THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

KEEPING AMERICA IN THE DARK | 2005-04-27

The History Channel has a special on President Roosevelt called, "He Brought Light to America by Keeping It in the Dark." They are referring to how Roosevelt ran on a platform of keeping America out of World War II while working with Churchill to get us into World War II.

The "light" Roosevelt brought to America was defeating Nazi Germany. When he and Churchill started Germany and Russia had totalitarian regimes which were violently hostile to each other. When they finished, a third of the population of the world was under a united Communist set of dictatorships.

It's a funny thing. When post-War Administrations took secretive actions like those exposed in the Pentagon Papers the media howled Treason. But they are delighted that Roosevelt lied to them. It was his crowning virtue.

Another thing I always hear is that "Roosevelt got us out of the Depression."

Well, the Depression had to end some time, but if Roosevelt was getting us out of it it's hard to tell from the numbers. In 1933 when he took office unemployment was at 25%. In 1938 it was at 18%. What got us out of the Depression, which Germany had been out of for some time, was the beginning of World War II in late 1939.

If the war hadn't started, unemployment which had dropped from 25% in 1933 to 18% in 1938 would have been 11% in 1943, still at Depression level.

FDR kept America unemployed and he turned a billion people over to the Communists.

If that's light, I wonder what darkness looks like?

SHE'S STILL IN THERE! | 2005-03-21

"Pro-lifers" are ecstatic. They say that the brain dead woman they are fighting for is able to make some signs to people.

Others disagree.

Meanwhile, they are hogging all the time and money and publicity the father of that little murdered girl in Florida needs.

Somebody told me, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

So if I were lying there, unable to breathe on my own but able to make some signs, what would I want?

Her husband says that she told him she's rather be dead.

But all life is precious, you see. As a priest told me, the last agonies of a person dying from spinal cancer should be prolonged as long as possible because all life is infinitely precious.

Pain, he told me, means nothing.

Life, he said, is Infinitely Precious.

I saw a movie about a young Briton who visited his father in the hospital. His father had been wounded in World War I, which was still going on. The doctors told him that his father had had his face blown off. He had no eyes, he had no hearing.

His spinal cord was severed.

His father could not move or communicate, but he was alive. The young man's father was still there, but he was unable to know anything that went on around him. He was alone in a way you and I can never understand.

He would be that way for as long as medicine could keep him that way.

The son should have shouted, "Hosannah in the Highest! My father has Infinitely Precious Life!"

His son's reaction was utterly at odds with what is now called a "Truly Christian" reaction. His son was so horrified he chose to be arrested rather than join the military.

His son decided that nothing could be worse than being in the condition his father was in.

President Bush says, "One should always err on the side of life."

According to Right-to-Life, that son was evil. Instead of taking the Pope's position that life was infinitely precious, no matter how horrible, the son decided he would far, far rather die than be in his father's position.

He wanted to treat his father as he would want to be treated.

Someday I will face God. When that Day comes, I pity the Pro-lifers.

THE GENOME PROJECT AND MODERN ANTHROPOLOGISTS | 2010-07-17

The damage from Climategate has been stupendous. The whole foundation of our belief system has been based on Science hurrying to endorse anything Political Correctness needed.

I have a feeling that the release of the information about Neanderthal blood being in all but blacks has to do with it. The whole Genome Project consistently declaring that there was no difference between races was based on the same thing the Green Tyranny was based on: All Established Science backed Global Warming.

That makes life a lot easier. You just accept what Science says. And the establishment controls science. You do not need a Conspiracy to control Science. Any establishment routinely controls Science.

Competition for publication is fierce in academia, a matter of life and death. Competition for grants is also fierce. Everybody knows that.

So anything that will get you denied a grant or publication is automatically weeded out.

AT THE OUTSET.

This is obvious to anyone with the slightest experience in academia. There are lots of subjects for research, so you begin by weeding out the ones that are in touchy territory or if they begin to reach conclusions that could endanger your career.

This is routine. But people don't THINK about it.

The problem is that in the competition those rise to the top who are dedicated to the establishment's opinions. As Ben Franklin said, two people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.

Until the Obama campaign, people were able to deny liberal bias in the media. After all, it was the media who did the denying.

I did not know whether respectable conservatives would even mention Climategate, but they are doing so. They certainly do not hint that the race campaign in the Genome Project might contain such bias, but even some conservatives have started to question whether Official Science can be so blatantly partisan only on Global Warming.

Screwtape, Hell's Senior Tempter, pointed out in CS Lewis that "People are always talking about how we put ideas into people's heads. Our biggest job is to keep them OUT!"

The Genome Project is unlike any other scientific project in that we constantly hear about it. But all we ever hear about it is when they find something that seems to confirm Political Correctness.

Bill Clinton announced that the Genome Project had proved that human beings were all "99.999 percent the same." This is now in the category of "I never had sex with that woman."

A person who has a fatal melanoma is 99.99 percent healthy.

I have NEVER heard two official scientists give the same figure for the percent humans have in common with chimpanzees.

And until Climategate, I never heard anyone announce that one race has genes others do not.

In 1950, in reaction to Hitler, the Science Line was that "Modern anthropology has proven that all races are the same in innate abilities." It was a LONG fight before the other side just gave up on proving innate racial IQs are the same, some forty or fifty years.

The Genome Project is the "modern anthropologists" of our day. But information was hard to get out back then.

The Established Foundation of "Modern" Science is already shaken.

RICHARD | 2008-05-30

As you always point out, Bob, nobody is more ready to admit the superior desirability of white genes than non-whites. Your usual example is the global popularity of Baywatch, until the blonde babe left. I always remember the little Indian girls I used to teach, drawing pictures of themselves as beautiful blonde princesses.

I learned recently that on the Congo riverboats, the native sailors have nicknames for the different decks - the first class deck is 'Europe', the second class is 'China' and the third class, where nobody wants to go, is 'Congo'.