THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

IF A BLACK MAN KILLS A WHITE MAN, THAT MAKES THE WHITE MAN A RACIST | 2000-06-09

A little while back, a liberal group reported that blacks got longer sentences than whites for the same crimes. Turns out that they said it wrong. Actually, six times as many blacks, as they later admitted, commit serious crimes as whites, and get sentenced for it. They made no apology.

The media, which had unanimously reported that six times as many blacks got longer sentences for the same crime, did not make any retractions.

We are told that the death sentence is racist. The reason that it is racist is because so many more black people kill white people than vice-versa, so a lot more black people get executed. Obviously, the black murderer is not the criminal here. So who is?

Well, there are two people involved, the black killer and the white victim. So the victim must be the racist, sending the poor black man, a victim of racism, to his death. That is the kind of logic our society operates on today.

SIEGECRAFT: ONE CLEAR-HEADED THINKER IS ALL THAT IS NEEDED | nationalsalvation.net

Mr. Webb,

When a theater begins to fill up with smoke, all it takes is ONE clear-headed person to organize an orderly evacuation and thereby save everybody's life. This has happened many times.

If no clear-headed person is present, however, then hundreds die. The really sad thing is that far more of them die from being trampled by their panic-stricken fellow audience members than from the actual smoke and flames.

Now, Bob himself may not be the best one to organize an orderly evacuation. As he has told us many times, he is by profession a staffer, not a leader. But Bob, who made his living doing the thinking for some powerful leaders, COMPLETELY understands the power that ONE CLEAR HEAD can have in a crisis situation. And a few clear heads are exactly what he's trying to create here.

Mr. Webb, we're all sitting together in a dark, crowded theater right now. And it's starting to fill up with smoke. And you're sitting in your seat screaming, "Fire burns! Smoke suffocates! This theater is a firetrap! You are all idiots for not understanding these things!" But we do understand those things, actually. We learned things like "fire burns" quite early in life, thank you. Our focus now, however, is on how to get everybody out of the theater alive. The best way to start is by thinking, not screaming.

Comment by JBB

SIEGECRAFT: USEFUL EXPERIENCE | nationalsalvation.net

Commenters have made it clear that they get bored when I talk about ME. On the other hand, commenters tell me that it is fascinating to them when I tell them about ME.

The first type of ME is about things like what I like for supper as opposed to what you like for supper or my personal peeves.

The second type of ME is what us kids always loved to hear from the old folks during Porch Talk. It is the sort of thing I could not have experienced, it put me in the world they grew up in or other things which we identify with but cannot have been in yet.

The first ME is reciting the same kind of stuff everybody, especially old folks, like to tell. It's a lot like living their lives WITH them. It is a set of observations that you might make if you had had the time and different things happen to you that he did.

It is all very well to have a grandfather who won a Medal in combat or scored four touchdowns in a single game, but that can get tiresome very quickly. Porch talk kind of rolls along, with grandpa responding to talk with experiences of his own.

The fundamental point here is that Porch Talk usually is not meant to impress you. The Porch Talk person has been there and tells you how it LOOKS from wherever THERE is.

In fact, there a somewhat inverse proportion between how good it makes you look and the View From There. Good Porch Talk is largely the opposite of the paid consultants on TV. We are used to only hearing about Intelligence Work from Network Contributors who are Colonel so and so, retired, with 42 years in the Defense Intelligence Agency.

What he has to say as an Expert who has spent his life in one area is like the "talking heads" on television, one-minute confirmation of what the regular newsman just said. But it would make miserable Porch Talk IN THE LONG RUN.

We all know how tiresome an old man can get if every night he starts the talk with "I spent forty-two years in this" or "I was in World War II."

When you think about this simple fact, you realize that what makes Porch Talk is not marveling at what the Old Man DID, but the observations he makes about it. What he is talking about is something You can live through, because you don't need the SAME experience to see what he saw and live what he lived.

It has been said many times and in many ways that a life lived without reflection is a life unlived. Out on the porch, what you like to hear is the reflections, not the repeat of someone's high point in life. Sitting there listening, you know that there will he many, many times in your long life after childhood when the reflection the Old Man is making will come back to you, because you are living the same thing in another experience.

It is very useful that I have showed up in an amazing array of places, IF I make those experiences into something that means something to YOU.

Being There is only Step One. Thousands of hours of reflecting on it and getting it into a context you can use is more important.

The above two sentences sound obvious. But precious few people who think it is obvious DO it.

Grandpa learned to do it because if he kept talking about his WWII or his four touchdowns, the kids would wander away.

Almost nobody does it now that Porch Talk is over.

LAW: THE IDEA THAT THE LAW IS HOLY IS A COSTLY MYTH | nationalsalvation.net

The legal system is just one more bureaucracy. It is dangerous to trust any bureaucracy. But the legal bureaucracy decides life and death issues. To trust THAT bureaucracy is fatal.

We have over two million lawyers in the United States. They produce nothing.

All those lawyers and their employees and their lawsuits and all the paperwork that is required to avoid lawsuits has been estimated to cost the American economy about two trillion dollars a year.

I think that estimate is low.

I hear Shrewd people saying, "America should have a government of Laws, not of Men."

Nobody asks them what the hell they are talking about.

There is no law that is not made by men, enforced by men, and screwed up by men.

The Constitution of the United States is the only authority it rests on:

"We the People of the United States of America."

How can you say that and then turn around and say "We are a government of laws, not of men?"

DUHH!

The Holy Black Dress

Back when the Supreme Court was all male, I used to say, "The United States Supreme Court consists of nine lawyers who had enough political pull to get themselves made judges. They were just nine human lawyers before they went on the court, and they are nine lawyers now."

I would then add, "But because these nine guys now wear black dresses, they are supposed to be The Constitution of the United States. If they wore mascara and high heels, would they be the Bible, too?"

What kind of superstitious peasant could possibly believe that something called the Law is somehow something godlike and superhuman? What kind of retard could believe that a man has the right to be a dictator because he wears a black dress?

Judges today are, in fact, dictators. Here is what I said in the Introduction to my 1982 anthology for St. Martin's press, "The New Right Papers". Several papers in this book deal, in one way or another, with the restoration of popular rule.

Professor William A Stanmeyer's discussion of the imperial judiciary explains, from the point of view of a legal scholar, the steady erosion of the power of elected officials, and the increasing use of the Constitution as an excuse for, rather than as a source of, judicial decisions. Behind such decisions ranges the full power of the United States Government. A situation where one man's personal judgment is law has a name, and it is not democracy.

Where Mythology Rules, Freedom Dies

Freedom is based on a very unromantic idea. It says people should do what they want to.

The easiest way to destroy freedom is to trivialize it. You just say, "We could avoid a lot of accidents if we did this, and the reason for not doing it is because somebody just WANTS to do something else, for no reason at all."

You go straight from there to the Marxist myth of Social Progress, which the term "progressive" is now based on, and from there you go to dictatorship. If we have a Higher Mission, there is no room for Freedom.

Every totalitarian society worships The Law.

When the Supreme Court overrules the will of the American people, it says it is "interpreting the Constitution." If you "interpret" the Constitution, you ARE the Constitution.

Barry Goldwater pointed out in his 1958 book, "The Conscience of a Conservative," that EVERY public official has to interpret the Constitution. He takes an oath to uphold the Constitution against all enemies, including an enemy in a black dress.

Who said the courts were supposed to be the Constitution? Certainly not the Constitution itself, if it meant that, it would have said it.

Who gave the Supreme Court the right to be the Constitution?

The Supreme Court did.

If one branch of government IS the Constitution, then the balance of powers between the different branches of government simply does not exist.

The People Versus the People

The Constitution says that its only source of authority is, "We the People of the United States of America."

So nine lawyers in black dresses overrule the popular will in the name of "We the People of the United States of America."

How far can you go if you say you are "interpreting" the Constitution? O'Reilly says the Founding Fathers demanded interracial high school dances because they called it the UNITED States of America.

He's serious.

Once you start "interpreting" the Constitution, there is no limit to how ridiculous you can get.

And you can kill anybody who gets in your way.