THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

CONGRATULATIONS, JOURNEYMEN! | 2012-05-25

I really screwed up when I titled an article Replace First Line of Original Mantra?

What I really meant was shouldn't we ALWAYS start with Africa for the Africans, Asia for the Asians, White Countries for Everybody."

I apologize to Genseric for my mistake in the title.

You dealt with the exact question Ole Dumbbob asked.

I would make such a dumb mistake at a critical point in BUGS development.

But you did a great job on the ensuing discussion.

For years I have carefully avoided too much open discussion of the Mantra.

You were apprentices and I was the only journeyman present.

I think the older hands here can easily imagine what would have happened if I had thrown the Mantra wording out for general discussion several years ago. I had hammered it out with YEARS of nose-to-nose battles.

On the other hand the whole point of BUGS, as I have so often stated, is to produce, NOT people hearing the Sacred Words of the Guru, but MORE JOURNEYMEN.

So this article was a big step for me, and you passed the test admirably. You did not come into this discussion as a loose group fresh from theorizing on Stormfront, but as writers who have learned to despise theorizing of that sort, and are ready with your EXPERIENCE in actual conflict.

This is a big day for me. After fourteen long years, I have JOURNEYMEN!

Frank really nailed it:

"First the Coach GIVES us a weapon and teaches us how to use it.

"Now he's telling us we have gotten to the point we're allowed into the weapon FORGE.

"The Coach is getting us to do what he wants w/o TELLING us what to do.

"Sweet way to trick your apprentices into taking the baton and RUNNING."

Frank and Genseric are dead right; We don't want you in the forge with us if you have the slightest tendency toward tossing around hot metal.

My screwing up the question shows why I am getting a little desperate NOT to be the only journeyman or master here any longer than I have to be.

Let's PLEASE ignore my mistake and concentrate on the important point: That you can get in there with the hot metal and not destroy the forge.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS | 2013-05-04

Some commenters have asked for comments to stay open for each article.

We should develop something, so to begin with, those who wish to comment on earlier articles, all the way back to 1998,could put in the LINK to that page under their screen names, and nothing else, in the current article.

I would like that.

JOHN WALKER'S UNFASHIONABLE TREASON | 2001-12-29

I have the right to call John Walker a traitor. Practically nobody else in America today has that right.

That is because I have consistently denounced traitors. I did not wait to jump on one particular turncoat because it is fashionable to jump on him.

On September 10, 2001, the only white person who was truly moral was a white person who spoke of white people the way Goebbels spoke of Jews.

On September 10, 2001, the only truly moral American was one who blamed America for the world's problems.

On September 10, 2001, a good person was one who hated Christians. Every history lesson told us how good the Aztecs were and how evil the Christians were.

All my life American education taught that a young white American Christian like John Walker was only moral if he hated whites, Americans and Christians.

On September 10, 2001, the word "Idealist" described "The Love Generation," those 1960s hippies who were marching under the same Viet Cong flag that was actively killing Americans at the time. Jane Fonda was an Idealist for going to North Vietnam and pretending to man a gun that was used to shoot at American planes.

"Idealism," on September 10, 2001, was represented in the Woody Allen movie "The Front," where Allen played a 1950s writer protecting outright and outspoken Stalinists who were trying to give America to the Soviet Union.

Now everybody is astonished that John Walker went and fought for the Taliban.

They want him hanged.

But nobody wants any other traitors even criticized, much less prosecuted. Unlike Walker, these others were not traitors, they were merely Idealists who supported the Democratic and Peace-Loving People's Republics.

Respectable conservatives are howling for Walker's hide, but not one of them has the guts to mention all the other traitors.

For pro-Israel "Christians" and leftists, treason is moral if you give the right reason for it.

SOUTHERN ARISTOCRATS VERSUS PSEUDO-ARISTOCRATS | 2002-03-30

After Dale Earnhardt's death, a writer for National Review made fun of the people who mourned him so openly. She used her column to show how they didn't know the high-class music she knew and how that made her a true aristocrat.

Pretty standard silk pants aristocracy stuff, fitting perfectly with modern conservatism.

Can you imagine Southern working people following that sort of person into the Yankee guns the way they followed the Southern generals in the Civil War?

As Lake High points out, the first thing a Yankee asks you is what you do. The first thing a Southerner asks you is where you're from.

The Southern aristocracy is my model. I am not from Paris, I am from Pontiac, South Carolina.

The first rule with the real aristocracy was that it was FROM somewhere. The silk pants types keep spouting French, but they never notice that words like the French "de" or the German "von" meant FROM, as in the Marquee OF Salisbury.

The poor clowns don't even really understand basic French.

When I formed the Populist Forum, National Review types thought I was putting on some kind of hillbilly act (to New Yorkers, everybody in the South is a "hillbilly"). They simply could not believe that we had genuine respect for the people we were helping out.

We were in Kentucky, the West Virginia coal mines, South Boston, and riding with the striking independent truckers. But we were there as people with the education and experience these people, OUR people, needed.

That's what real aristocrats do.

One of my proudest moments was when a leader of the textbook protest in West Virginia said, "Whitaker speaks for us and he's not even a hick."

We did their writing and put on their press conferences, but every word was checked with them, and THEY were at the press conferences, not some self-styled "intellectuals".

Not surprisingly, respectable conservatives like National Review and the Marxists have very similar ideas of "aristocracy." Marxists call it "the dictatorship OF the proletariat." It means that the self-styled "intellectuals" like Marx and Trotsky and Lenin have absolute power and say they are kicking the masses around for their own good.

The reason working Americans trusted us was because they were right to do so. Even in Boston, they could sense the ideal of the Southern aristocracy.