THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

THE DEATH OF THE OLD AA | 2013-09-15

Bill W, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, took his terminal alcoholism to the world top psychiatrist in Switzerland.   That man, at enormous expense, told him that alcoholism was quite simply a terminal disease.   As with cancer, he had seen a few seemingly miraculous recoveries, but, as in the case of cancer still today, no one can explain those and they are vanishingly rare.

Then the world's top psychiatrist, whose name I cannot remember, told Bill W flatly he would have to take his wallet and go elsewhere.

Freud would probably have taken his money until he died drunk and talked about sex.

So Bill W and Doctor Bob established AA before WWII and the drunks saved each other, or at least they had a place to go to die.

AA established a heroic record. What a recovering AA alkie would do for his fellow drunk to keep him from relapsing was heroic.

Routinely heroic, unheralded, and anonymous. A lot of what they did was more dangerous than those in WWII, who bored us all sick with what heroes they were at age 20, did.

But then came the professionals. Psychiatrists, who had opted out of dealing with alkies and junkies before it started to pay, returned.

Then the fight against drug addiction became fashionable.

Clinics became fashionable and profitable. The Recovery Industry charged three hundred bucks a day for AA meetings AND "therapy."   Therapy, talk sessions by "credentialed experts," was suddenly in.

I watched the old Bill W business, where unpaid alkies helped new alkies, die. I ended up being the only person who would give a ride to someone who called in asking for one.

But in a way, the old AA worked because it was like us: they didn't theorize, they went out and TRIED things. If it didn't work, you would find your sponsorees dying as a result. The old AA worked because it dealt with their realest of realities and adjusted every day.

The industry that has replaced the old AA lives by who gets published in the latest article. Whether anything works means nothing to these paycheck "recovery" pros. It reminds me of many of our membership organizations.

THE SOVIET MEMORIAL IN BUDAPEST | 2008-03-06

I was drafted onto Truck Roy's program just now. He needed a big mouth immediately because someone had not shown up.

I will deal with this later, if you care. But the main protagonist in the discussion was SF's Kennewickman, who is Hungarian. Which reminded me of Hungary. [SF Hungary Moderator]

Usually I put a title on a piece for BUGS and start writing. By the time I finish I find that the title needs changing. So let me stick to the script here.

When I was in Hungary and it was behind the Iron Curtain, Hungary had a monument to the heroic dead of the Soviet Union who had liberated Hungary from the Nazis. That monument was in an interesting place.

Hungary had been occupied by many powers over the centuries, but the Turkish Occupation stood out in all that bloody history. There was a huge fort on the Buda River which had been the basis of the Turkish Occupation. When the Turks were driven out, that fort was left unoccupied by everybody. It had been deserted ever since.

Balkan hatreds run DEEP. Hungarians historically hated the Rumanians to a degree that made Polish feeling about Nazi Germany seem to one of love. We all know how Serbs and Croats feel about each other.

I was so close to all this that it makes it hard for me to explain what that Memorial meant. With all the Balkan hatred in Hungary, with all the oppression that people had endured, one occupation stood out, the TURKS.

That building was so odious that nobody touched it for CENTURIES.

That fort was to Hungarians what Untouchables are to Indians.

Then the Soviets, our beloved Allies, Liberated Hungary from Hitler. Under Stalin, Hungarians made THAT fort into a Monument to the Heroic Soviet Dead. I saw Soviet troops visiting it regularly.

The Soviets don't have a sense of humor so they didn't GET it. Soviets were very grateful for that Memorial.

The fort which reeked of the Turks for centuries was finally occupied again. It was dedicated to Stalin's Boys.

I laughed my ass off at that.

Quietly.

I wasn't there on what the Soviet Liberators would have seen as Legitimate Business.

THE LAST WASP JOKE | 2005-04-27

For a while back there, when the term WASP, White Anglo-Saxon Protestant came out in the 1970s, liberals tried to make WASP jokes as ethnic slurs, the way blonds have replaced blacks in jokes today.

The problem was, of course, that liberals have no sense of humor. The best they can do is New York comedians who are either filthy or insulting or both. Their attempts at humor were just insults and were not funny.

The last one of them was actually funny. It was funny because it made a real point, and that was the exact point liberals did NOT want to make.

Here it is:

A black man, a Jew, and WASP were on an elevator. Suddenly the elevator stopped and a man in a robe appeared to them. The man said, "I have come to earth to grant each of you your fondest wish."

The black man said, "I am sick of the oppression of my people and I'm sick of white prejudice. I want my people to be back in Africa where our people are free."

"Your wish is granted," he was told, and the black man disappeared on his way to Africa.

The Jew said, "My people have suffered for ten thousand years. We have loved everybody and been hated by them. I want all my people to be in Israel where Jews are free."

"Your wish is granted." And the Jew disappeared on his way to Israel with all his people.

The robed man then turned to the WASP. "What is your dearest wish?"

The WASP looked thoughtful. He said, "The blacks are all back in Africa and the Jews are all in Israel, what do I wish for now?"

"I think I'll take a Diet Coke."

SWASTIKAS | 2006-02-21

I have attention deficit, big-time, so it ishard for me to keep names straight.

I know PeterGene got cut off of Stormfront. I think somebody ELSE said they got cut off of Stormfront for criticizing the use of swastikes.

PeterGene, where the HELL are you? You were supposed to send me your SF screen name at

[email protected]

I NEED this, because I can ask questions i n defense of my Bloggers and they cease to be just theoretical.

So should the other person who got kicked off.

I need these names, as I said, so I can find out exactly what the policy is from Kelso and

Black when I meet with them, and I will be meeting with them a lot, this weekend.

Just last week, Nick Griffin, the head of the British National Party, quoted my post which was quoted by National Vanguard on the swastika (my stuff DOES get around!):

"The same point is made very effectively by Prof Robert Whitaker, writing in the latest issue of National Vanguard. This is the theoretical magazine of the National Alliance, perhaps one of the most hard line pro-white organisations in America, and one with which we also have very significant ideological and tactical differences, but the extremism of the Alliance only underscores the value of Professor Whitaker's message. He explains how he regards it as self-evident that race mixing is wrong, then goes on to say that:"

"Liberals and 'respectable' conservatives agree that this makes me a 'Nazi'! It also made

Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur 'nazis' according to today's respectable conservatives.

"It is time to take on this 'nazi' tactic without compromise.

"For many decades I have been yelled at by respectable conservatives and liberals screaming:

'If you are a heretic on race, you are a NAZI!' For anyone with any male hormones there is a hurting wish to scream: 'OK, damn you, I'm a nazi.' Many of us have yielded to that natural tendency. But the simple fact remains that I am not a 'nazi'. Truman was not a 'nazi'.

'MacArthur was not a 'nazi'.

"When you let them make you react that way, you are yielding to their Orwellian tactic.

-- BNP - A Natural Home for Youngsters

"Professor Whitaker urges genuine nationalists and patriots to work to win those confused youngsters back from "the swastika and the klan." He concludes: "As long as 'respectable' means 'coward', a lot of good people will fall for the lefts' Orwellian 'nazi' tactic. Iwant the good people who have fallen for this enemy tactic to come back. I want them to join those of us who fight for freedom and who care about our race."