THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

TAKING PICTURES | 2005-11-12

A lot of us hate having our pictures taken.

The reason for this is that it always starts with, "You just push this button here" and it ALWAYS turns out that we all get into position and the person pshes the button and nothing happens.

Then, "Oh. You didn't fliss the flugeron" or something, so they try again. We all get into position and once again, it doesn't work.

And all the time you have to smile.

And each time yo have to smile you feel sillier and, more important, dishonest.

When they finally do get the picture it is never right. "You move over here, you move over here, and SMILE."

For people who are basically honest, picture-taking is agony, because you are smiling a lie all the time.

Ted Bundy always had perfect smile for the cameras. He was a psychopath so he could smile or cry on command.

Like Bill Clinton.

What one should do before taking a picture is have the person doingit take a couple of pictures before he rounds up the whole herd.

And he should not even MENTION a picture to anybody before he has decided EXACTLY how his victims should line up.

A professional photographer starts with a rule: "Film is free. He takes pictures like a person handling a pump shotgun.

And he is dealing with a PROFESSIONAL model.

He doesn't just say "Smile" and then take a picture in silence. He has a constant patter aimed at getting expressions from the model.

I am no lady's man, but I know that "You're gorgeous" will get a smile out of a woman a lot quicker than "Smile!" will.

MY ARAB SYMPATHIES | 2001-09-13

When I entered the University of South Carolina in 1957, the media hated two groups of people to the extent that they were not considered human. Those two groups were Southerners and Arabs.

I knew a lot of Palestinian refugees who had been treated worse by Israel, literally, than American law would let you treat a dog.

In fact, Arab students led the charge to get me elected to the Student Senate. You could say I was the only conservative in history to WIN an election because of the support of an ethnic minority (See November 28, 1998 - YOU NEVER WIN WITH THE BLACK VOTE).

I was even considered by some Arabs at USC to be a spokesman for their side. I have always deeply appreciated that kind of trust from any group.

In 1959, one my best buddies in Germany was the German representative of the Arab League.

I have mentioned the Bobby Kennedy episode (that I alone seem to remember) in Whitaker Online before, and I will repeat it here

A Palestinian refugee living in the United States shot Robert Kennedy. Earlier that same night, as part of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy debated his opponent Eugene McCarthy in California. The debate was carried on national TV.

As a Southerner and a friend of Palestinian refugees, I was used to vicious insults and bloodthirsty threats against those I sympathized with. But what Kennedy and McCarthy said they planned to do to Arabs that night froze even MY blood.

Remember that both of these men were PEACENIKS in Vietnam. But they were also competing for the Jewish votes and money in the Democratic primary in California. I have never heard more cold-blooded threats against Arabs than I heard from those two peaceniks that night!

For this reason, I doubt that that debate will ever be rerun on television or even reproduced where it is easy to find.

As I listened, I thought how I wold feel if I were a Palestinian. Obviously I don't condone murder, but I understood what had happened to Sirhan Sirhan.

Liberal environmentalists are allowed to understand the Unibomber without condoning his actions. But I am not allowed to understand Sirhan Sirhan without advocating murder, or to side with the America Firsters without being a traitor.

Nonsense.

For once, George W Bush got it right. The attack on America was not murder or terrorism, it was an act of war.

I have been one of those who has understood and spoken for Arab grievances all my life. I am the last person on earth to blame all Arabs for these massacres of Americans. I know the difference, and I know it very well indeed.

But I am not a Wordist. If you attack America, you are my enemy, and no one is more of an enemy of those who have chosen to make war than this old redneck.

AL PARKER | 2006-09-16

NOT SPAM

I want to share with you the MOST painfully accurate description thus far of the EURO/AFP conferences, from Harold A. Covington, the guy promoting the northwest migration.

"[These conferences are] quasi-intellectual bullshit bloviated in rented motel banquet rooms while [attendees are] being served rubber chicken by Mexican waiters, where 90% of the visible heads in the audience are gray or snow white-haired and the average waist size is 42."

Ouch! That takes the cake.

Comment by Al Parker

ME:

I appreciate you and Joe backing me up, but it should not be at the expense of fighters on other fronts.

Willis has been courting the old people with money for four decades. That is the way he has started and financed so many endeavors. Everybody else who has gotten hold of a LITTLE money on our side has gotten into a fight over it or stolen it.

Those old people with the 42 waists have quietly financed us against the giants for decades, and no one will ever give them credit for it.

Willis has had tens of millions go through his hands without any of it sticking to them. He lives very simply and always has.

Willis has never wavered even the slightest bit from his dedication to our cause. He damned near destroyed me once, but I admired him the whole time, and said so.

Willis has exploded many times, he exploded at me. But a man who can handle big money and never show the slightest concern for it compared to his dedication to the cause is my hero, no matter what. Carto towers above our movement through the decades.

Carto got slapped down and came back fighting again and again and again and again. He NEVER wavered, no matter how bad things got. Willis can blow up in my face any time he wants to. If I can say that, with all my time and agony invested in the movement, you should have the same attitude.

Willis often comes out swinging at the wrong person at the wrong time inthe wrong place, but he always comes out swinging. There simply is no one in the same league with Willis Carto.

I have been in this fight for half a century. I have personally known and worked with almost all the greats. But Willis stands in a categoryof his own.

When we were few and discouraged, Willis was combative.

Lord, how I admire that man!

SIEGECRAFT: ADVERSARIAL WHITES | nationalsalvation.net

"Even the people that are reading this [comments on interrogation] have no idea what they are reading. That shines through. Hopefully, someday they'll find out. Personally. That's the only way to know."

Comment by Joe Rorke

The subject of interrogation is well worth discussing because of legal traditions that can be used to foster freedom and defeat the emergence of a culture of totalitarianism.

For example, when people demand the justice system produce "justice" they are unintentionally fostering an attitude that leads to totalitarianism.

In contrast, we white people demand an "adversarial" system because we admit that justice is beyond the grasp of any court.

That is why that even though I may not be tough enough to refrain from blabbering confessions to my interrogators, I'm sure as hell not going to furnish any confessions in advance of having my balls crushed.

Crushed balls are good evidence.

Also, I share something in common with my tormentors: We both trust that there is some possibility that results might be furnished through the use of a 50-caliber persuader.

And when the prosecutor says: "Just take that lie detector test in order to prove you're not afraid to take it", he will receive my white reply that he is attempting to manufacture evidence.

In contrast, our colored brothers are fond of such notions as, "All men are created equal."

That's because they possess no "shining city on the hill" to prove it.

They also believe that the courts "are supposed" to furnish justice.

Comment by Dave