The Rocky Mountain News recently produced an unsubstantiated smear on the defenders of American sovereignty [Funding Questioned: Critics say some Defend Colorado money tainted, Rocky Mountain News, 7/15/06], attacking all sorts of people, including your truly because of my well documented article America’s Vaticrats, critical of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Anti-Catholicism is a strong strain in the immigration control movement because of the Catholic Church’s liberal position on increased immigration, particularly from Latin America.

Brenda Walker, a Sierra Club associate of [Fred] Elbel’s who joined in unsuccessful effort to elect immigration control candidates including Lamm to the club’s board of directors in 2004, had harsh words on her blog on a white nationalist Web site, VDare. Her claim is that the church needs Latino immigrants who are more passive and unquestioning.

“Apparently, as good authoritarians, the Catholic hierarchy prefers passively obedient parishioners — rather than educated Americans who are capable of critical analysis,” Walker wrote. “Credulous Mexicans fresh from the pueblo are seen as ideal fillers of pews.”

Why is this statement objectionable other than being an unpleasant truth? Many Mexicans are indeed credulous, largely as a result of being uneducated and often illiterate. America receives millions of illegal aliens of this sort from dirt-poor Mexican villages where education rarely goes past the eighth grade.

Clearly, my remarks are not against rank-and-file American Catholics, but against their leftist leaders who are as out of touch on immigration as other elites.

In fact, if you want to criticize the Catholic Church on open borders, get in line behind the many parishioners who are appalled at how their church acts against America’s national interests (not to mention the continuing scandal of church officials protecting pedophile priests). The Council of Bishops acts against America to increase its market share and scoop up more taxpayer funds (currently running $40 million) for its “immigrant” services.

Interestingly, this article did not appear out of thin air, but was apparently strongly guided by a very slanted “report” (“Special Report: Defend Colorado Now”) published by Building Democracy Initiative. (Use this link for a less annoying one-page layout.)

The accusations are mostly of the vague

“connected with”

variety, punctuated with plenty of name-calling and conspiracy mongering.

This attack sounds suspiciously like the familiar poison put out by the Southern Poverty Law Center — the same targets, particularly John Tanton as the all-powerful puppetmaster, and the same race-obsessed mindset that every patriotic American is actually a closet Klan type.

There is the same conflation of perfectly reasonable statements, like my questioning of the basis of multiculturalism into examples of hate and racism. You have to wonder what the “Building Democracy” people are smoking.

So-called “white nationalism” is clearly the big interest. A search on the website for the topic gives a stunning 1080 results, while MeCHA gets two! So they are not concerned with racism coming from brown people.

Former Governor Dick Lamm (D-CO) is characterized as “involved with the new nativism since its beginnings in the 1970s.” Editor of The Social Contract Wayne Lutton is called a “white nationalist” and I am described as “avowed white nationalist.” Total BS. All lies, but these fifth-columnist accusers (all unnamed BTW) don’t have a leg to stand on, other than lies.

Anyway, read the Rocky Mountain News article and then the “Special Report” and see if you don’t agree there is a strong similarity. If that’s not too conspiratorial.

A North Carolina reader sends this message about how to fight back against Wells Fargo and similar companies that cater to illegal aliens.

I read the letter posted by an individual holding himself out to be a high level Wells Fargo employee on Vdare.

People in this country are wising up to the unpatriotic and wholly non-nationalistic mentality of corporate America. I rank Wells Fargo right on up there with Western Union and Tyson Foods.

What is the annual dollar value of conforming mortages originated by Wells Fargo (and then sold in or made eligible for sale in Federally subsidized/insured secondary markets) for the benefit of illegal immigrant home buyers for whom Wells-Fargo loan officers have massaged the HUD and Fannie Mae forms and/or made other extraordinary exceptions to and deviations from traditional standard mortgage loan application processing procedures?

What is the annual dollar volume of personal banking account activity that Wells-Fargo engages in that is keyed to an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number rather than just a plain old Social Security number like most of us citizens and legal residents use to conduct our banking business with?

How many forms, pamphlets, banners, and advertising packages does Wells Fargo have for use in the USA that are redacted in a foreign language?

Does a customer have to “Dial One” for service in English or 2 for Spanish to operate Wells Fargo ATMs and other key pads? Wells Fargo, to be fair, is only one of many large regional and national financial services companies that routinely engage in questionable business practices in this vein.

The types of questions asked in the preceeding paragraph are the types of questions real patriots should be asking themselves every time they do business with businesses in this country.

The banking/financial services industry is one in which there is an abundance of consumer choices. A small hometown bank can be very competitive on most counts with all of the regional and national mega banks. Most small banks are not inclined to cater to illegal immigrants with foreign language literature, bilingual tellers and officers and the like.

Another very important benefit of exercising this consumer choice: Small hometown banks typically don’t have data processing and customer service phone centers in Bangalore, India where third world foreigners are accessing your social security numbers and other personal information.

Hometown banks typically don’t hire H1-B Visa holders to work stateside either. THEY HIRE LOCAL PEOPLE WITH REAL IDs! They hire people who are within the reach of local law enforcement and local civil courts should bank personnel wrong you as a consumer.

The banking industry is truly a vulnerable one where a “Vote of no confidence” can be easily exercised en masse at most any time by MILLIONS of consumers. Imagine the shift of tectonic proportions on Wall Street if millions of Americans closed or reduced their accounts to minimum balances at the megabanks with all their bilingual signage and pamphlets and just moved the bulk of their business to the small hometown bank.

And when you go in to open your new accounts, you’ll probably find that you can get a persoanl word in with a Senior VP and maybe the president.

Take the opportunity to clearly articulate why his bank is getting your business.

Earlier this year I wrote at length about the looting of America’s protected species by greedy foreigners. So I was fascinated to stumble upon a California-focused TV report on the subject of poaching generally.

California Fish and Game officials estimate that poaching — the illegal taking of wildlife — is a $100 million problem. Two of the most sought-after animals are red abalone, found off the coasts, and caviar-producing white sturgeon, which live in the Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta.

You can watch the program segment, an 11-minute video clip, at California Connected: Wild Profits (PBS 7/13/06)

Poaching is not exclusively an immigrant crime, of course. But the most lucrative species appear to be largely plundered by immigrants, at least in California. This being PBS, the “i” word is never mentioned; instead we learn that today’s Fish and Game officer needs to know about the state’s “evolving cultural landscape” .

But the meaning is clear. Russians are engaged in sturgeon poaching for the valuable caviar, and Asians dive for abalone, which can easily be sold in San Franciso Chinatown. Poaching threatens the survival of these species.

There is serious money to be made when an egg-bearing female sturgeon can currently bring $2000, or a single abalone’s black market value is up to $100. These are hardened felons who make their living stealing from the bounty of America’s wildlife.

Without the thin green line of dedicated game wardens, foreign criminals would rapidly destroy an important part of America’s natural heritage to fill their wallets. Unless, of course, we stop the cultural landscape “evolving“.