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In the next phase of our discussion about whether nuclear nonproliferation is a code word for colonialism, Anonymous says,

“Your logic would say, ‘They can’t be for a black government and not be for black pilots.’”

“You had me there for a minute, Bob. That was brilliant. Upon further reflection, however, I find you haven’t yet convinced me that I need to retract.”

“Basically, you’re saying that I trust my brain more than I trust my eyes. You’re saying that if something doesn’t make sense, I’ll refuse to admit it exists, even when the proof is sitting right in front of my nose.”

“It’s true that my brain isn’t wired very well for understanding politics. You’re helping me to get over that handicap. But although doublethink is hard for me to understand, I don’t deny it exists. So when I’m charged with being the kind of person who prefers a logical theory over the evidence of his own eyes, I must of course dissent.”

“You and I disagree on a matter of fact, that’s all. Perhaps I’m missing something big, but it’s not at all obvious to me that “nonproliferation” is directed at keeping the Bomb out of non-white former colonies. China, Pakistan, and India already have it, and Brazil is very close. But nobody’s demanding that they be referred to the UN Security Council. I don’t think they developed that technology all by themselves, either. Do you?”

“To me, it’s a lot more plausible that what “terrorists and tyrants” have in common isn’t brown skin, but “anti-Western” nationalism. That’s why most of the “regime change” in the last five years has been going on in the former Soviet republics, including the white ones. Both Putin and Musharraf have the Bomb, but the white guy’s in a lot more trouble than the brown guy right now. ”

As it was very improtant for me to say to Sheri that I do NOT want her to be backed down by my credentials, it is very important for me to say that it is very important to me for you to realize that I am NOT trying to make you recant.

Both of these statements give you an idea of what is wrong with what now passes for leadership. Today a “leader” is someone who imposes his ideas on others. If he does it by charisma instead of force it is called democratic.

But let’s strip this idea naked: the fact is that today a leader is someone who forces you to think like him. To repeat, if he does it by cowing you it is democracy. If you he uses prisons, it’s not democratic.

To me, that is a ridiculous and fatal disctinction.

I don’t want to reduce the world into a bunch of mental Bob Whitaker clones.

If I want to talk to Bob Whitaker, I don’t need a blog to do it.

This is NOT a quibble. This is a whole different world-view.

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December 7

Despite my obsession with answering the comments that have poured in, I have to say something about December 7.

I have taken a vacation from watching TV because it was part of my duties as a political pro. So this year’s vacation has included a lot of DVDs (in case you think I’m getting sophisticated on you) and little use of cable TV news.

But I watched on November 22 and I am going to watch tonight.

November 22 was a day of Blessed Silence.

For forty years, every November 22 was dedicated to St. John The Kennedy. It was the day he was shot in 1963.

The media went Shakespearian on us:

“OH, for the Glorious Days of Camelot, when a fresh-faced young man from the Northeast led the march into the Inevitable Future of Liberalism!”

Forty years of that gets a bit tiresome.

The silence this year was wonderful.

On December 7 the group that modestly calls itself The Greatest Generation pays people to slap them on the back and talk about how they Saved The World by turning a third of the world over tot eh tender mercies of Mao-Tse-Tung and Our Hero and Glorious Comrade, “Uncle Joe” Stalin.

They found a world where the white man strode the world like a colussus and left a world in which white males are required to ditry their diapers and grovel. And they expected not only lifelong benefits, but worship for that.

And they got it.

I have listened to those clowns slapping themselves on the back for sixty years. But as they die out the sound of the paid-for slapping gets fainter, and I long for blessed silence there, too.

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First Reply to Sheri (Lemon?)

Shari says,

“Most people I know are white and they don’t know anything about a “manichean worship of sterility.” They just beleive in being nice. They don’t know that there is even a threat. They just don’t know that nice isn’t the same thing as good, which is stronger stuff,much stronger. But then I don’t travel in big shot political circles. Shari ”
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Shari, that is strong stuff. You have more to teach in this one paragraph than all the people I fought in “big time politics.”

But FIRST let me make a point that is very important to ME from your last sentence. It underlies everything I say here.

It hurts me when people use phrases like But then I don’t travel in big shot political circles.”

The only reason I keep hitting on all my big time stuff is not to cow you, and it makes me feel bad when you intimate I do.

I am one old man presuming to correct the whole world. I have to keep reciting my credentials to show that I am not just philosophizing from an ivory tower, this kind of thinking WORKS.

But my precise problem is that people ARE cowed by “big-timers” and professors. I keep emphasizing that they, and I keep hammering away on this point: They have NOTHING to teach you about real thinking and the real world.

I am, in all the honesty I could possibly say it, a very smart man from Pontiac, South Carolina. I went to college as a sixteen-year-old with that point of view and I am here almost half a century later without the slightest change in who I am.

All that God gave me in terms of a frontal lobe, all my experience, all my education, everything was a set of tools to USE. None of it was to give me the “big time” MINDSET that everybody at the country club is supposed to have.

Let me give you the perfect example. Let’s look at a carpenter. As you know, one carpenter gave us a lot of good advice.

A carpenter uses his skills the way I used my education and experience. He does not develop some kind of “carpenter attitude.” He uses his lifetime learning of his craft to make furniture that YOU like.

A carpenter’s job is not to tell you what kind of things you want. His job is to create things that YOU consider beautiful.

I spent my life trying to make a world people WANT to live in.

All the True Conservatives were arguing that Communism was based on an incorrect philosophical CONCEPTS. What made me chew the rug was crossing the border into countries where PEOPLE were kept in by force.

Long before Reagan finally said it, after his speechwriters deleted it THREE TIMES from his speech, my attitude was always, “Screw philosophy. Tear down that Goddamned WALL!”

And in this case I am not using a curse word. It was an EVIL empire. It was an empire damned by any concept of a good God.

Commmunism, like race-mixing on future generations, is a total violatin of The Golden Rule. And I didn’t get the Golden Rule from grad schools or big-time politics.

That thinking, the very understanding of what God damned really means, is pure Pontiac, South Carolina.

And I keep emphasizing that that was precisely the kind of thinking the “big-leaguers” and professors could not deal with, nose-to-nose and in their own back yard.

My point is the exact of OPPOSITE of saying I LEARNED this stuff in the big leagues.

My whole point is that I TOOK this thinking INTO the big leagues, and beat them in contests that made David look like a big bully compared to Goliath. I could NOT have done that if I had been cowed into accepting THEIR attitudes.

I am begging you to take YOUR attitudes, YOUR wishes, and NOT be cowed by all this “big time” nonsense and pretension.

We the people of the United States AND OUR POSTERITY are the sovereigns. We have taken the law into our own hands.

Anonymous cottoned on to this from the word go. He says he’s comfortable here as a liberal because he agrees that, as I said, I am the most most radical person you will ever meet.

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GREAT Comments!

I’ve got people correcting me, arguing with me, giving me thoughtful and insightful short statements like Shari’s.

I am going to address all eight that came in today.

I am going to have have to take a little time, time I LOVE to take, because I have to THINK.

But right now I just want to thank you for them!

Ole Bob’s Christmas came early this year!

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