THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

OTHER EXAMPLES OF "IN OTHER WORDS" THAT KILL | 2005-08-20

The Constitution of the United States says that this country exists to provide "We the People and OUR posterity" with the blessings of liberty.

So we hear this line every day, "IN OTHER WORDS America is all about spreading Democracy around the world."

Take a look at the casualty list in Iraq this week if you want to see what that IN OTHER WORDS has cost us.

America was taken away from the several hundred thousand Indians who were still living in the Stone Age by the wave of Indo-European invaders who had earlier conquered Europe. It is now the richest country on earth and, for all the carping we do, the freest country on earth. We destroyed Communism, which enslaved a third of the human race.

And now comes the fatal slogan, "IN OTHER WORDS America is a Nation of Immigrants."

If I have to explain to you what THAT little IN OTHER WORDS is doing to us, you belong in a retarded home.

Whitakeronline is NOT devoted to "in other words."

I consider words to be vitally important. I have used weapons and I have used words, and the words have been infinitely more important.

No war hero ever made the slightest difference in real human history. Those who used words have MADE real history.

TODAY'S GNOSTICISM IS WORDISM | 2005-06-24

We desperately need to demystify some of these words that sound so abstract and intellectual.

Peter was talking about the Gnostic Heresy.

The Gnostic Heresy is alive and well today and this needs explaining clearly and simply.

The Gnostic Heresy in early Christianity was what I call Wordism today.

The Gnostic Heresy was simply the idea that the only people who got to Heaven were the scholars. You obtained salvation by spending all your time digging through the Old Testament finding the most obscure passages and learning the Hidden Truth, the Key to Salvation, that was hidden in them.

What Gnosticism condemned was the idea that you could attain Heaven by common sense and common decency. What Gnosticism condemned was the concept that one could attain salvation by getting out among the sinners and telling them the simple truth.

Gnosticism said that Heaven was for the Learned, not for the masses.

We call those same Gnostics today "professors." The common sense and decency of the Founding Fathers is not for them. They do not see the practical cornerstone we call the Constitution. They believe the true statement of what America is all about is in the Declaration of Independence, a propaganda document written right in the middle of a war in a city the enemy was about to occupy.

Today's professor-priesthood, the clergy of our established religion of Political Correctness, love the thundering words of the Declaration that dedicate America to the French radical idea that all men are created equal. Liberals insist that America's whole purpose is to found a New World Order for all mankind, and to cram it down their throats.

For today's Gnostics it is absolutely repellant to even consider that the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution in peacetime and for us, meant what they said. The Constitution states flatly that the only people it was written for was the people of the United States and OUR posterity. The Constitution states flatly that the only AUTHORITY it rests on is we the people of the United States and OUR posterity.

The Constitution says simply that we the people of THIS country are doing what we have a right to do, and no more. It says we are setting up our own government ON OUR OWN, not because of some obscure Gnostic principle of a World Mission.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Our fathers founded upon this continent a great nation, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

They did no such thing and they said so. The Soviet Union was dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it meant to enforce that on every human being on the planet.

No wonder today's Gnostics of this world despise George Washington and love Karl Marx, just as the Gnostics of the next world despised Jesus Christ and worshipped the Old Testament.

No Gnostic will tell you he despises Jesus Christ or George Washington. But if there were two men in all of history you could not possibly twist into Gnostics, those were the two.

Jesus never told anyone to read the Bible. He spoke in Aramaic and He quoted the scriptures his listeners knew about. He specifically condemned the High Priest to Hell who knew every word of those Scriptures and who PRACTICED them. Jesus said very, very specifically that the sinful tax gatherer in the back of the Temple who admitted he was a sinner and SIMPLY asked for forgiveness was the one who attained salvation.

There is no way that anybody can reject what was later called Gnosticism any more clearly than Jesus did. He repudiated it repeatedly, blatantly, plainly, obviously, openly – you could exhaust any Thesaurus with this.

In my little way, I try to do what Jesus did. I study so I can explain the truths of decency and good sense to the people, and discredit Gnosticism in any form.

I have read those huge tomes for the specific purpose of discrediting the idea that reading and studying Karl Marx or the Old Testament is the key to salvation in this world or the next.

And the more I study the more I realize that Jesus was dead right, and the closeted Old Testament scholars and professors, the High Priests of yesterday and today, were dead wrong and ARE dead wrong.

HELP WANTED! FASHIONABLE OPINION NEEDS AUTHOR FOR ITS NEXT WORLD CRISIS BOOK! | 2003-12-13

The next crisis book will say that liberals have to rule the world to save it from global warming or global freezing or whatever. The new version of "Soylent Green" will dramatize how the world will be destroyed because we have not ratified some version of the Kyoto Treaty.

The Kyoto Treaty would stop all development in white countries and let the third world go for broke. Any version of the Kyoto Treaty, no matter how you watered it down, would go a long way towards turning world economic policy over to the bureaucrats and halting Western growth.

And turning the world over to bureaucrats is what Fashionable Opinion is all about.

The media have hit Bush hard for not negotiating some version of the Kyoto Treaty, so Bush has already begun to cave in. Not one single member of the United States Senate would dare support the present Kyoto Treaty, so all that Fashionable Opinion asks is that we start taking it seriously again.

So Bush is starting to go back to negotiating the Kyoto Treaty. But what is really needed is a book that will get the yuppies howling for Kyoto and scaring Bush all the way to the conference table.

Bush is on the run, but we still don't have the book we need, the new "Soylent Green," the new "Population Bomb."

Hundreds of science fiction writers are out there waiting waiting for somebody to put that book out so they can put out little versions of it.

Everybody is waiting for the next Inevitable Future, and the rewards being offered for it are stupendous.

Every movie about the Holocaust gets dozens of awards. The professor at Emory who got fired because his pro-gun control book was such a tissue of obvious lies got lots of awards for it. Whoever writes the new "professors must rule the world" and "The white race is the cancer of history" book has fame and money and awards and professorships lined up waiting for him.

Where is that book?

SPOKESMEN VERSUS WINNERS | 2010-08-31

Hitler actually says in Mein Kampf that, as his Party grew, he needed an economic stand, too. Almost all the other parties were, as they are today, about the government's role in the economy, from socialists and communists to a few libertarians.

Hitler explained how he found a philosopher to put one in his platform, though I forget for now who it was, and Hitler said he didn't care either.

The Depression lasted a decade in America, and wasn't half over when WWII broke out. Hitler ended the German Depression in a couple of years. This was because the New Deal was mostly an economic program, while Hitler just ended the problem and went on to other things.

The more your philosophy deals with economics, the worse your economy is going to be. Marxism says economics is everything, and the Soviet Union was still going down that road when it finally collapsed.

Hitler did what it took the United States thirty years to copy from him. He built a superhighway system and invented the VW that filled our first superhighways in the 1960s.

Hitler WAS fascinated by Lebensraum. He had a program for it. That, the thing he had a program for, destroyed him.

But Hitler adopted his economic program because he had to have one. So when he actually took over, and push came to shove, he just ignored that nonsense and went ahead and got the German people back to work.

Meanwhile, Roosevelt had two things going, his debt spending to end the Depression, and his Draconian taxes and regulations. Pretty well everybody now knows that high taxes and a lot of regulation make the economy go down. Every actual economist in the 1930s, contrary to what Keynes and historians have since said, actually advocated deficit spending to end the Depression.

When you put in a maximum income tax rate at 91%, the economy is going to suffer.

The British Labor Party had a program. One part of it was nationalizing industry. So when Labor won an election, it would begin to buy up the big industries and put the bureaucracy in control of them, and when the Conservatives won, the same nonsense would be repeated.

Libertarians want open borders. How long would an elected Libertarian Party last if the third world poured in? They are, after all, coming here to escape the results of their own politics.

No one today looks at the economic history of Britain in the generation after WWII because, while the Conservative Party won the elections, its program was much the same as that of the old Labor Party.

No one looks at Marxism or Democratic Socialism in Britain because just to recite it is hideously embarrassing to the left, and no one who did could get a job as a respectable conservative.

Just as you couldn't get a job as a respectable conservative if you kept reminding people that every Communist country, and ONLY Communist countries, caged their people in with barbed wire, machine guns and land mines.

People were told to believe that the Berlin Wall was something special.

Every Communist country, and ONLY Communist countries, caged their entire population in.

No one asked why.

White leaders are not the first to reject an observation everybody knows about but no one says. They watched me pound many a Commie into the ground with it but it never occurred to them to use it.

What sells and makes the media choose one as a Spokesman for a protest is not the same thing that works.