THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

NO FED IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING | 2007-04-09

Here is some inside-the-Beltway information you may find interesting.

I was a Reagan appointee. I was Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Personnel Management. My job description included speaking for, in the place of, the Director of Personnel Management, as if he were there. He had two Special Assistants in charge f different areas.

As always, though I was in the same office suite, I almost NEVER talked to my boss. As I said in my piece on "Delegation" I almost NEVER spoke to my boss on Capitol Hill when I was a senior staffer. The congressman would routinely turn interviews with the press in his name over to me without any directions at all. They came out as HIS quotes.

I once had my picture on the front page of the New York Times as Special Assistant to the head of OPM. The Director knew nothing abut it until he read the paper. In the big leagues, you HIRE STAFF. If you don't do THAT well, NOTHING will substitute for it.

President Reagan did his job in a forty-hour week, which the media criticized. One of them asked me what I thought of Reagan forty-hour-week after Carter's workaholism. My reply was, "When a hand picks up the Red Phone I DO NOT want that hand shaking with fatigue.".

Reagan liked that, though we never had any contact abut it. The Executive Office of the President alone has about five THOUSAND employees. If you can't USE them to get the President's job done, no hundred hour week will substitute for it.

Reagan, a former union president and eight years governor of California, knew how to delegate.

I had a LOT of responsibility, but how could I describe it to someone who is not familiar with how the government works? Even most of my fellow workers inside the beltway equated power with how many hours you spent talking with the Boss. If THEY couldn't understand me, how can I explain this to YOU?

So to describe my Reagan job, I said I was in charge of ALL civilian security clearances. NOBODY is in charge of all security clearances – or in sole charge of anything else -anywhere in the Federal Government in the sense the average person in the private sector would understand "in charge." Officially my boss was in charge of all civilian clearances for 2.2 million Federal civilian employees, including the most secret. But big agencies just came to us for delegated authority over their own clearances.

We could and did interfere sometimes, and they were livid.

I did a lot, most of which my employer did not know about and that I cannot talk about. My boss, unlike Ashbrook just complained about how much I was out of the office. It was his first and only job in an inside the beltway job.

From here it just gets MORE complicated. But the easiest way for me to talk about what I CAN talk about was to simply use my job description, one part of which was to act for the Director who was in charge of all security clearances. It's not accurate, because any staffer at that level makes his own job. But in charge of all civilian clearances describes my LEVEL very well. Clearances were, in fact, only a small part of my job.

So Fox described me as a cabinet member. That was DEAD wrong, but that is how it looks if you are not in an inside-the-beltway career.

Kelso sent a message to someone doing a story on Stormfront that I was in charge of Reagan White House clearances. White House clearances were a wholly different job, dealing with POLITICAL appointments. A personal friend of mine was given charge of MY clearance with the White House, and he had to tear a page out of one of my books to get me through, one where my assessment of Reagan was not flattering on one point.

The part of another of my books which described with pride how we helped defeat then Vice President in his run for reelection to congress was left in. I had a LOT of power, but if you work INSIDE the system it is impossible to describe quickly. That was the knowledge I had that gave me power.

Maybe, "in direct line of authority over all civilian clearances for 2.2 million competitive Federal employees" would be the most technically correct, but what would it mean to the average person who has as much interest in the exact details of Federal employment as he does in qualifications for the Brick Layers' Union?

And it STILL wouldn't describe what I REALLY did.

So the description I gave is as close as any newspaper reader would want to get. It describes my LEVEL, and is technically exact.

TRADITIONAL VALUES | 2011-04-28

The institutions based on the name of Christ started with a degenerate philosophy from the last stages of Zoroastrianism, then considered high sophistication by St. Paul and the Pharisees.

For a millennium and a half, this institution preached that one should select the most intelligent and, yes, the most beautiful of each generation and spay or neuter them, psychologically of course.

Origen was condemned for making the castration literal. Whatever quibble one wants to make about the history, that WAS banned by church law. All human sacrifice was to be done by psychological means, but it was as wholesale as that of the Aztecs, and far more selective.

Then came the Calvinists, who rejected the human sacrifice angle, but concentrated entirely on another aspect of degenerate Zoroastrian Christianity, the torture end.

You see, the other part of Catholic doctrine was self-torture.

I just stand there looking stunned when cowlike moos shape themselves into the following question:

How could a society that for most of its history regarded hunger, psychological self torture, and yes, whipping oneself and wearing hair shirts, which were worse, along with sterility as the highest value of all? How could such set of Traditional Values end up making its white people regard self-hatred and self-destruction as the highest possible good?

Well, gosh, gang, I don't know.

But the Calvinists put even the Inquisitors in the shade. Calvin himself burned a classmate of his to burning and screaming slowly to death.

Then he declared, as Luther did, though that is less well known, that the essence of God was Hell. Most people were born, not just for self-torture, but for eternal damnation.

This, he stated, was for the Glory of God. There a tiny minority of the Saved would ENJOY watching the Sinners eternally tortured.

Goodness gracious, how could good, solid Traditional Values based on healthy foundations like those POSSIBLY end up, in what was once Western Christendom, fanatically dedicated to its own racial death?

If you wonder about that, one of us is insane.

TIRESOME | 2006-09-03

So here I am at the American Free Press meeting, described so cruelly and accurately by Al Parker (see comments). I don't know what this younger generation is coming to. You won't find me or Joe being cruelly accurate.

Anyway meand Kelso drove up here all the way in the middle of Ernesto, which the weather bureau called a storm or a hurricane, but Ernesto is just one more pain-in-the-ass illegal alien to me.

So I attended NONE of the speeches, for reasons I am not allowed to talk about until someone stops dribbling around.

DC is my second home town, so I went out the first night and had a thrilling incident which involved the police -- my own record is still as clean as a whistle -- so I can't talk about THAT.

I spent an adrenelin-soaked week in the middle of intrigues I can't talk about.

If you are young, I hope this gives a tone of mystery and intrigue. But by the time you reach my age with a whole LIFE you have to talk about while walking on eggshells,, being told ONE MORE TIME that it's all hush-hush until Somebody Calls Somebody makes you nauseous.

I hereby fearlessly predict that those calls will NEVER take place.

Half my LIFE has been waiting on calls that never took place and documents that were never declassified and all the rest of it.

PETTY TYRANTS | 2004-11-20

When I got word of my book being seized by Canadian customs agents, I was overjoyed. Banned in Canada! Wow! This really shows how desperate the left is to keep my message from the people! What could be a better confirmation of the message in the book.

But my book staff is honest to a fault. If you have noticed the very slick graphic on the home page, it shows the book cover stamped "CONFISCATED." Not "banned," not "seized," but "confiscated" by a pea-brained border guard.

You see, they didn't want to exaggerate what happened. They just put out the facts. Canada has not officially "banned" the book. While that would have made a big splash and garnered attention for the book, it didn't happen that way.

It then occurred to me that the real story makes an even better point about Why Johnny Can't Think. The real danger to us and our future is not Canada or America or anyone else banning a book. The real danger is that our people are being turned into a bunch of petty tyrants.

You see, a people can survive a top-down tyranny. They can endure untold hardship if they work together and care about each other. They can unite against a top-down tyranny. The South overthrew the tyranny of Reconstruction. But when they start to turn on one another, and the most small-minded among them become petty tyrants, then there is big trouble.