Peter Brimelow writes: Back in 2007, I announced (reposted below) that I was stopping VDARE.com remembrances of 9/11, especially bitter because one of our writers had lost a son. But at the nadir of the Bush Blight, I noted “America’s elites didn’t really care. They just just got on with their agenda(s).” Specifically, they had absolutely no intention of stopping America’s post 1965 immigration disaster—not even halting Muslim immigration.
Twenty five years after 9/11, I do have to acknowledge some changes. (Notably, and unexpectedly, in my personal life). The second Trump (Stephen Miller?) Administration has in fact reduced illegal and legal immigration dramatically—albeit through Executive Action, which can be reversed. And my sense is that the GOP/GAP base has in fact moved decisively against immigration. Plus, although we perhaps have another Forever War in the Middle East, Trump, unlike Dubya, has not committed ground troops. Yet.
Not enough. But something. I guess.
The Irrelevance Of 9/11
by Peter Brimelow, September 11, 2007
I suppose a whole generation will always remember where they were when they heard about 9/11, just as an earlier one never forgot where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. I was exactly where I am now, looking at a computer screen behind which, through the window, the Connecticut Berkshires roll away to the horizon, when I glanced at the TV and saw the World Trade Center in flames—just as I now see Mayor Bloomberg presiding over a remembrance ceremony.
I went upstairs and told Maggy, ill in bed with the cancer that was to claim her life just 17 months later. Together, we watched the utter destruction of an area we’d both known so well when I worked for Alan Abelson’s Barron’s Magazine some 20 years earlier.
The same eerie feeling of complete change and no change comes over me when I contemplate the political consequences of 9/11. Osama bin Laden, whose head could surely have been obtained through a traditional commercial transaction with one or other local warlord, remains irritatingly at large. The government of Afghanistan, taken from the majority tribe and given to minority tribes, is obviously reverting, amid the usual chaos. Iraq [now Iran] continues to be the object of Washington’s intense attention, as it has been since the first Gulf War, for reasons that deserve analysis but manifestly had nothing to do with 9/11. Domestic terrorism in the U.S., which could have been as serious as the Irish Republican Army’s recent bombing campaign in Britain (why no War On Terror against them, by the way?) mysteriously did not materialize—even though episodic outbreaks of Immigrant Mass Murder syndrome have shown how easily individuals with rifles could paralyze the country. Above all, the Bush Administration continued with its fanatical drive to accommodate the Mexodus, heedless of border security.
I find I don’t feel like writing a VDARE.COM reflection on 9/11 this year. It’s a game. America’s elites didn’t really care. They just just got on with their agenda(s).
VDARE.COM has readers who lost loved ones in 9/11 and in the subsequent wars. To them I extend my own commiserations.
I'm still suspicious cat regarding the physics of the towers disintegrating in their own footprint, dubya's moslem pearl clutching, the beeb announcing the collapse of bldg vii, and the primary overarching of treasonous immigration policy, then.
A very sad time for you, then, but you are a real gent and Chad, obviously.
The castle is on my bucket list, even for tea, scones and clotted cream.
Federale says I'm a shoe in for EOIR deportation judge, but my real passion is Maritime Transaction and Admiralty law. I am fleeing criminal defense, so maybe your chum Taki can do a favor for his dad's shipping buddy heirs.
Blucher beat Napolian at age 75 and that was the height of his military career. So, there's hope for us. I'm a 1964, like the Ford Mustang. You, with anti-SLAPP actions against James, and me earning enough to become a paid subscriber and visit the castle.
It's never too late. (Wheel and fight, yeah?)