THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

That was the motto of the tyranny that ruled in George Orwell's prophetic book 1984.

In other words, if you lack a memory, you are a slave to those who do. They control your future. They are your masters.

If you forget this Diaspora nonsense that our Middle Eastern policy is based on, you are a slave.

All our media love to make fun of the idea of all the virgins in the Islamic Paradise, but nobody can prove whether there is a Paradise or what it is like. But it is a matter of provable historical record that this Diaspora nonsense is more laughable than any idea of a Paradise full of virgins.

But we are imposing our religious doctrine on the Middle East, and it is not religious doctrine that sounds silly, it is doctrine that is insane on the provable basis of real history.

Yet we keep complaining that Islamic fanatics are trying to impose THEIR religious doctrines on US!

So what did we come up with after the "It's not Israel" campaign had finished wiping our memories clean?

Do you remember the caricature "evil Arab," the turban-clad fanatic, chomping at the bit to destroy our great democracy for nothing more than the fact that we shop at Wal-Mart and let women vote?

If you think that's the real reason the Arabs hate us I've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

We are not allowed to talk about the real reason the Arabs hate us.

Or at least YOU are not allowed to talk about the real reason Arabs hate us. Until they put whitakeronline.org out of business, Ole Bob will be talking about it.

My father opposed President Roosevelt's getting the United States into World War II. Government officials kept telling him that if he didn't keep saying that if he didn't stop talking about that, they would shut his plant down.

My father replied, "You can shut me down, but you can't shut me up.

They might shut whitakeronline.org down, but they will never shut Bob Whitaker up.