THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

AMERICA'S ESTABLISHED RELIGION AND THE DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY | 2001-03-17

The whole world is upset because Moslem fundamentalists in Afghanistan are ordering the destruction of huge pre-Moslem statues of Buddha. They are the biggest statues on earth, says the US, and they are part of history.

The ruling group in Afghanistan says those statues offend their faith and must be destroyed.

The UN has protested, the US has protested, and so forth.

Recently, the body of the Kennewick Man was discovered in the United States. Anthropologists noted that Kennewick, 1) was older than any American Indian skeleton, and 2) he bore no relation whatever to American Indians.

Scientists wanted to study him. Indians wanted to get rid of him.

You see, the Kennewick Man was a threat to AMERICA'S established religion, which is Political Correctness and white racial guilt. If the Indians were just one more group of invaders taking America from the people of the Kennewick Man, all the white racial guilt they get money out of might be threatened.

So the Indians said they had the right to bury Kennewick Man because of their religion.

The US Government agreed, and buried Kennewick beyond the reach of anthropology.

If anybody complains about what the Moslems did with the statues in Afghanistan, we should mention the superstition that hid the Kennewick Man from science.

REALITY CHECK | 2006-07-15

I just checked Yahoo! and it turn out that the movie "The Night of the Generals" was made in 1967. So by the time I saw it I had had a lot more experience with totalitarian regimes and the third world than is good for anybody.

In that movie Omar Sherif was the hero, a German police official who was investigating murders done by some German generals in occupied France and occupied Poland. Finally, in late 1944, he accumulated evidence that the German general being played by Peter O'Toole had committed the murders. So he walked into that SS general's headquarters, surrounded by loyal SS men, to arrest him for murder. He had no backup.

As it happened he walked in to arrest this SS general at the very moment when it was announced that a bomb had been planted in Hitler's headquarters and the Fuhrer had been injured and all loyal Nazis were being called to arms to suppress the rebellion. So when the Sharif character announced to the SS general, the guy with a skull on his hat and a 9MM in his holster, guess what happened?

The general pulled out his pistol, shot the policeman, and went out to call his troops to action.

You may have difficulty believing this, but when the Sharif policeman got the bullet in his chest, his only reaction one of complete surprise, which seems to be what the movie makers expected of the audience.

I reacted with complete surpise to his surprise.

If a policeman went into a Stalinist enclave of the KGB to arrest the commanding general, what would any rational person expect would be the reaction of a general with a gun at his side? Forget the movie idea that this was at a moment of crisis. Today we are all aware of the fact that if a policeman went in alone to arrest a general in a totalitarian state, he would be shot.

I am trying to give you an insight into the mind of the 1960s. Americans then had no experience whatsoever with the real third world or with real totalitarianism. Back then a hippy was seriously considered to be a real revolutionary.

Back in the 1960s all of the media featured hippies and called them true revolutionaries. But back to our reality check. How could anybody believe that a policeman could talk in and arrest a genreal working for an absolutist dictator? By the same token, how could anyone believe that true revolutionaries were people who were always covered by the media?

You don't go in alone and arrest generals in a totalitarian state. And nowhere on earth are true revolutionaries given constant prime time coverage. The fact that none of this ever occurred to anybody at the time is manifest in the audience's total shock at the fact that Sharif's policeman was shot and the SS general went on with the emergency. The same population never considered it odd that "true revolutionaries" were on every talk show.

Reality check: somebody was nuts here, either me or the American public.

REALITY VERSUS THE INTERNET | 2012-09-25

One of our commenters talked about the "real world" as opposed, I suppose, to what we are doing.

He says public meetings take place in this "real world."

The planet Mercury is a giant slice of "reality." If someone could beam a message to Mercury he would reach a huge section of "reality."

No one doubts that Mercury is real. But if you were rich and spent a lot of your money sending propaganda to Mercury your family might just be able to get you committed.

It would be a little hard to explain to those who spend tens of billions to advertise on the internet that they must be crazy because the internet isn't "real."

It hasn't been that long since public speeches were considered "reality." Truman won the 1948 election largely by his "whistle stop" campaign making speeches from the back of a train. If he tried that on AmTrak he would still be out there.

Truman got out in the "real world" of his day.

Harding won the 1920 election sitting on his front porch, his "front porch" campaign.

Both elections were real.

"If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?"

Of course it does. Sound is a vibration. "Imagine the sound of one hand clapping."

One hand doesn't clap.

Political reality is human consciousness.

Reality exists independent of human consciousness.

POLITICAL reality does not.

WHAT COAL MINERS SHOULD TEACH US | 2002-08-03

Coal miners have a special meaning to me. Unlike leftist Heroes of the Working Class in Hollywood, I actually know a lot of working people.

As I have mentioned in whitakeronline, about the proudest I have ever been was when a West Virginia coal miner said, "Whitaker speaks for us, and he's not even a hick."

I AM a hick -- from Pontiac, SC -- but as their Official Spokesman I had to cover that up with a coat and tie.

That miner's remark was made at a joint press conference and march I had arranged in Washington, DC, for West Virginia parents fighting filthy textbooks and Boston anti-busers.

I was also an official Honorary Boston Southie.

Coal miners and Boston Southies are not people who are noted for giving their trust freely and easily. I earned it.

Those nine coal miners who just survived are typical of the breed I am proud to have been trusted by.

Jane Fonda keeps saying that nuclear energy is dangerous and implies that other energy production isn't. She doesn't know anybody who's worked on an oil rig or in a coal mine.

Nobody but a bunch of coal miners would have been cool enough to find a place to survive down there. The very idea gives me the cold crawlies.

Damn, they're good!