Castle America: Peter Brimelow Responds to N.Y. A.G.'s Allegations

I wrote in January about a New York trial court decision that allowed the New York Attorney General's office to subpoena VDARE's records related to alleged financial self-dealing by nonprofit directors; I quoted extensively from the decision. Peter Brimelow of VDARE has written up a response to the Attorney General's allegations, and I'm glad to pass it along as a counterpoint to the court decision. I've also updated the original post to link to the response.

Comments

[Dr. Ed 2]

There are 50 states, each with an Attorney General with authority to oversee corporations — why is Letitia James always in the news?

It’s this group. It’s Trump. It’s the NRA. All in this one state…

And the other question that comes to mind is why don’t they just dissolve the corporation and form a new one? If she won’t let it move out of NY then kill it. Donate it’s assets to the new one and be done with it.

But it does seem like there are two different sets of laws in this country. While I’m not happy with what the NRA did, don’t tell me that there aren’t left-leaning 501c3s doing the same things…

[David Nieporent]

What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

[Dr. Ed 2]

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[Mr. Bumble]

What a dip shit you are. You have no points to award and I doubt God would put much credence in your request since nothing Ed said requires God’s mercy.

[Sarcastr0]

This gonna be your thing now? White knighting the worst people on this website, while getting very mad at movie references?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c

[Mr. Bumble]

Please be kind enough to mute me again so I am spared from your stupid responses to my comments.

[Gandydancer]

^^^^ Gaslightr0 admits to being intimately familiar with Adam Sandler movies.

Points to Dr Ed if he’s not.

[Brett Bellmore]

To be clear, we members have been telling the NRA leadership to move out of NY for years, decades even. You didn’t have to be a genius to know that the NRA was eventually going to come under legal attack by NY, and that being incorporated there would be a dangerous weakness when that happened. They refused to listen.

I wouldn’t be shocked if something similar was going on with VDARE.

I gather changing your “domicile” state is a fairly complex operation, and I gather it’s even more fraught for non-profits, and the state you’re leaving can really make things tough.

I’d speculate that the process would risk the current leadership losing their grip on the organization. Considering that the current NRA leadership went to great lengths to insulate themselves against another member uprising such as happened in Cincinnati, (I was there in Philly when the did it! Pissed me off so much I went out and tore the NRA sticker off my truck, and I haven’t donated a cent to them since.) they’d be highly reluctant to take that risk, the membership would replace them in a heartbeat if we could.

[Gandydancer]

Brimelow: “The VDARE Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charity that aims to educate Americans about the downside of mass immigration. This is controversial, but not illegal (yet). The VDARE Foundation was registered in New York State in 1999, a less Politically Correct time. It is perfectly normal for 501(c)(3) charities to be registered in states other than those in which they have a physical presence [Particularly since the WV site was purchased relatively recently in response to localities of previous attempts to hold events causing cancellations by refusing to provide police protection.] However, New York State has to give its consent for a 501(c)(3) to leave its jurisdiction. (And may retain jurisdiction even after that.)”

[CJColucci]

What is a “counterpoint” to a court decision where you’ve lost? And why should anyone care?

[Eugene Volokh]

Well, it’s a response to what the judge said, what the other side said that the judge accepted as accurate for purposes of the decision, or both. And I’m generally happy to allow people to respond — sometimes a decision may indeed be erroneous or incomplete in significant ways, and it can be useful to see the arguments that so assert.

[Ed Grinberg]

re: “why should anyone care?”

Here’s the opening of Mr. Brimelow’s post:

we have not yet been charged with anything. NYAG James is simply trying to batter us to death with subpoena demands, falsely insinuating to courts that we may have misappropriated assets to buy the Berkeley Springs Castle in West Virginia for our personal benefit, although she has long been supplied with proof that we did not.
Our legal fees already exceed $300,000, for an organization whose annual budget is typically $600-$800,000. It is a miracle, and a tribute to our heroic donors, that we have been able to survive thus far.

Regardless of your view of the substance of VDARE’s advocacy, isn’t it the least bit concerning to you that the New York Attorney General is (allegedly) trying to bankrupt them via (allegedly) spurious / frivolous investigations / subpoenas?

[Gandydancer]

Why pretend to not care when in fact you’re enthused?