ book , published May , 2018 , is “ Nixon ’ s White House Wars : The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.
” See Peter Brimelow ’ s review : “ Wheel And Fight ” —Pat Buchanan ’ s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump .

Earlier, by Peter Brimelow: A Long Farewell To Donald Trump, Immigration Patriot. And Thanks.
In the first two decades of the century, President-elect Joe Biden's choice for secretary of state supported U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen. He was an ever-reliable liberal interventionist.
This same Antony Blinken could spend the first years of a Biden presidency helping extricate our country from the misbegotten wars he championed. What establishment Democrats like Biden and Blinken helped to do in previous administrations, they will likely now have to undo.
Who effected this sea change in national thinking?
Donald Trump. Much that was said and believed before he came down the escalator in 2015 is no longer said or believed by the majority of Americans.
And no institution has been more altered than the Republican Party.
George H. W. Bush's vision of a "New World Order," launched at the after-party of his Gulf War victory, died with his presidency.
George W. Bush's crusade for global democracy to "end tyranny in our world" has been forgotten. Bush Republicans no longer speak for the party on foreign policy, trade or immigration.
NATO will never be the same again after Trump rudely demanded that freeloading nations pay their fair share of the collective defense or the Americans would pack up and come home from Europe.
Former Defense Secretary Gen. James Mattis may call for the ash-canning of the phrase "America First." He will fail. For, as both national motto and national policy, the slogan has put down roots in American soil because it comports with the will of the silent majority.
Whatever the establishment believes, in the clash between nationalism and globalism, globalism has lost America.
Moreover, the world is going this way.
Does not Xi Jinping put his own country first as he claims for China all the waters and islands for hundreds of miles into the East and South China seas? Does not Vladimir Putin put his own country first as he seeks to bring back under Moscow's wing the former republics of the Russian federation?
Does not President Erdogan put Turkey first as he sends arms and troops to pursue his country's interests in Libya, Syria, Cyprus, the South Caucasus and the Eastern Mediterranean in clashes with Greece?
What does Bibi Netanyahu put first, if not his own country, Israel?
If country and nation are not first in the hearts and minds of Americans, what should replace them? Some nonexistent New World Order? The U.N.? NATO? A multilateral caucus of global institutions?
Under Trump, economic nationalism has displaced free trade globalism as the trade policy of the party and government.
The GOP elite that backed Bill Clinton on NAFTA, supported a new transnational World Trade Organization, invited China to join the club, and accorded Beijing most-favored-nation trade status is now silent.
Tariffs to force open foreign markets and punish predator-traders who take advantage of American workers have replaced the free trade fundamentalism that had been dogma since Dwight Eisenhower's days.
Nor is the Republican Party likely to return to free trade, as long as "China First" is the undeclared policy pursued by the nation that has now displaced us as the world's leading manufacturing power.
The George Bush-John McCain Republican Party was for amnesty for illegals and open borders for new migrants. Today's GOP supports the deportation of illegals and the 30-foot Trump Wall on the Mexican border.
Not only is Trumpism triumphant in the GOP's ideological battles, but its victory was validated in 2020. While Trump may have narrowly lost states that gave him an electoral majority in 2016, he grew the GOP presidential vote by 10 million, held the Senate and added GOP votes in the House, an almost unprecedented feat for a defeated President.
Trump did not establish the new relationship with Russia he had promised, nor did he end the forever wars of the Middle East. Yet, the U.S. is closer today to the exit ramps from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Can anyone believe that Bush Republicans or the "Never-Trumpers" are the future of the party when one considers the massive and visceral reaction of millions of Trump voters even to the idea of conceding his defeat in this election? After the dust has settled from this election, Trump's achievements will begin to be recognized.
He cut tax rates and federal regulations and produced in his fourth year the lowest unemployment rate ever among Black Americans, women and racial and ethnic minorities. He remade the Supreme Court, producing a 6-3 constitutionalist majority no predecessor was able to achieve.
He crushed ISIS in Syria and eliminated the caliphate there. He pulled us out of the Paris climate accord, the Iranian nuclear deal and the World Health Organization. His Operation Warp Speed initiative helped produce two vaccines for the worst pandemic in a century within less than a year. And he brought the Dow back up to 30,000.
A not unimpressive record, though our media elite will never concede it.
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Patrick J. Buchanan needs no introduction to VDARE.COM readers; his books State of Emergency: The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America, and Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? are available from Amazon.com. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority.
His latest book, published May, 2018, is “Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.”
See Peter Brimelow’s review: “Wheel And Fight”—Pat Buchanan’s Nixon Book Provides Road Map For Trump.


vdare--2020-11-26--MEMO FROM MIDDLE AMERICA: No, The Spanish Did Not Invent Thanksgiving. The English Did.

America ’ s Cultural Marxists wage their War on Thanksgiving on many fronts .
The really crazy radicals want to make it a Day of National Mourning , while others have adopted a more modest , incremental approach , like banning children from wearing the traditional garb of the Pilgrims , the people most Americans correctly associate with the national celebration [ Thanksgiving lessons jettison Pilgrim hats , welcome truth , by Collin Binkley , Washington Times , November 24 , 2020 ] .
And , as part of the Left ’ s campaign to Elect A New People , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Thanksgiving by Hispanicizing it .
No longer are we to believe the First Thanksgiving was the day the Pilgrims cooked up a big meal with the Wampanoags in 1621 , a year after the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock .
Rather , the first Thanksgiving occurred in El Paso , Texas , in 1598 , or in St. Augustine , Florida in 1565 .
The Pilgrims were nearly 25 or even 50 years late !
And here ’ s the reason : Hispanicizing Thanksgiving justifies Hispanicizing the country .
Retconning Thanksgiving justifies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ travel back in time to El Paso first .
“ Don ’ t believe everything you learn in school !
” the Visit El Paso website warns visitors : I ’ ll go ahead and continue believing what I learned in school , thank you .
But there you have it .
Forget the hardy Calvinists .
The Spaniards and their Indian compadres in pre-Texas Texas gave thanks 22 years before the Pilgrims .
Not to be outdone , the Spanish edition of The Local , a website for English-speaking expatriates in Europe @ @ @ @ @ @ @ earlier , in St. Augustine , Florida : The fact-challenged Ms. Jones ’ hackneyed “ I ’ m-going-to-reveal-the-real-history ” lead segues into this : Well , now !
Who knew ?
Even better , the real First Thanksgiving had superior food : Good enough ?
The conquistadors sat down with the local Indians and broke bread !
The problem with Jones ’ story isn ’ t that it reveals some little-known real history .
Rather , it uses that real history to push a revisionist agenda : that But historians did not “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a false account of the country ’ s origins .
It was not just “ viewed as primarily British ; ” it was “ primarily British ” ( strictly speaking , English ) .
Some people don ’ t like that , and so they rewrite the history as Jones does : No , that ’ s not a “ fact.
” The “ first colony , ” if he means St. Augustine , was Spanish and Indian , hardly a melting pot .
And Florida was not one of the original 13 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ well , Great Britain .
But then Waters divulges the reason Americans must be conned into rethinking Thanksgiving : You see what he ’ s doing : Rewriting the history about Thanksgiving to exaggerate the contribution of Spaniards and St. Augustine to our past , which in turn rationalizes the growth of this country ’ s Hispanic population , thanks to Open Borders and out-of-control immigration .
For the record , the Hispanics invading our country today are not generally Spaniards—full blooded Europeans—who sailed with Columbus , explored the Southwest , and conquered @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Europeans to the Hispanic cause will do .
Anyway , I ’ ve visited St. Augustine , an interesting place that was indeed , founded before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock .
But neither St. Augustine nor Florida were part of America ’ s founding in the early 17th century .
They played no role in the development of its laws or state and federal constitutions , and , indeed , Florida remained a Spanish colony until 1822 , when it became a U.S. territory .
English colonists founded the America as we know @ @ @ @ @ @ @ areas colonized previously by the Spaniards , including Florida and the Southwest .
Indeed , Florida became a territory and state only after British and Scots-Irish settlers moved there , and the United States took control .
Its military governor was Andrew Jackson , who fought the Seminoles .
As for the First Thanksgiving , let ’ s not confuse thanksgiving with Thanksgiving Day .
Giving thanks to God is something all good Christians do , as I Thessalonians 5:18 tells us : “ In every thing give thanks : for this is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ concerning you.
” So yes , the Catholic Spaniards in St. Augustine and El Paso did give thanks to God .
But the American festival as we know it is based upon the Pilgrims ’ Thanksgiving feast in 1621 .
For the record , Virginians claim the first Thanksgiving was at Berkeley Hundred Plantation in 1619 , which might mean some of this “ We-Had-the-First-Thanksgiving ” debate is provincial tourist boosterism .
But that too was a strictly English affair .
The revisionists want is Hispanicize the United States to prepare it for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the first Thanksgiving , which will end in de-Anglicizing the founding of the republic 150 years later .
And if you de-Anglicize America , what do you have left ?
Don ’ t let the facile revisionism fool you .
Of course , the crudest way to delegitimize the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving is to start yelling about genocide and even physically attack Plymouth Rock , or banning Pilgrim costumes for school kids Another ham-handed approach : calling the Pilgrims “ refugees ” or “ illegal immigrants , ” instead of what they were—settlers @ @ @ @ @ @ @ them for The Great Replacement .
After all , if the country ’ s original white settlers were really unwanted newcomers , surely we can not deny the latest newcomers , Hispanics or even Muslims , a seat at our Thanksgiving table .
Most Americans probably don ’ t buy that one , either .
But rewriting our Thanksgiving story— a primordial and uniquely American celebration created by our English political forbears—is more subtle , and thus , much more dangerous .
The rewrite is justified with a patina of scholarship .
Thus @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and “ archaeologists.
” And so Americans are more likely to accept it .
“ He who controls the past , controls the future , ” George Orwell wrote , something Communist “ historian ” Howard Zinn understood when set out to destroy the reputation of Christopher Columbus .
“ [ H ] istory is incredibly important , ” he said , “ in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.
” Indeed it is .
That ’ s why we ’ re now getting this annual retconning of Thanksgiving @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Enjoy Thanksgiving Day , the way it was meant to be enjoyed , with turkey and all the fixings , and stories about the English Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock .
American citizen Allan Wall ( email him ) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico .
Allan 's wife is Mexican , and their two sons are bilingual .
In 2005 , Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard .
His VDARE.COM articles are archived here ; @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his News With Views columns are archived here ; and his website is here .

America’s Cultural Marxists wage their War on Thanksgiving on many fronts. The really crazy radicals want to make it a Day of National Mourning, while others have adopted a more modest, incremental approach, like banning children from wearing the traditional garb of the Pilgrims, the people most Americans correctly associate with the national celebration [Thanksgiving lessons jettison Pilgrim hats, welcome truth, by Collin Binkley, Washington Times, November 24, 2020]. And, as part of the Left’s campaign to Elect A New People, others want to rewrite the history of Thanksgiving by Hispanicizing it.
No longer are we to believe the First Thanksgiving was the day the Pilgrims cooked up a big meal with the Wampanoags in 1621, a year after the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. Rather, the first Thanksgiving occurred in El Paso, Texas, in 1598, or in St. Augustine, Florida in 1565. The Pilgrims were nearly 25 or even 50 years late!
And here’s the reason: Hispanicizing Thanksgiving justifies Hispanicizing the country. Retconning Thanksgiving justifies The Great Replacement.
Let’s travel back in time to El Paso first.
“Don’t believe everything you learn in school!” the Visit El Paso website warns visitors:
The first Thanksgiving wasn’t celebrated at Plymouth Plantation—it happened right here on the Borderland. That is the concept behind The El Paso Mission Trail Association’s yearly reenactment of the festivities. This historical portrayal commemorates the arrival of the first Spanish settlers in this area in April 1598. A company of costumed actors and dancers represent the Native Americans and Spaniards, who give thanks and celebrate after their perilous crossing of the Chihuahuan desert and arrival at the banks of the Rio Grande. [First Thanksgiving Celebration (April)]
So there you have it. Forget the hardy Calvinists. The Spaniards and their Indian allies in pre-Texas Texas gave thanks 22 years before the Pilgrims.
Not to be outdone, the Spanish edition of The Local, a website for English-speaking expatriates in Europe, has put the First Thanksgiving even earlier, in St. Augustine, Florida:
As people all over the United States sit down to carve the turkey and remember the pilgrims who sat down for Thanksgiving in 1621 they may be surprised to learn that they are in fact celebrating the wrong date entirely. [Forget the pilgrims: Spaniards were the first to celebrate Thanksgiving, by Jessica Jones, Nov. 27, 2019].
Ms. Jones’ hackneyed “I’m-going-to-reveal-the-real-history” lead segues into this:
The history books tell us that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 by English pilgrims who had arrived in America on the Mayflower. Now archaeologists at Florida’s Museum of Natural History have revealed that the first Thanksgiving was actually celebrated in St. Augustine, Florida over 50 years earlier in 1565. It was not the English pilgrims in their wide-brimmed hats who celebrated the first Thanksgiving, but Spanish explorer Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and 800 soldiers, sailors and settlers.
Well, now! Who knew?
Even better, the real First Thanksgiving had superior food:
They [the Spaniards] attended a special thanksgiving mass before sitting down together with local Native Americans for a thanksgiving feast, according to Kathleen Deagan, research curator emerita of historical archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History. And far from the traditional turkey, the first Thanksgiving feast included salted pork and typical Spanish products such as red wine, olives and chickpeas.
Good enough? The conquistadors sat down with the local Indians and broke bread!
The problem with Jones’ story is not that it reveals some little-known real history. Rather, it uses that real history to push a revisionist agenda.
But how has this important part of US history been forgotten? In part, it is because over the centuries the history of the United States has been heavily Anglicized, with America’s origins viewed as primarily British.
But historians did not “heavily Anglicize” our past by writing a false account of the country’s origins. It was not just “viewed as primarily British;” it was “primarily British” (strictly speaking, English).
Some people don’t like that, and so they rewrite the history as Jones does:
“The fact is, the first colony was a melting pot and the cultural interactions of the many groups of people in the colony were much more like the US is today than the British colonies ever were,” Gifford Waters, historical archaeology collection manager at the Florida Museum, told the University of Florida news.
No, that’s not a “fact.” The “first colony,” if he means St. Augustine, was Spanish and Indian, hardly a melting pot. And Florida was not one of the original 13 British colonies that declared independence from, well, Great Britain.
But then Waters divulges the reason Americans must be conned into rethinking Thanksgiving:
“[T]he first Thanksgiving is especially important, since there is a growing Hispanic population in the U.S. and the role of the Spanish colony in La Florida is often neglected in the classroom," he added.
You see what he’s doing: Rewriting the history about Thanksgiving to exaggerate the contribution of Spaniards and St. Augustine to our past, which in turn rationalizes the growth of this country’s Hispanic population, thanks to Open Borders and out-of-control immigration.
I’ve visited St. Augustine, an interesting place that was indeed, founded before Jamestown and Plymouth Rock.
But neither St. Augustine nor Florida in general were part of America’s founding in the early 17th century. They played no role in the development of its laws or state and federal constitutions. Florida wasn't even under U.S. control until 1821.
English colonists founded the America as we know it, later expanded to include areas colonized previously by the Spaniards, including Florida and the Southwest. Indeed, Florida became a territory and state only after British and Scots-Irish settlers moved there, and the United States took control. Its military governor was Andrew Jackson, who fought the Seminoles.
As for the First Thanksgiving, let’s not confuse thanksgiving with Thanksgiving Day.
Giving thanks to God is something all good Christians do, as I Thessalonians 5:18 tells us: “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.”
So yes, the Catholic Spaniards in St. Augustine and El Paso did give thanks to God. But the American festival as we know it is based upon the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving feast in 1621.
For the record, Virginians claim the first Thanksgiving was at Berkeley Hundred Plantation in 1619, which might mean some of this “We-Had-the-First-Thanksgiving” debate is provincial tourist boosterism. But that too was a strictly English affair.
The revisionists want is Hispanicize the United States to prepare it for The Great Replacement. That requires de-Anglicizing the first Thanksgiving, which will end in de-Anglicizing the founding of the republic 150 years later.
And if you de-Anglicize America, what do you have left?
Don’t let the facile revisionism fool you.
The crudest way to delegitimize the Pilgrims and Thanksgiving is to start yelling about genocide and even physically attack Plymouth Rock, or ban Pilgrim costumes for school kids.
Most Americans don’t buy that.
Another ham-handed approach: calling the Pilgrims “refugees” or “illegal immigrants,” instead of what they were—settlers. Calling them illegals or refugees conscripts them for The Great Replacement. After all, if the country’s original white settlers were really unwanted newcomers, surely we cannot deny the latest newcomers, Hispanics or even Muslims, a seat at our Thanksgiving table.
Most Americans probably don’t buy that one, either.
But rewriting our Thanksgiving story— a primordial American celebration created by our English forebears—is more subtle, and thus, much more dangerous. The rewrite is justified with a patina of scholarship. Thus, we hear from “historians” and “archaeologists.” And so Americans are more likely to accept it.
“He who controls the past, controls the future,” George Orwell wrote, something Communist “historian” Howard Zinn understood when he set out to destroy the reputation of Christopher Columbus.
“[H]istory is incredibly important,” he said, “in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.”
Indeed it is.
That’s why we’re now getting this annual retconning of Thanksgiving, along with outright war against it.
Reject it.
Enjoy Thanksgiving Day, the way it was meant to be enjoyed, with turkey and all the fixings, and stories about the English Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock.
American citizen Allan Wall (email him) moved back to the U.S.A. in 2008 after many years residing in Mexico. Allan's wife is Mexican, and their two sons are bilingual. In 2005, Allan served a tour of duty in Iraq with the Texas Army National Guard. His VDARE.COM articles are archived here; his Mexidata.info articles are archived here; his News With Views columns are archived here; and his website is here.