By Steve Sailer
08/22/2007
The inside history of intra-conservative immigration battles: In the cover story of the July 30 American Conservative, John O’sullivan offers an extremely lucid recounting of conservative battles over immigration going back to his decision (with Bill Buckley’s concurrence) to print Peter Brimelow’s massive 1992 article on immigration:
Getting Immigration Right
By John O’sullivan
It took 15 years, but conservative intellectuals finally deserted the Beltway establishment’s open-borders consensus.
WSJistas have long gibed about O’sullivan and Brimelow being English immigrants, so John concludes his article:
Until the battle recommences, however, if any indignant xenophobe is thinking of writing an exposé of this conspiracy of English immigrants to impose an “un-American” system of immigration law on the American people, Steve Sailer has already come up with the perfect title: “The Protocols of the Elders of Albion.”
I don’t remember writing that, but John, my old editor at UPI, says that was my summary of the 2000 thriller "The Skulls," a flop of a film about a Skull & Bones-style exclusive club at a college much like Yale. I must say I've become far less dismisive of conspiracy theories about the Skull & Bones society since the 2004 election, which matched two Bonesmen in Bush and Kerry. Skull & Bones only taps 15 promising young bucks per year, yet, five of the last ten major party Presidential candidates were Bonesmen. What are the odds of that?
Also, it appears likely that the rumor is true that during WWI, the President’s grandfather, past Bonesman and future Senator Prescott Bush, dug up the skull of Geronimo and loyally gave it to the Skull & Bones society, and that it remains in the windowless, fortress-like Skull & Bones headquarters on the Yale campus, despite efforts by Apache tribesmen to get their famous leader’s noggin back. I think that might explain a lot about the last seven years, although I’m not precisely sure what.
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