THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SHARI IN GENERAL COMMENTS | 2008-04-21

So much of what is called education, and those who present themselves as educated, is really disgusting mumbo-jumbo.

I hadn't realized just how bad it is, since I'm not part of that.

I received this forward. "For those wanting to make a contribution in J's memory, a student scholarship or award fund is being established in the College of Arts and Sciences, focused on J's major department of Cognitive Science.

Although the exact nature of the fund is still being determined, it is designed to support scholarship inline with one of J's central intellectual interests and passions: developing the intersection of sociologcal perspectives and

principals with inquiry in cognitive science, or possibly in cognitive musicology. This poor kid was only 25. It just makes me sick.

-- Shari

NICK GRIFFIN'S BODYGUARDS | 2006-04-14

Nick Griffin is the head of the British National Party.

At the National Renaissance Party Conference, I got to know his bodyguards.

I have been a merc. I have spent my life in redneck bars and rougher places.

These guys struck me as home folks.

So sue me.

Anyway, on to the text:

-- Nick Griffin's Body Guards

One of them is built like a Sherman Tank's big brother. He is a solid square of muscle, like the Emperor Vespasian.

I know the type. His arms and torso are so huge that you wait for a punch at you and suddenly realize that he just did a kick and your head is gone. He doesn't look made for movement.

He MOVES.

Then there is the other guard.

Chasing Griffin around all day would make anybody tired, yours truly included, but this guy almost always has a genuine smile and good humor written all over him. I asked him why he was always in a good mood.

He said, "I don't know, I just am."

As usual I can't explain just why, but I know this jocular gentleman can knock someone into next Wednesday just like his partner, in whom the ability is more obvious.

But neither of these guys has a damned thing to prove, which is probably why I like them so much.

They don't do the talking. They do the defending.

Which is a shame, because what they have to say is worth listening to.

THE HUCKSTEROCRATS, AKA "INTELLECTUALS" | 2001-11-17

Rule One in dealing with Ancient Civilizations is essential to every kind of huckster. When Houdini went to seances to expose the frauds, every one of those frauds demanded that everyone be silent and respectful during the ceremony.

Laughing out loud at unbearable silliness is a sure sign of Heresy. I laughed out loud in class when I heard the professor read the preamble to the Soviet Constitution for the first time.

Let us remember who wrote that Constitution. The outstanding characteristic of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Lenin, Trotsky and every other leader and theorist of the Workers' Revolution was that not one of them had ever done an hour's actual labor in their entire lives.

James Madison and Thomas Jefferson worked on their farms when they were boys. They were experts in real planting. And if George Washington didn't actually chop down the cherry tree it certainly wasn't because he didn't know how. Ben Franklin was a journeyman printer among many other things.

But no champion of the working class knew how to do anything useful.

Let me make it clear to you how silly this situation is. Let's say that you and I are listening to some children setting up a game. The child proposing this game says, "OK, here's how it goes. Jimmy will do all the digging in the dirt. Billy will do the heavy lifting. Tommy will do the fighting."

So Billy says, "So what are you going to do?"

The kid setting up the game says, "I'll do the thinking and I'll give all the orders."

We would laugh out loud because you and I know that no small child, smart or not, is going to fall for that.

So when the Leaders and Theorists of the Working Class sat down to write a preamble to the Soviet Constitution, how did they set it up? Here it is

"The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is made up of farmers, workers, soldiers and intellectuals."

It said that these people would do all the farming, this group would work the factories, that group would do all the fighting. So the intellectuals do all the thinking and give all the orders and do nothing else.

I was only a teenager, but I laughed out loud at the obvious absurdity of the thing. No one else had ever laughed at this. If anyone had, it could have saved a hundred million lives.

The hucksters took over Russia. They also rule our universities today.

MAURICE BESSINGER, WAL-MART, AND CHINA | 2001-04-21

According to the media, about half of Wal-Mart's products come from Red China. When American hostages were held by that country, Wal-Mart had absolutely nothing to say.

But Wal-Mart led the boycott of Bessinger's products when he committed PURELY VERBAL heresy on the political RIGHT.

Another point: when it comes to Maurice's taking down the Federal flag and when they want to attack the right for being "naziswhowanttokillsixmillionjews," the left is always talking about "our men who fought in World War II."

But during the recent hostage crisis, our men who fought the Red Chinese in Korea were never mentioned.

Maurice Bessinger was one of those FIGHTING the Red Chinese in Korea. Maurice put HIS life on the line for that Federal flag when he felt that side represented his homeland.

The EDGEFIELD JOURNAL and other spokesmen of the League have previously brought up Wal-Mart's support of Red China versus their boycott of Bessinger. Now that the real nature of Red China is front and center, this is no time to pass over this point.

We have got to keep repeating it, because no one else is going to mention it at all.