We have some good news and bad news to share.
THE BAD NEWS
The bad news is that our funds are currently too low for us to make it to 2015 without more help from our supporters due to the intense efforts we conducted during the historic elections of 2014 and the battle against Obama's Executive Action. We have also encountered unexpected extensive repairs needed on our main website. Over last weekend, www.alipac.us was severely damaged and we are working to repair it but the costs are going to be extensive. We are sorry to have to ask for help outside of our 3 funds drives each year, but if you can spare a donation to help us, please do at http://www.alipac.us/donations/.
THE GOOD NEWS
We were contacted by the Library of Congress a few weeks back when they notified us that they intended to copy portions of our website into their website archives. Each year, the Library of Congress (LOC) has included around 500 websites that they feel have influenced America's history and politics. Their goal since 2000 has been to have an archive of influential websites for researchers and future generations of Americans.
Their message said...
The United States Library of Congress has selected your website for inclusion in the Library's historic collection of Internet materials related to public policy topics. We consider your website to be an important part of this collection and the historical record.
The Library of Congress preserves the Nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites.
The following URL has been selected:
alipac.us
...
Our web archives are important because they contribute to the historical record, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper.
The Library of Congress preserves the Nation's cultural artifacts and provides enduring access to them. The Library's traditional functions, acquiring, cataloging, preserving and serving collection materials of historical importance to the Congress and the American people to foster education and scholarship, extend to digital materials, including websites.
The following URL has been selected:
alipac.us
...
Our web archives are important because they contribute to the historical record, capturing information that could otherwise be lost. With the growing role of the web as an influential medium, records of historic events could be considered incomplete without materials that were "born digital" and never printed on paper.
First, many other great organizations that have been around a lot longer than we have are already on the LOC archives list and it is therefore a great honor for ALIPAC to join their ranks among groups like NumbersUSA, Judicial Watch, National Rifle Association, La Raza, and about every American state website and every federal campaign website! ALIPAC's entry into the Library of Congress will help new and potential supporters appreciate the extent and merits of our contributions to this struggle.
Second, while we are able to maintain the world's largest archive of information about the costly and deadly illegal alien invasion of America at quite some expense each month, we probably won't be able to do that forever. If the LOC archives our entire site, in future years their having a copy of our materials online would equate to more than $2,000 per month (in 2014 dollars) we spend in hosting costs, server costs, website repairs, etc.
Third, ALIPAC being a part of the Library of Congress means that one day our grandchildren and great-grandchildren can look back and read what we were really about in our own words and our own releases. The evil Soros groups are so eager to malign us all the time and if one day we have to close shop and go away, they intend their definition of us to be our lasting legacy. The Library of Congress archiving alipac.us means our actual statements will be around as long as the current American government continues. Our enemies over in the Soros backed smear groups will be very upset to learn ALIPAC is going into the history books of the Library of Congress.
Fourth, we intensely researched this issue regarding the Library's announced intentions to add us. We talked with our top activists and invited them to research the issue for two weeks. While many of us are very wary of government agencies because of the Executive Branch abuses of the IRS and Department of Homeland Security, we found no existing concerns anywhere about the Library of Congress being a problem.
Also, the LOC and our own technical professionals tell us that no private information such as email addresses or IP information will be accessible to the LOC and only the public parts of our site can be copied. We do not store any personal identification materials on our website at www.alipac.us.
The LOC assures us they will not try to hack into the site and anything password protected:
The Library does not archive password-protected content, unless by special permission from the site owner.
As all all of you are aware, ALIPAC has had one of the strictest privacy policies of any group in America (click to view) for the last ten years. We even list privacy protection in our platform page and have shown our supporters we value privacy in everything we do.
So while future generations of Americans will be able to read what some of our activists have chosen to say on our forums section or beneath our homepage articles, the only people who will know it is you are those you choose to tell your ALIPAC nickname to.
I plan to contact the families of some of our supporters who have passed away after making major contributions to our contents such as had_enuf, butterbean, and tinybobidaho to let them know their loved ones' opinions on these important matters will now be a part of the Library of Congress and their next of kin can share that info with loved ones if they like.
Our top activists scoured the web and found no documented problems with LOC website archiving and we have also spoken with several other organization leaders who confirmed with their staff they had no issues as well.
If you would like to learn more about the Library of Congress website archiving, please visit them at these links...
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/
and
http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/faq.html
Also, if you have any further questions or concerns, my door is always open so send me an email or give me a call.
I am proud that our combined efforts fighting against illegal immigration and against amnesty for illegals will result in the more than 1,420,682 comments, articles, releases, and pages of content at www.alipac.us becoming an official part of the archives of the Library of Congress.
Many thanks to all of you who have helped get us to this point and to all of you who have made ALIPAC part of the top 500 influential websites in America. You can view their whole list of public policy sites we will be joining here (Click here).
We are happy to know that when ALIPAC.us puts out a new release on your behalf or when you decide to make a comment anonymously on our site, not only will many thousands of people see it on our site, but future generations of Americans will also have access to what we have to say.
Yours in our cause,
William Gheen
WilliamG@alipac.us
AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION PAC
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 703-0864
FEC ID: C00405878
PS: It is important that we conduct our needed repairs as quickly as possible so the Library of Congress archives and the information that lawmakers, researchers, activists, and American citizens have come to rely on at www.alipac.us is fully available. Please help ALIPAC survive to fight again in 2015 by donating today at...
http://www.alipac.us/donations/
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