A one-time member of the Sierra Club’s Population Committee, Kathleen Parker, has reviewed the secret “donation” made in the mid-1990s which reversed the organization’s position on immigration 180 degrees [Sierra Club Sellout on Immigration?, Human Events, 8/15/06].

As the United States, in October, reaches the astounding plateau of 300 million Americans, I wonder if environmentalists forget that Earth Day founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson and former Sierra Club directors David Brower, Dave Foreman and Martin Linton all urged United States population stabilization.

Are they unaware that the Sierra Club in the 1980s called the United States the most overpopulated nation?

But that was before a contributor handed the Sierra Club over $100 million.

By appearances, it seems that, just as some in business will sacrifice America’s future for the soft-slavery of cheap immigrant labor, the Sierra Club puts its own interests ahead of an environment that is buckling under a mostly immigration-driven population tsunami.

As chronicled closely in VDARE.com, investing wizard David Gelbaum did indeed give the Sierra Club more than $100 million to accomplish some worthwhile environmental objectives, particularly purchasing large tracts of land for preservation. However, he was quoted in an October 2004 LA Times article (The Man behind the Land) as saying, “I did tell [Executive Director] Carl Pope in 1994 or 1995 that if they ever came out anti-immigration, they would never get a dollar from me.”

The Sierra Club was never properly brought to account for receiving a strings-attached “gift” from a Wall Street investor with an agenda. The revelation from a reputable establishment newspaper (one which favors open borders) should have been an Enron level, Richter-scale scandal, but the MSM wasn’t interested.

Perhaps reporters coundn’t imagine the inheritors of John Muir behaving more like Tony Soprano than Teddy Roosevelt.

Now, as America approaches the dismal 300 Million milestone, perhaps the lazy MSM can be roused into curiosity about why the nation’s premier environmental organization allowed its integrity to be gutted. As a result, the American public lost an important voice for environmental numeracy regarding what domestic overpopulation costs in terms of farmland ripped up for housing, water supplies overdrawn, increased pollution and pavement everywhere.

Ideals become casualties of war is Australian writer Paul Sheehan’s title for this piece in the Sydney Morning Herald, (he ties it to Hezbollah and the bomb plot in England) but I like my title better.

The story sounded familiar, and then I remembered where I’d heard it before. And for more about the link between the Bekaa Valley and the Sydney suburbs, see here.

One of the edges of the global clash between Muslims and the rest is a bottle shop in a small and ratty shopping mall in western Sydney. The owner of the bottle shop is suffering low-level but steady harassment from his neighbours, who want him gone. He’s a Christian who has been told repeatedly: “This is a Muslim area,” and he is selling alcohol, which is proscribed by Islam.

The one-hour parking zone outside the bottle shop is always occupied because local Muslims leave their cars there all day. The owner has written to the local council to complain, and nothing has been done. He does not want to be identified because he fears retribution. His reaction is sensible.

A friend of mine, Jenny D, used to live in Lakemba. She began receiving insults from people in the street, usually Muslim women wearing headscarves, and sometimes Muslim men. If she wore a short skirt, she could expect abuse or comment. She left Lakemba. Soon after, I moved to America, stayed away for 10 years, and thought nothing more of her story. But after I came back to Sydney I found Jenny’s experience had been part of a larger pattern.

One particularly strong witness to this pattern was Judith, who managed an agency helping war widows, because she encountered “dozens” of cases where people were harassed by Muslim neighbours who wanted them gone. “It was common,” she told me. “A lot of these ladies couldn’t take it and moved out. It happened in Campsie, Belmore, Lakemba, Bankstown, Punchbowl …

“It was everything … throwing rubbish over the fence, screaming abuse, blocking the driveway, knocking fences down. One guy would throw coffee grains on the windows and bottles on the roof late at night … I confronted some of them, and the men would call me a lot of names, mostly in Arabic.”

Our Western multiracial ideals have been assaulted yet again this week, via the plan by Islamic jihadists to commit mass murder by blowing up airliners flying out of Heathrow Airport. Even in failure, the plot is producing immense collateral damage in disruption, fear and suspicion.Ideals become casualties of war - Paul Sheehan, August 14, 2006