Archive for July, 2005
Help Wanted!
INSIGHT FOR THE TRAINED EYES
I’m scheduled to do a nightly radio program through the month of August on the same Memphis AM radio station where James Edwards runs The Political Cesspool broadcast – WLRM 1380 AM. It will start off with a new interview of me by James about my book. We will then use a combination of my Untrained Eye programs and other interviews or repeats and see how things go. The broadcasts will be streamed live over the internet, as well as archived on my website.
The program scheduled now to run from 2 – 3 in the morning, Central, and we have no idea what kind of response we will get. It is a perfect month for talking about the subject in my book, as August is back-to-school time.
The program will not be cheap. I’m funding it out of my pocket. We would be ecstatic if we could even sell enough books to cover the cost. But we’re doing this to help out James, who is trying to build a whole 12 hour-a-day populist broadcast. It is a very important project, and one whose time has come.
Here is where you can help. Radio time costs money. I have to pay for it up front. If I can get sponsors, that will make a BIG difference. If you, or anyone you know, would be willing to buy commercial time, please email me at Bob@whyjohnny.com.
Here is the deal. We are going to sell a one-minute spot to run on all 23 shows for $100.
That is less than $5 per spot. We will even record the commercial for you, if you don’t have one already.
My staff and I are doing all of this on a voluntary basis. I’m funding this out-of-pocket. If we could line up 3 or 4 sponsors, that would really give us a good start.
If you know anyone in Memphis with a business, or anyone with an internet business, or anyone else interested in advertising, please have them email me at Bob@whyjohnny.com.
Remember this is an FCC licensed broadcast, and we don’t need anything silly or distasteful. All ads will be subject to James’s and my approval.
As he says, “ON to victory.”
Doctors in the Plague Time
Posted by Bob in Coaching Session on 07/23/2005
We all have strong opinions, or we wouldn’t be here.
From time to time I indulge myself in arguing about religious opinions or history. I have a certain nostalgia for the time when we could have afforded to fight out our particular views out with each other.
Doctors can fight each other over their particular theories of treatment, but when the plague comes, they are all there working day and night, side by side. Every doctor is welcome and it is a huge relief to see another doctor, no matter how you disagree with him on important medical issues, there beside you.
Some of us are hard-core Catholics, some Calvinists, some evangelicals, some athiests, and some whateverthehell I am. Some of us are pro-capitalist, some of us are socialists of the nationalist kind. When I looked years ago the largest political party in Jordan was called the National Socialists, but they are hardly Nazis, they were socialists of a nationalist kind.
So I am glad to have you here, your stance on evolution or anything else be damned.
To us today World War I is bewildering. All those countries in 1914 had monarchies, they were white, the were all empires, and yet they were destroying everything over issues that were trivial in the world picture.
If we save our people the time may come when we can take our differences seriously again. My hope is that by then we will be able to enjoy that luxury while at the same time keeping our eyes firmly on the importance of what we are all here to protect.
7/23/05 Bob’s Weekly WOL Articles
Posted by Sys Op in WOL Weekly Articles on 07/22/2005
Weekly WhitakerOnline.org Articles
July 23, 2005
The Annotated Constitution
“We the People”
OUR Posterity
Fun Quote:
You know the place in the Post Office where they put up pictures of escaped felons and Public Enemies?
I saw my photo up there. Underneath it said,
“Least Wanted.”
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The Annotated Constitution
A book I will never write would be called The Annotated Constitution. It would go through the Constitution line by line and say what the courts have done with each clause.
I have studied constitutional law and I have instructed constitutional law. The entire course consists of opinions by various judges. What hits you first is how short the Constitution is and how endless the judicial opinions are. The books of them fill whole rooms.
When you comment that much on a short document the document itself gets completely lost.
So I thought it would be fun to go through the tiny Constitution itself and talk about what Judicial Opinion has made of it.
I am not about to write another book now. Nobody’s interested.
But I do have an internet program and some points to make, so I decided to make a start at an Annotated Constitution there.
I did almost an hour on the Preamble to the Constitution alone. You can listen to it this Saturday at 2 pm at
THE UNTRAINED EYE will be called “Annotated Constitution – Preamble.”
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“We the People”
One thing everybody agrees on today is that America is a Principle. As National Review says, America is a Propositional State. According to the flag ship of respectable conservatism, you and I, whose families have been in this country for hundreds of years, have nothing to do with The Real Meaning of America.
Thailand may be the Thais, Japan is the Japanese, but America has nothing to do with the people who happen to inhabit it. America is based on a Proposition, a Set of Ideas. A Patriot is one who is loyal to those Ideas.
In other words, National Review agrees with liberals that you can be loyal to America without having any loyalty at all to the American people. Respectable conservatives feel Americans should be grateful because they do not actually HATE Americans the way liberals do.
Liberals feel they are being most loyal to the real America when they are blaming Americans for every evil in the world. Respectable conservatives want to give the little people who happen to be here a little credit. They don’t know Latin or Greek, but they do try to be loyal to the proposition, the principles, of America.
It never occurs to any conservative, much less any liberal, that it is not up to Americans to be loyal to THEIR principles. The idea that they can only be patriots if they are loyal to Americans never occurs to them.
At all.
Every Judicial Opinion agrees with this.
So it comes as a shock to read the Preamble to the United States Constitution.
It begins with “We the people of the United States of America,” and conservatives don’t mind that so much.
But it gets worse. And no conservative EVER quotes the rest. You see, “We the people of the United States in 1789 could have been very idealistic and they could have set down some ideals that America would follow after they died.
But the Founders added a fatal phrase, which no conservative EVER quotes:
“And OUR posterity.”
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OUR Posterity
“To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” That is the purpose of the Constitution.
That is the ONLY purpose of the Constitution, that is the only authority it rests on. The Constitution says nothing about All Mankind. The writers of the Constitution were trying to get it adopted by Americans. So they only claimed the authority of the American people.
You see, those same Founding fathers had just had experience with people who insisted that THEY knew what all mankind should do. America had declared its independence of such people. The whole point of the Revolution was that AMERICANS ruled America.
It never occurred to the Founding Fathers that they were writing a Constitution that told the rest of the world what it should do.
Nothing could have been more alien to those who wrote the Constitution than the idea that they were writing abstract principles that All Mankind was required to follow.
About fifty years after the Constitution was adopted, John Quincey Adams stated this principle again. Someone was asking America to defend freedom around the world (sound familiar?) and John Quincey Adams replied:
“America is the friend of all people’s freedom, but we are the defenders only of our own.”
Loyalty to America is precisely what every liberal and every respectable conservative says it is not.
Loyalty to America is loyalty to “We the people fo the United States of America… and OUR posterity.”
7/23/05 Insider Letter
Posted by Sys Op in Insider Letter Archive on 07/22/2005
(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 7/23/05)
*** Bob’s Insider’s Message ***
In the last Insider Letter I explained what real power was and how one plays the game.
It is a very private game.
As I said, one who uses the real thing is not that interested in credit. In fact, it is a straight tradeoff. The more power people know you have the less effective you are.
The president of the United States has very little real power. To get elected and reelected he must keep his options very limited. What the people you read about fight for is the title.
When I first went to Capitol Hill, my boss told me, “Bob, I spend all my time talking to people and taking care of problems and meeting deadlines and reading. I have no time to THINK.”
Then he said, “I want you to THINK for me.”
You may say he was handing power over to me, but that’s not true. If John Ashbrook had said, “You just do the thinking and I’ll do whatever you want done,” that would have given ME a lot of power over him.
But he did not tell me to do my own thinking for me any more than he asked someone he was dictating a letter to write his letter for him. I was hired to do HIS thinking for him. That is a matter of loyalty, which a senior staffer has to have in large amounts.
Many times what I wanted was not what John Ashbrook wanted. I was paid to think of exactly what John Ashbrook would like to say if he had the time to think of it and I was paid to get what John Ashbrook wanted.
Since what John Ashbrook wanted and what I wanted were almost always the same thing, this gave me a lot of power to do what I wanted to do. But I never even shaded anything I did for him my way.
A couple of times I put my job on the line by saying I simply could not go along with something. He would have another staffer do it. In one case I think my refusal was what decided him on an issue.
But it was all in the open.
More than once he had to take my word for something and go for it without knowing exactly why, as when we saved the Hubble Telescope. But it was always something he would have wanted if he had had the time to think it over and which he was later grateful to me.
Real power is, as I said, a very private business. Often when I tell someone something I am not interested in their agreeing with me. What I am telling them is a means by which I can judge them.
The best example is what I tell them about John Ashbrook’s death. John died in April of 1982. For fourteen years the entire civil rights establishment had been fighting to get Martin Luther King’s birthday declared a national holiday. John had stood in the way.
Two months after John died they got their national holiday.
There are two Houses of Congress. John was one of 435 members of one of them.
A minority member.
Yet he stopped the whole civil rights establishment from getting its way and they got it two months after he died.
I mention this and watch the reaction of the person I am talking to.
They NEVER get it.
They want to talk about presidential primaries and third parties, where they think the real power is. No one has ever even asked me HOW a lone congressman was able to stop the whole civil rights establishment cold.
I have said that if you want exciting financial advice, you just need to go to a local bar, find a guy who can’t afford to buy his own drink, and he will give you lecture on how money should be invested and a sure-fire way to make real money. The guy who has never had money knows all about it.
The guy who has never exercised any power can give you endless advice on it. In fact, he is even more clueless about power than the one you buy the drink for is about money.
At least the moocher in the bar knows where real money IS.
People who lecture you about real power don’t even know where power is.
Bob
“But What is He THINKING?”
Posted by Bob in How Things Work on 07/19/2005
One thing that causes black people to wake up sweating in the night is whether white people mean what they say.
If you listen closely, a lot of the dialogue among black people boils down to, “White people say they don’t mind me marrying their daughter, but what are they really THINKING?”
I would be humiliated if I worried about something like that. Your opinion is your own. Just don’t keep me from doing what I want to do.
But it is a major, and openly declared, concern of non-whites: What does this white person REALLY think of me?
If I worried that much, in public, about what non-whites think of me I would be a candidate for psychiatric care.
The healthy attitude among Americans has always been to insist that other people let me do what I want to do. What they THINK about what I want to do is not my concern.
Not only do other people have the right to disapprove of me, they have the right to SAY they disapprove of me.
But the modern doctrine says that whites must not only consent, they must APPROVE, right down to their toenails.
A movie showed Alan Alda as an idealistic and, therefore, liberal United States Senator. One of the high points of the movie was when he was on a Senate Committee and an old Southerner was testifying before it. The Idealist, played by Mr. Alda, brought out a quote from a private conversation the old Southerner had had in which he said he was STILL for segregation.
The old Southerner had consented to integration, but he had not, down to his toenails, APPROVED of it.
Now if that revelation had been that, in a private conversation, a LEFTIST had said he was a good Stalinst and he was STILL a good Stalinist, the Idealist would have denounced that revelation as McCarthyism.
But it never occurred to those producing the movie that the revelation that an old segregationist was still at heart a segregationist was anything but Idealism in Action.
It is nowhere near enough that a white person ALLOWS non-whites to do as they wish. The white person must be totally converted. He must WANT the colored guy to marry his daughter.
It is very hard to explain the obvious to people. The simple fact that nothing could be more humiliating to a non-whites than worrying about what a white person THINKS of him is totally beyond the understanding of non-whites.
I have tried to explain it to them. I might as well be speaking in Ancient Greek.
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