An Idea that Changed the World: Copernicus to Galileo

American Dissident Voices Broadcast of May 21, 2005

Hello and welcome to American Dissident Voices, I'm Shaun Walker.

Today people get their ideas from the dominate media. Five
hundred years ago there wasn't much written material and the
media was quite different. Scribes were employed to copy the text
of new laws or religious doctrine so they could circulate them
within their nation. Information took a long time to get around.
It was common for a war to end, with the leadership signing a
peace treaty, but with hostilities still taking place for months.
Also, 500 years ago, virtually every country had laws about what
a person could say. The dominate religious body, the Catholic
Church, was active and oppressive in what could be written.
Religious laws and the enforcement of them were taken seriously.
There were many false ideas that could not be questioned without
fear of a Roman Inquisition. Today, the only topics suppressed in
the White nations are the subjects of race and Jewish power,
including the Holocaust.

For today's show I am going to discuss the difficulties that took
place to change the world with a new idea. The new idea I'm
referring to was introduced by Nicolas Copernicus. Copernicus had
a bigger task showing the world the truth than we in the National
Alliance have today, yet he succeeded. We will also succeed in
teaching the truth about race and the Jews, but we should learn a
few lessons from the past about how new ideas finally take root.
For us to teach a truth today that goes squarely against the
ruling powers will require us to have a solid understanding of
the bigger picture. The idea Copernicus changed was the idea a
geocentric universe which he replaced with the idea of a
heliocentric universe. The chain of events is interesting.

Five hundred years ago the occupation of being an astronomer did
not in any way involve religious heresy. Astronomers were made of
two groups. First, there were the amateur astronomers who were
fascinated by the stars and the folklore behind them. Secondly,
there were the professional astronomers whose job it was to
foretell the future. This was a serious occupation in those days.

The pagan practice of using dates and the alignment of celestial
bodies was adopted by Christianity almost entirely. It was a
different way of thinking than what we have today, but it was
widespread and mainstream. Millions of people today still are
interested in the Zodiac. But 500 years ago, at the beginning of
a new era, at the beginning of the scientific revolution,
prediction using star charts was a very serious matter. The
better an astronomer could plot where the planet Venus would be
on a certain day, or when the moon was full, the more he was
sought after. Those who had the most accurate charts were
considered to be the ones who could best predict the future.

Even the Pope had annual predictions or prognostications
compiled. These prognostications were quite valuable to him and
the very best astronomers were sought throughout Europe. They
were brought to Italy and paid well for their abilities. The
desire to see the future is still a part of the White race. We
spend million of dollars every day for economic predictions and
for political polls. Each election is coupled with an army of
people whose job it is to predict its outcome. They just don't
use star charts anymore.

Five hundred years ago predication based on star charts was at
its height. This was when Nicolas Copernicus went to Italy. This
is where the new idea began. Copernicus didn't mean to be
disruptive, but a chain of events started with the new idea that
Copernicus had. The science of the day was terribly flawed and
calculation of star and planet alignment was not very accurate
because of these flaws. So each good astronomer looked up at the
stars at night and recorded what he saw.

The then existing science of the physical universe was
approximately 2,000 years old. The greatest minds including
Ptolemy, Plato, and Aristotle had contributed to the way our
people understood celestial mechanics. It was nearly impossible
for one man -- or many men -- to introduce a new idea which flew
against the established way of thinking. But, this one brilliant
man, Nicolas Copernicus, developed a new working model to explain
the movement of the stars and planets. He believed the Earth was
in motion and rotated around the sun. This brilliant man, whose
brain had expanded, who had an idea that had not been understood
before, was going to change the world. It wasn't simply a light
bulb going on in his head; it was a large star that went
super-nova. It was a huge, fantastic stroke of genius. But this
idea was so profound that it had a negative side-effect.

The rulers of Europe consisted of various sovereign heads of
state who were all Catholic and of the Catholic Church itself. At
that time the Catholic Church had a practice of killing people
that it deemed to be against the Church. In the Christian Bible
there is a story of a man that needs more time to complete a task
in a day, so God grants him a wish and stops the sun from
circling around the Earth. This passage clearly states that it is
the sun circling around the Earth, as everyone believed at that
time. For Copernicus to suggest that the sun was the center and
that the Earth rotated around the sun suggested a falsehood in
the Bible. Such a concept could cost a man his life and in a very
painful manner!

Copernicus didn't want to offend the Church and there is no
evidence that he was ever hostile to the Church. He certainly had
no desire to be burned alive for his idea... but all his
observations lead him to see the world differently.

Another problem that Copernicus faced was established science.
How could Copernicus offer any proof that was better than the
proofs that Aristotle had written? How could one man prove that
for 2,000 years the world had been wrong? For Copernicus to try
to teach the world a new idea flew in the face of reason. People
would laugh at him. Also, people would try to kill him for
suggesting what he had discovered. At that time people believed
that Earth was the stationary point of the universe. They
believed that if Earth was moving, it would feel like they were
on a boat at sea and that they would be able to feel the motion,
yet no one on Earth ever felt this motion. Although factually
true, Copernicus's idea was considered absurd.

So, how did Copernicus change the world with his idea? He did it
by writing a book on his discovery. It was called de
Revolutionibus. After Copernicus wrote his book, he only showed
it to a few trusted friends and colleagues. He knew the penalty
for teaching such an idea. Twenty-seven years after writing his
book, as he lay on his deathbed, he shared his book with his
friends. There was an ancient Roman tradition with poets. They
would not show their poems to the world till nine years after
they wrote them. Copernicus stated that he had to wait three
times nine years to show his life's work.

By the time de Revolutionibus started to circulate and was being
transcribed into more copies, Copernicus was dead. At the time of
his death there may have been ten people that believed in his new
idea. His new idea was a dangerous idea with huge social
pressures against it. To teach this idea could cost a person his
life. A person couldn't just walk into a room of strangers and
talk openly about this belief without risking ridicule or
violence. Violence against a person speaking such things would be
condoned by the powers that then ruled. Ideas that change the
world are always the most dangerous social forces. Those that
rule are always threatened by the new idea and use harsh forces
to restrict the dissemination of the new and dangerous idea. The
astronomers that believed in the Copernican system, the
heliocentric universe, were in the process of changing the world.
With Copernicus's death and with copies of his book being
circulated, the new idea became alive. This new living idea
breathed its air in the lungs of these intelligent and curious
astronomers that looked to the stars.

To explain the details of this new model would take a long time;
it is enough to say that this new model was much more accurate.
This was true even though Copernicus wasn't considered an expert
in astronomy. There were much better astronomers with more
accurate recordings, but still they were not as good at
predicting as Copernicus with his new celestial model was. This
in itself helped spread interest in his idea. It also caused
concern and anger in the Catholic leadership, but Copernicus was
dead and no one was the champion of the new idea.

At this time a man from Denmark stepped onto the stage of history
in scientific discovery. He was considered by some to be a bit of
a con-artist who liked to persuade others to do his work. This
man was Tycho Brahe. The Tycho story is an interesting one all by
itself. He came from a well-to-do Danish aristocratic family and
went to a university for a formal education. At that time the
universities were all Catholic, but the education taught in those
days included the ancient Greek tradition of the art of rhetoric
as a serious study. This is a very good topic for all White
people to study and once we throw off the Jewish yoke, we will
again bring this study back into the mainstream at our
universities. Tycho excelled at rhetoric and became a great
debater.

The schools had built up a culture around public debate. Most
events were formalized in those days and debating was very
popular. The opponents had two podiums to speak from to the
audience. The speakers were not so concerned with each other, but
more with winning over the audience. These opponents were matched
up and large audiences would attend. The more controversial the
topic, and the more heated the debate, the greater the interest.
In these verbal jousting secessions Tycho Brahe had one special
advantage. His advantage started out as a disadvantage, but he
turned it around and capitalized on it. Tycho's advantage, which
allowed him to help change the world, was his nose. Tycho had a
unique nose.

Tycho was born with a normal nose and he started at the
university with that same nose, but his abrasive personality
caused him disfavor with another student. The White race was much
healthier in regards to honor and physical combat in those days.
The two men did what it was normal for students with a
disagreement to do in those days: they had a dual with swords.
Tycho ended up on the loosing side, minus one nose. He looked
like a regular freak without a nose, so this wealthy Dane had an
artist make him a nose made of solid silver. He had it strapped
to his face around his ears, similar to how we where glasses
today.

Tycho, an opportunist with the gift of debate, was very fond of
astronomy. He took it seriously and persuaded many talented
astronomers to help him in his work. In spite of all the bad
things one might say about Tycho he was an accurate astronomer,
more so than Copernicus. His 25 years of observations were also
good. Tycho read de Revolutionibus. This book made sense to him
but it was illegal for him to say so, so he came up with an
angle. Tycho liked the lime-light and he had his special nose. He
modified Copernicus's idea and went on to sell it to the world.
He didn't want to end up on the wrong side of a religious trial,
so his theory was this: a geo-heliocentric universe where the
rest of the planets did rotate around the sun, but where the sun
rotated around a stationary earth. With this new celestial model,
and with his own record, his idea was launched. Most of the best
minds in Europe were doubters, but Tycho had an edge. Our
nose-less Dane was able to push his idea because of his debating
skills. Public debate was the most powerful media in that era.

The greatest minds would attend debates and they were influenced
by the debaters. Tycho used his edge like this: while debating,
when he was tearing into his opponent and the atmosphere was
getting heated, he would knock his opponents off balance. Tycho
took the psychological advantage by removing his nose and
slamming it on the podium. He was instantly transformed into a
grotesque creature. This had such an unnerving effect against his
opponents that they would recoil. This act would knock the wind
out of his opponents sails. He quite literally won by a nose -- a
silver nose.

Tycho's transitional idea of a geo-heliocentric universe allowed
Copernicus's idea of a heliocentric universe time to expand and
take hold. This is a point we all must learn to gain wisdom. All
politics of change comes through incremental steps. Fools and
losers argue for what they wish for, but wise men make it happen.
A wise man looks at the last step, step Z, and plans a step from
A to B. We all must take steps in politics to make any change. A
fool wastes his life only talking about what he wants at step Z,
but he refuses to take any incremental steps. Copernicus's idea
required this incremental step that Tycho used. It wasn't very
honest, but much in life isn't.

The honest man came along later. The Tychonian system lasted
about 100 years, but is almost forgotten today. The honest man
became a giant in history and completed Copernicus's work. He was
Galileo Galilei.

History books err in many things from why America invaded Iraq to
how many Jews died in the Second World War. One mistake in
history books is that Galileo invented the telescope. This is not
true. The man accredited with inventing the telescope was a Dutch
gentleman named Hans Liperhae. But this new invention, the
telescope, became Galileo's constant companion. He spent all day
staring across the sea for ships sailing into port and all night
gazing at the stars above. The White race has a destiny with the
stars. Our race is immortal and will reach out to the stars much,
much further than our present day space probes. We will become
the masters out there as well. Our race is just designed this
way. The greatest minds of our race instinctively see this path
and have been fascinated by it since the dawn of time.

Now, our Italian astronomer with the telescope also read de
Revolutionibus. This honest man couldn't stand Tycho Brahe's
model. The power of the Catholic Church be damned, Galileo was
going to teach the world the truth.

Every racially conscious White man and woman should regard
Galileo as a hero of our race. He knew he might be burned alive,
but his conviction and his new tool the telescope drove him
forward. Galileo felt he could show the world the Copernican
system and allow the skeptics to look through a telescope
themselves and see the proof. With his new tool he could see many
other celestial bodies and could chart their paths much better
than anyone else could.

One other man made the Copernican system complete: Johannes
Keepler. He challenged the false idea that planets rotated in a
perfect circle. Keepler observed that the planets have an
elliptical orbit. With this and with the heliocentric model, the
idea was complete. Everything fit perfectly.

Everything was perfect for Galileo. He was an honest man who
proved the Church wrong. Ideas of change are dangerous and the
authorities wanted to punish Galileo. Ideas have the power to
de-throne Kings and usher in a new age; this earns fury from the
King.

The Catholic Church wasn't about to admit an error in the Bible,
so Galileo was summoned to a Roman Inquisition. He was given a
tour through the Church torture chambers and was allowed to see
first hand and up close the hideous instruments that had recently
been used to torture others. At the same time detailed
descriptions were given. Galileo found this to be unpleasant.

Try to imagine a man in that time looking at devices which had
recently been used to cause the most pain possible. Also imagine
that Galileo knew that there were some very sick employees in
this torture chamber who were eager to use these devices on him.

Galileo was tried in a religious court and he recanted. He was
still condemned by the Church and served a subsequent prison
term, but he was never tortured. Part of the story has it that
after Galileo recanted the crime of teaching this new idea, the
very last thing he said in the court was, "but the Earth moves."

Galileo was forced to recant his beliefs and his teaching. Many a
brave German today has done the same thing when in court for not
accepting the "official" version of a war. This version was told
to them by their conquerors. It is legal for the conquerors to
offer their version, but it is still illegal for a German to
publish any variation of this 60-year-old official version.
Stupidity never goes out of style.

Galileo was forced to recant his findings, but he still got the
word out and the new idea is a part of our world today. This was
a huge step forward which allowed us to make many other
advancements.

Galileo, as a White man, did his duty. Today, we, the children of
Galileo, of Copernicus, of Aristotle, of Ptolemy, of Plato, and
even of Tycho Brahe, that is we the White race, must do our duty.
Our ideas are the idea of racial separation, the idea of racial
differences, and the idea that it is wrong to allow the Jews to
control our media and government. It is our duty to teach the
world our ideas. Our time is ripe. We are at the dawn of a new
ear, a new racial golden age; the next era. And we are armed with
the most dangerous ideas of our time. Our racial ideas will
topple the Zionist king and we will grow even greater and reach
out to the stars.

We must work together as the lungs that breathe the air for our
racial ideal. As a racial family we must serve our ideas
together. Service to our race isn't just a duty, it is an honor.
The history of our race is the history of doing the right thing
and making the sacrifices needed to make our world better. Now it
is such a time again.

And with that, I thank you for joining me today.

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