THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

PARTIES: NICK GRIFFIN AT CLEMSON | nationalsalvation.net

Mr. Griffin is head of the British National Party.

I drove a hundred miles or so and stayed at the motel overnight to hear Nick at Clemson, South Carolina. Nick was so tired he could hardly make the speech, but it was still worth it.

He was only able to afford to take one bodyguard with him, my buddy who looks like a Sherman tank's big brother, and they are going to Detroit next, where there will be trouble.

I listened to Nick, not just as the ideologue I am, but also as one who made his living in practical politics. There was rot in it, but the rot interested me. He said "It's not about race," but I have written the same thing in speeches for dozens of congressmen, senators, and the president.

That's politics, gang!

Lincoln can be quoted as taking every position from condoning slavery to black suffrage. Picking apart speeches is not important. Elections take place in REAL TIME, so you write for the time you are in.

Mr. Griffin said that the BNP got total of 500,000 votes recently and elected 44 local officers.

I know all about picking those figures apart.

Still, I was overwhelmed.

The American perspective can be useful to you in this respect. We are in a better position to see the progress of electoral revolution.

In your parliamentary system a party which is in the minority, even if it is enormous, appoints as many ministers as a party which consists entirely of one person in the loony bin, i.e., none. So electoral grassroots rebellion is not an ongoing theme there.

Here, everything from graduated taxes to prohibition to abolition showed up in minority parties, TINY minority parties, before it became national policy. The Free Soil Party, which was the predecessor to the Republicans, got about one percent of the votes in 1848.

Your 500,000 would be a giant in that process. I believe half the electorate stayed home, which would make the 500,000 casting a vote for SOME office for BNP as much as 3 or 4 percent of the electorate.

Remember, each person doing that is forfeiting his vote on the major parties, so it is quite a long way to go. The conventional wisdom is that if you vote for a minor party, you are "throwing away your vote."

But big parties only address marginal issues.

In American history, the only people who USED their vote to make any difference were the ones who cast it for minor parties, for those parties represent the big issues of the future. Believe me, real politicians NOTICE if one percent "throw away their votes" on a single issue!

The BNP is well on its way.

THE MARKET PROS PAY MONEY FOR NOTHING! | 2005-07-30

Some things are so stupid that you are left speechless.

For many years the Wall Street Journal has reported, one after another, scientific studies that show that the advice of highly-paid market analysts is utterly useless. The funniest ones are studies that have monkeys tossing darts at the stock list and six months later comparing how well the stocks the monkeys picked did compared to those selected by market analysts who take in staggering salaries.

The results are ALWAYS dead even.

Which would be hilarious if somebody actually caught on to what was going on. But in New York they keep PAYING those analysts.

In New York "Modern Artists" have been cracking commodes or welding together tin cans and getting a hundred thousand dollars for it. This has been going on for at least sixty years.

But people buy the stuff and sell it. And everybody has thought that surely someday somebody in New York would catch on.

But the art experts keep raving over a painting of Christ in urine (NOT Moses in urine!). The cracked commodes keep selling and the art experts write treatises on them.

How can one even comment on this

GLUTTONY AND SEXUAL OBSESSION | 2005-08-14

Not a day goes by when I don't think about C.S. Lewis' little book, "The Screwtape Letters."

That little book is a collection of letters from the Senior Demon Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood. The letters are advice on how to tempt humans into Hell.

Why do I like it so much? If you spend your life in politics, any good, thoughtful advice on wrestling with the Devil is welcome.

I mentioned below one of the great insights Screwtape had. It was about the sin of gluttony. Screwtape says Wormwood should keep people believing that gluttony is just eating too much. Screwtape points out that gluttony has nothing to do with how MUCH you eat.

The sin of gluttony, the one that gets people into Hell, is ANY obsession with food. The little old lady who sends an overworked waitress back to the kitchen to get her "Just a LITTLE bit of food" is practicing the kind of gluttony Screwtape wants.

Thinking about that, it occurred to me that you don't have to have sex all the time to be sinful. If you are obsessed with NOT having sex, that is just as good as being a sex addict.

Screwtape points out the person who thinks he is not being a glutton by eating too much will realize why he is faced with the Pit of Hell. But the person who spends his life making life hard on other people because he is obsessed with just the right amount of food thinks he is being an angel. He will be astonished, too late, when he finds out the truth.

Not only do they come to Hell, says Screwtape, but they are more amusing when they get there.

CONSERVE WHAT? | 2004-10-02

So when someone says he is a "conservative" it means he wants to declare Catholicism or Presbyterianism or Libertarianism America's Official Proposition. A "liberal" wants to declare his words to be America's Official Proposition. A Communist wants Marx and Lenin to be our Official Proposition.

But they are united against people who oppose Wordism or what National Review now calls a "propositional state."

When you say, "I don't mind Mexicans here if they WORK" you are declaring for a wordist state. When you say, "the enemy is SOCIALISM" you are declaring for a propositional state. When your grandfather said Lincoln was a fine man, he was declaring for a propositional state.

If you declare that an American is somebody who works right or believes right, you are saying that you have no special right to be here. The only reason you can live here is because the authorities gave you some papers. That is why there are no "illegal aliens" in National Review's "propositional state." There are only people who do not have the right documents given them by the government, "undocumented aliens."

Under the Lincoln Doctrine, you have no right to be here unless the authorities want you here. Almost every American has agreed to that proposition a thousand times.

In the country National Review and the John Birch Society and the Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party and every person who is allowed to be in the national media has agreed to, the Patriot Act decides who is a patriot and who should be deported.

Get used to that or be ready to be called a nativist and a racist.