Anti-immigration group VDARE sues Mayor John Suthers
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Patriotic nationalist group VDARE sues Mayor John Suthers
Article publisher:
Colorado Springs Independent
Article date:
8 January 2019
Article category:
Colorado News
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A white identity group* known for anti-immigration views has sued Mayor John Suthers. The move comes after VDARE's conference in Colorado Springs was canceled by the Cheyenne Mountain Resort, following widespread backlash and an announcement by Suthers that the city wouldn't provide resources for the event. The federal lawsuit alleges that Suthers and the city violated VDARE's First Amendment rights.
(Note: VDARE's attorney was also in contact with the Indy to dispute our description of the organization's viewpoints in early 2018.)
Filed by VDARE Foundation on Dec. 21 in U.S. District Court in Denver, the lawsuit seeks $1 million in compensatory damages, unspecified punitive damages, prejudgment interest and an injunction forbidding the city and Suthers from denying services to entities and events based on "their controversial viewpoints and affiliations."...
VDARE's attorney, Randy Corporon of Denver, tells the Indy via email:
This is the first lawsuit by VDARE challenging a government official's chilling of its free speech and peaceful assembly rights. Though I have not been a part of any of the negotiation efforts, it is my understanding that VDARE has been unable to secure space for future conferences since Mayor Suthers' proclamation and the subsequent cancellation of VDARE's Colorado Springs event in spite of their efforts to do so.
This is especially troubling for those of us who support the constitutionally protected First Amendment rights of all groups, whether controversial, favored or disfavored in the eyes of governmental authorities, to peacefully assemble and share ideas. Yet we see officials in other jurisdictions, such as Portland, Oregon in Octboer [sic] of 2018, aggressively and at significant taxpayer expense, providing government services to support and protect radical, violent, disruptive groups like Antifa as they literally take over city streets. ...
The lawsuit alleges Suthers also violated the 14th Amendment of equal protection of the law in that "Defendants threatened to withhold city services based on Plaintiff's speech and associations."
As a result, the lawsuit claims, VDARE was deprived of its right to free speech, loss of revenue from the conference and negative publicity, and inability to conduct future conferences and events in Colorado Springs....
Read the full VDARE lawsuit here: VDAREvsCityComplaint.pdf
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Learn move about VDare. Their website features daily informative articles. From the About VDare page:
* The VDare Foundation’s mission is education on two main issues: first, the unsustainability of current US immigration policy and second, the “National Question,” which is the viability of the US as a nation-state. We do this through the VDARE.com webzine and VDARE Books, public speaking, conferences, debates and media appearances.
WHAT IS VDARE.com?
VDARE.com is a non-profit journalistic enterprise, the main project of the VDARE Foundation. We publish data, analysis, and editorial commentary in a variety of formats. We inform the fight to keep America American.
It all started with a bold idea: in the face of unwavering hostility from the Main Stream Media, our editor, Peter Brimelow, launched VDARE.com on Christmas Eve of 1999 as an extension of his national bestselling book, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster. After all, the issues of unrestricted mass immigration, both legal and illegal, weren’t going away. They were getting bigger.
And they continue to do so.
Since its inception, VDARE.com has taken its place as the premier website for patriotic immigration reform and continues to publish multiple posts a day covering the unsustainability of US immigration policy and a broad spectrum of related Politically Incorrect topics, including the National Question.
WHAT IS THE ‘NATIONAL QUESTION’?
The current Merriam-Webster definition of “nation-state” is “a form of political organization in which a group of people who share the same history, traditions, or language live in a particular area under one government.” The National Question is, in short, an examination of how long the US can continue as a coherent nation-state in the face of current immigration policy.
We argue that the US is in fact a nation-state as defined above, with a unifying history, traditions and language. Regarding the viability of its future, unless something is done, and quickly, the prognosis is not good.
OUR PRINCIPLES
America is real.
Demography is destiny.
The cultural identity of America is legitimate and defensible.
OUR PRINCIPLES, EXPLAINED:
America is real: America is not a melting pot, or a tossed salad or any other fashionable dietary metaphor that strips our nation of its rightful identity. We founded a country unique to history that has its own philosophies, values, social structure, attitudes, festivals, foods and aesthetic. VDARE.com strives to preserve and celebrate the distinctive culture of America.
Demography is destiny: Human differences are not social constructs. It is only with an honest consideration of race and ethnicity, the foundations of human grouping, that human differences can be explained and their social consequences understood, whether those differences are philosophical, cultural or biological. VDARE.com stands on the side of science in publishing coverage of the ongoing discovery and research in the realm of human differences.
The racial and cultural identity of America is legitimate and defensible: Diversity per se is not strength, but a vulnerability. It is a luxury that we can only afford as long as we preserve our breadwinner, the American people. VDARE.com recognizes that mass immigration both legal and illegal has driven America to the verge of bankruptcy in the following areas:
Employment
Real incomes
National Security
Crime
Housing
Health care
Education
Race relations
Culture...
VDARE.com is named after Virginia Dare, the first English child to be born in the New World. She was born August 18, 1587 into community on Roanoke Island off the North Carolina coast that would later be known to history as the “Lost Colony.”...