|
Turncoats
by R. Belser
O tempera, o mores! . . .Cicero
The defection of George Eric Hawthorne, songwriter, guitarist and lead vocalist of the
premier pro-White band Rahowa, and sometime contributor to the magazine Resistance,
has stunned many in the movement. The reaction immediately following initial shock is an
attempt to understand why someone apparently so deeply committed to the survival of
the White race could do such a thing.
Hawthorne now calls himself "Burdi," has adopted some ersatz brand of Buddhism, and
has placed himself under the ethical tutelage of a "Bernie Farber" of the Canadian Jewish
Congress. According to reports (see the VNN story titled "Burdi Out in the Cold" which
is presently [29 Jan 2001] on our main page, [or find it in the Archives]), Farber
approached Hawthorne when the latter was facing legal problems connected with his pro-White
views and activities with Resistance magazine. Apparently a deal was struck whereby
Hawthorne would recant his pro-White "racist" beliefs, and Farber would see to it that
Hawthorne escaped the legal miseries Farber's organization could inflict -- and in Canada
those are considerable these days.
Are we to conclude, then, that Hawthorne went over to the enemy simply from a despicable
and venal desire to "save his own ass"? That would be a comparatively comforting assessment,
because his act could be understood as that of a man of poor character and weakly held
convictions, and not a vulnerability within our movement itself. It's certainly true that such
a desertion could not have happened without such failings; but there are other
factors at work in a case like Hawthorne's, and in the cases of the former "neo-Nazis" and
"ex-Skinheads" whose conversion -- and this is the appropriate term -- to philo-Semitic
egalitarianism and universalism has unmistakeable undertones reminiscent of heretics
recanting after an encounter with the Inquisition. In fact, the latter can be taken as the generic
model of a type of brainwashing which, in modern times, was exemplified by the Soviet show
trials, in which dissenters and even mere hapless men and women of no particular political
bent but caught in the maw of the State, abjectly confessed all sorts of crimes and were
reduced to a state of total self-abasement and degradation. There were certainly cases in
which outright torture was used to obtain these confessions, but the true principle underlying
brainwashing techniques was (and is) basically psychological: it ferrets out the most
closely-held beliefs of the individual (often those not consciously held) and, combining
this knowledge with an exploitation of the individual's weaknesses and flaws, produces a
state of mind in which pleasing the interrogator and -- even more important -- abasing oneself
masochistically before him -- becomes not only a ploy to avoid "unpleasantness" (such as
torture, sleep deprivation, etc.), but even a source of comfort and "validation" in
itself. Communism aimed at control not just of men's bodies and actions, but of
their very souls. The predominance of the Jews in all parts of the Soviet apparatus which
gave it its distinct character has been well-documented, and this includes the NKVD/KGB
and its development of these techniques. But to come closer to the truth of Hawthorne's
action, we must understand the environment in which it has taken place -- i.e., the New
World Order. The NWO uses techniques far in advance of those used by the Communists in the
Soviet system, but gets the same results. The illusion of freedom is preserved, and
its superficial trappings ("representative" legislative bodies, constitutions, voting,
slogans, etc.) are embellished, but the very perceptions of the masses are subject to
fine-tuning by an omnipresent proselytizer -- television -- which begins its influence
upon the individual from infancy and ends it only with death (which likely occurs in a hospital bed
above which a television set churns out its unceasing stream of Propasphere images). It does
this, not so much by means of explicitly and crudely repeated lectures, but by its presentation
of reality using primarily visual rather than verbal cues. Whether commercial,
"regular," or "educational" programming, a seamless, homogeneous tissue of cultural universality
bathes the mental life of the population of the West. This content is hostile in the extreme
to White racial preservation (to say nothing of White "interests"!) and views History (when it
considers it at all) as an anti-climax centered about the "Holocaust" and Black slavery.
The "values" constantly reinforced are: racial blindness for Whites; racial pride for Blacks,
Asians, and Jews; up-to-the-second, be-the-first-on-your-block trendiness, and the
proving of one's unreserved enthusiasm for miscegenation.
The NWO's Weltanschauung is the default religion of our era. That's why its
true antecedant is not the Soviet system (which is, by analogy, a collateral relative), but
the Roman Catholic Church of the Middle Ages. Before saying more, I want to be clear about this:
the Church and what it has meant for European Whites and their descendants has been a mixed
legacy -- that's one of the reasons its hold on the Aryan psyche has been so tenacious. The
Church itself (or at least its better side) has been the focus of attacks from without by the
"usual suspects" and from within by their spiritual brothers (see Malachi Martin's The
Jesuits for an honest and deep analysis of this) and intellectual comrades. With that
caveat, and with the understanding that the Church of the Middle Ages formed a common
cultural base for Europe, one of which everyone partook without reflection, we have a
paradigm of the NWO.
By one of those strokes of sychronicity which happen frequently to someone reading the history
of our race, when news of Hawthorne's turncoat action reached me, I was reading an account
of the supression of the Templars in the first decade of the fourteenth century by Philip
the Fair (Philip IV) of France and Pope Clement V. The Inquisition, which had been founded
in the previous century as a means of dealing with the Cathar/Albigensian heresy after all
"non-violent" means had been exhausted and failed to extirpate the threat to orthodoxy, was
implemented by the Dominicans, later aptly called "the Hounds of God." Although at
first the actual shedding of blood or breaking of bones during interrogations was proscribed,
the ingenious fanatics displayed a Talmudic ingenuity in inventing tortures which would
conform to these limitations: the rack, the strapedo, and the rubbing of fat onto the soles
of the subject's feet and placing them before a fire. By the time of the Templar "investigation"
fifty years later, any and all forms of torture were used. The Templars, as many readers will
know, were a monastic order of knights that originated during the early part of the Crusades
and that rose to a postion of wealth and influence. Due to political reasons too involved to
outline here, the order had aroused the enmity of the fanatically religious Philip IV of
France, and the vast wealth of the order made it a natural target for monarchs and the Church.
Most of the evidence strongly suggests that the Templars were essentially innocent of the
charges brought against them; most of them led lives which were ascetic even by the standards
of the day, and their courage in battle had been proven many times over. The Templars were
accused of Devil-worship, heresy, and sodomy. Confessions presaging those later associated with
the great witch-hunts of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth centuries and involving the supposed
materializations of various demons whose descriptions give us an unedifying peek into the
imaginations of the interrogators were produced by torture, the threat of torture, and the
techniques of sleep deprivation and marathon interrogations which have become familiar to us
from Soviet practice. As for sodomy, there's little doubt it existed here and there, as it
does in any environment from which women are completely excluded (and Templars were enjoined
from the embraces of even a mother or sister), but it's also clear that it was not
institutionalized in the order (as it was, for example, in another military society, the
illustrious Theban Band), and that it actually was relatively rare and held in especial
horror by most members of the order, since even under torture, members who could be
induced to confess to heresy and even Devil-worship, balked at admitting sodomy.
It is notable that despite torture and every psychological tactic available to the Inquisition --
and at a time when the Church was held in genuine awe by almost everyone and its doctrines
accepted as divinely inspired Truth -- dozens of Templars did not confess, but went to
their deaths. . .horrible deaths by fire, which are beyond even the imagination of people
brought up in an age of even painless dentistry. . .rather than lie and save their
skins (most of those who produced the statements wanted by the Inquisition not only were spared
death and further imprisonment, but received life-long pensions). This kind of intransigence
has prevailed among our people during most of our history: "pagans" went to deaths just as
terrible for refusing baptism; Christians did like-wise for refusing to acknowledge the
divinity of the Roman Emperor; and later, during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation,
many on both sides of the issue endured tortures and went to excruciating deaths rather than
recant their beliefs. One has only to read Foxe's Acts and Monuments concerning the
death of Thomas Cranmer, who had first recanted out of fear of bodily pain. . .but who
finally "played the man" and went to the stake and bathed the hands which had signed the
recantation in the flames as he exhorted the crowd watching to keep the faith, to realize
how far we have fallen from the spirit of our ancestors; contrast Cranmer's behavior, and that
of so many others down the ages, with the pathetic performance of the American pilots during the
Gulf "War" (more akin to shooting ducks in a barrel than a war), who, when captured,
gave confessions against their country without a glove having been laid upon them...and later
received medals for their behavior! Strength of character is no longer an attribute which
a significant portion of our people possesses.
The Jesuits have been credited with the claim: "Give me a child until he is five years old,
and you may have him afterwards; he will still belong to me." This is actually truer
today, because the Propasphere, through all the institutions of public life, has a
formative influence on the young; but its most profound impact is through television which
has literally a neurological effect. Children brought up in an environment in which
television is a presence never seem to develop the depth of imagination nor the
allegiance to the primacy of their own minds which earlier generations have shown. To be
sure, a glib and showy facility and precocious sophistication (of sorts) is theirs, but
there's no depth at all to it, and their mentality, in general, is like those objects in
topology which consist only of surface and have no interior. An entire racial-cultural
world has been eradicated within the span of a generation; forty or fifty years ago,
Aryan children -- European and American children -- were immersed in the Gothic world of
Grimm's Fairy Tales, the bequest of a genuinely White culture; the activities of
childhood were simultaneously very physical and imaginatively rich, and not so long ago
toys as such were unknown; children actually made things from the materials at hand;
a stick could serve as a sword, and a "fort" be constructed from mud and branches.
Television fosters the passive reception of information and supplies the images which
people a child's mind. It has become such a sine qua non of life that obese children,
once a relatively rare thing to see, have become quite common. Instead of figures from our
our culture -- Richard the Lionhearted, El Cid, Charlemagne, the Viking explorers and those who
followed in their spirit, such as Columbus, Henry the Navigator, Shackelton and Byrd, the historical
landmarks for children in today's Propasphere public schools are Martin Luther King, Harriet
Tubman, and a "shabbes goy" such as Schindler. The emphasis is placed, not upon learning,
but upon "outcome-based education" -- which is the equivalent to good citizenship in the NWO,
the anti-White, race-denying orthodoxy of the Propasphere. The ambience is aggressively touchie-
feelie, and the natural vigor of boyhood is "treated" with drugs for "Hyperactivity"
and "Attention Deficit Disorder" -- very often code words from psychiatry for rebelliousness
and resistance against the male-hostile environment in the schools. It could hardly be otherwise
in a cultural milieu where a Mr. Rogers passes for a male.
In our culture, thanks to Hollywood, the hero has been replaced by the celebrity. What is
an even greater indication of pallid decadance, the Clark Gables and Gary Coopers of a generation
or so ago -- male figures whose faces at least projected virility and courage -- have been
replaced by men (?) with the sort of forgettable, characterless faces one used to see on
matchbook covers advertising art lessons, captioned "Draw Me", while the women are
baby-faced twits having all the distinction of the inflatable "dolls" advertised in the back
of pulp magazines and featuring working orifices.
Given all of this, the defection from our cause of a Hawthorne becomes predictable; not
this particular defection, but that of some prominent figure from his age
group in the pro-White music scene, which has been an expression of a genuine resurgence of
the Aryan spirit and thus been rightly seen as a threat by our would-be masters. The fact
that Hawthorne was facing legal problems was a lever which could be worked easily by a
Bernie Farber, but it was only a lever; the fulcrum was supplied
by convictions and character which -- like so much in our race these days -- had no depth. From
what I have seen written about the post-Rahowa Hawthorne, he seems to be in the state of mind
of someone who has been stripped of even the pretense of having real opinions of his own --
someone pathetically dependant upon the approval of his Jewish mentor, and someone who, even
in his bewildered and rudderless condition, is enjoying the euphoric catharisis typically
felt by those who have abandoned any semblence of pride or self-worth and have cast their lot
with the enemy. That euphoric stage won't last, and as soon as his value as the current
poster-child of reformed racists ebbs away, Mr. Hawthorne is going to be in for a rough time.
The sad lesson here is that all that is needed to destroy the spirit of a people, is to sever
the links of cultural continuity connecting one generation to another. There will inevitably
be other Hawthornes. . .but there will also be a few James de Molays (the last Templar Grand
Master, who burned at the stake for refusing to lie about his guilt) and Robert Mathewses (the
head of a later Order -- a man in whose memory Hawthorne once wrote a song). Let's hope we
have enough of the latter kind of men. . .and women.
|