THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE CONSTITUTION VERSUS FREEDOM | 2010-06-01

I was dating a young woman, and, not for the first time in my life among people, I expressed an opinion she didn't like. She replied, "You know, until now I thought a lot of you."

My reply was, quite sincerely, "If your good opinion is that easily lost, I'd rather not be burdened with it." She changed her tune abruptly, but I was not using this as a debate point. As usual, my best debate point is expressing the exact truth in a way that shows how silly the other person is being.

That is one of the reasons I watch out for Wordism. A person whose morality is in a book may read another book, suddenly decide he has misinterpreted the one he already worships, as Bob Jones IV declared when he abandoned the Confederate flag at just the right time financially.

Remember, this person has no loyalty to you or yours whatsoever. To anything but his words, be they a set of books or Mommy Professor or a single book, he is a psychopath. Like a sociopath, his word means nothing.

The Word is everything, HIS word is nothing.

The Constitution was once a contract. With a contract, you either go by the original intent of the wording or you change the wording. But in our terms we have gone from a constitution to a Constitution, from something which means what it says to something that means what someone is assigned to interpret.

So what is the Constitution? Does it guarantee us anything, the way we use the term? No, it is now Wordist.

Hitler and Stalin both simply interpreted their respective Constitutions. Hitler invoked the Emergency Clause in the Weimar Constitution. He simply said he emergency was permanent. That is what Franklin Roosevelt did when he ran for a third term. Like Hitler, he said that it was up to him to decide when the emergency ends, and it didn't end until he was buried.

As for Stalin, I keep repeating that the Soviet Constitution of 1936 made that written at Philadelphia look like totalitarianism. Very few people really knew what was in it. Among other things, the Soviet Constitution of 1936 gave every Republic the right to secede peacefully.

If you can imagine Stalin's reaction if the Ukraine tried to seceded in 1937, you realize that he put a somewhat different INTERPRETATION on that clause.

But when republics began to secede, practically nobody realized that that right was included in the Soviet Constitution that was still in effect. Cartoons made fun of independence movements in the Republics, showing Estonians singing "Dixie" and wearing Confederate uniforms, making fun of the whole thing.

Then they ALL seceded.

This shows the essential difference between a constitution as a contract and Constitution as a matter of "interpretation." Under Wordism, all that matters is who has power. When Stalin ruled, we all know what his perfect Constitution meant. When the Republics got the upper hand they "interpreted" it for themselves.

That is how Wordism works. That is how good the word of a Wordist is.

A constitution is a contract between honest people. A Constitution is five of nine people in dresses and a president willing to follow orders.

We have a Constitution. The constitution has long since been repealed.

KELLY | 2006-09-04

Bob do you think the greatest generation could have realized after ww2 that they might have been worng or felt traumitized by the killing of other men?..Maybe thats why they never stood up to anything maybe they became spiritualy empty?..

Comment by Kelly

ME:

Let Ole Bob exercise his diplomatic turn of phrase:

That's bullshit.

Of the millions of Americans in uniform in WWII, one in three ever HEARD a hostile shot fired.

But ALL of them went through Basic Training, which was designed to transform them from Americans into dumb animals who took orders.

HALF of them used the GI Bill Of Rights to become puppets of Mommy Professor. I think that professors really got out of hand right then when they found that there was NOTHING a Basic Trained clown wouldn't say "Yes, Massah, I just ignrnt" to.

I cannot describe the PROUD groveling -- "I learned to OBEY in the MILITARY! -- of the WWII Generation. It is hard to tell you about the unmitigated crap they swallowed as Holy Writ and be believed.

They were HORRIBLE, SICKENING, they made me RETCH.

If you believe ANYBODY is responsible for his own actions, they cannot be forgiven.

CHINESE IMPERIALISM | 2005-12-05

China, in all its thousands of years of history, has never invaded India.

Let me repeat that: China and India have existed for thousands of years right across the mountains from each other and China has never invaded India.

In my lifetime a tiny very wet little idland in the North Sea OWNED India.

Wave after wave of Aryan and pre-Aryan invaders came across the mountains west of China and conquered and OWNED India.

China has never even invaded India.

In fact, with a tiny almost unknown exception that proves the rule, China has never ruled anybody who was not racially Mongoloid.

What others refer to as "Chinese imperialism" is what Europeans would refer to as "taking over buffer areas." For the giant China to take over southeast Asis is the equivalent of Fance taking over Belgium.

It would be aggression, but it would take a real stretch of the imagination to call a conquered Belgium The French Empire.

BASICS: COMPROMISING ON NONSENSE | nationalsalvation.net

Nobody has made it clearer that our problem is an Established RELIGION, not a viewpoint from Science or Intellectuality, but a RELIGION. A little THINKING would make this obvious.

My practical, MUNDANE knowledge of THEOLOGY is the reason I understand Political Correctness so well. It is also the reason no one who works for our Established Faith, either as an acolyte or as a Respectable Conservative, can see reality.

Political Correctness is the Truth and the Culmination of All Things to its adherents. Stated plainly, its religious nature is obvious. However, they never apply the religious wording, but apply doctrine every bit as rigidly.

There is a perfect symmetry between using "rubes" and rednecks as labels for those who do not Believe in Political Correctness and calling Unbelievers "heathens" and "pagans," both words meaning country bumpkins or rednecks.

Herodotus had this attitude long before Christianity. Being an Indo-European, he gave us the earliest remaining - historians now would say "the earliest" factual accounts of ancient sites. But he did it for what we call a Modern historical reason; He was trying to prove that the gods of Greece were descended from the gods of Egypt, not from the gods of the rednecks from the Northern woods.

And, like those who call themselves historians today, he was dead wrong.

Theology is largely an attempt to explain away what is obviously wrong in one's doctrine. History is largely an attempt to explain away what is wrong with OUR Established Religion's dogma.

For over half a millennium, the two great monotheistic faiths, Roman Christianity and Zoroastrianism, shared the world, though competitors and often blood enemies, the two empires, Byzantine and Persian, referred to themselves as The Two Eyes of Civilization. Mani, who founded Manichaeism, was trying to unite the two great religions of his day and the Western world in his death's-head theology.

Today no one would understand Mani's universalist purpose. He is looked upon as an extremist. He saw himself as a centrist. He saw himself as a center of civilization against the rednecks. That is one thing that no historian who mentions Mani even considers. But Mani was sincerely trying to join the Two Eyes of Civilization against the Pagans, the polytheists, the rednecks.

Many have talked about how ridiculous yesterday's True Faith preachers look today. The London preachers who denounced Jenner's vaccination, the top theologians of the Established Church, spring to mind.

But at least those misguided theocrats are REMEMBERED. Who today remembers the respectable conservatives of their time, the Manis who tried to synthesize two pieces of nonsense into a single, reasonable, whole pile of rubbish?

At least the doctrines are remembered. The fanatics are remembered because they had the courage to be just plain WRONG.

Those who sought to compromise nonsense are forgotten.