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A Piece of Black History Nobody Ever Mentions

The Mayflower, the ship which every history book tells you founded English America, arrived in Massachusetts in October of 1620.

Descendants of “people who came over on the Mayflower” make a VERY big thing about how their forefathers founded America. They were the Pilgrim Fathers.

The year before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock, John Smith wrote that “twenty niggurs” had arrived in Virginia.

Since John Smith was a British subject he could be prosecuted on his use of Hate Speech by spelling it “niggurs.” But I have to warn the British authorities, if they want to get John Smith from where he is now to London, the extradition procedures will be awesome.

Those “twenty niggurs” were not slaves. They were indentured, like so many white men were. It would be over a generation before black slavery was legalized in Virginia. In fact, Massachusetts legalized slavery before Virginia did.

Those “twenty niggurs” came here as free men, a year before the Pilgrim Fathers founded this country.

No “black leader” has ever mentioned this.

No “black leader” ever will.

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Listening

— Listen Closely!

One of the first things I noticed about people as a youngster was that a person who keeps saying “Liar, liar, liar” all the time did not tell the truth.

I was raised in the Bible Belt, where “liar” was a very big word. New Yorkers could scream obscenities at each other all day long, but in Pontiac, South Carolina, doing that could, and I speak in absolutely literal terms, get you killed.

So some bitter old ladies I knew would call people liars all the time because they could get away with it, and they suspected other people of being regular liars just like they were.

We all know that a every person’s favorite topic is himself. This is just as true of me, the Great Idealist, as it is of anybody else. My obsession is with my ideas and my goals, not with my appearance or my ego, but that is just as much an obsession with me as worrying about a good haircut.

The one subject everybody knows the most about is himself.

And now to the point: the one thing every person talks about all the time, though he doesn’t know it, is himself. This is a very, very practical thing to know.

I always hear people say, “I was listening to a guy who worked in politics for awhile, and he said they’re all a bunch of crooks.”

Well, Bob worked in politics for a considerable period of time, and his impression is entirely different. For example, if you want to know my impression of people who worked on Capitol Hill, what I remember most is that the lights were ablaze at two o’clock in the morning with people who working themselves half to death for things they got not the slightest personal benefit from.

So what is Capitol Hill politics REALLY like? When I tell you about the hard workers and someone else tells you it’s a bunch of leeches and crooks, which one of us is right?

To get the real answer to that question, you have to go back to my original point. I am not really telling you about Capitol Hill, I am talking about something I really am an expert on, a subject I am deeply interested in.

That subject is Robert W. Whitaker.

When the other guy tells you Washington is a bunch of crooks, he is telling you about his real interest, himself.

How would Bob KNOW that the lights were ablaze at 2 am on Capitol Hill? How would Bob KNOW that there were lots of people working those suicidal hours doing work for which they got no personal return?

Now that I mention it, the answer is obvious. I was there at 2 am, and when I needed to talk to somebody who was working on a subject which did not benefit us personally, I picked up the phone and called somebody else, very often someone on the other side, who was also working himself into a nervous breakdown on the same subject.

I am NOT a Real, Tough, Down-to-Business Politico like the ones you listen to on television. I have no idea who can be bribed or what they can be bribed with. I needed money like anybody else. I almost never got talked to by a lobbyist who didn’t make at least twice what I was making.

But any hint of bribery got a quick reply, “Don’t buy yourself a ticket to Atlanta.”

“Atlanta” meant the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, which is where people who tried to bribe the wrong people ended up. And by the wrong people, I mean both the far right like me and the far left.

Moderates were OK. Moderation is by its very nature dishonest, “the PRACTICAL middle-course.”

But NEVER try to bribe a fanatic.

Atlanta Federal Correctional Institute was a VERY nasty place. I worked there awhile.

The people you see on television are all moderates. That’s how they get on television. If you spend your life working your butt off making policy at 2 am, you are NOT spending that same precious time getting into the public eye.

The competition in both these areas, making policy and getting a Big Name, is ferocious. If a man tells you politics is all dirty and all about money, it means he spent all of his time and effort on getting money and learning to deal in dirty tricks.

Those are the people who spend their entire lives becoming Big Names. Those are the people who BECOME Big Names. When they describe politics they are talking about themselves, which is what everybody does.

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It’s Time to Discuss Theology

No, I do not mean talking about Christianity or Buddhism or Islam or Judaism. They have nothing to do with religion today.

From today’s point of view, what we normally call “religion” is actually mythology. After the Christians took over in the fourth century, people still studied Zeus and Athena and all the other old gods, but they studied them as the outdated beliefs of their ancestors.

Today, schools still teach about what the churches or mosques or temples or synagogues believe, but from the outside, the way you study a species of bug that you are not part of. That’s mythology or maybe entomology, but it’s not theology.

Real theology today is an examination of words like “education” or “diversity,” the things we pay for, the things we are required to believe in, but for which there is no evidence in this world. Religion is a faith in things that are unseen and unseeable.

An established religion is a faith in things which are unseeable but which you not only have to believe in, you have to pay for it. The established religion makes you use its words and obey and observe its rites, like our society’s rigid requirement that there is something about four years spent in an institution with no known output and the supposed value of a college degree.

Notice I said “***a*** college degree.” It is required for many things. To advance above a certain rank in the military, you have to have two years of college.

What college? It doesn’t matter? Do you have to learn anything? Of course not. No priest is required to take a test to decide whether the can perform transubstantiation at the altar. No professor is asked to prove he did anything but sign a paper saying you took a course.

Like any priest, all a professor needs is the proper ordination. He has to be in “an accredited institution,” which means a school other professors, the priests of our established religion, have to determine are sound in all matters of faith and Politically Correct morality.

I am choosing my words carefully here. Can you see any way on earth this process of “education” cannot be called a religion?”

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The Last WASP Joke

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.”

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Keeping America in the Dark

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?

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Is God’s Only Concern a Beating Heart?

Ok, this is where I have been heading tonight.

One thing all civilized people agree on today is that the only thing that matters is staying alive.

The police say, “Never never, never resist a robber. Give him your money. Your life is everything. Money is nothing.”

Liberals say, “Only the police should have guns.”

Conservatives agree. They worship the police.

Right-to-lifers say that all that matters is Life. God is worried to death about any beating heart.

As usual, I am the only one who considers all of this not only as wrong, not only as silly, but as utterly alien.

In the United Kingdom, the place that was once known as Great Britain, there is an unwritten Welcome Mat at every door. It says, “Burglars are welcome.”

The British police have two categories in their statistics that we don’t have. There are “hot” burglaries and there are “cold” burglaries.

In Britain, 43% of break-ins in private homes are “hot.” That means the thugs walk right into the house while the family is there.

Prolifers will be charmed by this because nobody gets killed. The children see their father helplessly giving the invaders anything they want. The British father in a “hot” robbery does everything our police officially recommend. He gives the home invaders anything they want, inviting them to rape his ten-year-old daughter if they feel like it.

They often do.

It works. The murder rate of British burglaries is almost nil.

But I have faced death many times. I know that I would far rather be killed than to live as one of those British fathers do after they gave their daughters to the home invaders.

I don’t have any ancestors who didn’t think that way. I guess none of them were real pro-lifers.

Life is not as precious as honor.

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Nonviolence

It is hard to believe today, but there was a time when hippies were brand new.

I remember the first time I ran into the hippie mentality. I was talking to a guy at the University of Virginia, and he said, “I could never kill anybody.”

I was taken aback. Men brag a lot, and a lot of men brag about all the people they would kill if they could. That was macho crap and we all knew it. But it was the kind of male bragging I could understand.

This was the first man I had ever met who BRAGGED that he could never hurt anybody. I was astonished.

But I am quick. I finally said to him, “You know, you’d make a great slave.”

The more I think about it, the more I think that that was a profound remark.

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The Point of A Gun Is to Up The Ante

I have had to use M-15’s and 16’s, Kalashnikovs and I probably spelled it all wrong. I don’t know a thing about them. I don’t know the difference between the British M5 and M6, and I’ve been chased by both of them.

I don’t think I’ve ever cleaned a gun. I know I field stripped one once, but I don’t remember how I did it. The thing was jammed and I didn’t have a hell of a lot of choice.

It’s only a matter of time before some Army geek will develop a weapon that no longer goes by the only rule I know: You point the hole in one end the other way, (No, Bob, you do NOT put that against your shoulder!) and you put your finger in the little ring and pull back the little pully thing.

Thus endeth our Weapons Training Program for today.

A Real Army Man will tell you that the idea of an armed militia as a defense against tyranny is absurd. You can’t fight the Modern Army with civilian weapons.

What the government calls “assault weapons,” the ones civilians are not allowed to have because they look mean, are weapons no soldier would take into real combat, into a real assault. The guns civilians can have are not combat weapons.

The Military Man will say there is no point in civilians being armed.

What his military training did not teach him is that that is not the point.

Until the World War II Generation took over, one of the staple pictures in magazines and newspapers was an old lady sitting on a porch with a shotgun on her lap. She was waiting on the bulldozer that was going to destroy the house she had lived in all her life.

Grandma with the shotgun didn’t have much book learning, but she knew very well that she couldn’t defeat the entire United Sates Army.

Her point was not, “I can fight the whole army.”

Her point was, “If you want to take my home, you’ll have to kill me to get it.”

Since the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation took over after four years of Obedience Training in the Second World War, old grandma with her shotgun is considered silly.

Now grandma is supposed to use Civil Disobedience.

But, unless the media is one your side, Civil Disobedience is Obedience.

That is why so many right-wing demonstrations are pointless. Civil Disobedience is only covered by the media if they want to cover it.

The media won’t cover grandma sitting on a porch with a flower in her lap. But if she’s got a scatter gun she gets attention, and lots of it.

If the media can disarm you, they can ignore you.

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