THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

SOUTH CAROLINA AND SURRENDER | 2003-01-25

A professor of military history at West Point wrote a book about how America won the Revolution. He said America lost its cities the way the Confederacy did, but they just kept right on fighting. He said the South couldn't do this in the Civil War because we had slaves.

I wrote this high-level military history professor about the Revolutionary War in South Carolina after Charleston fell. South Carolina had one of history's classic guerrilla wars going under the Swamp Fox Francis Marion. At that time, I pointed out, South Carolina had more blacks than whites, especially in the Low Country where Marion fought.

The professor wrote me and thanked me. He pointed out, without the slightest trace of embarrassment, that he didn't know that.

In the real world, the facts about Francis Marion didn't matter, because the professor was getting paid to make a Politically Correct point about how slavery made the Confederacy lose. Professors don't get paid to recite facts.

If Francis Marion had been Robert E. Lee, we would have lost the Revolutionary War. Marion was a general too, just like Lee. At one point there were only eight men sitting out there in the swamp with him. If Marion had said he had to be a Great Commander or he wouldn't play, he would have handed in his sword many times.

SKIN COLOR AND FOREIGN AID | 2002-01-19

The only American foreign aid programs that have been successful were for white countries, and for Japan.

The Marshall Plan after World War II did help Europe and Japan pull themselves out of the devastation and ruin. Naturally, all the successes of those countries were attributed to "The Marshall Plan." You will regularly see quotes like "Europe recovered due to the Marshall Plan."

This is, to put it mildly, a bit overstated.

BUGS NEEDS A PRIDE OF MEMBERSHIP | 2012-02-16

I know I ask an awful lot of the handful of real BUGSERS.

You do your work alone and unappreciated, two things I have learned to take for granted. This is because you get POWER for doing things like that. There are a lot more people available to get praise or names for themselves or even to march in a group. That is why the very, very few like me WIELD so much real power.

Unfortunately very few people can keep on doing things entirely because they NEED doing. The only really anonymous donors are people who are too rich to care about enhancing their names.

How many people hit the Internet with the Mantra and report back here? We dream of White Rabbit's goal of 300, but the real number now is probably about 50.

Yet those fifty are spreading the Mantra around the world.

I promised you real power, but I also warned you about the price.

From Norway comes word that they are grouping together. One of our folks has set up a BUGS Circle.

Obviously we desperately need TEAM SPIRIT.

I have worked alone all my life, and I do NOT recommend it for most people.

FIRST, you pay your dues by posting and REPORTING it, as White Rabbit says.

But we also desperately need some sense of BELONGING, some TEAM SPIRIT.

When someone asks you to back them up in an ongoing battle, GO. When someone asks you to "approve" one of his postings, DO IT.

Add a little report that you did. Talk to the BUGSER you just helped, very briefly, right here on the Swarm "Where did you post the Mantra Today?" which to me is far the most important part of BUGS now.

The Legions had the pilum, the soft sword and discipline. But they were also TOGETHER. They couldn't have done what they did without pride of membership and the feeling of BELONGING.

SLEEP SOUNDLY, HOMELAND SECURITY IS WATCHING OVER YOU | 2010-05-22

One writer in my New Right Papers anthology talked about an experience he had in the USSR when it was still ruled by Social Progress. Apparently to show the flaws in capitalist production, he was shown the hula hoops. There was a giant warehouse containing millions of hula hoops the USSR had produced at the time of that craze in the 50s.

They still had them. It is an example of what I said before, that Communists have no way to figure out what consumer goods to produce, so they produce whatever the market economy produces. But to them, what they were showing him was how his wonderful market economy produced things nobody wanted.

But the hula hoop was not a planned event. They just grew and manufacturers produced them. Then the craze died and they stopped producing them. That's what you get when Mommy Professor doesn't do your planning for you.

To my writer, that was an example of how stupid the planned economy was. But to them, the fact that they couldn't give the damned things away to their citizens demonstrated how ridiculous this capitalist product was.

My point is that the Soviets had no more idea what was going on than the CIA did. They had more agents there than we did by a LONG shot, "the KGB is everywhere." The CIA budget is a secret, and I can tell you as a staffer for the ranking member of the Internal Security Committee, formerly House Un-American Activities Committee, that if you saw their expenditures you would be as lost as you are now.

But between the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA and the others, we spent billions on knowing what went on inside the USSR, from qualified experts.

Lots of information was produced, tens of millions of words poured out, but nobody saw the USSR coming down, here or there. This never seemed to bother anybody, and certainly nobody in the Intelligence Community was ever criticized for it or lost a night's sleep over it.

So back to one of our basic questions: Why was this information PRODUCED? Why were all those people paid so much and no one ever asked why they didn't see the whole thing coming down? If Pepsi-Cola went out of business, went out of business next week, and no one in the Coca-Cola Company had any idea it was happening or why it happened, I guarantee you there would be a LOT of empty seats to be filled in the Executive Suites in Atlanta.

We know all those executives and experts WERE hired, and we know they had not the slightest hint the USSR was going to disappear overnight. We also know that those who haven't retired are now promoted and well-paid in the Department of Homeland Security.

In fact it was exactly those same executives and experts and the people they hired and trained who were in charge on September 11, 2001. By now almost all of those who missed on the Soviet Incident AND on 9/11 have gotten fat pensions and/or big-pay jobs as Advisors in the private sector. But their spirit, and their level of competence, lives on in those they made experts to succeed them.

And no one notices.